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Art Painters: At TheEnd Of A Decade 54 Theater Dig, Volley, Spike! 56 Theater Travesties 57 Theater Lisoon Traviata 58 Books TheIrreversible Decline Of EddieSoc~t On the cover: Monika Treut 59 photographed by Mark Golebiowski Books War At Home 60

Outspoken (Editorial) 4 Letters 6 Sotomayor 6 PAIN AND PI.FASOIE Stonewall Rioo (Natalie) 8 Catherine Saalfield Interviews German Filmmaker Monika Treut 40 Xeroxed 9 Nightrmre of the Week 9 SEEING mE UGIIT Dykes To Watch Out For 10 Mark Chesnut On Lavender Light: The Black and People of All Colors Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir 44 Anaheim Journal (Krastins) 34 New York Journal (Wieder) 36 Out Of Control (Day) 38 Lookout 46 Out Of My Hands (BaJJ) 48 Gossip Watch 49 Social Terrorism 50 Going Out Calendar (X) 62 Community Directory 64 Bar Guide 66 FAWNG INTO THE GAP Classifieds 69 Beauregard Houston-Montgomery Spots the Visible Differences on St. Marks And Other Places 52 Personals 76 Crossword (Greco) 90 The High Cost of Charity In a recent column, gossipist James Revson of Newsday, who is gay, attacked writers in OUtWeek and the Village Voice for criticizing Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr. Mrs. Bl!ckley is the wife of one of the nation's chief homophobes, a man who has publicly called for the tatooing and inqu-ceration of PWAs and who rants and rails in the press a~ut AIDS being a "self-inflicted" disease. Mrs. Buckley rdhses to disagree with her husband's position, responding with a regal "no comment" to questions abouttatooing peo- pl~ with AIDS. In a bre~thtaking display of hypocrisy, she th~n lends her efforts and her famous Republican name to AIJl:>scharityevents. t~Revson argued that this is all right, that AIDS charities ne the money, and that in such a situation a wife is not re· nsible for distancing herself from her husband's deadly,~ ositions. We disagree. ~ The supreme enemies of gays and lesbians are those riglttwing forces who enforce homophobia in our culture. Always a depressing reality, they became a deadly night- rn\te when AIDS struck, and there is no price tag on the mi$ery they have caused. ~~It may be hard to remember, but there was a time in the recent past when the majority of us were not infected, when timely education could have prevented most of the AIDS nightmare. Instead, the Buckleys of the world avidly enforced a media blackout of AIDS. Then, after that had suc- cetlded, they began floating proposals like concentration camps and tatooing. These people are venal. They are to our community as the Nazis were to the Jews. The idea that we're so desper- ate for money that we should accept it from anyone, even our executioners, is ghoulish indeed. " Revson's comment that Mrs. Buckley somehow can't publicly disagree with her husband is' nonsense. If she really wished to do something about AIDS she most certainly would disagree with him, often and loudly. In so doing she could take a lesson from her friend Barbara Bush, who publicly disagrees with ber husband the president on gun control. Wives are autonomous and have a right to disagree with thei(.spouses, even Republican wives, and they often do. The fact that Mrs. Buckley imperiously refuses indicates that she probably agrees with her husband's ugly views. Such complicity in extreme homophobia disqualifies her from using AIDS charity work to boost her social standing. It's extremely sad when AIDS or gay organizations feel they must accept money from our avowed enemies, be they Coors Beer, the Roman Catholic Church or Pat Buckley. We should not allow homophobes who are killing us to con- fuse the issue by buying us off. We have enough genuine friends that we don't need to cringe for blood money. T

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OUT~WEEK 5 support of David Dinkins Is not by promises. Did Giuliani. LETTERS clear and unequivocal. while chief federal law- Candida Scott Pie! enforcement officer (the Executive Director United States Attorney) for FAIRPAC the Southern District of New FAIRPAC Bit.. Back The Board therefore over- York.even speak out in favor I wish to make clear to whelmingly voted to give Who-lian!? or work for passage of the the community FAIRPAC's $2.000 to the Dinkins cam- This letter Is In reply to bill? Did his office have any official position regarding paign. the letter from the board openly-gay or lesbian the New York City mayoral chair of FAIRPAC. Anthony lawyers on Its staff? Did he race. We heartily support Salerno. endorsing Rudolph recruit or have out-reach David Dinkins. who has con- Giuliani for Mayor (OutWeek. programs to our community? sistently shown great sensitM- October 29. 1989). Not to my knowledge. tv to and understanding of The letter asserts only (Compare these failures to lesbian and gay concerns. one concrete reason to sup- the positive record of His Republican opponent is port Giuliani-his promise. actions by DavId Dinkins-his pbvlously uncomfortable allegedly personally to the assistance In the purchase of with the concept of expand- letter's author. to ~persuade the Community Center. his Ing the definition of family. the homophobes In the staff liaison to gays and les- and has shown no interest in Republican~controlled state bians. his funding of AIDS pursuing domestic partner- Senate" to pass the bias education and treatment ship Issues; nor has he ever crimes bill. I urge anyone programs. his outspoken sup- demonstrated any real com- who considers voting for Giu- port of the gay rlgh1sbill. the mitment to the other needs liani based on that promise bias crimes bill. bereave- of our community. FAIRPAC The personal opinion of to consider the following. ment leave. etc. and his gelleves that the choice in one PAIRPACBoard member 1) Candidates should appearances at fundraisers this race Is unusually clear. notwithstanding. FAIRPAC's be judged by their actions. for our organizations-such

