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AID & COMFORT II
September 22, 1990
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DEPARTMENTS Outspoken (Editorial) 4 Letters 5 Stonewall Riots (Natalie) 5 Blurt Out 6 Jennifer Camper 8 NO TIME FORMILLER TIME' 42 Sotomayor 10 AI Weisel on Jesse Helms, Miller beer and pre Obituaries 32 fIrst gay and lesbian boycott of the '90s Liberation Logic (fulayan) 34 The Doctor Is Out (Silverstein) 36 Look Out 48 Out of My Hands (BalD 50 Gossip Watch 51 Out on the Town (Tracey and Pammy) 52 Going Out Calendar (X) 70 On the Cover: Illustration by Steven Stines Tuning In (X) 72 Dancing Out (X) 73 Community Directory 74 Bar Guide 76 OutWeek jlSSN 1047-8442) is published weekly (52, issues) manner, either in whole or in part, without written permiuion by OutWeek Publishing Corporation, 159 W. 25th St, New Yorlc, from the publisher. All righw reserved, ClassifIeds 78 I N.Y,. 10001 (212)337·1200. Application to mail at second-class > Publication of the name or photograph of any person, gtoup po~e rates is periding .at New Yorlc, ,N.Y. 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Crossword (Baysans) 114 159W25 St, 7th R., NewYorlcNY 10001, ., The opinions of OutWeek are expressed only in our editnr~ The enure contents' of OutWeetare copyright , , , he rapidly growing lesbian and gay boy- impose political cohesion on gay organiZations cotts of Marlboro cigarettes and Miller beer that choose not to honor boycotts. ]will once again test whether olir .c~mmu- Pardon us while we puke, Such self-serving nity has the will 'and the cohesiveness to garbage caused Adweek, which monitors these' mount successful consumer actions. matters, to rePort that industry observers "aren't The Dallas Gay Alliance originally called for so sure" that 'the gay community has enough boycotts of Philip Morris' products because that "mettle as a consumer bloc" to effectively boycott corporation is a major contributor to North' Marlboro and Miller. With Miller frantically trying Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms' reelection campaign. to place full-page ads in. gay papers and with The. point was to put corporate America on notice financial greed frequently overwhdining commu- that contributions to Helms can carry a heavY nity self-interest, we're not so sure, either. price. Gay groups narrowed their focus to Indeed, some gay publications which a(e con- Marlboro and Miller because they con:.ectly real- trolled by tavern owners are already sowing confu- ized that earlier attempts at boycotting every sion and discord about the boycott. They piOusly product that Philip Morris manufactures were point out that in some cities Miller has long doomed to failure: The l!verage consumer can't engaged in PR campaigns-the cheapest brand of be expected to boycott dozens of goods. But advertising-by donating money to gay and AIDS Marlboro and Miller are popular and .ubiquitous, causes, and they, thus claim that the beer maker and an effective embargo of those two brands has been unfairly targeted. By such logic, any gay- would be noticed by their corporate parent and led consumer boycott could be "bought off' at any by everyone else who engages in Helms-style time simply by having the offending corporation hate-mongering, i toss a few bucks at gay or AIDS groups. Homophobes are masters of this powerful The right wing has never been so self-defeat- consumer tactic. A recent Varietyarticle estimated ing, It is willing to boycott any company that that 'the ABC-1V network lost a total of $14 mil- offends, even if that company contributes to right- lion in ad revenues last season because of adver- wing causes, Right-wingers know how to make tisers' fears of .right-wing' boycotts, mostly their power as consumers felt in devastatingly stemming ,from a gay bedroom scene on thtr- effective ways, as we lesbians and gays are well tysomethtng and the Rock Hudson T\' bio. The aware: We're frequently their primary targets. . ageitcies that polled their llds from such gay-posi- At ,this time of dangerously rising homopho- tive pcograming know well the incredible unity bia, our community lies like a sleeping giant, its and effectiVeness of anti-gay groups that launch enormous consumer potential untapped and boycotts, Such advertiSers, trying to preempt dis- ,unrealized. We have the financial power to shake ' aster,caved into right-wing pressure before boy- the world. All we have to do is use it. If""e allow cotts were even announced. this opportunity to pass, if we begin hairsplitting The lesbian and, gay, community has ~nor- over whether Miller and Marlboro were fairly or mous financial power, and we should have sirili- unfairly targeted" if we are betrayed by a few far· political clout, but we don't-because we have money-hungry gay publishers or grOUPS,only our rio history of consumer cohesiveness. The Coors e~mies will benefit. ' boycott, our most notable attempt at consumer Until Philip Morris announces publicly that it _ action; began to unravel when Coors bought off disavows Helms' homophobia and will cease cynical, ~dy gay publishers with full.page ads, contrib~ting to his venal campaigns, the boycotts tossed m.eager contributions to AIDS groups and of Miller and Marlboro serve all of our interests. sponsored a few gay events .. Suddenly the gay This is our opportunity to show the world that press WaS full of earnest,.,hand-wringing.editorials ' ,we have the "met~e" to mount a successful boy- questioning whether anyone in the community 'cott, and, to make Jesse Helms too hot to handle has the right to launch a boycott I just who is for corporate America. We have the power, Let's empowered to call one off and who presumes to use it.... 4 O~EK August 22. 1990 Medicaid, Medicare, SSIand cant Inroads Into making ACTG Clinical trials, Lesbians that Institution address the are m,ade Invisible In a needs of the AIDScommuni- research agenda which pre- ty more effectively, I think sumes to Investigate hetero- that you were tryfng to con- See What The Boys In The outcome of the newborns In sexual transmissionIn women, vince us that the big boys at Back Room Will Have this trial; there are no plans without even asking women the NIH and NIAID have Mark Harrington's col- to follow the women or even a basic question about their done a big turnaround and umn entitled "Let My PeOple provide them with basic sexual orientation, they are now Interested In In' (no, 58, Aug. 8) left me gynecological care, I'm one of the people the needs of IVDUs, people with a strange sense of con- I observed scientists and who has been "let In: And In of color and women In thIs tusion and a good deal of others present volume$ of the tenth year of the epidem- crisis, Considering all the anger, As a lesbian Involved data on children, 'never Ic, I've been confronted by work that needs to be done, In the AIDS activist move- bothering to mention that Ignorance and sexismby the, I think that's a very danger- ment, how can I be sure that the mothers of these children same researchers who are ous approach within the researchers and politicians go without ·fundamental supposedly dOing their jObs. activist community, at NIAID are on our side and necessities and often die I'm angry because the The article says, "Unlike are Interested In overhauling with ARC diagnoses, not only answer for us, sisters,Is stili on most politicians, bureaucrats an archaic and homopho- because their opportunistic the outside. ACT UPI and Journalists, many scien- bic system of research? How Infections are not being Undo Meredith tists are actually capable of can I be convinced that treated but l'Jacause they ACT UP/DC rational discourse and some- once ac11v1stsareallowed to aren't even IIsfed In the "offi- times even change their attend committee meetings cial definition.' To Mark Harrington: minds,' I recently went to and vote on research policy When I couldn't "ob- Your "Political Science" Washington, D,C., with a and ACTG agenda Items, serve' anymore, I asked Ed piece really pissed me off, I group of lesbian AIDS ~Ife and the lives of Connor (chair of the Pedi- assume that your goal In activists, to discuss women women with AIDS will dra- atric Committee) where the. writing It was to convince us, and AIDS with Tony Fauci, matically Improve? women fit Into their agenda. your fellow AIDS activists, Dan Hoth and several other The fact Is that I'm not I was told that the research- that storming the NIH on floundering NIH/NIAID convinced; my anger comes ers on his committee are May 21 has gained us slgnlfl- blockheads, The "rational from the knowledge that pediatricians and are only although the advances out- Interested In reseQrch Involv- lined In Harrington's article Ing children, SiONEWAtt RIOiS are Important, they will do lit- I "observed' a session tle or nothing to Improve the where the use of fluconazole lives of women with AIDS, In oral candidiasis was dis- and nothing at all to Implore cussed, When I asked about these Individuals to wake up the use of fluconazole In ' to the reality that lesbians vaginal candidiasis, re- are also at risk, searchers looked at me as If I was one of the "ob- to ask, "What does vaginal servers' permitted to attend candidiasIs have to do with the Ninth AIDS Clinical Trials anything?" . Group meeting, and here's When I and other ACT what I observed. A four-hour UP women sat down with sessionof the Pediatric Com- Anthony Fauci and Dan mittee Qncludlng the Obstet- Hoth two weeks ago to dis- rical and Gynecological cuss the reality of women's Subcommittee), In which lives and the reality of their women were remanded to calculated exclusion from the role of vectors for the dis- the ACTG system, Fauci was ease, guilty of transmitting Intrigued by the startling dis- AIDS to Innocent children. I covery that women do not observed discussions of an have access to basic gyne- upcoming clinical trial cological care, He was also (ACTG 076), which will enroll surprised to. know that les- . 700 pregnant women to blans engage In behaviors examine the effects of All that put them at riskfor AIDS. on the newborn, Women are the fastest- The bulk of the addition- growing group In this country al resources referred to In to be Infected with HIV. We Harrington's article wIll be die sixtimes fastet than men, BY ANDREA NATALIE devoted to assessing the and we are denied access to August 22, 1990 DUrYWEEK 5, ~purse~ of these'sclentlsts Women don't have shit and The gove~nment has yet to and cringe, I see men con- consistedof chas1IsIng~ for won't until we stop settling , sponsorone trial ,to prevent cerned with paternity and having an 'attitude that will for crunbs, and you can bet HPV from becoming cervical women who have been told never get usanywhere,- The that If women don"t have ccn::erh HfII-posltlvewomen, that children are more subtext to ,this whole the care and access they The rationality of scien- Importantthan they ever wi. exchange was, of course, need, there are a blXlC:hof tists has often astonlshe<:fme, be, Placingthe gynecologi- 'You aren't going to get gay men out there ,who too, A few years ago at a cal concerns of HN-posItIve anything untll you act like don't have It, either, PresidentialCommissionon women under the wing of goOd girls,- What 'rational- HelclDorow AIDSmeeting, I heard two pediatrics Is a sign of the Mr. Fauci failed to acknowl- Manhattan hard-to-forget statements: utmost Irrattonalltyand indif- edge was tl'lat we never "'Nomenare a harder popu- ference, Stop clapping for would have gotten to the ToMarkHarrington: lattonto study- and, my per- thiscrumb, and start holding table In his office If we Ian sodIstU'bed by you' sonal favorlfe-the ultra- out for some real lifesaVIng hadn't been marching 'Let My Peoplein- atIcIe that Insulting and unqualified, maneuvers for women with around the fucking building, Ido riot knowwhere to begn. 'Women are different, - For HN-i'elateddisease. Do you really think that Donot sen women'slives too many years,this profes- like It or not, you are any of usshould be satisfied down the river with state- sion'has made Its money off quickly becoming a col- 'with an Obstetrical and ments such as: 'Unlike most of oh-so-polltlcal female league of rational scientists Gynecological Subcommlt- politicians ...many scientists bodies,Don't forget that hys- In a pOsItIonthat many other tee ofth9 PediatricsConYrIt- are actually capable of terectomy Is stili the most activists do not occupy, I do tee, which Is made up of rational discourse: lhese unnecessarily' performed . not see much difference obstetrldal'$-l'lOt gynecolo- words ring so false to my operattonInthiscountry,The between you meeting with glsts?1We want, need.and' feminist ears that It ,hurts, Idea, yearsback, was to cut Fauci and the other heavy nuthcM9aVbnen'sCorrrrlt- 'Nomen'sbodes have never out a woman's ovariesand, hitters, and the boys from teeatNAD'sdvlslonofA£6. been treated In a rational volar,diminishher'hysterla,- the neighborhOodwatching You say that :the new, fashionbt1hls discipline and Well, hysteria rules when' the game at the cornet bar. openness at' the ACTG business. women are excluded from What have you and other amountsto calling the com- Over 45.000women 1Iv- AIDSdrug trials,And It con- activists sacrificed to be munlty's bluff, We said that Ing In America die annually ttnuesIts reign when we see accepted by this elite we wanted Input and from breast cancer. ThIs hap- that women with HN-f8lated group? And accepted you access:What willwe do now pens In the midst of shiftsIn disease are dying six times have t:>een.Fromyour artl- that we have It?- technology and research fasterthan men, de, my fear Is that you have We don't have access projects on aspirinand heart Among the victories sacrlflcedwomen, The sister- or Input. What we have Is disease In which only men you cite, the one that really hood Iswatching, brother, women dying sixtimesfaster (rational scientists, to be floors me Isthe Increase In Don't tuck 4Sover. than men, We are ten years exact) participated In the resourcesto be provided to Tracy D, Morgan Into this epidemic, and we study. Soon breast cancer , the Obstetricaland Gyneco- Brook/'yn , stili have no clue as to how will come to be seen jlS logical Subcommitteeof the many women have HN,how "naturano women:ThIsnat- PediatricsCommittee, ThisIs It will manifest Itself In,their urallzatlon of disease In not a victory Inthe least, bodies or hoW to treat It In wqmen has already taken I Imagine the' kind of those women's bodies, p/9ce In the AIDSepidemic. people on this committee straight Sensitivity: GetOverH I borrowed a copy of your magazinefrom a friend to read' an article on goy- 6 OUT~EEK August22, 1990 bashing (no, 54, July 11), i Girth Lesson Cadhd o'Comor to oppress hearted. They point up all read advice to gay people The arflde In the August us, We have ourselves and that Is lacking Inthe rest of us, to come out to people who 8 Issue (no, 58) concerning our unloving and uncaring Dennis MarshaH " are dose to them In order to the Girth & Mirth Club Is attitudes. We need to look Manville, N,J, Increase sensitivity In the Inspiring and disturbing, The closely at the ways these G hetero community, Then I Inspiration comes from the & M people have attempted Act Uppity turned a few pages and fact that heavier gay men to show their love for the gay To all the hanger-ons In found an article titled -For have Joined forces to over- community at large, Consid- the doset who collect moths Breeders Only," Although I come the attitudes of preju- er their contributions to the Instead of the fresh ct of fie&- found, t/:le title to be highly dice and dlscrlmln'atlon Community Center and to dom,look at It 1Hs way-ff gay offensive I read the rest of toward heavier people, The God's Love We Deliver, men and lesbians were the article and went on to disturbing aspect of all this is These'guys are really saying accorded full dvll rights, and flnd out that despite the fact that these gay men have that they accept the fdct If the government would that I neyer do anything joined forces against us-the that the community doesn't end the AIDS epidemic, then more Interesting than hang rest of the gay communltyl It like them, but this will not you could put Michelangelo Qut In shopping malls and Is an Indictment of our super- stop them from serving the Slgnorlle out of business, Per- meat-market bars, I rule this fldallty and lack of concern community, sonally, I think Slgnorlle Isthe cwmv, ad WOlJd,If harass9d for our own gay brothers, There Is a lesson to be most prollftc Wllter since Gore by a gay person for being I As a community of gay learned from these men, Vidal, William Morris should straight. gladly give up car- people, we do not need John They are not Just big, but blg- sign him up Immediately, Ing about my gay friends (who, according to you, I think of as -fruitcakes"), But what can you expect from a being whose sole purpose on this earth Isto procreate? I will open your magazine once more only to get an address to mall this, I will return your publication to my friend with a copy of this let- ter and will send a copy to . GLAAD as well In order to brlng the -breeder" article to their attention. If the purp,ose of th,e aItcIe was to alienate, straight readers, It did a fine job. If It was meant to be funny, this hetero didn't flnd t S),1he U,S, Supreme Court, In matters of reprodJcItve rights of women, Is In full agreement with you as far as your terminology goes, Perhaps you should consider the company you are keeping by using that sort of language, Don't call me a breeder, P,Tobln Cottonmouth I ITlJst respcnj 10 Peter Bowen's.response to Craig Lucas (1"0, 55, .llly 18) on YOll edltorlal page, lAKE lHE COTION OUTOF YOUR~, AND PUTrr IN YOUR MOUlHI r GET WITH lHE PROGRAM, PETERI ' Dav/dDrake Manhattan 267 W:est 17th Stre,et (cot 8th Ave) New York 212255.1150 August 22, 1990 OUT.wEEK 7 I hope that readers will compared to the non-ficti- gerous truth about our own gotta-take-sldes-<>n-thls-one, write to OutWeek namlng tious liveswe are alllMng, community, With attacks from the specific people that should Charles Seiber Ira Sachs outside so shattering and not be outed. Let the editor Shreveport, La, Brooklyn vicious, It Is Imperative that know the names of the pillars the Internal structure of the of our community who Terms of Abuse Otis Stuart responds: I find community be protected, ThIs should not be outed, Then InOtis Stuart's ooolysisof your projection of an brings us to the need to rede- the magazine can compile the buddy film genre (-The equation between misogyny fine terms, and establish the a list of -People We Will Not White Guy Smokes,The Black and homoeroticism, In a opporMI1y to W'holeheartedy Out- and publish It so that It One Doesn't-), the terms word, baffling, Not only are possessan Identity filled with Is a matter of public record, misogyny and homoerottclsm the discussions of the two ' pride, and a place to belong I wish middle-aged gay are all too comfortably Inter- separated by several hun- and progressInour lives, men would date young gay changeable. The ease with dred words and key thesis There Issuch a dear dif- men so that the mature which gay men like Stuart pOints, but the language ference between being would get out there and see their sexuality reflected In and Imagery of the discus- homosexual and being gay fight like hell to protect these these films' gun-toting, sions are mutually exclusive, or lesbian that we must start young guys from death and women-hating machismo I am equally baffled as to thinking and expressing with destruction, Where there Is eerily suggests that to hate how my reporting on the those terms as separate enti- lust, there should be love-, women and to love men are films Is (J reflection of my ties, Homosexual Is a term for Chicken queens are Indeed one and the same, Are own sexuality, but thank you . someone In that state of ori- chicken I there, In fact, basic, similari- for YOll' Interest, entation, Gay or lesbian are To all celebrities who ties between any predomi- words for homosexuals who have not Joined ACT UPas a nantly male worlds, straight Homosexual*Gav hove made a choice. member or a friend of ACT or gay, or the floor of QUckl The division In the gay I am OUTRAGEDevery UP-mame on you, You are or Uncle Charlie's or at the community over the Issueof time some fluttering homo- Acting Uppltyl precinct In Lethal Weapon In outing Is a melodrama of the phobe Isdragged screaming And to, Christopher My tear Isthat Stuart's Inter- sensationalist straight press from the closet-and some- Street magazine-take a 1wIningof terms Is not Justan that crossesover to the gay one calls them gayl These detourl Your fiction Is boring editorial oversight but a ~ world In the guise of ya- leeches are no more gay (I 'I\~I *,/~I \' DOE5S~E DANCE REALCLDSE? //~I'I~. // 00£5 S~E GI\J£ DOES SHE HAVf: 100 TIP5 10 WAITRESSES" ANY SCAR.S? 8 Our.wEEK August 22, 1990 than I am Mary, Queen of Ity, Hehelpsgay people and Keep Up the Out Work gay conscience of the jour- Scots,Theyare homosexuals stralghfpeople, I want to thank Out- nalistic world, Keep after who have chosen not to be Ihead today that some- Week for featuring the col- these media low-ilfes and gay, The Invitation remains one claiming to be an old umn -Gossip Watch' by hound them and expase extended to them to JOinIn 1Icrne said Bton was with RyCJ"l Michelangelo Signorlle, their blatant and/or -under- the worksof the commuhlty White for the publicity. Well, Whenever I get my Issueof the-surface' homophobia that has made It possiblefor that Is not so, and the wo~d OutWeek, the first thing I do for allthe wo~dto see', them to live and workwhere woUd be a befterplace Ifwa Is turn to -Gossip Watch,' Paul Guzzardo they choose, Insure their had more IdncHleartedpee- The man takes no shit from health care, maintaIn their pie I August 22, 1990 O~EEK 9 excellent July 18 editorial For heterosexual Texas I coli on the Replbllcan slon we must resist the blan- concerning ·Republlcan Republicans to falsely state Pa1y to end I1s Ignorant and dishments of a society that Hate Crimes- (no, 55, July that homosexuals are not Immoral antl-goy homopho- both wltholds and coyly 18), Since your editorial natural and eire ·blologlcally bia and hate-mongerlng and come-hlthers with sexuality. focused specifically on the and medically unsound- rejoin the enlightened and When capitalism employs antl-gay homophobic situa- represents the some kind of progressivesector of society. ErosIn the nome of profit, we tion In' New York (In the Dark Ages Flat-Earth men- Dr. Val John Barlow all 1059 something, Stop seil- Republlcan-domlnated New tality that was formerly Chesterfield, Mo, Ing sexl Stop buying the York Senate), I would like to directed against left-handed hypel Save earth flrstl respectively enlarge the persons when It was falsely Make My Day Adam Tudor scope of your editorial and Ignorantly believed that Yayyyy for Susie Dayl Manhattan remarks to Include the fact left-handed human beings Thank you for making the that the antliJOY Republican were abnormal and umotu- commodification of our cul- Open Letter political problem Is nation- ral. In addition, the Republl~ tu-e so pungent (no, 57, Aug, I am Incredulous at the wide and Increasingly threat- can Party statement Is very 1), But alas It's not only devastation a virus has ening to gays, similar to the vicious and Hanes pantyhose seeking to caused, At the physical and For example, nationally prejudiced propaganda subvert our superegos, Sim- mental Isolotion we continue syndicated columnist Cal used by the Nozl Pa1y In Ger- ply stated: Sex sellsl Take a to endure by those who Thomas reported that the many where Hitler taught good look at Camel Filter refuse to acknowledge our Texas Republican Party thOt Jews were ·blologlcally Fellow and notice the subtle. very existence, And at the -- - .... - "has adopted a monstrously and morally Il'lferlor- to the subliminal suggestion of pain and suffering' of those antl-gay and homophol;>lc Aryan race, Will the Republi- phallos and gyne surfacing who continue to endure poUticol platform, Spedflcal- can Party In Texas soon be In his face, It Is beside the even as this Is written. One ' Iy, heterosexual Republi- setting up concentration point that It's het-orlented: thing Is undeniable, AIDS Is cans In Texas·beleve homo- camps for gays? Has the The enlistment of sex as a killing all of us. sexuality Is a perversion of Republican Party become tool of manipulation for profit I am Involved In a few I natural low and biologically, the Party of Hitler and Hate exposes our consumer cul- of the hundreds of groups morally and medically rather than the Party of Un- ture as a fraud, While vigor- fighting the Ignorance of an unsound: coin CI'ld Uberty? ously defendIng self-expres- obstinate social system and I I 10 OUTTWEEK August 22. 1990 recognize their worth, How- Week readers who ore alums would mean I had to fight uory 14th article -CaptioN ever, Ike the very IndMduols of Dartmouth can contact, tooth and nail for the gay for Queers- with much nter- who compose each group, us for Information about films, Happily, that wasn't est. We would like to correct things hove been done and' events later In the year at the case Ot all, Despite our a rather large error with said which I find detrimental P.O, Box 7745, FORStation, differing aesthetic and politi- regard to available seNlce$ to both the fight to end AIDS New York, NY 10150 (or COli: cal priorities, I found all the for Deaf PersoN with AIDS and the advancernent of (212) 489-7442). Other alums . panelists, as weDas the coor- and Deaf Personswith ARC, goy rights. But It Isclear that con connect with their own dlnotor, to be qlite open to Although much time has we ore being attacked from GALAs by contacting Net- the work of gay men and passed slnqe the article was every side, Therefore, os In GALA at P,O, Box 5141, lesbians, There was never published, we stili feel that any war, the best tactic Is WashIngton, D.C, 2(0)3, any question of excluding we must write, It Is Important , the one which win win, Matthew C. GarcIa something because of Its that New York's Deaf Co~ So In this-at best a DGAJA gay content, rand I think munlty know what Is avall- plea for Intelligent battle there was even a special able to them. plans, at worst an open let- Why the Distress? concem to give a fair repre- In cooperation with ter to my own conscle~ We In the NAMBLA con- sentatlon to our voices (os Gay Men's Health CrIsIs, DAP affirm that I will not pass tfngent to the Intematlonal well as those of other mnor\- provides educatfon, advo- judgment on the actions of lesbian and Goy AssocIatIon ty groups). Of course the cocy, Information, referrals, others until they have Conference In Stockholm seriesvaries from one year to volunteers, and Interpreters proven--unequlvocally-to wonder at the ,distress that the next, given the changing to Deaf PWAs and Deaf be Ineffective or detr1mental .. Rex Wockner reports was felt panels, but In general It has PWArcs In New York City. More Importantly, I will con- toward us by -mainstream- shown Hself to be a conscf- Since 1988, we have dellv- tinue to remember the loss,'I U.S, delegations (-New entlous representative of ered over thirty presentations will realize that, dur1ng the leaders Picked for Global those many voices and on safer sex CI'Id basic AIDS tfme It tokElSto ride the sub- Gay Group: no. 25, July 25), viewpoints which are denied ,education at public foruns, way to work, we will suffer We were delighted to access on other channels. schools for the deaf, deaf the loss of a woman, a man be spared the embarrass- I think one of the rea- recreation progrQrns, hospI- or a chUd who win die, qlite ment of being the only vot- sons for the greater amount tal programs ,for the deaf PossIbly, alone ..,wIthout for- Ing delegoHon from the U,S" of goy work this year Is due and rehobllltoHon agencies getting that a cure will be as happened In several to the growing amount of In New York City. We also found only If we contfnue to recent IlGA Conferences, work available, which I trust provide buddies to help with beHeve that It con, Bob Rhodes will continue despite the shopping, cooking, cleaning, W1RIam C, Newcomb NAMBIA Delegate to efforts of the antl-NEA/antf- and so forth and crlsis-lnter- Manhattan ILGA gay forces In this COlIltry, And ventlon workers who give Manhattan, one thing that encourages emotfonal and other much- Dart Mouthing more work Is a supportive ,needed support to Deaf In the post month you ,FocusGoy . ,auc:tence, whether they go to ?WAs and Deaf ?WAres. hove feot\.red ortIcI9!I about As an Independent film- mqor theaters, -obscue- crt The Deaf Outreach Pro- Dartmouth College-most 1'T'd August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 11 News Cops Keep Up Sweep·of Penn Station, Men's.. Rooms by Nina Reyes forms of intimidation such as putative arrested on charges of public lewdness NEW YORK-An ongoing Long employment-verification calls that dis- by the LIRR police since January 1, Island Railroad Police sweep of Penn close the cause for arrest I according to 1990, McGowan said that she was unfa- Station restrooms has resulted in the several sources. miliar with the ,allegations of intimida- arrests of dozens of men on charges of "!t'S our position that i~ most of tion and entrapment I but added that public lewdness-including at least these cases, men were entrapped," strip-searches and bOdy-cavity, searches four arrests last week-and has commented Matt Foreman I director of are conducted "only if there is some prompted outraged gay activists to seek the New York City Gay and Lesbian compelling reason to believe that the PEE AT YOUR ,OWN RISK , Photo: n. Litt/OutWeek ThlJ men's room in the Penn Station LlRR terminal an end to the harassment through Anti-Violence Pro'ject, which I along person had a weapon or drugs." In any , meetings with, politicians and warnings with Lambda Legal Defense and Educa- event I McGowan elaborated I invasive , to the ~ommunlty, . tion Fund, has documented over two searches are supposed to ,occur only at LIRR police have complemented dozen cases of arrests in Penn Station central booking, where the presence of their arrests with strip searches, body- since the beginning of this year. metal detectors and other sophisticated cavity searches I anti-gay comments I According to LIRR spokesperson detection devices provide the "com- threats of exposure and other crude Susan McGowan I 54 men have been pelling reason" stipulated in policy 12 OUrYWEEK August 22, 1990 govemingother than pat-downsearches, than the head hair is contrary to police we know it," Foreman explained. "You Tearoom busts have been a staple policy and expressly forbidden by the know, they live in the suburbs, are of police crackdowns on illicit sexual ' New York Police Department," pointed married. Hey, if I was arrested for pub- activity 'for years, This latest series in out Foreman I who called the LIRR lic lewdness I it would be a huge deal Penn Station I which is the the country's police's tactics "shocking," The LIRR at the Anti-Violence Project. Imagine busiest commuter railroad terminal I has police are a division of the New York what it would be like at 'X' Life Insur- • reportedly been concentrated in the City Transit AuthOrity. ance Company." lower level near the LIRR ticket coun- Ivan was released from custody Outraged at the LIRR police IS ters. with a desk-appearance ticket that day, actions I Foreman I with Lambda staff But even though the location of but the following morning, his arresting attorney Evan Wolfson, have brought the arrests has been targetted with fair officer called his place of employment. the issue to the office of Manhattan precision I the scale of the police cam- "We want to verify employment of District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. paign cannot be accuratdy gauged: [Ivanl. He was arrested last night for Foreman has also contacted the chief Lambda and AVP agree that the arrests public lewdness, Can we verify of the LIRR police to seek an end to for alleged, public lewdness that have employment?" the police officer said, the intimidation of men arrested in the been ,brought to the attention of gay according to Ivan, who answered the sweeps. activists are undqubtedly only the tip phone and assumed the name of one "Rather than relying on the fairly of the iceberg. of his supervisors after the officer iden- useless procedure of 'undercover And the LIRR police seem police, we suggested that they to be choosing their tatgets put up signs and have uni- randomly, rather than based formed patrol [walk through on perceived criminal activity, the restroomsl 'on regular legal advocates said, occasions," Wolfson recount- In a July 31 sweep, for ed, pointing out that the antic- example I at least one of the ipated presence of police offi- men chargea with public cers would unquestionably act lewdness was arrested by uni- as an effective deterrent to formed LIRR officers with public sex. three other men' as he exited Wolfson also argued that the restroom. Ivan, who spoke the DAis office should on condition that his last name change its policy in prose- not be use,d, told OutWeek that . cuting public-lewdness he had been in the restroom Photo: T.L.Lltt/OutWeek