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HEALTH '}wn Hands (Christensen) 31 .AI Science (Harrington) 32

THE ARTS OutWeek endorses Dave Taylor. Tom Duane (above) and others Film (Casualties of War) 50 in the upcoming primary. See page 4. Music (Marisa Monte) 52 Performance (Buzzsaw Berkley) 53 Books (The Boys In The Bars) 54 Books (Poets For Ufe) 55 Featu.res

DEPARTMENTS BUNNY'S BABY: Outspoken (Editoria/) 4 Letters 6 WIGSTOCK '89 Nightmare of the Week 6 Xeroxed 8 Out of Control (Day) 34 New York Journal (Walter) 35

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Rick Sugden TalksTo The Wavy Gravy Of Tompkins Square page 36 PLEASING THE RICH LookOut 42 Jim Provenzano Take~ Us Inside'The Gay Slave Out Of My Hands (Ball) 44 Trade page 40 Gossip Watch (Signori/e) 45 Social Terrorism 46 IN SEARCH OF ...WOMEN! Community Directory 56 UZ Tracey's Guide To Dyke Cruising Classifieds 57 page 49 Personals 64 Going Out Calendar (X) 74 Best Bets (X) 76 Crossword (Greco) 80 Hotshot (Conrad) 82 OutWeekEndo~emen~ The following candidates for city office in the upcoming primary have earned the support of the lesbian and gay com- munity. Out Week therefore endorses them and urges lesbian and gay voters to seri9usly consider voting for them on September 12,

Mayor David Dinkins City Council, District 3 Tom Duane, openly gay candidate City Council, District 4 Dave Taylor, openly gay candidate Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman Manhattan Borough President Ruth Messinger City Council, District 2 Miriam Friedlander City Council, District 5 Hilton Clark City Council, District 6 Stan Michaels City Council, District 8 Carolyn Maloney Village District Leaders: male Tony Hoffman female Peggy Stuart Chelsea District Leaders: male Frank Clemmons, openly gay candidate female Doris Corrigan City Council, District 26 Chris Owens City Council, District 32 David Eichenthal City Council, District 33 Samuel Horwitz City Council, District 29 Abraham Gerges

Readers should take note that two openly gay candidates are running for city office in New York, Both Tom Duane and Dave Taylor have proven themselves progressive, sensitive activists who would effectively address issues of concern to our community. For their many years of dedicated work on numer- ous issues of concern to all New Yorkers, they have proven themselves the best candidates in their districts. But they should be of particular interest to lesbians and gays. It is Vitally impor- tant that we have representatives within the power structure at this time, because the new city charter and the redistricting that will follow are historic opportunities for lesbians and gays to institutionalize roles for ourselves in municipal government. If this opportunnity is missed, it may be many years before we have such a chance again. We feel that there is no substitute for having openly gay or lesbian members of the city council. No non-gay can ever be as effective an advocate of our community as one of our own, who by his or her very presence on the council would consti- tute a vivid and continuing argument for equal rights, and a powerful role model for lesbians and gays seeking political power. This lesson has already been absorbed by women and people of color. It's time that it was learned by lesbian and gay New Yorkers as well. We urge you to vote for Tom Duane and Dave Taylor on September 12. ~

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OUT~WEEK 5 to use placebos and long- BALL BUSTING LETTERS lasting toxicity and efficacy I received a copy of TO THE EDITOR studies, but we are in an your magazine (7/3/89) from emergency. Enough people a friend and enjoyed it died already trying the immensely with one major QTIPS pie with AIDS or HIV. The Establishment way. The time exception. The "advice" col- In defense of Project point is that there is no time. to take charge has long umn penned by Bradley Ball, Inform's Compound Q trials, As Vito Russosays, "the side come and passed. The call "Out of My Hands: was a this is what we should have Effect of AIDS is death: and here isto act in the face of a horrible example of perpetu- been doing from the very fast. The informal data national disaster, just like an ating .ineffectual ways of start! Years and years have already accumulated for earthquake, typhoon or dealing with conflict-keep passed, billion dollars spent years for these drugs form mass fires. There is need for your feelings secret and since the start of the epi- enough basis for starting extraordinary measures. The avoid conflict at all costs - demic and the Establishment widespread efficacy trials government isn't taking rather than the "constructive still hasn't come up with a while monitoring toxicity these measures because the guidelines" requested. I life sustaining treatment for closely at the same time. affected groups have tradi- hoped at first that it was writ- AIDS. Especially when drugs Similarly,for licensed drugs in tionally been viewed as dis- ten in jest but soon realized used overseas for decades, other countries (like flucona- posable. Therefore these that tl':leauthor was serious! centuries or thousands of zole) with more or less well- groups have to do it them- Conflicts grow in pro- years are to be tested, there established drug licensing selves. In short, the tradeoff portion to the time and ener- is no point in starting with procedures (like France), involved in immediate use of gy spent repressing them. minuscule doses to deter- time spent in rigorous testing drugs is well worth the risks Silence is not golden, mine toxicity-unless there is for toxicity is the same time taken, in the case of AIDS. Mr. Ball. On the contrary, theoretical basis that this killing many valuable people EnBengul silence merely serves to drug will have a particular, every day. In ideal situations Eatontown, NJ exacerbate what might be deadly side-effect on peo- it would be understandable an easily resolvable situation.

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6 OUT'YWEEK September 4, 1989 And relationships are not sionally features in its club PORN AGAIN called Fire Island PInes.I was about power or blame, they photographs section. My Your Aug. 10editorial on so glad to receive a compli- are about balance and friends never showed up and sexual minorities makes me mentary copy of your maga- equality and sharing and I called them the next day to wonder about people who zine delivered to my love and emotional support. see what had happened. I are into porn and porn only walkway. I add my voice to Editors, I feel you are was told that when they - gay male schizophrenics the chorus to wish you great doing your readers a grave arrived (in the pouring rain, I like myself who are spurned success. An alternative to the disservice by allowing this might add), the woman at by others on both sexual likes Native was long overdue. kind of outmoded advice to the door turned them away, and "undesirable" behavior. In the issue I received, I grace the pages of your oth- informing them that it was a Your cover porn articles was very pleased that erwise fine publication. The private party. were very excellent md made Donna Summer was named "advice" was inadequate at As gays and lesbians, me wonder if we're redly a sex- Freak (Geek?) of the Week. I best and damaging at worst. we have dealt with oppres- ual minority - somehow I get couldn't agree more with You've probably heard sion and ostracism by the the feeling gay male the sentiments expressed. much the same from other straight world our entire lives. pornophiles are perhaps a Unfortunately the axiom, readers. Perhaps Mr. Ball will It isan outrage to be similarly majorityv.ithinthe overdl group "We can't play records we learn that some of the "old rejected and cast out by our of our comrrunity - delusion? never buy. Or dance to ways" have been discarded own. The lesbian and gay Maybe it's just us gay songs we never listen to: is for good reason! community should boycott schizo's that don't fit in any- sadly not true out here in the Ann McClintock clubs like Funk, Inc. until they where. If so, I'm starling a new Pines. All the dj's here Eureka,CA learn to embrace the spirit of group. (Jorba, Fierman, Iverson et. diversity and togetherness Anonymous al.) love the "disco-evange- and welcome all gay men list." They all play at least 4 of FUCK FUNK and lesbians. SUMMER BUMMER her songs every night-seven Last Friday I made plans Thomas F. Hickey I am marooned (okay, days a week. Are these drs to meet some friends at Funk Manhattan by my own choice, I admit it) stupid? Merely cynical? Or Inc .. which OutWeek occa- in the cultural wasteland just stuck in 1977? (There is

GlUUANI, IN BIZARRE SWITCH, MARRIES MAN WHO GIVES BIRTH The New YorkTimes reported today that mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani's husband, Donna Hanover, gave birth to a daughter. It seems that the gay-bashing, anti-domestic-partnership Republican has a few domestic partners rattling around in his closet. If you don't believe us, read the caption. Con- grats, and pass the cigars.

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--,~ A Newcomer to the Giuliani Camp Donna Hanover, an anchorwoman for WPIX- TV day to a 9-pound. 7-ounce girl, Caroline Delores. in and husband of Rudolph W. Giuliani. a Republican Lenox Hill Hospital. Mr. Giuliani introduced Caro- " mayoral candidate, gave birth at 9:26 A.M. yester' line to her brother. Andrew. right.

September 4, 1989 OUTTWEEK 7 long months. Nine more representing? I no longer destroyed the Civil Rights Increasingly I have months of hatred between know. You are suddenly for movement-the civil rights noticed in the press that the Board and the Executive testing but yet you don't professionals went to lunch several present and past Director. Nine more months fight for treatments. Then with the white men while board members-most par- of hatred between the staff you hire someone to fight their leaders died. You can't ticularly Judge Failla-have and the executive director for treatments who is even learn from history! taken to referring to them- (of the 140men and women against experimental treat- ACT UP and Project selves as a "founding board on staff, 139 have no ments. For three years there Inform come along and, member of GMHC: And respect for Richard Dunne, have been promising drugs with no money, with only now Mr. Pepper's letter Tim Sweeney excepted). that you refused to fight for. anger and energy, manage refers to a classroom "dedi- Nine more months of hatred What did you really do to to achieve in six months cated to the co-founding between the staff and the fight for the release of pen- what AIDS Action Council Board.· I also understand boad. Nine more months of tamadine? (I am not talking and all our D.C. presence that the new building is to do-nothingness. As the epi- about the heroic work of Dr. has not been able to be dedicated to the memo- demic rages around us. As Barry Gingell, on whom you accomplish in nine years. ry of Mr. Paul Popham, the key personnel leave one by dumped all your own irre- Lack of leadership has board's first president. one. As morale sinks even sponsibilities while you been one of the most For the sake of all lower and hits the skids. Nine looked the other way and important issues of this epi- future historians, and to more months of wonder: said nothing to support him.) demic. You have been protest against the sleazy WHY IS IT TAKING SIXTEEN A minimum of thirty to given millions of dollars to posturings of Judge Failla GROWN MEN AND WOMEN forty thousand people are lead and you can't, won't and Mr. Pepper, I would like NINE MONTHS TO FIND going to need ddl immedi- and don't. You can't even to state the following facts. SOMEBODY TO FILL MR. ately and we are promised find a new executive direc- Gay Men's Health Crisiswas DUNNE'STINYSHOES? enough for five thousand. tor! You don't even know my idea. I called together And you go cheerily on What are you doing about what you're looking for: five other friends to hear your merry way, ignoring, that? You hop on the AZT leader, adversary, advo- about it. I gave it its name. yet again, all the signs of rot, bandwagon just as AZT cate, politician, bureaucrat, There was no co-founding believing that-with so could become obsolete. fund-raiser, messiah, gay, board of GMHC. GMHC was many millions of dollars in You certainly have not lesbian, straight. white, officially founded by six the bank and a pretty new led us into the Age of Treat- black, hispanic, married, sin- men: Nathan Fain, Larry building and such a huge ment-and that iswhere we gle??? Which community Kramer, Larry Mass, Paul mailing list and so many vol- are now and that is where are you trying to serve? By Popham, Paul Rapoport, unteers-you must be deing we must stay and fight with your indecisiveness you are and Edmund White. This something right. every ounce of energy until serving none of them. happened on January 4, Do you not understand we are saved. But not only But why am I surprised? 1982, although various tnat while you diddle your are you not with us on this Why should anybody in the groups had been meeting . agenc'y is heading toward fight, you have been histori- world be surprised at bad since the first get-together in • irrelevancy as the nature of cally against it (as you were management on the part of my apartment on August 11, ·this epidemic changes? Do historically against safe sex the board of Gay Men's 1981. The first board of 'you not undersfand that you guidelines until it was too Health Crisis?Not one of you directors, which was eventu- "are no longer on the cutting late to save millions of lives). has distinguished yourself as ally formed in May, 1982 edge-no longer anywhere Were it not for Project Inform a successful public advo- (and did not include Judge near the front line' of advo- and ACT UP the gay com- cate or a successful execu- Failla), was comprised of cating what we now need munity would be even fur- tive of a major not-for-profit Paul Popham, Larry McDe- to survive? Do you not ther decimated. organization. You come vitt, Brad Frandsen, Joe understand that for people You are siphoning off from different generations. Paschek, Nathan Fain, Larry Who are already sick - huge amounts of the money You come from different Kramer, Dr. Lawrence Moss, except for providing support given to fight AIDS. What eras in GMHC's own history Harry Dioz and Joe Hernan- services-you are presently are you doing with it? when conflicting attitudes of dez. On August 23, 1982, us'eless? Do you not under- Indeed, what are any of our what constituted an Harry Dioz and Joe Hernan- stand that GMHC is now so-called gay and/or AIDS acceptable board member dez resigned and Robert ~trailing far, far behind, and organizations doing with it? were in evidence. Thus you Wachter, Enno Poersch and this whole pathetic episode All our Washington organiza- don't have any cohesive Richard Failla were elected. of Mr; Levi's employment tions-AIDS Action Council. world view. And you don't This does not make Judge and Mr. Dunne's departure Human Rights Campaign like or respect each other. Failla a founding board and replacement are sym- Fund, National Gay and Les- You are supposed to be member. This makes Judge bolic examples of just how bian TaskForce-what have decisive, make policy, Failla an arriviste, which is far, far behind and just how they accomplished for us? define the cutting edge, not perhaps nicer thc:'lnan Uncle pathetic and just how low All they seem to do is go out react to it. Tom, but not by much. you have sunk? to lunch with important peo- I now come to my last I resent Judge Failla's Where are you going? ple and think they've harrowing point. I refer to opportunism mightily just as I Whom are you fighting for? accomplished something .. your attempt to rewrite the resent the dedication of What constituency are you This is exactly what history of GMHC. See XEROXED on page n

August28, 1989 OUTTWEEK 9 evidence to suggest the lat- Pepper not have the cour- ter.) Wake up! The 1990sare tesy to respond to my raising here. Those djs who play of this issue, not only does Donna Summer are not only your board's president. Ms. musically retrograde but Joy Tomchin, not have the politically bankrupt. courtesy to respond to my BillChafin An Open Letter to the Board and cut your-and our-loss- raising of this issue(a total of Manhattan oA Directors oA Gay Men'. es by immediately severing five phone calls to her Health Crisis Mr. Levi from your payroll, a remain unanswered), bllt- payroll you have promised as I shall describe in detail OVERAND OUT from: Larry Kramer your many generous donors below-it is more than obvi- Correction Miss Thing! to protect from dissipate ous that the rest of you have Your explanation of the word Ladies and Gentlemen: profligacy and needless little interest in attending to ·over" (ISSue#7) was wrong. In response to my letter waste. You chose not to do it either. The proper usage of the to all of you of 10 August so and we were left to That Mr. SWeeney, in his word ·over" is... ·Your pumps 1989, I am in receipt of a let- circulate my letter as widely first time at bat as ·acting" are OVER!" (fierce and rul- ter, dated August 16, 1989, as possible in Washington cir- executive director, made a ing, if you know what that from one of your number, Mr. cles. I was not surprised to horrendous decision is not means). The word desig- James G. Pepper. Mr. Pep- discover that Mr. Levi has particularly remarkable. After nates something as fabulous, per's letter is so irresponsible, fewer friends in Washington all, he follows on the heels of not tired (if you know what so non-responsive to the than a potential lobbyist Mr. Richard Dunne, who in his that means). unfortunate and tragic issues must have; I have had assur- three years as ·permanent" MissGlamamore I raised, and so condescend- ances that he will certainly executive director, made P.S.The correct pronun- ingly pompous, that I find it never be included on any horrendous decisions on a -:iation of ·over" is, of heartbreaking. Because his further committee dealing regular daily basis. course, ·oval't" words so accurately reflect with treatment issues;he will Indeed, the one act of the head-in-the-sand atti- henceforth be a powerless courage and vision that you Michelangelo Signorile tude I have come to expect petitioner for your organiza- have ever accomplished Responds: as the typical GMHC board tion in Washington. has been the disposing of If your use of the word is response to life in the real For the record, both Mr. Richard Dunne. How you truly the only current use, world, I address you one and Levi's performance and that came to such a sensible then you won't get upset if I all again. decision and veritiably i .Set; g,'yUIC'srespo!,!se, i say that you are truly over. My original letter was acted on it. and unanimous- Love you! motivated by the hiring by page 72. ly, will forever be a mystery, your acting executive direc- of Ms. Jean McGuire (of the but nevertheless you did h- tor, Mr. Tim Sweeney, of Mr. AIDSAction Council), anoth- and you are to be congratu- LESANDNO Jeff Levi, as your Washington er of your Washington repre- lated for at last getting rid of I too am bewildered by representative, charged with sentatives at the historic a man who brought new the odd abbreviation for Les- speeding the release of meeting of the Parallel Track meaning to ·unimagina- bian (Ies) and was startled to promising, lifesaving treat- Committee, were useless. tive: ·unpopular," ·coward- see it was still being used ments for AIDS. As Mr. Levi Were it not for Mr. Paul Iy: ·retrograde" and even after complaints were has been historically against Boneburg, of San Francisco's ·inept." By unanimQusly made. What is your reason- just this release of just these Mobilization Against AIDS, agreeing that he must resign ing for this usage? treatments, this appointment and Dr. Basil Vareldzis of or be fired, you gave Also, thanks for Signo- seemed to many of us a Washington's Whitman-Walk- momentary hope to those of rile's Gossip Watch. It is destructive act of huge pro- er Clinic, who gave superla- us who wish your organiza- terrific and I particularly portions and possibly dire tive support to the tion well, s.omething impossi- enjoyed his lambasting of consequences. (Additionally, pioneering presentations of ble of achievement under Steven Saban and the dis- it was an act of arrogance Mr. Jim Eigo of ACT UP and . Mr. Dunne's repellent reign. gusting, parasitical crew on the part of Mr. Sweeney Mr. Martin Delaney of Project But then, cagey Dick he waffles on about. to hire Mr. Levi without in any Inform, we might not have that he is, he pulled a fast Great too are the photos way networking with ACT UP, walked c:may from this meet- one on you. In March, he by Erich Conrad-but Project Inform, AmFar, Com- ing with the triumphant told you he would not leave remember all the fabulous munity Research Initiative, or rewards that we did. until September, and you, people in this city don't any other of the leading I shall not go on with this obviously exhausted (rom live south of 14th Street-it players dealing with treat- petty squabbling over Mr. the over-exertion of the o[1e just seems like it. ment issues-all of whom Mr. Levi. He has been silenced act of energy in your reper- Keep up the good Levi would be called upon quickly and will shortly, no toire, caved in and allowed work. Every issue gets better. to work with closely.) doubt. find some line of work it, instead of kicking him out A little more international It was our hope that you more suited to his obvious on his incompetent ass. news please. might sense some wisdom in talents. But the mess that is And so you, and we, A. Milton my words (for I have not today's GMHC remains with have been left with a lame Manhattan been all wrong in the past) us and not only does Mr. duck in office for nine very