6 OUT~WEEK November 12. 1989 as the Gay and lesbian Anti- abled, have also refused to Violence Project and the support any legislation that Human Rights Campaign fails to include "sexual orien- Fund). tation. ") 2) How many "homo- David Dinkinswas instru- phobes In the Republican mental in securing the sup- controlled state Senate" will port of various groups for the be persuaded by Giuliani? retention of "sex!Jal As the FAIRPACboard chair orientation" protections in should know, the state's top the bill. As a minority group Republicans actively we must rely on positive opposed Mr. Giuliani in the coalition building. To urge us primary. Neither Senator now to stab in the back one D' Amato nor Comptroller of the leading political fig- Ned Regan is campaigning ures of that coalition, as Mr. for Giuliani, who has been Salerno does in rejecting Mr. hoods, as you quoted to us monumental evidence that forced to rely on the Rea- Dinkins,is not only short-sight- over the phone, are: while we die, vast numbers in gan/Meese/Bush organiza- ed, it is political suicide. Chelsea, West Village, East the homosexual community tion in Washington. Giuliani (Again, recall that Giuliani Village, Park Slope. At best choose to sew and weave. has never before run for has done nothing to pro- these four neighborhoods Instead of directing their office in New York (or else- mote the legislation and only represent the gay white grief. rage and energy surely does not have the male gentrification process. against the government political influence to help There is no present which did nothing to stop secure the bill's passage). neighborhood or future dis- this plague, they knit away Perhaps the clearest trict in N.Y.C. that represents like immobilized inmates of reason to vote for David our diverse community in fair sanitaria. If Dinkins may be found proportions to what we are. As if to underscore the (between the lines) in the We transcend neighbor- self-contemptous, efrate one other motive asserted hoods, race, economies, cul- genesis of this vast cult-cum- by Mr. Salerno for endorsing tures. Now let us transcend traveling fair of pity dhd Giuliani-"He is also educa- the idea that white gay masochism, the leadar oJ ble and open-minded in the males represent the Rainbow these quilters begs the U.S. demands we have." The community. President in the tone of a reli- new mayor takes office in We must vote no to the gious supplicant. "Please sir, 1990, more than 20 years charter revision. meet with us, you will see after stonewall and nearly a And no to a geographi- that we are kind. Please sir, where) and to suggest he decade into the AIDS crisis. cal gay district. you will see that we are will have influence on the We do not have time for a lhe charter must offer gentle." In other words, feel Albany Republicans is ludi- candidate who is allegedly us another means of repre- free to walk all over this giant crously naive. "educable" -especially sentation other than geo- doormat which we've 3) Even assuming the when the other candidate, graphics. We are of every placed in front of your bias-crimes bill were our David Dinkins, has an estab- district, every economic sta- home. Thanks to you and community's sole concern, lished record of clear and tus, every race, every cul- your kind it is all that remains the most elementary political unequivocal actiori, under- ture. of these tens of thousands. I analysis reveals the need to standing and support for our We are everywhere. hate the fucking quilt: it is support David Dinkins. The community. Ammiel Sincon both a shroud and a baby reason no bias-crimes bill has I agree with the majority John Shaw blanket for the demoralized been enacted is that the of the FAIRPAC board, and Harry Schulz and politically neutralized to Republican homophobes its executive director, and Brooklyn hide under. refuse to vote for a bill that urge voters to support a true Randy Barker punishes crimes based upon friend of our community, Jilt the Quilt Manhattan the actual or perceived David Dinkins, on Tuesday Notwithstanding the "sexual orientation" of the November 7. fact that it helps people Gay White Males of the City? victim. As Governor Cuomo Michael C.P. Ryan mourn, I hate the fucking As a sometime admirer has often stated, the Repub- Manhattan quilt! The one and only posi- of Armistead Maupin's work, licans offered to pass the bill tive point about it having it saddens and angers me to if "sexual orientation" were Geography is Destiny? reached such incredible now read, in the interview by deleted, but the African- Regarding "Vote No to dimensions is that it can no Adam Block last week, what American, Puerto Rican and the City Charter Revision" longer be put on public dis- seems to be ultimate proof other latino legislators (OutSpoken Oct. 29th) you play! Let's mothball forever that Maupin is a racist. I had refused to permit the bill to state, "Gays and lesbians do this shameful, "ragpicker's suspected that this was true be weakened. (Other tend to live in certain neigh- wildest dream come true." but had hoped it was not. groups, including the dis- borhoods." Those neighbor- Forthe quilt is dreadfully sad, LikeMaupin I am a white

November 12. 1989 OUTTWEEK 7 Thing, questioned whether preceded the offending fine, Isuppose, If hislife expe- the movie was "really going statement, that our culture riences do not permit him to to be Interesting to me If It's puts us Into "special-Interest write about anyone outside just ghetto blacks?" groups." And I agree with hisown ethnic and econom- Hisoffhand semi-apolo- that. However, I feel In some Icstrata. gy. that followed-stating way that I have transcended But he did not stop that the feeling he had just my "group" (at least to the there, and put In his early described was "preposter- extent that I have a Black works both a character who ous" -does not change lover who has met my fanlly took pills to be Black, what he stated, now what Is as SUCh), while Maupin, D'orothea, and a crude visible In hisfiction. though no longer a Helms stereotype, Emma, the If you do not believe Republican, stili seems to "Aunt Jemima" Black maid that the statement alone look at races and classes who worked for the Halcyon was· a slur, separate and other than his own through family. The part-Aborigine apart form the apparent the eyes of an antebellum boy In Babycakes Is treated gay male from CI'l upper-mid- sentiments behind It, simply southern belle, transplanted sympathetically, but this Is Cile class family. I will admit substitute some other com- from Tarato Son Francisco. the exception, and makes ~ven to strangers that my pound-adjectival stereo- Hisfiction, entertaining the restno lessunforgivable. rpother's fanly are Mormons, typed description for "ghetto as It Is, demonstrates my point As the Gay Activists some of v.tlom were originally blacks": "rich Jews." Or how as well. All of the major char- Allidnce and the National ~ave-owners from the South. about "flaming gays?" acters are white and middle- Gay Task Force stated In ~, I cannot say that Ishared lest I be accused, by or upper-class, as other com- their 1973 guidelines to the ~aupln's view that. when those stili unconvinced, of mentators have pointed out entertainment Industry, p,onslderlng whether to see taking words out of context, I (see the recent Village Voice "(s)terotypical people do ~Ike lee's Do the Right did read the assertion that review of Sure of You). That Is exist.But if such a minority of any group receives exclu- .i sive media exposure, that's bigotry: Maupin's crusade Po 1(#.' about coming out, laudable as It may be, is hypocritical E I( OTlc-"/ / because he has yet to come out about his own racism. Bigotry is bigotry,

ERoT/C~1 # whether practiced in the open by Senators Bilbo and I Helms or in the closet by patronizing white liberals. ~( I may share some common heritage with Armis- , -J tead Maupin, but he does not speak for me. Robert N.H.Christmas Manhattan

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8 OUTTWEEK November 12, 1989 credibility to Yale's pretens~ variously expressed con- XEROXED of upholding free expression tempt for us. In the past you by our presence at Yale. The have belittled the strong university's claim to respect presence at Yale of a gay free speech will remain hol- and lesbian community by Val. Gal. to reconstruct for you some low until you, as president, catering to, rather than Open letter to President of my opening remarks. Issue 00 unambiguous pub- countering, homophobic Benno Schmidt, Jr. Participants In the les- lic statement condemning charges and fears. In light of Yale University bian and Gay studies Con- all forms of homophobla- that Injury, and of the AJ the keynote speaker ference this PQst weekend named as such. This con- added Insults of this week- for the third annual confer- Included some of the most demnation must also extend end, it is now Imperative ence sponsored by the les- distinguished and commit- to labeling representations that your gay and lesbian bian and Gay Studies ted gay and lesbian schol- of our sexualities as scholars be given not only. Center at Yale last week- ars and activists working obscene. Moreover, we protection In a clearly end, I am writing you to today. Among them were expect a statement of posi- homophobic environment, express my outrage at the members of the Internation- tive support for all forms of but every encouragement homophobic violence al community of people expression by gay men and to carry on with their coura- unleashed against us on Fri- fighting against the AIDS lesbloos of our sexualities. geous work. Thisis not to be day evening, violence Initi- epidemic, Including people I was deeply Impressed accomplished by your ated by the Yale police and IMng with AIDS.It ismy opin- and moved by the Yale stu- occasional chats with an escalated by the New Ion that until all of us are sat- dents and faculty who orga- openly gay professor, but Haven police. In addition, I Isfied with Yale University's nized and participated In rather by meeting directly write to protest the Yale support of our work, includ- the lesbian ahd Gay studies with the full gay constituen- administration's wholly inad- Ing substantial financial Conference. They deserve cy at Yale to hear their equate response to this vio- commitments to the Center all the credit for the success grievances and to follow lence. When we gathered for lesbian and Gay studies, of the conference-success their guidance, and by tak- for that response on Satur- we should no longer lend in the face of the university's ing a strong public position. day morning, we were treated to a series of insults: First. L '",.,.. that you did not consider homophobic violence against us as requiring your presence; second, that the ..' very people who suffered or witnessed this violence were told that -the facts were not yet know;" and finally, that the violence itself could not even be named. We were told merely that Yale Univer- sity supports freedom of expression-a vague and easy claim-and that an impartial investigation would ' take place. Gay men and lesbians have very little reason to have faith in -impartiality" in these matters, especially after having experienced the atmosphere at Yale. Throughout the weekend, This week's nightmare is Connecticut queer-baiter Bill Buckley, who conference members were recently blamed "sex-driven gays" for bringing AIDS on themselves. This fol- subjected to homophobic lows his famous 'tattoo-you' comments of a few years ago. remarks wherever we went. Bill,darling, we've tried to understand your problem, but our patience is wear- My own speech Saturday ing a teensy bit thin. It's a well known psychological fact that people who entertain night was deliberately dis- secret cocky-sucky fantasies often indulge in a little fag-bashing on the side. So if rupted by students squeal- you really want to prove how macho you are, start by relaxing that incredibly ing their car tires outside the Whitney Humanities Center. repressed body-language. And sweetums, ditch that bizarrely affected accent No Since apparently no one in one from Connecticut really talks like that, Mary. Not even Kate Hepburn. an official capacity at Yale attended my speech, I want

