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Political Science (Harrington) 32 ON THE COVER: AlT Linked to Cancer (Waller) 18 Charles Henri Ford sitting beneath his portrait bVPavel Tchelitchew. Photographed by Outspoken (Editorial) 4 Letters 6 Sotomayor 6~ (Natalie) '7 GAY THROUGH THE AGES 34 Jennifer Camper 8 Gabriel Rotello Reminisces with Charles Henri Ford about Gay Life 40 Years Before Stonewall Nightmare of the Week 9 Blurt Out 10 Commentary (Katz) 30 Look Out 44 Out of my Hands (Ball) 46 Gossip Watch 47 'iM 'f~ Going Out Calender (X) 64 WILD WOMEN OF SONG r~_ 38 Bar Guide 68 Community Directory 70 Classifieds 73 THE CHOIRBOYS 42 Personals 80 Mark Chesnut Does Grand Central with the 's Chorus Crossword (Greco) 98 LOVING THE LIPSTICK SET 48 Liz Tracey Stands Up for the Femme Nation

THE TRULY TIRED QUEER 49 Pettit and Signori Ie Investigate the New Aftliction Banning NAMBLA Q

he board of New York's Lesbian and Gay Community Center voted recently to deny use of the Center's facili- ties to NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association. Use of the Center's space had been Trequested by NAMBLA for a poetry reading featuring Allen Ginsberg. In justifying the denial, the Center issued a statement that "it was not in the best interest of the Center" to allow the poetry reading to take place. In our opinion it was not in the best interests of the community or the Center to ban the reading. In matters of freedom and free speech, a basic principle holds that it's precisely how we respond to the least popular atti- tudes and beliefs that determines how free we really are. It's no challenge for a SOCietyto allow free speech to the popular, the bland or the mainstream. The real challenge is how we respond to groups like NAMBLA,whose agenda many find incomprehen- sible or abhorrent. For lesbians and gays, the principle of respect for diversity is especially compelling because much of society considers us to be incomprehensible and abhorrent. While we hope that with education and openness society will eventually come to a differ- ent conclusion about homosexuality, many may always condemn and oppose us. It's therefore incumbent on us to show by exam- ple how a free and tolerant people deal fairly with those whose sexuality offends the majority. . Some have contended that because the sexual activity advo- cated by NAMBLAis illegal, we're justified in banning the group from our presence on legal grounds. But the fact is that homo- sexual behavior itself was once illegal here, and still is else- where. For gays, illegality itself is no excuse to condemn others, often quite the opposite. None of this is to promote or oppose the goals of NAMBLA. There are powerful arguments on both sides of that equation. Opponents level serious charges of child abuse, racial exploitation and inherent morals offenses against NAMBLA's philosophy., Defenders point to the almost universal history of intergenera- tiona! sex in human SOcieties,and argue that if one rejects the idea that sex is evil or damaging, and accepts the reality of childhood sexuality, arguments against consensual man-boy love melt away. Despite the fascinating implications of these arguments, gays and lesbians who come down firmly against the goals of NAM- BLA are vastly in the homosexual majority. They are aware that one of the chief weapons used against us by homophobes is that we are all child-molesters, and they are justifiably eager to dis- avow that image. But banning a group like NAMBLAfrom the commons is far too harsh a method of disavowal. In this, as in all other cases of sexual difference, how we act is far more telling than what we say. 'Y

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tinctions. Standing quietly Please remember that more LETTERS during a homily to protest than one MCC church has content that one finds been firebombed in this. a morally offensive does not country founded in part on strike me as disruptive. the principle of respecting Religious Right endorse none of these tac- although some New York differences of conscience. I would like to respond tics, it should be pointed out, I church authorities have dis- But more to the point. to your editorial, "Gays and believe, that there is a signifi- agreed with this view. the right to worship is as fun- the Church" ("OutSpoken: cant difference between the A$ for aggressively trying damental as the most basic OutWeek, Dec. 3). (I am an first action and the latter two. to interrupt a religiousservice. of gay rights-the right to openly gay member of a Peacefully picketing such action strikes me as express love, physically or Lutheran congregation in houses of worship:? Sure. being. simply stated, wrong. otherwise. to the consenting Manhattan that is lesbian- Where better'to give witness Anyone contemplating adult for whom one feels and gay-supportive.) to matters of conscience? it should first know that it is that love. regardless of gen- While I applaud your This tactic seems fully in illegal under New York State der. Gay rights and freedom encouraging members of keeping with the spirit of the law. Thisstatute. not inciden- of religion are identical in our community to challenge civil rights struggles of the tally. protects worshippers one respect: they both religious hierarchies when 60s, and not unlike Martin belonging to gay- and les- depend on the guarantee of their policies are demonstra- Luther's nailing of the theses bian-positive denominations freedom of cbnscience. bly harmful to us, I think fur- to the church door. (such as the ReligiousSociety I fail to see how our ther discussion of strategy But blocking entrances of Friends, the Unitarian-Uni- community would gain if. in would be profitable. and disrupting services versalistAssociation. the Unit- the continuing pursuit of Your editorial refers to deprives others of their Con- ed Church of Christ and the basic human rights for our- "picketing cathedrals: stitutional right to the free predominantly lesbian and selves. we started denying "blocking church entrances" exercise of religion. gay Communi- them to others. and "disrupting services: In this matter of disrup- ty Church) from disruptive Ronald Najman While you specifically tion there are important dis- assaults by homophobes. Brooklyn

6 OUT..-WEEK December 17. 1989 Hay Wire Iyst in bringing greater con- the moment. " That only we The way this question was Re: Charles Barber's sciousness and helping ourselvescan then "hear the phrased immediately puts article "Louise Hay at Town many people open up to mess we've gotten ourselves the. person asked on the Hall" (OutWeek, Dec. 3): the joy that is possible, even into-absent of community, defensive-it's the kind of Firstof all, you don't send in trying times and in the friends, lovers, doctors, questLort the straight press someone who hates the the- midst of personal crises. activism, family or society-is asked over and over from ater to critique a play. Your David Spencer d kind of personal fascism. obvious bias severely limited Philip Bell Jesus Christ doesn't fall your qualifications to critique James Busby short of my expectations: . Louise Hay's lecture. In igno- Manhattan remember his call to rance, you went looking to rip activism: "I am come to Louise Hay apart. You have Charles Barber responds: send fire on the earth, • quite the right to your point of view, Firstof all, I don't "hate different from Hays' "I wrap although your point of view is the theater," although I'm myself in a cocoon of love, very cynical and jaded. Even startled to find even Hay's and I am safe.• JesusChristwould have fallen fans acknowledging the short of your expectations as crass entertainment mecha- More on Martina a healer. After all he became nism that puts Hay in the Regarding Rachel something of a cult-figure pantheon of Swaggart, Lurie's article on the "Selling '79-'83. I'm amazed that himself. Bakker and Aimee Semple out at the Virginia Slims Steffi Graf managed such an As far as sweeping MacPherson. Championships: Dec. 3 articulate answer. How in hell away Louise Hay's books Nothing I can think of, issue, I'm one dyke who is someone supposed to after the death of your however, is more "cynical agrees with Martina, the answer? No, it doesn't friends; a lot of people have and jaded" than Hay's off- question was 'out of line.' offend me? Yes it does been comforted and helped repeated contentions that Firstly, her question, offend me? by Louise Hay's books and "we need every disease we ..Does lesbian interest in Secondly, there's Marti- tapes. Her message has create" and that AIDSis "the women's tennis offend na. It seems to me, judging helped many towards a passing popular disease of you?" was simply horrible. by Rachel Lurie's article, in genuine path of self-healing. In many instances their tran- D)' A/vj)IfE~ IOT,ft./E sitions beyond life as we know it were a celebration and a triumph. You are ignorant as to what is mec;:mtby the word "healing" by many people, including Louise Hay. It does not mean we live to 100,50 or even 26. The principles 'of Louise Hay helped us at an early time to get our feet on the ground and begin our own process of growth. One does not have to become slavish to any New Age teacher. Toparaphrase a 12- step slogan "take what you need and leave the rest." You were not open to this at all. Empowerment manifests on many levels, from the per- sonal to the collective. Admittedly, excesses often occur In the midst of great popularity, some of which your article does point out. However, this is more a symptom of the fear and desperation and pain of the time in which we are living, RONA F~IIND HE RSELF W£D6ED BETWEEN than it is a reflection of any 71./0 WOMEN WEARING POWER SHOVLDERS. New Age teacher. Louise Hay has been a major cata-

December 17,1989 OUTTWEEK 7 the Sept. 24 Issue of Out- who Is coupled with another "likes boys very much: closet or out-wake up and Week also, that she not only woman publicly with whom Jane Bartlow take pride in the spectacu- knows very little about Marti- she's having a relationship. Milagros Rodriguez lar contributions by lesbians na, but hasn't seen many of And yes, Martina does thank Yonkers to their sport, this "idiot" her matches on TV either. her lover in public; and yes, reporter will continue to be Martina is someone who has NBC does cut away, show Rachel Lurieresponds: "out of line.' Every chance I built a very privileged life for and name her lover watch- ' Like Ms. Navratilova get. herself and seems very out of ing in the stands; and yes, herself, you missed my point. touch with the run of the mill Judy and Martina's home is The issue is not about her, Patch Workers middle-class dyke. I doubt photographed and written but the industry. When I In Randy Barkers' letter she understands us or why about in maga~ines like phrased my question, I pro- denouncing the Quilt ("Jilt her gayness and the fact World Tennis, Sports //Iustrat- vided the context con- the Quilt: Letters, Nov. 21) I that she's open about it. ed and Architectural Digest. tained in the article: i.e. the was taken back by the hys- means so much to us. When Although she may not Virginia Slims promoters teria that formed a very Martina calls herself "bisexu- understand us, her mere specify that they shun any one-sided viewpoint. Does al" because she doesn't presence as such has been acknowledgment of a les- he truly believe all people hate men and has slept with revolutionary. While ques- bian audience because it "choose to sew and a few (who hasn't), we tions to tournament directors offends the athletes. The weave: ,and no one understand that Martina's on the lesbian issue are athletes, then, should involved with the Quilt honestly telling what she appropriate, and this issue is respond. And if one of them directs their energy, grief, thinks is the truth. We know one that must be discussed. had the guts to simply say rage against the govern- that she's as much a total responsible reporters must "No, it doesn't offend me," it ment or anywhere else? lesbian as any of us. not act like idiots. might have signalled early The Quilt isjust one cre- I, frankly, think that We have come a long murmuring of a movement ative response of many going after Martina on this way baby when 20,(0) peo- against this homophobic forms to raise awareness issue is out of line. Think of pie in Madison Square Gar- bigotry and you would have regarding AIDS both within what she's done already- den or Flushing Meadow seen a very different article. the community and outside. she's the first openly lesbian cheer for the lesbian over Until the industry play- Its political power may be sports star (or any major star) the German teenager who ers-gay, straight or bi, in the too subtle for Mr. Barker's

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8 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 tastes. but this does not ed and unneeded as we empower themselves, as, sheep article. More photoes. negate the power of the stand on the edge of the being animals, they will have tho; in color Wuld like to see voice of each panel. new "gay 90s: Let's move more limitations than we our- sheep in more poses, shorn, Just beneath the angry into it together! uncut· maybe some action tone of the letter. there is a Robert J. Brunet scenes with 2 or three sheep sense that Mr. Barker Is on Harvey. LA maybe wrestling or other hot the edge of tears by the scenes. Don't like lambs just effect the Quilt has had. but Sheep Shock the daddy tops he will not allow it. I am shocked at the Marty. J. Caputo sheep article in your usually (not my real name) Queens excellent mag. OutWeek has consistently striven to be Your homosexual sheep (Re; ~Jilt the Quilt: Let- a strong outspoken voice for article was brought to my ters. Nov. 21) all oppressed minorities and attention by a staff member Mr. Barker. you are a women, but then you pub- who found a copy of the very sad and negative per- lish this gay sheep article selveshave grown up with. magazine stuffed into oµ,r son! Let us never push OINay showing two white sheep! Maybe you should get collection box. 1! those names from sight! Sheep come in all col- out of your posh east-side Repulsedas Iam by th~,1 Human beings are creatures ors, OutWeek, some straight. offices and come to Central am glad to receive this infqr- of sight and memory. easier some gay and some white, Park and see what really mation. We have occasion to to forget if not seen. I thank brown and my friends who rhumbas at the petting zoo. use live sheep in our Christmps the people who have and are black sheep are very dis- Ahkram Jesus- creche. To date there have will continue to travel turbed by this typically white WashingtonIII been no incidents, but from around the country with the male depiction. Are sheep to Tommy Williams now on I will have dl the holi- Quilt, showing 01/ people the be schooled in the same Fluffy & Inky day animals demonstrate their true tragedy of this pan- racist rhetoric as we humans Black & White Men & heterosexual behavior befo're demic. People who are have so mercilesslybecome? Sheep Together being allowed to perform ir loved are Ipst. We humans have to help our church. We want our sheep to I don't know about brother and sister sheeps Liked the really good show no more than a natur~ you, Randy, but if I woke up with 10,900names in front of my home occupying a space significantly larger than the house I was in I would feel a little nervous. Especially if thousands were pointing fingers and accus- ing me of having a hand (n their deaths. Take a look at that picture above your let- ter Randy. How much more directed do you want their anger and grief? They are standing in his face demanding action. Don't trivialize the efforts of anyone during this crisis. We must all deal and move and operate on our own levels in dealing with the outrage that is assault- ing more of us daily. But remember. there are many This week's grotesque is John Cardinal O'Connor, the spiritual leader of New more out there who have York's Roman Catholics. Aggressively anti-abortion, and fervently anti-gay. John hardly been touched by represents the latest incarnation of the spirit of Torquemada and the Borgia AIDS.and only through edu- popes: intolerant. ugly. spiteful and stoopid. At least the Borgias had the joie de cation and the sharing of our grief will they oegin to t)l vivre to hold orgies in the Vatican. understand what is really . (Then again. we don't know what Johnny and the rest of the gang in black going on around them. dresses do with their oh-so-specially selected altar boys in the back of St. Mothball that attitude of Paddy·s.l yours Mr. Barker. It is outdat-

December 17, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 9 interest in the Christchild. have been more wrong. She Chanel was promptly Too often, gay and les- Name Withheld does go on to say that Coco marched in a nightgown bian relationships have A FifthAvenue Cathedra was her own best model. but from the Ritz hotel. by the been attacked as she failed to discover in her French Resistance, to the antithetical to "family val- There are no Lesbian source material that those nearest police station and ues.· Nothing could be fur- sheep. The idea is infuriating. early jersey dresses Coco given the option to exile her- ther from the truth. Gay and Thisis another unthinking jab sported about town were self from French life or go lesbian couples-and their by the mostly-male staff of painstakingly draped by straight to prison. Chanel was children-are genuine fami- OutWeek to reduce the Coco herself. Coco also such a cheap, greedy, ruth- lies. They share with all fami- importance of Womyn in this popularized the hobble skirt, less,opportunist she believed lies the traditional values of Society. We are not sheep. suits for women and count- the war had ruined her busi- love, caring and mutual We are human beings who I~ss other "revolutionary' ness long enough and Eng- support. love. You say-Female sheep styles of her t.ime. r-ler land and France should The truth is, gay and don't get "mounted' research seems to be limited simply surrender so she could lesbian couples are already because they just stand to the 60s when the ever- resume business as usual. marrying one another in there? Ever been to a leather slow and styleless American Never mind the millions tor- both religious and secular bar on a weeknight? Grow buyers discovered her signa- tured and murdered in the ceremonies. According to up guys. There are no lesbian ture suit. This suit was from death camps. She actually preliminary results of our she~p. You owe your Lesbian Coco's second comeback devised an elaborate plot for national survey of gay and Sistersan apology. collection. (She also closed a meeting between Churchill lesbian couples, 46 percent ./The Circle' her shop during the war.) and Hitlerto that end. Hardly of female couples and ten ',Donna, Martine, Roz I know OutWeek isnot a a woman to admire. percent of male couples :and Kirsch fashion magazine. I realize PhillipKnor had "ritualized their relation- Brooklyn you may not be a fashion Manhattan ship with a ceremony.' scholar. I WOUld, however, More than one-third had Loco tor Coco advise you to more than Real Family Values executed legal agreements My letter is in response scan "DV', or a college text- Syndicated advice to protect their relationship. to Sydney Pokorny's article book before you attempt to columnist Ann Landers has (Results based on 812 "A Lesbian Lustfor Coco': I make a trite comment on a asked what her readers think respondents.) am wondering if I should legend. about "legal sanctions for Unfortunately, these take her seriously. She pre- Marc A. Borders same-sex couples.' couples cannot choose to sen'ted ·no credentials, so Manhattan Here's what we told Ms. legally marry and depend your readers were led to Landers: on existing laws to support believe she is an authority on Springtime tor Coco? We think lesbians and their family life. The legal early 20th century fashion. Regarding Sydney Poko- gay men should be able to contracts we make can Her statement that "Coco rny's lust for Coco, I'm puz- legally marry. In our view, it's replicate only some of the was not a great dressmaker, zled to read that lesbians so a matter of civil rights. Not to protections that are auto- just as Madonna is not a admire a Nazi collaborator. mention simple fairness and matic with marriage. Just great singer: could not When Pariswas liberated Ms. good sense. one example: A widowed lesbian partner cannot claim her departed spouse's Social Security benefits. And this inequity is far- reaching. At least ten million Americans are in same-sex relationships, judging from a recent San Francisco Exam- iner poll that found 60 per- cent of gay men and lesbians in relationships. Our society should sup- port these gay and lesbiqn families for the same rea· sons we support traditional families. Functional families make better neighbors and more productive citizens. Stevie Bryand and Demian, Ed.d. Publishers/Editors Partners: The Newslet- ter for Gay and Lesbian . Couples

10 OUT~WEEK December 17, 1989 Gossip lover my ignorance, what is it? theater" so you ·can finally goer, a lesbian and a writer Michelangelo Signorile: But how in another sen- write some 'positive' reveals not only that particu- Atter reading your column I tence isOls-again guessing: reviews" if it weren't for the larly,common and sad symp- just pissed in my pants. Open Investigations? antics of some big meanie tom of gay self-oppression in Thanks. I had a rough I know space is some- - straight boogie man and the a homophobic society week-it was exactly what I times a factor, but at the chick dumb enough to let cal/ed denial but also indi- needed! Keep it up! expense of understanding it him put it in her. cates the low level of politi- Alex Bonziglia would seem irresponsible. You do give the play a cal intelligence which Manhattan I appreciate the article, pOSitive-ish review, yet informed your reading of my it's tone and coverage. It review. Obviously, I cannot Pentagon paper makes me think how govern- eradicate the years of PERS-TR-89-0D2, other- ment and science, rather misogyny and "please love wise known as Nonconform- than religion, can be used to me" pleas to straights,that ing Sexual Coalition and control people nowadays. have infused your conscious- Military Suitability is now Alvin Falin ness, nor can I attempf to available to the general (Editor's note: IRBstands correct your factual errors pUblic-on sale for $7.95 at A for Institutional Review Board regarding my piece. BUTsuf- Different Light. It seems the and 01 stands for opportunis- fice it to say that blithelfwel- Honorable Patricia Schroed- tic infection.) coming straights to patronize er was successful in her our community, as you sug- efforts to pry the document Drag Attack gest, is the same as welcom- out of the Pentagon. Ms. You begin your review ing them to continue their Schroeder, known as a of William Love's Nose Job years of institutionalized champion of the American (She had to Have One) i..i hatred for our existence. To family, is owed a tremen- "noticing a very creepy and you're eager to return to think that a lesbian theater dous debt of gratitude. sinister phenomenon:" that your preconceived ill-con- reviewer has enough power On a different note, I'm more and more straight ceived notions about what to actual/y "polarize" gays sitting h.ere watching the couples are popping up at gay theater-oh sorry- gay and straights is indeed the Gala of World Champions, "gay-boy theater ...especially and lesbian (puh-Iease) the- very height of willful igno- an ice show on WLlW-N. The if drag is involved." What's ater should be. Why can't rance. May I also point out opening number is two-time creepy about straignts seek- gay theater simply entertain that the incidents of anti-gay Olymp,ic gold medalist Kate- ing to be entertained by an without being shocking or violence that pock-marked rina Wit doing a routine to . evening of drag, an age-Old enraging or "bitchy"? Bitchi- Wigstock indeed prove my the Herman/Fierstein classic theatrical device which all ness is by no means "what point that, when seen in the "I am What I am" -sung by a sexual types have delighted drag is really all about." You light of day, most straights go deep-voiced woman. Hmrn, in since theater began? Let's mention Wigstock-was that beserk about boys in dresses Hmm. And if it's so, isn't that "welcome the straights to a group of bitchy entertain- and girlsin suits.Toignore this a neat way to come out? patronize this unique facet ers? Were the performers fact is to do a great disser- MarianneG.c.Seggerman of gay theater! viewed by the majority of vice to those in our commu- Stamford, CT You feel that William straights there as "nothing nity, in particular drag Love's piece should have but a blazing targ et for queens, who are attempting Spell it Out been designed to "scare off hatred and violence?" Of to make the world safe for The Political Science big old straight men and course not. gay men and lesbians. As for column in issueno. 23 isinter- their idiotic giggly girlfriends." You are definitely "on your vulgar littte reference to esting. Are you just a little intimidat- the prowl: Maria, but I don't the two individuals responsi- I don't mean to be ed by the physical presence think that "positive reviews" ble for my existence, 0111 can facetious, but it becomes of heterosexual males? are as high on your agenda say is, PUH-LEASE. I might even more interesting when Come on-bfg old straight as polarizing gays and need a vacation but you Mr. Harrington uses the men? Are their girlfriends idi- straights, and given your need a good course in gay acronym IRBin .... repeated otic because they aren't les- poor understanding of what liberation. IRB approval and delays in bian and giggly because drag really is all about. I delivering drugs to the trial they can sit down and take would suggest that you try. sites..: Two paragraphs later in a comedy without trying reviewing another SDAC is clearly shown to to map out trends in audi- topic-after a long soothing stand for Statistical and Data ence compositon-as if you vacation. Analysis Center. could determine their sexual Jon Ingle In this situation, I find preferences on sight any- Manhattan myself having to guess what way-to add fuel to your IRBis-Institute for Regulation straight-hating, to which you Maria Maggenti responds: of Bodies? Holy Hell-I hope allot as much space as your Mr. Ingle: Your insou- not!?! I don't know. Does actual review? Remember, ciant, and dare I say, bitchy, everyone else? Maria, you wouldn't even be disregard for the integrity of If you'll forgive me, or here "on the prowl for new my experience as a theater-