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"FDA apologist." "Levi has worked Levi to Lobby against fast-tracking AIDS drugs. His public statements lead me to believe that Levi doesn't understand the drug approval process. GMHC should have fo:r GMHC inD.C. appointed more of an advocate for PWAs [people with AIDS] and quick approval of AIDS drugs," he said. Ex-NGLTFHead Is Praised and Attacked Past Disagreements In fact, Levi has not always agreed with AIDS activists about the by Chris Bull cussed a zap against GMHC, the early release of experimental drugs. NEW YORK-Even before the Gay country's largest community-based In a Nov. 26, 1988 New York Times Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) had offi- AIDS service organization. article, Levi was quoted opposing fast cially announced its appointment of Ironically, it was Kramer, seeking tracking some experimental AIDS Jeff Levi to the newly-created poSition more direct influence in Washington drugs. And, in May 2 testimony before of Washington AIDS lobbyist, AIDS for GMHC, who had originally agitat- President George Bush's advisory ed for the creation of the position committee on the FDA drug approval now held by Levi. process, Levi advocated a moderate approach. "The 'consumer' perspec- MArticuIate, Determined. Proven- tive on access to drugs for AIDS is Levi, the recently-resigned execu- often simplified as one of demanding tive director of the National Gay and immediate access to drugs in early Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), brings a stages of trials no matter how small long history of experience in the les- the promise they many offer," he said. bian and gay community to the new "In fact, m or anization TF] is position. He has worked in Washing- Will;; aware that a muc more difficu ton on AIDS and lesbian/gay issues balancing act is needed. As con- for the last seven years, and until --sumers we are painfully aware of why... recently, he was also co-chair of the ~ is a thorough regulatory pr~ Appropriations Task Force of the cess, that there are compelling rea- National Organizations Responding to sons for drugs to go through AIDS. "GMHC is pleased to have such extensive, and sometimes lengthy, an articulate, determined and proven testing before being released on {fie AIDS advocate working with us on ·market. We have all seen, whether"""Gt MOVERLYCAUTIOUS' OR issues critical to our clients and their ,!heTimit~ple. of the AIDS crisis -DmRMINED AND PROVEN"? families," said Richard Dunne, the or other diseases too many example;; outgoing executive director of GMHC. Of the "drug of the month" that GMHC'S JeH Levi Photo: Tom DiMaria However, several members of offered so much hope but after m~ activist and GMHC founder Larry ACT UP, including Kramer, immediate- study turned out not onl to be inef- Kramer had dashed off the first of two ly expressed outrage at the appoint- fective, ut sometimes unsafe as well. poison pen letters to GMHC's board ment. Larry Kramer's letter likened It is this overall neetl to prOVide long- criticizing the decision. Kramer and Levi's appointment to hiring anti-gay term protection for the larger bOdy of others have alleged that Levi repre- Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC) "to look out potential consumers that must be b,!k sents an overly cautious or obstruc- for the interests of Robert Mapplethor- anced against the emotionally com- tionist approach to the early release pe .... In hiring Mr. Levi, you have cho- pelling case of the individual who of promising AIDS treatments. sen one of the communitie~ most _needs help today-and may not be GMHC's August 16 announce- reckless zealots in his condemnation alive to take advantage of the "di1!g ment, and Kramer's subsequent letter, of the early release of experimental that must make its way through a which was reprinted in Out Week and drugs." Kramer added that the deci- ~ngthy approval process~ widely circulated among GMHC sion highlights GMHC's reluctance to staffers, key Washington bureaucrats, change its focus from a service Strong Position on Treatments? and gay and lesbian organizations, led proVider to a treatment advocate. Others defended Levi's appoint- some in the community to line up in Charlie Franchino, also a member ment. Tim Sweeney, acting executive support of Levi, while ACT UP dis- of ACT UP, characterized Levi as an See LEVI on page 78

10 OUT'YWEEK September 4, 1989 News Army Lesbian Denied Re-Enlistment A2ain Ben-Shalom's 15-year Court BattTe Drags On by Sue Burke Amendment right MILWAUKEE-Afederal court has ruled of free speech had that lesbians and gay men can be been violated. banned from the military, but one les- Federal Judge bian is continuing her active duty in the Terence T. Evans U.S. Army Reserves while she appeals in Milwaukee that ruling. Miriam Ben-Shalom, a 41- ruled in her favor year-old drill sergeant, has been battling in 1980, but seven the Army for more than 14 years for the years later she still right to remain a soldier. had not been rein- In a 22-page decision issued Aug. stated. Ben- 7, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Shalom went to Chicago overturned an earlier ruling the 7th Circuit that declared the decision to bar Ben- Court of Appeals. Shalom from re-enlisting unconstitu- In August 1987 the tional. The appeals court also judges ruled that declined to "second-guess" the ratio- they were "baf- nality of the Army's rules barring gay fled" by the men and lesbians from the service. Army's failure to Ben-Shalom has appealed that rul- understand the ing by a three-judge panel, asking that word "re instate- all the judges of the 7th Circuit rehear ment." They the case. If that fails, she said, she will ordered the Army likely go to the Supreme Court. to let her back in. She learned about the loss while But a year she was at the Michigan Women's later, when Ben- Music Festival, where she was con- Shalom's term of ducting workshops on women in the enlistment was up, military. the Army refused "I felt bad. It hurt so bad I want- to allow her to re- ed to cry. People were counting on enlist, claiming that -THE WAR'S NOT OVER.- Photo:TracyBairn/Outlines me," she said. Ben-Shalom has hoped it had changed the Miriam Ben-Shalom at the 1987March on Washington her legal victory would help other les- regulation the bians and gay men. "Once the mili- court had found unconstitutional. Ben-Shalom had been discharged tary changes so will the rest of Ben-Shalom went back to court, because of her status as a lesbian and society," she said. and in January 1989 Milwaukee Fed- not because she spoke about being a "Welost a skirmish," she said of one eral Judge Myron L. Gordon ruled that lesbian. Her freedom of speech, accord- of the few losses in an almost 15-year- the regulations were still unconstitu- ing to the court, and therefore not been hJ)g court battle. '''The wars not over." tional and in strong terms criticized violated. It added that by entering the the arguments raised by the Army on military she had "voluntarily sacrificed" Freedom of Speech a number of points. some of her rights anyway. In 1976, the Army gave Ben- The Army appealed to the 7th It said that gays and lesbians Shalom an honorable discharge a year Circuit Court, which reversed much of were not entitled to special considera- after she had announced at a press Gordon's decision. tion against discrimination under the conference that she is a lesbian. After 5th Amendment, which guarantees administrative appeals, she filed suit Bowers v. Hardwick Cited equal protection, because the in federal court, claiming her First The appeals court decided that ARMY LESBIAN continued on page 71

September 4, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 11 News Feds Push AZT for HIV+ Study Finds Drug May Delay Onset of AIDS Symptoms

by Cliff O'Neill symptoms twice as often as those (defined as two systemic symptoms of WASHINGTON-Federal health offi- who were given AZT. HIV infection and a T-4 ceIl count less cials are now urging the use of AZf er-4 cell counts are an indicator than 2(0), the occurrence of AiDS-defin- by as many as 650,000 Americans of human immune system function. A ing opportunistic infection, or death. with HIV infection, based on the pre- healthy immune system has between The study began July 12, 1987 liminary results of a massive drug 800-1,200 T-4 cells per cubic milliliter.) and was conducted by Dr. Paul A. study. [The conclusions were immedi- The study also found that AZf at Volberding of the University of Cali- ately challenged by AIDS experts who lower doses is as effective as at high- fornia, San Francisco, and San Fran- questioned the manner in which the er doses, and that the toxic side cisco General Hospital. Neither the study was terminated and the results effects among those taking the lower doctors nor the patients involved in released. The usual procedure for dose AZT were comparable with the study knew who was receiving a releasing test results, requiring scruti- those taking the placebo, except for placebo, and who was taking AZf. ny by independent experts followed mild nausea among a handful of par- On announcing the study's pre- by publication of results ina scientific ticipants on the low dose AZf. liminary findings at a qUickly-called journal, was bypassed in this case press 'conference Aug. 17, just hours (see Political Science, page 32).) Protocol 019 after the Data and Safety Monitoring Top officials from the National More than 3,200 HIV-infected Board counted the final numbers, Sul- Institutes of Health and the I I livan stated that all those in Food and Drug Administra- the study with T-4 cell counts tion joined Health and i below 500 would now be Human Services Secretary I placed on low dose AZT. Louis W. Sullivan Aug. 17 in Those taking the higher dose announcing the preliminary AZf will now be dropped to results of the largest AIDS the lower dose. drug study ever, which found Those with T-4 cell that the anti-HIV treatment counts over 500 will continue may delay the onset of AIDS in the study as there is not symptoms in people who are yet any conclusive evidence infected with HIV, but who that AZT slows the onset of do not yet have symptoms of symptoms. Those with T-4 the disease. HIV is the virus cell counts over 500 who are thought by many to be the on the placebo will be cause of AIDS. placed on low dose AZT "Today we are witness- when their counts drop ing an additional significant below 500. milestone in the battle to I I change AIDS from a fatal dis- WINDFALL FOR BURROUGHS? Photo: Rink Funding Dilemma ease to a treatable one,· stat- AZT The financial implica- ed Sullivan. "These results tions of placing the nearly provide real hope for the millions of individuals in 32 centers nationwide 650,000 HIV-infected Americans with people worldwide who are infected participated in the drug study, called T-4 cell counts below 500 on AZf are with HIV: Protocol 019. Of the 1,300 participants staggering, considering that the drug, The study, sponsored by the with T-4 counts below 500, nine per- manufactured by the Burroughs Well- National Institute of Allergies and cent of those on the placebo devel- come Corp., can cost up to $8,000 a Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and oped AIDS symptoms, while only four year. AIDS already affects a dispro- funded in part by Burroughs Well- percent of those on AZT developed portionate number of low-income come, the monopoly manufacturer of symptoms. people and people of color, who, AZT, found that seropositive individu- For the purposes of the study, dis- along with women, have traditionally als with T-4 cell counts under 500 tak- ease progression was defined as devel- had little or no access to quality ing a placebo developed AIDS opment of AIDS-related complex health care. Many people with AIDS

12 OUTTWEEK September 4, 1989 who rely on public hospitals, or Medi- caid and Medicare for health care have no access to treatment options at all. "It is now all the more important to provide resources to assist people with HIV,· stated Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), a lead sponsor of several health care financing mea- sures, at the press conference. "Sci- ence has given us the tools to help hundreds of thousands of people fight for life. What is lacking is an equi- table formula for delivering those tools to Americans in need." "I think the federal government has more than an obligation to step in and assure that people have access to these drugs,· said Jeff Levi, the new Washington lobbyist for New York's NeT I V E Gay Men's Health Crisis. Sullivan stated that his office would be examining federal subsidies like Medicare and Medicaid programs, for AIDS treatment and services. But Levi said that AIDS could not be treated like other catastrophic ill- nesses. "Few comparable diseases have medications that can stave off disease,· Levi said. "In a sense we're now chart- ing new waters. And that will certainly require creativity from all those con- cerned. That means the government and third party payers and, yes, even .. Burroughs Wellcome.· ~

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by Cliff O'Neill to support the plan, and to form a . heard testimony and debated the mer- BETHESDA, MD-A new AIDS drug committee to implement it. its and potential dangers of the pro- . distribution program, long touted by Meeting at a Bethesda, MD hotel gram, known as parallel track, during AIDS activists, was given a shot in the Aug. 18, the Anti-Infective Drugs a lengthy, often tense meeting. arm recently when a Food and Drug Advisory Committee of the FDA Cen- Initially devised by AIDS activists, Administration advisory panel agreed ter for Drug Evaluation and Research the parallel track would give people with AIDS who do not qualify for standard clinical drug trials access to experimental AIDS drugs. The treat- ments would be available on a broad scale after the drug's toxicity levels are established, but before its effec- tiveness is actually proven. The testimony and discussion were marked alternately by cheers and hisses from the nearly 50 mem- bers of ACT UP!NY present. Eight hours later, the panel qUietly approved the concept of the parallel track, without specifically defining it. The committee also recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services appoint a panel of Public Health Service representatives, AIDS patients and AIDS activists to implement the program. Most, if not all of the items agreed upon by the panel were directly lifted from a consensus state- ment crafted by ACf UP and signed by 17 lesbian/gay activist and AIDS service groups. Still, a myriad of questions remain about who would qualify for the parallel track; what kind of data would be collected from people tak- ing the drugs; what legal precautions would need to be taken; and how the program would be financed. The panel's motion for consensus on parallel track came almost immedi- ately after A1dyn McKeane of ACf UP stood up and vocally expressed the KEEPING WATCH Photo: Patsy lynch frustration of the audience. EchOing Activists during silent prDtest st FDAdrug hesrings in Bethesds statements made earlier by panel

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~ ·" ~ · ~ ·.. ,;··... ., ing rapidly forward, because The ftrst drug being looked at for lives are at stake." the parallel track is ddl, an exped- Early in the meeting, mental anti-HIV drug which will enter National AIDS Program, standard Phase II effectiveness trials in Director Dr. Anthony Fauci September. Drug manufacturer Bristol defended the parallel track Myers has already announced that it program, which in the past will distribute the drug outside of clin- two months has become his ical trials, although only to 5,000 pe0- pet project, against the sharp ple nationwide. questions of panel members. In Eigo's testimony, however, he His comments garnered sin- claimed that the drug company has gular applause from one already received 40,000 requests for unusual source. the drug. At the end of Fauci's presentation, AIDS activist Tense Silence and playwright Larry Kramer, Also at the meeting, a self- who in a widely published described representative from the open letter last year com- investment industry was heckled loud- pared Fauci to Nazi war crim- ly when, after the heartfelt testimony inal Adolph Eichmann, yelled of several people living with AIDS, he out as the federal AIDS took the stand to tell the panel that his DESIGNING TRIALS WITH PEOPLE IN MIND researcher took his seat. company is now telling their clients ACT UP's Jim fi90 Photo: Patsy lynch "President Bush was that good financial investments may right'" shouted Kramer. "You be made in companies that manufac- . guest Dr. Basil Vareldzis of Washing- are our hero, Dr. Fauci'" ture HIV antibody tests. , 4 .~- ton D.C:s Whitman Walker Clinic, the Fauci has led a chorus of federal "What about companies that ACT UP member, interrupting the bureaucrats, AIDS activists and medi- manufacture tombstones?" shouted proceedings, urged the panel to final- cal researchers in saying that the new one ACf UP member. ly take action on the program. system should maintain the integrity Another highly charged moment AIDS activists had recently criti- of the current clinical trials process, in the meeting came when, closing cized the delays of federal AIDS poli- so as not to inadvertently slow the the public testimony, Kramer took the cy makers, including Assistant drug approval process by having podium and loudly tongue-lashed the Secretary for Health and Acting Sur- more people choose to take a drug as panel, opening With, "I am going to , ·. geon General James O. Mason, who part of the parallel track than as part threaten you, and I'm not making ....··. endorsed the parallel track proposal of a standard drug trial. jokes. What does it take to get this · at a July U.S. House Committee hear- fucking country to take its thumb out ing, but referred the program to the Program Defined of its ass?" Kramer shouted at the FDA adViSOrycommittee. Jim Eigo of ACf UP!NY and Mar- panel. The same committee refused to tin Delaney of San Francisco's Project After listing a series of demands grant fmal FDA approval to ganciclovir, Inform, two of several invited guests at of the panel to an unusually and a drug that can prevent blindness in the front table, took exception with uncomfortably silent room, Kramer PWAs, despite great support for the the hypothesis put forth by drug com- threatened the adviSOry panel that if drug from the panel's two ophthalmolo- panies that the program would deplete they did not "approve these drugs gist£-a decision it eventually reversed the pool of potential participants for now," AIDS patients would rise up, last June, after extensive research and standard drug trials, however. sabotage standard drug trials and lobbying from AIDSactivists. "Trials are [only) under-enrolled copy promising therapies in under- when they're not designed with peo- ground laboratories. -Lives Are at Stake- ple in mind," stated Eigo. "Revolutionsdon't occur when there At the opening of Thursday's Other detractors expressed con- is no hope," bellowed Kramer, "Revolu- meeting, however, Mason praised the cern that the program would allow tions occur when there is hope ....I beg of advisory committee for its votes to the release of unsafe drugs into the you, make fuckinghi&ory." approve ganciclovir and aerosol pen- marketplace, which also set off a After his speech, the room was tamidine, an AIDS-related pneumonia firestorm of criticism from activists. silent, save for the applause of a num- preventative, adding that the commit- "We're not talking about a crap- ber of ACT UP/NY members. Later, tee was particularly well suited to shoot here," stated Delaney. "We're one panel member angrily explained give recommendations on specifics of not asking for the release of any drug his commitment to people with AIDS, the new program. that scrapes by Phase I [toxicity) trials. adding that the committee is advisory "Our interest is not just in mov- We're not asking for the floodgates to in nature and was not to be approv- ing forward," stated Mason, "but mov- be opened. Nobody wants that." ing any drugs at the meeting. ~