November 12, 1989 OUTTWEEK 9 The international com- spent out in the known not to share needles, munity of lesbian and gay Hamptons giving us maybe the sexually active scholas and activists will not blow by blow reports gay man would have let this matter rest until the on all those known about safe sex. But demands issued at the con- pa rti es/busi ness now those who find them- ference and appended writeoffs. selves infected can take here are met to the letter. "Important comfort in the fact that Pat Douglas Crimp Men" must have Buckley will help ease the (The writer is editor of "Socially Concerned pain and suffering in their October) Wives" to set up last days. I wouldn't be sur- business contacts prised to see a picture of The Society Rages and/or buffer her in the future wearing a James A. Revson unpopular response nurse's uniform. New YorkNewsday to their professional There are going to have Dear Mr. Revson, dealings. The charity to be radical changes in the I agree with you that Pat events their wives way our society treats sexual Buckley is not "the slimiest promote do, indeed, preference, drug use and woman walking the face of provide essential national health care. William the earth: but she is follow- money to important causes. supported. Buckley is standing in the ing the sticky trail left by the They also support a huge Don't you find it odd way while his wife stands in front runners. I'm quite sure entertainment industry that Pat Buckley has thrown front, waving oncoming traf- that with her stamina and geared to service these her support to damage con- fic off the road and over a perseverance she will over- events (and give people like trol rather than prevention? cliff. take them within the year. you a job). These husband Even Mrs. Buckley doesn't Robbin Murphy What happened to and wife teams (Hillie and like to step over people Manhattan your integrity? You still had it David Mahoney, Nan and dying the streets as she gets when you joined us in singing Tommy Kempner, Mica and out of her limo. If people like Unfair-Pac Broadway showtunes in jail Ahmet Ertegun to name a her husband did not have Mr.Anthony C. Salerno last spring. Perhaps it was few others) set the ground the power they do perhaps c/o FAIRPAC that fabulous summer you rules for what and who gets IV drug users would have Dear Tony:

10 OUr.WEEK November 12, 1989 With people from PresI- Identifying yourself as FAIR- tlng on his doorstep calling fundralslng effort and give dent Bush'sstaff working for PAC chair. PACs are pres- him a murderer; or ask an outline as to how it will Giuliani's election and with sure groups, not democratic Eleanor Cooper of the F.D.A. be spent. Roger Alles managing his Institutions.The only way you why she now has to see a GMHC client campaign, and without ooy could express your minority psychiatrist to deal with the Manhattan public references to gays opinion publicly would be AIDS activists in her life. It's and lesbians, one has no by resigning from the board. because of ACT UP! Where', the Gays reason to expect support for Because the board strongly Parallel Trackis sorrethhg Mr.Richard Hutton AIDS or gay rights or for supports David Dinkins,your that we've been p.JSIing for. h Executive Producer abortion rights from Mr. Giu- letter Is Inappropriate and fact, I believe PT Is a Metro Week in Review liani, no matter what he weakens the authority of the redesigned version of Corrpas- WNET/Channel13 promised you privately. It Is boad and ItsImpact on the sionateUse IND(redesignedby Dear Mr. Hutton: naive to think that he -will comm.mity. ACTUP'sTrealmentCJ'ld Data As a regular viewer of go to Albany and get that Herbert I Cohen, M.D. CorrTrittee). Metro Week in Review, I've bUI passed: Manhattan Also you allude to Jeff noticed that you have been It Is shocking that you, Levias being the pivotal per- inviting editors from various as a gay compassionate Undue Credit son surroundingthe PTnego- minority newspapers (Black, person and as FAIRPAC GMHC tiations. Not only was Jeff Hispanic, Jewish, Irish, etc.) chairperson, would support Dea Mr.SWeeney: against PTat Its conception, as guest panelists to discuss a RepUblican mayoral can- I've just received your and not only did he come their respective communi- didate who has the enthu- -Treatment Access· Into the negotiations at the ty's vote in the upcoming siastic support of President fundralsing letter. Unfortu- very end, but he apparently election. Bush and his ultra-conser- nately, I won't be sending had very little to say at these In the event that you vative party. Thisweek, the you a contribution as I have meetings, and certainly have not already arranged president vetoed the a strong objection to the nothing new to offer. to have journalistsrepresent- mildest of pro-choice bills. accuracy therein. In your Asfar as the 20 percent Ing the gay and lesbian Thisweek, he and congress request, I believe you misled reduction In the price of community on the program, appropriately and prompt- your donors as to GMHC's AZT-WHAT DID GMHC I hope you will consider ly allocated almost three role In both Implementing DO??? The cuts in price by doing so. and one half billion dollars Parallel Track trials and in the sleaze bag company Thenf1Wmayor and city for the middle class home- Burroughs Wellcome's 20 (Burroughs Wellcome) is council will be confronting leSsearthquake victims, but percent reduction for the entirely due to the com- important issuesaffecting the they have done almost drug AZT. You seem to be bined efforts of ACT UP's gay and lesbian community, ,. nothing for poor homeless taking full credit for both of London, New York and San including new AIDSinitiatives, people. The Republicans these events. Francisco chapters. We did strategiesto cormat anti-gay have grudgingly and slowly Where isthe mention of all the work. We put our lives violence and domestic part- given money to AIDS care the one group that has and freedoms on the line, nerslegislation.'M1~eyouhave and research but nothing done more to get experi- which we're sure to do demonstrated sensitivity to commensurate to the mental drugs released than again. So don't think that these issues,therewas some- havoc AIDShas wrought on any other AIDS organiza- we're going to sit by with thing dsquieting in hearing.on our health care system. tion? I'm referring to ACT UP. sweat dripping off of our last weekend's show, two (Hopefully this money It's because of ACT UP's asses while you pat your- straight journalists discussing won't be snatched back relentlesspressuring on gov- selveson the back. why the gay community for -quake· relief). The ernment officials, including Don't get me wrong! I opposes(forthe mC6tpart) Dr. Republicans have given lit- a demonstration of over think that GMHC provides Joseph'sproposalsformanda- tle but words to the prob- 3,000 people at the F.D.A. Invaluable services to the tory AIDScontoct trocing. lems of narcotics control, last year, that Parallel Track PNA community. Butyou rep- As I suspe.ct you'll housing, education, envi- ever took off the ground. utation is to ease people's agree, for the purposes of ronmental protection, etc. These -officials· can't even suffering,helping them to die. Metro Week, members of They certainly are not inter- go out of their front doors ACT UPis the organization the gay pressare best suited ested in improving the without having to deal with that's fighting for people's to present and analyze the medical system. Gay rights us. We spend hours on the lives. We're both very much opinions of New York's gay is a verboten subject for phone haassing them. Their needed. But taking credit for and lesbian community. the Bush gang-Giuliani's fax machines are on over- our work is tantamount to Please don't hesitate to supporters. They are inter- load. There was even a sug- ACT UP holding the AIDS can our office ~we CCJ') be of ested in wars and earth- gestion at a recent ACT UP Walk.It wou1dn'tbe right! ooy help in puttingyou in touch quakes. meeting to douse Anthony Being that I am a client v.nth appropriate gay and las- I do not question your Fauci with piss for dragging for GMHC, I'm withholding boo editorsood report9lS. right to your opinions. How- his heels on Peptide T. Ask my name; however, I would stephen H. Miller,Chair, ever, I object to your pub- stephen Joseph, New York's appreciate it if you would Media Committee lishing a letter supporting a Health Commissioner, how It make a public statement on Gay and Lesbian policy contrary to the major- feels to come home to how much money you Alliance Against Defama- ity FAIRPAC opinion and dozens of AIDS activists sit- expect to bring in------from this. tion,lnc. November 12. 1989 OUT~WEEK 11 News Massachusetts Rights Bill Awaits Gov's Signature Victory in State Houses After 17 Year Battle