cases, because the punish- only long enough to relieve ment is unduly harsh, Cur- himself, and that no uniformed officers tified himself. rently, the DA is unwilling to offer an had entered the restroom during that Ivan's story of intimidation and adjournment in contemplation of dis- time, Ivan claimed that his arresting harassment parallels that of other gay missal-which means that if the officer said to him, "I saw you for 15 men who have been arrested in the offense is not repeated within a minutes ..Jor a half-hour in the bath- Penn Station bathrooIrui in the last sev- specified period' of time, then the room jerking off and looking at other eral yearS, But while the bigoted com- record of arrest is, sealed, and guys' dicks." ments associated with the documented charges are dropped-in cases of "I know this bathroom is notorious arrests show a clear anti-gay motivation alleged public lewdness, for things going on, but I didn't do for the raids, Foreman speculates that After a meeting last week with anything," Ivan insiSted in a telephone the COps' eagerness for allegations of representatives from Morgenthau's interview, public lewdness is connected to office, Wolfson said that he felt cau- Ivan was subsequently brought to unusually high convicthn rates for the tiously optimistic about the progress the LIRR police station, detained for charge, the gay activists had made, "I think more than an houri strip-searched and "The incentive is overwhelmingly they are going to take certain steps to subjected to a body-cavity search, In to plead guilty and get this over with," address the concerns we raised," he' apparent conflict with accepted police Foreman offered I noting the pro- disclosed, procedure I the officer conducting hibitive costs legal defense engenders But while Wolfson pointed out that Ivan'~ strip-search allegedly patted Ivan and the significant i~estment of time the people sitting on the other side of down with his gloved hands, ultimately court appearances require. , the table at that meeting certainly had inserting a ftnger into Ivan's anus in a Another crucial reason that the power to act on the gay activists' cursory cavity-search, According to charges of public lewdness dramatical- suggestions I to date, no significant Ivan, the officer accompanied the ly increase arrest and conviction statis': policy changes have been implement- alleged search of Ivan's naked body tics is the phenomenon of the closet. ed, So, itl a community notice that has . with anti-gay and AIIl5-phobic remarks, "We expect, based on other things; been tacked up on bulletin boarc\s'at the "Touching a person while they're that a good many of these people are Gay and Lesbian Community Center, . being strip searched 'anywhere other not hooked into the gl\y community as AVPand Lambda wrote, "Bewarned." ... August 22, 1990 OlJTTWEEK 13 , PWA Dies After Undergoing B, J.OOu--1 '.....H '. ea"t-··tog"C . ure " byNinaRayu had Kaposi's sarcoma in his lungs," hyperthermia-if it had been presented NEw YORK-A New York City man Bihari recalled, declining to identify his in a more balanced way-he might"not with AIDS who desperatelY wanted to patient,by name, "but he was not in have gott~ so desperate a~ut it.' .halr the progression of his illnesS died imminent danger of dying by the time' Like the PWA in the news stories, ooIy hours after receiving a controVersial he arrived down to Mexico," Other Bihari's patient was suffering from rapid- blood-heating treatment in MeXico City, sources I however, have alleged that ly accelerating Kaposi's sarcoma. Bihari Sending shock waves through the nation- Bih3!i's 47-year-old patient was on the claims that he counseled his patient to . aI'community of people MQ'AIDS. undergo chemotherapy inStead 3!ld sug- . . But while the news ~ devastat- gested that his client await the iesu1is of irig, physicians familiar with the proce- the Atlanta doctors I continued experi- . dure, known 'as hyperthermia I have mentation with the therapy bef~ opt- cautioned PWAs and their advocates ing for the. unproven IIiethod. not to leap to conclusions about the H<;>wever,when 'Bihari's patient • treatment's efficacy, Another PWA who contacted Alonso in Atlanta to request underwent the procedure has report- the treatment I he learned that Alonso edly experienced dramatic improve- had broken with' his former partner, ment, including negative, mv cultures Logan, and intended to move his and phenomenal increases in standard hyperthermia practice to Mexico City. markers of immune-system activity, According to Bihari, his patient then , "My concerns ·at ~,~ point,~ 'said traveled to A-tlanta so that Alonso Dr,' Bernard Bihari, executive director . could test his Kaposi's :sarcoma for, of New Yo'rk's Community Research heat-sensitivity I and when the lab~ Initiative and the private physician of reports showed that his lesions wo\lld . the man who died,. "[are thatl because respond to hyperthermia, the man was of the personality of the man who has .scheduled for the operation in Mexico been doing these procedures and pub- City on August 1. licizing them, the negative reaction will On July 29, Bihari's patient, his. be so great that institutions that should lover, his fattier and his ~unt flew down be trying to,repeat this will not." to Mexico City, and on the evening of Hyperthermia, which has been used brink of ,death. when he arrived in July 31, a Mexican surgeon, under the to treat infections such -as syphilis and Mexico City for·the procedure. direction of Alonso, performed, eXtra- some advanced cases of cancer, involves According to Bihari, die events corporeal hyperthermia on the New artifidally raising the body's temperature leading up to his patient's death in York City PWA.The following inorning, to what, under normal circumstances, Mexico began when news broke that a Alonso notified the patient's lover and would ~ a,dangerously high feVer. PWA, after undergoing a hyperthennia ·father that the patient's blood pressure In the Mexico City case, hyper- treatment, believed that he was "cured ,had dropped, and when the two men thermia .was induced through major of AIDS." Although the two Atlanta- , arrived at the hospital IS intensive-care' surgery: The patient 's blood was based doctors who had performed the unit, they were informed that the cycl~ out of ,his body an9 heated to' procedure, Dr, Kenneth Alonso, a patient had just died of a heart attack, .,:115' degrees before returning it to his pathologist I and Dr, William D. Logan, Later, when news of the patient's ,system, The patient's temperature was Jr., a sUrgeOn, refused to tenD the,treat- death leaked' OUt, the patient's father reportedly maintained at 108 degrees ment a cure, the story was widely cir- was quoted as saying that the cause of : for two hours,. fo1l9wing the protocol culated without substantive rebuttal. death listed on the patient's death cer- used in the earlier cases, Something "In a certain sense, he was a victim tificate was Kaposi's sarcoma, went wrong, however, and eight hours of media hype," remarked Bihari about According to Dr. Suzanne Phillips, ·after the procedure was completed, the his patient, who paid $50,000 to Alonso a physician who has been working patient died. for his hyperthermia treatment. "If it with PWAs for several years and a "He had Kaposi's sarcoma, and he hadn't been for the media hype abou~ S.. 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'l ... i;_ • UP ·Takes.__ "" On the , , GayPress Zaps in D~,~.and S.F. raise questions of gay and lesbian paliers' roles by Paul Rykoff Coleman The confrontation is technically of Miller, ,refuse to participate, NEW 'r'0RK-Gay and lesbian not new: Over a year ago, ACf UP/New With the Blade, which prints no <;dmmunity newspapers in Washington, . York launched a boycott of. the New editorials, the issues go beyond the D.C" and San Francisco are discovering York Native over what activists 'called paper's refusal to take a stand on the flfSthand how it feels to be an ACf UP the newspaper's irresponsible and Miller boycott. ACf UP!DC's fact sheet, target, and they don't like it at all. bizarre reporting on AIDS. But the situ- periodically and surreptitiously inserted ACI' UP members are known for ation does highlight an undercurrent in into the paper before distribution I accuses the Blade of ignoring and deni- grating the activist community while championing lobbyists and members of the mainstream gay establishment. The Blade denies these charges. "Jt's no secret down ,here that the Blade identifies itself with the lobbyist community," said John Davis, an ACI' UP!DC member. "There is a graiti of truth in tha,t," said Lisa M. Keen, Blade senior editor. "Washingtonl'D,C" has more lobbyists than any other city, Whether we talK to more lobbyists is open to debate." ACf UP/DC stepped up its cam- paign against the Blade after the paper published a lead story by Keen on June 29 on the activists I 20-minute disruption of U.S. Health and Human Services Sec- their vehement protests against the contemporary gay journalism: the retary Louis Sullivan IS speech at the AIDS bureaucracy, TlJey're frustrated expectations that the community at Sixth International Conference on AIDS with the slow pace of AIDS research large has a press that, in many cities, in San Francisco last Ju'ne. The story's and government inability to provide the tries to balance its gay orientation with headline read: "ACI' UP Demo May necessary money to help people living journalistic Inde- ' Have Hurt with AIDS or HIV infection. They've pendence. Relationship . shut down the FDA for a day, the. ACfUP's anger NEWS FOCUS With Sulli- Golden 'Gate Bridge for a few hours stems from the van." The and the' New York Stock Exchange for national boycott of Miller beer. Activists report focused on Sullivan's reaction to a few minutes, Now ACf UP is taking across the country are urging bars to ACf UP,whose members threw debris, ' .:direct action against the Washington discontinue serving Miller products blew whistles and set off air horns so ,Blade, the Bay Area Reporter and San because of the brewer's parent compa- that no one could hear the speech. , Francisco Sentinel, ny, Philip Morris Cos. Inc. I a large con- Keen noted Sullivan's quotation, . The issUes are ,so volatile that even tributor to both Jesse Helms and a attributed to"the San Francisco Chroni- the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, library named for the North Carolina cle, in which the health secretary said an advocacy organization that usually has Senator in Wingate I N.C. But support that the protesters were "un-American." something to say about everything gay- for the boycott is far from universal. "The article is a propaganda piece related I refuses to comment. 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MAIL TO: 159 West 25th Street-7th Floor, New York City, 10001' L ~O.!:~m_m_e~~~~!.'!i~~~~ !o11!!.e!~:..8E~-9~!:,!v!~~ ~.J Ne\vs Panthers an.d Angels Arrive on Christopher ,Street . . by John Voelcker, Nina Reyis Saturd_ay night patrols will coindde seen in the area already, Coordinator and Andrew Miller with those of the Pink Panthers. And Thomas J. Luz said that walk-bys will NEW YORK-Motivated by the although the Guardian Angels have cover Christopher Street from Sheridan rising tide eX violence against lesbians and pledged cooperation, at least some in Square to the piers along West Street. gay' men, an anti-violence task force hit the community remain hesitant about Those patrols I according to Mer- . the streets of the westYillage last week, the Angel's presence in the largely gay chants Association President Michael putting would-be gay-bashers on notice and lesbian neighborhood, Mirisola, will concentrate on inhibiting ..,~~ violent crime I including gay-bashing, and drug sales I and will not interfere with "public drinking, rowdiness and noisemaking,· which he characterized as long-standing neighborhood traditions. Mirisola aclmowledged that the gay and lesbian community may view the Angels warily, given past aIlegatiom of anti-gay behavior, but promised that their invited presence would only benefit the community, "These patrols must be better and cleaner than ever before,• he said, And Guardian Angel Director Lisa Sliwa also stressed the group's previous experience in gay neighborhoods, and what she characterized as its good rela- tions with gay communities and indivi- uals, She noted that the Angels work , here in New York with East Villagers Against Crack, a group headed by John THINK PINK Photo: lL utt/ OutWeek Woods, a gay man, She also noted that Pink Psnthsf'$ on patrol the Angels have a long-standing patrol in Houston's largely gay Lower West- that in one neighborhood ~t least, les- The Panthers' debut patrol came heimer neighborhood, and that their bians, and gay men have organized for less than a week after the group's fll'st San Francisco headquarters is located in the community's defense. self-defense training, and, while the the Poik, that city's oldest gay district, The roving anti-violence group, group will continue to receive weekly But Pink Panther leader Gem Wells Is calling itself the Pink Panthers I is an basic martial-arts training, members are not convinced. "I have bad feelin~ about offshoot of Queer Nation, and an Aug, hoping that the presence of patrols !t,. she admitted "I think the Angels have 3 march from Sheridan Square to the armored only- with their wits, walkie- done some good work in the past, But Christopher Street pier kicked off their talkies, and cameras, will' serve as an they've also proved that they have serious West Village patrols, In their trademark effective deterrent to potential bashers, problems with homophobia.· Qting anti- paw-print T-shirts, members marched The patrol members are divided into gay lnddents that she said she has wit- down Christopher Street to cheers of groups of between six and ten Pan- nessed at past community demonsIrations, welcome from West Village merchants thers, who take beats that overlap and she aclcl(:dthatshe "would prefer that they , and residents alike, wind through the Village from the have a lot more sensitivitytraining" before MeanwhUe the Christopher Street Hudson Rlver piers to BroadwaYI and they begin patrolling Greenwich Village, " Central Block and' Merchants Associa- from 14th Street to Houston Street. To illustrate her allegation of past tion' announced that it would institute The Guardian Angel's first official tensions between .the Angels and mem- its own patrols with the aid of the patrol will be on Friday, August 17, bers of the gay community, Wellsrecalled Guardian Angels, whose Friday and although they have reportedly been an ACf UP clean-needle distribution 18 OlfT'YWEEK August 22, 1990 , ,-" action on the lower Fast Side last winter, The Guardian Angels, whose hard-line anti-drog stance makes them vehemently opposed to clean-needle campaigns,' Dr. Charles Franchino taunted the AIDS activists, calling them "fucking faggots," according to Wells. 30 Fifth Avenue' Nevertheless, given the size of the New York, New York 10011 212.673.4331 office hours by appointment COMING THIS SEPTEMBER. ~ A COMPLETE SOURCE TOTH,CITY ... Real Estate GAY.oK Photo: T.L Litt/llItWllflk Gu,rdl,n Ang.1 Dlflctor UBI SIIw. ' current epidemic of gay-bashing, she admits that the community can use all the help it can get. "We'll take help wherever we can get it," she conclud- ed, "but not from people who haven't worked out their homophobia yet. That's like pouring gas on the fire," The Angels have been through one sensitivity training already and are plan- ning more, including one with Joyce Hunter, of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, an advocacy group for gay and lesbian youth with offices on West Street. Anthony Seda, one of the four Angels chosen from more than a dozen volunteers for the Christopher Street HE patrol, has worked about 12 areas of New York City in his four years with the sroup and said that the West Vil- ~NHATTAN lage Is se(ln' as an attractive assignment, He told OutWeek that to his knowl- edge, none of the four is gay, LIVING Despite any differences, the groups' • street philosophies toward troublemakers seem more or less simUar. "We're com- GUIDE mitted to nonviolence but we will defend ourselves-we wtll bash back," explained Panther organizer Wells. "We're not looking for trouble, but weill act swiftly in response,"~ August22,1990 O~VVEEK 19 ()ut r"rakes Tho~ny its organizers are preparing to imple- newly constructed S/M policy articulates ment a policy that calls the fundamen- a concern that women be free to make tal pro-woman principles of the event choices I it nevertheless clearly reflects d,ebate over into question. For the the agenda of women first time I the Michigan U.S.A. who have espoused S/Mat Women's Music Festival anti-S/M attitudes, will seek to circumscribe the activities "The, festival will prohibit certain wom.en'~ of women involved in S/M who attend activities organized by the S/M com- the five-day event. munity," festival organizers warned in , While debate over the presence a February statement to S/M women, .m.usic 'fest and actions of S/M women at the Michi- "In these circumstances [the context of WAIRAllA, Mich.-As the' music- gan festival has arisen year after year, the festival], acting out S/M activity in -festival-going lesbian nation gears up this is \the fU'Styear a containment poli- an open-air environment infringes for the grandmother of all the festivals, cy has been fonnulated. And while the other womyn's rights to move freely 11 I ,t VANCOUVE~, British Colurtlbfa-More than 7;000le~ N~y 'lIJ,(XXr spectators showed up to cheer th(men ana;' ,(~n andgay!'athlefes, ';some of whom"are pictUred h~re; Women fiom all oVer the world, WOO, cfutirig the'next sevei'icJays;; pdured into the B:C, Place Stadium here on Saturday, August would swim, Sprin~ spike and sweat their'Y'lYS to victay and Way, 4, gatheting under its air-supported dome for the opening Look in next week's OutWeek for complete coverage of ,ceremonies of the community's own version of the Olympics, tbe games. I -Jim 'Marks G~yGames III. ' Photo: Jim Marks/OutWeek 20 OUTTWEEK August 22. 1990 and safely without fear or horror.· BENEFIT CONCERT FOR DISABLED WOMEN"-- •All rhetoric aside, this is a basic The Mid-Atlantic Region of the NLC will sponsor a benefit concert. discrimination problem,· rebutted Vic- Proceeds from this concert will be used to sponsor 70-100 disabled women toria Baker, a member of Outcasts, a who want to attend the NLC in Atlanta, GA. in 1991. San Francisco-based women's S/M Artists and Performers: TIIE LIFE / LATTETA TIIERESA / BRUNILDA group, in her response to the Michigan VEGA/ EDWINA LEE TYLER & A PIECE OE THE WORLD festival's organizers. "If it is true that Moderator: DOROTHY RANDALL GRAY you intend to ,have a festival where dif- Place: AARON DAVIS HALL (138th Street and Convent Avenue) , ference is respected, as diversity and Date: SEPTEMBER 8, 1990 Donation: $20.00 na feared as a threat, then it is the respai- sibility ci its organizers to make the hard For More Information Contact: Days: G. Patterson (201) 750-1809 decision to back up that professed inten~ Evenings: K Hikmah (212) 491-5969 & G, Thrzi (718) 643"9879 tion. AlloWing disaimination against even TIcket Purchase: TICKETRON / OSCAR WILDE BOOK STORE , one group creates an environment for JUDITH'S ROOM BOOK STORE / A DIFFERENT LIGHT further discriminations,· ' " . The controversY between women , who support all fonns of sexuality and OUTWEEK PUBLISHING C'ORPORATION women who characterize woman-to- salutes the following buslne •• ~ woman S/M as ,vJolence against women has been .festering for years establishments for their SUpPoRT of the ,~nd,' according to Baker, has been -MILLER BEER,BOYCOTT. closely tied to the feminist anti-pornog- raphy movement, For instance, last Rawhide' .I 'y~, stickers were posted throughout Eagle the' encampment that read "Pornogra- phy - Violence -Sadomasochism." Duplex Another sticking point for S/M Gents women has been the fact that a good Company deal of the impetus behind the contin- 5-0aks uing battle .between Separatists Against Spike , Sa4o-Masochisril and the festival's S/M "': Keller. aficionados comes, from heterosexual > "festival attendJes,'according to Severa. ,Kelly's Villa'ge 'Wesf' 'sources: This year, the Michigan New .limmy's " Women's Music Festival will run from Private Eyes August 15-19, 88's "I think feminists have been afraid of discovering that we're all very dif- Ty's ferent from' each other,• Baker said in Chelsea Transfer a telephone interview, Baker rejects Uncle Charlies the definitions, put forth by anti-S/M The Monster women I of what does and does not Dugout constitute violence against women, The Works, "Sexual difference is not a threat." However, some women who go to "The Break , the Michigan festival apparently tQink , The Tunnel Bar that the very pr~nce of S/M women 9th CirQle implicitly vjolates the commitment to Candle' freedom for all women that the festival Cubby Hole upholds, because the movement to get Badlands the S/M women off. the festival land-or at the very' least, to force , The Bar them to adhere to restrictive codes of ,Crazy Nanny's behavior-has not let up. "We initially DT's Fat Cat responded [to the issue) by calling Barbary Coast upon S/M womyn to self-monitor,· the Christophers festival's organizers said in their Febru- ary encydical, "asking them to change Star Sapphire their behavior in workshops and com- ROxy mon festival spaces, so that other August 22. 1990 OUTTWEEK ,21 Out Takes womyn weren't' involuntarily exposed "We can only suspect that such attempted calls and faxes had not gone to S/M activity or imagery." information was confirmed directly through I reached a busy signal or were . A group of women opposed to with the- associates of Mr, Chairman," not answered, S/M went further than that: According Majewski said, "but I can 't say.exactly Walesa's' alleged anti-gay com- to several reports I a letter circulated at with whom. We received it from the ments were attributed to him in July by the festival last year said that some foreign ministry," seven Poles in attendance at the 12th anti-S/M women had considered toss- In the letter to Britt,' Majewski World Conference of the International ing live firecrackers among the S/M exp~essed "hope that this [embassy] Lesbian and Gay Association in Stock- women involved in a play party. Also statement will reach the public opinion hoim, Sweden. last year, festival security guards in San Francisco." Members of the Polish Lambda attempted to forcibly evict a group of Since Walesa's alleged remarks Association said that at Solidarity IS S/M women from an isolated site the were ,reprinted in the gay press, a annual convention in Gdansk in Apri!, women had chosen for a party, movement to rename San Francisco's Walesa promised to "eliminaie" "homo- prompting the women to perform acts Lech Walesa'Street has emerged. sexuals" and "drug users" from society of civil disobedience in protest. if he were elected president. "Shit comes down for every- "One' of our writers heard it him- body-it doesn't matter who you are," self; he was there," said Ryszard Kisie!, added Lou, another member of the editor of the 4-year-old Gdansk gay Outcasts I who has both attended and magazine, Filo. worked the festival. "Everyone who -Rex Wockner/Chicago has a space at Michigan has had to fight for it." -Nina Reyes/New York Dinkins to ~oles deny put PWAs in anti-gay shelters NEW YORK-Over the strenuous relDarks hy objections of advocates for the home- . less and people with AIDS, the admin- istra~ion of Mayor David Dinkins has Walesa announced hOUSing-development WASHINGTON-The Polish embassy plans that include a program to put here on August 2 dismissed, as untrue people with AIDS in city shelters. reports that Solidarity party leader, And a number of advocates are Lech Walesa, has promised to eliminate angry over what they called Dinkins' homosexuals and drug addicts from reneging on campaign promises. Dink- LECH WALESA Fmto: Narcy Shia/ll'f1lact VISUals Polish society if he is elected president. ins has said twice before, as Manhattan In a letter faxed to Harry Britt, "Something which I feel very Borough president and during his may- president of the San Francisco Board .deeply about," he explained by phone, oral campaign I that he, saw shelters as of Supervisors I the embassy press sec- "is that in recent times what Mr, Walesa an inappropriate housing option for retary, Boguslaw Majewski, wrote: "All says is misinterpreted by the press. I am people with AIDS. press' coverage on this issue is based astonished that the American press is In Dinkins' "Continuum of Hous- on an untrue information. What Mr. considering such absolutely strange ele- ing and Services for the Medically Frail Walesa had actually stated was the ments like his alleged attitudes toward and HN-Ill," he proposed significant necessity of 'solving the problem of this kind of society [gays], This is a very increases in housing opportunities for drug using' and not, as some media bad attitude [for the American press]." homeless people with AIDS. The city's rephrased it, 'eliminating drug addicts.' Majewski said that I to his knowl- plan will add nearly"2,500 slots to its Mr. Walesa had never mentioned any- edge I Walesa "has never stated any- rental-assistance program, which grants thing ab@ut homosexuals." thihg publicly" about homosexuality or subsidies to PWAs allowing them to' Majewski wrote that the embassy's the rapidly growing Polish gay and les- retain their apartments when they can statement was based on "confirmation bian movement. no longer afford the rent. from Warsaw." In a telephone inter- Majewski provided additional tele- The city also proposes to develop view, he attributed the denial to the phone and fax numbers for Walesa's a variety of types of housing for anoth- ministry of foreign affairs. Gdansk office. But at press time, er 2,000 people with AIDS, 22 OU"TTWEEK August 22, 1990 Call to ACTion Black or white tee's and tank tops, Black wlbold white lettering and puH pink triangle or White wlbold black lettering and pull pink triangle, Quality Oneita Power 50 Shirts Add $2.00 ShIPPIng and handing. Send check or money order to: CA ResdenlS add 6.75% Sales Tax Soap Box Sales ,040 N,HavenhurstDr SEE PAGE 81 , Of call: (2,3)6S<·:?792 Wes' Hollywood, CA 90046 ACT UP VISITS GRACIE MANSION AFTER DINKINS' ANNOUNCEMENT • Photo: Tom McKitterick DISTINCTIVE The Comprehensive Care Pro- gram will create 625 beds in city shel- ters for people who are fflV-positive ; .. ~DECO ", and symptomatic. Advocates for peo- .. ple with AIDS and the homeless have y Apartments denounced this plan as "medically Lux u r inappropriate" and "unhealthy" given the incidence of tuberculosis, enteric Cool Buildings ... infection and other diseases in city shelters. According to advocates I such .. , Hot Location diseases, which are dangerous to any- one, are life-threatening to people , with AIDS, Advocates also state that • Very large apartments confidentiality is often breached in city shelters I and people with AIDS featuring Hardwood Floors, are stigmatized and sometimes subject to violence. New Kitchens, Security, RecentlYI a coalition of 25 advo- cacy and service providers to the Deco Baths, High Ceilings homeless and people with AIDS issued a joint statement that called on the city to set minimum standards • All Sizes...the Best of the in housing for people with AIDS. These included private sleeping Beach' and sanitary facilities, secure refrigeration for food and medica- tion, available kitchen facilities and support services. The- statement called on the city to develop hous- ing for people with AIDS at a rate of 6,400 units per year. At' this rate, VINTAGE according to one advocate I the city PROPERTIES will make up the deficit in housing for people with AIDS in two to three years, Some estimates put the number 1601 Jefferson Avenue, Miami Beach, FL33139 (305) 534-1424 of homeles's people with .AIDS at 9,000-11,000. -Duncan Osborne August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 23 ()ut Takes Ford pulls 'well-financed New Dimensions has nia dealer was responsible for plaCing repeatedly printed defamatory articles the ad, Ford issued a written apology about the gay and lesbian community stating in part: "We'have requested and ads from and provided misleading information the dealer has agreed to discontinue using about the AIDS epidemic which, this publication. ~ dealer was not aware anti-gay according to Schwartzi can contribute of the editoruµ in the magazine." to the ever-rising anti-gay violence. Schwartz, who said that she had lIlag In its January issue, which con- always considered Ford to be a tained the Ford ad, the cover story, "responsible companYI" added that NEW YORK-Buckling under "Sex for Trade" labeled gays as power- GLAAD was "delighted that Ford has pressure from the Gay and Lesbian wielding perverts involved in sex. scan- seen reason and decided not to subsi- Alliance Against Defamation, Ford has dals and political manipulation, dize hatred and misinformation." yanked its Mustang GT ad from New Appearing in that same issue were five Honda, the only other national Dimensions, a right-wing monthly other slanderous articles and columns, company to advertise in New Dimen- magazi!1e that frequently runs AIDS- including one that cast gays as child Sions, has not yet responded to phobic and homophobic stories. molesters and another that alleged the GLAAD:~appeal. "There's nothing wrong with the "transmission of the AIDS virus has, -Jaais Astor ad-the problem is the magazine's been documented by saliva, household relentlessly homophobic editorial poli- and hand contact." CY,"said GLAAD's Karin Schwartz. According to Schwartzi officials at Published monthly in Oregon by a Ford's Detroit, Michigan, headquarters D.C. group that calls itself the Foundation denied any involvement with New for Human Understanding, the glossy, Dimensions by claiming that a Califor- D.C. mayor nixes'AIDS clinic bailout WASHINGTON-The largest pqbic heaIth-care clinic here continues paying exorbitant employee' health-insurance , costs because Mayor Marion Barry refused to sign Council legislation that would have provided the clinic with a temporary- fix, Virtually no one following the Whitman-Walk(!r Clinic's predicament could have foreseen that the embattled Mayor would pocket-veto the legisla- tion: not the clinic's 90 employees I who handle 6,300 patient visits each year; not the Washington Post, which endorsed the legislation in an editOrial; and, not the District Council I which passed the legislation on July 10. But the Mayor failed to sign the bill by a July 27 deadline. "We were very disappointed," said George Swales, the clinic's acting administrator, f'I'm very sUfPrised." Whitman-Walker's problems began in earIy'June, when Blue Cross/Blue Shield of the National, Cap- 24 OUr.-WEEK August 22, 1990 ital Region informed the clinic that REAL ESTA TE. INC. premiums would go up 50 percent on --SOB HOWARD LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER July 1, to $600 per employee per month, At that rate, the clinic would pay $840,000 to insure the health of FIRE JSLANC? PINES its employees for a year, Over the Rentols/Sol~s past four years, the clinic's premiums Financing . have quadrupled, 212 . 925 . 3030 /516 . 597 . 9400 Jim Graham, a Whitman-Walker administrator, told Outweek in June that although the clinic's staff were "heavy i". users" of their health insurance, the pre- mium raises were excessive, Blue Cross! Blue Shield is the only insurer that would offer them a poliCYIhe added, On June 26,-D,C, Councilor Betty Ann Kane introduced an emergency ACozyCa!e bill that would have allowed Whit- man-Walker and four other free clin- Featuring Homemade ics to use the city's insurance plan, Natural Food paying the same cost the District pays for its employees. The District would Fresh Baked Desserts pay the remaining costs. The bill was Coffees and Cappucinos ... an. emergency measure, effective for three months, An identical, perma- nent bill is scheduled to be intro- The Freshest of duced when the Council reconvenes 87 ST. MARKS PL., N.V.C. (212) 874·8302 Vegetables, Fish, Pasta, in the fall. A public hearing is set for LIVE MUSIC TUES & THURS NIGHTS Herbs, and Spices September 18. Barry told the Washington Post July 29 that while sympathetic to the clinic IS ptoblems, subsidizing health , ,.\;~ . insurance costs would "set a bad precedent." The annual subsidy is estimated at $250,000, according to ~~-viting! : the Post. Swales said that although the • • Mayor's pocket veto was disappointing, • • Barry's reasons were legitimate. "The leg- • • islation constituted an open checkbook," • • Swales said. "They did not wish to open • • a forum where every poor nonprofit • • organization would be aying to the city." • • if Charming, Newly Renovated HypotheticallYI Swales said, the ••• You are inn,vited to experience our style or • clinic cannot get a reprieve, either small,hotel hospitality. Where strangers • Brownstone Conveniently from Blue Cross!Blue Shield or from • become friends and friends become closer. • Located in Chelsea the city, it could be forced to reorga- • -All Rooms Have nize or shut its doors. "It would have • Washing Facilites to be reinvented at the city's expense," • • -Share Bath Swales said. The clinic is the district's ·Continental Breakfast : $74 $84: Included largest provider of community-based • SINGLE DOUBLE. AIDS medical and social selVices and ·Single $65 ·Double $80 • Studio $99 serveS many in the lesbian and gay Includes continentarbreakfast.