December 17, 1989 OUTYWEEK 11 News· AIDS Service Chiefs Arrested at White House Protesters Taul1tGloved ~opsat World AIDS Day Demo mounting AIDS caseload nationwide. handcuffed and taken into custody. by Cliff O'Neill, John Zeh and Alternately led or-carried away by And one unexpected outcome of Andrew Miller metro D.C. police officers--nearly all the day's events was the formation of WASHINGTON-With scornful of whom were wearing clear plastic "a coalition of people who don't often chants directed at the president and gloves--the protesters, wearing every- work together," according to Eve the District of Columbia police, 78 thing from tailored suits to jeans, yelled Faber, who worked with t~e National demonstrators, including the execu- angry slogans decrying what they Gay and Lesbian Task Force as the tive directors of many AIDS service called the government's inadequate action's national coordinator. "People organizations from around the coun- response to the AIDS epidemic. Jeffrey who are often at odds were forced to try, were arreste9 in front of the I3raff, the newly-appointed executive sit in the same jail cell," referring to White House Dec. 1, World AIDS director of New York's Gay Men's the day's odd collection of well-payed Day, in an act of civil disobedience Health Crisis, the largest AIDSorganiza- executives in business garb and sea- intended to raise awareness of the tion in the country, was among those soned activists accustomed to lying

BLEAK HOUSE Photo: Patsy Lynch AIDS execs get down at the White House

12 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 down in the street. "We die, they do nothing!" the more than 200 protesters repeatedly chanted. While some lay down in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue, oth- ers drew chalk outlines of their bod- ies on the pavement. For roughly five minutes, the activists sat in the street chanting before they were taken away by police, many of whom wore plas- tic gloves. Midway through the action, one homeless man, who appeared to have been sleeping in the adjacent park, pushed his way through the crowd and sat in the street, enthusias- tically joining in the activists' chants. Activists helped him out of the street shortly before the police were ready to take him away, and he was not arrested. Seventy-eight protesters from 11 states, 15 cities and over 50 different Photo: Patsy Lynch organizations were charged with MAY I HAVE THIS DANCE D,C, blocking traffic, a minor Violation, Snake dance at the snake pit, Washington, paid a $50 fine and were released contact. Police officers at the demon- "your gloves don't match your shoes." shortly afterwards, according to Faber. stration would not comment on why Those arrested comprised a dis- Accord.ing to event organizer Sue they wore the gloves. The protesters, parate group, part of a gathering si Hyde, a staff member of the National for their part, reacted with a mixture over 200 activists attending a Worlli, Gay and Lesbian Task Force, police of seriousness and JOViality.Members AIDS Day Rally in Lafayette Park officials had given event organizers of Oppression Under Target (OUT!), across the street from the White assurances that the officers would not an ACT Upclike group based in D.C., House which sought to raise public wear the plastic gloves as they have snake-danced through the street as attention to what they called govern- at AIDS-related protests in past years. protesters-turned poets taunted the ment inaction in the face of the dead- The activists claim that the glove- large police contingent loading Iiest 'epidemic in modern history. wearing is based on misinformatien detainees in three Metro D.C. buses Opening the rally which preceded on the transmission of AIDS, wbich conscripted for the arrests. "They'll the civil disobedience action, NGLTF cannot be contracted through casual see you on the news,'" they shouted, Executive Director Urvashi Vaid wel- comed the crowd to the "world capital of AIDS neglect," and called attention ~>/~·'~F/t to the diverse group of people with AIDS and HIV, AIDS activists, lobby- ists, volunteers and executive directors of AIDS service organizations who would all be risking arrest. _ "These [AIDS service) organiza- tions are the front line in this country's response to AIDS," bellowed Vaid. "And believe me, my friends, it is a line that has' been p,aid for, cared for, nurtured, not by government, certainly not by this [Bush) administration, but by we, the people of this country!" The day before the demonstra- tion, the Bush White House issued a 'l~~:I statement addressing World AIDS Day. Calling the activists' demonstration a "commemoration ...to remember all those with HIV inrection and all who IGNORANCE IS BUSH Photo: Patsy Lynch have died from it," the White House David Barr. TimSweeney, Urvashi Vaid and others march on the White House

December 17, 1989 OUTTWEEK 13 .... 1 statement added, ''IT]hough the [AIDS] Angeles, calling for an "allocation of AIDS. Let's end inequities in the health problem is great and taxing our health resources in a manner that stops pit- care system." care system now, far greater difficul- ting communities and health concerns Faber, the event's organizer, said ties await. us in terms of human against one another. later in the week that she was "look- suffering in terms of health care." "If you are wealthy, you can be ing for a way to keep the dialogue Calling the statement "too despi- treated and forgiven f9r your health that had been created going," noting cable" to read in its entirety, Vaid read condition in a private c1inie: he said. "If that beyond the exchange of ideas portions of it to the crowd, which you are poor, you are labeled criminal between service organizers and then broke into chants of "Bush, open and treated as if you deserve disease. activists, representatives from smaller your eyes ahd see, AIDS is a state of The homeless and undocumented resi- AIDS organizations from around the emergency!'; Vaid was later arrested dents have littl~ or no access to health U.S. also had a chance to talk with with the others. benefits' or entitlements," Gerald added. people from AIDS giants like New Bush, en route to the Dec. 2 "Mr.Bush, if you beBeve you represent York's Gay Men's Health Crisis and U.S./Soviet summit in Malta, was not a civilized, humane, compassionate Boston's AIDS Action Council, and at the White' House during the nation, then act accordingly. Respond other large service proViders. demonstration. to the challenge of AIDS in a way that One direct action group not offi- The White House statement also meets the needs of people affected by cially represented at the action was ACT noted that resources have been com- , mitted to AIDS services at what it called an "unprecedented rate," a statement which was greeted with angry chants by the demonstrators. Over 100,000 Americans have been diagnosed with AIDS; more than half have died. Some experts expect the total to top 200,000 in less than a year. "We do not have the resources in our groups to meet this challenge," stated Paul Boneberg, executive direc- tor of the San Francisco-based Mobi- lization Against AIDS, who lambasted the high costs of AIDS drugs, the lack of adequate access to health care in the U.S., a national AIDS strategy and the shortage of leadership on AIDS from the administration. "If we had any illusions about George Bush," said Boneberg, "it ended on one symbolic day [Oct. 6], one block from the White House when the nation's families who were stricken with this disease were gathered in mourning around the AIDS qUilt. And, literally, as they were weeping around their children's panels, the president got in his helicopter and flew over the Quilt with utter contempt. "Mr. President," Boneberg added, "it couldn't have been worse if you had walked onto the Quilt ,and spit on it. It was absolute contempt for the people who are living aQd fighting AIDS every day." "Blacks, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans diagnosed with AIDS are approaching 50 percent of all reported cases," said Gil Gerald, of NO MORE BLOOD MONEY Photo: Alain McLaughlin/Reaction Images the Minority AIDS Project in Los A CT UP/SF get busted at AZT central,

14 OUT9f'WEEK December 17, 1989 UP/New York, which was consolidating World AIDS Day, part of the Names away in its storage room. resources for last Sunday's Stop the Project's AIDS Memorial Quilt was And in Burlingame, California, Church demonstration at St. Patrick's displayed in nearly a dozen cities about 80 San Francisco men and Cathedral. The group did, however, offi- worldwide, including Vienna, Santa women converged on the headquar- cially endorse the White House protest. Domingo, Geneva, Rome and ters of drug manufacturer Burroughs And at least one AGf UP member Malmo, Sweden. And in New York, Wellcome, to demand that the cost of was critical of the protest, calling it museums and galleries throughout its anti-AIDS drug AZT be cut, and "lukewarm, and lacking in emotion the city observed a "Day Without that the company open its books to and focus.» Michael Petrelis, who is Art," [see page 541 during which the justtfy the drug's price. In the spirit of known in the community as some- Guggenheim Museum was draped in World AIDS Day,' activists also pressed thing of a firebrand and often repre- a huge black mourning sash that for a plan to distribute AZT and other sents contentious viewpoints, reached from its roof to Fifth AIDS treatments internationally. Six- described with scorn how NGLTF's Avenue, and the Metropolitan Muse- teen people' were arrested there. T Sue Hyde, acting as an emcee, um of Art locked 's -Bill Strubbe contributed to this announced the name and organiza- famous portrait of Gertude Stein article. tion of each person as they were dragged away by police. "It was like a performance," Petrelis said, "staged so these organi- zations can put photos of their execu- tive directors getting arrested at the White House in the next issues of their newsletter." Twelve women and men from New York City were arrested. They are: Rona !Jfoomado, exewtive direaor, Comrrunity Health project David Barr, staff attorney, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Bernard Bihari, M.D., exec. dir., Community Research Initiative. Jeffrey Braff, executive director, Gay Men's Health Crisis Richa~d Burns, executive director, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Richard Haymes, Community Health Project Derek Hodel, executive director, People with AIDSHealth Group Rodger Pettyjohn, Community Health Project Tim Sweeney, acting executive director, Gay Men's Health Crisis Joy Tom::hin,baud chair,Gay Men's Health Crisis Carl Valentino, Community Research Initiative Paul Wychules,exewtive director, Body Positive. Others who participated in the civil disobedience included the exec- utive directors of AIDS service orga- nizations in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dallas, Seattle, Roanoke, Virginia, Wilmington: Delaware, A Serious Gym for Men. Austin, Texas, ten members of AIDS organizations in San Francisco, five members of Oppression Under Tar- get, a D.C.-based AIDS activist group ande members of ACT UP chapters in San Francisco, Rochester and ProVidence, Rhode Island. In other commemorations of 267 West 17th Street (cor 8th Ave) New York 212 255.1150

December 17, 1989 OUT-.WEEK 15 News NGRA Chief Resigns Under Fire From Staff, Board, and Peers

in the country. She added, "For months I have attempted to take the high road in this feeding frenzy iQ'the press. It is almost impossible for a reasonable answer to be heard amdist the drama and hyperbole of many groundless accusations and innuendos." There has been tension between the legal staff, based in the San Fran- cisco office on Castro Street, and O'Leary, who was based in the adminstrative and fundraising office in Los Angeles, since that office opened two years ago. The disagreements have reportedly been both personal and professional in nature. Since last spring, three board ABDICATED, REINSTATED • Photo: Alain McLaughlin/Reaction members and nine out of 11 staff Reinstated Leonard Graff, right, with NGRA chair Richard White members have resigned or been forced to leave. For many, the last by Michele DeRanleau Rights Foundation, was appointed straw came last month when O'Leary SAN FRANCISCO - Jean legal director, pending the approval pressured the board to fire staff attor- O'Leary, the embattled executive of the board. neys Cynthia Goldstein and Ben director of National Gay Rights Advo- O'Leary was not present at the Schatz without allowing them to cates, reSigned last week after eight press briefing, and Out Week was speak at the meeting or notifying years with the firm. Her resignation unable to contact her by press time. came amidst allegations of misman- "Everyone at NGRA wants the agement, financial irregularities and same thing - full civil rights for the unethical fundtaising practices, entire communitYi we just have differ- charges that she may have jeopar- ent ways of going about achieving dized the organization's tax status by this," O'Leary said in her letter of res- participating in partisan activities on ignation to White. "l,)nfortunately, dif- company time and money, and com- ferences of opinion and vision, plaints that she made sexually abusive exacerbated by internal strife have remarks to a staff member. made it impossible for me to be effec- Her decision was. announced by tive in an organization which I cher- NGRA board chair Richard White at a ish. This, compounded by the press conference Dec. S. Leonard relentless and clearly orchestrated Graff, who had resigned his post as . attacks in the press, are damaging the the gay and lesbian rights law firm's NGRA," she continued. Close atten- legal director during the months-long tion has been paid NGRA recently by O'Leary controversy, was named act- both the gay and mainstream media ing executive director. David Bryan, in San Francisco, and by gay papers DESTINATION RESIGNATION an attorney with the Texas Human in Los Angeles, Boston and elsewhere NGRA's former head Jean O'Leary Photo: Alain McLaughlin/Reaciion

16 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 them that their termination was even under discussion. Two days later, the locks on the San Francisco office were changed and the lawyers' files had been locked away. At the legal office later that day, O'Leary denied locking up the files. "Do they look locked up?" she asked, gesturing towards the file drawers surrounding her desk. Both doors to her office had locks on them, and the file cabinets stood empty in the lawyers' former offices. As recently as two weeks ago, some observers thought that O'Leary had successfully solidified her posi- See RESIGNATION on page 96

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od of almost two years on a popula- AZT Causes Cancer tion of 960 rodents, resulted in vagi- nal neoplasms (five cancerous and two benign tumors) in seven female animals that had received the highest inLab RatsandMice dose of the drug. In every case, the non-metastasizing tumors were dis- possibility tqat they will transmit the covered during autopsy of animals by James Waller virus to their unborn babies. (Without that had died of other causes. NEW YORK-In a letter mailed AZl'; an unborn child stands a one- It remains unclear whether Bur- last Tuesday, December 5, to thou- out-of-three chance of being infected roughs Wellcome's findings will have sands of physicians nationwide, the with the virus from its mother.) any long-term impact on the process Burroughs Wellcome Company Burroughs Wellcome spokes- by which experimental drugs are announced that standard bioassay tests woman Kathy Bartlett, in answer to a made available to people with AIDS on its drug Retrovir, more commonly question posed by Out Week, said that before standard tests o~ lab animals known as Azr, had caused cancer in no reports currently exist on the num- have been completed. tests on some laboratory animals, ber of pregnant women or women of But in response to a speculative Stressing that such testing is of childbearing age receiving AZf, but that question posed by Out Week, Derek limited predictive value for human the pharmaceutical company would Hodel, executive director of the People beings, and emphasizing that the can- shortly be initiating studies to determine With AIDS Health Group, which pro- cers discovered by researchers were "the potential impact of these findings vides access to experimental and unap- site- and gender-specific and occurred on efforts to decrease mother-fetus proved AIDS drugs for its clients, said at the end of the lifetime of rats and transmission [of the virusJ."She said that that he doubted the newly announced mice that had received very high doses the team that will examine the issue results would have any effect on current of the drug, Burroughs Wellcome will be composed of "government and procedures. "The news isn't cheery," he pointed out that the study results academic experts" and will include ethi- said, "but no one's really surprised that should be balanced very carefully cists as well as medical researchers. AZT causes cancer. Lots of drugs are "against the known risk of untreated The test, conducted over a peri- carcinogenic." T HIV infection." Azr, which inhibits the replication of the AIDS virus, is the only drug currently approved by the Lesbian helps cops FDA for treating HN infection. That AZT can be somewhat toxic has been established for some time, although most physicians and people make Tea-room with AIDS, with several notable exceptions, have until now preferred the risks of taking Azr to the risks of not taking the drug. sex busts Articles that appeared in the December 6 issues of both The New By Robert V. Wolf group's current co-chairs were York Timesand New York Newsday said PHOENIX-Claiming that men unaware that she had collaborated that physicians interviewed by those looking for sex in a campus bathroom with the police until contacted by papers foresaw the announcement's were not gay but thrill-seekers, a les- OutWeek for comment. And most having little effect on a doctor's deci- bian student at Arizona State Universi- campus gays are reportedly too clos- sion whether or not to prescribe the . ty near Phoenix helped campus eted to vocally protest a decision by drug for patients with HIV infection. police arrest 13 men in a popular Taylor that most are opposed to, Because the cancers detected in campus Tea-room. according to one professor. the Burroughs studies afflicted only the Donna Taylor, a graduate student "I told them they weren't going reproductive organs of female animals, in communications and former co- to be seeing a lot of queenie-type however, questions have been raised chair of the Lesbian and Gay Academic guys," Taylor said, calling typical concerning potential additional risks in Union (LGAU), provided police with bathroom-sex participants "average, the use of AZT to prevent mother-fetus what she called "physical and psycho- everyday, all-American businessmen." transmission of the HIV virus. Azr has logical profiles" of likely suspects. Several of those arrested however, been administered to pregnant women But Taylor has not been a mem- were students, according to campus who are HIV infected to reduce the ber of the LGAU since 1986, and the police chief Doug Bartosh. The names

18 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 .... -- of all those arrested were also published in the school paper, the State Press. Taylor said she aided police to dis- pel the misconception that gays favor anonymous, public sex. ''The gay com- munity has taken the rap for a lot of things that are not our fault and the bathrooms happen to be one of them," she said. The fact that several of those arrested were married with children, she contends, proved her point. "If these are in fact not gay men, some- body needs to be pointing that out." Before the first arrests in October, Taylor gave the police "sensitivity train- ing," which included practice dialogue. "To say 'Aren't you the little queen?' would rile somebody the wrong way," Taylor said she told police. Anice Hopkins, a women's stud- ies professor and the associate faculty sponsor of the LGAU, which received official status from the university only last year, said most students were afraid to speak out on the issue or 469 Sixth Avenue challenge Taylor'S actions. She also New York, NY 10011 accusedth'e police of entrapment. "I 212-924-5885 P- would think it would have been I appropriate for LGAU to have ash:d for an accounting from the campus police," Hopkins said. Apparently Donna Taylor has Im~~ I~~, been "the only person on campus m~ mm~, who has been in the local papers PRESENTS talking about it," according to ~Hop. THE FIRE ISLAND kins. "That was really annoying to WEIGHT LOSS most of us because we really didn't agree with her." PROGRAM Nonetheless, the student group The Sensous Guide to tried to distance itself from the arrests, Weight Loss for the Gay especially after one of those nabbed Lifestyle claimed that an LGAU member had In only 30-90 days of work, turned him on to the bathroom scene. you can begin to experience "It looked as if we were advocat- a more slender. more ing to go to that [bathroom] to get confident, and above all. a laid," Homer Thiel, a co-chair of the SEXIER, MORE group, said. To clear its name, the DESIREABLE you! organization gave a stamp of approval A crui$e exclusively for women! Sail to the arrests. "We advocated taking NO GIMMICKS! away to the exotic Caribbean for one anyone off campus ...who would do blissful week of freedom, romance, Features: and adventure. Our Windjarrmer cruises anything weird in a bathroom," Janis fill up fast, so don't delay! Call (800) Manton, the other co-chair said. • Gay Owned & Operated 292-0500 Dr (713) 882-2002 today for more information. And Taylor added that because • Weekly Diet Plan of AIDS, promiscuous activity among • Easy To Follow gays had vanished. She said that only • Absolutely NO drugs men who end up in bathrooms look- ~TOURS ing for sex are either there "for the RESPOND NOW! !·f.t£i..*,,£?fi¢bt':j~ti¥.j . thrill of it" or because "something is Call: (212) 321-9022 wrong with their lives." T 1-800-233-9980 .