by Masha Gessen ing, employment, credit, insurance most consider an insurmountable BOSTON-With the signatures of and public accommodations. obstacle: the opposition of the Senate the leaders of the two houses of the "At the Kennedy School of Gov- leadership. Massachusetts legislature finally in ernment ...when they teach a course The bill's Senate foes showed place, the state gay and lesbian civil on how to get a law through, one of their power in 1987, when they killed rights bill was put on the governor's the chapters will be the gay civil rights the measure in committee, even desk Tuesday. And spokespersons law,' conceded David Locke, the though the bill had majority support said that Governor Michael minority leader of the Senate, who in both houses of the legislature. On Dukakis--who was a state representa- opposed the legislation. In recent the last day of the 1987 legislative ses- tive when his then-colleague Barney months numerous commentators- sion-the day when the bill officially Frank first introduced the measure 17 from expert lobbyiSts to editors of the died-over a thousand people years ago-was eager to sign the leg- Boston Globe-have remarked on the stormed the statehouse. Fourteen islation into law. amazing accomplishment of the back- activists were arrested that night after "When we started, we never ers of the lesbian and gay civil rights they handcuffed themselves to seats thought we'd get a bill,' remembered bill. in the Senate gallery. Steven Tierney, cochair of the Mas- No bill in the history of Mas- David laFontaine, a lobbyist for sachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political sachusetts has taken as long to the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Caucus, an organization that was become law as did this one. And Civil Rights, pointed to the demon- formed 17 years ago to get the mea- while poll after poll showed that the stration as the "turning point" in the sure passed. Tierney, who first lob- civil rights bill enjoyed the support of struggle to pass the bill. "Prior to that, bied for the bill in 1975, recalled that nearly 70 percent of Massachusetts there really wasn't much respect for in those days gay and lesbian rights residents, the legislation faced what us in the statehouse," explained activists' highest ambition was "to LaFontaine. "We were bringing educate some people.' that anger that we usually keep Last week, as during most of away from the statehouse right to this year, the legislative opponents the statehouse." of the civil rights bill were the While lobbyists and legisla- ones who felt their task was futile. tors decried the demonstration As victorious gay and lesbian and accused the organizers of activists looked on from the hurting the gay rights cause, no crowded Senate gallery, the bill's one denied that the event attract- detractors rose one after another ed unprecedented attention and not to try to persuade fellow legis- energy to the fight for the legisla- lators to vote against the bill, but tion. to acknowledge bitter defeat. An election year complicated "I hope that somehow this by the governor's run for the presi- debate can go on forever,' con- dency and a brewing budget crisis, fessed Ed Kirby, a Republican sen- 1988 held little hope for the gay ator who has led the lonely and lesbian civil rights bill. Yet cru~de against the bill this year. "I Arline Isaacson, a seasoned lobby- hope that somehow we can stop ist and cochair of the Massachusetts this, because this is an attack on Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, what we have come to call West- and Barbara Boring, the Caucus' ern Civilization,· said Kirby of the newly hired staff lobbyist, contin- bill, which will prohibit anti-gay ued working to increase legislative discrimination in the areas of hous- BRINGING ANGER TO THE STATEHOUSE David laFontaine Photo: Nina Reyes support for the bill.

12 OUTYWEEK November 12, 1989 The summer of 1988 signaled a turning point in the lobbying efforts, when supporters for the first time engaged in what Isaacson termed "hardball politics.· In the days before the Democratic Nation- al Convention, when the Mas- sachusetts Senate was working day and night to spare the presidential nominee the embarrassment of an unbalanced budget in his own state, sponsors of the gay and lesbian civil rights bill on several occa- sions threatened to jeopardize the budget process if the bill was not given a fair hearing. Other gay and lesbian activists, furious at the legislators for killing the bill in 1987, used the summer and fall of 1988 to send an electoral message to the senators and representatives. The Greater Boston Les- bian and Gay Political Alliance and other gay and lesbian organizations SECURING RIGHTS FOR GAY MEN AND LESBIANS took a more active part in the elec- Barbara Horing and Arline Isaacson Photo: Masha Gessen tions than ever before. Of the five candidates backed by the Greater committees. n On weekends before mately 2,000 people to the state- Boston A.lliance,three emerged victori- key votes, half a dozen phone banks house. ous. Several more legislators made were activated, and liberal congrega- Sustained pressure from both campaign promises to take specific tions across the state were alerted to constituents and lobbyists convinced steps to ensure the passage of the gay the need for letters and post cards, supporters to take aggressive stands and lesbian civil rights bill. which would often be hand delivered during floor debates in both houses. By the time the 1989 legislative on Monday morning. Instead of waiting for the hostile lead- session began, all eyes were on the To make the constituent message ership to commit injustices, Senate bill, which both the gay and straight even louder, the Coalition for Lesbian sponsors of the bill attempted-often press predicted would finally pass. and Gay Civil Rights organized rallies successfully-to preempt opponents' "We planned every step of the pro- and lobby days at the statehouse. One dilatory moves. cess ahead of time, so that grass-roots of the lobby days featured members The gay and lesbian press in the pressure was applied every step of of the clergy and representatives of state published almost weekly the process,· explained LaFontaine. Parents and Friends of Lesbians and updates on the status of the bill. As a ·So we had people writing letters not Gays, many of whom were accompa- result, pointed out LaFontaine, "gay just to influence the general vote, but nied by their children. The Coalition's and lesbian people in this state know also to speed the bill through various most recent rally brought approxi- more about the legislativ~ process