- Single or ALL TAXES INCLUDED ·• double occupancy. Add 9.7% tax. Subject to •. community, The city provides $2 mil- • ,wailability. Advance reservations suggested. • -Weekly Rates Upon Request lion of the clinic's $6-million budget. For r('s('rmli">ls. call )·800,842-3450 Advance Reservations Suggested! "Whitman-Walker is not unique," • • • Swales said. "This problem is happen- 212-243-9669 ing ail over." CHANDLER INN, -Paul Rykoff Co1emanlNew York Inn Town Bed & Breakfast ..ColonialHouse Inn 26 Ch.ndlor .1 B.,ki!0SIO¥ 02116 (6171482,34,0 CHllSlA 3111 W nod $1. 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The artists' works deal with After a threat to move the meeting National Council on the Arts here on the subjects of AIDSI feminism and elsewhere did not quiet the room, Aug. 4, 'protesting the panel's decision homosexuality, All but Finley are gay, police officers entered to bodily to defer votes on grants to two contro- Before a packed room, the Coun- remove protesters who were engaged versial perf<>rmaQce artists until cil gathered to vote on a series of in a noisy ftIibuster involving sexually November. grants, including renewal grants to Fin- explicit poetry, After being lifted out of The Counci!, a presidentially ley and Hughes, But citing possible the hall, the demonstrators were imme- appointed advisory committee of the conflicts of interest on the cominittee, diately released without being arrested, , National Endowmer;tt for the Arts, held Frohnmayer announced that decisions Hundreds just outside the room chanted, its, qµarterly meeting here Aug, 3-5 in on the contested grants would be stomped their feet and blared horns to the shadow of an ever-growing contro- deferred to another committee which further aggravate the council members, versy surrounding federal funding for would not meet until November. According to Frohnmayer, the the arts, A gro~p of nine protesters then agency postponed votes on the contra- 26 O~WEEK August 22. 1990 versial grants in attempts to avoid any suggestion of favoritism in the grant- HOW A MAN approval process. CAN TAKE YEARS The manner by which the NEA approves grants occasionally finds one OFF HIS FACE or more individuals who could benefit Now - an amazing NEW ANTI-WRINKLE Formula with from a grant sitting on a decision-mak- UNIQUE INGREDIENT RETINYL-A ing panel I as in the case of these grants, . that makes you look and feel Since it is usual for those individuals to years younger! ,-- abstain from participating in the voteS special which could affect them, the matter had anti-WRINKLE never before become an issue. 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August 22, 1990 OU~WEEK 7J ()ut r-rakes false statements in a letter to a Vrrginia Times on August 2 surprised but ter-relief funds to areas hardest hit by the parole officer on· behalf of male prosti- pleased national gay and lesbian lead- AIDS epidemic, tute Stephen 1. Gobie, ers here I some of whom had witnessed "This legislation provides relief for Prior.to the reprimand, Dannemey- Bush penning the Americans With Dis- a health emergency, seeks to maximize er had led an unsuccessful effort to abilities Act, or the ADA, a week earli- existing resources and funds the first have Frank expelled from the House. er. Ironically, lobbyists from the Ameri- real HIV secondary-prevention effort "As the person assigned to make can Civil Liberties Union, a favorite tar- all in one bill," stated Tom Sheridan, your life a bit more difficult around get of Bush's, were barred' from that lobbyist for the AIDS Action Council. here over the past few months I" Mero bill signing. "By emphasizing cost-effective and wrote July '27, "I want you to know Bush's special assistant for public human community-based systems of that I appreciate your floor statement. liaison, Doug Wead, was fired from his care, we have created something that Humility is becoming to all of us." $55,000 job on August 1 by a deputy to can serve as a model for many of our He added, "I hope your next 50 Chief of Staff John Sununu. The Times nation's health-care emergencies, n years are much smoother sailing, No said that "several administration sources" The bill, ~t1edthe Ryan White .Com- doubt, oqce we carriers of old-fash- .blamed Wead's dismissal on opposition prehensive AIDS Resources Emergency ioned values are put out to pasture I to initiations to gay leaders to the sign- Act of 1990, authorizes $875 million per you will be enjoying a long and pros- ings of the Hate Qimes Statistics Act on year for the next two years and such perous career," April 23, and the ADAlast month. funds as will be necessary for the follow- Frank, who has left Washington Wead criticized the invitations ing three years to be spent on health for his August vacation I was not avail- publicly and wrote letters to about a care and support services for people able for comment. dozen complainants I blaming inclusion with AIDS, Ryan White was a teenage Mero's arguably tongue-in-cheek of gays on staff error, The claim·infuri- hemophiliac who died from AIDS-related missive, however, triggered an angry ated his more moderate boss, Bobbie complications earlier this year, response from at least one gay- and Greene Kilberg, the paper reported, Funds for the 1991 implementation lesbian-rights group. saying "a senior official" denied that of the 1l1eaSI,Jre are included in the HoUse- Robert Bray, public-information there had been an error. approved version of the Health and officer for the National Gay and Les- A White House spokesperson con- Human SeIVices appropriations bill,Those bian' Task Force, on Aug..6 responded .firmed Wead's dismissal but would not funds, however, are not yet earmarked for to the Mero memo with a lengthYI blis- elaborate. Wead declined to comment, the AIDS-care package and could vary tering letter suggesting that "pasture for saying that he wants to maintain his "good widely from the proposal's targets by the repressive politicians [better] come relationships" in the administration and time the funding bill is signed into law. sooner than later." work in the 1992 presidential campaign. Despite President Bush's initial "This is not a joke for us, Paul," The ACLU is persona non grata in complaints about the disease-specific the lobbyist concluded. "We' will con- Sununu's book, another lobbyist. nature of the bill I a White House tinue to challenge and harshly expose reported a White House staffer told spokesperson confirmed on Aug, 7 that Mr. Dannemeyer's hate-mongering and him. In the 1988 race, Bush accused Bush will sign the measure I although vicious contempt for gay people, the ACLU as being soft on criminals, there is no date set for that action. Please consider this next time your scornfully calling Michael Dukakis "a The measure will channel emergen- boss asks you to help destroy gay card-carrying member." cy funds to areas around the country politicians and gay lives." -JohnZeh which have been hit disproportionately .' -CUff O'Neill by the health crisis. Sixteen areas would Congress be eligible for a total of $275 million per ·Bush staffer year in funds. Determinations on fund- ing will be ma(je based on a formula approves which will take into account the con- axed over .centration of AIDScases. lan-dmuk Other grants will be made based gay.invites on need, local efforts and potential for immediate use, a provision intended to . WASHINGTON--:-President George AIDS funds help address the growing problem of Bush's chief liaison to the religious . WASHINGTON-In a last-minute high rates of AIDS in certain rwal areas, right and. other conservative con- flurry of activity prior to their summer The 16 areas which will automatical- .stituencies lost his· White House job for recesS, the House and Senate on Aug, 5 ly qualify for aid are the cities and sub- opposing gays' attendance at White granted final approval to a comprehen- urbs of Atlanta, ~on, Chicagol DaIIas, House bill-signings. sive measure which over the next five Ft. l.auderdale, Houston, Jersey City, Lo5 That report in the Washington years will funnel $4.4 billion in disas- Angeles, Miami, New York City, Newapc, 28 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 PhUadelphia, San Diego, San Frandsco, more than one attack of insanity"; who immigration by polygamists. San Juan and Washington, D,C. are "afflicted with a psychopathic per- The amendment does not seek to Grants will be made to state and sonality I sexual deviation or mental change the standing immigration poli- local governments as well as private defect"; or who are "narcotic-drug cy entry. or immigration by foreigners organizations, Funds will be made avail- addicts or chronic alcoholics," with AIDS or IllY infection, able for out-patient and case-manage- The standing prohibition against "We have to deal with that sepa-. ment needs; counseling, IllY-antibody "sexual deviants I" which dates back to rateIy,» Frank said, "because the IllY testing and diagnostic programs; and the McCarthy era, has been used spo- piece wasn't in this part of the law. And early intervention treatment and referrals. radically by immigration agents over I wanted to do one at a time, because if A rider attached to the bill as a the years to bar lesbianS and gay men you do both you could kill them." compromise between sponsors and from immigrating to the V.S. -Cliff O'Neill opponents led by Republican Rep. The Frank amendment replaces Wtlliam-Dannemeyer of California makes the current list with a shorter one, pro- receipt of funds contingent on states hibiting immigration by drug addicts having laws on the books "that would and foreign nationals with a physic~1 allow aiminal prosecution for intentional or mental disorder which would be a transmission of IllY by blood donation I threat to the individual or to others. sexual activity or needle sharing," The rider also lifts the U.S, ban on i ,''---- a After reiterating that provision I Dannemeyer expressed his support of the bill, marking the fIrst time that the California arch-conservative has ever approved of any legislation or appro- priations which would address the AIDS crisis. -Cliff O'Neill Frank helping you meet the sex proposes challenges of the 90's gay-friendly border policy WASHINGTON-Openly gay Democratic Rep, Barney Frank of Mas- sachusetts on July 31 revived efforts to The remove the U.S. prohibition on lesbian and gay immigration by attaching an BACKROOM amendment striking the ban to a America's Largest Gay/Lesbian Computer Information Service broad-based immigration-reform bill. CALL US WITH YOUR COMPUTERI The Frank-sponsored measure was accepted by the House Judiciary Commit- (718) 849-1614 (modem) tee on a voice vote. The underlying bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep, Bruce :::::///:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::FOURFORFUN TIMES:::::':':: ::'::':.::::.:. Morrison of Connecticut, went on to pass out of the committee on a 23-12 vote. The larger measure revamps the ratios of Lr~;;k~~:FIr~~~~\ I.l, . , Wi~. foreign nationals from different countries .~~\~.;~~r.<~"f:. FIRSTHANU , GUYS MANSCAPE MANSHOTS allowed to immigrate to the U.S, The magazine that Hot, fiction, reader Whatever you're The indispensable Frank's amendment strikes a list of pionccrcd the sex letters, arid an into, Manscape's guide to gay video health-related grounds in standing V,S. letters from array of interesting got it..:.S&M, -interviews with immigration law for which foreigners readers detailing and informative bondage, water stars, reviews, in- may be barred. Current law bans immi- their personal sex columns-who sports, foot depth features. gration by foreigners who are "mental- encounters. could ask for more! fetishes, whatever! 6 issues, $35.00 12 issue'S,$4200. 8 issue'S,$3200 12 issues, $42.00 12 issues, $65.00 !y retarded or insane I o~ have had M~i1 your dll.'(:k or money order to: ARSTHAND, LID. P.O, Box 1314-0, T ...... ncck, NJ 07666 August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 29 GAY PRESS "- ,. •• ,. sage to us that if we did not act pre- apolitical gay men and their sensitivi- . for., Sullivan, ~~Da"yi$ .$~ig .. "~~en cisely as!hey dictate4, th~y would ties, I just want the damn thing ~ be as. couldn't do any reporting on her. remedy their unfavorable situation by much down the middle as possible. I own-4hat means speaking with any violating our freedom of the press and sometimes don't succeed in goingexadly protester or fiIv-positive person." The 'freedom of expression." Nevertheless, down the middle, am 00 journalist any- group sent Keen a letter complaining Haskell said that BAR. offered to pub- where does. But that is the goal." that the article was unbalanced. Davis lish a letter from ACf UP, and the Sen- The reasons for some disappoint- cl:~imed ·that Keen admitted that the tinel has solicited a guest opinion from ment with objective journalism in the reporting was shoddYI but Keen them, "Whether they print it or not is gay community is the gay press's his- .denied ever telling the activists this. something else," he said, adding that torical role, Wockner asserted. A The storY was not perfect I" she both papers seem to be. making a decade ago, the gay press was part of told OutWeek. "It was missing one ele- genuine effort to enhance communica- the movement I promoting the few who ment," The "one element" was why tion, with the activists. were out: drag queens and the owners ACf UP sabotaged Sullivan IS speech: ACf UP's demands of the press in of bathhouses and bars, "Now the gay becauSe of the bizarre U.S. immigration both D.C. and San Francisco raise and lesbian movement is an extremely policy that bans foreign people with issues of whether the gay press should large and extremely complicated thing, AlDS from entering the country, Many be accountable to the politics of its with no one. viewpoint about any- AIDS organizaqons boycotted the San readers, or function in a so-called thing," Wockner said, "And people Francisro OOnferencefix' !hi<) very reason. objective manner, frequently referred often still expect the gay and lesbian ACf UP/DC's Linda Meredith finds to as "AP style" because of the Associ- press to be an arm of the movement. Keen's concession unacceptable. ated Press's rules about presenting And of course, any given activist "When a reporter doesn't get both sides both sides of a story, defmes the movement as their particu- of the story; she said, "it's like a waiter Rex Wockner, whose gay newswire, lar goals anei activities." apOlogizing for not bringing the food." At 10 ami on July 27, nine.mem- bers occupied Blade publisher Don Michaels's office I demanding a meet- ing, Michaels refused; calling the activists "Nazi brownshirts" and phon- ing the police, The. activists left. In San Francisco, the only issue is the Miller boycott, The two gay week- ·lies, the Bay Area Reporter and the Sentinel, haye both published editorials against the boycott I and .news reports downplaying its scope. During the .J9!Jlt4.VI~~~. 30 OUTYWEEK August 22, 1990 ingly meeting many of the demands on ACT UP/DC's fact sheets. Is the Blade responding? "I don't know if it's a direct response or coincidence,· Meredith said, WHEN Nevertheless, the issues are pitting • gay against gay. "It's bad, causing dis- YOU'RE sension in the gay community," the Senttne/'s :- Ch31ker said, "People are arguing about this in the streets. It's QUEER getting ugly." , , Keen said divisiveness can only •• benefit the homophobes,"It's not dam- ••. ENOUGH aging to someone like Jesse Helms,• she said, "He would enjoy gay groups turning against one another,· She .[Tj .TO SEND added: "There is room for criticism-of the Blade and gay groups, We need to .lJj THE VERY be able to talk among ourselves and not beat up on one another." But Meredith that said she •• BEST. believed that gay-vs,-gay arguments "couldn't hurt,• especially when it .~' CARDS AND brings put divergent opinions: "The T-SHIRTS Tue - Fri at 8, Blade has a monopoly on queer report- Sat & Sun at 7 ing iIi Washington, D.C'" She indicated Call Box Office: 691-2271 45 CHRISTOPHER ST that ACT UP has no plans to cease • or 8IT-TIX:(212)'564-8038 hailding out its anti-Blade fact sheets (BET. 6TH a 7TH) . (212) 242-0424 and stuffmg them in the paper, Hasltell CHARLES LUDLAM THEATRE • One Sheridan Square (In Greenwleh Vlllaeel emphasized that the San Francisco action was a one-time attack, T Presented By BILL REPlCCllnd M.D. MINICHIELLO . - "GREAT FUN••• In Association With P.A.P.A. ENOUGH TO KEEP YOU IN STITCHES." "REAL WIT AND INSIGHT." , -IU. POG . -N.Y. TIMES "SWEENEY IS NANCY. A METICULOUS POUJJCAL CARTOON. " "POWERFUL WRITING. -_IIIICI TRULYMOVING. " -NY POSl BILL REPICCt and M.D. MINICHIELLO BETWEEN THE BUYS IN THE BAND AND in ~soclation With P.A.P.AA'resent TORCH SONG TRILOGY ntERE WAS TERRY SWEENEY UOSAN~I NANCY REAGAN IN Diagnosis: H I V + "Z'!l'JIIU There is no wre for HIV. But there are treatment ...... -<'~ options, The AIOSIHIV Treatment Directory, BY MICHEL TREMBLAY published by the American Foundation for AIDS STARRING Research (AmFAR), is a guide to the full range of DAVID and DAVID approved and experimental treatments. A one· year McCANN, DE BECK subscription to the Directory (4 issues) is only . . DIREctED BY $30.00. To subscribe, or to make a contribution, CHARLIE HENSLEy THURS .. FRI. SAl Jt 10 00· SUN l1600 send your check to AmFAR. TUES -SAl 7 30· SUN 300 & 8 00 HIT-TIX: 564-8038 Americ:an foundation for AIDS Resear(h .1'- HIT·TIX: 564·8038 . ALL SEATS FOR PREVIEWS $15 00 I\(lt 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 All SEAlSm 00 Poop/. with HIV di""", who connor oHord a paid lIfbl((iprion may ACTORS' PlAYHOUSE ACTORS' PLAYHOUSE _ 100 SeVENTM AVE SO (SHERIDAN SQUARE) • obroin a complimenroty copy by colling rhe Nolionol AIDS 100 UVBmt AVENUE SOl/Tli (SHERIDAN SOUARE 1·191-6Z2f> 691·6226 Informalion Clearinghou", 011'800·458· 5?J1. • 01 SATURDAY NIGtiT UVE ' August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 31 ()bituaries . 00 his writing cdlalxxation with Jerry Douglas, years. His relationships with Hayyim, friends and Raymond Wood I including Max's MtJ/icns, a 1985 farce in whlch fami1y changed (]Ver the years as he confrooted Raymoro ~ actor and playwrigtt, died Raymond starred as Max van der Platz. At the and (]Veocame the pain of a ciysfun 32 O~WEEK August 22, 1990 PWAs. San Francisco Democratic Central Committee member Greg Day said: "John Lorenzini was a hero, a real fighter. Anyone who knew him was very fonunate.· Soon after his diagnosis, John took it upon himse1f to collect food for PWAs through the San Francisco AIDS Foundation Food Bank, and short\y afterward, in 1984, he' was named the AIDSChair of the Allee B. Toklas Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club, which enabled him to escalate the spreading of his message of hope and strength. Known to be somewhat conservative, John surprised others ahd shocked himself in 1985, when he chained himself to the doors of the Federal Building to protest the lack of federal funding for On July 2, Julio Rivera was murdered in Jackson Heights AIDS. John wore a T-shirt reading ·Person by skinheads using a hammer and knife. Contrary to all With AIDS.· John Lorenzini will be missed, but his message will be continued. A tribute evidence, the Police have refused to make it a bias crime. to his memory will be presented on Paltry resources have been assigned to find 'the Wednesday, July 25, at St. Albert Priory, near the Oak1and-Rockridge BARTStation, at murderers. lOam. Mathew G. Scheiman Wise men have Said that courage is the HATE CRIMES SOAR. willingness to take an action even though fear tells you not to. Matt had courage in abun- dance, and it impressed all who met him. As From January through July, bias crimes were reported AIDS progressively narrowed his life, Matt 316 coritinued to find new interests, and his zest to the Anti-Violence Project, an increase of 82% over for living never d4ninlshed. In the end, he 1989. Police figures show a 162% increase in anti- died as he lived, bravely embracing the unknown despite his fears, lesbian/gay attacks since January 1. Matthew was born In New York City, where he lived until he moved to San Fran- cisco in the fall of 1987. For Matti that move sigrtified the beginrlifl8 of an incredibly pow- WE MARCH! erful period of growth and se1f-discovery. It was during these San Francisco years that Matt transformed himself from a fright- ened and dependent child Into a strong and We remember Julio Rivera. We remember all victims and Independent man. That he accomplished sUNivors of bias attacks. We demand an end to the so much In such a short time is a blessing. violence. That he did not live long to enjoy his hard work is a tragedy. Matthew is survived by his lover of We march through Jackson Heights to. where Julio was seven years, Aaron Percefull, and by many murdered. We march to commemorate Julio's life, to call other loving friends In San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, attention to the epidemiC of anti-gay violence and to A memorial service will be held at Con- dedicate ourselves to the struggle against hate and gregation Sha'ar Zabav, located at the comer of Danvers and Caselli, on July 26, at 7:30 ignorance. pm. Matthew may also be remembered by con- tributions in his name to the Shanti Project. SAT .. AUG. 18 .. 7pm Obituary Policy Take E, F or 7 to Roos. Ave/Jackson Hts Meet in Front OutWssk accepts and publishes of Long Island Savings Bank at 73rd Broadway OR Meet obituaries from our readers free of & charge. Submissions should be in in Front of The Center at 6pm 208 West 13th Street . writing and may be accompanied by a photograph. OutWeek reserves Julio Rivera the right to edit obituaries. Please • :--,New York City , mail to: rA") • Gay & Lesbian. Anti-Violence OutWesk Magazine ~Anti-Violence Project Coalition of Queens 159W, 25th St, 7th R, '. j New York, NY 10001. With Marshals Volunteering from QUEER NATION. August 22, 1990 OUT'YWEEK 33 Liberation Logic COlnmentary ··NotGuilty" ,·by Ayofemi Folayan uilt is the ftrst response many There are a number of ways to and watched as the organization tried .. people have upon realizing meaningfully change the compoSition to fulftll the commitment to diversity by that they have participated in of a. group that is exclusively homo- seating lesbians of color on its steering Gthe oppression of another geneous as the result of oppr~ssion, committee, More-experienced white human being, It is impO'rtant, of courSe, Restructuring leadership to involve' wOµlen sometimes expressed resent- to remember that all of us have experi- those who have been excluded at all ment at the selection of women of color to fill seats speciftcally identifted for them, While that resentment is a natural outcome of losing the privileges ','Outreach" Is one example of energy that have been obtained through pat- misguided as a resull of guili. Groups which recognize terns of oppression I it should not be di- rected at those who are attempting to the lack of divers,,, In Ibilr . redress generations of grievances, Another strategy' for achieving di- membership suddenl, wanllo ureach. versity within a particular organization oul and louch" those who are is to work incoalltions with otber 'organizations that share a particular undelTApresenled. common interest. An example of such a coalition is the' group that was respon- ~ sible for the Mandelas' appearances here in the United States, Groups with enced some form of oppression-by levels of the organization is an inipor- truly diverse agendas and priorities ' .virtue of having been children in an tant first step. This does not mean worked together to achieve this historic adultist.socic~t~ From those e~lir:"" '... dragging in· people of color who are set of events, Now that the tour' is over, periences, we learned from oUr parents totally unfamiliar with your organiza- the bonds forged in the process will t.hat even loving people practice op- tion or its work to sit on the board of hopefully be sustained through mutual .pressive behavior, But guilt does abso- your organization, but it can mean af- communication, Only then can other lutely nothing to improve the relation- firmative action-style goals, such as pathways for networking and bridge- ship between the oppressor ad ,he oppressed, It creates.a false se,,··.·c of seCUrity that this is a, valid response to j}e problem and diverts attentio'om Recenlly, I worked with the confronting the issue of oppression to making ....theoppressorJeel better about National Lesbian Conference and watched participating in the process--definitely as the organlzallon tried to fulfill the commitment a misuse of energy, For this reason; it is 'my own opinion that nobody ever 10 diversity by sealing lesbians of color on needs to feel guilty, "Outreach" is one example of en- Its steering commlnee. More-experienced white ergy misguided as a result of guilt., women sometimes expressed Groups which recognize the lack of di- versity. in th.eir membership suddenly resinlment althe selecllon of .want to "reach out and 'touch" those who are underrepresented, The prob- women of color 10 fill seats specifically lem with this response is thinking that - Idenllfled for Ihem. people of color, people with disabili- - .ties, people of the opposite gender or . different sexual orientation are no less a part of the community simply' because insuring that your board is 50-percent-bUilding be developed, they have not felt welcome to partici- women of color or 20-percent people It is important to commit ourselves pate, Such categories of people need with disabilities. Recently, I work~d to learning about those who are differ- more than "outreach" and tokenism, with the National Lesbian Conference ent This is not limited to obvious op- 34 OUTYWEEK August 22, 1990 portunities, such as special programing for Women's History Month or annual celebrations like Cinco de Mayo or the -Hospitalization Chinese New Year, Negro History -Major Medical Weeki the brainchild of noted historian -Salary Replacement Carter G, Woodson, has been expanded -life Insurance to Black History Month, but it is ap- Quality, Personal Dentistry -Retirement palling how many white people are al- most completely Ignorant of the achievements and contributions of Zora Suite 704 200 West 57th Street Neale Hurston, for example I or James New York, New York 10019 Weldon Johnson. When the names of (212) 333~2650 . poet Pat Parker or activist Joe Beam are mentioned, the double whammy of Office Hours by Appointment Only their race and their homosexuality make them more invisible than usual, even within our gay and lesbian com- munity. While we become more ac- Dr. Charles Silverstein quainted with the achievements of P_sychotherapist & Author those within other communities, it is IHI -Now also important to remember to study INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN accepting the history of those who have preceded IDENTITY, INC. new us within the gayarxllesbian rommunity. 118 W. 72nd Street, SUite 1 P-atierits - - ... The task of unlearning oppression New York, NY 10023 starts with a commitment to restructure (212) 799-9432 i\lcdical how we think about ourselves and oth- Illsurallce ers. Difference should be equated not Non-Profit Lesbian/Gay ~ HOllorcd with inferiority but with the opportuni- Psychotherapy Center 2:n Wesl X~rd SI.. <"ew York. :\.Y. 1f11I2·1 ty to expand our group identity by in- (212) 799-8574 creasing our diversity. Each individual snding Scale Fees _can implement the strategies outlined in this article in whatever group or set- ting she or he is currently involved with-from the workplace to social or- He makes me SMILE! ganizations to political activities. It pro- vides a welcome alternative to the in- ternal angst that guilt creates, T DEMETRIOS SENGOS, DDS JACK ROSENBERG, DDS & AsSOCIATES Preventative & Cosmetic Dentistry 475 FIFTH AVENUE (212)779-2414 By Appointment Amex- Visa-Master-Card-Insurance August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 35 by Dr. Charles Silverstein Dear Quandary, language remains unspoken and, possi- My friend and colleague, Dr, ble, unspeakable. Gerald Perlman, who is in private prac- "Heterosexual couples have readily Dear Dr. SilverStein, tice in Manhattan, was recently dis- available labels that immediately define I am 36 years old and have been cussing this issue with me, so I invited and validate their relationship and roles in a relationship with another man for him to answer your question, Here's his with each other. The words 'husband,' ten years. Our relationship is flne, but I response: 'wife,' "flancee,' 'betrothed,' 'widow,' am in a quandary, When I talk about have a long and respected social and him or introduce him to others, I don't "Shakespeare wrote I 'What's in a legal history, These terms quickly bring know how to refer to him or convey name?' but we all know that there is in to mind who is who, and how they the nature of our relationship. I don't fact a great deal in a name. Psycholo- connect to each other. like the term "lover," and he is _more gists have long theorized that there is a "The 'love that dares not speak its than a friend or roormnate, What do I strong connection between language name' has had a history of labels that call him? . and thought. What we have words for are denigrating and invalidating, In the In a Quandary is thinkable; conversely, what has no last century, the word 'homosexual I was coined: It focuses attention primar- ily on the sexual component of same- GAY & LESBIAN!_ FILMS ON VIDEO!!! "Heterosexual couples Introducing the TLA VIDEO GAY & LESBIAN have readily availabl~ FILM & VIDEO GUIDE. This unprecedented book contains a comprehensive labels that immediately collection of ftIms for the gay & lesbian community. 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Other words Gay & lesbian Film Festivals, Today, we continue might have been developed to validate our trad~ion of promoting culb.Jral awareness the emotional and social aspects of through the art of film. same sex partners. For example I 'he- mophilia,' 'homosocial' or 'syngender,' ~ and might have served to legitimize ~ I 0 E=ET gay and lesbian relationships. I' 332 South Street, Phila., PA 19147 "As homosexual coupling becomes ) Desert Hearts 1~TLA1 or 1-215-922-1014 more accepted 3s a viable and valid human relationship, the need for words 36 OUrYWEEK August 22, 1990 describing the members of these cou- ples and their connection to each other becomes obvious, We need labels to encompass and define the caring, re-. DiaGnosis: HIY + spectful, serious relationship commonly shared by partners of the same sex, We There Is no cure for HIV. But there are treatment options. The AIDSIHIV Treatment Directory, published need a new language to define and val- by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), Idate committed same-sex, adult, loving Is a gUide to the full range of approved and experimental relationships: treatments. A one-year subscription to the Directory "In referring to both. heterosexual (4 Issues) Is only $30.00. To subSCribe, or to make a and homosexual partners I sociologists contribution, send your check to AmFAR. and jurists have recently employed terms ~" American foundation for AIDS Research like 'Significantother,' 'spouse equiva1ent,' 6'-(1t 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 'life.putnet;' am 'domestic life.partner,' People with IfIV dilfOlf who cannol a"Ofd a pold wbKription may oblaln a compllmfntal)! copy by calling the National AIDS Informalion (/lIQringhoulf 011·800·458· 5231. "As homosexual coupling becomes sufferin more accepted, the need for words EMQ~ describing the OU WON'T BELIEVE YOUR EYES WHEN ~ members of these HEMORRHOIDS, WARTS, AND FISSUR couples becomes TREATED IN MINUTES WITH LASE9; • We successfully treat all rectal obvious." problems - hemorrhoids, Ii fissures, warts - with LASERS "I myself have struggled for several in minutes in our modern years to come up with a tenn that best offices. fits what you are in a quandary about, and to this end 'I have devised a new word: 'Homate.' It contains, 'mate,' • Insurance Plans Accepted. 'homo II and 'home.' The word 'mate' is deflDed as one of a pair, By adding the prefIX 'hoi to it, we connote one of a .same-sex pair that has made, or intends to make I a home together. I hope this word works for you." Enough said for this week, I'd ap- preciate hearing any comments from other gay couples about how they ad- ' dress each other in public, Dr, .~n~etstein, cQ:-author (with Ed- ni~h~~i.te) of, '[beloy of Gay Sex, is a: pSycholbgist in private practice, His latestt. boOk . .