December 17,1989 OUTTWEEK 19 News PWAs Call for .~oycottof Major AIDS Conference by Rex Wockner gratio.n and' Naturalization Service has announced a boycott of next Protesting restrictions placed on (INS), a diverse group of AIDS organi- June's Sixth International Conference HIV-positive visitors by the U.S. Immi- zations in North America and on AIDS in San Francisco and urged

"$. """". the rest of the AIDS community to join the move. HIV-positives are forbidden to enter the U.S. except qll special 30- day visas granted to those conducting business, receiving medical treatment or visiting family. HIV-positive tourists are not allowed at all. Although the special visas would permit HIV-positives to attend the San Francisco conference, the organizers of the boycott say the process for receiving the INS waiver threatens the individuals' right to privacy in their home countries. "We feel we would jeopardize our right to confidentiality if we apply for this waiver and that this policy threatens for no public health reasons our ability to travel," read a statement issued in Madrid in late November at an organizing meeting for next May's Fourth International Conference for People With AIDS!HIV. Among those signing the boycott manifesto were representatives of the U.S. National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA), the Dutch Asso- ciation of People with AIDS, Den- mark's Postivigruppen, Austria's Positiv Leben, France's AIDES Soli- darite Plus, Canada's National Advi- sory Committee on AIDS, the Canadian Hemophilia Society, Spain's Grupo Autoapoyo and Comite Ciu- dadano Anti-SIDA and Deutsche [German] AIDS-Hilfe. Boycott promises have also been made by the European AIDS Service Organizations, the League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Scandinavian AIDS and HIV Organiza- tions, the British Hemophilia Society, Britain's Frontliners, the British Red Cross, the Norwegian Red Cross and numerous similar groups, according

20 OUT~WEEK December 17, 1989 to NAPWA. In joining the boycott, NAPWA demanded that INS officials reclassi- fy HIV-positives as having an "infec- tious· disease, not a "contagious" disease, " policy specifically states that, 'Aliens who are afflicted with any dangerous contagious dis- ease ...shall be ...excluded from admis- sion into the U.S.,'· the group said in a press release. ·We stress that HIV...is infectious not contagious. HIV/ AIDS is not transmitted by casual behavior and therefore poses no risk to' the general public.· Other activists fighting the U.S. policy have said it is illogical for the nation with the most AIDS cases to restrict the entry of HIV-positives. They also argue that an HIV-positive foreigner could just as easily have unsafe sex or share a needle during a 30-day business trip as during a 31- day pleasure trip. 469 Sixth Avenue The Uni~ed States' major gay com- New York, NY 10011 /- munity-b~sed AIDS organizations all 212-924-5885 \ said they were unaware of the boycott call. But spokespersons for Gay Men's Health Crisis, the People With AIDS Coalition, the National AIDS Network, Howard Brown Memorial Clinic (Chicago) and AIDS Project Los Ange- les all said they anticipate serious inter- ~~y~~ nal discussion about joining the fQove. 2 nights only Phone calls to the San Francisco Sunday. December 31 and Monday. January 1. Third nightlllHlils!blt for SSO.OOplus tax. AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Action Council were not returned before deadline. The Youth International Confer- ence for People With AIDS/HIV will be held May 23-27 in Madrid, hosted by Comite Ciudadano Anti-SIDA (The Charming, Newly Renovated Citizen's Anti-AIDS Committee). Work- Brownstone Conveniently shops, plenary sessions and Single Double Located in Chelsea' roundtable discussions will address $9750 $11250 • All Rooms Have "Living With HIV/AIDS," "Health and per night per night Washing Facilities Treatment," "Our Identities," "The Law (2 nights only) (2 nights only) ~Share Bath and Discrimination,· "Self-Help Includes • Continental Breakfast • Room and tax per night. Included Groups· and other topics. • Full breakfast w Bi<.odv Marl' or Mimosa. The first such conference took All menu items except for Steak and EAAs.(jan. I) • Single $50 • Double $65 • Suite $80 • C~mtinl'ntal breakfast on accompanying morning. ALL TAXES INCLUDED place in London in 1987, followed by • Split of champagne. (Dec. 31) • Weekly Rates Upon Request Munich in 1988 and Copenhagen last • I'art~· fa\'ors in mom. (Dt'c. 31) year. Two-hundred-thirty-five dele- For.r!'s<'rl'atio/ls. call 7-8(){)-842-34S0 Advance Reservations Suggested! gates from 14 nations attended the COLONIAL HOUSE Danish gathering. • INN For info in the U.S., write or call CHANDLER INN NAPWAat P.O. Box 18345, Washing- Inn Town Bed & Breakfast CHELSEA ton, D.C. 20036, 1-800-338-2437. 'Y 26 Chandler at Berk.ley. BOlton. MA 02116 (611) 48Z,3450 318 West 22nd SI., N.V.C. 10011 B·{)·S·T·{)·N 212-243-9669

December 17, 1989 our.-WEEK 21 News Gay Politicos ClaimVictories inBattle with Chicago Mayor

by Rex Wockner acknowledged that AIDS-affected com- Following coalition lobbying by CHICAGO-The dramatic public munities-in particular gays, who have gays, Blacks, Latinos and women, the fight by gay and lesbian activists for proven they know how to engineer council's joint budgetlhuman relations access to the seven-month-old admin- changes in sexual behavior-should committee postponed its vote on the istration of Chicago Mayo!" Richard have been intimately involved in the ordinance Dec. I-a defeat that Daley de-escalated on several fronts campaign's creation. caught the administration by surprise. Dec. 1 after Daley surrendered on sev- The opposition was led by Black eral key issues. City Council Clout Alderman Marlene Carth, in her first Gay anger and media saturation Meanwhile, simultaneous to joint politicking with gay/lesbian had reached a zenith in the previous COGLI's pow-wow with the mayor, activists. week following an explosive meeting members of Action Network for Les- Gay lobbyists were elated at the between the mayor and 50 gays on bian and Gay Issues (ANLGI)-the alliance because Carter vocally the city's North Side. activists who spearheaded last year's opposed last year's gay rights ordi- Daley stormed out' of that meet- passage of Chicago's gay rights ordi- nance, going so far as to once call ing after gay leaders accused the nance-were working the city council gays "sissies" on the council floor. administration of locking them out of to defeat an ordinance that would. "Now," according to ANLGI's city hall and re-issuing their six-year- have placed COGLI and other inde- Arthur Johnston, "she says we are the old keys to loyalist "house queers" pendent mayoral minority advisory most powerful minority in the city." who had promised to focus on the committees under the thumb of the Gay/lesbian and coalition activists mayor's 1991 re-election. Human Relations Commission (HRC). are now drafting new legislation that But gay leaders kept the pressure Activists believed the change will both protect the independence of on, relying on behind-the-scenes would deprive the committees of both the minority advisory committees and maneuvering with city council allies independence and direct access to the accomplish Mayor Daley's stated goal and on hungry TV news reporters who mayor, and would politicize the of strengthening HRC. had dubbed gays "a powerful voting appointments process. See CHICAGO on page 26 bloc that the mayor simply cannot afford to alienate," during the election. And their determination paid off Vast Diversity in Dec. 1 when Daley finally met for the first time with his inherited Mayor's Committee On Gay and Lesbian Issues (COGLi). Before the hour-long meet- "Global AIDS ing was over, Daley threw in the towel on a number of contested points, including the scrapping the Chicago's Widely denounced AIDS Epidemic education campaign. Utilizing the phrase "I Will Not by Rex Wockner actual cases. Get AIDS," the city's ads had been' New figures released this week The disease has now been seen tagged by activists and the media as a by the Switzerland-based World in 177 countries or territories, leaving useless "Just-Say-No" approach to the Health Organization reveal more only 25 nations yet to report their first AIDS problem. clearly than ever that the AIDS epi- case. As recently as Nov. 29, in an hour- demic is following vastly differing pat- The Americas have 70 percent of long meeting with journalists from the terns as it circles the globe. the world's AIDS cases and 85 percent gay newspapers Chicago Outlines, A total of 186,803 AIDS cases of those have occurred in ttie United Windy City Times and Gay Chicago, have been reported to WHO's Global States. The U.S. is followed by Brazil Daley and his press secretary, Avis Programme on AIDS as of Nov. 1, (7,787 cases), Canada (2,867), Mexico Lavelle, had defended the campaign. 1989, a figure that WHO officials (2,351), Haiti (2,041) and the Domini- But two days later, Lavelle believe represents about one-third of can Republic (858).

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homosexuality do not view the mili- U. Madison tary's policy as "horrendous." Joseph Rack it up Elder, the faculty member who intro- to ROTC: duced the motion, said

24 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 AIDS on less than Hea1tIa PUT YOUR $5,000? Is Your MONEY First HOUSTON-Lambda Legal WHERE Defense and Education Fund has announced that it has joined a lawsuit Priority broUght by a man with AIDS in Hous- ton, Texas against his insurer and Restore & Maintain It YOUR employer, after the lifetime cap for Naturally with Chiropractic! AIDS-related claims on his group health Complete Chiropractic Care: Posture insurance plan was lowered to $5,000. & spinal care programs; treatment MOUTH IS. of athletic & work related injuries; The plaintiff, John McGann, has stress & tension related problems. worked for H & H Music Company .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::: SUPPORT THE here since 1982, first as a guitar teach- I. No-Fault, Workers' Comp, GHI BUSINESSES er and now on a part-time basis in the and mOl/t insurance plans accepted. sheet music department, and has THAT Dr. Mark Fornes been covered by the company's 212 741-9660 group health plan since that time. . : :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.;.;.;.;.;.; :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.: .. SUPPORT THE And when McGann was diagnosed LESBIAN AND with AIDS in December 1987, he Chelsea began submitting medical claims to GAY Chiropractic p.c. ,f. General American Life Insurance, the \ co-defendant in the case. 125 West 16th Street, New York COMMUNITY But in July of 1988, H & H announced, that it was cancelling its group medical plan and was instituting a self-insured' plan administered by General American, and revealed that Anal Warts, Fissllres, the new plan would impose a limit_of $5,000 on all AIDS-related claims, :even Hemorrhoids though the ceiling for all other illness- es would remain at $1,000,000. treatecl. in tninutes McGann received a "right-to-sue" notice from the Texas Commission on with Lasers Human Rights after filing a complaint, and then instituted a civil action in • Call for a FREE CONSULTATION with a Male or Female Board federal district court against his Certified Surgeon or Gastroenterologist employer and insurer. His complaint, • We successfully treat all rectal problems with LASERS in our thought to be the first in the country modem offices-without surgery. Eve. Sat. appointments avail. to challenge a limit placed on AIDS- & related medical costs in a group • Laser Benefits: No Pain! No Bleeding! Fast return to normal health plan, alleges violation of the activities, No hospital stay. federal Employee Retirement Income • Insurance plans accepted. Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Texas handicap discrimination statute, the Texas Insurance Code and the Laser Medical Assoc. Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Con- Jeffrey E. Lavigne, M.D. sumer Protection Act. Fellow International College of Surgeons "Their [H & H'sI consensus is that OFFICES: UPTOWN: 7 East 68th St., N.Y,C, they have done nothing illegal," said DOWNTOWN: 5 Broadway, NYC. McGann in a telephone interview QUEENS: 23-91 Bell Blvd" Bayside. with Out Week, "but I disagree. They WESTCHESTER: 697 Central Ave" Scarsdpte See OUT TAKES on page 28 Call: 1-800-MD-TUSCH

December 17,1989 25 TI ed that mayoral "special assistant" Nancy Reiff has been chastised for not dialoguing with a broader spectrum of the gay/lesbian community prior to ~ counseling the mayor on gay issues, Reiff, a lesbian and a close friend OutWeek Advertising of the mayor, was hired to work on health and substance abuse issues but, (212) 685·6398 in recent months, evolved into the city's de Jacto gay liaison, usurping Simmons' position, Daley called Reiff's evolution "unfortunate," saying, "what happened is she's moved into it but she was not WILUAM B. DeBONIS D.D.S. to replace Jon, no way." Quality, Personal Dentistry ,- While Daley suggested Reiff has Suite 704 been wrong in networking only with 200 West 57th Street her friends--who are not among the New York, New York 10019 (212) 333-2650 city's current gay lea{Iers--he refused Office Hours bv Aooointment OnI to "scapegoat" her as the cause of the tension between the administration and the gay community. "I could have pointed and said, Microcomputer Services 'Nancy, you're the whole problem' ...but SALES and LEASING I'm not like that," Daley said. "All the ON-SITE REPAIRS and UPGRADES problems that arose are not entirely all PHONE:254-8033 FAX: 505-2788 because of her." GOOD FAST REUABLE BRANCH COMMUNICATIONS Advocacy Journalism vs. the AP Much of the rest of the meeting between gay journalists and the mayor i.---l focused on whether the gay press is "fair" and "objective" in its coverage of battles between the community and ,DOUBLE, the administration. Daley said he had "no problem with the reporting, with the editorials, pro or con, or with the criticism,"but Lavelle,a CHICAGO from page 22 former journalist suggested that Chicago's 'DATING' And in another victory, Daley told gay press tends too much in the direction COGLI Dec. 1 that he will await the of "advocacy journalism." 1 For a limited time. ·1 new drafts before pushing further in Windy City Times pUblisherJeffrey we'll double the the council for his version of the HRC McCourt strongly defended his newspa- run of your 1 reorganization ordinance. pers against the charges, while Gay 1 personal ad, FREE. Chicago publisher Ralph Paul Gernhardt That means you A Tale of Two Liaisons said his magazine can't be biased since it In other developments, during the focuses only on entertainment and 1 get twice the 1 Nov. 29 meeting with the gay press, announcements of upcoming events. exposure. twice Daley and Lavelle cleared up several Spok~spersons for Outlines main- the responses. I points about which the gay and lesbian tained that their news section is written twice the fun. Just community has expressed confusion. in "standard Associated Press news 1 First, Lavelle confirmed that the style" and insisted that they quote city enclose this administration has no plans to fire Jon hall officials whenever phone calls are coupon with your 1 Simmons, the city's Coordinator of returned before deadline. T 1 order form. and Gay and Lesbian Issues. Fear for Simmons' position had we'll double the 1 become widespread following his number of weeks 1 reports of being "cut off" from city hall. your ad runs. Second, Daley and Lavelle report- L ~

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individuals and contact tracing, would testing and mandatory reporting and be counter-productive in the fight contact tracing ahead of treatment was shocked by the 'Iack of against AIDS, and education, is to give in to the co- protest at outgoing City Health It would discourage HIV testing: ercive, social control approach to ICommissioner Stephen Joseph's If people know illat their names and AIDS, latest call for mandatory reporting of test results are being reported, and Now think about the federal gov- the names of people testing HIV anti- that they will be required to report ernment's AIDS agenda, The federal body positive and contact tracing. the names of people they've had sex AIDS medical research program has Perhaps the announcement or shared needles with, many people yielded little and will, be stalled for passed with so little response because who consider themselves at risk, who the coming nine months; progress joseph is a lame duck who is leaving want to learn their status, will be dis- has come out of places like New his post at the end of December any- couraged from doing so. It will keep York's Community Research Initiative, way. But to look at Joseph's effort as them in the dark, and away from where the tests for aerosolized pen- the misguided mission of a single de- health care and treatment. tamidine were conducted, and which parting official is a real mistake, After It would drain re5ources:Imagine the feds refuse to fund. In case after all, this latest call for case, the Food and mandatory reporting Drug Administra- and contact tracing tion has refused to received the enthusi- release promising astic support of the drugs until AIDS all-powerful New activists' literally York Times. In an ed- forced them to. itorial the next day, While boasting of the Times Virtually AIDS treatment ad- canonized joseph: vances, the Secre- "When historians ask tary of Health and what specific actions Human Services, by New York City or State helped if everyone who tested positive were Dr. Louis Sullivan, says localities will curb the spread of AIDS, they may to cooperate and made a list of every be given federal funds for HIV test- find little to report, except that sexual and needle sharing contact for ing, but not for treatment. If you Stephen Joseph raised, and fought for, . a decade. Many of those lists would think the United States government the right causes." be long, even voluminous. This is a wantS to help people with AIDS sur- The issue is being framed in big city, where people move a lot. vive, dream on. terms of "innocent" victims who must This project could keep an awfully big The real federal agenda for AIDS be alerted through contact tracing that staff busy for an awfully long time. has been consistent from day one: they may have been infected. In its Meanwhile, there's a critical shortage Identify and label. patronizing tone, the Times writes, of primary medical care in the city to It is a program of social control, "Gay men are well informed about prOVide treatment to the already- punctuated by the Buckleys, Helmses these drugs, but contact tracing would known HIV-infected population. and DannemeyelS who dare suggest tat- help inform inner-city women who The priorities are clear. Provide tooing, quarantine and camps. For them "have no knowledge of their risks and treatment and support to help people and millions of Americans, AIDS is a remedies." Are we to understand that survive. Provide explicit risk reduc- godsend, killing off undesirable fags coercion is the only way to reach tion education and the tools for pre- and junkies, and providing a convenient these "unknowing victims?" vention: condoms, dental dams and punishment to discourage deviant be~ With effective AIDS education clean needles, People will get the havior. If they thought they could get and available medical care, knowl- mesSage. With information and rea- away with it and save a few bucks, uni- edge about risks and remedies and sons to be"hopeful, more and more versal testing and quarantine in concen- choices would be Widespread. The people will voluntarily get themselves tration camps would be instituted. joseph/Time5 proposal, mandatory re- HIV tested. Think how much easier the job porting of the names of HIV-infected To reverse the priorities, to place See SANDOR KATZ on page 71