16 OUT'YWEEK September 4, 1989 News Pro-Gay Candidates Challenge Brooklyn Homophobe Noach Dear, in 3-Way Race, Faces Grand Jury Probe

The second in a series of articles upcoming Democrat primary election 1981, and attempted to initiate a voter on New YorkCity's municipal by David Eichenthal and Robert referendum to repeal that human elections. Evans, two progres- rights law in 1986 sive, pro-gay candi- CAMPAIGN SPOTLIGHT after it. passed the by Sandor Katz dates. . CouncIl. He also BROOKLYN-Noach Dear, the notori- Dear led the vocally supported ously homophobic Brooklyn Council- opposition to the gay and lesbian I the Supreme Court's Hardwick deci- man, is facing challenges in the rights legislation since his election in sion, which empowers states to pro- hibit sodomy. Dear represents the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park,. Mid- wood, Ocean Parkway and Bensonhurst, but is most closely identified with Borough Park and its politically conservative Hasidic popUlation. Eichenthal says of Dear, "His position on gay rights does not stand alone." He cites Democrat Dear's quotable endorse- ment of George Bush over Michael Dukakis: "Liberals don't believe in God." Eichenthal, a 26-year- old lawyer, has lived vir- tually his entire life in Brooklyn. He supports gay rights ana the exten- sion of spousal benefits to domestic partners. But he is not running in his dis- trict on a platform of gay rights. Eichenthal is focus- ing his campaign on crime, mass transit, afford- THE HAPPY HOMOPHOBE Photo: Ellen B. Neipris able housing, senior citi- Councilman Noach Dear zen issues, and ethics in

18 OUT?WEEK September 4. 1989 September 4, 1989 OUTTWEEK 19 TI government. Regarding Dear's tradi- guard Noach Dear's seat,· says Lambda put up by the gay community to do tional base of support, he says, "Peo- president Alan Fleishman. '" see him as this to him." This is not true, although ple in the Orthodox community are a big problem." he has attracted city-wide gay sup- concerned about aU of these issues." "Absolutely not so,· responded port, and the endorsement of Manhat- Another candidate, attorney Robert Evans, who called the charges propa- tan's Stonewall Democratic Club. He Evans, is also challenging Dear. Evans ganda started by Mr. Eichenthal. has also recieved the blessings of says she is "in favor of all hurnap rights" non-gay progressive figures such as as well as "gay partnership." However, What's the Issue? Manhattan Borough President candi- Lambda Independent Democrats, Dear supporters are doing what date Ruth Messinger and former u.s. Brooklyn's lesbian and gay Democratic they can to make gay rights the issue. Senate candidate Mark Green. club, has endorsed Eichenthal in the "We have heard rumors that I am Will the rumors hurt Eichenthal? race. "The Brooklyn machine obviously gay," reports Eichenthal, who is not. "There is a certain segment of the ran Evans to split the vote and safe- "We have also heard that I am being population for whom our positions

20 OUT'YWEEK September 4. 1989 on gay rights are the decisive issues, n he says. His attitude is that those peo- ple will cast their votes on the basis of the candidates' stated positions. WE WORK WITH But for the most part, "I don't think it is the crucial issue facing voters here. n QUEENS Dear Fraud Alleged and Brooklyn ..Manhattan, and even Boston! One issue he thinks is crucial is WE DON'T take listings over the telephone, give out "pre-printed" lists, or distribute government ethics. Noach Dear is outdated information. currently being investigated by a Fed- eral grand jury for defrauding a num- WE DO use computers to pre-screen your listings for you, update listings daily, ber .of small businesses within his personally meet each and every applicant, and give referrals to both people seek- district. Apparently he was a one-third ing shared housing and people with housing to share. partner in a restaurant, and personally If you've been disappointed in other gay referral agencies, give us a call or stop by. solicited credit from area merchants, We think you'll be pleased. who extended him credit without rou- tine credit checks. Accordiog to Eichenthal's campaign manager, Win- ston Von Engel, "The implication is that he used his position to gain cred- THEROOMMATE it.· The restaurant then went bankrupt, in debt more than $500,000, The Nation's Largest Referral Network much of it owed to local merchants. 24 Hour-Info: (212) 518-2953 The scandal is further. complicat- Out..... NY: (100)~.3 ed by the involvement of Eugene Hol- NEWYORK 162W. 56th St.' N_York. NY 10019 ~ 316NewburySI.·Boston.MA02115 lander, who was recently convicted of BROOKUNE 1469 Beacon St.· Brookline. MA 02146 CAMBRIDGE 52 JFK St.· CarTbridge, MA 02138 felonious activities in connection with the operation of his New York City nursing homes. According to Evans, Dear's investment in the restaurant venture consisted of money provided New York by Hollander. Dear's office did not JIf!! l1li ft ( return OutWel:1k~ phone calls. Dear initially tried to cover up his interest in the restaurant, but the scan- dal was uncovered and received con- siderable media attention. The result, according to Eichenthal, is that many Inn Ttlwn Bt-d & Br~,lkf.1SI area voters "say it's an embarrassment to have him on the city council: TIlE CHANDLER INN has adoptp.d ,1 f,lVurile European tradition. th~ "B~d Charming, Newly Renovated & Br~akfast" concl.'pt. A small hotel ·Ripe and Ready· Brownstone Conveniently lucat~d in the c~nter of thl.' city. Our Eichenthal's polling reveals high Located in Chelsea 56 newly refurbished, cont~mporary rooms are equipped with pri\'at~ bath, voter dissatisfaction with Dear, and a • All Rooms Have cul"r TV. and direct didl teleph(ln~. tremendous undecided vote, "ripe Washing Facilities Und~r the Chandler, visit FRITZ, and ready for the picking. n He is • Share 8ath (ln~ of Boston's most frequented gay planning major mailings, phone can- • Continental Breakfast bars . Included vassing, and a large primary day Enjuy Bustun the INN.expensive way' operation to make sure voters know • Single S50 • Double $65 • Suit. $80 ALL ·TAXES INCLUDeD his name as the alternative. RATES: $64. SINGLES, $74 DOUBLE Both camps are bracing for a • Weekly Rates Upon Request INCWDES CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST sm'ear campaign as the primary Advance Reservations Suggested! approaches. Predicts Von Engel: COLONIAL HOUSE 2&Ch.ndl~r.t B~rk~l~y, Boston MA 0211& "They'll say that David will be respon- INN (6171482-3450 sible for gays walking hand in hand in Borough Park and kissing in front CHELSEA of our children: ~ 318 West 22nd St., N.V.C. 10011 212-243-9669

September 4, 1989 OUrYWEEK 21 There's no substitute for the real thing- Elect a Gay Activist to City Hall.

JJ As President of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, I've come to see first-hand the importance of having Lesbians and Gays in office representing our community. No matter how committed others are to Lesbian and Gay rights, -there's no substitute for the real thing. I urge all of you to vote for Dave Taylor for City Council in the Democratic Primary Tuesday, September 12. If HARRY BRITT Openly Gay President of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors

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and possibly representatives from the FDA: Don't manufacturer." The drug is being syn- thetically developed by Genelabs Inc. doQ of Redwood City, California, and is now undergoing FDA-approved toxic- SAN FRANCISCO-The Food and ity te"sting at San Francisco General Drug Administration has formally Hospital. asked the San Francisco-based Project "We're pleased about the FDA Inform to stop its unauthorized tests suggestion," Delaney said. "It gives us of the experimental new AIDS drug, an opportunity to have contact with Compound Q. Genelabs. The solution is for us all to In a letter to Project Inform's come to the table together." Martin Delaney, Dr. Carl C. Peck, Delaney said he would be meet~ director of the FDA Center for Drug ing with FDA officials in early Evaluation and Research in Bethesda, September at which time Project MD, asked the group to discontinue Inform will present the agency with its community-based testing of the the results of its findings in the con- drug trichosanthin, a derivative of the troversial testing program. CUAV Photo: Rink Chinese cucumber plant, also known -Keith Clark as GLQ-223. The letter comes about rications, someone was making six weeks after reports of the Project threatening phone calls to the Castro Inform tests broke in the national district locations of CUAV, MCC and media, following the death of one Who's the newspaper Bay Times. patient involved in the trials. Editor Kim Corsaro of Bay Times, The Project Inform tests; involv- zoolllin' a lesbian and gay monthly, said while ing some 60 volunteer patients with she and one of the paper's reporters AIDS in San Francisco, Los Angeles, were attending the press conference, Ft. Lauderdale/Miami and New York, who? the newspaper received "several are still under a formal inquiry by death-threat calls." Similar death- FDA investigators. SAN FRANCISCO-While repre- threats were reportedly made at the Peck's letter is the first formal sentatives of the Metropolitan Com- same time to MCC and CUAV by reaction from the FDA to the Project munity Church (MCC) and phone as well. Inform triAls of the drug, which has Community United Against Violence The following Saturday morning, been shown in test tubes to selective- (CUAV) were attending an August 10 August 12, Corsaro said she discov- ly kill cells infected with HIV, the press conference at police headquar- ered the newspaper's sign in the virus generally believed to cause ters here about the possibility that building's entrance-way had been AIDS. Project Inform began its own two reported assaults on former MCC obliterated with spraypaint. Shortly Compoun<,i Q testing program in April assistant pastor Lynn Griffis were fab- thereafter it was discovered that the because it said the FDA-approved tri- i front of MCC/SF had also been als would take too long. defaced with a series of crosses Delaney said the letter represent- sprayed on its front. The offices of ed "a victory" for the group because it CUAVwere also vandalized, apparent- was not an FDA "order" to stop the ly at about the same time with a simi- tests. Patients are no longer receiving lar colored paint. the drug and physicians involved in The incidents were all reported the trials are currently trying to deter- to CUAV,which gathers information mine whether the drug has helped on anti-lesbian/gay incidents in the them, according to Delaney. city, and the threatening phone calls Peck's letter to Project Inform and vandalism were also reported to also held out the possibility of the police, largely because of the recent AIDS advocacy group being involved increase in hate-related crimes aimed in future FDA-approved community- at lesbians and gay men in the Castro based testing programs of the drug. district. "We stand ready," Peck's letter Police offICialssay they are inves- says, "to meet immediately with Pro- tigating both the threatening calls and ject Inform "trichosanthin investigators vandalism but have no leads. There Mec Photo: Rink

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was no evidence the calls and vandal- Lesbian and Gay Association Conven- Reagan. ism were directly connected with the tion in Vienna, and continued on Colorado is one of 28 states that recent Griffis case, but those involved through Canada before coming to the currently require name reporting of are not overlooking some connec- West Coast. HIV positives. - Andrew MiJIer tion-either on the part of those who NkoIi was one of 22 defendants are alleged to have assaulted GriffIS,or in the Delmas treason case that by partisans who might be striking out stretched from 1984 through Novem- I need a at organizations connected with sug- ber 1988, during which he spent four gestions the GriffIScase was a hoax. years in detention. NkoIi and nine Dlan (or While MCC and CUAVwere close- other defendants were finally acquit- ly involved in the confusing and still- ted of all charges. WODlan) unresolved Griffis case, Bay Times has Funds raised from Nkoli's tour, no particular connection with the case coordinated by the national associa- other than its reportage. The city's two tion of Black and White Men Togeth- other community newspapers, neither er, will go to the Zulu AIDS Project to of which are located in the Castro, help provide AIDS education and pre- reported no similar incidents. vention materials in the main lan- -KellbC1ark guages spoken by Black South Africans. The South African govern- ment makes no AIDS information "SiDlon available in any non-white languages there, according to Nkoli. Nkoli Day" While in the U.S. he will also be visiting Los Angeles, Chicago, Min- SAN FRANCISCO - Anti- neapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, apartheid and gay rights activist Atlanta, MemphiS, Washington, D.C., Simon NkoIi arrived here Wednesday, Philadelphia, Hartford, Boston and August 23 on the first leg of a New York City before returning to fundraising tour of the United States, Johannesburg in late September. and was welcomed with the news -KeilbC1ark JOSEPH STEFFAN Photo: Jim Marks that Supervisor and Acting Mayor Richard Hongisto had proclaimed NEW YORK - Former Naval August 24 "Simon Nkoli Day· in San Just say Academy Midshipman Joseph Steffan Francisco. and Lambda Legal Defense and Edu- Nkoli, who has never before Nancy cation Fund are looking for one good been outside the Republic of South man or woman. Africa, began his tour in July as a A retired, high-ranking Naval offi- guest of the 11th Annual International DENVER- According to the San cer is needed to submit an affidavit Francisco Chronicle, the state health testifying to the feaSibility and effec- department in Denver "has received tive service of lesbians and gay men reports that scores of men named in the military. Nancy Reagan are infected with the Navy regulations, like those of all human immunodeficiency virus.· branches of the armed services, An August 14 article by AIDS declare homosexuality incompatible reporter Randy Shilts made public the with military service, and were used phenomenon, which is directly relat- to discharge Steffan from the Acade- ed to Colorado legislation which my six weeks before his graduation. makes anonymous HIV testing illegal. In response to the discharge, . Because the names of anyone Lambda filed suit against the Navy, testing positive for the virus-thought charging it with unconstitutional dis- by many to be the cause of crimination. Lambda recently won the AIDS-are automatically reported to first round of its challenge when government health authorities, many Judge Oliver Gasch of the Federal gay men are giving fake names to District Court in Washington, D.C. avoid ending up on a master list. By denied the government's motion to SIMON NKOU Photo: Rex Wockner far the most popular name is Nancy dismiss the case.

24 OUTYWEEK September 4, 1989 WILLIAM B. DeBONIS D.D.S. Quality, Personal Dentistry on-gOing legal attempt to overturn Suite 704 Section 21.06. "Even though it's not 200 West 57th Street enforced," said Thomas, "we can at New York, New York 10019 (212) 333-2650 least show that they use it." Office Hours bi xintment OnI Many other major American cities 'B_O_C e _ eo ( recruit gay men and lesbians for police jobs by going into the gay community. In Philadelphia last month, police officials set up a Or. Charles Franchino recruitment table inside Giovanni's room, the city's gay/lesbian book- 30 Fifth Avenue store. -Rex Wockner New York, New York 10011 Out of 212.673.4331 doors? Out of luck. office hours by apPl?intment

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA-A San ANAL WARTS. FISSURES Jose municipal court judge ruled here August 18 that a police crackdown on HEMORRHOIDS gay men engaging in public sex near _ Call for a FREE CONSULTATION with a Male or Female Board Certified the downtown area of the city was Surgeon _ We treat all rectal problems with LASERS in our modern offices- without surgery _ Fast return to normal activities _ Insurance Plans accepted not "in any way motivated by anti-gay bias" on the part of police. cri::JLT Laser Medical Associates Judge Douglas Southard rejected '-- __ --'. Jeffrey E. Lavigne. M.D. Fellow InternatIOnal College of Surgeons defense arguments on behalf of 18 UPTOWN DOWNTOWN WESTCHESTER gay men that, excluding heterosexual 7 East 68th St .. New York 5 Broadway. New York 697 Central Ave.. Scarsdale prostitution charges, a statistical anal- ysis of sexual arrests over an 18- (212) 517·2850 (212) 514·5750 (914) 472·4778 Call: 1-800-MD-TUSCH month period showed 78 citations of ~I "I gay men for late-night sexual conduct but none against heterosexuals for similar public sexual behavior. Attorney Bruce Nickerson, who handled the defense for the 18 gay men, told the court the gay sex DON'T BE offenses did not involve money and should therefore not be included with PATRONIZING prostitution in the comparison of police arrests. UNLESS, OF COURSE, YOU'RE Southard wrote in his .decision, "There is no reason homosexual PATRONIZING OUR ADVERTISERS. offenders should expect preferential REMEMBER, LESBIAN AND GAY treatment for similar conduct. Prosti- BUSINESSES DEPEND ON YOUR tutes and their 'dates' are given no SUPPORT. special consideration because they are heterosexual, male or female." His decision continued, AND C'MON-TELL 'EM YOU SAW IT IN "Thoughtful supporters of homosexu- OUTWEEK. al rights should be embarrassed ...by the implication of such behaVior,