November 12, 1989 OUT..-WEEK 13 than the average legislator." "This will be remembered as the most significant gain the gay rights movement made in 1989," asserted LaFontaine. "I think 1989 will be remembered as the year the Mas- sachusetts gay rights bill passed. "There are many, many states that the example of the gay rights bill will urge onward," added laFontaine. Tierney concurred, predicting that Connecticut would become the next state to pass such a law-and that perhaps the rest of New Engla'nd would follow. Currently, Wisconsin is the only state with anti-discrimination laws in place protecting gay men and lesbians. 'Y New Alliance Party Backs Anti-Gay Candidate

by Andrew Miller paign literature. In "An open letter to NEW YORK - The "Black-led the lesbian and gay rommunity" carry- multi-racial pro-gay· New Alliance ing the endorsement, Rose recently Party's candidate for City Council in decried the lesbian and gay press' inat- Manhattan's 8th Council District was the tention to his campaign. only candidate from Manhattan to come On the back of the flyer is an open out against gay rights and domestic part- letter from party chairperson Lenora nership benefits in a primary election Fulani, accusing Democratic mayoral week OutWeeksurvey. candidate David Dinkins of selling out Adam dayton Powell IV told Out- to inappropriate city interests by Week in September that he was against "court[ingl the middle class Jewish vote legislation specifically protecting the by repudiating minister Louis Far- civil rights of gay men and lesbians, and rakhan," and "rejecting 25,000 signatures permitting gay partners to receive the that the New Alliance Party gathered for same economic and non-economic ben- him because the Anti-Defamation efits afforded to heterosexual rouples. League of the B'nai B'rith told him to." Ba Powell has since moved out of Party spokesperson Annie Roboff the district, and the Board d Electionshas called Powell's position "profoundlymis- removed his name from the ballots. educated," adding that Stephen Rose, Attempts to reach Powell himself "being the ftrst openly gay candidate for were unsuccessful. His camplign office city-wide o/fr::e, makes a very loud state- is closed and his telephone ment on how the New Allianceis in the disconnected "We're having trouble get- forefrontd ...gayrights." ting in touch with him ourselves," said Democratic Councilwoman Carolyn [)avid Belmont, ballot access coordinator Maloney, who currently represents the for the New Alliance Party. district, is still being challenged by Right Openly gay New Alliance Party To Life Party candidate Marjorie Barrett candidate for Comptroller, Stephen Garvey, and by New Alliance Party Rose, had endorsed Powell in his cam- replacement candidate MaryRivera. 'Y

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in an interview with Davidson by womens music critic Noelle Hanra- han, which appeared in the Boston-based feminist newspaper Sojourner. Davidson mentioned Hattie Ruth Simon, the Black woman who raised her as a child. "It will make me sound crazy, but 1 do believe in reincarnation, and that I was not white in a previous lifetime, and that in order to make the transition 1 was given somebody who could help." Da vidson drew criticism for that remark -, AM NOT A RACIST- Photo: Jorjet Harper from Joanna Dianna Davidson Kadi, a woman of color from

by Jorjet Harper speak before Davidson's set began. Cambridge, who wrote: U A cursory CHICAGO-The air was thick Davidson, a 36-year-old native knowledge of slavery in the United with tension October 28 at Mountain of Tennessee who now lives in the States tells us Black women were Moving Coffeehouse in Chicago, as Washington D.C. area, has sung pro- forced to care for white children Black lesbian poet Vernita Gray took fessionally with Tammy Wynette, and leave their own unattended, ·a the microphone to address the sparse Tracy Nelson, B.B. King, Dan Fogel- practice still alive and well .... It is Saturday night audience. berg and Linda Ronstadt, among obvious, but let me say it anyway: Vocalist Dianne Davidson, who others. She plugged into the Black women are not objects to be recently became the center of a racism women's music circuit with her rock given to white children.' controversy in the lesbian community and blues album Breaking All the Davidson responded to Kadi's after remarks she made in the feminist Rules released by Olivia Records- letter by saying, "I have a right to press and at previous concerts, was which specializes in lesbian artists- keep my history and feelings pri- the evening's featured performer, and in August 1988. vate, if 1 so choose,· and suggested Gray had asked to be allowed to The controversy began last April that Kadi was assuming that

16 OUTYWEEK November 12, 1989 because Davidson was white, she was bigoted, and therefore Kadi herself was "guilty of not only pro- jection but the most primitive form of bigotry." This provoked a flurry of letters about Davidson's "condescending" tone, the racist foundation of the "Mammy" system and Davidson's refusal to see her relationship to Simon, as one writer said, =in its larger, historical, political and public context." Charges of racism against Davidson escalated dramatically at the Michigan Women's Music Festi- val. The woman-only music and cultural festival held for five days each August in a secluded wooded area typically draws approximately 7,000 women, mostly lesbians. Dur- ing her Friday night Michigan Main- MOO NOT ROMANTICIZE MY PAIN- Photo: Jorjet Harper stage set, Davidson introduced a Vernita Gray song she wrote about her relationship with Simon called "Heroes," by thing my parents ever did." group statement was issued by saying: "Every white family in the After several ensuing meet- Michigan Festival Workers: "Saying it South with a little bit of money ings-including one between David- is smart to hire a 'mammy,' is saying would hire a Black woman to raise son and a number of women who that it is smart to be racist. White their children. It was the smartest had been offended by the remark-a women must accept the responsibiIi-