30 OUTTWEEK December 17. 1989 An Open Letter to the Progressive Community The U.S. government wants us to "forgive and forget" those responsible for the lran/Contra crimes. Yet some activists who opposed these crimes ~ow face life in prison ••• One of Ed Meese's last actions before leaving the Justice Departinent was to order the indictment of six long-time political activists on charges of protesting U.S. domestic and intemational policies through "violent and illegal means." Like other recent political trials. U.S. v. Whitehorn. et_ al., (The Resistance Conspiracy Case)targets domestic opponents of illegal practices such as the contra war against Nicaragua and the invasion of Grenada. The investigation of these defendants is linked to the recent illegal FBI investigations of CIS PES and the Central America solidarity movement. Like them, it's characterized by massive FBI misconduct and illegality. The six - Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk. Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans. Susan Rosenberg. and Laura Whitehom - are charged with being part of a network of groups that claimed responsibility for bombings of govemment and military buildings in 1983-85. including the 1983 bombing ofthe U.S. Capitol afterthe invasion of Grenada. No one was injured in any ofthese actions. The govemment makes no claim to know who actually carried out the bombings. Rather, it wants to convict the defendants by proving that they shared a "common purpose" of resisting illegal U.S. war crimes: "guilt by political association." The govemment has already put these defendants through fourteen separate political prosecutions. Five of the defendants are already serving sentences of up to 70 years. The sixth has been held in preventive detention for 2 1/2 years. This April. the trial judge dismissed all charges against three of the defendants on the grounds of double jeopardy, but the Justice Department has vowed to fight the decision. The government wants to stage a show trial to have a chilling effect on activists. It uses the guise of security to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation to make a fair trial impossible. A bulletproof plexiglass wall in the courtroom separates the defendants from their families and supporters. Surveillance cameras in the courtroom are trained on defendants and spectators. This is political persecution, not a criminal prosecution. The targets are people who have shown a deep commitment to human rights and social justice over many years. There may be political disagreements among us. but we are all part of the community of people in the U.S. who have op- posed and tried to stop the murderous, inhumane and illegal practices of the Reagan administration. The defendants in this case, like the other pol- itical prisoners in this country, need to be retumed to our communities and not disappear into the prison system. We must lend our voices and support to ensure their rights - and thereby our own. We ask you to join in a campaign'to halt this vindictive prosecution. Stopping this last prosecution broug,ht by Reagan and Meese can be an important step in dismantling their legacy of a politicized criminal justice system and resurgent FBI. • Drop this politically motivated indictment • Stop preventive detention/Release laura Whitehorn on bail • Remove the bulletproof wall and surveillance cameras from the courtroom - "i lIMa 0 C Pledge 01 Resislance' FtnI EIIM, ACT-UP/Chicago' Dr.IIIt:IiInIIOI'IIProloICriminologY.John 1etII ...... Fernlnlsl Task Force' FtIIIaI s-I·AII. New Alrikan Activist I I. Atoll Minisler 01 Foreign AHairs. am. EIIiIIIyII. Nan Coord., ACT-NOW' Jay College EI_ by , 1m ScIIIpp. Eds. Covert WIIIIf T..... Narl Assoc. 01 Soc Workers' Prov Govl Republic 01 New Alrika liliiii E...... , Wh,lman-Walker Clinic' IIatI 11Iby, Attorney Action tntormation Butletin s.. 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CIItI. to flIIrI ...... ,....·1IItIJb paigns(Nethertands) DlcIIFIII. Mo lIers. Branch 3025' Dr. E-' ...... 1 Dr. IIIIIIInr W...... ANI .:a (IicmIIII11Mr. ~ AIItIIU-l6peJ. Morney & Pueno LIsIFItlJI ... IMIrII ...... Co-Coor- IIIraItI LnttI\IIaI ZI1IIer.CIItI. of F"IJ , FrIt1MII Mlllalic...m.el Rican tndependence Acllvisl dinalors. Washlnglon Peace Cenler' IetIy 1"-- UnrIgIiI. lettsllire 111111"-III...Filmmaker ...... ANI ... IIIIIst.s· ...... PeIIra Arc.Ieb. MovllllilftlO de Ubera- lie"" F_. Pasl Pres·. UFCW Inri Unron. FOI'IIM I AMetlelllollellltela. Wriler & Prol 01 LI!. II8rrIeIW_. Women'slnn Leaguelor clOoo 1llici00000llexlc.o Local HLM-F JC' Jose L6pez, Movlnllltllo de Uberlcl6n i MlrllIIadII Peace & Freedom' Ale Street "-. Arilsts Collechve (Chi. II.- Foni. oran Resister IllicIOllll PuertonIqueIa I IIIIIIInr liliiii. Ed. Oul/lnside "--W ..... Altorney MIrIoIIIIouIIIf. ACT,II',wy Ius ElYla Funk, Coordinalor. Men's Anh- CIIoIcwtl.ualumlla. Chin •• IIew Atrlk •• · .Joel Scllwlrtz. Pres .. CSEA Local' Dr. Cory Wlllllt8la.Prisoners· Righls Union' SlImIIlraidIAI. Polillcat Pllsoner Rape Resource Cenler' (0 C.) PeopIe's lilt. TIle SHitIOII eo..tttee West T_ c-Hy Law 0IfIce (Chi) IbdeIIII a-tt. WIMmin Pr'-s' JoIn Gibbs. CIf lor Cons!. Righls' EIIzabeIII McAlister. Peace AclivlSI Pete s....- Rev. Dr. Filley W. WIIn/wrItIIt Interim Sr. SwwlnlIIetwft ~I III¥ItI GIlIIerI. Pol Pllsoner & AIDS AclivlSI T_ ...... 1.... Political Prisoner I Jeffrey Sept. Pres .. Legal Aid Workers' Minisler, Arlinglon SI Church. Boston AllIS a-teln. AVCo Plowshares' JIcII GIH .... , Actor EspereIUaM.teIl."-toRICIIICMte. Unron (NOLSW. oist 65-UAW)" MIrIIM 8. WII8Il Auslin Peace & Justice AI .. leclldel Vince GodwIn. Narl Coalilion 01 Blacks lor ApiIlllIltprasiOll AlllilcarSIoIIIazz. Ed . By Any Means Nee- Coalition' lIMa llecl

worked prodigiously. Goodbye, Luman~a, Inside the Egyptian temple, sinis- ter figures move before a hieroglyphic in the four-dimepional language of frieze. Over the altar, a virus invades, by Mark Harrington music. Clad in gossamer robes with uncoats, replicates and buds; codes of broad, stiff collars, their faces glit- a malign religion. Mummy vampires tered ana their ornate curving hel- float over the pyramid, fly through mets swept forWard like frozen, gold- time, reappear in Betbesda and en waves. Coexistent with the more Rockville in tbe 1980s, unswatbed elies of lost civilizations are brutal Cro-t-tagnons and Nean- vampires of AIDS science. Gallo, Fauci, . crumbling around us. derthal peoplJJs,the Lumanians disap- Cooper, Young. This is • The Curse of Brian Damage-genius, peared wit~out a trace for 12,000 Umbra,· drawn by Bran Damage in aestheteR and AIDS activist, archaeolo- years, but urere briefly sighted in NeW the winter 1989, and publisbed in of gist of vanished fantastic places, long York, when: they recorded Shox Luma- World War Three II 12: Biohazard: term survivor with AIDS, actor and nia Live at the Peppermint Lounge. Ecology/Health CrisiS, available at , f , artist-was born in Vir- Ray s newsstand on Av- ginia in 1954. enue A for $4.00. Cracked am- He redoubled his phorae, aqueducts, work in the mid 1980s, bell towers, ionic tem- painting the room at the ples, pediments Carlton Arms, opening a crushed in an an- show in Venice Otaly), de- cient deluge, broken veloping PCP in summer urns: this is the detri- 1988, switching to pen- tus of Atlantis, piled tamidine, red meat and up in an undersea : AZf. There was tbis paint- canyon, seen from a ing I had tofinish. Teach- submarine, depicted ing himself again to walk on the walls of Room dqwn the hospital corri- 4D in the Carlton dor in Washington, sneak- Arms Hotel at 25th ing out at night away Street and 3rd Av- from the nurses, walking enue, painted by when he was supposed to . Brian Damage. be wheelchair bound, He went to high walking to the bank ma- school in Alexandria, chine, train station, back Virginia, from 1969 to to New York City and his 1972. For a year or life, his apartment, his 12- two he was a DJ in foot tall 40 foot long blue Savannah, Georgia. Then he moved (ROIR cassettes, 1981). Their garb painting with the spectral lines depict- to New York. The post-punk demi- was devised by Brian Damage. ing Coney Island in 1909, replicating monde was exploding in nocturnal He developed fevers and a the Piazza'San Marco in Venice, , . landscapes of sound and spectacle. swelling in his lymph nodes. His doc- preparing' the underpainting for ,Brian was a sartorial superstar then, tors declared it to be lymphoma. This "Coney Island on Fire." devising sets and costumes for bands was in 1981, before the words "PGL" Before dawn, by the 7-11 in Ar- like Shox Lumania, conjuring up a (Progressive Generalized Lym- lington, Virginia, a ta/~ elegant fig- shifting array of interiors in Dancete- phadenopathy-which is what it real- ure, c/a4 in a white lab coat embla- ria where he lived for a time. ly was), "GRID," "AIDS" or "HI¥" en- zoned with the red biohazard logo he Long ago, underground, beneath tered our language. He refused designed does his tai chi exercises. It the mighty Pyrenees, a strange and radiation and chemotherapy, and de- is October 11, 1988, Brian is with lovely culture flourished. Obsessed vised his own regimen of macrobiotic Wave 3, and with them invades the with peace and terri/red by violence, diet and tai chi. For eight years he FDA's Ethics Building (0, oxymoronic the Lumanian people communicated held the syndrome at bay, and edifice!) to issue utopian edicts to end

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the epidemic. T!ie'World's Most Compreh.nsive In January, Brian was an AIDS C.talog of Gay Video commando in Bob Huffs video/per- formance piece at LaMama, Roclevilk Dllcriptionl of over 1500 diHerent titl~l. is Burning. Along with Jim Elgo and ndr,edl of photol, many in color ' Ann Otto, he seized control of a typl- T drder: Send you; nome, address, a signed statement that you , c:al 1V AIDS newscast to put an end a e over 21 years of age, and $15.00 (catalog comes with a $10 to the lies: rt bote coupon) to Dept. OW, Biiou Video Sales, 1363 N, Wells, Jim: A pattern began to emerge. hicago, Il60610. Or call 1·800·932·7111, (Please tell us if you The people with flrsthand knowledge ish to be on our confidential moiling list.) of the epidemic were the last to be /. BUOU V,DEO SAlIS consulted. We were begging for kind . l 11IE~lftlI/IOE() EXPERTJ words and crumbs from the -liberal" -1H3 ...... a.-,..... 10- managers of the epidemic-but they I...... ------~ ....~~~~ were just links In the chain of com- mand. Brian: It wasn't a question of sav- I;, Ing lives or even of saving money-It was about power. Ann: But when the first PWA chose to sit down in the middle of Wall Street and be dragged off, we GAY VIDEO SUPER SALE)" started to take back some of that I power. MORE THAN 650 TITLES AT $29.9~ In February, Brian was hospital ized with MAl, a bacterial.infection 0; OR LESS. the bloodstream. He lost weight an41 HUNDREDS OF ADDITIONAL TITLES his doctors at Beth Israel stopped all his treatments, We confronted theJn NONE HIGHER THAN $59.95 with what we knew Brian wanted:/ a ALL PRICES INCLUDE SALES TAX chance to beat MAl with drug:fj'ln common use. They wavered, but e VIDEO SALES next day, Brian was back pn t.qe VIDEO RENTAL CLUB drugs. He wolfed down spaghej1t1, steak and milkshakes with awesdme ~s PI?A~_ avidity. In May we went to visit him_ ~~ -~/) in the hospital room-it was e~ty. 8 Brian was sitting regally In his ~() G~~S~ '% ~l' wheelchair in Stuyvesant Park, old- O'\)~ S PI.! ~- ing court by the fountain. Across,rom ~~~ ()~~~ . , _'. Sl..I/)~ ~Jf us pigeons wheeled and high sfhool students gossiped In clusters. I ~y 9 . '1:'1f S Brian was an aristocrat/. Bob ~ ~G ~ 't' .;.• ' .' PliO'll Huff told me Brian used to say he ...9~~ ~mw. Os was going to get a powdered u1g and ~~ fMC. walle around the Lower East S&e like a dandy from the ancient regitke. We offer the latest but we specio,lize in gay memorabilia all Again he made his rebelli~us legs the way back to the Vims, Trims, Demigods, TomorruziJ's Mans walk, and he moved back h

December 17, 1989 . OU~WEEK 33 that period there were huge drag balls up in me a letter saying she adored it. She said, "I lage at that time was that one felt that there Harlem. Places like Rockland Palace were the laughed and I cried." Well, she didn't know were no prejudices. If, for instance, I wanted big places where you could really come out too much about homosexuality. She won- to go to bed with somebody, it just manifest- and be gay. dered at one time if Tchelitchew wouldn't be ed and it usually happened. And maybe they OIFI Also they were theatrical events a good suitor for my sister Ruth [Ford, the never went to bed with somebody before. It in another way. Well known writers and per- actress]. He laughs. I think I had to be explic- was a different time. When I think about sonalities used to take the loges there. it sometime or other. J told her he was myself then I'm just talking about another Theodore Dreiser and these eminent literary already taken. Q. person. If I were a young person today I people who were not connected in any way GR: The world that you're describing is would not have any reason to act as I did with homosexuality. They were just there as not the world that's prevalent now. There then. It's a different time. And if I were sympathetic spectators, and amused by the doesn't seem to have been this iron-clad divi- reborn I would not act as I did then, because whole thing. So there were no prejudices in, sion between straight and gay. When did that you're also affected by the milieu. I've always that sense either. . divisiol1 happen? Did you notice that happen. had the impulse to do what I wanted, when I GR: It seems like you're describing a ing at some point, that there began to be a wanted. Maybe that could recur at any time. period in which, if you were a member of lot more exclusively g';'y people? I'm sure there're young and evils today the bohemian circles, there were really not CHF: Not till much, much later. Around equivilent to what I was then. many prejudices. the time of Stonewall, or a few years before. GR: Tell me about . OIF: No, no none. And you were sep- I don't know when it was. Perhaps the late CHF: Before I sailed for Paris I met arated from the square world. They didn't 50s or early 60s when they began having Djuna Barnes in her Wasltington Square stu- have as many members in the talented these places like Stonewall, these dance dio. We had reviewed het book in Blues and coterie. places. In the early 30s those places didn't I was very much taken with her, the way she GR: When you finished writing The exist. They started much later. Do they still looked. Incredible. So then I left for Paris and Young and Evil, however, you were not able have such places now? she said I'll be over soon, and so she came. to get it published right away, presumably GR: In the Village? Oh yes, Charles, That's when we started living together. She'd because of the homosexual content. How did they're everywhere, and not only in the Vil- had apendicitis and had to go to the Ameri- that strike you? Having written a book that lage. can Hospital and then I came to the apart- was considered to be obscene? CHF: Because I haven't been down ment to take care of her as she convalesced CHF: Well you see, the Obelisk Press there in years. and it all developed into something. We got was noted for its pornography, straight GR: Well, you should go take a look. together again in . That's where I pornography. So when they originally CHF: And the leather's still around' typed Nightwood for her, in Tangier. It was a wouldn't publish it, I thought it was more for They still have the leather bars and all? very complicated chapter. the diffiOlIt avant garde style rather than for GR: Absolutely. GR: You two were going to get married the sexual content. That's what I thought. CHF: I suppose people are less promis- at some point, weren't you? . Then when came along with cuous now, aren't they? CHF: Oh, she didn't want to, she didn't her recommendation, and Djuna Barnes rec- GR: Well, people try to be safer. want to. She didn't want to have children . . ommended it, that's what persuaded them to They've certainly closed the baths in New The irony was that while in Tangier she pUblish it. York. Did you ever go out to Fire Island? found out she was pregnant, and it was not GR: Yes, but then after it was published, CHF: Oh yes, sure. I was in on the by me, it was by a French artist that was some copies were seized and burned. ground floor of Fire Island, too. Is that the crazy about her. Before she came to Tangier OIF: Yes, it was banned in America and same? she was impregnated by him. So she had to burned in England. And it was taken out of GR: Sure, that's very much the same. leave and ... well it was all very complicated. the window of Brentano's in Paris. Before I CHF: But I think being gay, it's just CHF: Is it true that she called you became friends with Edith Sitwell she was being gradually accepted again, like it used Charles Impossible Ford' very shocked by it, as was Edward James. to be. CHF: I guess so. Where'd you read that' There was a story about Edward burning it in GR: Perhaps. But there does seem to Anyway, she was a very complicated person. the fireplace and Edith fanning the flames be this grand division, where if you're gay She didn't have an easy time getting Night- with her skirts. But that all changed later. you're totally gay, or if you're straight you're wood published. Finally she was elated when Edith wrote a preface for my book of poems. completely straight. I think some people are T.S. Eliot liked it and offered to write a pref- We became friends and I brought her over hoping that as society loosens up those divi- ace. And that's the way that came out. here for a great lecture tour, Tchelitchew and sion will melt away, and we'll be freer to GR: Aside from Djuna, you were a protege I, with Osbert [Sitwell, Edith's brother]. They explore our natures, gays being a little of Gertrude Stein's as well. In a sense, Charles, were put up by Vincent Astor's wife. They straight or straights becoming a bit gay. you were really hanging around with snme of had a great success. I got them an agent, they CHF: We used to have an expression for the premier lesbians of the 20th century. did a tour of America. You know the picture that, straights that might want to play around. OIF: Yes. I knew the ones I've men- of the Gotham Book Mart reception. I We'd say, "That one's a veiled bitch." It's a tioned, Natalie Barnard, Romaine Brooks, arranged that. I told Steloff, "The Sitwells are graphiC expression. Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein. I never coming over, you must give them a party." GR: Is that like a closet case' knew Margaret Anderson. She said, "Oh they wouldn't want a party OIF: Yeah, but I think it's more poetic. GR: Did you ever meet Radclyff Hall? here. They're much too grand." But they GR: I was very surprised in The Young OIF: No. I do remember that her book were delighted. All the poets came, and some and Evil that communists are mentioned was published by Obelisk as well. who weren't poets. quite a bit. GR: The Well of Loneliness? GR: When you published The Young CHF: I remember marching in a com- CHF: Yes. You know, they're always And Evil and it was pulled from Brentano's munist parade. And I had a poem in the New referring (0 Djuna now as a lesbian, but she and 'bumed and so forth, what was the gen- Masses. They were part of the revolt against didn't consider herself a lesbian. She had eral reaction? How, for example, did your bourgeoiS-ism. That was the common meet- many lovers, male and female. She was just family react? ing ground, that we were all anti-bourgeoisie. a very free person, you see. I remember her, CHF: I remember my mother writing The thing that was outstanding about the Vil- she was satirizing "The upward look of ask-

36 OUT~WEEK December 17, 1989 ing eyes, the clinging clasp of roseleaf hands." The female. And she once said some of the women who considered themselves lesbians, she said some of them walked around like they had a feedbag between their legs. She could be very wicked in her sati- rizations. GR: If they didn't con- sider themselves to be that much lesbians, what you're saying is that nobody consid- ered themselves to be that much either gay or lesbian, people simply did what they wanted to do. CHF: In our circles, that's right. GR: Did you keep up a relationship with over the years? CHF: Yes, yes. He died in the 70s. All his books are out of print. Now a woman is doing a biography on Parker and hopes to revive some of his out of print books. One book I hope can be revived is the book he wrote on Tchelitchew. GR: Did he ever write another I)ovel? CHF: Well, he wrote a kind of a novel, it was never published, on Nijinsky. Apparently the publication was blocked because he and perspective publishers thought the widow of Nijin- sky might bring suit. GR: The two other main characters in The Young and Evil, Gabriel and Louis, have they ever been identified, who they were based on? OIF: The Louis character is a well known writer. But his name cannot be mentioned. Charles Henri Ford (on the floor, center) at a party he arranged for Osbert and Dame Edith Sitwell Somehow, it's thought not be (seated. center) at the Gotham Book Mart in 1948. In the left foreground, William Rose Benet; behind be discreet to mention it. GR: I would be glad to him. Stephen Spender; behind him, Horace Gregory and his wife, Marya Zaturenska, At the back (leff mention it if you wanted to to right), Tennessee Williams. Richard Eberhart, Gore Vidal. Jose Garcia Villa. and W. H. Auden (on tell me who it is. ladder). At right, Elizabeth Bishop (standing), Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell and Delmore CHF: I don't think he Schwartz (foreground). Photo courtesy GQtham Book Mart. wants it mentioned. I'm still sort of friends with him and I think he wants as today. Drag terms, and so forth. Was there just 'stay that way. I saw one on this TV the to...he just doesn't want that notoriety. I think a lot of drag back then? other night. You know, you can see anything it would be indiscreet of me to mention it. CHF: I remember we used to get in on this TV. Did you s~e that? A total ·woman. This is the Louis character. The Gabriel char- drag, in and out .. But there must have been And then she pulled up her skirt and she had acter was Joseph Rocco. He was a Village some who passed, or we wO\lldn't have this long prick. On cable TV! So unaesthetic. character, he was in Blues with a poem. He talked about it. There were great .female And unattractiv~. Some of the things you see was very much in The Young and EviL impersonators. Jullie Eltinge, she was at the on TV. At least there's that funny magazine GR: There was an awful lot of really Orpheum circuit. Back in the 20s. She was out now. What's it called, something like My inventive language in the book. Camp. I was universally admired, even by the bourgeoisie. Comrade? That I like, but where on earth surprised that some of the terms are the same But of course today they can dress up and can you pick it up?