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The court has set a timetable for studied the bill for a year before rec- deciding the constitutionality of the ommending that the city council pass Navy's regulations, and the affidavit, it. In the beginning, all seven council- declaring that lesbians and gay men lors supported the measure. But later, have served and are serving effective- after the Christian fundamentalist ly in the military, and that they are group Concerned Citizens of Musca- accepted by their peers, must be filed tine (CCM) got involved, three coun- by this fall. cillors turned against the bill. Anyone in a position to provide CCM made extensive use of the such testimony can contact Sandra local media to warn residents that the Lowe, Lambda staff attorney, at (212) law would force churches, schools 995-8585. -Andrew Miller and youth organizations "to hire a person who practices and promotes homosexuality, incest, adultery, No Dlore sadism or prostitution." The ordinance would have banned discrimination in housing, Dlystery employment, credit and the offering DGA's JOHN THOMAS of services. Statewide, only the uni- Photo: Rex Wockner MUSCATINE, IOWA-Time ran versity town of Iowa City legally pro- out AUgust 18 for the Muscatine, Iowa tects homosexuals from said DGA activist john Thomas. "So, city council to override Mayor Don discrimination. they really are more comfortable with LeMar'S july 19 veto of this small "I guess people just weren't the idea of sex with animals and fowl city's gay rights ordinance. The ordi- ready for a change," Amerine said, than with their own sexual desires for nance' had passed the councjl july 6 looking back on the battle. "They someone of the same sex." on a 4-3 vote. think, 'If it ain't broke don't fix it.' Thomas and three other local But according to city council mem- They made it a moral issue instead of activists--angered by the guidelines, ber jerry Amerine, the 'Ordinance may a human rights issue." which came to light after the police well make a return appearance follow- -Rex Wockner recently rejected an open lesbian ing November's mayoral election. applicant-have decided to go head- Amerine and others say LeMar to-head with the Dallas P.D. actually favors the ordinance and only Fowl is fair They recently realized, they say, vetoed it for fear of losing his post. that their life's ambition is to serve leMar won the last election by only their fellow citizens as officers of the 36 votes. DALLAS-If you want to be a peace. They have filled out applica- Twelve hundred people wrote police officer in Dallas, Texas, you tions to work as cops. leMar letters and another 300 called "must not admit [to) nor have engaged If it weren't for the homosexual him at home to help him make up his in deviate sexual intercourse [or) sexu- exclUSion, the Dallas Police Depart- mind. Muscatine has a population of al contact with a member of the same ment would probably be happy about 23,000. sex since age 15." this. They desperately need 83 new According to city councillor Larry If, however, your particular officers by September 1. Kemp, "No one called saying that youthful indiscretion was bestiality But police say their anti-gay poli- they were gay and that they support- rather than homosexuality, then that's cy will stand as long as Thomas, B.J. ed the ordinance ...from any place in a different matter. In this case, you Anderson, Don Hervey, Dan Sopko the world." "must not admit [to) nor have engaged and all other practicing homosexuals The Muscatine ordinance was in deviate sexual intercourse [or) sexu- in Texas continue breaking the law. highly unusual because it was initiat- al contact... with any animal or fowl Law-breakers, of course, are pro- ed by the city's Human Rights Com- since age 17." hibited from being police officers. mission without any lobbying from A copy of the Dallas Police And Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal gay or lesbian citizens. Department hiring policies found its Code defines homosexual sex as • In fact, there are no openly gay way into the hands of the Dallas Gay "deviate sexual behavior, a Class C or lesbian citizens in Muscatine, Alliance (DGA) last week. DGA offi- misdemeanor punishable by fines up according to LeMar, Amerine, The cers were livid. to $200." Muscatine Journal and the Quad City "Texas is predominantly a rural DGA officers hope the new pub- Times, in nearby Davenport. state and Texans are predominantly licity surrounding the "better-a-chick- The Human Rights Commission ignorant about sexual relationships," en-than-a-cock" policy will bolster an

26 OUrYWEEK September 4, 1989 week, the commission also fined John and Agnes Donahue $8,260 for ~ refusing to rent an apartment to Verna 'IDiziano Terry and Robert Wilder in Downey, TRATTORIA California, in 1987. The Donahues, With Two Dinners who are Roman Catholics, told the commission they believe sex outside Courtesy bottle of red wine - Salice Salentino Riserva '82 marriage is a sin and that helping * * * * Special Pizza from our Woodburning oven anyone to commit a sin also violates * * * * their religious beliefs. Your host Sal ACQuista "As Christians we are being per- * * * * secuted,H Smith said following the 165 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011Tel: 212-989-2330 decision. Beverly LaHaye, founder and president of the conservative group, Concerned Women of America, announced from her Washington, D.C. headquarters that her organiza- tion hoped to appeal the Smith case ~ eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court. Concerned Women of America has &t. MEXICAN been paying the legal fees so far in the Smith case. RESTAURANT Smith told an administrative judge at the initial hearing that renting First Avenue between 49th & 50th Streets to unwed couples would make her a 883 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. "wimp ChristianH and that she would TELEPHONES: 935-3749 • 421-1212 not be able "to join my husband in the hereafter" as a result. During the hearing, Smith also said she still refus- es to rent to unmarried couples. -Keith Clark AC/D.C.?

WESTPORT, CT-A man claiming to have been the lover of Rep. Stewart B. McKinney (R-Cf) has announced he will challenge the late congressman's will and a physician's report that Mc- Kinney contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion. Arnold R. Denson, a real estate agent now living in Whitesburg, GA, claims that he was McKinney's lover 10 Room Inn for five years and that the two shared a Piano Bar house in Washington while McKinney's & Restaurant wife remained in Connecticut. McKinney, a liberal Republican 135 Gough Street and vOCal supporter of homeless and San Francisco, California 94102 gay/lesbian rights, died May 9, 1989 of AIDS-related complications shortly 415-621 -0896 after spending the night on the cold streets of Washington as part of a homeless rights demonstration. Lucie McKinney has continued to deny Widespread reports of her hus-

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which so unfortunately te'nds to rein- cial and logistical problems of full dis- Northeastern 'IIIinois Metropolitan force the negative stereotypes which plays in the future impossible, accord- Enforcement Group (NIMEG) during the gay community 'has fought so ing to Sauro. the 1985 raid at Carol's Speakeasy, a ,hard to destroy." The display this fall, titled "Keep Chicago gay bar, have been offered Most of the 18 men had been the Love Alive,· will follow on the more than $5,000 compensation each cited for public sex acts that took place heels of a conference of the National under an agreement hammered out in in parked cars, parking garages or park Association of People With AIDS. The a class action lawsuit brought by the areas near downtown SanJose. qUilt will be unfolded and refolded American Civil Liberties Union Defense attorney Nickerson was every day for three days at the (ACLU). not available for comment on whether Ellipse, on the south side of the White The money was offered by attor- his clients would appeal the ruling. House. neys for the State of Illinois and the -KeUbQark Some 2,500 volunteers will be City of Chicago August 17 before required for the three-day showing, Judge Suzanne Conlon in U.S. District which will ·cost about $165,000, Court. Conlon will decide this week Quilt calls $90,000 of which will come directly whether to accept the settlement. from the Names Project. According to ACLU Illinois legal .it quits, During the Columbus DaylYom director Harvey Grossman, the tenta- Kippur display, organizers will con- tive class-action settlement would be SAN FRANCISCO- As the AIDS duct seminars on AIDS, a federal leg- the first ever to result from alleged epidemic surpassed the 100,000 mark islation update, and a candlelight improper action by law enforcement in July, one additional victim in the march to the Lincoln Memorial Octo- officials during a gay bar raid. almost relentless toll was the Names ber 7. First Lady I,3arbara Bush has The lawsuit charged that 15 Project's massive quilt. been invited to make a special visit to NIMEG agents went ~o Carol's on Although Names Project the display as well, according to orga- Sept. 12, 1985 with arrest warrants for spokesperson Dan Sauro said that the nizers. - Keltb Qark two employees and then forced all organization will continue to collect the customers to lie on the floor for panels and to display portions of the two hours while photographing them qUilt around the country and in Cana- Tossed out, and hurling anti-gay insults. da, the October 6 through 8 display if) -Rex Wock"er Washington, D.C. will be the last full c,ashed in shOWing of the quilt. The magnitude of the epidemic, with over 56,000 Unwed? No women and men dead from AIDS in CHICAGO-Forty-five gay men this country alone, makes the finan- who were harassed by agents of the bed.

CHICO, CALIFORNIA-In 1987 Evelyn Smith advertised to rent part of a duplex she owns and Gail Randall, a California State University student ,. here, and Ken Phillips, a landscaper, answered the ad. But when they admitted to Smith that they weren't married, the landlady refused to rent to them or any other unmarried cou- ples whom she considers "fornicators.· The California fair employment and housing commission on August 17, however, ordered Smith to pay the couple, who are no longer a cou- ple, $1,000 in damages for her refusal to rent to them. The devoutly religious fundamentalist Presbyterian Smith vowed immediately to fight the ruling in the courts. In a similar case earlier in the NAMES PROJECTS QUILTIN ALBANY Photo: Ellen 8. Neipris

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band's homosexuality and insisted that he contracted AIDS through a 1979 blood transfusion. In his will, Rep. McKinney left a 40 percent share of the Washington house, all personal effects in the house and his car to Denson, all worth a total of $59,200. Denson, however, has not received any of his inheritance and is now challenging the will in Probate Court. In an Aug. 21 press conference here, Denson made public personal records and photographs of him and McKinney to back up his claim. Den- son has told the press that the McKin- ney family was informed of the two men's relationship while McKinney was on his deathbed and was told that if he kept the relationship secret he would receive his share of the inheritance. Since then, Denson has reported- ly returned to Georgia where ca1\s to his home number have gone unre- turned. -Cliff O'NeiU Movin' on up Photo: Ellen B. Neipris LOS ANGELES - National Gay Rights Advocates, the nation's largest PROVINCETOWN- Instead of a parade of glittering floats bearing the public interest law firm representing names of businesses, a loud activist march on August 16 signalled the beginning gay men and lesbians in civil rights of Carnival Week in Provincetown this year. The parade, designed to encourage S•• OUTTAKES on page 78 tourism, is sponsored by the predominantly gay Provincetown Business Guild, which said it cancelled this year's festivities for safety reasons. i!'.... The Guild said it received anonymous threats of violence against parade participants. Many felt the alleged threats, and the subsequent cancellation, were directed at ACT UP/Provincetown's participation in the parade. Together with members of ACTUP/New York,the group led its own "March Against Homo- phobia" down Commercial Street. A sign that read "legalize butt fucking" and "legalize clit licking," carried by a member of ACTUP in Provincetown's gay and lesbian pride march last month sparked a huge, ongoing controversy. Gay and straight residents alike, and par- ticularly members of the PBG, lined up to condemn the sign, and the group which accompanied it. Reverend Keith Boyles (pictured above). a gay minister who organized the July 4 march, was publicly denounced, and fired by the coalition of churches that sponsors the yearly event. He returned last week to take part in ACTUP's demon- stration, originally planned to be part of the carnival festivities. ACT UP has charged tl!at despite its reputation as a lesbian and gay vaca- tion mecca, Provincetown is rife with homophobic attitudes and anti-gay vio- NGRA'SANN BRADLEY lence. - Masha Gessen and Andrew Miller

30 OUTYWEEK September 4, 1989 In Our Own Hands How to Avoid Being a Handicap to the Disabled Hints for the Temporarily Able-Bodied "Oh, I was bored last week, and de- abled and ill people in this country by Kim Christensen cided to try skydiving without a are terrible (this is especially true for parachute.") Don't presume that you lesbian/gaylbisexual people, who are 1. Realize that ableism (anti-dis- have the right to ask personal ques- often alienated from our families of abled attitudes) and lack of access to tions like this to a disabled person origin, and for poor people, who all of the major institutions in this so- you don't know. As a general rule, if can't afford those services which do ciety (education, transportation, etc.) you don't know somebody well exist). We have begun to build some are at least as "disabling" to us as our enough to ask them about their sex of these support services for physical differences or conditions. My life, don't ask them about their dis- PWAs--from being "on call" for medi- joint disease makes me different. But ability. cal emergencies, to advocating for a the stairs in the subway stations, the 4. When arguing a pro-chOice disabled/iII person who has to deal lack of curb cuts and the lack of an position, avoid ableist and eugenicist with the medical establishment, to accessible women's room at the arguments about needing to abort food shopping and filling prescrip- Lesbian/Gay Community Center make "defective" fetuses. (This applies tions. It is wonderful that we are be- me disabled; i.e., unable to participate whether the "defect" is HIV positivity, ginning to do this for each other fully in this community. around AIDS. Now we have to 2. One out of six people in expand these commitments to the u.s. today is disabled (these each other, and begin to provide figures are even higher among these services for each other African-American and Latino whether it is AIDS or something communities). But where are else which is causing our ill- we? Shut away in the institu- ness/disability. tions and isolated in homes, un- 7. Would you consider welcome in a society that was being lovers with someone in a literally not built for us. wheelchair? (If not, why not?) A commitment to access for Don't assume that disabled peo- all disabled people (including ple are asexual. The prevailing PWAs) means holding all of our definitions of "attractive," in the events in wheelchair accessible lesbian/gay/bi, as well as the spaces, with accessible bath- straight community, are pro- rooms for both men and foundly anti-disabled (as well as women (and if the events abso- ageist, racist and anti-fat). lutely can't be made accessible, 8. When interacting with a they should be advertised as in- wheelchair user (Not wheel- accessible). Access means hiring or a genetic or other difference.) chair-bound, please!): (1) Don't lean American Sign Language (ASL) inter- Women, of course, have the right to on the back of the chair; they're often preters (or at least making it clear that choose to terminate a pregnancy. But unstable. (2) If you are talking to the one will be proVided if needed). the "defective fetus" argument makes person for any length of time, sit or 3. Disabled people's bodies (es- disability into a "personal tragedy" squat to get to hi~/her level. (3) In pecially disabled women's bodies) are rather than the political problem (of general: Don't assume that you know often perceived to be, and treated the lack of social, medical and other what the person needs. Ask. like, public property. While using a supports for disabled children) that it 9. Learn about the history of the wheelchair, a cane or braces, I've had actually is. disability rights movement in this total strangers come up to me on the 5. Don't presume that any person country-including the accessibility street and ask, "What's wrong with you meet is able-bodied. Many dis- sit-ins by the Disabled People's you?" (Correct answer, "What's wrong abilities aren't "obvious." Liberation Front, the protests at with your manners?") or "What did 6. Realize that the support sys- Galludet University for the Deaf, and you do to yourself?" (Correct answer, tems, medical and otherwise, for dis- See HANDICAP on page 68

September 4, 1989 OUTTWEEK 31 Political Science AZT and the Diversionary IITrack"

by Mark Harrington AZT in asymptomatic HIV-infected The research establishment has persons-people who had no clinical one set of standards for the unfortu- signs of disease, but who tested posi- nate outsiders who want their drugs tive for HIV antibodies. The trial di- tested, and another, less stringent arly on Thursday, August 17, vided subjects into three groups of standard for itself, waiving all the Federal AIDS Program Director equal size. One third got full-dose rules for political gain. EDr. Anthony Fauci called 10 AZT 0500 milligrams daily). One This was the second time in two prominent AIDS reporters to give third got a lower dose (500 mg/day). weeks that major new information them a scoop: a press conference The last third got a placebo. They had about AZT was released at a press would be held that afternoon an- to take three small capsules five times conference. The first press conference nouncing that people with HIV who a day, but the capsules were physio- was called to announce the end of trial had no symptoms could delay the logically inert. 916, of AZf in people with early ARC. onset of AIDS by taking AZf. The trial was stopped in the According to that press release, AZT The announcement of any re- 1,300 subjects who entered the trial delayed progression from early to late sults, promising or not, from a Federal with fewer than 500 T4-cells. This was ARC or AIDS by at least 50 percent. AIDS trial was long overdue. For because twice as many placebo recip- Again, no hard data were released. three years now, these trials have ients progressed to ARC or AIDS than What are the medical implica- been limping along, slowly accruing those receiving either dose of AZf: 38 tions? patients, rapidly los- First of all, it ing many because of I . II· d d stands to reason that bad trial design, test- t IS not genera V consl ere if AZf is at all active ing mediocre treat- responsible scientific behavior to in people with ad- ments and denying txmeed HIV infection, people access to announce research results at a press that it would work as promis~ng ones. conference. Scientific practice calls for well ~r bett~ in reo- It IS not generally pie with earlJef stages. considered responsi- results to be submitted to outside experts Drugs operate in ble scientific behavior f· blissful ignorance of to announce research or peer review. the Centers for results at a press con- Disease Control ference. Scientific practice calls for re- placebo takers progressed, versus 19 (CDC) and its outdated definition of suIts to be submitted to outside ex- on high dose AZT and 17 on low "AIDS,' which ignores some fatal HIV perts for peer review. Then an article dose AZT. Few of the subjects experi- axnplications and lumps cthers indisaimi- is published in a medical journal. enced any of AZT's well-known nateIy together. Thus it was highly unusual when blood toxicities. All of those in the Henceforth, we shall have to in- Dr. Fauci stood with Secretary of trial with fewer than 500 T4 cells may sist that when treatments prove effec- Health and Human Services Louis now receive AZf if they choose to. tive against HIV in people with AIDS, Sullivan, Assistant secretary for Health Or so we are to believe. No data that they be tested concurrently in James Mason, and Commissioner of were released to support these claims. people with earlier stages of disease. Food and Drugs Frank Young an- It was science by press release. Only Second, AZf appears to be less nouncing the premature termination last year, Federal AIDS officials bitter- toxic in people with early ARC or of part of Federal AIDS trial 019. Iy attacked sponsors of other drugs, asymptomatics. At least the press re- This single trial accounted for such as IMREG-l and Peptide T, for lease said so. But how do we knoW. over half the 7,046 Americans en- releasing preliminary results at the We don't. Some AZT toxicity develops rolled in Federally-sponsored AIDS Stockholm AIDS conference before only after long-term use. In Montreal, studies. It was a two-year study of submitting them for peer review. Florida researcher Dr. Margaret Fischl