November 12. 1989 our'WEEK 17 i ty to recognize and interrupt such "Do Not Romanticize My Pain." racism in our home communities After Gray spoke, Maria Lugones and at our community gatherings.· of llENA, Latina Lesbians in Nuestra Davidson, said the statement, Ambiante, took the podium and sec- ·was given the opportunity to onded Gray's feelings about David- respond to our concerns." Her official son's appearance, calling for an response was "No comment." apology from the coffeehouse and The Michigan Festival Workers' from Olivia RecOrds. Statement was read at the festival After Lugones finished her state- itself, and has been widely dis- ment, about 20 women left the hall en tributed. It was available at the masse in protest of the concert. Mountain Moving Concert, along Davidson, who had been waiting with other literature tracing the his- to be introduced, stood behind a side tory of the controversy. Both David- door during the statements. When she son and Olivia Records president emerged her face was flushed. The Judy Dlugacz claimed that they small remaining audience of about SO have not yet seen it. . women gave her an enthusiastic wel- At the Chicago concert last week, come. the unusually small coffeehouse crowd Mountain Moving Coffeehouse, was the result of a boycott of David- which is collectively run by volun- son's show that had been called by teers, has produced its women-only CLEAR, Chicago Lesbians Emerging concerts in the same North Side Against Racism, a group of white anti- neighborhood location-a rented racist activists who had also arranged church hall-for many years. with the coffeehouse to sponsor an The coffeehouse had booked anti-racist workshop to take place Davidson for the October date long directly after Davidson's concert. before her performance at Michigan. "I think that when we ignore After the incidents at Michigan, how- other people's pain, it's very hurtful,· ever, there was discussion among col- said Gray, her voice quavering with lective members about whether Dollar Bill emotion. "Tonight's performance is a Davidson's performance should be real slap in the face to many Black cancelled. The coffeehouse has not ••••••• women. 1 feel that it was and it is in broken a contract in its entire history, poor taste for the coffee house to pre- and it was decided to honor David- sent [Davidson] in concert tonight son's. Currently there are no Black ·We alack women demand to be women on the cOllective. respected in this community and in CLEAR,a group which had only this community space. Inflammatory formed after the issue erupted at racist statements should certainly be a Michigan, then threatened an reason for cancelling a performer, unprecedented picket of the coffee- by Victor Bumbalo author of Niagara Falls and Kitchen Duty particularly since she made no apolo- house for Davidson's show, but gy for them." switched to a boycott after talks with Joseph DiRocco, Benjamin Evett, Gray, who was a founding edi- with the coffeehouse itself, which John Finch. Susan Kaslow. John-Michael Lander, Althea Lewis, John Seidman tor of Lavender Woman, Chicago's has a shaky relation with the church first lesbian newspaper, is well-rep- and the neighborhood, and in the sected in the Chicago lesbian com- past has had some disruptions by munity and has a longstanding homophobes . Apple COrpl Theatre • 336 Welt 20th Street connection with the coffeehouse During a post-concert anti- between 8th 8r: 9th Avenues stretching all the way back to its racism workshop, convened by opening night 15 years ago, at members of CLEAR, Jill Burgin, a November 8 to December 17 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, which she read poetry. After asking member of CLEAR, said of the Friday at 8 pm Saturday at 7 8< 10 pm. Sunday at 3 pm for an official apology from the Cof- evening's boycott, ·This is not a feehouse and asking Davidson to public trashing of Dianne David- ..Tlck.to "perform somewhere else,· Gray son. We've tried to make that clear $16 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday $20 Friday. Saturday. Sunday read a new poem, written in reac- from the beginning. This is anti- Call HIT TIX at 212 564.8038 tion to Davidson's remarks, called racism work." ..

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GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS News Yale Turns Violent After Police Raid Nine Arrested in IIObscenity" Inicident [Yale'sl scope of review." around the country, attempted to by Jon Nalley University police officials refused intervene, to no avail. At least three NEW HAVEN - A conference to comment on the incident, which eyewitnesses reportedly accused organized by the Lesbian and Gay began on Friday evening, October 27, police of excessive use of force. Studies Center at Yale University at the opening session of the confer- The posters, with text reading became the scene of a violent con- ence, when Yale University police "just sex· and "sex is," depicted a fronation between conference partici- entered Lindsly-Chittenden Hall woman masturbating and homoerotic pants' and officers from the Yale and where author Vito Russo was deliver- images of men and women, and were New Haven police forces, when a New ing a presentation. designed by Boy With Arms Akimbo, York attomey was detained by the offi- At 9:15 pm, Dobbs was detained a San Francisco-based group devoted cers for allegedly putting up "obscene" by the officers for matching the profile to fighting homophobia, censorship posters in the Yale Law School. of a "suspicious character" observed and misrepresentation of people with The attorney, Bill AIDS in the arts, accord- Dobbs, who often repre- ing to conference goers. sents members of ACT While in custody the UP/New York, was subse- arrested men reported quently arrested, as were verbal abuse by rubber eight others who protested gloved and surgical- the police action. Hun- masked police and the dreds more marched a Connecticut Department mile and a half to the New of Correction staff calling Haven police station on them "faggot" and Union Avenue demanding "queer" and making AIDS their release. jokes. Dobbs told Out- University officials Week that one officer told immediately began an him, "If I ever see you on investigation of the inci- the street, ''I'll kill you" dent, which comes on the after Dobbs demanded heels of two years of con- THROW UP that another officer stop troversy involving the uni- Unsignfld postfl' at Ya/fl using the word "faggot." versity's gay and lesbian He also demanded that community. In 1987, after a Wall Street taping "obscene" posters to the walls his backpack-which the police were Journal article quoted a Yale student in the Law School building. When keeping--be inventoried. One officer, who identified the university as a "gay Dobbs refused to go with them to the he claims, told the officer doing the school,» university president Benno Yale police station, he was arrested. inventory to wear two pairs of rubber Schmidt penned a letter to Yale alumni When word of his arrest reached gloves. "He might have AIDS,· was refuting the description, bringing participants inside the lecture hall, the reason he gave the other officer, denouncements from and sparking many of them emerged, surrounding Dobbs said. protests by campus gay organizations, the arresting officer, taking pho- During the two hour period of which accused Schmidt of trivializing tographs and asking for badge num- custody, 200 conference participants and denying their existence. bers and specific charges. Other marched a half mile to the New Haven But because most of the arrests arrests followed, on charges of police station on Union Avenue. Chant- were made by the New Haven police "breach of peace" and "interfering ing "let them go· and "go to Yale, go to department, which was summoned by with a police officer." jail," they held vigil until the last of the university police, a university Yale professors attending the detained, Dobbs, was released. He spokeswoman admitted that a majori- conference, which attracted nearly called the police "a bunch of idiots ty Qf the incident was "not within 500 lesbian and gay scholars from who went out of control."

20 OUTTWEEK November 12. 1989 At 9:00 am the following day, Sheila W. Wellington, Secretary of Yale University and the university offi- Thurs. November 9 Forum cer responsible for campus security, addressed an emergency conference plenary session at Battell Chapel. She Turning Anger noted the university's concern over the incident and informed them of an investigation -already begun" by Yale police chief Louis Cappiello. To Action . Some In Yale's lesbian and gay community are taking a wait-and-see Gay Community Center, 208 W.13th, 6pm attitude. "We feel that actions of the Yale and New Haven police were $2 donation to the Center extremely unfortunate," Steven Pierce of Yale's Lesbian and Gay Studies Help formulate a response to the Center (LGSCy) told OutWeek. Char- increasing climate of ·violence in acterizing those departments' actions as disappointing and "obvious viola- NYC against people of color, tions of the rights of conference participants," Pierce looked forward to women, lesbians and gay men. the university's investigation. Meanwhile, conference partici- Panel Presentations by: Gwen Braxton, pants and members of LGSCYand the Yale LGBCsprang into action-meeting Robert Garcia, Pamela Sneed, to organize a march and rally which Liz Walber and others. occurred at the 5 pm completion of the conference's final plenary session on Co-sponsored by Guerilla Art Project. COOL & MACT October 20. Chanting "Push me, beat me, call me names! Yale police must take the blame," 200 marched to the Yale police headquarters. The demands called upon the undertaking of initiatives by Yale and the city of New Haven in order to protect the rights of expression and physical security for "lesbian, gay and bisexual people." They included "significant representation" for' that com- helping you meet the sex munity on the Yale panel reviewing police actions, mandatory programs challenges of the 90's for police to receive AIDS education and sensitivity training on "lesbian, gay and bisexual issues," the firing of NI5\\' YOI~KI (:I·II(:/~GO I I.OS 1~~GI51~liS officers found to have committed ver- ",,_u_u LS __(5 U Emir.,· bal and physical abuse, dropping of charges against the arrested conference participants and that university president Benno Schmidt condemn Or. Charles Franchino his aforementioned remarks during the summer of 1987. 30 Fifth Avenue Benno Schmidt released a statement October 30 attesting to Yale's New York, New York 10011 being an open campus, and promising that "there will be no element of 212.673.4331 antipathy toward gay and lesbian persons on this campus." II. -. , But Yale's lesbian and gay com- office hours by appolntment~ s.. YALE on pig. 88 l~, ---J.