December 17, 1989 OUT"-WEEK 37 .) + I immins'ian Celebrating Ten Years of Music-Making with Casselberry-DuPree

An Interview by Hattie Gossett

After years of performing as a duo in small places on the DuPree. If you like good music with a strong reggae feel, a play-the-music-now-and-we'll-think-about-paying-you-Iater cir- touch of soul, an African-Latin-funky bottom and an uncom- cuit, Casselberry-DuPree is gaining national and international promisingly clear message whkh pulls the covers off of homo- visibility, Is the music industry ready for these wild women? Is phobia, racism, sexism, warmongering, economic exploitation, the American public ready? These are question~ for the 1990s. a message which joyfully-that'S right, joyfully!-sings the Known for their ear-tingling two-part vocal harmonies, for praises of strong women, of strong people, you are gonna their soprano-to-baritone vocal range, with Judith Casselberry love Casselberry-DuPree. And if you don't believe it's possible playing rhythm, guitar and singing the alto-to-baritone lines, to play music that rocks the house and tells the truth, you're and Jaque DuPree playing small rhythm instruments and gonna love these women even more because that's exactly singing the soprano-to-tenor lines, these women worked as a what they do-for political audiences and for Saturday night duo for nearly nine years, Then came their award-winning goodtime audiences-and there's no let-up in sight. debut album City Down, produced for Icebergg Records by Casselberry-DuPree will perform in concert on December Linda Tillery, herself a veteran Black woman songwriter, 16 in New York at a benefit for Brooklyn Women's Martial arranger, Singer. Then came the band, featuring Toshi Reagofl Arts. In November they did a two-d~y stint at SOB's, (Sounds as bassist and supporting vocalist and Annette Argentina of Brazil) a major New York club for national and international Aguilar as multipercussionist. Now Casselberry-DuPree, with touring bands, opening for renowned message music maker their wildly funky, superbly polished concert and club presen- Gil Scott Herron. The crowds, which had mostly turned out to tation, is knocking on the music industry's inside door. This hear Herron, were jubilantly surprised by the Casselberry- stripped-down jumpband, probably the biggest-sounding little DuPree's ability to consistently pump out a big sound and band around, with the most unheard of instrumentation-no keep the house hot. I talked with these wild wimmin divas. piano, no trap drums-is now working its way into larger clubs and concert halls, appearing with name acts and reach- Hattie Gossett: Tell us about your experiences at the ing larger and broader audiences all the time. October 7 Walk For The Homeless in Washington, D.C. What And why not? If you like good music, foot-patting, hip- was it like being part of an event with so many well known I' shaking, rock-the-house music, you're gonna like Casselberry- people-like Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Valerie Harper, 38 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 :jifj CASSELBERRY-DUPREE . '<4. Judith ClIsslllbllrry.Jllqu, DuP,d, To.hi lI'llgon. Ann,tte A, Aguilll' Photo: Susan Wilson MarIa Gibbs, Gregory Hines, Danny Glover, Olatunji, Rev. did four or five concerts in small towns where we played out- 'Stallings of Imaoi Temple, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jon Voight, doors on the main plaza and the whole town came, from Sugar Ray Leonard, Louis Gossett, Jr., James Olomos, Tracy grandparents to babies. We went to Israel for an international . - 'Chapman? women's festival, where we met Palestinians and Black Jaque DuPree: Bill Graham called and asked if we could Hebrews and progressive Israelis. And we've played the Win- participate; we were glad to do it, yet we were a little leery of . nipeg Folk Festival in Canada where we shared the stage with that because we don't have a big name, we might get pushed top name folk groups from Africa, Asia, Latin America. While to the side, wpich sometimes happens at these kinds of we were there, we spent some time with our friend Lillian events-they might '~dis" us, you know? Actually, everything klls:n, the powerful Jamaican dub poet who lives in Toronto. turned out okay. . HG: Tell us about the awards your debut album City HG: Is it true that you sang with Stevie Wonder that day? Down has won. Judith Casselberry: Yes. We were backstage figuring JC: It was voted number one album of the year by the out where to stand to get a good view o( the brother while he music industry magaZine put out by Tower Records called was doing his thing when all of a sudden the stage manager Pulse; the Boston Globe and the LosAngeles Times voted it one r,ushed up to us, pulled us onstage, set up the. vocal mikes, of the year's top ten; the National Association of Independent ~nd the next thing we knew we were singing backup for Ste- Record Distributors (NAIRD) voted it number one in reggae; in vie Wonder along with Tremaine Hawkins and Grace Slick and this NAIRD competition we won against established reggae Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane. It was a new song he had groups like Yellowman, Black Uhuru, Sly & Robbie, The Itals. written especially for the rally. He taught it to us and to the HG: Do you consider yourselves part of the women's audience as he sang it. music scene? , HG: Were you excited? JD: There is an ancient Ashanti proverb which says: JD: After I found my way with the lyrics I was excited; "Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the yes. At first the suddenness of it had me a little concerned. crocodile has a lump on her snout." JC: I was excited even before we knew we were going HG: Sounds like you getting deep, sister. Break it to sing-just to see Stevie Wonder close up when he was per- down now. forming was exciting. So you know when we were out there JD: We came on the scene trying not to compromise too with him, I was thrilled.' And all this happened after we had much of ourselves as strong women-identified women. done our own set, so we were actually on stage twice. Because of our culture, which is African and traditional in its , HG:' Any other memorable moments from that day? root and American' because of geography, we have many voic- JC: We got to spend a lot of time with Dionne Warwick. es. Judith and I were born out of civil rights, Black power and We were impressed by her total down-to-earth ness. She was peace. As teenagers we were part of "student unrest" and sO'regufar-not at all distant or stuckup. Throughout the day Black radical revolution; we were part of the bur!)ing of draft she went outside and stood by the backstage fence and signed cards, and 'igive peace a chance" during the Vietnam War. As autographs and talked to people from the audience, without young adults we grew into evolutionary change; we learned be'ing asked. I could see she realized the importance of com- that yes, South Africa will be free and, hell, Mississippi and municating directly with the people who had come out to hear Alabama and California and Florida, too. Some women don't her. In talking to us, she was supportive, realistic and honest understand that we come before our audiences with voices about the music industry, about the special challenges facing and concerns other than just our womanhood or sexuality. In Black women in the industry, and the importance of being order to hear Our songs regarding one issue, i.e. women's upfront even when people don't want to hear what you have rights, you have to hear and address our other voices and con- to say. She says what's on her mind, no matter what. cerns, too. Another thrilling moment was when Gregory Hines got HG: When you perform for a Black audience do they up and danced during our set. It was cqmpletely sponta- have to hear the women's songs at the same time that they neous, and at first we didn't even know what was happening. hear the reggae? Then we looked around and there he was-dancing for days JD: That's what I'm talking about. And we have a broad- to our music. The audience loved it and so did we. Then, er understanding of women's music than some women are after we sang, Danny Glover, told us we brought tears to his ready for. Because for us Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith and Big eyes with our version: of Bob Marley's "Exodus." So not only Mama Thornton sure have been singing about something for a did we not get "dis-ed," we ended up getting recognition from long time; so have Mahaila Jackson, Shirley Caesar, Miriam - great artists whose work we admire and respect. Makeba, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McCrae, 'Ella ~. ,~. HG: What other good things have been happening? Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Betty Carter and Sweet Honey In JD: In September, Judith and I opened for reggae star The Rock. We see these women as trailblazers. We're just Jimmy Cliff, one of our original inspirations, at The Citi in adding our voices, and the response that we continually get Boston, a club which presents national and international tour- proves what we have always known-there is an audience ing bands. In New York, the doors were opened for us at who wants to hear what we've got to say and that audience SOBs with Gil Scott Herron. doesn't include only women, but people from all walks of life. JC: Another important breakthrough was when our band HG: Are you trying to avoid stereotyping? toured in the U.S. with Ladysmith mack Mombasa, the South JD: -From the example of the artists I've just named and African singers who made Paul Simon's Graceland recording their struggles we have learned that it's not about being con- such a hit. And we are start:ng to hit the international-scene, fined to any "alternative music market," but that artists who too. In Spain, we headlined at a big Barcelona disco; then we build their music around the many places they have come 40 OUTTWEEK December 17,1989 from 'in their lives can penetrate beyond narrow confines and which move us. Jaque is the one who usually brihgs... in lyrics cliches. The texture and strength of our lyrics, our technical and a musical sketch. She writes stories/serm..'Pns/speeches and musical style of expression take us beyond..all restriction. with natural rhythmiC flow which comes from her church We a~e everywhere. . background. JC: The women's music industry, which has grown . JD: Judith comes up with chord progressions that are tremendously, has definitely expanded our horizons and [has] challenging and creative for the band so they have more to been a significant base of support for us since about playoff of. Then we take the song where we want it to go. 1979-though we had a career before then, we've always had We got some hot stuff that we can't wait for folks to hear. other significant basel of ~upporf--The women's music audi- HG: You have been playing music all those years by ence is loyal and diverse. The same women who support us your own two selves, then you got a band. What do you like also support Patti LaBelle and Teresa Trull-how's that for about working with this expanded unit? contrast?-and they support many male artists, too. What's JC: It's easier for us to texture and layer our overall happening now is that more women artists are seeing the sound. Now that Toshi and Annette are in the band and it's importance of advancing the position to the widest possible four of us, we enjoy seeing the effect on people of hearing number of people. Today, women artists are recording for such a big sound coming out of four women, the same way independent and major labels without compromising their we enjoyed seeing how they reacted to the big sound we got music or appearance or personal lifestyle which is great. Now with just the two of us. it will be harder for the powers that be to hold us back. I'm JD: It's a real challenge to deal >yith personalities and to speaking here of artists like k. d. lang, Phranc, Melissa leave room for people to fit in creatively with the sound we Etheridge, Suzanne Vega, Sinead O'Connor. Now major record have created. labels have to pay attention to strong, woman-identified music, JC: We have grown to be better musicians with Toshi because it is purchased by all kinds of people. and Annette, so we wouldn't trade working with them for any- HG: Have you started thinking about your next album? thing. They are so together and have so mych to offer, they The first album had wonderful renditions of classic material give us what we hear in our heads, and then they give us that originated by reggae and rock artists and, it had one wonder- little special something we hadn't thought of which comes out ful Toshi Reagon original, but you gave us only one of those of their brilliance and creativity. And they are committed. We badbad songs you yourselves write. Will the next album have don't want to work with people who just read charts, collect a more of your own original material? check and go home. We want to feel like musicians work JD: There will be lots more; we are writing more and with us because they love the music, not because it's just more from our own experiences; we feel safer about doing another gig. this now. HG: I want to get into 'your personal business for a JC: The new songs also reflect experiences of others . See CASSELBERRY·DUPRE~ on pege 50 December 17,1989 OUT.-WEEK 41 Don We Now Our Gay Apparel

The New York Gay Men's Chorus Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary

By Mark Chesnut P.hoto: Ken Spencer/Newsday

"Look at that," a middle-aged commuter said to her friend as Even as the chorus celebrates its they made their way through Grand Central Station during the tenth annt~'ersary, it appears there hectic Friday rush hour. She was pointing toward a group of men are still people who are surprised to find that New York is home to one of standing on the Northwest balcony above them. The powerful, joy- the most celebrated gay choruses in ous voices ringing out carried over (the noise of the trains, public the world. announcements and thousands of other commuters. Her friend And perhaps it's fitting that on their glanced up. "Lookwhat it says!" she pointed excitedly at the ban- anniversary, the chorus is reaching out ner draped in front of the men, which read "New York City Gay to new audiences, like the unexpecting Men's Chorus." "Oh, my!"responded the other woman. but appreciative one at Grand Central. Part of the citywide "Day Without Art" 42 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 \ on December 1, this appearance also the Gay ¥en's Chorus: They have lost behind a gay chorus performing such served to warm the men up for their 23 members. "It begins to affect the pieces: "The fact that there are 150 gay annual holiday concert, "Masters in this way you feel as an individual and also men standing on stage singing these Hal\" on December 20 and 21 at as a group," says Marty Christian, who very familiar tunes that we all grew up Carnegie Hall. handles the financial aspect of the with, but couldn't relate to because we The musical prowess and dedica- organization. "You wonder who's were alienated from our families or from tion of the chorus are evident just by going to be next." our community, it adds a whole different looking at the list of where they've The straight media, in fact, often dimension. " played: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, have had the tendency to focus on the Some of the more traditional plus tours throughout the United States AIDS issue '?Vhen doing stories on the Christmas pieces will be featured at the and Europe and regular appearances at chorus. Th<'j chorus has even been upcoming holiday concert, where the gay pride events. The NYCGMC is one mistakenlY,cflled the New York City chorus will be joined by soprano Faith of the largest members of the Gay and Gay Men's Health Crisis Chorus. "We Esham in specially-commissioned Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA). can have al1'\the interviews we want, arrangements for soprano and men's They have released two albums, one of and talk about how this is not the chorus. Miller pointed out that this which, A Festival of Song, was nominat- New York City AIDS Chorus," Miller concert will address the gay experience ed by Ovation magazine as the best comments. ",People write what they and AIDS. They are inviting the audi- choral record of 1983. These are 150 want to write.\ But it's real important ence to bring unwrapped toys for chil- men with a purpose. for us to keep our identity as a com- dren with AIDS. The chorus has performed with munity of gay men singing together, The concert will also showcase the such luminaries as Colleen Dewhurst, no matter what, the circumstances. We world premiere of "A Moment in Time," I' Maureen McGovern and Eartha Kitt. began before fh'e AIDS crisis, and, god a commissioned work by New York Members have also seen the annual help us, we'll bci singing long after the composer John David Earnest. "There's budget of the non-profit organization AIDS crisis. '".\ this whole section about time," Miller grow to nearly a half million dollars. Homophobia: is another obstacle the says, "time has not only brought us Through all this growth, however, two chorus continually battles. "The very first good things, but bad things, and some- factors seem to remain the central time we were in Carnegie Hall, we how we have to persevere and get on focus: the music itself, and the sense· unfortunately ended up having a union with it. All of that is obviously an AIDS of family. stage hand fired, because he called us metaphor, without ever saying it." . The New York City Gay Men's Cho- faggots," says Miller. "That kind of thing After this holiday s-oncert, the New rus began about ten years ago, when doesn't happen apymore. The halls are York City Gay Men's Cl:Jorus is looking Edward Dryer Weaver moved to New very gracious to u~'{They're very serious forward to a third album in e~rly +990. Yo~k from San Francisco and distributed about what we do.'" Entitled Hit Me with a Hot N4(e,,.i~,\vill flyers announcing the formation of a When the New York City Gay Men's feature music from the 405 a9~ 50s as new gay men's chorus. The group Chorus made historY in February 1984 as performed at a dance concert. couldn't have imagined all they would the first gay choral group to be in-vited Beyond that, some members hope accomplish then; at that point, the cho- to sing before a reg'jonal convention of for a day when they can be regarded as rus was more socially-orjented. "But with the American Choral Directors Associa- more than just a gay men's chorus. "I'd the increasing role that AIDS was to play tion, the leadershjp of the AGDA like us to enter the mainstream of music in the lives of all gay men, coupled with attempted to stop tPl<';,performance. The and not just be a gay event, but a musi- an increasing commitment to the music ACDA leaders obj~~ted to the word cal event that everyone wants to come itself and the guidance of music director "gay" being used in "the name of the to," Goldhaber opines. Gary Miller, the group became more chorus. Luckily, the r~gional officers pre- As large numbers of people stopped involved and dedicated. They also vailed, and the chorus appeared, name and applauded them at Grand Central became more like a family. intact, before what was described as an Station, it appears they made one more "When we started, it was more of "enthusiastic" audience of professional inroad toward reaching that goal. 'Y a chorus that got together for a social choral directors. aspect," says Gary Miller. Miller, Although they are most definitely The New York City Gay Men's Cho- whose broad musical background gay, Miller emphasizes that there is rus will join with internationally includes work in education, the something in the music for most any acclaimed soprano Faith Esham in two church and the theater, receives much audience. Their music includes a broad .performances at Carnegie Hal~ Wednes- credit for fine tuning the polished range of traditional pieces. "We sing' day, December 20, and Thursday, sound of the NYCGMC. "The chorus about love and peace rather than specifi- December 21, both at 8 pm Tickets for now has a real political necessity, cally gay love. A gay man can come to a the performances, called "Masters in this given the AIDS crisis," he continues, concert, and a straight woman can come Hall," are priced from $10 through $50, "That doesn't mean we go out and to a concert and hear the same piece. and are available at the Carnegie Hall sing political slogans or anything. But We do get a little more specific for our box office or from CarnegieCharge, our visibility is important to the music gay audiences." (212) 247- 7800. Audience members are community at large, to keep them in While some may lean away from invited to br(ng unwrapped toys jor mind of the AIDS crisis." musical icons of traditional culture, children with AIDS, aged two-nine, to be AIDS has taken a heavy toll on Miller sees a political and social message distributed to area hospitals. December 17,1989 OUTTWEEK 43 . LOOKO(T I

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Chalk up another zinger for the the /Hew York Post. As this story, which only appeared In the Post, goa, -the king of Long Island thieves tums out to be a queen-a drag queen, cops say. The man behind the mlscera, 56-year-old Frank MasFarl of Brooklyn, was snared In a pollee dragnet over the weekend, cops revealed yesterday. Mascari ,vas wearing designer Jeans and I mink coat, with a touch of rouge to give color to his checks, they "Id, adding that he has demonstrated a tlste for the finer things In Ilf•• - Is this standard AP joumallsr format?

-M.S.

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It's holiday time again-that season when we sec so many cheery twosomes buzzing about. Here, News- d.y has snapped two festive couples who've been spotted around town. Penthous.e -Pet of the Year Stephanie Page and former USS Iowa sailor Kendall Truitt (whose gun turret and best navy buddy blew to bits last year, resulting In a rain of speculation about his sexuality on the pages of tabloids everywhere), seem to be forcing smiles at a yet another one of those glittering NeW York shindigs. Then there's that other wacky duo, Mayor Koch and Keltb Hernandez (In the Dally News photo they're holding hands) whom Ncwsd.y says "Had A Ball," as they sat In Ed's office; just couple of boys . having lome fun. We Just love thll Joyous and gay season.

-M.S.

December 17, 1989 OUTTWEEK 45 UT OF

I o MV HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL

Dear Brad: sonably young and perhaps someday ing more remained to be discussed Jack turned up at my place last his dream would be fulfilled since it and would he please just leave. II night with this bunch of roses, :t box of seemed simple enough. Then he said I really thought that would be the chocolates and one of those stupid he meant he wanted to take the end of it but he's called my machine beefcake greeting cards. I thought romantic carriage ride with me and I three more times tonight and also maybe there was some occasion I'd knocked the bowl of mixed nuts off asked a mutual friend to intercede. forgotten, like my birthday or some- the bar. Jack proceeded to tell me that Frankly, I don't have the patience for thing, but he smiled and said he sim- he'd given the matter a lot of thought these shenanigans. Is there some ply felt like giving me presents. I and realized that he was in love with quick, efficient way I can get Jack to remarked I had presence enough, me. I hoped that we were possibly just go away without hurti~ him? though it might nicely be augmented a little confused about our terms and -Pestered by a Cartier watch, and left the roses in asked him if his idea of love involved the kitchen sink while we went to see anything more than occasional dates Dear Pestered: Valmont. At the end of the picture, and required any degree of reciprocity Unfortunately not. Sad to say, it's Jack turned to me and said, "You on my part. He said that as a matter of quite impossible for human beings to know, love doesn't have to be like fact it did and started to expand on it touch each other without leaving a that." I replied the book was better but but I grabbed my coat and high-tailed bruise. Although you are to be com- that's 'lsually the way it is with adapta- it out of there. mended for the admirable restraint tions. \lie walked across town in rela- He left a couple of messages on you have thus far displayed, anybody tive silence until we reached Fifth my answering machine which I insensitive enough to pursue a discus- . Avenue and he suddenly suggested ignored. This morning he called my sion of deep and personal emotions taking a carriage ride through the park. office but I paid the receptionist ten in public settings-which are defined I explained that it was an unbearably dollars to say I was out of the country as those places in which at least more cold evening and that for those prices on business for an indefinite length of than one person is present-is unlike- we should get something we both time and couldn't be reached. When I ly to be deterred by delicate handling. might enjoy, like couple of drinks at got back from lunch he was Sitting in Distasteful though it may be, you the Cafe de la Paix. He agreed with me my office, demanding-deman- must resign yourself to the fact that, but remained awfully sullen and I fig- ding!.L-to. know what he'd done to unless you want to start receiving ured something was bothering him. deserve this kind of treatment. I said long, single-spaced letters on several Against my better judgement, I asked if he didn't know then I certainly sheets of lined notepaper, you are him just exactly what was going on. wasn't going to be the one to tell him, going to have to hurt a feeling or two. He said he'd always dreamed of taking that job usually being reserved to a That being the case, you might as a romantic carriage ride through best friend or paid professional. He weB make it a kind of a game and Central Park with somebody he loved. said that was hardly a satisfactory hurt all of them. If Jack were to be Since that was all he was upset about, answer and I said it would have to do completely demoralized and embit- I easily assured him he was still rea- since, as far as I was concerned, noth- tered not only would he leave you alone but he would no longer present a threat to anyone else. You'd really be doing everybody a big favor, if you think about it in the right way, and big favors are good things. If you're in difficulty thinking of a way to go about performing this service, allow me to point out that Christmas Eve is fast approaching and. there's truly no better time in the year to demoralize and embitter a person, except perhaps October or February or certain days in June. Carpe diem, as our Latin friends would say! ...