32 OUTTWEEK September4, 1989 reported that about 20 per- cent of long-term (40 weeks or more) AZf users devel- oped muscle degeneration (myopathy). This applied to AZT users who had ARC, not just AIDS. What evi- dence, if any, is there about this condition from the new studies? Third, what will be the impact of early An use on the much-feared "resistant viral Isolates"? If HIV is much less active in early infection, then it replicates less fre- quently. Hence the virus has less chance to mutate into a resistant form. What, if any- thing, do the new results tell us about this possibility? should we treat AIDS differently from Fourth, what is the impact on the other diseases?" (There are two an- fmrling that 500 mg/day is just as good swers: 1) AIDS is an infectious, rapid-. as 15OO? On a study reported in July, Dr. Iy spreading epidemic, which strikes. Fischl reported that 600 mg was just as people down in their prime; 2) we good as 1200 mg, and caused less can save the lives of most HIV-infect- white blood cell defICiency).First of all, ed people, and not doing so would it strongly implies that the original condemn to death over one· million dosage was far too high. Thousands of Americans who are gay, people of PWAsbecame transfusion dependent or color, or both.) developed infections because AZf sup- There was another reason for the pressed their bone marrow. The origi- sudden press conference August 17. nal dose was too high, too toxic, and The Federal AIDS establishment was medically unjustiftable. on the verge of ceding significant We will have to be vigilant in the power to AIDS advocates. At the very future to demand dose-comparison moment Drs. Sullivan, Mason, Young studies early in the testing of new an- and Fauci held their press conference, tiviral drugs. There is a very real dan- an FDA advisory committee meeting ger that such mistakes could recur if in Bethesda was on the verge of rec- AIDS advocates do not insist upon ommending that ACf UP and Project careful safety monitoring in both con- Inform have full voting membership trolled trials and the Parallel Track. on the Parallel Track AdVisory Fifth, how will the wider use of Committee. Staging a media extrava- AZT which the NIH, the FDA and ganza to announce the latest findings Burroughs- Wellcome are about to rec- on that tired pharmaceutical warhorse, ommend change the natural history of AZT, was an effective way to guaran- HlV infection? tee that the historic Parallel Track It will not change it at all unless meeting would go unrecorded in the people can afford AZT. Even with low major media. It was a sleazy tactic, dose, the cost will be over $3,000 an- but it worked. Nonetheless, the AIDS nUally. The Federal subsidy for AZT is community had forced the FDA to scheduled to run out in September. give up a massive chunk of its power. Senators with covertly genocidal in- The monolithic bureaucracy is fast A public service oltha National Institute on stincts are beginning to cho~s "why crumbling. Stay tuned. ... Drug Abuse and the Office lor Substance m• Abuse Prevention.

September 4. 1989 OUT~WEEK 33 New York Journal Commentary by Kate Walter

nieces ask me about Woodstock, I tell them about us--wet, cold, tired, but After Woodstock too wired to fall asleep. Whenever I flash back to that weekend of sex, I went back to Yasgur's Farm. Having gay male friends made it easi- drugs, rock 'n roll, youthful idealism, But it wasn't the same without Joe. er to come out as a lesbian. no one would have believed it if We were a typical late 60s couple I moved to the East Village and someone told us that 20 years from who met at the Jersey Shore during began freelancing. Joe moved to the now, a terrible sexually-transmitted the summer of love. As my guide into Upper West Side and became a trade virus would kill off thousands of the radical 60s, Joe led me from the magaZine editor. I'd hoped we'd see young people, and scientists couldn't repressive climate of a small Catholic each other after we both moved to find a cure. No one would have be- women's college and into the exciting Manhattan, but Joe was involved with lieved that. We thought we could world of alternative culture. Since Joe his Fire Island friends and I got "mar- change the world. was a music reviewer who got free ried." Although we didn't see each other As I look back, it's ironic. At tickets, we were regulars at Woodstock we were wor- the Capitol Theater in ried about our friends get-, Passaic and the Fillmore ting killed in some rice East in Manhattan. Nothing paddy in a foreign country, could have kept us two yet today I know lots more rockers from the now-leg- people who've died from endary Woodstock Festival. AIDS than who died in the We even had tickets. Vietnam War. But just like Twenty years ago this with Vietnam, it took too month, Joe and I wandered long for people to wake up through the rain and mud about AIDS. If people had looking for Tom, the friend been more respons'ive at who'd introduced us. Tom the beginning of the epi- had been drafted into the demic, maybe Joe and I army, (which meant going to would be swapping Vietnam) and was scheduled Woodstock stories. to leave that Monday. What a I bet we'd be laughing bummer! We had to find him about how goofy I looked to say goodbye. By some coming home in his broth- small miracle, we bumped ,~ er's bell bottoms (every- into him amidst the thou- thing else I'd brought got sands of other long-haired, soaked). Or we'd be laugh- scraggly, wet, people (by a ing about eating the Hog miracle, he got a last minute Farm's goopy gruel (we deferment). Tom is now happily mar- that much, we stayed in touch over the couldn't get out to reach a store). Or ried, owns a condo in New Jersey and years, encouraging each other's careers we'd be amazed at how we stayed works in municipal government. and relationships. We'd shared such a alert for so many hours with almost Joe's story is different. About long, involved history-no question my no sleep (we couldn't possibly miss three years after Woodstock, he came life would have been different if we the next super group). But mostly, I out ~o me. I remember being con- hadn't met. Joe encouraged me to be- think we'd recall the natural high of fused because he wanted men-not come a rock reviewer-and that spending three days with thousands me. I wasn't prejudiced against gays, launched my writing career. of other people committed to chang- just upset about losing my boyfriend, Joe died of AIDS this past May. ing government policies. Today Yet we remained friends. We were at- Whenever I hear certain songs from whenever I march for women's rights tracted to each other's personalities, the Rolling Stones or The Who (his or lesbian and gay rights or demon- interests, tastes, politiCS and sense of two favorite 60s groups), I think strate for AIDS action, it's that part of I.' humor. Several years later, I came out. about him. Whenever my teenage Woodstock IstiU carry with me. ' ',. .

September 4, 1989 OUT?WEEK 35 the Apex Corres- more moral uplift if I had the little fel- pondence School of low rolling a giant, painted egg away Art. I suspect that I from the tomb? was one of the lucky The one of the two cervixes few chosen for a mud-wrestling amidst a crowd of cheering condoms is from my o11~ T ~~~~:rs:: ~C:U:;r~ "mauve" period, when I was trying to mix social change with surrealism. In OO~~®'i1 '~~~:g~~at~ ~~o:~:~ it, I attempt to dep'ict the debasement ® of Woman by an oppressive secular ) d~~OO.u. lroa~l!!l :~:If~tb~~~~:dtr;~~ humanist cadre of non-church-going Commentary by Susie Day I ble is that, being a lesbian, I can't al- males. I admit I borrowed the idea of ways teJl the difference. That's where the melting stopwatch from a Dali "You're much to hostile,'· my I need your help. painting, in order to ask the visual therapist said. "Why don't you-in I am enclosing slides of some of question, "When will it all end?" your own words-try to thank the my work for you to impartially criti- The next picture, called "Food people who cause you momen- Chain," is the only painting I've tary grief and annoyance? After done without using actual mod- aJl, they are the agents of your els. The nuns slamming colosto- own personal growth." my bags over one another's. "OK,· I retorted. I spent all heads might therefore seem dis- last Thursday being grateful. proportionately larger than the kindergartners who are eating Dear Jesse Helms, rotten meat in light-hearted Thank you for proposing abandon. Oh-see the woman that innovative amendment in the lower left corner, wearing slashing the NEA's budget be- the leather jumpsuit and press- cause you didn't like Robert. ing her spiked heel into Oliver Mapplethorpe's or Andres North's navel? That's me! I want- Serrano's photography. I was just ed to convey, in a deeply per- saying the other day how unre- sonal manner, North's subjuga- sponsive the Senate was to art, tion at the hands [and feet] of but then you go and prove me self-indulgent, power-hungry lib- wrong. Your sensitive use of the erals. words "vulgar" and ·sick· in de- Do you think I have any tal- scribing Mapplethorpe's work ent, Jesse? I know you're busy, and the astute phraseology in but if you could take a minute your amendment, says to me that to tell me how to achieve that you, Jesse Helms, are a ne plus winning blend of art and poli- ultra 'of art criticism. And I tics, I'd be so grateful. I intend should know, too. cize. What, for instance, do you think to follow your recommendations to I am a recent recipient of the of my full-color painting entitled the letter! Then, after I've improved "Draw Binky· Art Scholarship. This "Bunny in Meat Grinder"? It was my enough, maybe you could use your prestigious award is given to select first serious work, so I worry that the artistic pull with Congress and get me magazine readers who demonstrate religious symbology of Bunny/Christ; a nice, fat NEA grant. artistic promise in copying the duckie Meat Grinder/World is a little too -Yours in Art wearing the rainhat, then enrolling in vague. Do you think it would have A Consenting Adult ~

34 OUrYWEEK September 4, 1989 in Wigstock, it's second nature. One night in the spring of 1984, Bunny, Brian Butterick, Wendy Wild, Michael "Kitty" Ullman and members of the as- yet unformed Love Delegation were in the park when a drunken conversation turned to the idea of having a daytime om m Chattanooga, Bunny ",me to New Y",k rock concert in the band shell. Since these people were inB1983 as a traveling companion for Ru Paul and Larry Tee's involved with the Pyramid Club (started by Butterick, Sister band from Atlanta, the Now Explosion. They had met in col- Dimension and Bobby Bradley in 1981, and for years head- lege in Atlanta and knew each other when Bunny, who did quarters to the East Village queen scene), it had to have drag a baton twirling act, was crowned "Miss 688" at a local queens. Butterick, Ullman and Peter Zaremba, being rock "alternative rock" bar. Although Bunny had been in drag queens from way back, hit on the idea of Woodstock (after before, it wasn't until she came to New York and found the all, what period better mixed rock with flamboyant fashions Pyramid on Avenue A that she became the performer she is suited for drag queens?). But it was Bunny who took up the today. idea, got the needed permits from the Department of Parks She started dancing on the bar ("To think that someone and the police and organized the event. Now, in 1989, she's wanted to pay me to dress up and dance for them was so presenting the fifth annual Wigstock with "every East Village thrilling!"). Then came bit parts in Pyramid productions like performance-art type queen" in the downtown scene. A par- "Charlie's Angels." Her first solo performance was a Iip- tial list of the over 40 acts includes Bunny herself, Hapi synch to °1Will Survive." In the middle of the song, she was Phace, TABOO!, Sister Dimension (all queens who made the blinded by the lights and fell into the audience. Having had Pyramid scene), Ethyl Eichelberger (the Grand Dame of per- her first taste of audience response as the crowd roared, she forming queens), those Gallic grove-makers French TWist, bounced back on stage, the song personified. She became Wendy Wild as the amphetamine "Joey Heatherock," Phoebe known for her energetic renditions of Patti Labelle songs. Legere, dancer Michael Clark, the rocking psychedelic soul For a long time no other drag queen dared attempt a Iip- of Peter Zaremba and the Love Delegation, Joey Arias, the synch to her tour de force, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Boy Bar Beauties, comedian Barbara Patterson Lloyd and the Unlike most drag queens, the Lady Bunny also sings, usually wildly entertaining Suhkreet Gable. to backing tracks of famous songs. (She does the most credi-

WIGGIN'OUT Photo: Todd Eberle Ths crowd at Wigstock '88

September 4, 1989 OUTTWEEK 37 Bunny's Obsession! Rick Sugden Talks to Wigstock's Lady in Question About Her Annual East Village Ritual

"By the time we got to WIGSTOCK we were several thousand falls ... And I dreamed I saw the drag queens spraying hair spray in the sky and it made all the YUPPiesdie" -john Kelly's variation on the song "Woodstock"

,T ccowd at Tompkin' squa~e signs and I feel a bit embarra~d at being on Park-numbering in the thousands-is the verge of tears. silent and focused on the beautiful The "Lady" Bunny dashes up to the Singer on stage. When she throws mike, "Let's hear it for Joni! She's so sweet! I her head back her long, straight, don't know what Wigstock would be like brown fall sweeps off her shoulders without her. Isn't she special?" The crowd I' revealing ~ finely sculpted profile. The roars with approval as much for Bunny as for pc1ave swoop and the giggles are so artful- "Joni." Bunny has on a caftan number that ly done they send chills down your spine. resembles a table cloth from an Indian restau- You'd swear that Joni had decided to bless rant on 6th Street, worn so that the corners us with her presence. Behind her are the just barely cover her crotch and butt. Her musical instruments that the more than 50 glamour-nails are glittering and her make-up performers scheduled for today will use. On is, as always, the most understated of the the back wall of the band shell is a mural overdone of the LES drag queens. Her wig with caricatures of some of the drag queens (or is it wigs, it looks so big) is a blonde cas- that will perform: Lypsynka, Hapi Phace, the cade with a bubble in the back that looks Connie Girl, and the curlicue trademark let- like a late-sixties Ann Margaret with a serious ters of the artist TABOO!-"Wigstock." hairdo. She is waving a copy of the Wigstock Just three weeks after the summer of program which, in a standard agreement with 1988 Tompkins Square Riots, the park is the Parks Department, she is forbidden to alive with drag queens and their friends sell. "The suggested donation is one dollar celebrating Peace, Love and Wigs! Flyers and I suggest you pay it or you won't get advertising the event read, "Have a riot in one." After the next introduction, she heads Tompkins Square Park." As "Joni" (per- to the side of the stage to watch the act, formed by "Dagmar Onasis,' as per- check her make-up and hair, make sure the formed by John Kelly) finishes her next act is somewhere near prepared, and variation on the song "Woodstock," the keep various rowdy types from mounting the crowd rips open with applause and stage. She does all this without panic because screams. People are flashing peace after four years of organizing and performing

THE LADY BUNNY Photo: Ande Whylande

36 OU~WEEK September 4, 1989 I put on has got to have a strong dose of the nutty and the ill-prepared," squeaks Bunny in her southern accent. Wigstock, and the entire mentality that personifies it, is something that requires a thinking audience. "I think sophisticat- ed people have always enjoyed [drag queens]." Bunny thinks of her self-creation as a twisted Up-With-People kind of person. When I asked her who she thought personified the spirit of Wigstock, she said Carol Channing. "She's such a fool I can't believe she's made it this far."

Ite< getting the peemit'. Bunny Astarts rounding up the performers. Scott Lifschutz does an equal amount of work designing posters, t-shirts, putting the program together, etc. Tom Rubinitz, the auteur of the video Wig- stock- The Movie also greatly helps in the pro- duction. To raise money for the sound system and other expenses, Bunny sponsors fund rais- ing events around .town (this year she tried get- ting corporate sponsors from the "hip" liquor companies, but no luck). Of course, the madness and running around takes its toll on a drag queen. "I have to make sure I eat lots of pork," she says. "Pork is the meat that makes you mean, it makes you aggressive and I'm such a sweet little country girl that in this dog-eat-dog world I need it to give myself that aggressive edge that a 'pro- fessional female impersonator' in New York has Photo: Todd Eberle to have dealing with these shyster promoters." PROU~ M~RY • She giggles at her own outrageousness and pon- Taboo .• Wigstock 88 ders some of the problems of Wigstock. "It is difficult to use (sung to the tune of Leaving on a Jet Plane). But the appeal the bathroom. I'm glad that the paparazzi weren't around the is not limited to the 60s. For example, Lypsynka, the Russian year I was forced to go to the bathroom behind a tree in the Defectress, does routines from her off-Broadway show. The park." Boy Bar Beauties' 1988 crowd-pleasing rendition of A/ter- That was a lucky break for Bunny, as not only the noon Delight, while nostalgic, has nothing to do with the paparazzi, but TV cameras too are now Wigstock staples, generation of peace and love. adding to the event's glamour. The performers at Wigstock, Wigstock is quintessential contemporary entertainment in fact, work for free, their pay-off being the honor-and in its references to a past. It's an 80s post-modern nostalgia publicity--of being a part of a LES tradition. Last year the for authenticity and innocence. But what makes it so popu- networks CNN and MTV cover~d the event for reports that lar is that it is the only annual community event of its kind were shown repeatedly over the weekend. Interview had a that takes place in the park. It is a -celebration not so much full-page photo of a little girl wearing a wig. Reports have of the 60s as a celebration of the renaissance of the gay sen- popped up on "Midnight Blue," the Manhattan Cable porn sibility that has taken place in the Lower East Side. Since the show, in Details, and the Italian magaZine Per Lui. Al Gold- opening of the Pyramid, Avenue A and its environs have stein's Screw said, in the year of the harmonic convergence, been a refuge for the rebellious funsters of the Queer that Wigstock was "the hormonal convergence that ushered Nation. Bunny speaks for a lot of us when she says she likes in the Age of Asparagus." Wigstock because "it is such a sick treat to see these tramps What exactly makes Wigstock such a popular event? The out in broad daylight." ~ nostalgic homage to the 1969 concert is tangential-rock bands, beads, flowers and performers belting out a "peace Wigstock '89 takes place on Labor Day, September 4, in and love" at the end of their set. Jesse Hultberg performs as Tompkins Square Park (Avenue A between 7th Street and Peter, Paul and a Big Mary, a one-person trio singing Poo/, 10th Street). Shows are scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. and the Magic Drag Queen and I'm Weaving on a Hair Piece to continue until 10:00 p.m. Admission is/roo.