November 12, 1989 OUT~WEEK 21 TI News demonstrators back up onto the curb. Any decorum which had otherwise prevailed was lost and the crowd, angered because no warning had Police Violence been given, shouted and pushed back at the police line. Calm was restored several minutes and there were no additional arrests as the ACT UPers at Trump Tower calmly resumed their picketing. Before the incident inside the building erupted, a weird game of cat 6Arrests at ACT UP Homeless Demo and mouse was acted out between Trump security officials and about 30 by Ben Currie ACT UP reported that six demon- ACf UPers who nonchalantly mean- NEW YORK-Weathering a per- strators were arrested during the scuf- dered up and down the huge escala- sistent rain and assorted incidents of fle in the atrium. The six-Walter tors that border the large open-spaced police brutality, about 100 ACT UP Armstrong, Matt Ebert, Steve Helmke, atrium. The tension grew palpably as demonstrators assembled outside David Falcone, Scott Wald and Jim the stone-faced security guards edgily Trump Tower determined to "break Serafini-were taken to the 7th trailed the ACT UPers and spoke the silence" in this fall's mayoral cam- precinct house and charged variously breathlessly into their ubiquitous paign about the burgeoning crisis of with illegal trespass, disorderly con- walkie-talkies. homeless people with AIDS. duct and resisting arrest. It was also evident that numerous The day began with cheers as a After the six demonstrators arrest- plainclothed security guards and NYC huge banner reading "10,000 Home- ed inside were taken away by police, cops were carefully eyeing those they less with AIDS" was unfurled on the another violent incident erupted believed were demonstrators. For well building across the street from Trump when ACf UPers overflowed into the over an hour the guards kept watch Tower and ended with an violent, street from behind the police barri- and the ACT UPers demurred; but ugly scene inside the expansively cades. Abruptly, a group of about finally a shower of leaflets poured gaudy atrium of the building. seven officers violently pushed the down through the ten story atrium

TRUMP THUMP Photo: T.L. Litt 1'01111'punllhpro,",,, out,id, Trump Tow"

22 OU~WEEK November 12, 1989 and the guards and police, in mass confusion, arbitrarily cornered whomever they could nab all am'idst loud reverberating shouts of "No Vio- lence, No Violence.· ~ No serious injuries were reported HEALTH' lDuu.nON • AIDS LIAISON as a result of the altercations. presents it's ongoing lecture series Donald Trump was targeted by ACf UP to dramatize the disparity AZT: PROMISE OR PERIL? between government policy which (AN ANALYSIS OF ITS TCJXICITY AND LON~nRM EFFECTS) \mH: J.... SoI.lIbe ..d. M.D. allowed Trump to pick up a whop- ...,... HoffmIn. M.D. ping 6.2 million dollar tax abatement ~ to be Innourad) WHERE H...... H..... c.nt.r for the building, and the contrasting 16 East 6th SIret'l Manhattan governmental inaction which allows 'lMfN: -.....y. New. 14th. 7130pm an almost limitless supply of city SUGGESTED DONATION $5 owned property to remain vacant and unrenovated while the population of homeless people with AIDS continues I. i to grow, demonstrators said. "The inside of this place epito- mizes the rampant consumerism of Wednesday, November 8 the 80s,· said ACf UP's Jim Serafini, explaining why Trump in particular t1.\ 8- J 0:30pm had been singled out by the group. ACf UP believes that the 6.2 mil- ¢' \ \\ The Center lion "could have rehabilitated approximately 1,200 city owned apartments.· ~ \ 1.\ 208 West J 3th Apartments, they argue, that could house at least some of the 10,000 tAe~ ~ PWAswho they estimate are homeless. Earlier inside the building, an ~e almost absurdist tableau was created when Ronny Viggiani, dressed superbly as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, was caught alone on one of the dramatically long escalators in the nearly emptied hollows of the atrium. The down escalator connecting the O!lO'l'1 . lobby with the atrium's firs~floor had been shut off by security guards to prevent ACf UPers from beating a Sii/}'. 111<1 hasty retreat. According to Viggiani, a guard OJ- 11 l:I.g yelled at him to walk down the escalator, but all he could do was yell back "you've got to turn it on [the Wednesday 0~ escalator] because I can't walk [down) in these heels.· November J 5, 8- J 0:30pm For a brief moment the scene froze as Dorothy stood defiantly half the Center, 208 West J 3th way down the staircase while the guard struggled desperately to turn the key to start the escalator. No Registratiol1 Required Finally, the switch turned, Dorothy moved effortlessly down the mechanical staircase !!voking a strangely grand scene worthy of a Hollywood sound stage, all as ACf uPers cheered wildly. 'Y

November 12, "989 OUTTWEEK 23 News ACT UP Charges Giuliani Aide With Assault D.A. Launches Probe