- about, psychotherapy with ~aysand lesbians will be published lat¢t- this y~. Send your questions to or: Charles Silverstein, clo OutWeek 'Magazine, 159 W. 25th St., 7th floor, New 'York, NY 10001. August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 37 . Paid Advertisement .August 1990 SEN. JESSE HELMS 'The U.S. Senate Wash41gton, D.C. Dear Jesse Helms, This open letter is to let you know that your actions as a U.S. senator have been unacceptable, arid with elec- tions coming up in three months, you will not prevail for another'term. There is no Ronald Reagan coattail for you to follow this time, and voters are steamed up to defeat you. Right-wing "nuts" such as you are largely responsible 38 OUT~EK August22, 1990 I am. doing all I can in North Carolina and nationally to ])EFEA'l' BELlVIS. While our loved ones are dying from AIDS,you vote' against funding to find a cure, stating, "Stop them from what they' are doing." YOU BIGOTED PIECE OF SHI'l'. You stop what you are dOing,as you present a terrible role model for the youth to follow. Most of the voters who vote for you have less than a high-school education, ignorant rednecks, and North Carolina has the lowest SATscores in the nation. This·is due largely to your inaction in the ,Senate to encourage a high quality of courses in the North Carolina schools. You FAB'1'ING OLE FOSSIL ... encourag- .ing ignorance and bigotry in order for you to keep your $100,000-per-year job in ~"t ~ ~ ~'\\.~ "t the Senate. The last elec- . , ~ '")..~.,. oC\..~ tion you spent $15 mil- ~ ~e . ,~~~. lion to stay in that job. . ~ V OIl- V YOU ABE OBSCElOJ. "A.~ 01l~\ ~'~\\\ May you go the same .: ~~e\.\.~~ . IV ?! way as ANI'l'A .~~ O~ ~~ . BBYAM' ... OU'l'OIf , ~O~~ ~ '01\"'\ ~~~\Y.&J YOUBASS. oCcGS~t\of\S . igh\ \S :: Ob~l~\cS' ~~\ Phillip Morris Corporation donated \<1eS~r1\e~~~",1\<19~e~o~\\~~. $200,000 towa.rd the Jesse Helms Muse- \tec\\O~~ef1\",eO~ol\\\~~o$o~ -: ~ ,um here in North Carolina. I am cailing c~bO~\.g\\e~o~'(\o~~~~ ~~~:e~$wfor a boycott of First Union National ~ \\e\ ~~o~\ t~~~ ~o~· ~, Bank Corporation, here in the southeast- ~roO~e'Q~:t.o-~~\~'.\t\\{\~:C"~~· ern states (Nortll Carolina, South Car- t,t.~~~~ ~1~~~0 ~~ \~o~e~.o~~ olina, Georgia and Florida). The CEO w- c:,e~. ~~ ~~~ ot\: .\ 'i ;'\~. f F t t,t.~C"~\~ to"\Y~o\~ .. ' o~c\'\~", 9 irst Union was a sponsor a a ~eo\~et.\.\\~o~~e'~~~\o~~~\\":\ fund-raiser for you on Ootober 23, . ~0\~~t~\~~0~~0.~~~~:,9C"~~~v 1989. When! heard that, I yanked o\''''\~e\~'~ ~ot.el\\Oolfot,\~\e ~. my $260,000 out of there, so did ~!ole "~~e ~~\~\e:i. .eO\0 t:\\\e~ my late wife and her family, who 'Q"~~\\'''~1~~~''0\e,p~.l< ~~ inherited vast wealth from John- ~t~~~\,~~,o~~&l-10~?~~:,\'.\\ Son 8e Johnson, New Brunswiok, ~~e 1~o\\~~~\,.:0 c.:- New Jersey. -Iam delighted to 'fo~t~~""\t~\~~;\:. note that after that, First Union . ..,.~~~~.,.~\\ posted a deficit on the New York Stook "~c\\O~' Exohange. I HAVE HAD EIfOUGH OF YOUB. HATllED AIfD BIGO'l'BY AIfD EIfOUGH IS EIfOUGH. Charles Merrill Hendersonville, N.C. August 22. 1990 OU~WEEK 39 J>olitical Science Pushing a 'Drug Through the Pipeline The Long, Slow Journey of ddl the more pertinent facts to emerge from Severe petripheral neuropathy, that meeting and from the recent literature, which wa~ seen at the much higher by Mark Harrington - Safety. On July 3, Bristol-Myers doses used in the phase I studies, has sent out the latest in a series of "Dear only been seen in about 20 patients on Investigator" lettersj this one concerned expanded ac~ess protocols, Lower :. he desirable characteristics of pancreatitis: doses may· account for this. Another new antiretroviral drugs for "The apparent incidence of this possibility is that patients do not report treatment of HIV infection complication has not increased and re- early signs of neuropathy-tingling, Twould include the foliow'.ng: a mains approximately 1.5 percent in pa- numbness or pain in the feet. or re~onably wide therapeutic index, ac- tients enrolled in Phase II/III studies hands-for fear of being taken off delI, ceptable oral bioavailability, lack of cross- and under 2 percent among patients on Yet the best way to treat this neuropa- resistance for HIV isolates no longer sus- expanded access, Probably as a result thy remains careful monitoring, with in- ceptible to zidovudine, ability to cross the of increased awareness of this potential terruption of therapy until symptoms blood-brain barrier and the possibility of complication ..,deaths due to pancreati- resolve I followed by rechallenge with a convenient dosing schedule," tis have been reported in only two ad- delI at a lower dose, -John McGowan, Director, Bastc Re- ditional patients since Marchi or less In earlier studies, peripheral neu- search and Development Program, than 2 percent of the recent cases of ropathy seemed more dependent on NWD AIDS Dlviston1 " pancreatitis. cumulative dose over time than on Certain aspects of patients' medical daily dose, Thus, its incidence may be New reports about ddl (dideoxy- histories were associated with an in- expected to increase in the coming inosine, which has been given the creased risk of developing pancreatitis I months, However, NYU investigator ghastly generic name of "didanosine,") while their dose level of ddI was not. Fred Valentine says that people on ex- continue to be encouraging, Related risk factors include: panded access have already received a Yet delI research has been gravely • Prior history of pancreatitis (in- larger cumulative dose of ddl than delayed by the actions of a few re- creases risk 25-fold) , people in phase I, spread out over a searchers 'opposed to parallel track, • Measures of advanced HIV infec- longer period, without the expected in- who leaked the' number of deaths on . tion, [including) diagnosis of AIbS ciden~e of neuropathy. expanded access protocols to Gina Ka- rather than ARC, CD4 count under We have heard anecdotal reports lata of 1be New York Times in March, 50, Karnofsky performance score of seizures and psychotic episodes in leading to her subsequent_hatchet less tban 60 patients on ddI. Bristol-Myers reports . piece; which wildly exaggerated the • Treatment with gancyclovir [DHPGl that these episodes are rare, [Psy~hosis ~ngers of the drug. Z for symptomatic CMVinfection is a littIe-known, rare side effect of AZf 1)1e researchers, in their misguided • Treatment with rifampin or etham- as well.] Also rare are electrolyte distur- attempt to smother interest in the drug butol for MAl infection bances, leading in some cases to car- through expanded access, ended up • Elevations in serum transaminases diac arrest. After two people in England delaying their own trials: New enroll- at entry into the program"' had heart attacks while on Rifabutin ment plunged by 50 pe.rcent after the The pancreatitis does not appear to (Ansaffiycin) and ddI, this combination . March articles and has yet to recover, be dose-related. Nor does it correlate with was forbidden, . It may become necessary, over the IV pentamidine treatment for PCP-pen- Efficacy. Most encouraging have next few months I for activists and IDA tamidine .alone 0v, not aerosolized) can been recent reports of clinical, virologi- reguiators .to con~ider approving delI in sometimes cause pancreatitis, cal and immunologic improvements on advance of the completion of the three Careful monitoring for abdominal ddl, and long-term folIow-up from the controlled trials now underway, pain or elevations in serum amyJase phase I studies: ACT UP met with Bristol-Myers and triglycerldes ·is important to ensure In a July 26 letter to the New Eng- Squibb on July 26. Following are some of that pancreatitis is caught early. landJournal of Medicine, a researcher in 40 OU~WEEK August 22, 1990 Maine reports on the efficacy of ddI in 375 mg twice daily. ddI's half-life inside siX patients who had taken AZf and the cell is fIVe to ten times longer than whose HIV had become resistant to AZf, that of AZT. . This is one group with the most pressing Many people on expanded acce~ need for alternative antiretrovirals: are splitting their dose because of fears "Vuus isolated from the peripheral about dose-related side effects. So far, blood of all six patients showed in vitro the side effects do not appear to be resistance to zidovudine [AZT], ,...Therapy dose-related. There is a danger that split- with dideoxyinosine was initiated in ting the dose will rDake the ddI ineffec- mid-October 1989 and was well tolerat- tive. This is because ddI is rapidly bro- ed. The initial clinical response in all pa- ken down by add in the stomach, The tients was noteworthy. Prompt improve- powdered packets which contain ddI ment in energy levels and appetite was also contain six grams of a bitter, citrate- obvious I and signs of infection, such as phosphate buffer to prevent the stomach low-grade fever, sweating and diarrhea, from breaking down ddI, If the dose is disappeared, Weight gains of five to ten halved, this buffer may not work. There- kilograms have been observed, Three' fore, it is crucial not to split the cj.osage. patients had significant and substantial If people want to lower their dosage I' falls' in p24 antigen levels within the first they 'should take the whole dose once twO months of therapy ..,"•.. dally, not half doses twice datly. If these results are confirmed in Bristol-Myers ~tends to expand the larger ongoing trials I it will mean that dose levels available in' expanded ac- even people who have failed AZT ther- cess from three to six, sometime in the apy, or for·whom its efficacy has worn near future. off, may benefit from other, similar In addition I because the large anti-HIV drugs. This meahs that it is all packets may be inconvenient, Bristol is the more important to widen Hoff'man- considering alternative formulat,ions, laRoche IS limited access program for This will eliminate the need for the cit- ddC, and to rapidly approve ddI. rate-phosphate bpffer,the accompany- As for the long-term follow-up of ing sugar and the diarrhea which the original' phase I ddI recipients, a report buffer causes in some people. published this monili states that 34 of the Bristol has already developed two al- .37 people in the first National earlcer In- ternative forms, a smaller packet and a stitute study were still alive at the time of tablet containing an antacid These seem . writing (last fall)-over 91 percent.s to provide greater protection against While AZT depresses the overall white stomach acid, without causing diarrhea. blood count, ddI seems to increase the In fact, they are 20 percent more bioavail- entire count, as well as the number and .able. This is making Bristol nervous, be- ratio of T4 helper cells to T8 cells. cause the FDA may require doses to be In addition, ddI interrupts the neu- reduced in order to deliver the same rologic deterioration of children infect- amOunt to participants in the studies. This ed with HIV6 and improves memory would be inconvenient and confusing. and attention span in adults with HIV- Clinical trials. Enrollment in the 1';'800-445-4391 related dementia,' clinical trials of ddI, run by the AIDS Intriguingly, ddI may also be active dinical Trials Group, or ACfG, has been Call for information and ' against Hepatitis B virus, The succulent .deP{essed ever since Gina Kolata's March brochure. Beijing duck model is being used for pre- artic~es. Entry criteria will now be ex- Patient coordinators to serve clinical studies of,f1dI and other nucleo- panded to allow peop.ie with T4 cells side analogues agains):hepatitis.a under\200, with or without AIDSor ARC, your needs. Dose and formulation. At last into the three studies. The two compara- SlMlllt'" CO/"II/IIIIIt'l /11 . November's FDA/NIAID Symposium on tive trials of ddI YS, AZf will lower their A/J)B ,,/dtIt/ Ctl" aillCl 'Q8T Meth'odology, ACfG Primary Infection target enrollment fro!D 2,250 to 1,200 by Committee Chair Thomas Merigan, of moving people who "have,been on AZf Stanford, said, "It is clear that investiga- over two months from ACTG 116 to UNIVERSITY PHARMACY tors have been backing down for the ACfG 117, and by e1imin,atingthe lower- last year on the dosage of this drug. "9 dose ann of ACfG 116, Enrollment has HEALTH CENTER Antiviral responses were seen in ,been highest in ACfG 118, the dose- the phase I studies at all doses investi- comparison study of delI in people who 141 University Ave. Suite 1 gated, People entering with over 100 T4 are intolerant to AZf. The target for this . San Diego CA 92103-3007 cells had the best response. The doses study is being raised from .360 to 660. used in phase IVllI trials are 167, 250 or See PUSHING A DRUG on page 53 FAX # 1-619-293-7255 August 22, 1990 OUl'TWEEK 41 DTII ..fOR IllER TIME One o/Jesse Helms' major supporters is being econo-mically challenged . by -the lesbian and gay . community. But as the . Miller boycott gains . momentum nationWide, it .' swirls in controversy. And . ':'the bigger; broader question ..is; Can. we pull this off? by AI Weisel 42 OUT~VVEEK August22.1990 BOYCO,..T MILLERaaa. H....M$ =oa.1''' ear the end of the' movie the campaign of Harvey Gantt, He1ms's Barfly, the title character, Democratic opponent), AOd 'before. even . played by Mickey Rourke, attempting to answer that, many buys drinks for all the observers, from gay leaders to advertis- denizens of his local bar, ing analysts, are asking a more subtle most of whom wouldn't care question: Can the lesbian and gay c0m- ifIhe lived or died, Looking around the munity in 1990 successfully mount an room at this motley, somewhat unsa- effective boycott at all? " VOry, bunch, he raises his glass in a toast and, his voice thick with self-pity, he gay community has had con- '. ,:.. despair and a sense of irony, moans, siderable impact with boycotts in , ,. '., .,' .. ,.; .~ .' "To all my.friends." the past. A two-year boycott of While the boycott of Miller beer to florida orange juice began in 1m . protest parent company Philip Morris's after entertainer and florida Citrus 4· TCommission spokesperson Anita Bryant contributions to the hatemonger Sen, Jesse Helms is spreading rapidly across headed a crusade to repeal Dade the country, there are some pockets of County's gay-rights law, Due to the suc- resistance. Invariably, gay and lesbian cess of gay activists, Bryant's contract opponents to the boycott explain their with the coinmission was not renewed, stance by saying, "Because Miller is our and her career was virtually ruined But friend," the word "friend" reeking of all more importantly, according to florida the self-pity and irony evident in Mickey activist Bob Kunst, who helped lead that Rourke's pathetic toast, The lesbian and boycott and is now solidly behind the gay community can certainly use all the Miller and Marlboroboycotts, "it got the friends it can get, but are we so desper- public out of the closet. We debated sex ate that we count a profiteering corpora- [byl using her," During the boycott, tion as a true pal? which garnered much publicity, Everyone seems to be in agreement membership in the National Gay Task about one bitter truth: Jesse Helms has Force (now the National Gay and been there whenever homophobes-- Lesbian Task' Force) doubled, and gays and racists and sexists and philistines- and lesbians were galvanized into large- have needed him, He can always be scale political action. counted on to do the wrong thing in While there is no evidence that any situation, whether it's his sponsor- sales of florida orange juice were signifi- ship of the Helms Amendment prohibit- cantly affected by the boycott I it is ing the use of federal funds to "promote, thought to have been effective simply encourage or condone homosexual because of the press coverage it generat- activity"; his support for the quarantine ed. GLAAD's Karin Schwartz points out of mY-positive people; the grandstarid- that while boycotts usually "don't have ing that has scared the NEA into deny- substantial economic impact, they work ing grants to almost any artist who is in terms of creating bad PR." GLAAD openly gay or lesbian; or such state- doesn't usually utilize boycotts as a tac- ments as "Every AIDScase can be traced tic, but implicit in many of its letter-writ- to a homosexual act," At a time when ing campaigns is the threat of boycott. we are especially besieged, the fact that ACf UP has sparked boycotts in Helms has even been able to get himself recent times, most effectively in the case elected and reelected to the highest leg- of the drug company Burroughs islative body in the land and to wield as Wellcome, maker of the exhorbitantly much power there as he does is a per- overpriced drug AZf (which is used to petual slap in the face to every lesbian treat mv infection). The boycott-which' and gay man in this country, as well as called upon the public to stop using to the members of any minority, For that Actifed, Sudafed and other over-the- matter, it's an insult to anyone with a counter Wellcome products-was called working brain, fori in concert with high-visibility Whether the boycott of Miller beer protests. A barrage of negative publicity, and Marlboro cigarettes (Phillip Morris's which put the company's wrongdoing top-selling cigarette brand) will ultimate- on the front pages of major newspapet:S, ly lead to Helms' defeat remains to be is believed to have forced Wellcome to seen, though the controversy is already lower the price of AZT, However, focusing national attention on his Senate because the company buckled under to race this fall, moving many to donate to the pressure almost immediately, the · . boycott was too short-lived to gauge want of trying. Coors dented the New ridiculous notion. whether or not it had any actual eco- York market by doing what a lot of cor- Although Miller Corporate Issues nomic impact. porations do to promote themselves in Director Thomas Reed claims in the Bay One of the most effective boycotts the gay community: It used the tragedy Area Reporter that "Miller is not Coors in ever waged has been the boycott of of AIDS, sheep's c1othing," Miller has not beep Coors beer. Started by the Teamsters Buddy Noro was the fund-raising above cynically using the AIDS crisis to union, which was waging a strike director of God's Love We Deliver, enhance itself. When Miller first tried to against the company, the gay and les- which provides services to homebound head off the boycott, it claimed that it bian community got involved in 1977, people with AIDS. He is a friend of local when the union approached San Coors distributor Harold Honickman, Francisco's Harvey Milk and Howard whose wife, Lynn, sits on the board of Wallace, co-chair of the Lesbian and Gay God's Love, Honickman convinced Noro Labor Alliance I to organize bars in the to let Coors fly him out to its corporate Castro to join the boycott. The boycott headquarters in Golden, Colo., where he was enormously successful in the les- met with Coors executives, including the bian and gay community, which had president I Peter Coors. Noro, who was been enraged by Coors' blatant discrimi- the first person from the New York gay nation policies in hiring (which included community to visit the headquarters, the use of lie-detector tests to ferret out was so impressed with what he per- gays and lesbians). "At first I• Wallace ceived to be Peter Coors' sincerity that recalls, "the Teamsters did not want to he agreed to let Coors sponsor a God's publicize [the gay community'sl involve- Love fund-raising radiothon on the local While Coors ment. But then the leadership changed, New York radio station Hot 97. Accord- and they praised the gay community up ing to Gina Benjamin of God's Love, admits that it and down to the labor movement.' "We got a lot of heat.' The group now (Labor even went on to help organize says that it has no plans to use Coors as hasmadefew other protests in the gay community, a sponsor again. Noro explains that including the Anita Bryant debacle.) while he still believes Peter Coors is sin- inroads into the However, in 1987 the AFL-CIO cere I he worries about the rest of the signed a unilateral agreement with Coors family and how much power it has in lesbian and gay without consulting with gay and lesbian the company and stresses that his feel- leaders, who maintained that because ings now about Coors are "mixed,' community, it is the Coors family, which retains 100-per- Although Coors' sponsorship of the cent ownership of the company, still radiothon was a one-time coup, it was not for want of gives money to anti-gay organizations through the radiothon that Coors got in like Free Congress Research and touch with Bob Terri, manager of trying .... Most Morality in Media, and because the PAC Spectrum I a gay disco in Brooklyn. Terri gives contributions to such anti-gay con- was persuaded that Coors had changed gressmen as Robert Dornan, a merely by the fact that it had sponsored of Coors' recent Republican from California, Bill the radiothon (though its name was pro- Armstrong, a Republican from Colorado I moted as the sponsor). Coors offered to involvement has and Helms I they would continue the sponsor an AIDSbenefit at the c1ub,and boycott. But because the boycott had Spectrum became the fl!StNew York gay been promotional lasted so long, the effort began to flag as establishment to serve Coors beer regu- organizers moved on to other issues larly. Only one other bar, Julius' I has in nature: the within the community. To a large begun selling Coors again, though anoth- degree I though I the Coors boycott has er, the Duchess, tried--and then stopped San Diego AIDS had a momentum of its own. Many gays when no one would buy i~. and lesbians had vowed a long time ago Most of Coors' recent involvement Walk, several gay that they would never drink Coors, and in the gay community has been promo- the boycott I at its peak, attained suffi- tional in nature. When asked to cite rodeos and beer cient Visibility that it has been hard to instances when Coors has given money break. Gay bars and establishments had, to the gay and lesbian community, advertisements in for the most part, stopped selling the Corporate Issues Director Meadows cites product years ago (or never began sell- San Diego's AIDS Walk, several gay the Advocate. ing it) and, except for a few, have not rodeos and beer advertisements in the been reordering it. Advocate (one of the few publications While John Meadows, Coors which has recently decided to accept· Corporate Issues Director, admits that ads from Coors). "Of course, they're all Coors has made few inroads into the tied in to promotion,' he commented I as gay and lesbian community, it's not for if simply giving money away was a August 22, 1990 OVTTWEEK 45 had given $600,000 to AIDS-related char- munity and AIDS, Miller has' attempted ities, all but $5,000 of which, it turned to portray itself as an "innocent victim." OUt, had actually been given by Philip In the Dallas Morning News, Miller Morris, its parent company, Yet at the spokesperson Reed was recently quoted same time, it tried to dissociate itself &om as saying, "By boycotting Miller, you are Philip Morris by claiming that Miller had sticking a corporation that is your friend . given nothing to Jesse Helms, that $~,OOO in the back." given to his campaign and $170,000 for Carl Andry, the manager of two San the Jesse Helms Musewn were all donat- Francisco bars, Phoenix and Badlands, ed by the parent company over which relates how Miller representatives took Miller had no control. In other words I him and some other bar owners and Miller claims Miller is claiming all the credit for the managers to lunch when the boycott good donations and trying to disavow all first surfaced, "They kept telling us, that it is not the bad ones, 'We've done all of this, we've done all of According to figures provided by that,'" Andry relates, "I kept telling them, ((Coorsin sheep's Posie Desisa and Alice McGillion, spokes- 'TIlat's not the issue.'" people. for Philip Morris, Miller donated He asserts that the local distributor, -clothing. "Tbe $5,000 to the AIDS Resource Center of Golden Brands' Bob Stahl, first promised WISCOnsin, It was Philip Morris that donat- to make a donation to Harvey Gantt and company's ed $35,000 to an AIDS benefit called then claimed that what he had actually "Dancing for Life" (for which it received said was that he wanted to make a d0na- strategy to promotion), $55,000 to AmFAR, $150,000 tion to Gantt, not that he was going to. to the National Community AIDS (Stahl has not returned phone calls to forestal( the Partnership (another $50,000 was OutWeek), Andry decided to join the pledged I and another $100,000 was boycott because Miller "didn't want to donated by Kraft in December 1988, the do anything but try to save their own boycott has same month Philip Morris bought Kraft) asses, They keep playing the victim," and $60,000 to the North Shore University And Miller's anempts to portray been to Hospital earmarked for pediatric AIDS itself as victimized basn't been a com- research (with another $120,000 pledged), plete failure. Otarles ArmstrOng, owner present itself These donations are now being pre- of three Houston bars (Montro5e Mining sented as Philip Morris's commitment to Co" JR'S, and Heaven) is not joining the with a "human" the gay and lesbian community. This has boycott because "I consider Miller a come to be an easy way for corporations friend, You should stand up for your face in order to placate gays while not necessarily friends." He says that because the gay appearing pro-gay: By giving to AIDS community does not have that.many to sell the idea organizations, a company can claim that friends, "I cannot see cutting the heart it is contributing to the gay and lesbian out of a corporate friend to appease a that it is community without raising the ire of lynch mob." conservatives. But funding "pediatric .afriend of the AIDS research" is not exactly a donation o understand the representation of to the lesbian and gay community, Miller as a "corporate friend," one community- "Corporations play it on both sides," must recognize who is responsible says NGLTF Director Urvashi Vaid, "They for the representation. The bar and an do some good things I but they never owners and newspaper publishers fund gay stuff," Twho have come out against the boycott Miller's cynical attempts to prove are themselves businesspeople, and their "innocent that it was responsible, however indi- sympathies lie with other businesspeo- rectly, for donating money to fight AIDS ple. Even many of those who have come victim." are clarified by Miller spokesperson out in favor of the boycott have done so Elizabeth Conlisk. "Look," she says, "you out of a fear of being left behind or in need money for AIDS. So the more order to promote themselves as progres- money we and our distributors make, sive members of the community. the more money we can put back into Another factor that affects a bar the community." owners' decision to participate in the Miller's strategy to foresta1I the boy- boycott is the quality of the local distrib- cott has been to present itself with a utor, which is usually a completely sepa- "human" face in order to sell the idea rate company, that deals exclusively in that it is a friend of the community, one product or a few noncompeting Along with trying to portray itself as on~. When someone claims that Miller "caring" about the gay and lesbian com- has done a lot for the local community, 46 O~EEK August22,1990 he or she is.usually referring not to Miller influence, Two members of the Tavern publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, but to the distributor, The distributor Guild just happen to be the publishers of asserts that "ACf up attacks our friends can have a lot of influence on whether the two major gay newspapers in the city. more than our enemies." bars in the area partidpate in the boycott. And those two papers not only have Despite the condemnation of the In San Antonio, Texas, for exam- come out against the boycott in their edi- boycott by the two newspapers and the ple, the local distributor, Dennis torials but have savaged it in their news Tavern Guild, many other bars in San O'Malley, gave the president of the San stories, Francisco are supporting it: At. last countI Antonio AIDS Foundation, Papa Bear, a Ray Chalker, publisher of the 29 bars and restaurants were partidpat- check for $1,000 for the foundation and Senttnel, wrote an editorial entitled ing, According to various reports, the a check for $1,000 for Harvey Gantt, "Drink Up: There's No Boycott" and boycott has also spread' to at least 20 Papa Bear comments, "Sure I think it's printed a personal letter from Miller other dties. Boycott organizers in ACf related to the threat of a boycott," but spokesperson Thomas Reed as an UP/New York report that in New York points out that O'Malley has made con- unpaid, full-page advertisement. (The City, 36 gay and lesbian bars are already tributions before. San Antonio bar own- Sentinel has run paid advertising from partidpating, and many more mainstream ers voted not to partidpate in the boy- Miller in the past.) It is obvious that establishments, like the DupleX, the West cott for the moment. Chalker's support for Miller has as much End and the VtllageGate, are signing on. Nowhere is the cozy relationship to do with his coziness with the compa- UltimatelYIthe effectiveness of the between Miller and certain segments of ny as his animosity toward ACf up, His boycott relies less on bars and clubs and the gay and lesbian community more sentiment is that "ACf up is just trying more on the lesbian and gay consumer evident than in San Francisco, The San to show its clout" with the boycott" who refuses to be duped by Miller's PR Francisco Tavern Guild voted not to Referringto the Dore Street Fair, held machine. As Howard Wallace, who support the boycott, and the two major this month in San Francisco, where Miller helped lead the Coors boycott, cautions, gay newspapers have denounced the beer was served, and ACf up handed out "We shouldn't be misled by Miller's boycott in shrill editorials. The Tavern fliers about the boycott, he opines: "They attempts to gain sympathy.» Guild is a 25-year-old group of bar were also selling T-shirts,pins--$14 for a "People are treating Miller like it's owners, bartenders and managers and T-shirt. They made a lot of money." a wounded animal,» he concludes. represents a minority of San Francisco's Asked if he thought that they were only "Miller doesn't feel. It's a fucking corpo- bars. Local bar owner Carl Andry, who out to make a profit, he claims, "Sure, ration. They'll put the money where it'll is not a member of the guild, describes they're out to make a buck." Moreover,he do the most good for themselves, The it as "a bunch of old bar owners, out- continued, "[they are] destroying Castro boycott will qttract money [to the gay dated, without clout." with posters everywhere." and lesbian community] rather than In facti they are not without some To,~he same end, Bob Ross, the scare it away." T ~~~@~~~~,~~~~~~"wp~M~'r"" BOYCOTT ... :: -.::: - ,:; ...- :< '.:: .:: : -::::': :::.: ::' .: .. '- :: -.:.: - ...... ' . :'. ~ " ~. . ~'- '.' '...... :)··:..·:.r..>:.~::·::;.::: ~.::~.:,:":::.': t': .. .....-.-:.:- :- . ,.....' -. 48 our.wEEK August 22, 1990 '...... . . - .... '.' '.' August 22. 1990 OUT"YWEEK 49 'UT OF O MY HANDS ~.