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own asses ever since we began revealing should realize is that when people are gos- I things about people at Vanity Fair. See, in siping with a higher cause in mind, they your world, everyone can be bought. So feel NO REMORSE.They don't care about you figure that if you give me a piece of getting down and diny since the ends justi- gossip about someone else, we'll leave fy the means, And, quite frankly, I feel the you alone. h also helps you deal with your same way. own guilt by "telling on" others and it's So now,. we have enough trash to always good to put .the person down the write a book about Liz Smith (Daily News) I hall a few spaces back. It's the. nature of (sharks always gather when they sm~ll the game. Meanwhile, all of you just keep blood), and to write quite a few chapter~ : empowering us with MORE AND MORE about lots of other people who've been By Michelangelo Signorlle' AND MORE information. It's all ammuni- mentioned (or alluded to) in this column. tion for us to fire back at you. And that Oh, and lots of stuff on those who've not An open letter to all of you shot does get heard around the world. yet been in this column but who most cer- You tell me you got a laugh out of tainly will be in the future. (and you know who you are): the Vanity Fair column, when, in some Why am I doing this? cases, you were laughing at yourselves, Well, I'll not deny that in the process At least three of you have told me the your friends or even people in your own I get some son of kick out of it. Yeah, it's story about the famous not-so-out-of-tbe- office; even your own boss. Some of you satisfying; even fun. But there is another, closet lesbian photographer. As it goes, gave me information about a co-worker or bigger reason. See, FOR ABOUT TEN when she was working at a rag that is less a friend, not even knowing that that same YEARS WE HAVE TRIED TO MOTIVATE glamorous but as equally well-known as person had given me information about YOU FUCKING IDIOTS. We have tried to the current one she shoots for, she flew on you. CANNIBALS!And then there are the EDUCATEyou. We have tried to make you the wings of love with a famous movie others of you, some at publications I don't see that we are all-including your- actress. They met and had a torrid affair even read (but I guess I should), feeding selves--being wiped out. We have tried to when Ms. Photographer was snapping pies me gossip in a -desperate attempt to make you realize that we're being mur- of Ms. Movie Actress for a story the maga- appease your own guilt. It's amazing that dered by a negligent government. And zine was doing. Ms. Movie Actress became you would all care so much about all of your response has been to buy a new out- quite curious as to what direction the story this, but I guess no one wants to be called fit and go to another benefit while you was taking. So, Ms. Photographer, caught an. UNCLE TOM FAG or UNCLE TOM wait for your next job promotion. ~hose of up in the passions of romance, snuck in DYKE-especially when it's true. you who have spaces to voice yoar opin- and got the galleys and gave them to Ms. Now there's even a guy who spies on ions have decided that your contribution Movie;:Actress to peruse-a to ending the AIDS crisis is naughty thing to do. After. in merely writing about reading it', Ms. Movie Actress Elizabeth TayJor and the and her agent were furious glitzy benefits. with the not-yet-published And so now, realizing story, which portrayed Ms., that "conscience" is not the Movie Actress in a bad light. way to get to you people, They made a major stink to we've decided to peddle the magazine's editors. And, your own shit, and throw oh, boy, was Ms. Photo- back at you all the garbage grapher in BIG trouble. ' you spew out. Why did three of you Of course, you can all tell me this story? For the '.dis empower us instantly if same reason that lots others of you are people and calls me up every couple of you'll just break the chain of homophobia suddenly telling me even more scandalous days from a pay phone on the street while and give us nothing 'to write about. I stories about your co-workers, your boss- he's doing his dirty work. He tells me how promise, I'll go get a job at the pennysaver es, your friends, your lovers and your ex- many drinks Pat Buckley has at Mortimer's or something. I'll stay out of trouble for a lovers who are climbing alongSide you in during lunch-and tells me lots else about while, honest. the hierarchy of the social elite and are, where other people go. Then there's the For starters, if you're gay or lesbian like you, getting a few crumbs in return for famous magazine editor's ex-chauffeur, you can come out of the closet, publicly. staying quiet about homophobia. All of who has plenty to say about her and her You can make sure that we're visible and you are self-serving megalomaniacs; the carryings on. Of course, for them, and for included. You can voice your opinions filth and garbage that stains this city but quite a few others who are giving me dirt, loudly and clearly. You can attack the ultimately rises to the top via shameless- the rationalization for gossiping is that it's homophobes, instead of glorifying them. ness. In your slime-pit world in which you for a higher cause since they're giving it to YOU CAN TEll THE AMERICANPEOPLE all GNAW AND CHEW YOUR WAY UP, the person one of them calls "the activist ABOUT THE INJUSTICE THAT HAS you've been worried about saving your gossipist." That's fine. But what you all See GOSSIP WATCH on page 50

December 17, 1989 OUT~WEEK 47 What You ,

en't wimpy. If y Need t 'II get back in yo AI to stop). When they hard you'll have brui K some reason, lemme g developed sense of sarca a defense against a) strai ) obnoxiously self-assured to k they know EVERYTHING. emme dykes need love, too. Fo part, femmes don't do the picking get picked uP. Once we understand erhaps we'll stop waiting for that t1ful waffle-haired woman to come over d debate the New Jodie Watley vs. the Old Jodie Watley. This of course raises prob- lems for Femmes Who Want Femmes (another support group?). I think they can work it out among themselves. 5) Things we shouldn't make fun of: Lipstick Perfume Poofy Skirts Garter Belts snapping in public Throwing like a girl Looking like a girl Aerobics classes Lust from afar Being ticklish Theneed to be dressed up on a twice- weekly basIs Maternal InstIncts LIkIng bad Femme Girl Bands (Seduction, Expose, Belinda Carlisle...) I would like to thank a few women for enlightening me on this sublect. And, I'm sorry about before...

48 OUT~WEEK December 17, 1989 ··~-----·2J "crlsls::ri1 Jour .1~eD:,ii'~litam. ~~~:~~~:t getlnvolvld:~b~b~~~~~~b have !"ntlmacy problems, and Jou're t.od busy, what with trying to deal with a RACIST; , , SEXIST,HOMOPHOBICgovernment and IIgti~: Ing out what to. wear to Sound Factorv~all >} althe same time? .,

4) You spend an Inordinate amount of -- time In'the video store • : The •~"!;.." " .' '- • >.~~.:>:::';.... 5) Your ex-lover, who's now Jour best ·.'.,"."'.'·H· ..·.<·, . '''"frlend; Is sleeping with ilerlhls previous ex- love'r's ex-Iovef;who used to date your one- ".~~ best friend, who, at the lime, was Age ..:~~~~~.~l~Gso~eo,lJ_ewho,was always quesllon- , :··~~:~~IJ;PJ~~ft'e~.,~hu~HlY,but who now Is a . :.~pj~l~urs ,!~Dm yolisleep with, and, ihOQg\~YDAl'JI!,";Jbver slill wants to sleep of wli~~&v.·'a'nd~>ih·DUgh the culle pie In the vldeoslDle~:h8re-:J,dU spend all of your tlme-vili~t~:~o: ~"~~!De your new lover, you'rereslgired'~l1rthe fact that occasslonal- Iy bofflng a good friend Is Just fine, thank CFLEQS JOU. by Sarah Penll 6) You tell everyone you hate Thir- tysomething, but JOUwatch It every week. and MiChelangelo Signorile .,.' 7) You've fucked everyone you know-even that meat puppet In the video store whom you can't get awaJ from. Who will you do for the nineties!?!? 8) You go Into convulsions which leave you unconscious. When you awake, you see that you've unknowingly taped thll "gay" episode of Thirtysomething so that you can save It for future reference. 9) You've pierced your ears, Jour nose, your nipples. And now you're afraid that there's only one part left to pierce.

'10) You decide Jou're never going to the video store again. But you have one of those convulsions and when you wake up you're there-feverishly searchlnlt through the foreign film section while occasionally glancing up at the counter. There's a new hot thing behind the cash register.

December 17, 1989 our.WEEK 49 GOSSIP WATCH from PI. 47 CASSELBERRY-DUPREE fnom page 41 store for future? OCCURRED DURING THE PAST TEN minute here. For starters, what do you JD: Remember earlier we talked YEARS INSTEAD OF TELLING THEM say when people ask you if you are Ras- aboOt the original material we're devel- ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL THE 80s tas? oping? Well, one of our plans is for WERE BECAUSE"OPRAH WINFREY EPIT- JD: No. other artists to perform and record some OMIZED THE EXCITEMENT OF THE JC: No. of that material. We've been getting MEDIA DECADE." Maybe, you can HG: Just like that? some concepts ready for a video pro- ev~n-heaven forbidl-get off your asses, JD: Well, we aren't· Rastas. Our duction. Besides going to art school for go~Into the streets and scream and yell spirituality has other sources. Besides, graphics and illustration, my personal your heads off WITH THE REST OF US?!?! people all over the world have" worn goals include going deeper into two It's really up to all of you. Perhaps dreadlocks for hundreds of years, not. kinds of music I particularly you should look to your colleague Billy just Rastas. We hope people will do a love-gospel and country-by doing Norwich (Daily News), who is slowly little historical h<;>mework, and grow solo albumsj then when C-D isn't busy,.I beginning to change, saying more about beyond stereotypical assumptions. can do my solo cabaret act. AIDS and even glowingly writing up ACT HG: Okay, moving right along with JC: For the band, the future will UP just a couple of weeks afterthe activist your personal bUSiness, what do you do mean increased international travel. For group protested his dear friend Pat when you're off the road? me as an individual, the future will Buckley (a dear message to Pat). He even JC: This is my last year as a full- mean continuing to work on recording seems to be straining, trying to write less time scholarship student at Berklee Col- production projects, producing demos and less about Pat and her vain, cosmetic lege of Musicj in May I'll get my and mastertapes for othelJ artists. I'll attempts at clearing the Buckley name. Bachelor's of Music in Music Production take private guitar lessons 'and continue And in an upcoming issue of The & Engineeringj recently Yamaha present- with my private vocal lessons. I want to Advocate, in a story written by Chris Bull ed me an award for technical and aca- learn languages-Spanish for openers all about the OutWeekiBuckley controver- demic excellence in music production and maybe even Japanese. Being a liter- sy, "a columnist" responds to my implica- and engineering. With Nurudafina Pili acy program volunteer would be very tions that he is gay by practically coming Abena, an African American woman satisfying, and so would working in drug out: "I understand what (Signorile] is trying multicultural percussionist in Boston decriminalizati0n and rehabilitation. to do. Sexuality is very complicated. I who has some truly heavy hands, I've Eventually I'll get a Ph.D. in ethnomusi- know silence equals death. I'm not as been studying conga and jun-jun drums, cology, with specific studies in some stupid as you might think." (As Liz Smith gogo and cow bells. For physical combination of music, history and cul- has said to you, "Way to go young Billy!") enrichment and fun, I play second base ture. Honestly, all of you don't have the on the Amazons of Dahomey Softball HG: One last thing. You .are sea- time to deal with our jabbing you. You're Team, though I'm now willing to consid- soned veterans of the women's music much too busy moving UP, UP, UP (which er pitching. Most of my free time is festival scene, which, though it has is fme, since we need you there). So why spent at home with my sweetheartj we grown tremendously in terms of the. not do it the right way? You'd not only like music videos and pictionary and our racial mix of talent, still presents mostly save yourselves a lot of headaches (Le. dog. white talentj will there ever be an inter- having us expose you), but you'd actually JD: I'm getting ready to go to art national women of color music and arts be doing some good. school. Since childhood creating visual festival? Love & Kisses, art has been fulfillingj wherever I live, JD: A few years ago we had a M. my drawing table is permanently set up, series of meetings to explore this idea. and I spend hours and hours there. I The foundations were laid, and we are was' raised in the church, so spirituality pursuing it. is crucial and attending church is part of JC:' We can't continue to expect my life, even on the road. I want to con- others to proVide for us. We have to tinue to lend support to those in chil- invest in ourselves. It's a must. dren's shelters, halfway houses and Casselbeny-DuPree will be perform- prisons. Karate is useful for keeping ing at the Borough of Manhallan Com- toned Upj I played third base for Ama- munity College (199 Chambers St. zons of Dahomey. In my home, I like between West St. and Greenwich St.) in a listening to many types of music and concert to benefit the Brooklyn Women's Icooking and hostessing for my lover and Martial Art5. Ticket5 are $15 in advance, Ispecial friends. . $20 at the door and $2for children. Call I HG: As a performing entity Cassel- Ticketmaster at (212) 307-7171 or berry-DuPree recently celebrated its BWMA at (718) 788-1775. The concert tenth anniversary, though the two of you will be wheelchair accessible and sign actually worked together ten years language interpreted. Childcare will be before that, in New York and California, provided free of charge. in other bands. Now, after nearly 20 Hattie Gossett is the author of Pre- years in the music business with nary a senting ... Sister No Blues, Firebrand face-lift in Sight, (laughter) what's in Books, 1988. 50 OUT~WEEK December 17, 1989 Film Three Men in a Noche

love for the boy with only the slightest hints of bemusement from the rest of his low-life clientele. ("He likes men," one oldtimer tells another.) Johnny is homeless and broke, spending what little cash he has on cigarettes- and video games. Walt takes advantage of the situation, offering food, shelter and driving lessons to Johnny and his constant com- panion Roberto (Ray Monge) .. The film speedS along with jagged grace, paus- ing for joyous moments which justify Walt's one- sided pursuit of Johnny (a car, ride, a playful afternoon with a home movie camera, a giddy dance in the kitchen). Like the road sequences in Drugstore Cowboy, where abstract beauty signified altered consciousness, events in Mala Noche are I CAN'T BEUEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING distilled to their emotional core; parts of the frame lim Streeter as "Walt" are often masked or disappear into shadow.to high" light the essence of a scene. After an unsuccessful attempt to bed Johnny, Walt takes Roberto home. The sequence encapsulizes the film's ongoing intersection of poetry and realism. Tl;leir sex is filmed with by Karl Soehnlein both lyrical eroticism (planes of skin colliding in the light of·a single bulb) and mundane reality (Walt running to the bath- room for the lube because Roberto is fucking with such clumsy fury.) here's a tendency lately to describe gay characters in The day after, Walt struts down the boulevard looking . fUm, theater and literature like this: "So-and-so, who James Dean-cocksure, his proud posture belied by his self- happens to be gay ..." This is usually considered a deprecating narrative: "My ass is sore. He tried to use his cock compliment;T the character's sexuality is a given, a sort of back- like a weapon, the machO-fucking prick." Walt "speaks" in one ground against which the narrative -gets played out. However; way or another throughout the entire film. Indeed, since nei- this attitude can, in the process of telling a story, strip a character ther Johnny nor any of his friends speak any English (and with of his or her pol itical identity and all that makes it unique, in the one exception there are no subtitles), the viewer is forced to hopes of making sexuality less of an "issue." MaJa.Noche isn't. so rely on Walt's translations. Despite the dangerous potential for coy: it's a film not just about desire, but about gay desire. a white man's slant on Latino immigrants, Walt's candid narra- Homosexuality is not an isSue per se, but nor is is secondary; tions are wonderfully self-aware, offering 'an occasionally pro- indeed, it's the axis on which the rest of the film rotates. found, if often racially stereotypical, view of his desires and Mala Noche, made in 1985, is being brought back due to the "boys" who shape them. the success of director Gus Van Sant's latest film, Drugstore Walt rationalizes it all for love,and willingly puts him- C~ The spedfic and sympathetic voice given to junkies in self in the humi'liating situations to consummate his obses- that fUm here belongs to a gay man. Funkier in style Oow-bud- sion. Though definitely not PC, Mala Noche is oddly get, black-and-white), Mala Noche once again reveals Van Sant's sexually liberating. Such a fucked-up gay character has ability to get in the head of one of society's "misfits" and portray rarely been portrayed with such clarity and senSitivity, and him both fairly and critically. without shame. Walt may be pathetic, but he's not patho- Walt (rim Streeter) runs a dingy "ronvenience" store, seUing logical. . Pall MaUsand Night Train to the local street fX)pulation. He is a Van Sant seems to take all of this in stride. Life is an character of contradictions--ranting aoout the needless slaughter ci uncontrollable series of events which are best managed came for McDonald's burgers, then calling a woman a "fatrow slut" with persistence and humor. Mala Noche stumbles matter of a few moments later. His life is brightened with the arrival of a new factly through "big issues"-power, desire, obsession-but boy in town, a Mexican illegal alien with the romantically heroic declines any resolutions. As for Walt, despite tragedy, life' name ciJohnny A1onw. goes on with a shrug of the shoulders and a rev of the The first time Johnny (Doug Cooeyate) graces the engine. Walt-doesn't fight the power, he just tries to grab his store, Walt flirts openly and with glee, proclaiming his own little piece of it. T

December 17. 1989 OUTTWEEK 51 Dahce Farrell Farewell .. of its five sections. Balanchine, the choreographer who taught audiences not to need narratives, made Vienna Waltzes character specific, including one scene, the "Gold and Silver Waltz," drawn from tehar's Merry Widow. The finale floods the stage with ballet dancers in formal dress, waltzing-no more, never less. As she proved once again at her farewell performance, for all the attempts at simulation, Farrell is also the exception that is ·its oWfl rule. Probably no other woman in billet has been as aggressively studied by her peers. During the 1960s, students aiming for NYCB went as far as painting dimples on their chins to look like her. The Farrell physique-long limbs, small NO PRIMA MORE SERENA head, radiant wealth-became the con- Flowers for Farrell temporary prototype, worldwide. Vienna Waltzes calls for one of by Otis Stuart emergent generation of NYCB male the prodigious, space devouring tech- dancers such as Peter Boal, Damian nique for which Farrell was first Woetzel and Jeffrey Edwards, may be famous. Its movement vocabulary has in the process of redefining the possi- one foot in our world. Young lovers ew York City Ballet, cur- bilities of men in classic dance, but bal- meet in a garden. Experienced lovers rently in residence at the lerina has always been the company toast and tangle. Finally, in a mirrored NNew York State Theater, trump. At this performa~ce, the stage ballroom, a woman in white waltzes, traditionally opens its winter season was virtually littered with them, from first alone, then partnered, then amid with a preview of coming attractions. an antic, electric Merrill Ashley in a thousand other couples. The woman Before Nutcracker claims December, Square Dance to Judith Fugate sailing apart is Farrell, and her role, among NYCB audiences sometimes get two, through the ''Voices of Spring" section other things, is all of romantic ballet this year one, weeks of the repertory of Vienna Waltzes. But Vienna WaltzeS compressed into a waltz. She dreams. performances that will resume in "Rosenkavalier" finale also concluded She tries. She dies and is reborn on a January. The bounty of this year's dis- the career of perhaps the most influen- stage filled with her likenesses. play approached the drunken-sailor tial ballerina of our ti~e. As the work's It takes a big technique, the kind stage of lavishness, including three shimmering centerpiece-miles of beyond any specific discipline. The landmark works by the company's white satin' train, tiara, the works---the ba1iis if not only what is being done founding choreographer, George c;ompany's muse in reSidence, Suzanne but how-fully, freely, fearlessly- nalanchine-Tchaikovsky Suite No.3 Farrell, retired from performing. and, most of all, why, the two areas (precedent-setting ballerina role), It was an appropri'ate choice for of performance in which Farrell Square Dance (ditto) and Vienna the send-off, not only because Vumna remains unparalleled. Her physical Waltzes (five scenes, company of 50). Waltzes was a ballet Balanchine made technique may be matched but not The premiere week's concluding for Farrell; there were 23 of· those the qualities that amplified it-the performance, however, was a reminder between the time Farrell joined New depth, the wit and chic, the belief. of how ephemeral a fact ballet is, even York City Ballet in 1961 and Alone on her stage, Farrell waltzed at its best. The program was a capsule Balanchine's last ballet, Variations for with her phantom, then abandoned testament to a NYCB contribution to Orchestra in 1982, a solo for Farrell. herself to her partner, and finally, dance, the 20th-century ballerina: For one thing, -Vienna Waltzes, like alone again, circled out of sight, fol- Square Dance and Vienna Waltzes Farrell, is the anomalY as success story. lowed by the only possible compen- plus Peter Martins' Sophisticated Lady Full throttle theater, Vienna Waltzes is sation for the exit of that solitary and Jerome Robbins' In the Night. The a ballet using pointe shoes in only one figure: a stage filled with dancers ....