September 4, 1989 OUT~WEEK 39 ble cover of Bobbi Gentry's "Fancy" I have ever seen.) With ex-main squeeze Dimitri (currently with "Delite") and Sister Dimension, Bunny also had a band, "Shazork!," which made a stab at disco with a pyrmaid in-house live recording of an original song, "Is It Up to Me?" Disco survived, but the song didn't and neither did the band. Though the Lady Bunny is one of the most sought-after entertainers in the city, she supplements her theatrical income working on the 55O-9999/Chicks with Dicks phone line. "It gives me an independence from relying on the shyster pro- moters in this city." She quickly adds, "Not that they are all shysters." The appeal of working the phone lines is that it is more relaxed, you don't have to dress up, and it is an easy way to get dates. "The guys [that call] are gay but it is jUst pushed so far back in their minds that they don't want to suck a dick unless it pops out from under a skirt." Is that what made a sweet southern boy with a sharp tongue a drag queen? "Maybe the pressures of being a sissy in the south pushed me into being a drag queen, I don't know. But I think it was the theatrical part that attracted me. I mean, when I saw my first queen my eyes popped out of my head and I knew I wanted to do that. It wasn't a sexual thing at all." Although Bunny's performing passion is for the Black disco diva, especially her alter ego Patti laBelle, she is quick to point out that she is not a "female impersonator" of the Judy-Barbara-Diana school; she's a drag queen. Female impersonators try to present a picture-perfect copy of their idols whereas performers like Bunny, Hapi and TABOO! cre- FLOWER VASE Photo: Todd Eberle ate a spectacle that often relies on the deception being Ming VBUZ",Wigstock '88 deceived by shOWing the cracks in the artifice. "My show that

PSYCHADELIC FUR? Photo: Todd Eberle R""e/ers Bt Wigstock '88

38 OUTTWEEK September 4, 1989 Inside the Gay Slave Trade Champagne Activism, A-List Aryans and Pleasing the Ruling l... _ Class

by Jim Provenzano

"I'm thinking of starting decidedly sexist and racist hiring poli- anything resembling a union policy. a club for straight cater cies. Few women are ever hired and Except for a core group of captains and waiters,"said myfriend Ray. people of all colors are predominantly longtime employees, most waiters are paid excluded from the ranks, except Cauca- about fifteen dollars an hour and hired "Really?" I responded. soid males with varying degrees of tan- only a few times a week by one company. "Where willyou both meet?" ning bed tint. Among the hundreds of This makes it easier to avoid employee successful companies in the area, sever- benefits plans for such large crews, since al have large and profitable accounts most are part-time. It also leaves the wait- Of course the ratio of gays to with the wealthiest people and corpora- ers to find other kinds of work or alternate straights isn't that unbalanced in the tions in the country. Each night in nights with other caterers. catering business, but it might be close. Metropolis thousands of young men It's not easy to describe the ten- There are just too many great haircuts and women, most of them gays and les- uous relationship between the over- topping off those tuxes. Unfortunately, bians, converge on museums and meet- dressed, usually wealthy guests and as two years in formal food service ing halls with a garment bag slung over the dapper gay men who serve have shown, catering is one of the a shoulder, a full black tuxedo inside. them. (J will be speaking mostly of most hypocritical gay industries in New Ranging from the enormous top two, men since, due to the sexism, York City. It is one in which gay men Glorious Food and Abigail Kirsch, to women cater waiters are very rare.) and lesbians are exploited-many the small yet posh Food Lovers, the city Unlike restaurant work, tipping is times by their "own kind"-and tossed is served by a variety of companies, discouraged. Sometimes guests off like the uneaten crudite scraped off each employing a discreet army of seem tolerant and even charmed to Milton Petrie's gold-edged plate. queer men and women in black. be served by so many handsome Most catering companies have Very few of these companies have men, gay or not. More often, we're

40 OUTTWEEK SJptember 4,1989 just ignored. It's an odd chemistry. needs of gay men with a streak of the through the ranks, while most are fed People can be quite rude as well as snob (I have a serious problem work- poorly, rushed through short breaks in flirtatious. It's at the dinners where ing under these conditions and have nine to ten hour shifts. we're required to wear white gloves made the shift to other work). For The simple'act of getting hired by that the most insults can be over- thousands of handsome gay white a better paying company involves a heard. Chat among diners occasion- men, catering is the preferred means of stereotypically gay challenge: Who do ally becomes preoccupied with income. They have no qualms about you know in the company? Who have cleanliness, as if disease were trans- serving medallions of veal to the CEO you slept with? Are you cute? In order mitted by French service. of Coors. They haven't a. second to get an interview or the privilege of Most of the waiters I work with thought about getting another scotch attending a tedious training session, claim to be actors. Occasionally while for William F. Buckley, who would most companies demand a mailed 8" X we dress, flyers are passed about for rather see us all tattooed than tuxedo 10" headshot and a food service someone's upcoming showcase, but These gay waiters balance out their resume. As in all cattle calls, good most rely on catering to pay the rent. hypocrisy with the amusement of dish- looks are tantamount. Short hair is As the co-owner of a successful com- ing Estee Lauder's latest luncheon outfit essential and earrings a no-no. One pany stated in our training session, while slapping down her steak. uptown company supposedly has a "You may call yourselves actors or Some of the really cute guys are computer file of waiters sorted by race singers, but you and hair color have chosen cater- so the help can ing to make be distributed money. If you don't according to the feel comfortable bias of the with that, you client. The "A" should get out of list consists of the business.» squarejawed A lot of people Aryan crewcut I've talked with blonds with nary don't feel comfort- a straight boy able with that fact. among them. Some have suffered What makes such a mind bend, a gay man work they turn down under such con- performing oppor- ditions? I cer- tunities to do cater- taintly can't ing,jobs. "What did speak for all you come. to New cater waiters York to do? Per- but, for me, it form or fold was greed and napkins?" I ask sloth. What them. Of course I other job offers know the value of as few as ten a good paycheck, people to serve but the mental in a posh home drain flares up in or museum plus odd ways. "I want • ...oi the opportunity to behead this creep," my friend Chet distinctly apathetic about lesbian and to glance at the Glamorous and Global whispered to me one night, while we gay rights. One muscled hunk, fresh for about a hundred bucks a night? both stood directly behind the man, from the Midwest, told me he was gay Some waiters go so far as to delight in wine bottles poised in deceptive con- but wasn't really interested in seeing the next days' "reviews" in the trol. It seemed the man had put his Stonewall and "all that stuff.. SOCietycolumns. Perchance the Times cigar out in a votive candle at Chet's Gays and lesbians are also among will feature oneself or a friend, stand- table. The cigar didn't piss Chet off so the ranks of owners and managers in ing penguinlike in the background and much as the decadent disregard for the many companies. Some donate left- slightly out of focus behind Ivana or table setting. To Chet, it symbolized the overs to AIDS hospices or God's Love Jackie O. man's hatred for service people in gen- We Deliver. However, the only place A prevalent shared fantasy among eral and toward him for being a hand- I've seen leftovers go after a big event cater waiters, and one that perpetuates some and threateningly gay man. is in the trash or in the bags of waiters. the industry'S success, is the belief that Though there are many like Chet Along with ra'mpant waste, inside through the business a lucky guy or gal and myself, catering seems to meet the elitism is high. The prettier workers rise SLAVE TRADE continued on page 70

September 4, 1989 OUTTWEEK 41 Someday $oon we expect - and hope - con- inquiry into contemporary culture: The display doms will fall out of Hallmark greeting cards when features condom packaging. advertising. special- we open them up. 'Cause let's face it rubbers are ties. T-shirts and gift items such as Bed Ross (pic- fast entering into that familiar Hall of Fame with tured here), which can be found at card stores and baseball. apple pie and Chevrolet. And so it's only specialty shops around Manhattan. Says curator appropriate that the Fashion Insitute of Technology Richard Martin: Minthe past five years the condom will be housing a small display called The Con- has achieved visibility as an artifact and in polite spicuous Condom (September 5-12). which. discussion. An icon is being created in our own according to the press release, Misan unexpected. time out of an age-old secret; this exhibition stud- unpretentious. undogmatic. irreverent and witty ies the emergence of a new imagery':

-M.S. Photo: Irving Solera

September 4, 1989 OUrYWEEK 43 We rlther like the all-new end improved d,.ign of the N.w York Tim.. ,trut vending mlchinu which I~e mlking their debut III .ver town.

-M.S.

Photography by:ll. litt

42 OUrYWEEK September4, 1989 TI still a tidy sum, but hardly the national that the rich "have the right to spend debt" (Oh, gee Liz, that makes me feel their money the way they want." better). Koppel agr~ed, saying something On Night/ine, Koppel framed the grotesque about capitalism, while Liz Forbes party as "excessive" and jumped in calling Cohen a "moralist," "extravagant" and then asked Liz, who and adding that "in these times of kept reiteriating that she was there excess, these [million dollar or morel "working," what she thought. "It was parties are just a drop in the bucket." horrible," she answered, as I thought Not my bucket, Liz baby! that finally Liz was gaining a con- Of course Cindy Adams (New science. But then she continued, "I York Post) wasn't invited on to By: Michelangelo Signorlle mean, there was no air conditioning Nightline for the "discussion," but did and the lines were too long." go to Tangier - and gave us daily reports in the Post, nauseatingly going on and on about Forbes and his he Daily News put it on page "date" Elizabeth Taylor. Her homo- two. ABC sent a slew of phobia even surfaced in her discus- T reporters. And Newsday list- sion of guest Walter Cronkite who ed the names of all 600 or so guests "knows lots of queens - and not the who were flown to Morroco. Of Greenwich Village kind." Right Cindy. course we're speaking of that megalo- It's your friend Malcolm Forbes who maniacal, vicious show of American knows that kind. excess and waste: Malcolm Forbes' Which leads us to Billy three million dollar (0 70th birthday (Goldberg) Norwich (Daily News), doo in Tangier. who also knows his share of that As far as we're concerned the An angry Cohen, who did not kind. And yet, he keeps on printing most fun and revealing item that came attend and who attacked Liz for her things like "Forbes' on-again, off-again out of the whole gluttonous mess was defense of Steinberg, lashed out at sweetheart, Liz Taylor," while doing the one headlined WHO WAS WITH Forbes, saying the party was a night- the Monacco thing with Will iam F. WHOM IN TANGIER, in which mare simply because it happened Buckley, Henry Kissinger and the rest Richard Johnson at, Page Six (New "while people in the world are starv- of the homophobic, murderous York Post) printed the names of some ing." Leach chuckled, pontificating bunch. How glamourous! ~ of the more curious guests who shared rooms at Tangier's Hotel Solazur. And though Johnson could be accused of lesbian-baiting (since he's heterosexual, he's not allowed to say the things that we - or at least I - say about ourselves), one of his observations was most interesting: "Room 213 was listed to archeologist Iris Love and Daily News columnist Liz Smith." (FINGER SNAP!) The big, fat Forbes bash was in fact the food for the gossips last week, especially the ones who kissed Malcolm's ass long enough so as to get themselves flown over to Morroco. When it was over, Liz Smith, Robin Leach and Richard Cohen (Washington Post) joined Ted Koppel for a "discussion" on Nightline. Only days before, Liz had defended the comparatively smaller Gayfryd Steinberg one-mil lion-dollar party, writing, "it cost considerably less than the $1 million everybody loves to guess at. My own educated reasoning is that it cost more like $250,000 -

September 4, 1989 OUTYWEEK 45 UT OF o MV HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL

Dear Brad: mouths shut and wait until that VCR in January and now everytime he I really thought our relationship un~asy moment has passed. invites me and our other friend, aJ,. was doomed. Ever since I moved in Sometimes we'll go for days without over to play cards we're also forced with Brian all we did was get on each exchanging a harsh word. Everyone to watch Vanessa Redgrave movies. other's nerves. I couldn't stand the who predicted that our relationship We didn't know until now just how way he organized his medicine chest wouldn't last the weekend is now vast her body of film work was. It and he always had something nasty to amazed at the transformation. As an was all right at first with the good say about my choice of music and so added bonus, because of our new- movies like Blowup and Isadora and on until after a while it seemed like found reputation for quietness, we've we tried to be polite about Camelot we were deliberately going out of our been much in demand as bouseguests but now he's moved on to things like way to antagonize each other. Then, all summer long! Thanks for your Agatha and The Bostonians. Last thank God, a concerned friend help. -De,,,," night he went too far and showed showed us a copy of your column on Bear Island (there's a very good rea- conflict management in relationships. Dear DennJs: son why nobody remembers that We figured we had nothing to lose Sometimes, late atl night, when I one). We just don't know how, with- and gave it a try and you wouldn't wonder if it's all worth it, I think out hurting his already fragile ego, to believe the difference it made! Instead about letters like yours and find com- tell "B" that enough is enough of constantly bickering, we became fort in the thought that I've made'a already, especially since he always civil to one another which was far difference in somebody's life. If I lets us win at "Hearts· and serves more pleasant. When he comes home believed in God, I'd ask him to bless good liquor. "J" has taken to faking I turn off the stereo so he knows I you. But I don't. migraines to get out of these evenings care enough to make the sacrifice and and I'm only sorry I didn't think of he has been absolutely meticulous in Dear Brad:. that first. "B" is a faithful reader of this letting me arrange the medicine chest aB" and I have been good friends column and quotes you all the time, just the way I like it. Whenever we for nearly nine years now but lately so I thought maybe if you ran this let- think we're about to say something he's really been testing the limits of ter he'd see it and get the hint. --G- potentially hurtful we just keep our that friendship. You see, he bought a Dear "G": To be quite honest, I don't exactly see what the problem is since Ms. Redgrave is undoubtedly the greatest living actress and brings an extraordinary luminescence even to the most dismal film. If, however, you and aJ" are such philistines that you can't pleasantly participate in an elevating experience which obvious- ly means a great deal to "B" then I suggest the you tell aB" to his face and not rely on this column to do your dirty work (and what could be dirtier than denying your "good friend" tlie simple pleasure of quality entertainment in his own home?). As I have ~cently been informed, con- flicts can only be resolved by open and honest communication. Don't be surprised, however, if you and oJ" have to recruit another patsy for your card games. ~

44 OUTTWEEK September 4, 1989 Social Terrorism Photos by Erich Conrad

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September 4, 1989 OUTYWEEK 47 not meeting. So after all that lingering eye contact and smiling, speak up! Favorite topics of conversation are site specjflC: "Aren't CUbby Hole: How goocIIbad the videos are, how little space there is... Cave canan: How many cute/obnoxious girls there are, why the door woman gives such attitude, how that voluptuous girl ever got the nerve to go in the pool with you a white t-shirt and no bra ... Love Mach1ne, Man on Sunday, any gay men's club/bar: Where are the girls, why do boys have all the fun, isn't the deejay great/terrible, I hear Madonna's in tired of town ... Acr UP meeting; What is going on?, where's the next demonstration?, are you going?, who's that girl with the hair? going to Anywhere: News, politics, straight men, Madonna, the state of lesbian nightlife ... (Small talk is hard enough when you have to do it. Don't overextend yourself. Besides, important conversations are one way to tell the dykes/gay women from the dyke girls/wimmin.)