---BY BRADLEY BALL cording to the unsigned similar to Marni Nixon's. Unless I'd better reread my benefits hand- memo I found yesterday my medication was producing book), though it struck me as odd morning pinned to my some new unheard-of side effects that the text of the message was A desk with an elaborately (and I'm 98-percent certain that Germani while the diacriticalmark- carved dagger, I am under strict it's not), this woman was not ings were French. ord~rs to confine this week IS Edelweiss. I accused her of being After spending the morning "Dining Out!" to my review of that an impostor, and she fixed me reading the competition entries new Southern restaurant on West with a gaze that I imagine cobras (and I must say, I number among 46th Street-Absalom, Absalom- use to hypnotize small birds and my readers some of the most cre- which has gained an almost cultlike assured me most emphatically that ative cooks in the nation!), I decid- popularity (this weeki at least) she was Edelweiss, and did I have ed to search once again for the among the hairstylist crowd. (Best a problem with that. Then she 51st floor washroom. Over the past bet: the Yankee pot roast,) looked toward the window and two weeks, this had become a lit- Nevertheless, I feel compelled to said: "Ah, the window washer is tle game I play (and lose) on a tell you that ever since I was reas- here. Good. It is most important to daily basis-kind of like the "out- signed to this office on the 51st management that your view, like ing lottery" that the contributing floor of the autWeek building, I've your column, is at all times crystal writers run on the mezzanine level been witness to a mighty peculiar clear." Turning back to me, she to supplement their ration stamps, chain of events. Spectacular view, added: "I do hope the man is Up till now, I've had to give up spacious surroundings and appar- careful. Fifty-one stories is quite a each time and use the washroom ently unlimited telephone privileges fall." She departed with an evil outside the commissary on the 7th notwithstanding (my mother's hav- laugh I and I settled back, uncom- floor, Yesterday was no different, ing the time of her life on that fortably I in my Danish posture and, in exasperation, I finally cruise ship!), I cannot shake the chair, leaned back against the bas-relief strange feeling that all is not as it Shortly, one of those wraiths frieze of Gabriel Rotello' con- appears to be. I've noticed I for from the mail room brought in a fronting the leaders of the lesbian example, that the eyes on the por- sackfulof last-minuteentries for my and gay community, To my sur- trait of Kendall Morrison which Annual SummerFudge Competition prise I the wall gave way and hangs over my desk seem to follow (the winners will be announced opened up onto a dark hallway me wherever I go in the room. And eventually). I picked up the dagger filled with cobwebs and bats. At that 'spectacular view is slightly and began to open them when I that very moment, I heard a ring at marred by the daily arrivalof a win- noticed a picture postcard of the the elevator bank, Signaling that dow washer whose attention to Banff Springs Hotel-a familiar somebody was coming onto the detail borders on the compulsive. sight from my childhood in the floor. I quickly shut the secret Then, yesterday morningI not Canadian Rockies. Intrigued, I panel and ran back to my officeI long after I'd pried the dagger began reading and realized that the where I pretended to be busy typ- ftom my desktop I a red-haired card was from my friend ing up my review, The new woman who looked like Deborah Ernst-formerly of the Out Week Edelweiss returned to tell me that Kerr came into my office with a copy room-who has been missing my deadline was 3 pm, sharp-no bouquet of irises. I asked her what for some weeks now. His note excuses-so I had to abandon my she wanted I and, speaking directly informed me that the weather was explorations for the day. into the flowers, she said that she beautifulI he was haVinga wonder- Meanwhile,due to overwhelm- was Edelweiss, the Out Week per- ful time I and he wished I were ing demand I I am extending the sonnel liaison. I watched in thereI but he'd be seeing me quite deadline for the Summer Fudge stunned amazement as. she deli- soon I no doubt. That certainly put Competition for another week, so cately arranged the irises in a vase my mind at ease, knowing Ernst you have one more chance to be right next to my telephone I all the had just gone off on a little trip (I eligible for 'that splendid new pas- while humming "An Affair to didn't know OutWeek had such a try marble. Remember: You've got Remember" in a voice remarkably generous vacation policy; I guess to be in it to win it. .... 50 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 Brokaw offering me a blow job in someone simply ask the man if he's exchange for the right info? (Incidentally, gay? (I've tried to call him myself, but I would never make such a deal. But per- he's a wee bit unreachable these days,) haps if it were Bryant Gumbel...) If he's not, he'll say no, and it'll put the Of COUI'Se, when we informed them topic to rest. ITS lJITERLY HOMOPI;IO- that no such story had gone to press BIC OF US AND THE MEDIA TO CON- here at OutWeek, the curs were not con- STANTLY BEAT AROUND mE BUSH, tent. They kept on calling, asking if we SPEAK IN CODES AND TREAT HOMO- knew whether or not Souter is gay. And SEXUALITY AS' SOME SCANDALOUS certainly, in the next few days, everyone SECRET, THE NAME OF WHICH WE in the media who reported about his CAN'T POSSIBLYINVOKE. nomination would speculate about this Which is what New York magazine by Michelangelo Signorile possibility in the most coded of terms, continues to do, Even The New York Ttmes participated in the read- between-the-lines wordplay: ne morning a few months "If there are any qualms Ed Kosner. don't back I I looked up from my about [Souter]I it is the quiet desk to find a supermarket- concern over his circum- you see how your Otabloid reporter-a freaky- scribed way of life. As a looking creature not unlike the young man, he was briefly entire approach to two-headed I boil-splotched space aliens engaged to the daughter of a whose existence his publication dutifully State Superior Court justice, any gay issue will documents every couple of weeks- but he never married, and standing there and offering me a hot time even his admirers wonder always come from a (which included going to his house to whether his solitary style has look at some photos he'd taken at the limited his empathy or level homophobic position. piers) in exchange for the names of clos- of human understanding." eted Hollywood queers. "What?" I (Not only does the Ttmes no matter how you responded and broke out into a loud offer up the possibility, but "GETOUI1" the reporter's homophobia treat those issues. Granted, The tactics of the supennar- also rings out clearly.) ket tabloids are extreme. But it's amazing All of which caused simply because you how the mainstream media wring their arch-conservative asshole hands over such aggressive behavior, Wtlliam F. Buckley to embar- refuse to print the when they dabble in equally dubious rassingly attempt-strictly uti- information-gathering methods and are lizing the aforementioned names of those certainly just as hungry for the BIG DISH. crypto-journalism-to kill any For instance I only a few weeks ago queer notions of Souter in his involved. thereby this office was barraged with queries from Datly News column: "On Sun- leading newspapers and television news days, he serves as as vestry- saying that labeling divisions wanting to know if it were true man in the Episcopal church. that OutWeek was planning to out U.S. He is unmarried, but while in someone gay is Supreme Court Justice nominee I David law school, the papers Souter, in the next issue. And the calls report, he cohabitated with a an insult? wouldn't stop: Over the weekend they'd female law student." (Gee, found my editor and my publisher at their thanks for calming our Fire Island homes and somehow got the nerves with that little bit of phone numbers of many of my friends info, Bill). I've spoken to editor and publisher here in town, These friends were then DOES ONE HAVE TO TAKE A CIA Ed Kosner, several times about his maga- contacted by media snoops who were CODE-BREAKINGCOURSEIN ORDERTO zine's coverage of lesbians and gays. looking for me, and explicit messages AGURE our WHATlHE PUCKIS BEING Sometimes I think that he does truly want were left on their answering machines as SAIDIN TIlE PAPERSTIiESEDAYS? to increase that coverage and portray it in to why, The hounds, of course I were all Why doesn't anyone just come out a sensitive manner. And I've seen some the "respected" news organizations: from and say that there has been some spec- increases in coverage here and there: 7be New Yom Times and the Washtngton ulation that Souter may be gay? (Surely, Certainly Jeanette Walls attends to impor- Post to Good Morning America and the when there is "speculation" about any- tant issues now and then in her "Intelli- NBC Nightly News. thing eise, the papers report it. They put gencer" column, and the "Fast Tracks" What could be next?! Would I soon it just like that: "There is some specula- section has had a few good gay topiCSin look up from my desk to find Tom tion in Washington that ...") Why doesn't See GOSSIP WATCH on page 111 August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 51 Oul onlhe Town Wilh Liz and Sydney it?) Sunday nights. ched) with your everyday variety of Duckett was called queer. There were straight people who Sunday night and in- came on Sundays---and either liked it formed that this would or left it~ut never made you feel that be his last party, pre- they were "taking over." maturely closing out Here's a hot (news) flash: Look Mars Needs Men. for a new club to open in the near But don't close the future (no promises), midtown on book on it just yet. On the West Side. The people who August 19, the real good- brought you Horatio 113, the com- bye will happen. The (re- bined supper/dance club I have got- ally) last Mars Needs Men ten another venue in store: a 24-hour will inviteback all the old diner, a dining room for "more for- deejays: Larry Tee, Dany mal" meals and a full-floor disco with Johnson, John Suliga, it. (They will be lining up promoters Pedidia, along with the for their club soon.) No one has an- new ones (Dinah, Tomi nounced yeti no one even knows the Richardson, Andy An- club exists yet-so there! But here's derson) and the one the good part: If you go to the c1vb, CHIP DUCKm AND BOY-OF-THE-MINUTE HENRY man who has played you can move in and out of the DiAl ON THE LAST (1) NIGHT OF MARS NEEDS MEN there since night one, diner. For some people I this could be Photo: Uz and Sydney Michael Connoly. Prom- the answer for the "dining and danc- ising another Gay ing" places that they lament, For oth- LIZ: Sunday night at Mars, the Prlde-type party as a farewell, this could ers, they may never notice the allure rumors were flying as fast as the very well be the "closing"of Mats to gay of eggs over easy amid strobe lights. beer. Was this the la$t Mars Needs night life in many people's minds. Pamela Sneed (Quick! door- Men? What were those invitations for While "gay nightlife may never woman and all-around dyke diva) another Sunday party all about? What be the same after Quick!," Mars was had a birthday last Thursday, got the happened? Who knew? Mter Mona what really started the genre: Here night off and had a party, With a Foot's performance I Chip Duckett was a night that managed to said, "My comment is: No comment!" combine politics and plea- What's a queer to do? sure, club kids and hot, What the hell happened? sweaty boys (some people After Rudolf handed in his resig- believe that Mars cornered nation as director of both Mars and the market on these), the QUick!-simultaneously-Duckett Sudafed boycott and nude was compelled to return from a trip lesbian Magic Marker night. to Japan. The new director of Mars, Tupperware parties, drag Yuki" Wantanabe, is not particularly queens, fashion shows I food, on close terms with Duckett, and Monika Treut premiere par- Rudolf had been his actual partner in ties, go-go boys with or with- ventures. Duckett ha'd decided to out money taped to their lxxI- leave Mars in a few weeks I with his ies, go-go girls (for a while), last party planned for late August. the ACf UP plaGe to party (for Then rumors began circulating a whUe), a heady mix of disco, about an rnvitation distributed at debauchery and performance, clubs last week: Larry Levan, with 24 Mars Needs Men held the thrall Hours for Life (the Garage deejay of gay night life for a year and ,-=' =:..:..::------===';..;' who has played both Quick! and a half. This was one of the few TONI SENECAL AND PAMELA SNEED IN A MEET- Mars on occasion), would be doing places the "fabulous people" ING OF THE(DOOR) MINDS AT aUiCKI the "Sounds of Garage Paradise" (get went out, mixed (and mat- Photo: Uz and Sydney 52 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 beach theme, men and women PUSHING A DRUG from peg. 41 call it "activity" or "efficacy." came in their bathing suits for free There are indications that many While over 10,489 people have admission I asking I "Do I have to ACfG sites cannot handle any more benefitted from free expanded-access take it off now?" Only the doorpeo- ddI subjects. The data collection is distribution, ddI will not become ac- pIe know who had to take it off arduous and inconvenient. Many cessible to many who need it until it right there I but once inside, every- sites are overwhelmed, and some still can be prescribed by a doctor and re-' one was wishing that they had have long waiting lists. Before they imbursed by insurance companies or stripped down. The beach was bot. attack expanded access I its critics in- by Medicaid. And the lifeguard sitting watch over side the ACfG should tend to their In the meantime I we need to call the kiddie pool in the lounge was own house, the ACfG's bluff: Call your local ACI1J, dripping as people climbed up to Expanded access. The success of and find out how long their waiting list have their picture taken with him, this program in delivering ddI to over is for screening into the ddI trials. Pamela, arri'/ing a la Madonna in a 10,000 Americans with AIDS and ARC is man's suit, was nervous (if you had menaced by the ACfG's inability to seen what I got, you'd be nervous conduct the controlled trials faster. From ENDNOTES too), She had heard that there were the very start, the trials have been de- people jumping out of cakes: alas, layed most by internal ACfG bureau- no cakes in sight. But Toni cratic obstacles-not by expanded ac- 1 John J. McGowan, J.E. Tomaszews- Sep.ecal, who forgot her bathing cess itself, as its critics would maintain. ki,J.c. Cradock et al., "Overview of suit, came out with Pamela's cake Yet their onslaught threatens the future the Preclinical Development of an in her underwear and a garter belt of parallel track, Antiretroviral Drug, 2'I 3'-Dideoxy- and held it while she blew out the Earlier this sununer, ACfG Principal inosine." Rev. Inf. Dis. 12, supple- candles, (Some were suprised that Investigator Thomas Merigan of Stanford, ment 5, July-August 1990, p. S513, she had any breath left after Toni.) testified that parallel-track access should 2 "Odd Surge in Deaths Found in .An interesting development in not be opened until all controlled trials Those Taking AIDS Drug," Gina dyke night life-it seems that the are fully enrolled This would tum paral- Kolata, '!be New York Ttmes, March corner of First Avenue and 2nd lel track into "serial track" and would 12, 1990, p, 1. Street has become Sunday night's senselessly deny thousands the possibili- 3 Bristol-Myers Squibb CO" "Dear In- place-ta-be. If you Ire not going to ty of therapy. Given the ACfGis record vestigator" Letter,July 3, 1990, p. 1. Cave Canem (everyone should), of poor accrual I the controlled trials 4 Michael C, Back, M,D., "Clinical then you're going to BooBy Trap at might newrfill, and most people eligible Response to Dideoxyinosine in Pa- the Love Shack, Or you could be for parallel track are, in any ease, ineligi- tients with HN Infection Resistant crossing the avenue between them. ble for those trials. to Zidovudine," New England You could just cruise and then fol- Most other ACfG investigators I Journal of Medicine, 323(4), July low your object of lust in. BooBy however, have come around to support 26, 1990, p, 275. See also M.C, Trap is the result of moving the for- the parallel track-or are waiting in si- Back and L,M. Dunkle, Abstract mer Tuesday night lesbian alterna- lence. This battle is far from over. #2178, in Final Program and Ab- tive music party to Sunday, and it The future. The delays in ddI trials stracts: Sixth International Confer- works. The feel is very low-key: raise the question of whether the FDA ence on AIDS, vol. 2, p. 398. Christmas lights and a deejay. The should consider approving ddI before 5 Robert Yarchoan, H, Mitsuya, J.M. crowd is young and mosdy East Vtl- the trials are completed. As John James Pluda et al. "The National Cancer lage local, but not limited by this. said last November at the FDA/NIAID Institute Phase I Study of 2', 3'- Go. Have fun, Support girls' nights Symposium on Methodology: Dideoxyinosine Administration in out, because there aren't enough. "The trials are probably going to Adults With AIDS or ARC:Analysis Speaking of which, having been last two years after the last patient is re- of Activity and Toxicity Profiles." on vacation, I missed the opening of cruited. At the same time, there is ex- Rev. Infec. Dis. 12(S5),July-August the Clit Club (I blush even writing panded access I so that there may be an 1990, pp, S522-532, it). But all anyone has said is, "Fun!" intelligent and reasonable medical con- 6 See San Francisco Abstract The space is raw, the drinks are sensus on how and when to use this #S.B.205, vol. 3, p. 13L cheap, and the women are very out- drug much sooner than that. The ques- 7 Se!! San Francisco Abstract going. While this is a mixed night, it tion is: From a scientific and medical #S.B.471, vol. 3, p. 203, is decidedly for women. The two standpoint I aside from the regulatory 8 See San Francisco Abstract women promoting it, Jocelyn Tay- point of view, is that two years buying #ThA274, vol. 1, p, 188, and Re- lor and Julie Tolentino, are mem- us anything at all?"10 views of Infectious Diseases 12(S5), bers of the video collective House The concept of "efficacy" is a shift- July-August 1990, pp. S520-2L of Color and can obviously throw a ing one-it simply means that the FDA 9 Thomas Merigan at the FDA/NIAID mean party. So every other FridaYI has approved a drug for marketing. Yet Symposium on Metholodolgy, stop complaining and dance. many physicians are already using ddI, November 1989, in press. P.s. Yes, Sydney still writes as a treatment, not an experimental 10 John ]ames, at the FDA/NIAID here-she'll be back from Atlanta substance. And evidence is accumulat- Symposium on Methodology, nextweek. ... . ing that the drug work5--whether you November 1989, in press .... August 22, 1990 OUr..-WEEK 53 SUPPORT~,· TaEMI·LLER BOYCOTT! PRIVATE EYES Sliµ Utt4 ~&~ Z'~~ &( ~7~,~~ '!f~~O~'" .. ~ . '5 t44m ::iV/~;O~":~:'::':".~~:: ,n z,'M9 ~ ~T,,~4.M"'h'" JohnSimon 12 1IIut 2141 St. . &t. 5ti & 6ti4 BARROW & 80 Grove Street .Sheridan Square WEST STREET el1 N . York, Ny 0/4 10 TAVERN 212-924-.1558 384 West Street NYC 243-1907 Film Less Is Mo' overall tone of the film would indicate not. In short, it is not entirely dear what by Monica Dorenkamp Lee is up to, There is much of the OW that Spike Lee has made it clear that he is Spike Lee that not going away, he is being embraced from all many have loved sides, The white mainstream has widelyaccept- since She's Gatta Ned him as America's (token) Black ftlmmaker, Have It in Mo' tbe chronicler of the contemporary Black American experi- Better. There is ence (as if that were Singular), and in so doing, has pres- the Mars Black- sured him to make his films more acceptable and more mon-like banter- appealing to white audiences. But those of us more ing back and marginalized, who want him to continue to present new forth between and strong challenges to the mainstream that is now so characters, often anxious to take him under its wing, are also mounting intensified by pressure. The conflict that has ensued is much in evidence quick cutting. in Lee's new ftlm, Mo' Better Blues. HIS TRUMPET OR HIS JOIE And thus, on the The tenn "selling out" is used a bit too loosely these Bleek (Denzel Washington) and Indigo very powerful days but is sure to come up in more than one discussion of (Joie Lee) level of lan- Mo' Better. The film is the slickest of Lee's so far, Ernest guage, there is a clear refusal to ever be mainstream; my white Dickerson's almost too-beautiful photography is matched by ears often missed lines because they are unaccustomed to the the almost too-perfect sets and costumes; the clothes alone vernacular, In this sensei Lee very clearly targets a Black audi- must have consumed a large part of the relatively low (by ence for his films, and it is in these scenes, most of which hap- Hollywood standards) $9,9-million budget. But Lee has pen backstage at the club in Mo' Better, that Lee's brilliance as a never been interested in a classic sense of realism as much director and as a writer is irrefutable, They are exCeptionally as in provoking certain responses, usually the kind that force played by a cast that includes a number of Lee regulars, most you to (re)examine your own position. So the fact that Lee's notably Giancarlo Esposito and Bill Nunn as band members, as own character, Giant, wears a very expensive suit while well as Wesley Snipes as the band's saxophonist, Shadow, who being beat up for unpaid gambling debts, or that ]oie Lee's shows much of the desire and interest in his music that is miss- . character, Indigo, is easily the best-dressed schoolteacher in ing from Bleek. These backstage scenes create all-male spaces New York City, is ultimately not what is wrong with the film. (Esposito's character is reprimanded for bringing his girlfriend The real problem is that what the film is actually about and in) without the offensiveness or sentimentality that are the what it claims to be about are not the same thing, . standard fare of movie representations of male fiiendship, On a very basic leve!, the film purports to be the story of Such moments, though I are undermined I even forgot- a jazz trumpeter, Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington), whose ten, by the film's end, The story line holds no sutprises,. consuming passion for his music slowly shuts everyone out. except, perhaps, that there are no sutprises. WhtQ tragedy 1bis theme is literalized in a scene in which the voice of one strikes B1eek, as it is bound to, he responds by doing what of his tWo girlfriends, Oarke (Cyoda Wllliams), is completely we are always told will make everything better: He gets muted by his voice and piano playing during composition. But married and has a kid, And remarkably, it does make this is about as intense as Bleek ever gets, not only about his everything better, During the final montage-more roman- work but about anything. Denzel Wdshington slides through - ticized and cliched images (briefly interrupted by the film the role (there is little else he could do), looking, like every- of a'real birth I which, in this context I seems at best out of thing else in the picture, a bit too good, He is the too August 22. 1990 OUTTWEEK 55 Film The Wall Jumper An Interview With East Germany's Heiner Carow by Karl Soepnlein York and Los Angeles, Traveling with Carow was Dirk Kummer, his 23-year-old assistant director, and one of the film's stars, Kummer plays Mattias, the gay man whose East German flimmaker Heiner Carow is proving presence sends the teacher into a romantic tailspin. He also these days, irs never too late to come out But his is doubled as translator when I spoke to him and Carow fol- . a coming-out story with a twist: The director of lowing Coming Out's New York premiere at the New _ more than 15 movies in 40 years, Carow has now Festival. The two were a bit weary from constant travel but directedA his--mld his nation'S--:-first gay-themed film. Coming excited at the film's positive reception-as well as their first OUt is the story of a young, repressed schoolteacher who fu11s trip to the United States, . in love with another man. Completed before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the film provides U.S. audiences with a rare look at gay life in the fmal days behind the Iron Curtain, Carow's artistic career began in post- war East Germany, studying theater acting and directing, He turned to film because of a "professional attraction and because it was fun," After a short apprenticeship with documentary director Gerhard .Kiein, Carow began making his own films, His breakthrough came in 1959, when They Call Him Amigo won the I, Bronze Medal at the World Youth Festival in Vienna. A long, suc- cessful career followed, with several of his fj'lms, such as The THEFIRSTMOVE Legend of Paul and Director Heiner Csrow's Coming Out Paula (1973), getting wide rele~se in the West as well as the East. One of his Karl Soehnlein: You've been making films for more. subversive works I The Russians Are Coming, 'was many years I but this is the first one with a gay banned .by -the East German government in 1968, and theme-why now? only re-released in 1987, a sign of the glasnost era. Heiner Carow: I wanted to do this film a long time Coming Out has been a big, and somewhat surprising I ago, and it wasn't possible-ju6t in the last few years success for Carow. He recently made the rounds of the because of my poSition. [Carow is now vice president of U.S. gay-film-festival circuit, visiting San Francisco, New the Academy of Arts in Berlin.l They had to give their 56 OUT.wEEK August 22, 1990 ~ money to me if I wanted to make a fUm, It would be mQre KS: You said the fUm was well received by the public, difficult for a very young director, The theme was a tabOo Was there negative reaction as well? People who didn't in East Germany. want to see the "taboo" broken? KS: When did you first show the film? DK: Never, We thought from the beginning that we'~ Dirk Kummer: We had the premiere of the fUm on get letters from skinheads or neo-Nazis, or that they'd November 9,1989, the night the Wall came down. protest in front of cinemas I but nothing happened like KS: What a coincidence--a symbolic night! that. Heiner and I and the other star of the film got a lot DK: Yes, a "coming out" for East Germany, of letters-l00, 300, I don't know how much-«nd there KS: What had the political situation been like before was no negative reaction, really. Not only from gays--I that? got a lot of letters from straight women, too. We had the DK: The whole situation in East Germany was very premiere at the biggest cinema in East Berlin I and it hot last summer; nobody knew what would happen next, showed there for 13 weeks. And not only gay and les- It was terrible. A lot of people were leaving East Germany bian audiences came, across the Czechoslovakian border to go to the West. By KS: Are you encouraged to make more films with gay October, there were demonstrations against the govern- characters now? ment, and a lot of intellectuals and students fled into the He: I plan to make a film about a relationship churches because it was safe there, The police stood out- between two men, a normal relationship I not such a spe- side of the churches and fought against demonstrators, cial situation like coming out. After thls, more and more people protested this undemo- KS: The film has a scene shot in a gay bar... cratic situation, DK: Everything in the movie we filmed in real KS: Has homosexuality been illegal in your coun- places, on the streets. This gay bar really exists in East try? Germany. We went there before we even began to fIlm, He: No. Since 1968 the age of consent for gay sex during the November Carnival, and asked the patrons to is 16, but now it will change because we will get the come in costume for our film. Most of them wanted to laws from West Germany where the age is 18. make this film, A lot of gays were talking about it before KS: So, a piece of the Wall goes back up for gays. we started shooting. They knew that this would be the He: Yes, so it seems, first East German gay film I and they wanted to have KS: Have you experienced a lot of discrimination liv- something to do with it. We filmed there ten nights. It ing as a gay man in East Germany? was a real funny time because a lot of the crew were not He: As a teacher, if someone had heard that I was gay, gay and lesbian I but they were very interested in talking they wouldn't say, "We're kicking you out because you are to gays and lesbians in the bar. There was a lot of com- gay"; they would say, "You have made bad lessons; you munication. The message of the film was even being car- don't know how to be a teacher." A teacher wouldn't lose ried out during the filming. his job but would be sent to a small town to teach, KS: Have you been to a gay bar or nightclub in the DK: It was the same for me because I wanted to United States? study at the fUm school to become a director. I took the DK: Yes, after the screenings in San Francisco and entrance examination three times, I didn't say that I was New York. It's not so different than the gay bars in gay, but I made Super 8 fUms, and you could see in the Germany. I think it's all the same people, but in America films that I was gay, I never got the placement. They they are living more freely, They do what they want. always said that I'm not talented as a director, but the rea- Nobody's interested in· what their neighbor will say-I . son was because I'm gay. After the success of Coming Out think SO, anyway, I'm studying there. The movie was very successful allover KS: We have a big 'problem with what we call gay- the country, and they can't say anything against me now. bashing, which is when gays are attacked physically. KS: Do you feel that things will get better now that Lately, it's been very bad all over the country. Is it a prob- the government has gotten more democratic? lem in Germany too?· DK: I think that now we have a real conservative gov- He: Yes, we have two scenes in the film about this ernment, the Christian Democrats and not the Social w!tich are close together. There's one scene where three Democrats, The whole south of East Germany voted for skinheads are attacking a foreigner, a Black man, and the Christians, We don't know how the situation will be in another scene where three men are attacking a gay. That's one year when we have the reunification I and when we reality in the East and West, too. will have "One Great Germany." KS: Do you include those scenes to help people KS: Recently, the East German government was apolo- - understand the problem of anti-gay violence better? gizing for the Holocaust but made no mention of the per- He: If you are a director, you have to show these real- secution of gays and lesbians, ities, I don't know if I can change this situation, but I have DK: We have a scene in the film about that, with an to show it. Maybe if people see it, it will help to stop it. In old man who was in the concentration camps talking about Germany a lot of aggreSSion came out after the Wall came the fact that East Germany has done a lot for Jews and down. The skinheads became more noticeable I and a lot of other victims of the Holocaust but has forgotten gays. And nationalism surfaced. "One Great Germany" may be a dan- that's true. gerous place for lesbians and gays .... August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 57 Music Born to Drum An Interview With Edwina Lee Tyler by Noelle Hanr-ahan hours a day, [My fathed only allowed classical, jazz, gospel, spirituals-no rock 'n' roll, He thought that wasn't music, He taught music in the house, too--it was a 24-hour thing, hen pilgrims to the Michigan Women's Music NIl: Your parents had to fight color lines and grapple with . Festival recount their experiences, indelibly a racist theatrical and musical community, What was that like? W. etched in all of their memories are' the images ELT: It was very tough for them I especially in the fteld and sounds of Edwina Lee Tyler and her band, A Piece of that they were in. My father was irtto opera, and during that the World. Perfonning an enchanting blend of Mrican-Amer- time it was very hard for Blacks to get into the opera. There ican, African and Caribbean drumming, dancing and spoken were a lot of things that they did not get, because they were words, her show gener- Black. It has been one ates a tremendous col- of my goais, in fact the lective energy. Using main goa!, to push my- the drum to tell her sto- self even more in my ries and explore her ex- fteld because I am his perience o( the world I namesake. Tyler, along with such NH: When you groups as Urban Bush ftrst started to realize Women and Women of that there was more Calabash I is a deftning out there that your force in the art of that parents deserved, how ancient instrument. did it manifest itself? What Sweet Honey is to ELT: My father a cappella, Edwina Lee was a very political Tyler is to drumming. man, and we were al- Born and raised in ways told the tnith in Harlem, Tyler is the our house, no matter daughter of pioneering how old we were. He entertainers. Her ~usi- believed that you must cal development is the know what your cul- result. of absorbing the' ture is. He preached rich and diverse sounds that all of the time. I and rhythms that were knew how hard it was born and developed in for them. It was plain Harlem in the second to see, and it was spo- half of the 20th centu- ken of all the time: ry. Tyler's exploration "You must get an education. If you are of the. synthesis. of THE SHADES THE BEATS THE RAVOR OF HOME drummtng, danctng , " ' going to do drum- and choreographed Folk Icon Edwma Lee Tyler ming-try to be the performances results in a technique that is unmistakably best. You are Black, [sol be proud of who you are, but you her own. She credits .Baba Olatunji, a Nigerian anthropolo- also have to work harder to get what you want." . gist and percussionist, and four years with the Sylvia Fort NIl: Where did you get the gift to excel-is it a privi- Dance Company as major influences. lege to love something that much? ••• ELT: As a child I was not a talker. My drum was my way Noelle Hanrahan: Yo.ur parents were musicians and of talking. When I was angry or frustrated I used the drum. I entertainers. How did that influence you? would sit there, and I would play. 1bat was my friend. Edwina Lee Tyler: My father, Edward Lee Tyler, was a .... dassical singer and voice teacher, and my mother, Ruth Gibbs When you are born to be a drummer--coming out Tyler, was a dassical singer also. We had music in the house 24 tapping rhythms on every childhood toy-you absorb the 58 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 ON TOUR. NOW Joanneai?ts and flowers The new album, Featuring "More ThanOne KindOf Love:' AM ~ CONCERTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY INCLUDE August 14-15 Beacon Theatre, New York City Aug us t 18 Vi c The at re, Ch ic a go August 22-24 Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles August 25 Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA ~ shades·, the beats and the flavor of your home turf, Fortu- around me, and it is not a big space, so people would hear nately for her creative grOwth, Edwina Lee Tyler was born the music and dance in front of me. I was sitting I and after into a vibrant explosion' of sounds: New York in the '50s a while, I started getting up and moving toward people, and '6os. Echoing throughout each of her compositions are step by step, and each time I did it, I would get more ener- the flavors of the African Diaspora, specifically Cuba, gy from it. And I said, "If I am getting energy from this, I Brazil, Haiti and West Africa, Tyler's perfonnance combines might as well keep on doing it." At fll'St,I would close my strictly c;horeographed pieces I including "Apartheid No eyes. I would not open my eyes I I would just close my More." and "Movement in Black," with loose structure and eyes and play, and then I started opening my eyes and ample improvisation, She is not afraid to move into the looking at whom I am playing fori and it began. crowd and feed off of its energy, NH: How do you transcend physical barriers between ••• yourself' and the audience, like a 25-foot orchestra pit? NH: Whom would you name as your community of ELT: Any place that wants me has to have stairs-oo I drummers? can come down off the stage and be with the audience. It ELT: Nydia "Liberty" Mata, Annette Aguilar, Linda is very important I because that is my trademark, Most pe0- Jones, Nuru from Boston, Debbie McGee, We are all like a ple want to see me through that audience, They want me family. We are saying that women can play drums and play close to them when I am playing that drum, them very well, We are all fighting the same kind of battles, ••• Whe!1 I fll'Ststarted drumming, I drummed with men, I Dedicated observers and devoted students acknowl- have drummed with men for a long time because there edge the dissolving barriers between creator and creation weren't any women around that were playing drums, [so] I and flock to Tyler's perfortnances, a response that has be- went out there and exposed myself until everybody knew stowed upon her a folk-hero status, Whether down at the me and I didn't have to do that anymore, I worked and pier after a Gay Pride march for informal circle drumming worked and worked at it, and now all of the drummers or uptown at Lincoln Center, Tyler's following is growing, know me. In addition to buying her cassette I Drum Drama, admirers They would ask me, "Can-you play?" And I started often support her artistry by purchasing Tyler's one-of-a- playing, and they said, "Oh, she knows how to play," And kind works of art: paintings that emerge from the same cr~ the next day I may pass by, and they say, "Oh, come on ativity that inspires her drumriling. over here, she knows how to play," So that is how it start- Feeding the spirit, praying, medi~ting and embodying ed for me, the spirit through her drumming are rites that Tyler practices ••• daily, Her hands become fertile ground for creativity. VISions Talent is one ingredient, inspiration another, Blind, "ease into" her life and gently demand to be realized, burning desire forced her mind and body to develop tech- . ••• niques, and ambition and a drum became Tyler's constant NH: What keeps you sane and grounded? companions. Lunch hours in the nine-to-five world were ELT: Praying every night, twice a day. It is a power transformed into jam sessiqns, with hundreds of hours that is beyond anything else, and it has given me strength I passing under her hands. Every day she pushes herself on it has give me protection and has put a shield in front of to the mastery of one more first, building confidence with me so I won't be hurt, It has put bread on the table, experience, Barriers dissolved, and the challenge became NH: How do you make the ground fertile for creativity exploring the power that moves the audience to reaction. in your life? • • •• ELT: I don't. It just comes, Once the idea comes I I NIl: What motivates you to play for people? make room for it ~me kind of way. It eases into my life, ELTf I want them to know the hurt that I have inside NH: Do you have visions? me, I have also done it [so that] maybe I could have some ELT: I am always having visions about different things, influence in this world-like everybody else. I could not re- I had a vision that I was going to be a famous African ally fmd any other way to show how angry I am about [the woman percussionist, and I am getting there, I had it when worldl but to do it in my art, So I choose to do "Apartheid I was a little kid. No More," I want people to see what I am doing and hear NH: Can you speak about being self-taught? what I am saying and how hard I am working. People can ELT: I think people ought to know about that. I have change what is happening now-people-and I just feel learned a lot through the years about different traditional that they are not moving fast enough for me. rhythms I but basically I taught myself. I wanted to be dif- Nu: Do you cry during your performances? ferent and not sound like everybody else. And I did not . ELT: Yeah, I do. Most of the time, I do. I am haPPY, want to do only traditional [rhythms]. I wanted to sound and I am sad. I am very emotional because the audience is like myself, and that took teaching, very emotional, and I take in a lot because I am open. If. There are many people at the top who are self-taught. someone is sad, and I am standing in front of them, then I A guy told me a long time ago, "You know, there's many feel that. people who have to sit in a class. But when you have it NH: How did you become' so uninhibited and start to here [the heart], and you have it here {the head], you don't move into the audience? need to sit in class all day long. All you need is a pointer, ELT: It started in the park. All the people would be S. EDWINA on pag. 68 60 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 OLIVIA RECORDS' 7-NIGHT WOMEN'S CARIBBEAN CRUISE Oct. 28- Nov. 4, 1990 Sail from Miami to Nassau, Blue Lagoon, San Juan, St. John and St. Thomas with Lucie Blue Tremblay, Dianne Davidson, Teresa Trull, & many more! A $250 deposit will hold your place. 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Books My Body and Me cal and (thank God) outmoded, Putting aside, for a moment, the fact that it is a work of fictionI Barnett's collection of stories can be viewed as a kind of broadside against the "religion of healthy-mindedness" for which my professor was such an authoritative spokesperson, As works of fiction I these stories are hobbled by some flaws, by James Waller but I read this book gratefully, for I feel a kinship with Barnett that I too often find missing elsewhere--« shared . About a dozen years ago, when I was fU'St in semi- awareness that, however politically and psychologically nec- . nary, I enrolled in a course that was referred to essary, the "sex-positive," "body-positive," "self-positive" ani- by some tight-assed Episcopalian seminarians I tudes to which we must cling beg' a deeper question about knew as "Group Grope for Credit." Actually, what is the matter between my body and me, And the proper we in the class barely touched , modes of inquiry into that mat- one another during the yearlong ter may not be sociology or psy- seminar, though the instruction chology, but art and, for lack of was modeled on encounter- a better word, theology, group techniques developed at Barnett is paSSionately Esalen. Our collective explo- interested in religion, of both ration of the then-hot topic of the old and newfangled vari- "incarnational theology" was eties, (In facti the main charac- mostly accomplished by our ter in d1e story "The Body and talking to one another--Q1ld not Its Seasons" attends a theology very honestly most of the time. course that resembles the one I While reading the six stories have just described,) He is also that make up Allen Barnett's Tbe a very literate writer, The Body and Its Dangers, I was ghosts of Spinoza, Augustine, reminded of an incident that Dickinson, Whitman and occurred in that class. I've for- Auden stalk his pages, .and gotten the precise topic of dis- Barnett establishes a continuity cussion that afternoon, but I between the search for mean- remember clearly how the talk ing that goes on in the lives of was interrupted by an impolite contemporary gay men and challenge to its tenor, One of the their friends and the search that students--a strapping, bearded, has driven the Western meta- honey'-skinned young man physical and literary tradition, whose body I would have liked He is hypersensitive to the to "have," in both senses of the ways in which personal memo- worc:l--6uddenly inserted himself ry and history exchange fluids into the conversation I which had as we each, conSCiously or· not, 'no doubt been glittering with attempt to create ourselves, generalities about what a bless- He is also aware of how ing.it is to be an embodied being, the occlusion between experience and history is always . "Sometimes I cJon't mow what you people are talking imperfect, In "Snapshot," the volume IS fU'Ststory, a young about," he said, with a nervous, angry tremolo, "Don't you . man despises family photos not only because of their falsi- . ever just Want to escape your body? I do, Sometimes I can't ty-the way the recorded moments of apparent content- stand it-lfeel like I'm straining against it, wanting to get out" ment are betrayed by actual experience-but also, one Now, the tygers of wrath may be wiser than the ho~ comes to see, because these casual images represent a his- of instruction I but they are seldom more powerful. Our tory that both abandons and makes claims upon him, The professor pit the young man off and in a few glib sen- longest stOry, "The Times As It Knows Us," explores the tences reduced the half-buiit thought lurking behind his chasm between official history as set down in our "paper complaint to a pile of rubble--the sorry remains of a theo- of record" and the actualities of gay'men's lives as lived In logical tradition that was anti-body, self-hating, pathologi- Saa THE BODY AND ITS DANGERS on pelle &6 62 OUTTWEEK August 22. 1990 Books Dye Hard to California, But after some close shaves with Calvin's SIM neighbor, a masturbating ro'ck-c1imber named Wacky Jacky and a couple of gay-bashing cops I Roger's murder starts to look less like a bald crime of passion and more like a tangled conspiracy. by Max Cavitch Meanwhile, back at the salon I Stan's boss and confi- dante, Nikki Albright, is down to her last special-order gold-tipped cigarette and plenty worried. Stan has hen I lived in Boston, I got my hair done become so obsessed with finding Roger's killer that he's at a foofy Back Bay clip-joint not too far neglecting his clients and putting himself in real danger from the salon where Stan Kraychik cuts of losing his life along with his job. Over at Station E, heads in Grant Michael's new mystery, A Lieutenant Branco's worried tOO, since he's the one who BodyW to For, made Stan his unofficial queer deputy, hoping that the Dye That part of Newbury Street is a sort of Madison Avenue manque: chockablock with tiny bou- horny hairdresser would be able to find out things that a tiques, sprawling cafes and 18-karat attitude, My man hypermasculine het cop couldn't. In fact, Stan finds out Keith operated out of a shop in one of the less genteel too much for his own 8ood, and it's thanks only to a blocks. My pretension is cheap I and Keith was sheer genius, These days, I'm shorn by a hip suburban dyke in northern New Jersey, She's terrific, considering what I But it's Stan who needs a give her to work with, but if Stan Kraychik had been my Stresstab when hunky Roger barbtere dl Boston, I never would have left town. Stan, known as Van nos in the salon world, is a Fayerbrock strolls into the stylist with style, He loves his work, and why not? He shop. When he's not vacation- fondles some of the city's most gorgeous heads and gets credit for making them even more gorgeous, The head ing in Boston, Roger is a park he's working on as the book opens belongs to Calvin ranger at Yosemite and every Redding, a rich Cambridge architect and, in Stanis own words, "flawless as a fag-rag photo," But Calvin is a jerk I inch the star of Stan's cowboy and Stan takes malicious pleasure in making him squirm, fantasies. Instantly, Stan is demicoiffed and disheveled in his chair, as they wait for plotting the Last Roundup. Calvin IS latest trick to show up, "I can't be seen like this," Calvin shrieks I "in the middle of a dye job!" "Take a Stresstab, baby," says Stan, "Art cannot be hurried." But it's Stan who needs a Stresstab when hunky cool head (and good grooming) that he escapes the Roger Fayerbrock strolls into the shop. When he's not killer's hair trigger, vacationing in Boston, Roger is a park ranger at Yosemite After the hair-raising events are over, Stan straight- and every inch the star of Stan's cowboy fantasies, ens out the kinks with Roger's Balinese houseboYI Yudi, Instantly, Stan is plotting the Last Roundup, Whoa I boy! who has followed Stan back from California, I don't What about Calvin? Not to worry. Ranger Roger seems mean to grudge Stan a well-earned happy ending in the much more interested in Stan the Man than in the blow- arms of his pantalooned pet, but lighthearted racism is dried fashion plate from last night, After arranging to racism nonethless, This West-beds-East tableau probably meet Stan later that evening, Roger goes back to Calvin's wouldn't offend so much if it weren't for the fact that apartment for some highly unnecessary beauty sleep, Yudi has three counterparts in the book: Ramon, the Unfortunately for Stan-not to mention for the back-stabbing shampoo-boy at Stan's salon; Eduardo, ranger himself-Roger never wakes up, He's found ,the Costa Rican gold digger; and Dario, the olive- strangled in Calvin's bed, with bow ties around his neck skinned chef of Calvin's employer, None of these and ..,well, let's just say that it must have been a formal swarthy nubiles has a home-grown, English-as-a-first- affair, Stan is convinced that Calvin is the murderer, The language peer in their servant's world; none of them police think otherwise, and Stan has to come up with seems even to have a last name. The menial status of some evidence fast in order to prove Calvin's guilt and the four characters most identifiably other is an insensi- his own innocence, In order to get Calvin by the short tive gaff in an otherwise riotous and rollicking ride hairs I Stan combs the country for clues, from Cambridge along the razor's edge. ~ August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 63 Books Reader's· Roundup The author also manages to make a strong case for When, the Parrot Boy~~~by jgbri" vegetarianism; I refused to eat "cow" about 30 minutes after "Me a recent visit to this publication's office I Madame West. His first morning there, the narrator discovers a body Arts Editor filled my backpack with books and at the bottom of the empty pool at the guest house where gave me my marching orders: Review what I he is staying. There are too many plot twists to sununarize thought was worth reviewing. Weil, I believe here I but there is a good assortment of characters, and the thatA there is no such thing as a bad review (even negative book moves quickly. The author has some very amusing reviews inform the public abOut a book's existence I and commentary on gay life: on cruising: "It was years ago that I they give the author an opportunity to complain about the lost interest in staying out late, getting drunk, working up a reviewer's total lack of understanding of such an obvious sweat to a monolithic beat, to fmally lap at the genitals of a masterpiece), so I decided to say at least something about complete stranger"; on publishing I ,or at least gay publish- I -, the whole backpack, ing: "This is America, Hence, this one column You suck my dick, I discusses three books. read your manuscript"; My favorite of the on bartenders in clubs: lot was W'ben the Par- "As in most discos, the rot Boy Sings, which is bartenders are incredi- about a young, rather bly beautiful, amazingly naive I self-professed .stupid and astonishing- Marxist and rabid vege- ly haughty." tarian who is searching I found the plot a for a lover, aggreSSive- little thin and not quite ly, He has various less- believable, and I also than-satisfying one- thought that the author night stands with assorted losers and then falls in love with didn't quite capture the flavor of Key West. I enjoyed the a couple-that'S right I both of them-who are wealthy, book, however, and a few days later I picked it up and upwardly mobile 'chaps who aggressively pursue anything read it again. young with two legs and a penis I and who have no use for A Movie was my least favorite of the lot. In fairness, I another lover. should say that I have not been to more than a half-dozen It's set in New York, and the author, it seems, loves movies in ten years, not counting ftlms that feature dra- the dty as much as I do. However, he catches well the matic close-ups of penises and anuses, although I haven't dichotomy between the haves and the have-nots: seen many of them, either. However, I have read a lot of "There are restaurants no one can afford to eat in, books, :md I did not get this novel. The narrator lives his shows no one can afford to see, hotels no one can afford life in fantasy-he is a famous stage and screen actor, to stay at and stores' where the sales people shout into Everything he does is done as if it's for cameras; he your face the names of all the exotic colognes and per- knows movie roles and scores by the hundreds. In reality, fumes you 'can't afford to buy. From Thanksgiving Day his life is dismal and depressing and only gets worse as througli February, the streets are flooded with the skins of the book progresses. By the end, he has lost his job, his dead animals: 'leather and mink and fox....The poor are lit- financial situation is desperate I and the man he loves, tered all over the streets of the city. They push their shop- who only visits a few times a year, for a night of sex and ping cars full of garbage up and down the avenues, a kind is so closeted that he will never disclose his real name, of parody of American consumerism." See READER'S ROUNDUP on page 68 64 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 i Artcetera ~ Paris Is Burning and the NEA Isn't Doing Much Better byJennie Livingston there were long stretches of time when there was just no money to pay for an editing room or an editor or to pay ecentiy, I finished Paris Is Burntng, a feature- off our lab debt, sound debt, etc., much less pay the direc- length documentary film about the house-ball tor's or producer's rents. I've word-processed I proofread, scene in New York. For those who don't know, crewed on ftlms, painted houses I transcribed tapes, among clubs of Black and Latino gay men called "houses I" other things I while directing and producing this film. Rwhich are named after fashion designers-the House of People on this film have worked for little or for free, even Chanel, for example, or the House of Saint Laurent--<:om- lost day jobs because they were putting just too much of pete for trophies and cash prizes, Some practice the acrobat- their free time into working on this project. ic dance "Vogueing," while others compete to look like At a point last year when it really seemed that the mm fashion models, movie stafS, executives and militaty men. All would remain unfmished, Paris Is Burning got a grant from try for "realness," in other words, to look like the only pe0- the NEA. When the grant papers arrived, one of the enclo- ple considered real in our society: straight people, rich pe0- ple, white people. It was a hard film to make, because making a film The film made many gay people costs a lot of money, and: Very few sources give money for uncomfortable because it didn't documentaries; very few sources give money for films on gay and Black subjects; it's hard to get funding to make a show queers as fine, upstanding mm when you've never made one before, and this was my white men, normal folks "just like first mm, Finding the backers to shoot and edit Paris was fur- us.II Unfortunately, drag queens ther complicated by the subject matter: The film made and minority gays make a lot of many gay people uncomfortable because it didn't show queers as fme, upstanding white men, normal folks "just mainstream gay people quite like us." UnfortunatelYI drag queens and minority gays uncomfortable, while gays in make a lot of mainstream gay people quite uncomfortable, minority communities embarrass while gays in minority communities embarrass many Black and Latino straights, many Black and Latino straights. I first got money from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Jerome Foundation in Minnesota, It was a straight Black man in public television, Davis Lacy, who sures surprised me. There was a letter, signed by the then- made the majority of the filming of Paris possible by director of the endowment I asking that individuals and arts arranging a co-production with WNYC-lV, Channel 31. organizations who received grants to not discriminate This was not an easy decision for Mr. Lacy, then head of against people with HIV infection in their hiring and to dis- television programming at WNYC, who faced objections s~minate-if at all possible within the scope of the from within the station. The New York Post's "Page Six" work-accurate information about safer sex and about wrote an inflammatory blurb charging that WNYC employ- AIDS, How unlikely and wonderful I I thought, that the ees were in an uproar because the station had given NEA sends this letter out to each grant recipient I and I money to a film on "ghetto transvestites." called Washington to say so. Not to whine about any of this! I'm very lucky to have - Things changed quickly at the NEA. I know now that been able to make a film-period-in 1990 in the United if I'd applied one cycle later, I never would have got that States. It's always a struggle for anyone, particularly a grant, much less the surprising letter. The NEA now sends woman I to make a first mm. And it's difficult for anyone to out very different kinds of letters in their packets, asking make a film about gays or minorities. But it was very slow artists to agree to cut out any "obscenity" or homoeroticism going. It seemed at times that we just wouldn't fmd the from their work. Worse than that, the director and the funding to edit what we'd filmed. board of the NEA censor the organization from within, Paris Is Burning took five years to make because overriding the peer-review panel in order to take away the August 22, 1990 OU~WEEK 65 grants of feminist anc,l gay artists, By . supported. If the endowment trashes therefore inescapable. In a striking·1 seeking to appease the wrath of Jesse its commitment to gay, women and scene in "Succor," Kerch, the main Helms and his right-wing followers I minority artists, then art in the United character, a kind of would-be Mother Frohnmayer imd his board wimpishly States will lose out. Teresa of the Upper West Side who imply that they agree with these politi- shelters homeless PWAs in the spare .cians 'who complain about obscenity, Paris Is Burning was the recipient room of his apartment I attends a feminism and homosexual content in of the Audience Favorite Award at the meeting of an HIY-positive self-help government-funded art. gay and lesbian film festivals in both group, The meeting is led by a tape- My grant from the NEA was cru- New York and San Francisco. It will be recorded-that is, disembodied-guru cial, because-like Holly Hughes, screened at the Toronto, Margaret who advises her listeners to cure Karen Finley et al,-my work didrt't fit Mead and New York Experimental themselves by erasing their pasts. "The into neat categories of the easily mar- Film Festivals.• past has no power over us," her voice ketable, the politically correct, the agit- repeatedly intones I but Barnett's sto- prop piece or the relentlessly cheerful. ries tell us otherwise. The body bears Perhaps if there were many gay, the imprint of the others who have THE BODY AND ITS DANGERS from page 62 women's and minority arts-funding born it, touched it, penetrated it, even groups; we wouldrt't need the NEA. what I think is the best story here, refused it, and its most inscrutable But frequently these politically "Succor," a man returns to Rome 15 danger is that it will call the dead back oriented funding groups are as rigid as years after his first youthful visit to to life, even if we will not. • Jesse Helms in their need to see the find that the truths imprisoned in the "correct" or "respectable" interpreta- Eternal City's art and architecture I and tion of the issues they represent. in its ossified system of social propri- l£SS IS MO' from page 55 Sadly, you won't see too much of drag ety, do not jibe with the fragmentary queens or chocolate-smearing or open glimpses of meaning that, in the years and interesting issues the film had homoeroticism in the work funded by between his visitsI he has been per- implicitly raised. organizations who pride themselves mitted to catch, There are, besides Bleek, other on their commitment to gay, women's With four stories treating gay life problems with characterization. Most and minority issues! in the age of AIDS, The Body and Its notably, the jazz club owners are Although my film received many Dangers is "about" AIDS, but I believe Jewish stereotypes that some will fmd American grants-from the New York that Barnett's concerns as a writer as offensive as Lee must find State Council on the Arts, the Jerome would have been substantially the "Mammy" or "Jim Crow" representa- Foundation, the Paul Robeson Fundi same had the epidemic never tions of Blacks, The women too, the New York Foundation for the Arts occurred, Barnett understands that although not as explicitly stereotyped, and others-the biggest grant I human beings everywhere and always do not fare so well. Not surprisinglYI received was from ¢.e NEA, The sec- play within the bounds of a given we are shown only those thir.gs about ond-largest amount of funding came moral field, and that it happens to be Bleek's girlfriends that relate directly from U,S. public television, Finally, AIDS that has marked out the field in to him, and since he is not very inter- after the NEA iant appeared, some- which Barnett's characters (and we) esting, neither are they, In a visually one from the BBC-the main broad- are cruelly forced to play. This is not very effective scene, some cross-cut- casting network in England-took an to say that this book is not a signifi- ting puts both of them in bed with interest in the film, and we fmished cant contribution to the literature of Bleek at the same time, producing a the editing, AIDS: "The Times As It Knows Us," for sort of menage a trois in which Bleek The sad truth is that movies take example, contains a scathing, though can't tell them apart. Like Nola a lot of money to make I and that if compassionate I portrait of an AIDS Darling in She's Gotta Have II, he is the NEA will no longer fund work bureaucrat--one of those people a pressured to choose. But Lee seems to with a gay or with a feminist sensibili- friend of mine refers to as a PLOA have forgotten the possibilities of ty; then people like me will have to ("Person Living Off AIDS"). This com- such a situation; Clarke and Indigo go outside this country, to places like pellingly drawn character smothers the lack the indiViduality of Nola's lovers the BBC and England's Channel Four, pain of the epidemic precisely by and come off as predictable and com- for film money, This is ridiculous I immersing himself in AIDS service plaining, almost whining, women since England has far less media work; the portrayal of this character, who tell Bleek he doesn't know what money than we do. But with few however common in reallife, is unlike he wants ("My music," he counters exceptions; networks and studios here anything I've read elsewhere. unconvincingly). are nOt friendly to gay, feminist and Barnett's abiding interest is in InitiaJly, Clarke is independent minority subjects, and you work memory-in how we are constituted and confident, daring to interrupt where you can work. There's a range and deconstructed in memory, and by Bleek while he is practicing (he of humor and politics I a range of sub- it. And for Bamett's characters, mem- doesn't seem to mind as much as he tlety and quality that peer-review pro- ory is not just a kind of mental pro- should). Eventually it becomes clear cess at the NEA has up to this point cess; it occupies the body itself and is Sea LESS IS MO' on page 68 66 OUT.wEEK August 22, 1990 EV==.""t=~(~t(23J '=:>=~~~!C;~'!:~~~·!~~=!.j~~DTHE~~~:VT16 il_ i~~i~~I~."Fruits FromtheSea-Men'sandWomen's Lesbians and Gays Again~(M~p.I~o~Protest ~;S~:n~~~d AIDS August 19 Interview with a special pumper Clips from Desert Fox, The Rise and Hard Steal. Be My Guest 10:00 pm AUGUST 20 EDWIr4A from page 60 LESS IS MO' from page &6 from which their resemblance is strik- and then you can go about. your busi- .that her allegiance is to whoever can ing. The shot wouldn't stand out, per- ness." advance her singing career, but by the haPS, except that it appears just as she \NII: Do you ever intimidate your- time she finally does sing in the mm, is about to kiss Bleek, thereby implicit- self when you do something, and you it is a not very exciting rendition of ly eroticizing the relationship between think, "My god, can I do that again?" w.e, Handy's "Harlem Blues." And Bleek and Spike lee's character, Giant. ELT: Sometimes, but I learned a although she is not bad, you feel But this comes too late in the film to big lesSon. I used to say that if I can get Bleek was right when he refused to be really interesting, Despite the that rhythm the way that I had it yester- give her a spot, explaining that it takes potential I the relationship between day-it was .hot. But I don't think of it years to develop a voice I not just the Bleek and Giant, his childhood best that way after hearing the words of this months of lessons she had: friend and present manager, is devoid director [I worked with]. I am an a<;tress Indigo, tOO, initially seems inde- of any hint of homoeroticism. and did a play called White Chocolate pendent and confident, but this may Lee's desire to make a mm about off-Broadway in New York. The direc- well be ]oie Lee's acting and not the jazz has almost blocked his way in tor said to me, "Every night is not going character. Lee is always a strong pres- Mo I Better Blues, This mm is really to be the same, but you make it so that ence in her brother's mms, but by the about relationships among people it is better than the day before." That end of this one, she seems stifled in who happen to be involved in the jazz rhythrn_was hot yesterdaYI but that was her happy-homemaker role and so world. Most 'of the mm is beautiful to yesterday. I am going to make it even out of place, in facti that you briefly watch I but its persistent promise to be hotter today, because today is today. wonder if it isn't all a joke (Bleek's about music-everyone keeps saying moustache I which appears in the final it's all about music, Bleek keeps pick- Edwina Lee 1}ler will be perform- scenes, also indicates that it might ing up his trumpet-is broken over Ing on Saturday, Sept. 8, at 8 pm, at be-why must male characters always and over, and we are left with a mm City College, Aaron Davis Hall, 133rd grow moustaches to indicate time that could have been about so many Street and Convent Avenue, NYc, In a passing?), things but ultimately isn't about benefit to send women with dtsabtltttes At one point, in a particularly much-except, perhaps, the incredible to the National Lesbian Conference In bizarre, and not necessarily intentional, pressure on a lone Black filmmaker to Allanta:~ move I lee mms his sister at an angle please everyone. T SPEED UP YOUR SUMMER! READER'S ROUNDUP from page 64 leaves the cmlOtry, Then I when you wonder how the poor sap is ever going to get out of this mess, there is an abrupt transition to a short coda for ten years later. Miraculously, the nar- rator has become the famous movie the star he dreamed of being! It seems to me that most of the novel is missing; price the author avoided the hard part. 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Ro.ertl, Friday nieht In a New Haven coffee- welcome reception KIte CII_ in con- Rlchnllkl"er, Bill Willard; at the Items must be recelftd by house; Saturday morning at Ham- cert, dancing; $120 fee before SEPT Courtyard Playhouse. 39 Grove St; $15; 14/$150 after; info from NGLTF, 1517 U WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 6 &. 9 pm, SUN Monday to be Induded In the fol- manasett Beach. east of New Haven; Saturday in Mystic; Sunday brunch and St, NW; Wash DC 20009 (register by It 7 pm; 869-3530 (thru SEPT 2) lowing week's issue. beach in New Haven; $5 for carpool or OCT3!) $16 RT for Metro North; $12 for muse- SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK presents um; +food; rsvp with Udell 212/222-9794 D.uel W ... I..