52 OUTTWEEK December 17, 1989 Music Goodnight, Andy

by William F. Chafin With his "hair silver like a Tiffany was a robot or machine ...People who Watch," he is available in his home or want. to meet the name I have are at The Factory to anyone who comes always disappointe.d in me." "Images" around: "It's a Czechoslovakian custom finally speaks of Andy's art. While his or four nights, only, the my mother passed on to me/the way Electric Chair is being projected, shift- Brooklyn Acaderfly of Music's to make friends, Andy, is to invite ing colors constantly, Cale plays the Opera House was the scene them up for tea." hell out of his viola and Reed accom- ofF the first collaborative reunion of John Lou Reed sings as shffting images panies on guitar while we find "it Cale and Lou Reed since disbanding the or Warhol's "superstar" are projected doesn't matter what I'm thinking/it's Velvet Underground in 1968. Consisting . behind him. The third song, '!Style it the images worth repeating." of 15 songs, Songs for 'Drella-a Fiction Takes," sung by John Cale, describes "A Dream" is one of the most is a musical post-mortem portrait of the the symbiotic method of Warhol's moving pieces of the entire song- life of Andy Warhol: his small-town cycle. A John Cale/Eno-esque song of childhood, move to New York, artistic floating, beautifully-layered textures, concepts, rise to fame, lifestyle and ~_~II; ~IIAM Cale recites excerpts from the now TEAR UI'If{~MlX untimely death. Each song adds detail HERE infamous Warhol diary. Sometimes to the great portrayal filtered through Tomato funny ("Ondine is so normal off Reed and Cale's memories of Warhol, drugs: I don't get it"), but ultimately the tone shifting from anger to love to poignant, Warhol complains that he wry irony,to biller resentment to nostal- hates Lou Reed because he thinks gic regret, reflecting the ambiguity of Reed hates him. Always the OutSider, emotions each of the musicians feel always ultimately alone, the):liary when they think about Andy today. entry/song ends sadly with "nobody Songs for' Drella takes its title called and nobody came." In the final from the insider nickname for Warhol song, "Hello, It's Me," Reed sings from the 60s. 'Drella, a combination about regret and Iingering resent- of Dracula and Cinderella, reflects the 'Orella ments: "I wish I talked to -you more dichotomy of the Warhol mystique. A ...... when you were alive ...1 really miss name the artist did not exactly like, .~.T~Q)."++you/when I saw you last I turned the use of 'Drella in the title is an 1111111111 IIUIII "111 "1 ... 11 I"U' 111111 away ... 1 thought you were self- aggressive act in itself and exposes assured but you were really the double-edged sword to be used to ascendancy in his new environment: shy ...You're diaries are not a worthy cut out and paste together this inti- "You've got connections/! like your epitaph ...Goodnight Andy." mate portrait of Warhol' the musicians looks ...I've got the style it takes/you've Ultimately, Songs for' Drella-a are about to present. got the people it takes." But lest you Fiction is a remarkable work. While Lou Reed claims this work think Andy merely leeched his way to Members of the audience were heard is entirely fictitious, these songs are fame and fortune, the next song, a real afterward commenting how on target definitely based in fact. The first one, shocker, explains that Warhol's main they had captured ~arhol-with no "Smalltown" is about the artist's youth tenet was "Work." Reed tells a story bullshit added. Indeed, the historical in Pittsburgh. It is immediately appar- about the pop icon asking him how tension between the triangle John ent that the depiction of Warhol we many songs he'd written that day. As Cale, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol are about to get will be brutally hon- he had written none, he lied and said, helped to weave together a gripping est, sparing no details or feelings. "Ten." Warhol replied that was not concert-theater piece that I. enjoyed Calling Warhol a gay "pink-eyed paint- . enough. "If you want to get ahead you immensely. Enhanced by the scenic ing albino" who can never fit in in should have written 15," he tells Reed. design and projections of Jerome Pittsburgh, it tells of Andy's early ambi- In "Faces and Names," shades of Sirkin (Philip Glass' 1,000 Airplanes tion to leave town and become an vulnerabili~y begin to emerge in this on the Roo/J, the classically trained artist. Lamenting that "no one famous musical portrait. With Cale as Andy, Cale, in perfect counterpoint to the ever came from here ... There's no deep insecurities are expressed: "Faces rock-oriented Reed, created an indeli- Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh," .and names only cause trouble for bly candid portrait of Warhol as an Warhol moves to New York and fol- me...I always fall in love with someone artist and as a .man. Goodnight Andy! lows the customs of "Open House." who looks like I wish I could ...I wish I Sweet Dreams ....

December 17, 1989 OUT~WEEK 53 Art A DAY WITHOUT ART, Friday December 1, 1989 bring about the ena

.54 OUT~WEEK December 17. 1989 .1 art world, and its escalating destruc- Reagan. The book banners were It is not the role of government to tion in the African American commu- defeated after years of hard work and prevent ideas from reaching the' peo- nity. a U.S. Supreme Court decision which pIe.. ,:_, ' We are presenting readings by stated: "Our Constitution does not Artists are at the forefront of "Other Countries" because of the permit the official suppression of thought, expression and change'in' group's positive message and elo- ideas." [Board of. Education, Island every society; they present the truth quent voices of empowerment. With Trees v. Pico (1982)1 as they see it, and certain truths, such this presentation, we hope to serve as In the 1990s, the issue wiII be as AIDS, cannot be portrayed tasteful- exemplar in the community and censorship in the visual arts: whether ly, they can only be portrayed realisti- encourage all responsible institutions to purge museums and galleries of cally. in Harlem and across the nation to unpleasant realities such as AIDS, to A Day Without Art is a ~ymbblic place' the AIDS epidemic high on their silence the expression of unpopular beginning. to a bitter struggle about agendas. or controversial ideas, and to limit the future of freedom of thought and discussion on facts of life with which expression in American culture. Gregg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto, David Rimanelli, Videomakers: Critic: We align our- For the most selves with every- ALL part, A Day one who withdrew Without Art" con- their participation sisted of symbolic from the art world erasures. Muse- on A Day Without PEOPLE WIIH AIDS ums and galleries Art. But, we call for dimmed their lights a day that AIDS or closed shop for activists question the day. At the the definition of art. ARE Metropol itan We think that the Museum Qf Art, category of art Picasso's P~rtrait should be expanded INNOCENT of Gertrude Stein to if)c1ude explicit was temporarily safer sex informa-' removed, replaced tion and information by a st~tement on about drugs and the exhasuting and alternative treat- seemingly inex- ments. The defini- orable loss of life tion of art should from AIDS. include all culture Louise Lawler's that is produced by installation at Metro people in the com- Pictures, Helms munities hit hardest ' Amendment (#963), by AIDS out of their adumbrates a differ- efforts to combat ent kind of loss and government inac- mourning meta- tion; out of their phorically enacted efforts to represent by darkness and disappearance ,. the~selve~ . and THE OFFENDING ITEM their conditions of , .. Referring to politi- existence. All cul- Gran Furys flap-raising flag cally-sanctioned tural work that is produced out of Americans refuse to come to terms dimness, Lawler has simply installed 94 movements for social change such as nudity, eroticism, human sex- identical black and white photos of a· deserves to be included within the uality in general and homosexuality in spotlit paper cup, labelling each with category of art. particular. the name of a senator who voted in The First Amendment protects favor of the Helms Amendment (four Steven Pico, Artist and First not only freedom to speak, but to abstained, and only two-Moynihan Amendment Advocate: think and to create. I believe it also and Weicker-dissented), Spare, Anti-intellectualism in the 1970s protects corollary freedoms: the right reserved and deadpan, Lawler's installa- resulted in book-banning across the of the public to read, to see, to know tion was creepily resonant. In the face U.S. and the election of Ronald and to receive information and ideas. See A DAY WITHOUT ART on page 62

December 17, 1989 OUTTWEEK 55 Art

Alan Hampshire's two works in the exhibit were a delight to view, ANewVenue particularly the intensely introspective washboard-stomached blond, clothes -Reminiscent of a Geome Grosz work, pins attached to his cock and balls, in by Jon Nalley Brozgold's "Boys! Livef" of/paintings, all reflected to Embryo" and "Moonbathing.· The irony xeroxed photo.s 'as a hot harnessed some degree the variety of conflicts of this venue was inherent in David man with looming and booming cock inherent to the spectrum of gay male Fisch's oil sketch "Next Morning." The and text relating to "cum dripping sexuality. In Richard Merle's rogues man painted was someone he'd picked from Jeffs chest," "pumping gallons of gallery of ten prelates, the audience up at The Tunnel. Curated by Rick cum," and "each lash hurting less." was prOVided with a printed ballot in Barnett, the nine-hour Gay All the Way Exuding talent with a variety of order' to select the two who seem exhibit ended with performance/ media and representation, two very "Gay All the Way" (alluding to the demonstrations by chained, manacled different works by Lee Brozgold were Time magaZine report that 20 percent and masked members of the New York contained in Gay All the Way, of the Catholic clergy is gay). Bondage Club...

56 OUT~WEEK December 17, 1989 Performance Mason/Stockman Line explain the reasons for their various I'm not quite sure what connotes by]ann Wasser rhythmical movements. a singing star. Sure there's the vocal These puppets ("the ventriloquat- instrument, the intonation and that ed," according to Buster) sing songs in undefinable quality called charisma. If Spanish and Pig-Latin, make passes at Karen Mason has not yet achieved . With his curly blond' audience members, tell dirty jokes and stardom in the Broadway!Hollywood/ hair, cherubic face and imitate the famous; everyone from a Recording firma~ent, it's not due to friendly manner, Todd palsy-ridden Katherine Hepburn to a lack of talent which is on ample dis- Stockman could easily have become maniacal Tina Turner. If these men play during this wonderful show. another chorus boy, forever dancing on and women of the hand have anything Dressed in a strapless black the cusp of greatness. Luckily for us, at in common, it's their overt sexual play- gown, she stands on the tiny stage age seven, his mother handed him a fulness. But the jokes are wrapped in a illuminated by an amber spotlight. The puppet and a ventriloquist was born, soft cashmere blanket, excusing them song is "Silent Night," the traditional His show at Eighty-Eights is the perfect from any hostile reactions. Who would standard we've known since our antidote to the holiday blues, a sumptU- want to tackle with a dummy? bygone youth, Midway through the ous laugh riot guaranteed to leave song, while her voice is soaring to a everyone in stitches, The last time I crescendo, I sneak a peek around the howled this much was at Joan Rivers' room. All eyes are upon her. Noooqy 1983 Carnegie Hall concert. And those sips a cocktail, sneezes or shifts in were the days when most of the audi- their seat. Even Maggie, the waitress, ence was stiUtrying to decide whether watches in amazement, attempting to out was in·orVice versa. balance a trayful of drinks and I).ei of course, the agile Mr. own curiosity. Such devotion is rare':' .Stockman doesn't go it alone. He Let it be known: Superb vocal receives tremendous help from some technique does not guarantee a flawless close friends, or "The Kids" as they show. However, given the paucity of are known. These handsomely song stylists today, it certainly proVides designed puppets serve as a certain cushion. In Mason's case, her Stockman's alter ego, enabling both HE OBVIOUSLY NEVER SAW -MAGleN flawless "vocalese" supercedes several him and us to instantly eVoke ,child- Todd Stockman and one of the -Kids· minor glitches. The patter in between like merriment of sophisticated Photo:.RoyBlakey songs sometimes seems trite and once charm. And this show has enough So far, the public has yet to dis- in a while there is no fluidity in her charm and wit to outlast Noel cove'r Todd Stockman. Once this movements. I know this is a Christmas Coward. Unlike the late Wayland review is on the newsstands, I have a Show, but except for a smattering of Flowers whose bitchy puppet Madam sneaking suspicion the secret will be UDreydel Dreydel," where is a good masqueraded as an adult humor out. old-fashioned Chanukah song? There machine, Stockman's Kids are home- There is no secret about Karen might be 12 days of Christmas, but the grown muppets who have expropriat- Mason. She has been singing for her Jews are only four days behind. ed life's idiosyncracies for their own supper since the late 1970s, first at the But I choose to ignore these flaws lopsided use. One even harbors a Duplex, then systematically progress- which in time, will work themselves sexual secret which comes in handy ing to the city's larger boites. She has out. Instead, I lean back, relax and lis- at the most appropriate moment. finally landed a Broadway role, ten to Mason's lush voice caressing Buster, a furry creature with a replacing yenta songstress Debbie "The Christmas Song," "Sleigh Ride" Wide-eyed innocence, introduces us Shapiro in "Jerome Robbins and other December favorites. If I.have via song, to a world of pure imagina- Broadway" and has returned to the one regret it's that I wasn't sharing this tion. Buster, like the puppets who fol- cabaret stage for her Eighth Annl,lal cozy moment with someone I love.... low and reappear throughout the Christmas Show, If Todd Stockman evening may be "dummies,· but you provokes tears of laughter, Karen Todd Stockman and the Kids could never tell by their offbeat chatter Mason's singing glides down as plays Saturdays December 16, 23, 30 or amusing anecdotes. Obie, the bald smoothly as mercury over ice. Her at 8:30 pm. Karen Mason plays puppet with a healthy ego, offers mouth opens and what emerges -are Saturdays 16, 23 at i 1.:30. Both at excellent Imitations of Ray Charles and some of the sweetest sounds you'll Eighty-Jiights, 228 W. 10th St. Tel, Stevie Wonder, going as far as to hear this holiday season. (212) 924-0088.'

December 17, 1989 OUTTWEEK 57 Performance AIDS and Poetry: Changing the Channels

bursts of Black English, limp down to the earth, to Harlem itself, Wrists and clenched fists. where these young poets will not Other Countries have only set the issue aflame, but will kick continuously asserted their it in the butt and send it running. accomplishments as living And run it did. Words and images Black gay male poets. I first propelled this audience into the life encountered their work experiences of 4ese men and their through the remarkable friends, people I feel I have known. Pyramid Periodical (a must Such as Ramon, ("he walked for for poetry lovers) which I hours in the park for years ...and knew found calling to me from a the floor plans of the X-rated theaters shelf in Philadephia's two- by heart ...") of Clift, (.....who woke up ~tory lesbian and gay book- one day angry, a member of the store, appropriately named majority ...ACTING UP"). The stuff of Giovanni's Room, Turning each text was daily life, testimony to one powerful page after the extent of the effects of AIDS and another, the works of Roy . HIV infection upon the lives of the Gonsalves, David Frechette Black communities generally and of and Colin Robinson literally these poets in particular. ffWJifI; sang to me on the train WHAT A GRANO GROUP A live video interl ink offered Photo:RodneyK_ Hurley home, leaving me hungry viewers several points of view of the Other Countries pose it up for more. Happily I encoun- performance, as well as providing tered them again at Yale's humorous cutaways to objects referred by Ray Navarro Outside/Inside Lesbian and Gay to in the barrage of metaphors. But Conference where members of the col- more importantly, each line, stanza lective presented a rich reading that and verse quietly wove a presence in touched my heart deeply during a the room, each effort revealed to us a t the Harlem Studio weekend of otherwise tepid academic person living, fighting and loving. Museum, Faith Reinggold's drivel. I was excited to learn that they Memories of lovers and friends A beautiful quiltworks would soon unveil a new body of blowing purple smoke-rings in a blue- offered a powerful visual analog for work dealing specifically with AIDS. So lit room, a vaseline monster, a bible Acquired Visions: Seeing Ourselves it was with quiet anticipation that I thumper, a practitioner of the B'hai Through AIDS, presented there by warmed my hands on a halogen bulb faith, a person with AIDS. Other Countries, a collective of Black in this brightly lit 'performance gallery, This seemed to be the point of gay male poets who live and work in and listened carefully. Acquired Visions: that yes, Black men New York. Reinggold's colorfully Acquired Visions began with stat- are rap, mUSiC, poetry, kites in the stitched panels reminded museum- ic-the dumb technical voice of a wind, risks. But the Black brothers we goers of the.greats of Black History. On television set, which suddenly begins have lo~t to AIDS were people, are this World AIDS Day, these magical, spitting out Donahue and Koppel, people still, with feelings, stories worth gifted word-loving men offered the fol- two of those white men who tell us telling pleasures and pure history. lowing reminder: many threads within what to think every day. Changing the The formal challenge here was the Names Project Quilt are Black, but channels, we are stopped suddenly as taken on· with full force. How to avoid they are also gay, tearful and angry. a Black face appears, a young gay a mish-mash of faceless names? So Tito Malcom Davis, David man reflecting upon the social crisis much AIDS "theater" has resulted in Frechette, Roy Gonsalves, Colin of AIDS, and the Black artist's dilem- cliched whining about government Robinson, Christopher Dana Rose, ma in confronting it. Several such inaction, or obscure personal refer- Terence Taylor and Donald Woods interviews follow, dragging AIDS from ences where "blackness" or minimal set showered the neighborhood with fiery the white controlled airwaves down, S•• AIDS AND POETRY on paga 71

58 OUT~WEEK December 17, 1989 Theater

and high priestess (Julia Dares), a tall, cherubic faced Amazon who gets to play drag ~ toe most exuberant and Bloo Ribbon hilarious way AND be a lesbian in the very first boy/girl drag show I have ever seen. She is also the first female member of BLOOLIPS.Antinous (Paul Shaw aka Precious Pearl) is notable not only for his petite frame and angelic face but also his glowing bottom woich lights up every time someone lOVinglygazes at it. Rounding out the play- ers there is a lively though non-speaking piano player (Mark Steinberg) who pounds out. tunes to match the vari- ous crazed queen dramas that take up the space. The stage is simple and well Iighted-twirls of tulle and ionic columns almost make the theater look like a bedroom from JerryStyle on East 4th Street. When Hadrian calls on Daphne to help him deter- mine how it was that Antinous died, she delivers a special memory potion that will allow the two of them to re- experience the fateful night of Antinous' disappearance. They meet a range of characters (all played by Bourne, Dares and Shaw) who represent some of the ugliest and most ludicrous aspects of contemporary Western life including Rim and Fammy Tae Bakker who worship a creature named Sandy and whose religiOUS devotion is partly predicated on eliminating homosexuals from the face of the earth, and a philosophy professor wh9 has gone mad and whose song "Dig a Little Deeper" ~s an excellent example of how humor can be used to convey by Maria Maggenti the most complex and difficult of specifically gay and les- bian experience. When the mad, flatulent, stinking profes- sor sings that Antinous was killed as a result of self-hatred, there was a palpable sense of recognition and he best humor, the kind that intensifies and height- devastation in the audience. ens our understand-ing of human experience, Daphne gets more than a few good moments in this always contains an 'element of pathos. It's a feeling piece-both as a "lesbian dick" (detective) where she gets thatT you could be crying just as easily as you are laughing to sing a ribald song about her "first time with a girl" and but you keep on laughing because it really-is ridiculous and as Diana the Huntress with the golden arrow who is as surprising and comical and silly the way those two men are good as she is wise. When Hadrian finally deddes to talking to each other w~i1e wearing those drooping t-shirts reunite with Antinous despite the fact that Antinous must and men's underwear on their heads which are supposed to live in the netherworld, I felt overwhelmed by the many represent Egyptian "hair" and they seem to be laughing loving gay feelings in this funny production. It seemed as themselves and winking slightly at the audience which though the play were a long, daffy, drag queen metaphor makes you feel complicitous and privileged and curious for our lives in the AIDS crisis where we c.onstantly wish about what will happen next in this fragile but resilient to move backwards in time and re-do what is now gone arrangement called the theater. and where we struggle daily not to die of our own self- This is the great gift of BLOOLIPS theater company, hatred. This core of deep feeling around which all the currently on view in a more intimate production than usual humor of the play is tethered was so well done that I Get Hur (A Roman Epic), a story of the vicissitudes of an found the chaotic staging,. forgotten lines and constant ancient Imperial love life pushed to its most illogical and flirting with the audience only more charming and even queerest of extremes with funny and poignant results. The needed as we realized we were watching ourselves as story is Emperor Hadrian's misfortuned love for a young well as the play. At the end, when Hadrian joins Antinous man named Antinous whose untimely and mysterious death and sings a Iitt-le ditty beckoning Antinous to be his. creates the catalyst for action in the play. Was Antinous a "sleepytime pal and stay home one night" the two of them victim of one of those "scratch-your-eyes-out-drag-balls?" together, I couid hear a man in the audience weeping. asks one character, or was he kidnapped and made a slave? Meanwhile~ the rest of the audience was laughing. The Hadrian (exquisitely and excellently played by compa- best humor, the most meaningful and long lasting kind, ny co-founder and core-member Bette Bourne) is assisted in always tells us more about ourselves than we think we this backward search through history by Daphne, the oracle need to hear. BLOOLIPSis absolutely a must-see. T