Once You've Spoken: parties, Is it going well? Do you have anything in common (that includes lusting after one another)? Has one of you bought drinks for the other? Has anyone asked if it mattered? If you've answered yes, then you are well on your way to cruising success. You dances, have some options: Keep talking. It will eventually get late, and you caQ get each other'S phone num- bers, plan to meet again wherever you are, meet somewhere else, or even go some- bars and where else now (for those girls with avant-garde empioyment). This is usually safe, and the anticipation of seeing them again makes for a week of eXciting fantasizing. If safer you do go somewhere else, or leave together, keep reading: . You're both leaving. The best strategy is to live downtown and hope they live in Brooklyn. If it's late, they can always spare themselves that long, dangerous ride home sex by staying at your house. If you live near each other, share a cab, and agree to get out at one person's house". This way the only polite thing to do is to ask them up to see that issue of On Our Backs you were talking about earlier. Or have another drink. forums If you just know that the two of you are not going to work out for even one night (you're both butch, you're both femme, she's radical, you're fifteen ...), do not give up on the lesbian nation! Remember, we are diverse and you weren't standing alone in and the corner all night either. In addition, since this is the smallest of small towns, you'll run into each other again (the odds increase the more you didn't get along), and it will be nice not to stand alone, again. coming

Notes For Speda1 SItuations: 1) This is fairly tame advice for the more adventurous of you. But one can assume home if you're that adventurous, you've worked on your own strategies anyway. Suffice it to say that there are women who can look you up and down for a little while, walk up to you, whisper in your ear that there's an ice cube with your name on it in their with no kitchens, and you'll be so aroused you'll awaken three days later somewhere in New York with hickies like leech bites. If you are one of them, please exercise the talent much more frequently, thank you. aneta 2) There are some girls who don't know they're being cruised. You have to hit them over the head with $eir own libido (confess, you know who you are). They are usually the sweetest girls you'll ever meet, and are worth the effort. Just make sure try your you'r~ not mistaking them for someone with a "wifen who happens to be watching the two of-you out of the corner of her eye. What you think is shyness could be fear. 3) Cruising with friends: Cruising is for all intents and purposes a one-woman oper- dental ation, unless of course you're seeking a third for an orgy. Observe proper etiquette, tell the object of your affections, ·she's my friend, not my girlfriend,· and layout the ground rules before you go out: Should you make a date for later, or can you go home dam with her now? Can your friend get home alone? Can you get home alone? Are you and your friend just avoiding the fact that it's each other you want? All this and more is what makes lesbian friendship the festival of female bonding that lights up our lives. on???" Have fun, be safe and don't say you weren't warned. ~

September 4, 1989 OUT~WEEK 49 • • Hc>~ ~c> c:r1.Jis <:::?' <-:.ir Is .by Li:z:. TrCl:ce--y

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If cruising were music, then lesbian cruising would be she's a dyke/lesbian/gay woman. So, this article is issuing a Muzak. Due to our parents, high school and the culture-at-Iarge, challenge (certainly not for the first or last time in this city): we girls have been taught that we don't cruise,-we get cruised a lesbian visibility campaign. Numerous kiss-ins, brunches in Well, that's fabulous. But if your preferences run toward other straight havens and grinding on dance floors seem to be girls, especially cute blondes in leather jackets, then honey, called for. They won't know who to go for if they think you you'll all be waiting a long, long time for some action. have Michael J. Fox on your wall. With this in mind, the time has come for some helpful hints for the cruising-impaired. Aren't you tired of going to After We Are All Visible: dyke parties, dances, bars and safer sex forums and coming Be friendly. As Michael Musto has written, "friendly is home with no one to try your dental dam out with??? Let's in." If you're giving out bad attitude like an unwashed sock, seize control of our sexuality, get out there and have some you're asking for nothing but heartache and a lot of that act fun. Here we go... which no one need look their best for. If someone smiles at you, smile back. What's the worst that can happen, you get Before We Get Started: invited to a spaghetti potluck ... The first prerequisite for cruising a girl is knowing if Communication is essential If you're not talking, you're

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continuously dangerous and utterly incomprehensible background-a Dressed to Pillage background through which American soldiers must trudge as each grapples with his own conscience and national mental foreign policy seems hell-bent identity. But does Vietnam have a lties of War. Directed on forgetting it. For myself, the specif- geographical place, a national history, '.~ -," '.:- , . De Palma: Written by ic hell of war films is never that they a culture, or a political future? Not be from the book by are too horrible to witness, but rather really, for as we are reassured at the ng. Produced by Art that they are never-and never could end of Brian De Palma's military slash- ~tiSed by Columbia. be-horrible enough. For the horror er film, Casualties of War, Vietnam that is necessarily omitted in the us- was after all only a "bad dream." against-them scenario of war films is In Casualties of War, it is Private by Peter Bowen the specific horror of the other side. Eriksson's (Michael J. Fox) remem- Whether Hollywood cinematically brance of his experience in Vietnam dreams Vietnam as a machine-gunning that functions as the narrative's struc- fantasy (Rambo) or as literary night- turing device. Eriksson's dream/mem- mare (Apocalypse Now), its dream ory of Vietnam is sparked off by the warf is hell, then war films are inevitably takes Vietnam out of its presence of a Vietnamese woman on the special hell of film goers. own historical reality and transforms it a San Francisco bus who bears an IAnd for my generation, the into a hellish back lot of the American uncanny resemblance to the woman Vietnam War has become that particu- psyche. Here, ttf sweltering, tangled his squad kidnapped, then brutally lar hell which we are continually jungle and the local people and their raped and murdered in Vietnam years forced to remember, even as govern- language are blurred together into a before. And while this woman's pres-

A SPECIAL KIND OF HELL Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox 50 OUTTWEEK September 4, 1989 TI ence recreates, and finally pardons, in earlier slasher films by psychotically least in this case, evokes homosexuali- his personal involvement in the crime, confusing violence for sex, the articu- ty as a reason for violence and rape. the pUblic and allegorical dimensions lation of sex as violence in this film And the woman, who is never even of his private nightmare are made makes it psychotically clear the real granted the decency of subtitles to ridiculously clear by the day's news- conflict is over the definition of het- express her pain, is killed off in a fight paper's headlines announcing Nixon's erosexual masculinity. In the penul- between straight, white men. resignation. Taken from an actual inci- timate moment when Eriksson In the end, Eriksson brings his dent-originally told in a 1969 New abstains from participating in the gang squad to trial for their crimes. But Yorker article by Daniel Lang-De rape, his fellow soldiers bring out that while the trial-whose actual sen- Palma and screenwriter David Rabe crushing insult of "faggot." In this tences were much more lenient than have taken poetic justice into their man's army, the only thing worse than those fictional sentences meted out in own hands by creating a wartime ver- a rapist is a faggot, and the penalty for this film-seems able to differentiate sion of The Accused which, according those who fail' to rape is rape itself. between murder and war, no one in to De Palma, "encapsules our involve- "Maybe when I'm done with her,' I'll the film seems willing to bring the war ment in Vietnam in a simple, dramatic come after you," Meserve threatens to trial. And years later when the mys- story" with "all the elements of a clas- Eriksson. And in case we have misun- terious Vietnamese woman on a San sical tragedy." derstood the nature of this threat or Francisco bus tells Eriksson that his the reason for the rape, Meserve, "bad dream" is over, I can only echo dropping his rifle and grabbing his the sentiments of the disgruntled sol- crotch, explains, "this is a weapon." dier in the film who, after surveying hat is most classical about Thus, while certain gay men fetishize the landscape he is able to destroy, this wartime tragedy is the military as ero.tic, the military, at says, "This is all bullshit'" ~ W less the artfully tilted shots or stylishly edited combat scenes than the fact that the final conflict is ultimately a moral debate between straight, white men.' As with Charlie Sheen's realization as he rises far above the maddening crowds of war in the last few minutes of Piatoon that America was really at war with itself-a conclusion that obviously for- gets the entire Vietnamese popula- tion-Casualties of War transforms the rape of the Vietnamese woman, Oahn (Thuy Thu Le), into a fight between Eriksson and his grunting sergeant, Meserve (Sean Penn). Barred from Saigon's whorehous- es, Meserve angrily turns Vietnam into his personal brothel by requisitioning a local woman as his squad's "portable R&R." As Meserve's troop drags Oahn through the mountainous jungle with Ennio Morricone's forbid- cling soundtrack hounding them like the classical furies, Eriksson finds himself caught between his American sense of decency ("Sarge, I don't think this is right") and th<:;army's code of male bonding. After all, Meserve had saved Eriksson's life earlier by drag- ging him out of a collapsed Viet Cong tunnel and keeping, within a knife- swipe of time, his masculinity intact. And it is precisely this "masculinity" that Eriksson won't share with the other boys during the gang rape. apORTABLE R&R' While De Palma made his name 17ruy Thu LB

September 4, 1989 OUT~WEEK 51 Music Girl From Impanema by Victoria Starr

othing inspires a music col- in my "natural air" living room in that are the backbone of most Brazilian umn like an approaching Brooklyn. The only solution is to get into music. In addition, the strength of her Ndeadline. Unless, of course, the groove by heading for the turntable. voice allows her to muster a throaty the deadline is so near that eacll tick of And the surest way to relax and cool off edge, but only when it's most appro- the clock induces another droplet of is to reach for Marisa Monte. priate, opting for a smoother, more sweat. Just what I need on a hot AugtB ·She's the hottest thing on the soothing style for cuts like her closiDg radio over there,· explained cover of Kurt Weill's ·Speak low.· my friend Lorry, who had just Now that I've wet your returned to Lima after passing appetite, I must also teIl you that a month in his old Brazilian you might have to go to Brazil to haunts. "Since you're return- pick up this record (finally, the ing to New Yot:k before me, excuse you've been waiting forI). you should take this album Or you could try Tower, since EMI with you.· Now, as I listen seems to have had something to again to Monte's self-titled do with the album's distribution new album, I'm swept back south of the border. But in case in time, perhaps to another you don't find this gem in NY, try life, to a sultry, balmy writing Fonobras,. Distribuidora evening in a smoky Bahian Fonografica Brasileira Ltd., night club. Or maybe it was Estrada Do Gabinal, 1521, Brazil. just a movie I saw once. And while at Tower pick up Maria Either way, the album is sure Bethania (another Brazilian singer, to evoke every hedonistic not a Tower clerk). fantasy ever conjured up In fact, since this is the fsrst issue about this most sensual of in which we at Outweek have had an South American paradises. All official music column, there may be a without Monte ever brea~ing number of music choices which were into a Samba. WeIl, maybe overlooked in your summer shopping just once. sprees. First off is Neneh Cherry's The unusuaIly sponta- Raw Like Sushi, where a cut like "Next neous temporal reference Generation," addressing the joys of (above) must surely be planned parenthood, proves her dura- attributed to an image of the bility beyond the top 40/dance rota- chanteuse, a tradition to' tion. True to rap's real roots, this· which Monte is Viscerally woman can teach. Other summer attached. Yet her versatility faves have included Cindy Lee goes a step beyond, as sl!e Berryhill's Naked Movie Star, EU's moves from torchy ballads to Livin' Large, and SheIley Thunder's near rock, while never stray- Reggae Dancehall single Kuff. ing too far from her Afro/Latin Newsflash: MTV says that if they influences. Her band's line-up, could turn back time they would have which varies from the "live" asked Cher to wear more clothes for cuts to the more highly pol- her latest video If We Could Turn ished studio work, offers a Back Time. And if I could leap into creative blend of strings and my television I would show those brass to round out the wide leering sailor boys just what to do array of percussive sounds with those canons they're riding. ~

52 OUT'YWEEK September 4, 1989 Performance Making America Safe for Song by Joe E. Jeffreys

usical comedy isn't noted for its high mortality rate. MThe W.P.A.Theater's cur- rent production of Doug Wright and Michael John LaChiusa's Buzzsaw Berkeley whirs through this convention with a bloody vengeance while joyous- ly sending up all the others. A musical meeting of 1930s Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland "I've got a barn, let's put on a show" mUSicals, and 1980s low budget slasher films, the premise is simple and delivered with exposition-as intentionally bald as Ethyl Eichelberger's second act title character's pate. It seems that Grove Hollow, U.S.A. circa 1939 is being terrorized by a series of horrendous murders. The one connecting factor-the victims BUZZING THROUGH HOLLYWOOD HISTORY Photo: Martha Swope were all rapturously engaged in song Ethyl Eichelberger and John Hickok in Buzzsaw Berkely at the time of death. Mickey Looney (Keith Reddin) and Judy Gorgon Jolsonesque flair, "Mammy, Mammy!" The show's original concept called for (Shauna Hicks) meet at the local soda The child is now roaming the streets only "source" music. Perhaps the cre- shop, a la Our Town, and plot to cap- with vengeance in his eyes and buzz- ators should have stayed with this ture the murderer by staging a simple saw in hand. - notion. Only one number proves mem- revue, The History of Human The premise established, we are orable-"You'll Never Possess a Civilization, thus making America set for a series of murders and musical Queen"-and is milked for all its worth. once again safe for song. Yet they lack numbers as horrific as they are The book, however, is a delight. the requisite barn. humorous. By the end of the evening Aficionados of stage and screen will Judy energetically sets out to rec- the body count rivals any Jacobean be stringently tested to follow the tify the situation by meeting with the tragedy or for that matter current plethora of allusions which keep the proprietress of the local barn and slasher film. The cause of death by mind spinning as fiercely as Berkeley's serendipitously former vaudeville star song catalogue includes: falling chan- well-greased chafnsaw blades. Little Miss Chroma Soames (Ethyl delier, piranha and hanging vine Miss Prudy Doody (Vicki Lewis) Eichelberger). The course of their chat attack and sundry others too silly for claims to have "snorted better lines reveals that old Miss Soames con- mention lest the fun be spoiled. than these." If true, the price must ceived a demon child out of wedlock Original producer of Little Shop of have been exorbitant and the product by the flamboyant producer Buzzsaw Horrors, the W.P.A.theater has on their extremely pure. From Long Day's Berkeley (Eichelberger). The love hands what appears to be a calculated Journey into Night to The Bad Seed to child w~ shamefully locked in a trunk attempt to reproduce the former's suc- The Wizard of Oz to Ester Williams' full of old vaudeville skits and sheet cess. The show is designed for a single films and even a shot at Little Shop of music and has consequently evolved set and seven actors double and triple Horrors no source is too venerable for with a vocabulary entirely constituted cast into thirteen roles by means of this jumbalaya. by these genres. Upon compulsively over fifty costume changes. It is cur- Christopher Ashley's imaginative killing his mother engaged in a rently scored for a single musician on direction is laudable. No part of the the- song-"That Demon Baby of piano and percussIon. ater space, including the audience and Mine"-he bemoans the act with The music, though apt, falls short. See BUZZSAW on paga 68

September 4, 1989 OUTTWEEK 53 Books The Importance of Not Being Ernest

Manhattan, using the device of the is excellent: funny, dishy and trashy, unreliable narrator to strong effect.. yet with a strong dark undercurrent. A The Boys in the Bars is a collection of group of gay men meet nightly in a thirteen short stories that take place bar that resembles the Monster, by David Feinberg for the most part in g~y Manhattan, exchanging confidences, flirting, with a few side trips to gay resorts falling in and out of relationships, (Fire Island, the Caribbean). Several against the backdrop of AIDS. The of these stories appeared in close comradery of this group have always hated Hemingway. Christopher Street. The stories, with reminded me of the best of Ethan His macho posturing offends my the exception of History, appear in Morrden's stories. On first reading I Ihomo sensibility. With his con- the order in which they were written. felt cheated by what seemed to me an cise style and flat prose, I blame him Davis writes about gay profes- unmotivated ending; yet, rereading, I for being the father of the minimalists. sionals in their thirties, Latino hustlers, appreciated how seamlessly it read, But it is his endless sentences that and how inexorably it progressed really get to me, those endless sen- toward its conclusion. tences made up of short words that Davis' [untitled] story about a start slow and gentle and keep on writer and a young homeless runaway pounding away at me like a man who who pursues him was creepy and had too much to drink pounding his· unsettling. Their bizarre relationship head away at a wall until it begins to gradually develops into a compulsive bleed and not stopping for rest, con- dependency. I was drawn into their tinually pounding away until he loses tangled web against my will. By the all consciousness, and the next morn- end of this involuted story I was once ing when I wake up I find out that I again impressed at how well every- have bruises on my skull, and my hair thing fit together. is matted with dried blood. FireflieS is a poignant reminis- Christopher Davis writes well, cence of Eddie, an innocent young but he should cast off the mantle of man with a magical quality about Hemingway and stick to his own him, who shared his unique percep- voice. It's always unfair to quote a tions of light, color and love with the few sentences out of context from a married narrator. Eddie's lyrical grace story; yet lines like: TIGHT AS A DRUM lies at the center of this tale. The story Christopher Davis has a wonderful symmetric structure, I did not know then that his alcoholics in the tropics, married moving from the aftermath of one name was Tommy and that he latent homosexuals in their fifties fas- funeral to another one. would be important to our story. cinated with tearoom trade, men with A few of the stories in this collec- If I had known what he was obsessive desires, quarreling lovers, tion are slight throwaways. I have a going to do I would have Puerto Rican studs and men addicted general aversion towards "lite" fiction. punched him. to seducing straights, among others. Watercolors, about a man who leaves stick out like a sore thumb. They His stories are full of desire, longing his wife for a former professional strike me as inappropriate for the' and sex. They generally end on sad football player, compresses so much character about which he writes, both notes: drunks pass out, narrators information in a few brief impressions in tone and action. reveal they are ill, lovers break up that finally it's merely an exercise: the Davis' first novel, Joseph and the and friends die. Throughout Davis story is missing. Reunion, where two Old Man (and the Sea?), was full of writes clearly and directly. army buddies meet at the Plaza for the monotonous Hemingway style. I can't think of a Single collection drinks, is another trifle without much His second novel, The Valley of the of short stories towards which I substance: it reads like a gay version Shadow, displayed substantial growth haven't had mixed responses. The of some minor Hemingway or as a writer. Davis wrote skillfully and title story, which also appears in Men Fitzgerald story. There are two drunk movingly of two men with AIDS in on Men, v. 2 (New American Library), See BOYS on page 68