- in the ,.,.", of LIVELY ARTS 10., JllcUttllI, at the Delacorte The- ASIANS AND FRIENDS/WASHINGTON (Also see the daily listings for ater, enter Central Park West It 81 St or , Whila maills cheapar and generally and ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY 1HO shaw(ing}i of one or two days,) FIfth Ave at 79 St ; free; TUE-SUN at 8 easier to read, in the event that you Intematlonal Frle.d •• I, Weekeed I. pm. tickets issued at 6:15 pm (but the can't make the Monday deadline, you Wa.lIl.gton, DC. AUG 316 ... SEPT 3; DUPLEX presents 0 .. ,,110, 0 Wlldel. line forms early); 861-7277 (thru SEPT 2) may fax information to me at 337-1220. welcome reception on Capitol Hill, tour- a comedy revue with music, directed by Faxes are received until 6 pm. Be sure ing, leaders workshops, dinner party at Bill Costrlff. featuring .hort works by RIVERSIDE CHURCH SOCIAL JUSTICE the cover sheet is made out to Rick X. Dupont Circle Hotel. Sunday afternoon CI.lre Ollvl. Moed, K.r .. M.IIII, MINISTRY TII.AlDI Aw.,.... Dis- On press releases. please highlight picnic, Labor Day Dim Sum in China- C.rol Polcov.r, M.rc C•• d., AI ,I.y, Gail S. Goodman's photos, the most important details, and note that town; $55 (plus transportation/accom- LIIoIIgo, featuring u.. aoodlu., ...... close-ups of panels from the Name. these listings include primarily items of modations); info from Paul. 212.1814-5838 H.II, Jo" Klda., JoAII •• R••• , Joe Project quilt; Riverside Church, River- gay, lesbian, bisexual. orfaminist interest. 1,.lCIr WIIite; 61 Christopher St (NE side Dr, It 120 St (#1/19 to lll11Bway); NORTHEAST WOMEN'S MUSICAL comer at 7th Ave~ $8 cover + two-drink dally, 9 am - 9 pm; free (Editor'. Idel: RETREAT 10t11Year CalandR. Labor minimum; every WED at 8 pm; 255-5438 Follow this with the Bell Tower'. view.) ADVANCE Day Waekend, AUG 31 6 ... SEPT 3, In (thru AUG 15) NORTH CAROUNA SENATE VOTE '90 TO Poyntelle. PA; tenting &. cabins, crafts, PROVINCETOWN'S GIFFORD HOUSE DERAT JESSE HELMS maets 8V8rY SIt- workshops, concerts &. performances. CECIL ALONZO PLAYERS present C.rI HOTEL presents Kerry AI.to.'. lie urday It 2 pm; until Election Day, at tha videos, games, swimming. more; with H•• cock lux'. 10., of I.d Yo••, Wltd. 1,111t, a one-man play with Center, 208 W 13 St; for those who are MCs Sapphire, Sue Ank, the Washing- .... directed by Truall Bevert., f.. - music based on the life .nd works of serious about making this dream come ton Sisters; appearances by many turing ..... _ Wy.tt, Clal.. 00..." C'&- Oscar Wilde; 9-11 Carver Street, true by raising money and planning for entertainers; $175 weekend/$50 day (no ther Weeten. Meroelle La.hl.y, 1.. lah Provincetown, MA; $10; WED-SAT It 1 the October 6 Rally here in NYC. Info advance sales for one day); Info from W.hl JaoinID Riddlok. Don c..., pm (also on JULY 2 &. 3, and SEPT 2; 7 from Will Williams. 633-8534, NEWMR, Box 217, New Haven, CT W win Riley and Will Reee: pm); 50lIl487-8400 (thru SEPT 15) 06513 (checks by JULY 20) .bout .ubltlnce IbUlI, the clyefunctionll AND FORTHE CHECK-WRITERS... flmily, AIDS Ind the HIV-infected, Ind BILL REPICCI, M.D, MINICHIELLO &. (Thanks go to GM Morris County, NJ) KEN PAGE presents the FlftII AII••• I how th_ trlgedi" .ffect the bllck mile; P.A.P.A, present Mlc.HI T", •• I.y'. L.bor Day Gay Mea'. Retra.t In the 317 Cllt'IImont St (It IIflyatte). Brooklyn; "...... 'between Boys In the B.nd NC Senate Vote '90 Berkshlres (MA), AUG 31 III... SEPT 3; 112.50; FRI a SAT .t 8 pm, SUN .t 3 a 8 and TorchSong Trilogy,there w .... .'; aM Wilt Chapel HIli S1rett free time to 'enjoy nature, meet each pm; 711/783-8838(thru AUG 20) directed by CII.rll. H.... ey, starring Durham, NC 27101 other &. be together'; also 'arts. psy- DnId McC.. and 0.lil de BecIr; 100 chodrama, meditation, body-mind DUPLEX presants ...,.. '.' MMI PM'" 7th Ave South (Sheridan Sq), $15; TUE-SAT Harvey Ganttfor.US Senate awareness. dance, &. lots of fun &. n. Mite Ho ... PI.k with M ...... It 7:30 pm. SUN It 3 &. 8 pm; TIX 564- 'IIJO Ellt S10ntwall S1r8et. Suite 655 games'; $245 for weekend includes O'BIt •• and MlijOli. D•• I.ksy, written 8038, theater 691-6228 (thru SEPT f6) Chaltoue, NC 282IIZ room & board; Ken 421Hl394 and directed by KIVI. Dully and ...... AIIleslc, 61 Christopher St (NE corner BILL REPICCI, M.D. MINICHIELLO &. DEBORAH GUCK FOR STATE ASSEMBLY WOMEN ABOUT Clmplng at Watch Hill at 7th Ave); $8 + two-drink min.; every PAPA presentT...,....., as NIIcy Deborah Glick Volunteer Night. are Campground, Fire Island; info/rsvp TUES at 10 pm; 255-5438 (thru AUG 28) RIIgM in It'IIIIO My nn, directad by eVery TUE. WED and THU until Election 201/433-1974 (AUG 31111ruSEPT 3) Bill LllveJoy; at Actors' Playhollse, 100 Day. 15 W 18 St, 9th Floor, 6:30-9:30 pm. LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES COMMIT- 7th Ave South (Sheridan Square); THU- You can haye fun, meet people, and help FOURTH NEW YORK LESBIAN AND TEE, DISTRICT 37 MUNICIPAL EMPLOY- SAT It 10 pm, SUN It 6 pm; tIx 564-8038, elect a progressiva, lesbian activist to the GAY EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL EES ..... 1•• " a.y Prld. Ex.I.ltlol, theater 691-6228 (thru OCT 1) . steta house· in New York. Info 727-1946. runs September 1... 16 at Anthology Aim showing the history of union interaction Archives, 2nd Ave at 2nd St, with 51 with advocacy of lesbian/gay rights, the UVING THEATRE presents ErIc B.et- DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVI- films (22 premieres); info, 865-1499, 982- impact of AIDS, domestic partner bena- Ie,'. 6.,.••11.,.1•• , directed by SIONCell for Tapti. for l.IIokout: LtI- 1033 (press screenings AUG 12-15) fits, anti-bias crime legislation, homo- Judith Malina; a Romeo & Juliet theme .bl.n .nd G.y Video FntJIIIl11Wl, for six phobia; in the Lobby. DC 37 with lots of politics and some nudity; . ·nights in October; "by queers or for NATIONAL GAY &. lESBIAN TASK FORCE Headquar18rs, 125 Barclay St; DAILY, 8 272 E 3 St; $10 generaVS7 students and ·queers or about queers or all of the (3rd Annual) Nove ... er 9-12 CreM/o, am • 6 pm (thru AUG 30) seniors/pay-what-you-can on Wed and above"; all video-mastered modes OK, Ch.",. Confe",nce, for gay &. lesbian Thurs; WED-SUN, 8 pm; 979-0604 no fiim to video; rio. entry fee, small hon- organizing and skill building; It Holiday Inn THE GLINES presents Jo •• Gil ... • oraria; Lookout,c/o DCTV, 87 Lafayette M.etrodome, Minneapolis-St Paul. MN, .. of .. """".., directed by Charles III•• I. Lo~., set in Maui, a young St,NYC 10013; 941·1298 (antries "whare the men are good looking, the Catanese, "8 celebration of the delight- man's coming to terms after losing his accepted thru AUG 10) women are strong, and gay and lesbian ful diversity of gay life in NYC here and lover to AIDS; Bleecker Street Cinema, civil rights are abOlle average"; 42 worlc- now" with seven actors playing 25 144 Bleecker St. 874-2560; Carnegie MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY shops include discussions of gay/lasbian characters in a series of vignettes Screening Room, 887 Seventh Ave, and MACT/CT Joint Seaside Weekend marriaga (or not), in the system/in the involving an actor-waiter. phone-sex 757-2131 70 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 toefll •• ~o.,ell/o •• a feature film SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS GAYMEN AND LESBIANS IN Plelle. Bems VI. Futch .. ; 11 am·lsh; following the lives of eight gay men in llIeIe,.. Party (above) at 5 pm BROOKHAVEN WO•• I'S RI, Orol,: 7181729-0747 New York during. the AIDS crisis; Pool Nlg ..t at Brownton. BIIII.rds. MId-1Jfe Cds/I: Is 7'IHn IJfe AIt6r ., Carnegie Hall Cinema. 7th Ava at 57 St, Flatbush a 7th Aves. Bklyn; 6 pm at Old South Haven PresbyterIan SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS 265-2520 (Editor's note: You can call DIIllIg .t L.II.'s Mlddl. East.ra Church, South Country/Beaverdam RdI, lacll It B.J.'., Iste-rl .. re ca n Join the New York Magazine's 777-FILM. with rastaurant. 'great a cheap and the Brookhaven. U; 8 pm; 516/751-2901 antiquers at 444 Atlantic Ave (btwn area code 212 ,or 201 •. for specific atmosphere is homey'; 7th Ava a 15 St, (meets every 1st a 3rd Thursday) Bond 8& NevIns); 1 pm; Info/rsvp times and showings at other theaters Park Slope. Bklyn; 8 pm 7181965-7578 • in the New York metro area,) SAL info/rsvp 711!{965-7578 COMMlm OF OUTRAGED LESBIANS FRIDAY, AUG. 17 (COOL) Mlltl,Clltar.l/Mlltl·Rle'I' CENTER KIDS Forum: Considedllg P.,. GLPCI C.mpllg Weeketld for Llsbl •• SIPPOrt aro.,; at the Center, 208 W MONDAY, AUG. 13 enthood. with experienced gay and les- and G.y P.rellts .nd tllelr Chlldr.1 13 St; 6-8:30 pm; Info 243·0202 (Edl· A DIFFERENT LIGHT BOOKSTORE bian parents who can answer (thru AUG 19), games. entertainment tor's note: COOL meets every 3rd presents Holly N.lr signing copies questions about adoption. artificial and workshops on a farm in central Saturday,) of FI,. I. t'" R.,•• at 548 Hudson insemination. custody. social services Vermom; call 620-7310 for information (btwn Charles/Perry); 7-8 pm; 989-4850 and schools. psychological issues. the LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH famlly'and community; at the Center, MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY MIllie 0 to h.ar Brooklyn creative SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS 208 W 13 Sf; 6-10 pm; 620-7310 and MACT/CT Joint Seallde WeekNd artists MoB at Prospect Park B.nd· Ic. Cr.l. loclll at The Clubhouse; on the Connecticut Shore; two days of shell. Prospect Park West a 9 St, bring ice cream a toppings to share; NEW YORK AOVERTISING a COMMU- sunning. swimming. touring. dining. Brooklyn; 7 pm; 711!{859-9437 8 pm; rsvp 718/965-7578 NICATIONS NETWORK "Meeting": partying 'that will take us from one end AIIIINI Sho'" P.rty (dress optional), of the Sound to the other'; Friday night FIRE ISLAND BUDDIES SI"Ort lid WOMEN ABOUT Pllllhlllllollic III the with food (including Manganaro's 6- in a New Haven cofteahouse; Saturday Ioclal Groi, for H1Y+ MN. _ • PIlle; info/rsvp 874-2104 foot heroes) and drinks ($1 soda and morning at Hammanasett Beach, east fit... , tonight and every Saturday In juice. $2 baer and wine); at tha Center. of New Haven; Saturday in Mystic; August; Fire Island Pines Community GAY ACTIVIST AlliANCE IN MORRIS 208 W 13 St; 6:30-9:30 pm; $12 mem- Sunday brunch and beach in New House; 7:30 pm COUNTY. NJ Weekly MeetIng & SocIII bersl$14 nonmembers (includes Centar Haven; $5 for carpool or$16 RT for with Uly •••• D.ltz 01 Crui".g 'or fee a two drinks); 517-0380 Metro North; $12 for museum; +food; ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY Jrd lata,. AIItIq .... at Morristown Unitarian Fel- rsvp with Udell 212!222·9794 d.y loelll: C.rl ••• 11 Nigit; wear lowship.21 Normandy Heights Rd. Mor- GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS WorkJIIop: tropical attire and 'boogie to Manl's ristown NJ; 8:30 pm; 201/285-1595 Eroticizing S.fer Sex. -learn how to B. DALTON presents Herblrt HUlcke special disco beat'; light refreshments; play safely while meeting other men"; signing copies of his autobiography at the Center. 208 W 13 St, 3rd Floor, 8 no pre-registration; at the Centar. 208 W Guilty of Everything;396 6th Ave (st W 8 pm; member info 674-50114 TUESDAY, AUG. 14 13 Sf; 7-9".30pm; 807-6655, TDD 645-7470 St); 7:30 pm; free (Editor's notas: GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV HNIdI Huncke is described by a Parlgon NINTH STREET CENTER ·Queer QUI'- S.INr: llAl'llClllIfomItIon. tonight MICHAEL AUG and LARRY TEE Housa publicist as ~e 'legendary first tions. Queer Answer.' DI.oI .. lol and lIVery 2nd Tuesday; 129 W 20 St, 3rd announce the O,enlng of Disco Circus: hipster. famous antlhero, ..car-robber Grolp: Ho Ilty.Lov ••• " Roor, 7 pm; free; 807-6655. TDD 645-7470 .",. Wodd of HumanOddid~ with DJs and genaral lowlife' and a personal PoMr. a rap group who .. focus will be Keoki and Andy Anderson; with co-pro- note to OutWeBk readers reminds us defining our homosexuality for thl '801. LESBIAN ARAB NETWORK MeetIng for moters Bela Bolski. Charlie Atlas. Toni that he was a ~ustler In the '401; among a different facilitator each IIIIning; 319 lesbians of Arab/Middle Eastern Senecal. Sister Dimension; Kenny tha first people interviewed by Kinsey,) E 9 St. basement; 8-10 pm; 228-5153 descam; women of all faiths welcoma; Kenny at the door; at Umelight, 6th Ave (There is also a Tuesday group,) at the Center. 208 W 13 St; 7 pm (info at 20 Sf; opens 10 pm; $10; club 807-7850 GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT from LAN, Box 1161. NYC 10009) Movie Night: Mo' Stltter SI1I8I, Spike LOVE ZONE presents BII .... "CII.I"; HOSTESS LAHOMA VAN ZANDT Lee's latast; member info 718,1802-0162 at Staten Island'. Saturday nIght LESBIANS a GAY MEN OF NEW announces the Opining of Sod-O-IIIfw. dance club; doors open 10 pm. $1 bar BRUNSWICK Se'er S.x Short., the 'an intimate club for restless guys'; with MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY drinks till 11:30 pm; 10,OOO-.quare- more explicit videos from GMHC; at dancing. near-naked go-go boys. wet- Puel}Conscloulness RIlling SessIon: foot dance floor, 70 Beech St. SI; S3 Friends Meeting House. 109 Nichols em-down contests. and appearances The Church Avenue Soycott--Eco- ($8 after Labor Day); 711!{442-5692 Ave. New Brunswick. NJ; 8 pm; by Show Palace porno stars (Vladimir nomic. and Racl.muS/acks and 201/247-1!i15 Correa. tonight); free T-Shirts tonight as A./an.-A C/o.. r Loole at the Center. ROBIN BYRD presents .",. Rot/. BynI long as they last; 565 W 23 St (at 11th 208 W 13 Sf; 7:45 pm sharp; 222-9794 Show It the Ice P.lac •• Cherry Grove. LONG ISLAND GAY MEN'S GROUP Ave); opens 10:30 pm; $5 tonight ($10 Fire Island. a BHtfJtfor tile C•• al" BI-W •• kly DI.cnslon: Summer thareafter, 10% goes to an AIDS chari- SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS R.... rch Inltlltl".; with performancll Ro.... ce./Autumll Lenes; meets ty); 366-5253 Planning Party 8 pm; 718/965-7578 by Big Jim Bentley. Joe Simmons. Jake In Garden City, L1; 8 pm; info Corbin. Butc~ Taylor. Tasha Vouz, water 516/694-2407 EAGLE BAR Movi. Night Steel Mag- ALDO HERNANDEZ opens M'lt, a ballet by Electra and danclrs. other no"as; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 'dance night for Queers' catering to an surprises; 1 am; nominal admIssIon; NINTH STREET CENTER 'Queer Ques· 691-8451 ethnically mixed crowd. with OJ. go go 5161597-8600 tions. Queer Answers' Discullion dancers. videos; .v.ry otllir Friday Grol,: Ho,.o.exuellty-Love .IId PYRMID presents Lindl Simplon'l (starting tonight) alternating with the GIRTH AND MIRTH Hot SllotD 1001.1; I'rIwer; a rap group whose focus will be Channll 69: Strip-a-gram •• a new and women's CUt Club; 432 W 14 St (at beer. wine, soda, munchies. liv. OJ; at defining our homosexuality for the '90s. improved version of the popular game Was~ington St); 10 pm - 4 am; $5 the Canter. 208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm; $8 a cfrfferent facll\tator each evening; 319 show in which contestants take it off memberst$10 guests (GaM. Box 10. E 9 St. basement; 8-10 pm; 228-5153 for valuable prizes; 101 Avanue A Pelham. NY 10803-(010) {There is also a Saturday group.) (btwn 6/7 Sts); 1 am; $5; 420-1590 SArURDA~ AUG 18 CENTER KIDS goes, to Rye Pllyllad .' in ~ AUG Westchester; call 620-7310 for info SUNDA , .19 WEDNESDAY AUG. 15 THURSDAY, AUG. 16 WOMEN AB.OUT BralClI lad Stroll in SHESCAPE AbtwtJdc ~1IIIy for Kbme. QUEER NATION Meeting at the Center. GAY ACTIVIST ALUANCE IN MORRIS Tarrytown; approx, $22; info/rlvp It Prlv.t. Ey ••• 12 W 21 St (btwn 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; 463-7208 (next COUNTRY. NJ TuIIllg on til. D.laware. 201/481-0440 5tlV6th Aves); 5-10 pm (you may stay on meeting is Tuesday. AUG 28)(Editor's an afternoon on the river at Point for Dallas's Club 8.d at 10); $5 before note: QN's new address is Box 1524, Pleasant, PA; $10; info 201/285-1595 SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS: 7/$7 afterwards; info 645-6479. club 206- NYC 10003. QN is a direct action Brooklya Botallell alrdHI. meet at 7772 (Editor's note: Door proceeds group dedicated to fighting homopho- SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Eastern Pkwy gate; 11 am tonight from 5-7 pm will go to the Gay 8& bia and lesbian and gay invisibility. Antiquing on Atiantic.Avenu.; 11 am; Roller Skating .ld/fIt PadII. BOllI .. '1 ..... I.n AmI-VloI'Re' Pro/act A differ- Anyone can suggast an action and 7181965-7578 Prospect Park; 1 pm ent gay/lesbian group banefits each should coma preparad to organize Vollepal. P1C11cIn Pro.pect Park; 3 pm week throughout the summer,) and implement it) WOMEN ABOUT Softball G.me lid SAL info/rsvp 7181965-7578 August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 71 ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY Bicycling In Centnl Plltc;.BYO bike H possible, but meet Ifthe bike rental at the Boat Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OufWeek Readers House; enter park at W 72 St entranc;e; Ice cream and hot dog parlor follow. "2 Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following to 3 convlvlal, refreshing hours'; meet . week's issue. Send items to Rick X, Tuning In, Box 790, NY,NY 10108. at I pm; bike rentel $8Ihour; rsvp with Dick, 874-5539 AlE (Arts & Ent,555 FifthAve, 10th A, NYC 10017;661-4500) 7:00 PM GBS Way Outf. Mark Chesnut and Michelle Van- CCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 10108) Voorhies host a lesbian and gay entertainment show; BAYMEN AND LESBIANS IN GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Paaston, 1787th Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685; Manhattan Cable, CH Ave, Ste, A-3, NYC 10011; 243- 1570) J/23 (:30) BROOKHAVEN Mill'. Group Pool Party, GCN (Gay Cable Networ1c, lou Maletta, 32 Union Square 9:30 PM GMHC Living Wttfl AIDS: health and politics; Man- on lI;518(151-2901 East, Suite 1217; 4n-4220) hattan Cable, CH J/'13 (:30) GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20 10:00 PM WABC-TV Primetime Livs: a profile of 14-year-old SAGE Woman'. Sunday Drop-In Cook- St. NYC 10011; 807-7517) tennis player Jennifer Capriati (who most likely has to Out In tha courtyard of the Center, 208 RB PROD (Robin Byrd Prods., Box 305, NYC 10021; 988-2973) submit to lesbian lockerrom attacks in order to pursue W 13 St; 2-5 pm; 741-2247 (in case of WAle-TV (7 Lincoln Square, NYC 100'13;456-nm her career); with Mike Wallace; CH 7 (1:00) rein, the socIal will be In the SAGE room) WBAI-FM (505 8th Ava, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707) 10~ PM GCN Gay U,S.A.: news and entartainment from wca5-TV(524 W ~ St. NYC 10019;975-4321) around the country; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'13 (1:00) WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444) (For Paragon Cable, see SATURDAY) MONDAY AUG. 20 WNET-TV (356 W 58 St. NYC 10019; 560-3000) 11:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay AIDS FAMILY S~RVICES OF NEW YORK male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) DllOunlon: .UtI., the 'teM -How MONDAY, AUGUST 13 11:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS: health and politics; Do' r."1/IIy """(", for people who 9:00 PM GBS Out In the !Irs: community news, discussion, Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) ere HIV+ who ~ant to gaIn skills and interviews; (tape of an earlier MClV/Paragon Tuesday explore strategIes for sharing their HIV . show) BQ Cable, CH 56 (1:00) FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 status with family members; people 10:00 PM GCN Be My Guest Miss Cheri's revue at The 8:00 AM A&E Greek Fire: War. this episode links creativity with such experIence will be present; Monster; Manhattan Cable, CH J/23 (:30) and the western penchant for war (1:00) 11:30 PM Tomorrow!Tonight Livef. entertainment; Manhat· 9:00AM WCBS-TV Joan Rive~TommyTune; CH 2 (1:00) at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 7-10 pm; $10 tan and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00) ~ PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos los (tax deductible); Fran,891-5689 midnight CCTV The ClosetCaSl1 Show. Klosat Klips (repeat viernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticias para la of an earlier show); Manhattan Cable, CH C!16 (:30) comunidad latina gay y lasbiana; 99.5 FM (:15) PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS THEATRE 1~ AM WNET-TV Kodo: Heartbeat Drummers of Japan, 7:30 PM The Gay Dating Game ShoW; Manhattan Cable, CH SCHOOL prllenta Thoml. O'Lllry'. in case you missed it AUG 5; CH 13 (1:00) J/'13 (:30) _,.a,", dIrected by Jim Fill, with 1:011AM Gay Tv. gay male porn; Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) 9:00 PM WNET-TV Evening at Pops: with Barbara Cook and Blall'll Biron, Gloria Falar, lin Fergu- 2aI AM WUW·TV We ArB Family. three gay families, one bio- Mandy Patinkin, songs include 'Over the Rainbow,· .oa; 'about a young many living with logical, one foster and one adoptive; CH 21 (1:00) 'Losing My Mind,' 'When You Wish Upon a Star'; AIDS, whOle mother, a famous TV star, orchestra plays from West Side Story and On the Town; finally comes to vIsit hIm' where ha TUESDAY, AUGUST 14 CH 13 (1:00) (repeats at 4:00 AM) 'llv .. with hIe lesbian aunt in Key 8:00 PM A&EThfJ latal Attraction of Adolph HitlfJr. 11:00 PM Gay 111.male porno clps; Manhattan Cable,CH Jo73(31) West'; thl. week only, MON-SAT at 8 the early years, part 1 of 2 (1:00) 1:00 AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Show. male and female strip- pm (followed by two other short plays); 8:00 PM WNET·TV Nova: ThfJ Bomb's LfJthal Legacy: pers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) $5; rsvp 895-5429; M·F, 10 am - Ipm 45 years of waste mismanagement at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, eastern Washington state, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Las- will cost billions to correct; CH 13 (1:00) 11:30 AM ThfJ StfJphen Holt Show. on location at the Cherry 9:00 PM A&E ThfJ Fox (1968): two women in a farm- Grove Beach Club with Sybil Bruncheon, Johnny Poole IIlan Laundry Nil'" Ind Evening Quick- house, an annoying fox, and a more annoying and Hell'S Kitchen hunk Gerry Corson; Manhattan and la; ltartl with SAL gals doing laundry Kelr Dullea (2:30) (rapeats at 1:00 AM) Paragon Cable, CH C/16 (:30) together at the laundromat at 173 7th 11:00 PM GBS Out in the 90's: community news, dis- 3:00 PM ThfJ Brenda and Glennda Show. TakfJover of the Ave (at lat StI, Par1cSlope; Bklyn; 7 pm; cussion, interviews; tonight second part of an ili.~r· Empire StatfJ Building. Brenda and Glennda host a followed by Drinks or DIIHI1I It rwo view with openly gay umpire Dava Pallone; . queer talk-show atop the ESB where they celebrate, BootI, even for those who had no laun- Manhattan & Paragon Cable, CH C!16 (1:001 discuss, and dish the Lesbian & Gay Pride lavender dry to do; 512 2nd St (off 7th Ava); 8·ish lighting; Manhattan Cable; CH 0/17 (:30) pm; Info/rsvp 7111{985-7578 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 4:00 PM A&EThfJ Fatal Attraction of Adolph Hitler. 7:30 AM A&E Profiles: Rorello LaGuardia: How would the the early years, part 1 of 2 (1:00) WOMEN ABOUT Philharmonic & Pic-II Little Flower have handlad AIDS, the homeless, Ben- 6:30 PM GCN Gay U,SA: news and entertainment from nie; Central Parle; Info/rsvp 201/433-1974 . sonhurst and gay-bashing? We'll never know. (:30) around the country; Paragon Cable, CH J/'13 (1:00) (For '. 9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in the Machine: women in pop, . Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAY) GAY ACTIVIST ALLIANCE IN MORRIS with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30) 11:00 PM RB PROD ThfJ Early Byrd: Robin Byrd presants COUNTY, NJ Weekly MHtlng & Soclll 9:011PM WNET-TV VoicfJS of Sarafina: images of South male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'13 (1:00) with The Gay D.rJ", G,me, at Morris- Africa are interwoven with this documenta ry of the midnight WNET-TV SwfJfJtCharity(I969): Bob Fosse directs Broadway musical' about the 1976 student uprising; CH town UnItarian Fellowship, 21 Nor- Gwenn Verdon and Chita Rivera; CH 13 (2:301 13 (1:30) (repeats at 4:00 AM) 4:00 AM A&E Madama ButtfJrfly. Herbertvon Karajan con- mandy HeIghts Rd, Morristown NJ; 8:30 9:011PM The StfJphfJn Holt Show: on location atthe Cherry ducts the Vienna Philharmonic, Placido Domingo dons pm; 201!285-1595 Grove Baach Club with Sybil Bruncheon, Johnny Poole the sailor's cap and Mirella Freni the obi (3:00) and Hell's Kitchen hunk Gerry Corson; Manhattan LAVENDER {JGHT GOSPEL CHOIR Per- Cable, CH 0/17 (:30) (on Paragon, SATURDAY, 11:3OAM) SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 . fonn. GOIp.1 Seta It Delta as RlStau- 10:00 PM WCBS-TV 48 Hours: foster care in California; chil- noon A&E ThfJ Fox (1968): two women in a farm- I'IInt; 332 8th Av.e (at 28 St); 9 81 10 pm dren of unemployed, drug-addicted, or alcoholic par- housa, an annoying fox, and a mora annoying .ata; $10; rsvp 924-3499 (also AUG 27) ents are among the 500,000 foster kids in America who Keir Dullea (2:30) must be placed in alternative homes; CH 2 (1:00) 7:30 PM WBAI-FM ThfJ Gay Show. newS and information . midnight RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female abouttha lesbian/gay community; every other Sunday, .:.,ITUESDAY AUG 21 strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) alternating with OutLooks; 99.5 FM (1:00) GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV H.1I111 11:00 PM WNET-TV Indapendent Focus: When the Family Seminar: Benefit. Information and THURSDAY,. AUGUST 16 Gets AIDS, Slawomir Grunberg's study of how one NutritlonallllUlI, tonight and every 1:011P~ WBAI-FM This Way Out the int'I gay/lesbian mag- family copes with the diagnosisthattha entire family ,3rd TUllday; 129 W 2OSt;.8enBf/ts, 3rd azme; 99.5 FM (:30) . has contracted AIDS (:30); InsidfJ Life Outside, chroni- Floor a Nutrition, 8tIi Floor; 7 pm; frae; 1:30.PM W~AI-FM An Aftemoon ~utlng. local ~ews and cling two-and-a-half years in the lives of a group of 807-11855 TOO 645-7470 Information about the gay/iesblan community; 99.5 FM (:30) homeless people in Manhattan (1:001;Jazzman, about a , 2:30 PM WBAI-FM AIDS: Paths to Self-Empowerment & Harlem saxaphonist (8:00); Crack Clouds Over Hell's ..... c::» __--=- living: Bob Lederer and Jim Foura~ ~iscu~s a.lterna.tive Kitchen, in which crack addicts tell their own story -- treatments, self-empowerment. POittICS;with Interviews (18:001;CH 13 (2:001 L ... t .... 9 _ of haalth practitioners, PWAs, activists; 99.5 FM (1:00) 11:30 PM GCN Men & Ftlms: male erotica, interviews with next "" •• k 4:00 PM WCBS-TV GfJraldo: child molestation; CH 2 (1:001 adult filmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:301 72 OUT~EEK August 22,1990 Monday *Roxy (Rollerskate Tea Dance 7-11 pm; A Groovy Kind of Love party at PrIvatt Eyes ("'arc Berkley's Kool Komradsw/ Razor Sharp & strippers; 11; students, club kids, hunks, men) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156 students, professionals; $5) 12 W 21 Sf, club 208-7m 2UI2O(Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 5 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs Tuesday from 5-7, buffet at 7:30)20 W 20 St; 727-8841 ..... ve MachinelLarry Tee & Lahoma Van Zandt. young & exotic crowd) Every Night (or almostl ' 419 (nightlY Gay House Party, opens 6 pm) 419 Highway (Rte 27), 860 Bway, at 17 St; 254-4005 tI, *Roxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156 Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001 Grand Central (closed Mon & Tues, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick Wednesday Road, Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800 ...... r Days (primarilY gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (819 Aves); 245-8925 Magic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson *Umellgld (Michael Alig & Larry Tee's DIleO Cire".: .",. World of Heights, Queens; 718/429-8605 H,."." OdditiH, 10 pm, $10) 6th Ave at 20 St;; club 807-7850 Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557 PriY ... Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, lesbians and non· Spectrum (closed Mon- Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI m/f gay women; $7) 12 W 21 Sf, btwn 5th/6th Aves; 206-m2 strip, SAT record stars, SUN variety show & free 9-10 pm; Coors *Pyramid (Unda's Channel 69 party, OJ & live lesbian/gay shows; East served) 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 718/238-8213 Village crowd; $5) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6/7 Streets; 42o-15!Kl Oulckl (mellow non·gay guys, low· key gays, their women friends; gets DANCING OUT for Women gayer later) 6 Hubert St; 925-2442 Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry Tuesday La" Roral PI<,LI; 51&1354-9641 Hatfield's 126-1'11Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484 esod-D-M .. (Lahoma Van Zandt. porn stars, go·go boys; opens 10:30 Grand Central (women's night. also open Wed·Sun) 210 Merrick Road, pm, $5 AUG 1~10 thereafter) 565 W 23 St (11th Ave); 366-5253 Rockville Centre, LI; 516/536-4800 Stull (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains; 914/781-3100 Wednesday Bedrock 121 Woodfiela Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9518 Thursday Excalibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) corner 10th/Jefferson behind football -copaCII .... (last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next is stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161 August 30; iffy door) 10 E 80 Sf, at Fifth Ave; 755-8010 PrIv ... Eyes (Shescape Afterwork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 pm, $7 ExCIIllb .. ($1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun, women WED) corner IOth/Jef· after) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 206·7772 ferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161 Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women Thursday Bedrock 121 Wooilfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 on ruE & FRI) 12&-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 718/261-8484 Pyramid (Jenny's Girl Bar; 8 pm· 2 am) 101Avenue A 6{/ Oulckl (Chip Duckett's Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks (btwn Sts);$6; 475-3i38 below Canal); 925-2442 Friday Bedrock 11\ Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9518 Friday Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie's alternate Fridays, next is August 24; go·go COI ...... ia .rane. (1st Friday of every month, including summer, next is girls,lesbo erotic videos; 8 pm; $5) 432 W 14 St; 408-1114 September 7) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days Meat (Aldo Hernandeis alternate Fridays, next is August 15; OJ, go·go Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd" Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484 Millenni ... (Ladies' NighO 1n0 NY Ave (Rte 110),Huntington, LI; 51e(,351-1402 boys, videos; opens 10 pm; $5) 432W 14 St; 408-1114 Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 71&'846-7131, club 7181899-9031 Octagon (Patrick's Friday Night Jam Session, primarily gay men of color; free muchies; opens 11 pm) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400 Saturday PrIv ... Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 Sf, Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 btwn 5th/6th Aves; 206-m2 Chapel at UmeJight (Shescape party, Chapel garden entrance; opens 9 IlQulckl (Panty Girdles; TVs, gays, straights) 8 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 pm; $8)49 W 20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479 blocks below Canal); 925-2442 Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, LI; 516/354-9641 Saturday Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, LI; 516/242-3857 Barefoot Boogie lsmoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn Wl0 Sts); 832-6759 Sunday 419419 N, Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001 Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W, Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 Love Zone (dancing & performers) 70 Beach Sf, Staten Island; 718/442-5692 Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 241st Ave at 1st St; 529-9685 PriY ... Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St. Club Paradise (women & gay men, 6 pm • 2 am, $5 before 8 pm/$7 there· btwn 5th/6th Aves; 20fHn2 after) 15 Waverly Place (btwn 5th Ave/B'way); 533-3048 *Roxy (gayS/TVs/club kids/some non·gay; mix depends on party) 515 W Love Shack (Jill Reiter's Booby Trap, alternative music, $3) at New Lis· 18 St (btwn 10111 Aves); 645-5156 mar, 411st Avenue at 2nd St; 777-9477 Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol, Every Niaht (or almost) . opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (10th/11th Aves); 643-0728 Duchess IT(small aance floor; Coors served) Sheridan Sq, & 7th Ave 'IlJI2O(Hybrid Cl'8wpartyfor men & women, 10 pm, $10) 20W 20 St; 727-8841 South; 242-1408 . Sunday Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night, ...... r Days Tprimarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (819 Aves); 245-8925 < above, for details) 802 64th Sf, Bklyn.; 718/238-8213 11Ie Building (Club Bad's The Men's Room, students, professionals, men; Editor's tips for tourists: go·go boys & 8O.ft. ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-18!Kl A (*) denotes a clu& that attracts TVs. d Station (Club Pride Tea Dance with OJ Kevin "Melodious·; catering to Clubs generally open at 10 pm, close at 4 ami unless otherwise noted. Admis· . gay men of color; opens 6 pm; $7)220 12th Ave at 27 St; info 714-8227 sions range from $5to $15. Invites offer discounts, and are sometimes *Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men)Westside Hwy and 13th St; 691- required. It's wise to call ahead to confi"" that a party is still happening, 6262 Some clubs, especially Copacabana, but also Roxy, Quickl, Mars, Love *Pyramid (Junior's Tea Dance 6-9 pm, Gay Cabaret at midnight; $5)101 Machine, Limelight, and The Building have been known to let people Avenue A, btwn 6{7 Streets; 420-1590 in randomly or selectively, rather than have a simple line atthe door, August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 73 A.c.o.C, BAR ASSOCIATION FOR BODY POSITIVE DIGNITY NEW YORK GAY&. LESBIAN HEALTH AIDS CENTER DF QUEENS COUN- HUMAN RIGHTS If you or your lover has tosted Le8Iian rod gay CatIdcs and friends CONCEIINS -TV SOCIAL SERVICES.EDUCA- Lawyera Referral Service for the HIV+, we offer support groups, AIDS Mristry, SjirCial DevaIopment An office of the NYC Dept of TION08UDDIESoCOUNSELINGoS Lesbian and Gay Community Fun seminars, public forums,reference The Cat!edraI Prqect. Wcn/ip Ser- Health, providealinkages betwn UPPORT GROUPS Range of Lagsl Services (21214l&- library, referrals, social activities ~ces & SociaI-Stn BIas. ~ NYC Health lit Human SVcs, and Volum.er Oppal1unitie. 4873 Free Walk-in Legal Clinic. and up-ro-dato national monthly, John's Episcopal Clutch 218 Wost the Lesbian lit Gay community, {7181896-25OO{voicel Tuesday 6-8 pmLesbian & Gay "THE BODY POSITIVE" {$2&'year~ l11hSlnJetC~2119 focu8ing in ALL health con- {7181896-2985{TDDI Community Centro Ground Roor {2121121-1346. cerns; resource information for :amBroa6.wy, Slite n.NY; 10023 EDGE Education in. DiAbled health 8ervices consumers and ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE GayEnviI'Olll1l8llt providers. 125 Worth Street, Unleash Power) & SUBMISSION GROUP) BROOKLYN'S LESBIAN AND For the physically disabled Lesbian Box 87, New York, NY 10013. For 496A Hudson Stree~ Slite G4 NYC Share stM experiences end fan- GAY POUTICAL ClUB and Gay Conmunity. (212) !ll9-1921 info call (212158&-4995. lOO14{2121!l!9-1114 tasies with othonI in a positive, noo- ~BDAINDEPENDENT P.O. Box 305 Wiage Station, New A diverse, non-partisan group of judgemental atmosphere. First DEMOCRATS York, NY 10014 GAY MAlI 81M ACTMSTS ildividuals uni18d il anger and c0m- Sunday of the month, ot46pm at the UO. endoraes rod v.OOas for canci- Dedicated to safe and reaponai- mitted to direct action to end the Conmll1ily Cantor 2111 W. 13 Straet, daIDs illocal, sIatB rod nrimaI eJoo. FRONT RUNNERS ble S/M since 1981. Open meet· AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. NYC •This group is pert d the New tions, lobbies for legislation, and A rumilg club for lesbian and gay ings w/programs on S/M nights 7::1l;li The Great Hall,Cooper YorkArea Bisexual Ne1work. CO'lducb camu1tycuraach1ilroust1 athIetos of an ablities. FIll RIlls d 1- techniques, lifestyle iaaues, Union, on Cooper Square betwuen &tr8Itfai8rod I1l8IIIivl Q'l1lpOOial tip- 6 mlos held IN8ty Sat at lOam and political and social concerns. Astor and St Marb Place's, B/SEXUALII'RllMATION & ics. Join us. 336 Ninth St, SLitel:!i Weds. at 7pm i1 Central Park and Also special eventa, speakers COUNSELING SERVICE. INC. IJroddo,n.NYl1215 {7181965-8482 evary Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park. bureau, workshops, demo., AIDS RESOURCE CENTER A profos8ionaly staffed, non-profit Forilfomnaticn cal{212l12+6lOl. affinity groups, newaletter, (ARC) organization for bisexuals, thair CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 498A Supportive housing for homeless families and pertners, facing prob- Spiritual support and sharing in a mE FUND FOR HUMAN Hudson Street, Suite D23 .NYC PWA:I {Bailey House and apart- lems of a flSYIlhological or medical gayflesbian affirmative group. DIGNITY l0014,(212) m·'lIf18. mental. Non-judgemental pastoral kind. We also work with tho8O in West-Park Prasbytorian Clurch 1115 National Gay and bsbian Crisis care for f7WA:land loved ones. Vol- doubt shout their S8lClJality.C0nfi- West 86th Straat Wed: worship ser- line' AIDS 800'-1-8QO-SOs.GAYS GMAD (GAY MEN OF AFRICAN II1IBer oppor!Irli1ill8. (212) 481-1270, dentiality is protoctod by law. For ~ce 63l pm, program 7:30. Marsha Educational Resource Center; DESCENT) 24 Wast:nh St, NYC non infomnation phone: (212) 459-4784 (2121:ll4-4373 Chario (212)1111-7118. Positive Images Media Center; NY 80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 • State Arts Program 686 B'way SIiIB support group of Gay Men of ALOEClAPI.IoI-NY BISEXUAL PRIDE 410NYC,NY10012 (212)!i'211-l1D1 African Deacent dedicated to (Asian L.. bian. of the East COMMUNITY HEALTH DISCUSSION GROUP PROJECT consciousne .. -raiaing and ~Asi.n Pacific .... bian Nat- Topical discussions on issues of D IMlst 13111SIraet, N'rt, Ne.v 'Ibrk mE GAY ARlICAN AMERICANS the development of the Le.- WIIIk-Naw YOlk) We are a politi- intereat to the cornnunity in a con- 10011Fa- AppoirdmenIs rod Worm&- OFWESTCHESTER{The G.A.A.I bian and Gay Community, cal, social and supportive network genial atmosphere, foIlowod by an f01(212)6JS.3!i!i9(TlYMiceJ'RM[). is a community based support GMAD is inclusive of African, of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning informal dinner at a friendly local group formed il WostchesIDr Coin- African-American, Caribbean meetings on the 1st Sunday and ING CARING, SENSRlIIE AND lOW restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00- ~ Various activities are plamed for and Hispanic/Latino men of social ewnts on the last Friday of COST IEAl.TH CARE SBMCES TO 4:30pm at tha Community Center the comi1g months. Please call 914- color. Meetingl are held, each month. Call {2121517-!i598 for TI£I£SBIANAND GAYCOM'vtlNRY 2111 W. 13 Street, NYC, Part of the m.qm for mora i1fu. weekly, on Friday.. For more more infonnation. New York Area Bisexual Network. COMMUNITY information, RESEARCH GAY FATHER'S FORUM call 716-802-0162. ARCS {AIDS-Related BIWAYS NEW YORK INITIATIVE A support organization for gay Community Servic8s1 Monthly social events for the CRI tests experimental drugs and father's,their 1000ers,and others in GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Bisexual community and friends. troa1rnentlI for AIDS and HIVralatod ch~d-flurturing situations. Month- HOTUNE Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Call NYABN for deta~s of upcom- illnesses. Monthly treatment and ly meetings include a potluck sup- FOR INFORMATION ON SAf£R Westchester counties. AIDS ing evants. {2121459-4784 I'8S88rch group for H1V+incividuals. per, support groups on varied SEX AND HIV-RELATED education, client services, cri- Treatment and I'8S88rch nlMlSiottor, specialized topics, speakers, and HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR sis intervention, support groups, BIPAC {BISEXUAL POUTICAL forums and public seminars. Call socializing.Meetings: 1st Friday INFORMATION ON ONE-TIME. case management, buddy and ACTION COMMmEEl Alice Spears or Ken Fornataro at each month, 7pm, at The Cantor, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSELING hospital visitor program. Political action on issues d impor- (212)481-1IB1for info and maiing ist 208 W. 13th St, West of 7th kle. SERVICES21Z"'~Z"" 214 Central ftw. 'MJite Plains, NY Contribution: $6. Bring a main 7470 TOO {For the He.ring 1!m1{9141!mQQI tance to the BiseXll8VLosbiarVGay carrruVty, Monthly rneotingfpotluck CONGREGATION BETH course for 4 people {or pay a $5 Impaired)Mon.-Fri. lo.::tl.m. 1119 838 Broadway, Newburgh, NY held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of food charge.l For information can: pm. Sat 12:00 to 3:00 12250 {9141562-!mi SIMCHAT the month at members h~ Call 212-!J79.7541 or 212-288-3238 AIDSline {9141993-0607 TORAH NYABNfor1hismonths Iocatitn NY's Gay and Lasbian Synagogue GIRTH&. MIRTH {{2121459-4784 Services Friday at 8:30pm 57 GlAAD Gay & .... bi.n Alli..- CWB OF NEW YORK ASIANS & FRIENDS- NEWYORK Bethune Street For info. call: {2121. Agailllt~ Social club for heavy, chubby . A not-for-profit organization BISEXUAL YOUTH 92S-9498. IllVarickSlraet,NYC lC013 (212)91& gay men lit their admirera, which promotos friendships with Informal social & support group 171ll GAAD canbati; homoP1Obia il Monthly sociall at the ·Cen· Asim/Pllcific Islander, Asian- for Bisexual kids/youth. Monthly CONGREGATION 1he mecia and eIseW1em by JmlIlI- ter', weekly bar nights Thurl- American, and non-Asian gay meeting/potluck lunch held B'NA/ ing visiblity of the lesbian and gay days at the 'Chellea Tranlfer', men through social, cultural, edu- 1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the JESHURUN corrmrity rod orgarizi1g ~ monthly Fst Apple Review, bi- catiQnal,and service activities month at members homes. Call Monthly Spritual Gatherings and response to arli-gay Ii!Jotr\l Do '100 monthly F.A.R. penpals. and programs. Call our Hotline: NY ABN for this month's location. free catered fostiva luncheons for haYo3lrriUIs a rncnt. ~ i!tthcJno. For more information call 212-674-5064,.or write to: P.O. Box JiUja?.mflllGAADPh01BTroe/Clil Ernie at 914-899-n35 or write: . 8628, NY. NY 10163-6023. . This group is part of the New 8/1 People With AlDS,their lovers York Area Bi80xual Network. and families. Program includes ~ 171llfori1forrna1iln G&M/NY, Dept 0, P,O. Box 10, Pelham, NY 10803. ATR (AIDS TREATMENT music and discussion led by our GUB REGISTRY.INC.1 BWS.JIRONX LESBIANS Rabbis. C~II{2121787-71m Gay rod Lesbian r.dependentBroed- HEAL Pubishes a ~Iy Directory d UNITED IN SISTERHOOD C8SIs!s iMtas you to 1InI i1to OUT- (Health Educ:alion AIlS U__ ) clinical trials of experimental Social, political and support nat- DIGNITY . AlDSlHIVtI8a1mOntsin NYtNJ,and worki:l9 group for women and their BIG APPLE LOOKS on ~ ms FM evary Weekly info. and support group has educational materials/semi- friends. Regular social evants and A community of Lesbian and ocher&nlay, ~ rod join us for tl8atmenta for AIDS which do nars for trial participants. ATR also maatings on tha lirst and third Fri- Gay Catholics. Activities include evary Tuesday at 71qm to 91qm to- not compromi8o the immune ays- adwcatos for improwmanta in the days of evary monIh. At. Tho C0m- Liturgies and socials avery Sat, becOO18 a member d GUB. Noexpe- tom further, including alternative trial system. P.O. Box 30234, NY; NY munity Canter, DW. 13 Stroot.fran 8:00 pm, at the Center, 208 W. 13 rienca needed. !iii Eighth Awnue, "nd hofistic approaches. 101HI102. {212128S-41!11. Publica- ~rm For mora info call Lisa at Street, NYC.Call NY; NY lOO18A11n:OUllooks or can Wed 8pm. 208 W, 13th St tions fnleldonation requostod. (212182lHl!17. {2121816-1309. (2121245-6366- ask for GLIB. (212)874-HOPE. 74 OUTTWEEK August 22, 1990 HERITAGE OF PRIDE. INC, LESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN PEOPLE WITH AIDS UPPER MANHATTAN Organizers of New York's Lesbian NETWORK TASKFORCE COALITION TASK FORCE ON • and Gay Pride avenIB: the March, An organization of Lesbians and is the national grassroolB political (2121!i32~~ AIDS the Rally and the Dance on the Gays who are sC1iva in their labor organization for lesbians and gay (212) 532.(!i88Monday thru Friday Education,.Hodine, Supportive Pier. Call (212) 691-1774 for mee~ lIicI18 wormg on domesIic par1n8r- men. Membership is $3O/year. lllarrHlpm Meal progl1l11lS, support Case Management, and Volun- ing schedule or more infonnation. ship benefits and AIDS issues. For Issue-oriented pnojects address groups, educa1iooa1and referral ser- teer Recruitment and Refer- DWast 13111Street, NY. NY10011. mora i1forma1iaI cal (212)men viOlence, sodomy laws, AIDS, gay viCl!8for PWA'sand PWAre'& raI.212-87D-3352 righls ordinances, familiA, media, HE11IICK-MAR11N INSTITUTE LESBIAN AND GAY RIGIfTS atc. thnough lobbying, education, PEOPLE WITH AIDS WHAMI (Women', He.lth for lesbian and gay youth. Coun- PROJECT organizing and direct action. HEALTH GROUP Action And Mobilization) seling, drop-in center (M-F, 3- of the American Civil Liberti .. NGLTF 1517 U Street tNI, Wasil- Undorgl"Ollldbuy8(s club inpor1i1g A direct-action group commit- 8p"!), rap groups, Harvey Milk Union KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! ingtDn,DC21m!. (202/332-8483. not-\'8t-approved medications and . ted to demanding, securing High School, AIDS and safer sex WE'RE EXPMDftG 11EM nutritional supplement8. 31 West and defending absolute repro- infonnation, rafenals, professional (2121944-9800, ext 545 NEW YORK ADVERTISING 2l!th St 4d1 Floor (2121!i32~ ductive freedom and quality education. (212183l-892O (voice) AND COMMUNICATIONS health care for a" women. We (212183l-89Z8 TIY for deaf LESBIANS AND GAYS OF NETWORK PROFESSION.ALS IN FlATBUSH NYACNis 1I1econmunity'alargest meet every Wed. at 6:30 pm at , R~DEO 105, E 22nd St.,4th Floor. HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & Brooklyn's social organization for gay and lesbian professional 338 Canal Street, 8th Roor, NYC (2121713-5988. LESBIANS both gay men and lesbians. P.O. gnoup, welcorning a" in conmuni- l0013212-84S-3361 Educational services, political Box 106,Midwood Station Brook- cation&-and their friends. Mailing address: WHAM I, P,O. Box 733, NYC 10009 action, counseling and social Iyn,NY 11231.(718185&-9437 Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed QUEER NATION activities in Spanish and English 6:30pm at the Community Canter. The Lesbiand and Gay direct by and for the Latino Lesbian WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE LESBIAN HERSTORY Membera' newsletter, job hotline, action group dedicated to fight- and Gay Community. General COMMUNITY CENTER (WACC), ARCHIVES annual direc:tory. Phone (212)517- ing homophobia and Gay and meetings 8:00 pm 4th Thursday A non'profit, Lesbian commu- P.O.Box 12S8New York, New Yom 0380 for more info. Mention Out- Lesbian invisibility. Anyone can of every month at 208 West 10116212/874-7232Since 1974, the nity center serving Queens, W98k for one free newsletter. suggest an action and should 13th Street Call (2f21691-4181 Archives has inspired, shaped· and Nassau and Suffolk counties. come to meetings prepared to or write H.U.G.L., P.O. Box 226 reflected Lesbian lives every- N.Y. FEMMES Thurs night weekly discussion organize and implement it QN, Canal Street Station, New where. Can to anange a visit or 10 Support and discussion gnoup for grps. 8:30pm, for other activi- Box 1524, Cooper Stetion, New York, NY 10019. voIunteerforThursdayworlalgh1s. lesbians who self identify as ties please contact us at (516) York, NY 10003. Call 212-463- . Femme and are primanly attracted 483-2050. IDENTITY HOUSE LONG ISlAND ACT-UP . to butch women. For membership 7208 for meeting info. Now in our 2Oth.year, we provide Mee1lS Tuesdays at 8pn at 181 P08t information call Lisa (2121829-9817. peer counseling, therapy refer- Aw. i1Waslbury, N't Support us for SAGE: rels and groups for the lesbian, change on Long Island. Mailing N.Y. WOMEN'S (Senior Action in a Gay gay and bisexual community. address: PO Box 514,Waslbury; NY SOfTBAll. GUILD Environment) Call us at (2121243-8181. VISit us 11591.51th13&-4882. For experienced, serious SoftbaU Social SoIIIiC8~ ~ care, at 544 8th Ave., between 14th- Playera, Coaches and Managers. acIMlios,&odJc:amaIseMcesugay& 15th StreelS, Manhattan. LSM We play mod'fast pitch week- loOinarirabn. ABlSll'o8sa.u18l is a support and information ends in Manhattan and Queens. IuneInrd 8III"ixS & ctier f'lM's 38 INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN group for lesbians and bisexual Try-oulB begin Feb. 11thru April- WIst 13f1SlN'iClIlJ11,(2121741-2247 IDENTITY women interested in fantasy, or until filled. (2121256-1379Janet Sliding scale fees. Insurance role-playing, bindage, disci- SETHIAN GAYS, accepted. Gay & Lesbian Psy- pline, SIM, fetishes, alternate NINTH STREET CENTER LESBIANS AND BISEXUALS chotherapy (2121799-9432 gender indentities, costumes Since 1973, a community dedi- For all of us inlllrastBd in reacling and so forth. Membership is cated to demonstrating that a outto each other i1exuberance to lAMBDA LEGAl. DEFENSE available only to women 18 homosexual lifestyle is a ratio- spontaneously explore and expand AND EDUCATION RIND years and older. Actual experi- nal, desirable choice for indi- upon the SetlVJane Roberts "Phi- Precedent-setting litigation ence is not required but gen- viduals dissatisfied with the losophy" as it raaltes to our lives, nationwide for lesbians, gay uine interest and an open mind rewards of conventional living. persooally, sexually and politically. men and people with AIDS. a re. For information please Psychologically - focussed rap CallAI {2121lm-!il04 Membership ($35 and upl inc, write: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm.. peer counselling, available. 319 newsletter and invitations to Station, New York, NY 10158 SUNDANCE E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, special events. Volunteer night OUTDOOR ADVENTURE for info call (2121228-5153. on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2- MEN OF All. COLORS SOCIID 4pm Mon thru Fri (2121995-8585 TOGETHER NY A non-pnofit club offuring Outdoor A multi-racial group of gay men NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY activities for overy season includ- against racism. Meeti1gs OIIIIry LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBlA) lAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT Fri- ing hiking, biking, skiing, water day nistrt at 7:45at 1hel.esljan and Dedicated to sexual freedom VlSUALARn activities and other outdoor activi- Gay Community Services Cen- and especially intereted in Call for slides for Lesbian Artis!8' ties for the Gayt1.esbian Conmlllity. Exhibition, Gay & Lesbian Com- 1Dr.206W. 13111StreetFor more iTfo. gay intergenerational rela- cal: (212124&«l88or(2121272-9794. tionships. Monthly Bu"etin For infonnation or complimentary munity Center, NYC. For more NowsIe1lllr call (2121!i98-4726. infonnation, send SASE to·: Miri- and regular chapter meetings am Fougere, 118 Fort Greene METROPOLITAN TENNIS on the first Saturday of each THE OUTREACH Place, Bnooklyn, NY 11217. GROUp(MTG) month. Yearly membership is Our 200 member lesbian and gay $20; write NAMBLA. PO Box USING THE LaiBIAN AND GAY BIG tennis club includes players from . 174, Midtown Station, New. COMMUNAL HEAUNG APPLE CORPS beginning to tournament level. . York, NY 10018 o[ co" (2121 (TOUCHI Get your instrument out of the Monthly tennis parties. Winter 807-8578 for information. Community volunteers providing a . closet and come play with us. indoor league. Come play with \weldy bufIotsupperfurthe IlrocJIdo,n Symphonic, Marching, Jan, Dix- usl For infonnation: MTG, Suite NORTHERN UGIfTS AIDS community. TOUCH meelS ieland, Rock, Flute Ensembles K63,49&-A Hudson St, New Yom, ALTERNATIVES Monday eves. 5pm to 6:30pm- at and Woodwinds. 123 West 44th NY 10025. (7181852-8582. Improving Quality of Life for Peo- ~ B~ friends Meo1i1g St. Suite 12L New York, NY ple with AIDS/J:fIV. THE AIDS House (110 Scbermerhorn St near 10038 (21218~2922. MOCA MASTERY WORKSHOP: Explor- Boonm PlaC8~United transportatioo LESBIAN & GAY (Men ef Color AIDS Prevention ing the possibilities of a Powerful may be arranged.1rto: {n81622-279I. COMMUNITY SERVICES . Prograrn./ and creative life in the face of TOUCHwolcomes cmtributions of CENTER Provides safer sex and AIDS AIDS, Call (212125&'8554 flIlds, food ardvdlJ11Ders. 208 West 13th Street New York, education information to gay NY 10011 (2121620-7310 9am- and bisexual Men of Color; NYC GAY & LESBIAN ULSTER COUNTY 11pm everYday. A place for com- coordinates a network of peer- ANTI-VIOlfNCE PROJECT GAY AND LESBIAN munity organizing and networking, support groups for gay and CotmeiJg. aOiocacy. and i"tormatioo AWANCE social services, cultural programs, bisexual Men of Color in all 5 fur survivors of anIiilaY and anti-le&- Moo1s·fist and third Monday of each and social events sponsored by boroughs of New York City. !ian1Iidenco,SWCIlIII assalJt cbnestc rnaJfl at 73J pm atflo lhBirl Dum llidence, and ofJortypes of \ic1irim- the Genter and more than 150 303 Ninth Ave, New York, NY on ~ fbJdil I August 22, 1990 OUTTWEEK 75 CHELSEA D.t's Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041 Duchess II, 70 GroveSt (7thAve.l. 242-1408!Women) Barbary Collst. 64 7th Ave..(14th St.), 675-0385 Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave,. 874-9155 Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 (formerly . The Br~ak, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072. Cat's, 730 8th Ave .• 221-7559 the Ramrod) Chelsea Transfer, 131.8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th), Don't T~II Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788 , . '~29-1183 . Eighty Eights, 228 W 10 St., 924-0088 Gents, 360 W 42 St. (9th Ave), 967-0659- :)'s, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292. Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave (21st St.l. '6~1-8451 Sally's Hideaway. 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152 Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & ath), Julius, 159 W. 10th St, 929-9672 Town & Countly, 9th Ave at 46th St .•307-1503 .20B-mO . . _Kelle(s, 384 West St. (at Christopher), 243-1907 Trix, 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Avel. 664--8331 .Rawhide, 212 8th Av~" (21st St.). unliSted. Kelly's ~lIage West, 46 BedfordSt., 929-9322 The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81 st), .' Spi~, 120 11th Ave .• 243-9688 . The locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Avel. :- . .-.' , '- '. 799-7365 459-4299-- Temporarily Closed . WEST VILLAGE Marie!s Crisis, 59 Grove St (7th Ave), 243-9323 EASTSIDE The Annex (to Cellblock 28). 673 Hudson St (bet The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th Ave.), 924-3558 . Bogart's, 320 E, 59th St., 688-8534 13th & 14th), 627-1140- Temporarily Closed New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0950 . SadlilOds. Christopher & West St., 741-9236 Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944 Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243-9204-' BoOt~&"S~ddle~ ~6 Christopher St., 9.29-9684 G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752 '. '); Sneakers, 392 West St.; 242-9830, Celi6lock28: 28 '9th Ave, 733-3144-re-opening Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714 T\'(o Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340. soon, call for info . NY Confidential, 306 E 49 St., 308-8390 Ty's, 114 Christopher.741-9641. The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton St), Regent East. 204 E. 58th St., 355-9465 243-9079 (Now for Men) Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St.. 593-0807 Crazy Nanny ~, 21 7th Avenue South, 366-6312 2~8787 (Women) South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave .• 684-8376 Star Sapphire, 400 E, 59th St., 6884710 The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649 Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 lexington Ave., 686-8299 / EAST VILLAGE The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 674-9714 Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959 The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A. 420-1590 Tunnel Bar, 1161st Ave (7th St.). 777-9232 ~idanosis: BROOKLYN (718) After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-013!J H1Y+ Spectrum, 802 64th St. (at 8th Ave), 745-9611 Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St.. 435-2580 Th~ie is no cure for HIV. Bui there·are treatment options, The AIDSIHIV Treatment Directory, published by the Amencan FoundationJo.r AIDS Research (AmFAR), is a "user· friendly" guide to the full range of opproved ond experimental treotments. A subscription to the Directory is the best way to r~ceive this information QUEENS (718) regularly. A subscription is olso an ideol way to support the efforts of AmFAR to raise funds to u'nderwrite reseqrch ~nil educqtion obout HIV diseose. A one·yeor subSCription (4 issues) is only $30.00. To subscribe, Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, or to make a contribution, send you(check to AmFAR. 236-0300 . I . I ~'- America~,Foundation for AIDS Research Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 6\(11 1515 Broad~y, New York, NY 10036 261-8484 . PoopIe with HIV di.eose who c~n';'r off .. d 0 poid !Ub"'i,'ti"; moy obtoin 0 complimenrory copy by coffing the Notionol AIDS Hideaway, 87-36 Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, 657-4585 In/o,molion ({eoringhoul< 0"'800·458,5131. '" • Love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670 76 OUTTWEEK August 22. 1990 Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd,Jackson Hgts,429-8605 NYC GAY & LESBIAN STATEN ISLAND ANTI-VIOLENCE Sandcastle, 86 Mills Ave., (718) 447·9365 .PROJECT WESTCHESTER ~~ __ Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave" Yonkers, 965-6900 (212) Stutz. 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains, 761-3100 r' 807-0497 LONG ISLAND-NASSAU mm.. a 24 Hour Hotline . BedrOck, 121 Woodfield Rd" West Hempstead, 486-9516 Blanche, 47·2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 694-6906 Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre, 536-4800 PaI~, '1AOI Jerulalem4te., ~ BelIrrae,7$SJl1 SiNerUrlru 175 cmny Lane,NeN t+,'de Park.li4-9641 Station House Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd, Seaford, 785-9808 LONG ISLAND-SUFFOLK (51&) 419, 419 North Highway (Rt. 27), Southampton, 283-5001 Bunkhouse, 192 N, Main St. Sayville, 567·2865 Cheny's, Bayview Walk, Cheny Grove, R, 597-6820 Club Swamp Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332 . Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, FI, 597-6600 Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., Lake Ronkonkoma, 467-9273 I Club 608,608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon" 661-9580 Millennium, 1770 NY Ave, Huntington, 351-1402 Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857 Thunders, 894 W. JericOO Tpb!., Smithtl7Ml,864-1410 NEW JERSEY ~ _ Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E, Orange, 678-5002 Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge, 342-6410 Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave" West New York, 854-9895 Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson; Hoboken, NJ, 795-1161 Nite lite, 509 22nd St., Union City, 863-9515 Vibrations, 165 Cedar lane, Teaneck, 836-5518 Yacht Club, 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson, 697-9780 August 22, 1990 OlJT~WEEK n . SEEKING TALENTED ARTISANS WEST VIUAGE ACCOUNTANTS PORTRAITSPAINTED BY EXPERIENCED . Interested in showing their work in a Taxas Accounting Computer Systems S.F. Castro area gallery showcasing CALLANYTIME (212)924-6462 gay MFA. Reasonable rates. 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And, even more subtly, 23-year-old lesbian who helped organize reports first began trickling in, Alonso what about those stories which are the effort, 'And there was discussion. disappeared after news broke that one about queers (of which there has been about whether we should go out him:' of his patients had died, Reportedly, at least a half-dozen featured in New The group mounted Louganis' picture on Mexican authorities were hot on his York's pages over the last few Wheaties boxes and invaded the store ... trail for practicing medicine in that weeks-from opera queens to interior . !Another woman Said,] 'We were just country without a Mexican license, decorators), but where either we are not there as members of the gay and lesbian "According to my sources, the told that the subjects are gay or we're community to say we would love to word was out that the military was told that they are queers but we're not have you as an out gay member,'" looking for him, and he just checked given the name? I would say that Trebay's is accurate, out of his hotel and fled," Phillips told Just last week, in New Yorlis "Intelli- honest and good reporting of the OUtweek, gencer" column, we learned about ACT instances, How can one report something Furthermore I Phillips continued, UP's battle with Judge Marcy Kahan, without actually reponing it? I suppose Alonso repeatedly denied that a patient who allegedly refuses to try the activists that in New York, the aforementioned under his treatment had died follOwing arrested inside St. Patrick's Olthedral, It celebrities would have been called "the the hyperthermia procedure, is believed that her reasons for excusing boyish-looking female country-and-west- In fact, the confusing trail of Alon- herself from doing her duty are that she ern singer" or the "the one-time male sO's deeds leads all the way back to . is a lesbian and that she does not agree Olympic diving star," How silly.' How Atlanta Hospital, where he and Logan with ACT UP's tactics, The column gives stupid. How HOMOPHOBIC. Ed Kosner, fust performed hyperthermia on a PWA us a lot of information about why ACT don't you see how your entire approach in February, In early June, the Atlanta UP thinks that this is wrong, about how ~o any gay issue will always come from a Journal and Constttution' reported that there are so few openly gay and lesbian homophobic position, no matter how you the Atlanta Hospital faced the ilnrni~· judges, about how Black judges don't treat those issues I simply because you nent revocation of its license, and remove themselves from cases involving refuse to print the names of those although a spokesperson for the hospi- Black defendants I etc, But there's one involved I thereby saying that .labeling tal denied it, one source said that the thing we're not given: THE JUDGE'S someone gay is an insult? Stop listening to hospital had faced questioning from NAME!Why? Weil, the column has it that the opinions of your self-hating gay white the state board of licensing over Alon- she declined to comment on the ACT UP male friends and writers and editors, who so and Logan's hyperthermia protocol debacle. Perhaps New York wanted to sit in their ivory towers I shaking as they and had decided to disallow any fur- hear it directly from her that she is open- frantically protect their empires. You ther experimentation with the proce- ly lesbian I even though everyone at the know them-tbey're the ones who con- dure. It was at that point that Alonso DAis office can tell you that this woman tinually tell 'you that I am some sort of apparently decided t01ll0ve his hyper- is very out as a dyke, New Yo" certainly -madman, You see, they are in the'minori- thermia practice to Mexico City, never hesitates to' mention the names of ty, and they're running around like But even the reasons for his choice ci heterosexuals involved in news stories scared rats now, afraid of losing the few relocation sfte are not entirely dear: Alcnso who have no comment about what is crumbs they've obtained, THEY ARE told Phillips that he was setting up shop iri being. said about them, My god, I can NO DIFFERENT FROM JEWS WHO Mexia:> Oty at tbe invitation of the Mexican think of a hundred different scenarios in COLLABORATEDWITH mE NAZIS, . govemme:ot, but he told his former partner, which New Yo" Viciously attacked pe0- You have two choices I Ed, The first Logan, that he was going to Mexico to ple for some of the most heinous crimes, is to listen to the voices of the many. work with private surgeons who were and even though the person had no These are the voices of millions interested in hyperthennia as a treatment . comment, the magazine still reported screaming with rage for liberation, for a for AIDS, According to Logan, the two it-and Printed their names, Being a les- world in which they are treated equal- physicians parted ways when "Dr, Alonso bian isn't even a crime! ED, WHY DO ly, This choice will not win you irnrne- informed me that he had his own agenda, YOU 1REAT rr'1HAT WAYAND TIffiN diate praise in your social circles but and he was going on on his own" PUT IT IN A CLASS OF CRIMES SO will, in the long run, get you lots of Ironk:ally,at' this point, with Alonso HORRIBLE mAT IT WARRANTSNOT love from lots of people-and make missing in action, it is Logan who is USING mE PERSON'S NAME-SOME- you popular when the new, enltgbt- att.eIqJting to orBanize an authai~ din- 1HING YOU DON'T EVEN po FOR 1liE ened age comes (and you know it iall trial d the blood-heating procedure, "I MOSf SERIOUSOF CRIMEs!' always comes around again). am hopeful that we have opened a door to Perhaps, Ed, you should take a look Your other choice is to go with those do some work in this area, and it is ~ at the Village Voice, Last weeki Guy Tre- self-hating freaks, But I can assure you very exciting to me that we have found a bay did a piece on Queer Nation in that little by little their names are becom- way to work with this," Logan, who has which he reports: '"{Among the group's ing mud. 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