December 17,1989 OUT~WEEK lio: 59 Books

older, Ackerley began to buoy up his hopes with alcohol, rarely going any- Gold in Coal Mines where without his bottle of gin. The "Ideal Friend" did material- years he was the 11teraJYeditor of a ize-sort of-in a shape no one could leading English journal, or that he was have expected: A German shepherd one of the most esteemed writers of his named Queenie. Ackerley claimed his generation, in the same class as Evelyn obsession with sex diminished as his Waugh and Christopher Isherwood. love for Queenie grew. Queenie plays a What Parker has done has been to supporting role in Ackerley'S novel We compose AckeH'ey'slife into a coherent Think the World oj You, and takes center whole, making it possible for the first stage in My Dog Tulip, a hymn to canine time to view the struggles and contra- love. This last book was considered dictions that made him such a misun- highly indecent, especially the chapters derstood figure. on Tulip's bowels ("Liquids and Solids") J.R. Ackerley was born to an and on Ackerley's atfempts to have her upper-middle-class Victorian family of mated ("The Turn of the Screw"). The precarious respectability. His mother book only passed the censors because was your garden variety neurasthenic, of a legal question as to whether vague and hypochondriacal, once obscenity laws applied to dogs (as hon- claiming to have swallowed her uvula. ored in England as the Royal Family) as His father kept another family-a mis, they did to humans. Hindoo Holiday, tress and their three children-hidden Ackerley's 1932 account of his time in in a nearby villagej the two families India as the secretary to an eccentric met-to their mutual astonishment-at Maharajah, suffered severe cuts because the father'S funeral. A sister, Nancy, was of its amusing portrayal of the spoiled and argumentative, became Maharajah's interest in boys and the gen- progressively insane and a lifelong bur- erally lustful atmosphere of the court. by john Wing den to Ackerley. The one hope of the Ackerley was an artist and a rebel. family's declining fortunes rested on a he had the romantic's desire for ideals' brother, Peter, who was killed in the and distastes for limits. His writing has tcomesas no surprise to find in Great War. a clarity that is almost shocking. To an Peter Parker's biography that JR. "I had been brought up to sup- editor friend about the duties of a writ- IAckerley led a messy and entan- pose that people controlled their er to be provocative, Ackerley said: gled life. Ackerley had told as much in emotions and did not spill them about To speak the truth, I think that peo- his memoirs, My Father and Myself, in like piss or shit," Ackerley wrote. If he ple ought to be upset...! think that life is which he announced his illegitimate was puritanical in sexual matters in so important and, in its workings, so birth in the opening line: "I was born his youth and early adulthood, he upsetting, that nobody should be spared, in 1896 and my parents were married quickly made up for lost time. Parker but that it should (be) rammed down in 1919." Ackerley'S frank discussion of writes at length about Ackerley's their throatsfrom morning to night. . the failings of his upbringing and his dizzying rounds of seduction. Ackerley is a difficult subject for a descriptions of his numerous sexual Ackerley had a weakness for sailors biography since, having written so encounters (what he mock-innocently and policemen. He was also fond of brilliantly about himself in journals, called his search for the "Ideal Friend"), the rough and ready members of the letters and books, it would seem that shocked and outraged his friends and royal brigade of guards, famous for no one could possibly contribute aciy- family with his uncharacteristic grim- supplementing their meager salaries thing else to our understanding him. ness. Ackerley's oldest friend, E:M. from His Majesty by serVicing cus- But because Parker has carefully-and Forster, with his mania for discretion, tomers behind the barracks ("...these with the narrative skills of a novel- was appalled. "It seems so iii-tem- brave soldiers are of incalculable use ist-stitched together the colorful pered, and such a reproach to all his to a great many lonely bachelors in strands of Ackerley'S character, we are friends...1wish I could give him a good London.") From the mercenary-types able to see patterns and motifs hither- smack!" The book, in fact, was never ACkerley preferred, it was not likely to unsuspected. Parker's biography meant to be a full self-portrait, just a that he was going to meet the "Ideal has the truth and resonance of a work qUick sketch. One reads Ackerley's Friend" of his fantasies. Indeed, of art. And Ackerley, who strove to memoirs without a hint that he had Forster warned him to "give up look- create art out of the muddle of his life, many close friends, that for nearly 25 ing for gold in coal mines." As he got would be pleased. T

60 OUT'YWEEK December 17, 1989 Books Trouble Maker sexuality have constructed their own def- natural." This means that whenever we initions of the terms "woman" and "femi- talk aboµt "feminine desire" or "the ninity"believing that therein lay women's female body" we tal~ about culture "liberation." One important strategy of and gender: "Bodies cannot be said to theirs runs something like this: first, pre- have a signifiable existence prior to the sume the anatomical differences between mark of their gender." men and women to be unquestionably Gender Trouble abandons the by Jamie Sbapiro natural; treat "the body" and its drives as "search for...a genuine or authentic biological realities upon which social sexual identity that repression has interpretations are projected; find in kept from view," Butler contends that hink of some of the most "female desire" or "the female body" an feminist attempts to reclaim the sexu- hilarious scenes from John essential femininity;and finally,claim that al identity category "woman" by stabi- Waters' fUms:the "rosary job" lizing it, by pinning it to particular Canexotic form of lesbian toy bodies and experiences may in fact T serve the interests of the powers that play) Mink ,Stole gives Divine while incanting "Remember the stations of the be, because such attempts cover up cross" in Multiple Maniacsj the incestu- the intricate and deceptive way sexu- ous licking fit which overtakes Divine ality and identity are socially regulat- and her son ("Mother I'm about to give ed. In contrast, her own text asks us you the gift which only a son can give") to consider "what politiCal possibilities in Pink Ffam'ingoes, the bull dyke Mole's are the consequence of a radical cri-- fast food style sex change operation C"I tique of the categories of identity?" ;. wants me a sex change and I wants it How, then, would Butler have us now") and the selkastration to which it make gender trouble? Perhaps we ultimately tead in Desperate Living. The should take our cue from drag, which rules and conventions of everything offers us "sex and gender denatural- from Catholicism and the nuclear family ized by means of a performance to pornography expand the sexual imag- which avows their distinctness and ination, open up new fields of sexual dramatizes the cultural mechanism of perversity and pleasure, In the parallel their fabricated unity." Or from les- universes of Divine and Judith Butler, bian butch/femme roleplay which can laws exist to be broken and to make it this femininityso repressed and devalued "thematize 'the natural' in parodic you've got to make some trouble. by patriarchal culture exi'its outside that contexts that bring into relief the per- "To make trouble was, ,within the culture's domain. Gender Troublecasts a formative construction of an original reigning discourse of my childhood, skeptical eye on theoretical projects and true sex." While Butler never something one should never do pre- which would have us believe that we exactly prescribes these forms of gen- cisely because it would get one in can transcend culture as we know it by derbending, she 'does suggest that we trouble." So begins Butler's compelling, reclaiming some natural and non-hetero- can work our culture's vast ware- provocative Gender Trouble. Observing sexist sexualityor identity. house of sexual prohibitions and that "... rebellion and its reprimand Butler outlines a newly emerging imperatives, gestures and costumes, seemed to be caught up in the same feminist politiCSgrounded in the notion to the bone and in the process devise terms...", she concludes that "trouble is that culture doesn't simply control and new sexual identities, new configura- inevitable and the task, how best to shape but actually constructs bodies tions of sexes, genders and de~ires. make it, what best way to be in it." and their sexuality. Sexual desires and By subverting gender norms we may This personal revelation guides Butler's pleasures, even the "penis" and "vagi- ultimately deprive "compulsory het- analysis of the predicament so familiar na" as discrete body parts, are the cre- erosexuality of ...Iitsl central protago- to feminiSts, lesbians and gays, of con- ations of intersecting and overlapping . nists: 'man' and 'woman.''' tradicting the heterosexual categories cultural phenomena such as' the incest At times brilliant, always ground- of masculine and feminine while at the taboo, the religious ritual of confession breaking, Gender Trouble is bound to same time feeling "caught up" in them. and the sciences of anatomy and psy- make some trouble of its own. It is, For decades, feminists rejecting chiatry. Culture then covers up its quite simply, the theoretical primer male-centered discussions of gender and tracks by introducing the myth of "the for 90s genderfucking ....

DecembeT 17,1989 OUTTWEEK 61 TI A DAY WITHOUT ARTfrom page 55 The Tom Barr, Felix Gonzalez Toress, community, statements she later of power's dull and obdurate impassivi- Michael Jenkins, John Lindell group denied to the press. Daniel ty, we don't even have the luxury of show at Paula Allen shows a more Kronenfeld, H.S.S. Executive wondering if the cup is half empty or distinctively gay theme. Both are Director, stated to the press that, "We half fuU. (At Metro Pictures, downstairs open unUl December 22. have a policy of no banners on the gallery, 150 Greene St., thru Dec. 23). Tributes to those dead inevitably outside of the building"-a policy center, for me, on my lover for six never made known to me during two Zoe Leonard, Artist and Activist: years, Abbot Burns: a brilliant artist years of work for H.S.S" and which Catherine Saalfield and I went to who died at age 30. I saw no tribute they would not wish discussed now. Yale to show our video, Keep Your locally on December 1 which recog- I then cancelled the exhibition, Laws Off My Body. The tape jUxta- nized the scope of talent lost. rather than compromise our curatori- poses images of a lesbian relationship I kept thinking of artists living al and artistic integrity. In order to with the massive police presence at with AIDS. ~t the Metropolitan find a solution and reinstate the an ACT UP demonstration and the Museum, I suddenly noticed the bees show, I requested a city permit to text from nine laws that govern our walking across a beautiful male nude install the banner across Grand Street control over our bodies and restrict in Lucas Cranach the Elder's "Venus in front of the gallery, a proposal our sexuality (including Helms and Cupid the Honey Thief." I which H.S.S. accepted only after Amendments, reproductive rights thought of David Wojnarowicz's Ant openly divorcing its,lf from any con- laws, sodomy and obscenity laws). Series, where, in one piece, ants crawl nection with the artwork, its installa- The day itself is necessary and across another male nude. In the tion and insurance. Barbara Tate most of the gestures well intentioned Cranach painting, a Latin inscription and H.S.S. have remained silent to with the possible exception of the reads, in part, "Thus, we seek transi~ my request for· a public statement on removal of Gertrude Stein, but I have tory and dangerous pleasures that are the truth of their decision, and per- so much trouble taking the day out of mixed with sadness and bring us haps we will never know why they context, I feel overwhelmed by the pain." Wojnarowicz, an inspired refused to identify themselves with enormity of our task at hand and our explorer of the frustrations of living the banner's statement. loss and the immense change that with AIDS, on the other hand, deals I must assume that a more sub- needs to occur. with the pain of watching people tle and generalized form of censor- I keep remembering my last trip making themselves stupid with closed ship is invading our art institutions to Washington to speak on a panel vision. and centers. By allowing us to pre- about women and AIDS. My cab driv- Abbot was last seen in a dream sent half-truths, they violate our er asked me where I was going and of Natasha Shulman making out with freedom of expression as artists, and . when I told him, he said, "I've got young boys. the public's right to interpretation. AIDS" and we sat and talked and he The "new morality" of a "kinder and took his AZT. And all that day I Humberto Chavez, Curator of Images gentler" nation is only another thought about him, and I knew it was . and Words: Artists Respond to AIDS excuse for discrimination, condem- so good that I was at the panel, and at Henry Street Settlement House: nation and stigmatization of anyone yet it seemed .hat we are so very far Censorship these days comes in who does not fit their bill, and a from where we need to be. both scandalous and subtle ways. way of raising themselves above While curating Images and Words at those they wish destroyed. AIDS- David Hirsch, Critic: Henry Street Settlement (an organiza- phobia and homophobia represent The national scope of A Day tion that serves the Lower East Side the crux of the matter, the culmina- Without Art was especially valuable in through social and artistic programs, tion of our society'S bigotry. As stressing the need for more awareness AIDS programs and a future housing .artists we must show the world that about the plague. Hopefully it will facility for AIDS patients) Barbara to be alive is to portray and cele- encourage more art spaces to mount Tate, H.S.S. Arts for Living Center brate life in all of its drama, in all of exhibits on different facets of the sub- Director, rejected Gran Fury's work its magnificent truth. Art is visionary ject. Hopefully several more thou- of art, a banner which would hang and must be free in order to fulfill its sands felt how close we all live to its outside the gallery and which reads value in society and inspire others insidious pain. "ALL PEOPLE WITH AIDS ARE 'into self-knowledge and action to Personally, I believe in the need INNOCENT." The gallery windows speak against those who oppress for life-affirmation more than for trib- were also denied for installation of and discriminate, and who stand in utes to the dead. In that vein, two the banner, because the message the way of our addressing society's pointed conceptual exhibits opened could be read from the street. Ms. ills. Our messages cannot be bound just before December 1: the David Tate told me the banner was "too by codes or mores, or by alliances to Deitcher, Robbin Marsh, Hunter political," and told Gran Fury's governmental, ideological or private Reynolds, Catherine Saalfield collabo- Robert Vazquez that she was con- interests. Art is our only language, rative installation at Simon Watson cerned about a strong reaction from We speak the truth and the world explores civil disobedience and AIDS. conservative members of the H.S.S. awaits our message. T

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Bike Stop West 230 W. 75th St., side crowd. 0 The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 874-9014, Neighborhood bar, occa- Q 674-9714, East Villagers and ACT sional entertainment. UPers. , EAST SIDE Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's Pl., 674-7959, 874-9155, Friendly leather/westefn Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., Dancing / Drag shows. bar. 650-1944, Si~lalong piano bar. The Py'ramid, 101 Avenue A, 420- Cafs, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559, Older G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752, 1590, Dancing / Drag shows. men, younger guys Piano bar, mature crowd. Tunnel Barl,1161st Ave (7th St.), Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355- 777-9232 vv. ViII,e crowd in the E. 757-0788, Sing-along piano bar and 8714, Neighborhood restaurant and Village. . cabaret. bar. Jason's, 23 W. 73rd St. Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 355- 9465 Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St., The Annex ito Cellblock 28), 673 221-9152 Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St. 593-0807, Hudson St. -bet. 13th & 14th), 627- Friendly guys, checkbook romance. 1140, J/O Cub. Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503 South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684- Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 8376 741-9236, Cruisy waterfront bar. Trix~246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 664-8331, Cash and carry. Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688- Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 4710 929-9684, Funky dive and Jukejoi~t. Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144, J/O club. The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar for gay women & men. D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243- 9041, Piano bar. Mixed M/F. Duchess III.~OGrove St (7th Ave.), 242-1408, vvomen. J'Sb675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O clu , ,. ; 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672, Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors Draft. Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christo- pher), 243-1907, Friendly neighbor- hood crowd. Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., NOI: HI roul 'USOHAI AI 929-9322, Piano bar. ro The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (21217"·4452. (" .. /1 .. ,,,,.,10.,,1 (9th Ave), 459-4299, J/O club. 68 OUT~VVEEK December17.1989 Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th The. Cubbyhole Ave), 243-9323, Sing-along piano 438 Hudson Street bar. at Morton The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th (212) 243-9079 Ave.), 924-3558, Piano bar & disco/dancing. A neighborhood bar for Nimbus 22, 22 7th Ave. South, 691- both gay men & women 4826, Dancing, pinball, pool, lounge. Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243- 9204, Younger crowd. Television That Matters to the Ramrod, 185 Christopher St. Lesbian and Gay Community. Sneakers, ,392 West St., 242-9830. Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340. ( OUT IN THE80s) '!Y's, 114 C.hristopher St., 741-9641, Cruisy neighborMood bar. News • Interviews • AIDS UpdateSi Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-878~, Huge video b.ar.

CHELSEA Tussday Nights 11pm-12midnits Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), Manhanan & Paragon Cabls 675-0385, Friendly, neighborhood bar. Channel Clf6 The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072. . Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. • 16th & 17th), 929-7183, NeighbOr- GAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM hood English pub. Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.), 69f -8451, Leather / Levi's. Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 206-7770, Dancing, Video Club.' Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.), Leather / Levi's. ~ike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688, Apartment Cleaning Leather & Uniforms. 67-69 Morton Street #4E, New York, NY 10014 Tracks, 19th St. & 11th Ave., Dancing.

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.... 1 CHICAGO from page 17 Committee, to which O'Leary was adequate record-keeping overall, and tion at NGRA, after a board meeting recently appointed. Similar charges specifically of petty cash expendi- that gave O'Leary a "vote of confi- were also made by Goldstein, and by tures, travel and expense reimburse- dence." But according to one source former NGRA development director ments made without adequate on the board who spoke on condition William Eisentraut, who also alleged supporting documentation, and the of anonymity, the unanimous vote of that NGRA staff time was used to type absence of "a formal cash receipt confidence was taken only after a documents related· tEl the Dukakis journal" in the Los Angeles office. vote to oust O'Leary narrowly failed. campaign and other Demo~ratic Com- White said at last week's press According to the same source, mittee concerns. conference that O'Leary was responsi- even if O'Leary had not resigned, Such activities could endanger ble for keeping such records. the_re were enough votes. on the the law firm's 501 (c) (3) tax exempt As early as last May, Graff wrote board "to get rid of her," after O'Leary status, and 'according to The News, a to board chair White, "Overall, it supporter Elizabeth Luster resigned Los Angeles-based gay bi-monthly would seem helpful in assessing the and was replaced by Leonard Graff. newspaper, O'Leary has admitted to effectiveness of NGRA's management The conflicts at NGRA are organizing a meeting between then- if we had a bookkeeping system that undoubtedly due, in part, to enor- presidential candidate Michael gave a clearer picture of exactly mous personal conflicts among staff Dukakis and a gay political club in where dollars are spent." Graff said and board members. And while no Los Angeles with NGRA resources. that a software system'has been pur- one disputes the legality of NGRA And according to The Washington chased to keep better internal control bookkeeping under O'Leary, several Blade, a D.C.-based gay weekly, of cash flow in the future. serious allegations have been raised O'Leary also acknowledged that she O'Leary's resignation came just. by opponents of O'Leary about the made "one trip" on DNC business that over two weeks after the heads of management of the firm's staff, might be construed as partisan in four lesbian and gay rights organiza- finances, and fundraising. nature. tions sent a letter to NGRA denounc- Under O'Leary, who is known as NGRA's practice of awarding ing the firings of staff attorneys Schatz a dynamo fundraiser, NGRA's annual O'Leary bonuses based on net and Goldstein. The five were Urvashi budget ha.s skyrocketed from fundraising receipts was also criticized' Vaid of the National Lesbian and Gay $312,474 in 1985 to an estimated $1.6 by Eise'ntraut and others. Ponder, Task Force, Tom Stoddard and Paula million this year. But a draft audit of however, defended the practice, as Ettelbrick of Lambda Legal Defense NGRA by the independent accounting long as the percentages were based and Education Fund, Roberta Achten- firm of Peat, Marwick and Main dated on net, rather than gross, receipts. berg of San Francisco's National Cen-' October 20, when compared to the In a letter to NGRA board mem- ter for Lesbian Rights and Kevin Firm's 1987 tax forms, have raised ber Bill Weinberger from Charles Lar- Cathcart of the Gay and Lesbian questions about how much of the son, a lawyer with the Los Angeles Advocates and Defenders in Boston. firm's budget went to litigation and law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher The board is reportedly dis- education expenses, and how much dated July 17, 1989, Larson wrote, cussing whether to now rehire Gold- went for fundraising, administration, "There are rumors floating around the stein and Schatz. T O'Leary's salary and travel expenses. community as to your executive -Sandy Dwyer also contributed One undated internal memo indicated director's employment contract that to this arti.cle. that 25 percent of all fundraising. and might be troublesome to the direct mail expenses for last year organization from a fundraising point were logged as litigation expenses. of view. To the extent it ever became Former staff members and· board generally known that the executive members have also complained that director was entitled to 13 percent of ,. the importance of specific cases being contributions that were made, there handled by NGRA were used as a could very well be a backlash." guise to raise funds, but that the And a November 1, 1989 confi~ money collected was used for purpos- dential memo from Peat, Marwick'-to' es other than that specific case. the board cites concerns about "inter- O'Leary has defended the practice as nal controls" on cash flow, and a standard fundraising tactic, and it is accounting procedures: "We noted reportedly a widespread practice certain matters involving the internal among not for profit organizations. control str.ucture and its operation that Long-standing board member we consider to be (eportable condi- and former board chair Fred Ponder, tions under standards established by who reSigned in October, has accused the American Institute of Certified O'Leary of using the firm's funds and Public Accountants," the memo states. resources to conduct partisan busi- .Among the accounting problems ness for the Democratic National cited in the memo were the lack of

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