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view, poetry has to swing-it should utilize the natural pulse of language, Rythmic Urgency rhythm, stress: the organic correlative is the heartbeat. The impulses in lines of poetry may be regularly or irregularly Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery). organized, consistent or not, but with- Poets FQr.,Life: S,eventy-Slx There are those who write more out a pulse of sound or stress the :}J~.ets Respond to AIDS, formally than others (James Merrill is poem is dead: it don't mean a thing if .>~n"i dl;>y M~fhaeI K1ei9, Cr()wn the obvious example), and those who it ain't got that swing. And although it lerS, In~'f55 pages, $18.95 prefer a poem that looks as if it Simply would seem impossible to write poems flver). ' fell onto the page in an unrestricted without that underlying living breath- outpouring of inspiration, an over- ing, it's amazing how many bad poems flowing that may be Romantic or sim- appear in magaZines and books, reams by Robert Long ply journalistic. Some poets' lines are of trash, poems whose blood has been determined by measured syllables or drained in the voyage from mind or accents; some rhyme and some don't. heart to the flat white page. oet Michael Klein decided in This poet's music is that poet's din. There's not a bad poem in Poets 1988 that it was time to Some write skinny lines (one to three for Life, and 'there are a truly astonish- Passemble the best poems on words long) and some write in great ing number of very good poems. AIDS-from gay people and straight fat stanzas. Some poems are elegantly Often when reading anthologies one people, those without AIDS and those cooked; some are raw. will tend to pick out recognizable with it, those who have tested HIV At bottom, though, in this writer'S names and go to them first; many positive and those who haven't, anthologies are organized accord- from those who have lost loved ing to stylistic affinities or geo- ones, who are losing them, who graphical clustering, age fear losing them. groupings: anthologies which are Seventy-six poets are included partially about the way to make in the anthology, ranging from the an anthology. Poetsfor Life runs A long-established (Philip Booth, to Z and is organized by virtue of Robert Cree ley, Edward Field, a straight line of urgency and Thorn Gunn, Allen Ginsberg, June beauty, cutting across concerns of Jordan, James Merrill, Adrienne generation and gender. The Rich, Jean Valentine) through the book's focus is clear and unwaver- middle generation (Marilyn Hacker, ing, and the reader becomes J.D. McClatchy, Heather McHugh, immediately, deeply engaged in it. and others) to the youngest con- The quality of writing is superior, temporaries, whose voices are and the poems-many of them already imprinting themselves on written specifically for this pro- our culture (Henri Cole, Tim ject-are often the very best work Dlugos, Mark Doty, Brad Gooch, these poets have done. Ed Hirsch, Lynda Hull, Robert Poets for Life reads like' a Louthan, Molly Peacock, David novel, an unflinching testimonial, Trinidad and more). a diary of pain and rage, of grief, What is most stirring, most of elation a.nd affirmation. It is affecting about the anthology is impossible to put down, it the urgency of utterance, the insis- demands to be re-read, and is tent profundity of almost every unforgettable. poem. In looking critically at con- Michael Klein has done an temporary poetry, one usually extraordinary job of editing-<>ne becomes aware of stylistic affini- can only wonder how many good ties between one poet and anoth- poems he was forced to leave out er, and one can often trace the due to space restrictions. There's descent of a group of younger not a wasted word in the book, a poets from one or two senior fig- measure both of the quality of these ures (the "New York School," for poems and the degree of each writ- example, largely grows out of er's honesty and passion. ~

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SLAVE TRADE continued from page 41 and Gentlest. The cards read -Kissing nament on behalf of his mother, a might find a Sugar Daddy or Mommy Doesn't Kill: Greed and Indifference Georgia State champion. "She'll be so who will sweep him or her off his or Do," and feature three gay and straight thrilled," Rob cooed, having succeeded her feet to become a sort of protege. couples kissing. A rather ironic and per- in passing his note to Bab!?,while mine Rumors persist of the cute, tuxed num- sonal protest, I thought. Serve dinner to remained in my pocket. Had I been fed ber who served a cocktail with the some of the top corporate heads and an actual meal that night I would have right amount of charm and is now liv- then slip this little piece of positive pro- bopped the queen right there. But I ing it up on Park Avenue as the kept paganda to the highest elected official of merely wrote it off as yet another night boy of some gay millionaire. Thus per- our most greedy and indifferent. of political incorrectness. sists the myth of "social climbing." My palms grew sweaty as I fin- Hours after George and Barbara My career in catering reached its gered the two remaining cards in my went on their Presidential way, S.S. crescendo the week of the Stonewall tux breast pocket. Could I get this entourage with them, fifty of the cutest Twentieth Anniversary. My boss for this harmless yet pointed card to George or waiters (myself included, thank you!) company, Debbie, called to ask if I Babs before being wrestled to the emerged from the enormous cake atop wanted to work for the Centennial of ground? Would I erupt in a fit of leftist the stairs of the Winter Garden, each of the Wall Street Journal and serve Presi- rage, take the microphone onstage and us carrying a tray of tiny candlelit dent Bush. shout to the stuffy crowd, "More AIDS cakes. My musical theater training "Well, I don't know if George funding NOW, you greedy dogs!"? But came in handy as I stepped down the minds being served by a 'known homo- most important, would I still get my platform without looking down. Out sexual," I joked. I gave her my social paycheck even if I got arrested? there in the dark were corporate heads security number and presumably got My S.S. man escorted me to the who daily slighted gay and lesbian clearance by the S.S. (Secret Service). backstage area behind a huge stage set rights, and the hundred and fifty other That Thursday I was passiog bread at built to resemble a gargantuan white waiters who did little to stop them. I the Winter Garden, inches from George birthday cake. While I waited to be marched down with the other men, a himself. Here I was tuxed up and with a given the Presidential bottle, another somber black chorus line. We served fresh haircut, when only days before at S.S. man sidled up to me. I grew ner- dessert with tired and artificial grins. an ACf UP meeting I had recommend- vous. Did they secretly know I was an Happy Birthday, Wall Street Journal, ed and supported a protest in honor of activist? Was I to be pegged as a fake Happy Birthday to You! the Prez. That week I had also partici- Oswald? Would a bogus weapon be At two am, after the departure of pated in a demonstration targeting mil- slipped in my tux pocket beside my the last and most drunken guests, I lionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes about service napkin? changed in a dusty back room with some horrific, homophobic remarks "Just a minute," my first S.S. man other waiters. My remaining Gran Fury made in his Forbes magazine. I was elat- said. He pressed his hand to his ear- cards were distributed among friends. ed that I would be filling my time with phone and said to me, "We gotta guy As we changed, I recalled other waiters such a diverse range of activities-mili- already, but stay here." with whom I'd flirted, exchanged tant activist fag on Tuesday, formal food I felt Simultaneously disappointed phone· numbers, slept with. Catering lackey to the arch-conservatives on and relieved as Rob, the "A" waiter at may not reinforce political convictions, Thursday. The S.S. was either more George's table, approached the back but it's great for dating. This night, inept or more tolerant in its investiga- stairs to the stage, escorted by yet however, I didn't feel up to pursuing tionS. another S.S. agent. anyone. My moment for a bold and As it turned out, I didn't actually "So sorry, dear,· Rob sneered. "But dangerous political statement had come serve Babs or George. They don't eat since I'm the 'A' tonight, it seems I get and gone. I was a weenie, a closet lib- at these shindigs. Whether they aren't to serve the President." Rob smiled a eral like all the other waiters. On the allowed food tasters or fear a bomb in reptilian grin as the media floodlights night that has since become my last as the pate' isn't clear. But if you've ever haloed his blond crewcut. He served . a cater waiter, I had the opportunity to seen how the grub at these massive the champagne with ease and was fea- enact the fantasy of many repressed fetes is prepared, you'd pass on the tured in the background video footage cater waiters: obvious and pointed entree as well. of several news services that night, revenge. But the moment was extin- While the media swarmed around while Bush, Babs and the Journals guished. . the Prez, getting their photo opportuni- chairman clinked glasses in a glow of Regardless of gay and lesbian ty, a handsome S.S. man with the Ubiq- conspiring, greedy elation. political convictions, the industry of uitous earphone asked me if I'd like to My bold moment was stolen by a pleasing the ruling class lurches on in serve champagne to the President of waiter with absolutely no political con- grand proportions. Every night anoth- the United States. Victions, a dashing yet spineless guy er gala fundraiser makes a few hun- "Sure," I responded without a with more interest in celebrity and dred thousand and costs almost as moment's hesitation. I had stopped by summer shares than AIDS treatment or much to produce. Every night gay the OffICeof Creative Time that morning gay rights. He later begged my forgive- men, who don't realize that gay rights specifically to pick up some Gran Fury ness, telling me he simply HAD to don't come served in a fluted glass, (an activist group) postcards hoping to' serve the big two and get a note to graciously serve those who would pre- foist a few on King George, the Kindest them inviting them to a horseshoe tour- fer them dead. ~

70 OUTTWEEK September 4, 1989 ARMY LESBIAN continUld frolll page 11 Supreme Court decision of "Bowers v. Hardwick" found that homosexual acts are illegal. The court said that if such laws were wrong, gay men and lesbians had the growing political power to change those laws, citing a Time magazine report that "one con- gressman is an avowed homosexual." ('There are actually two: Barney Frank and Gary Studds, both Massachusetts Democrats.) Finally, it declined to question the rationality of the Army's ban on gays, agreeing that gays are more prone to commit sexual crimes than heterosexuals, and that there are compelling reasons, such as morale, for keep- ing out gays and lesbians. Ben-Shalom called the court's reasoning "dumb, dumb, dumb.· She said, "I'm not asking for the privilege to commit misconduct. I'm asking for the privilege to serve my country. "Traditionally, one of the ways of showing citizen- ship is serving in the military. America stands for fair play. Let us have a chance to show what we can do.· ALL-MALE MINI THEATER Ben-Shalom, a mother and a public school teacher, is studying to be certified to teach emotionally disturbed (Lower Level) children. She said that if she had not been discharged she Mon.-Sat.: '11am-11pm / Sun.: 10am-7pm might have joined the regular Army as a career. Ben-Shalom is a drill sergeant with an Army Reserves Ann Stree, reception battalion, which prepares newly-enlisted soldiers Adult Entertainment Center for boot camp. She was one of the first women to become a drill sergeant. Her superiors have consistently praised her 21 Ann Straat (btwn. Broadway & Nassatic,St.) as an excellent soldier. Naw York City / (212) 267-9760 She has never been accused of committing a homo- Mon.-Fri.: 7am-11pm / Sat.: 10am-11pm sexual act in the service. The Army has argued, she Sun.: 10am-7pm explained with sarcasm, that because she is a lesbian, "I have an inherently criminal nature." But, she said, the regulation banning gays and les- bians is only an administrative rule, and can be changed. She said that if each U.S. senator and representative received 100 individual letters from constituents, the rule could be changed.

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September 4, 1989 OUTTWEEK 71 XEROXED continued from page 9 ters of August 10 and 21. Boad members are inappro- statement's principles at the your building to Mr. 1989 to GMHC's Board of priate. Our record number of meeting and GMHC whole- Popham-not because it is Directors. I must first express 118 staff and 1.800 volun- heartedly endorsed the con- to him and not to me. but my deep dismay at your teers sue completely com- sensus statement. joining because he was a closeted gross misstatements of fact. mitted to the welfare of with 17other organizations to gay man who used every We all understand the frus- GMHC. We have attracted reflect a unanimity of opin- wile in his arsenal to prevent tration engendered by the over 100.000 donors and ion on how to proceed with GMHC from issuing sex AIDS crisis. but your goals make ~ure that the money earlier access. The spirit of guidelines and thus. to my are our goals-GMHC is not donated to GMHC is used that statement and its show mind. had as much blood on the enemy. GMHC's board. wisely and well. Your attacks of coalition strength is a his hands as Charles Ortleb staff and volunteers fight the would be better aimed at prime example of how and the New York Native epidemc with passion. intel- apathetic leaders in govern- GMHC has worked and will have on theirs for convincing ligence and a commitment ment and private industry continue to work with other so many people not to take that has not faltered in eight who refuse to face the facts organizations in the political AlT and just as there isblood years. We currently serve of this epidemic. arena. on the hands of Mr. Jeff Levi 2.500 clients and have pro- GMHC shares your GMHC is on a steady for preventing release of vided services to over 8.100 goals on early access to course that allows us to con- promising drugs two years persons with AIDS. ARC or drugs and treatments. The stantly evaluate and change ago and just as there is HIV infection; every year the AIDSAction Council and our our prograns md polcy \\/hen blood on my hands for trying Hotline answers over SO.CXXJ Medical Information Pro- qJpropriate in lig-,t of evolving to strangle some life into calls and we distribute some gram continually press for poIilicd situations md scientific you-child of my youth that 725.000 pieces of up-to- this mutual agenda. Dr. Barry progress.We O'e open to con- has turned against me and date AIDS education litera- . Gingell was an extraordinary structivecriticism md we often made me scream out in so ture. This year we helped indMdual who did the work &.Jrvey the people we serve to mucli anguish for your awful stop 58 repressive bills in the of two people. effectively find out hOlN we cm do more. failings, your ineptitudes. your State legislature. We have lobbying in Washington. D.C. The services we provide and all too tragic frailties at a built a coalition of 150 while heading up GMHC's the advocacy work we do O'e time when there isno time to agencies that presses the Medical Information Pro- designed to accomplish the be weak and cowards. AIDS community's funding gram in New York. GMHC SCJOO gods forwlich you strive. I do not wish to be com- agenda In Albany. We continues to fund that fight No one can disagree memorated in your building. I fought along side other for early access to drugs. with your anger and frustra- am ashamed of the organi- community-based groups After his death in May, we tion at the impossibly slow zation that bears the name I and public health experts to immediately began inter- pace of our government's gave it. I certainly don·t want stop mandatory reporting viewing candidates for two response to the epidemic. to be acknowledged by the dead in its tracks. We also positions. an advocate in ACT UP has been successful current cast of characters coordinate an army on ,BOO Washington and a new Med- and is making a vital contri- who deem themselves the volunteers that give over icallnformation Consultant. bution to the fight against keepers of the "honor" roll. 10.000 hours a month to Jeff Levi was hired to carry AIDS.GMHC believes diverse No. please leave my picture help fight AIDS. All these out GMHC's policy in Wash- groups need to exist within down in that classroom. You efforts are housed in a build- ington and Dr. Gabriel Torres the AIDScommunity to meet don't teach any lessonsthat I ing that is always full of life. will serve as medical consul- the needs of diverse popula- want to be associated with. whose doors open early tant to the Medical Informa- tions. We also believe that by And. in dedicating your and close late. I recount all tion Program. working together each indi- new building to Paul Popham. this because you seem to GMHC is committed to vidual group can become you are not only kicking me in have forgotten that the going anywhere at anytime stronger. Our funding to over the balls. and kicking the work we do is on your agen- to· Work with any group to 21 other organizations is other co-founders as weH.but da as well as ours. Your per- fight on the critical issuesof proof of our commitment to you are ignoring the valiant sonal attacks on the Board. early. access to drug thera- helping and joining other deaths of every PWA who your assessment of GMHC. pies. Anyone hired to carry groups in a coalition that ever walked through your and your presuming to out this policy will be judged can speak with a united doorways - and to whom speak for and about the fairly on his or her ability to voice. That is the voice our the building shotidbe rightful- staff of GMHC make abso- be effective in accomplish- government needs to hear, ly dedicated. lutely no sense in the light of ing our goals. Two days after so that it realizes it must deal In case I have not what GMHC accomplishes being hired, Mr. Levi attend- not only with our different made it clear-because of day in and day out. ed the Parallel Track Com- strategies. but respond to our all that I have written above. The Board of Directors mittee meeting where he common demands for I think you are despicable. and staff of GMHC have worked with organizations access to drugs. treatments, And I want the world to nothing to apologize for. such as ACT UP and Project research and services. know it. too. Board members devote Inform in putting together a Together we can fight the enormous amounts of time, consensus statement that real enemies-bigotry. apa- GMHC Responds: energy and skill to help presented a unified voice of thy and AIDS. DeaLany, GMHC do what it does well. the AIDScommunity. Mr. Levi Joy Tomchin, President In response to your let- Your personal attacks on advocated on behalf of the Board of Directors

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LEVIcontinued from pag.10 leI track statement .... Of course GMHC director of GMHC, told OutWeek that 'is ~omg to take a different tack than Levi is "an effective and articulate W; do. We send people down in strategist who knows D.C. He may buses on an ad hoc 1laSi~Y wo~ . not be an expert on the drug with insiders. Both approaches are _. approval process, but he is certainly ~ We would never have a an expert on AIDS in general. GMHC . . perSon like they do." has always had a strong position on • Levi, for his part, told OutWeek, . treatments. I take what Larry says seri- "My record speaks for itself.... I have ously, but I must say I don't under- always supported fast tracking. In this stand this one. Jeff has always been a position I will be representing GMHC, team player who will continue to be which I will do with pride and confi- on this issue. He knows financing and dence .... I have asked them to find in access issues as well as anyone," he my record any evidence that I am not said. Kramer responded "that's ridicu- supportive of fast tracking. I'm not lous. Levi is tempered by no one. He even sure my position is much differ-

is a loose cannon. U ent than ACf UP's." Qrvashi Vaid, who replaced Levi Levi will work two days a week at NGLTF reacted angrily to criticism lobbying the Food and Drug Adminis- of Levi. "I believe Jeff will do a super tration and the National Institutes of job representing the lesbian and gay Health to hurry the development and community in the fight for access to accessibility of promising AIDS treat- experimental treatments. He knows ments. According to GMHC he will the business inside and out. Having push for implementation of the parallel worked with Jeff for over six years, I track system for access to promising think it is completely unfair to charac- AIDS-related drugs and therapies. (Par- terize his work as cow-towing to any allel tracking permits the use of government agency. It's particularly promising experimental drugs for life outrageous for Larry to compare him threatening illnesses while scientific to Jesse Helms. He's on the same side 'clinical trials are ongoing, offering ear- as ACf UP, Project ~nform and Larry lier access to treatments for people on this issue." Vaid pointed out that with AIDS and HIV-related conditions.) Levi, as executive director of NGLTF, In addition, Levi will work in gave his blessings to her and fellow conjunction with the Washington- NGLTF employee Sue Hyde's partici- based AIDS Action Council, (AAC), pation in the .october 1988 ACf UP which is also funded in part by demonstration at the FDA headquar- GMHC. He will also continue consult- ters in Rockville, Maryland. One of ing work for other AID and les- the protest's demands was a speedier bian/gay organizations oth- HC drug approval process. and eVI ec ute to disclose how -much he will be paid. ~ OUT TAKES continued from page 30 cases, has appointed Ann Bradley as its Director of Public Affairs. Previously, Bradley was the Public Information Officer with the Los Angeles County Public Library, one of the five largest library systems in the nation, and, more recently, a public affairs manager at the Califor- nia State University in Los Angeles. "Silence does equal death," Bradley said. "Public information at NGRA will keep the human rights IVlSOrycommluee nean achievements of lesbians and gay

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