by Ben Currie "The Manhattan District Attorney from St. Vincents Hospital detailing NEW YORK-As the hopes of has not only acted in what I consider the injuries to Ottersten. Last week "fusion- mayoral candidate Rudolph to be an appropriate manner, [but] Ottersten said that he was diagnosed Giuliani seemed finally dashed this they have cooperated with us in a with "post concussive syndrome" and week by Democrat David Dinkins way that makes me feel that justice trauma to his neck muscles. resurgence in the polls, the legal fate will come out," she said about D.A. Coben said the next logical step of Giuliani's media advisor, right-wing Ann Hyman's investigation of ACf for the D.A. would be to interview attack-ad guru Roger Ailes, was not so UPers' charges. Ailes and others from the Liberal Party clearly cast. The men and women involved in who witnessed the altercation. Last week, Ailes was charged by the protest had been worried by d:r- A spokesperson from Ailes Com- several ACf UP members with third tain questions asked of them by an munications, Ailes' media firm, spoke degree assualt and harrassment stem- assistant district attorney during their with OutWeek this Thursday and ming from the violent ejection of ACf initial meeting with the office. Cohen denied that ACf UPers' accounts of Up protesters from a Liberal Party din- insisted that the questions regarding the scene were accurate. However, ner on October 23 honoring Giuliani. the ACf UPers' private lives and their unlike Carl Grillo, the Executive The incident-virtually unreport- drug habits were completely appro- Director of the Liberal Party, he did ed in the mainstream dailies-did priate and not unusual for this type of not go so far as to deny an account however elicit condemnation from investigation. which appeared in the Daily News several gay rights organizations and She said that D.A. Hyman had which stated "an angry, red-faced three prominent New York Democrats. nearly completed her interviews with Ailes put his hand on [a Short of calling for Ailes' resigna- the ACf UP witnesses and was simply demonstator's] neck." tion from Giuliani's campaign, Dink- "waiting for the medical records," Ken LaCourte of Ailes Communi- ins and Manhattan Borough President cation went on to say that Ailes had C~ndidate Ruth Messinger and City not been contacted by the D.A. 's Council President Andrew Stein all office as of Thursday and as far as his called upon Giuliani to launch a thor- office understood no formal charges ough internal investigation of Ailes' had been filed. involvement in the matter. Cohen said that charges had Along with New York City Gay been filed with the police, but it was and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project and up to the D.A.'s office ·to move the the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against matter forward. Defamation, the three politicians LaCourt said the incident "never roundly condemned the verbal and occurred the way they [ACf UP] physical abuse of gays and lesbians describe it." He would not be more spe- which is alleged to have occured at cific, however, "until after the election." the Liberal Party's event. He called the whole matter ~ GLAAD went so far as to call for "publicity stunt" perpetrated by ACf Ailes' "immediate suspension" from Up "for their own purposes." the campaign pending the completion In last week's Vdlage Voicereporter of the Manhattan District Attorney's Donna Minkowitzdetailed several violent on-going investigation of the charges. incidents in which Ailes has been Laurie Cohen, an ACf UP attorney involved in the past The Voice quotes who represents Kevin Ottersten, the vic- the Washington Post as reporting that tim of the alledged assault by Ailes, is Ailes broke a man's wrist and threw oonfideot that the D.A's otftce will move ALL CHOKED UP another into a fountain during a brawl expedliousIy in the investigation Kllvin tJltBrstBn See AILES on page 81

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vice presdent of external affairs, asserted that its "primary purpose [was] to deliver excellent health care in such a way as to maximize the dignity and self-respect of each patient as well as all involved in the aire~of each patient.· ". He relayed the concern of the hospital administration about- biased treatment of some patients-which he characterized as "isolated inci,- dents"-and apologized for such actions on behalf of the hospital. After giving assurances that St. Vincents would thoroughly investigate any allegations of discrimination, Ack- ermann promised "appropriate disci- pline" upon "due process· for those found to have committed such acts. But St. Vincents' Human Resources Vice President Andrew Portelli spoke of "realities,· adding, ST. VINCENTS = HOMOPHOBIA Photo: T.L.litt "We receive grievances every day ..... ACT UP'sG,m W,lls address,s th, room, as St Vinc,nts' Marie Ackermann looks on. We can't fire someone on every alle- gation of something being said.· Robert Cohen, medical director St Vincents Confronts of St. Vincents AIDS Center, told those assembled that he and hundreds of other hospital doctors, nurses and social workers had signed a petition Anti-Gay Bias Charges demanding that the hospital take stronger action on the accusations of homophobic incidents. byJon Nalley complaints. We need to see some- "I have not heard anythi'Qg NEW YORK-In front of the thing proactive," he bellowed. tonight that couldn't have happen~d. more than 200 peol?le packed into Others gave personal testimony Thousands of people at the hospital the Lesbian and Gay Community Cen- and asked ·questions of the panel, are upset by this ...this man'y people ter last Wednesday, gay rights activist which also included ACf UP member wouldn't show up if it were not a rea,l Tom Duane challenged the members Gerri Wells, who has previously medi- issue to deal with," Cohen said. of St. Vincents Hospital administration ated between the community and Area resident Aldyn McKean, to utter the words "lesbian" and "gay," hospital officials. with the obvious support of the room, to demonstrate they had no discom- Speaker after speaker, including told St. Vincents that the hospital fort with the terms or the community. two rape survivors and several sur- must take concrete steps to "rectify Duane,' whose recent Democratic vivors of anti-gay violence, rose to this appalling situation." He saidfpe Primary bid for city council was recount personal stories of anti-gay hospital must reveal the results of ,its unsuccessful, moderated the ACf UP- harassment by St. Vincents security own investigations, institute a com- sponsored town meeting with St. V:n- guards, doctors, nurses and other prehensive anti-bias program, set'ilp ,< cents' higher-ups. The meeting was employees. Others reported inci- and publicize disciplinary procedures the result of repeated demonstrations dents of mistreatment or refusal of and punishments, establsh a policy bn at the hospital, in response to reports treatment after being identified as visiting rights for patients' compan- of physical and verbal attacks on gay gay or lesbian. ions, including lovers, and notify all and lesbian patients at the Greenwich Citing St. Vincents' work with the patients of these policies. Village hospital. homebound elderly, the homeless, He demanded that the hospital Duane also called on the hospital the poor and people with AIDS as inform the lesbian and gay com- to provide, at its own cost, an on-site examples of that hospital's communi- munity of its specific plans by anti-bias worker. "Stop reacting to ty commitment, Mark Ackermann, December.I. ..

November 12, 1989 OUT~WEEK 25 News The Goal: Clinical Trials for Everyone Who Wants"'Them ATR'sAmbitious Agenda by John Voelcker NEW YORK-It's not just another in the sea of AIDS-related initials. Less than two years old, ATR, the AIDS Treatment Registry, has embarked on UP, ATR has grown explosively. It a ground-breaking outreach effort to rented offices of its own this past educate the entire AIDS community June, and its budget this year is • i $200,000, almost a tenfold increase over last year's. With the growth comes an equally ambitious goal. ATRwants to eliminate all the various drawbacks associated with clinical trials of experimental AIDS drugs that prevent many / people with HIV infection from par- ticipating in, or even conSidering, such drug trials as a part of their treatment. For instance, a poorly designed protocol may effectively exclude all WOMAr~ OF THE YEAR but affluent white men with private Iris Long Photo: Ellen B. Neipris physicians, according to ATR. A sim- what was actually available around ple lack of information about the New York City-something no other range of available trials can hinder group had been able to do regularly NOT JUST FOR WHITE MEN ONLY. recruiting in the first place. And or reliably. It took time, but ATR now Mich.,,1 Cowing Photo: Ellen B. Neipris unclear or incomplete informed-con- has "solid working relationships· with about experimental drug trials, and sent agreements prevent participants the principal investigators for these revise those trials to reflect partici- from understanding their end of the trials and their associated hospitals, pants' needs and concerns. bargain. said executive director Michael Cow- Formed in February 1988 as a ATR's first step in improving ing. spinoff of the AIDS activist group ACf access to trials was simply to find out The result was their widely acclaimed Registry, issued bi-monthly, of every AIDS drug trial in New York and New Jersey. The demand has been overwhelming. "We printed 1,000 copies of the

August Registry, U Cowing said. "We quickly found we needed 2,000 more, but we just couldn't afford them. For the October edition, we printed 2,500. But we got them October 7th, and already we only have about 700 left to last us until the end of November." The group's other publication, Deciding to Enter an AIDS/ HIV Drug Trla~ has been equally well received. Cowing said a Spanish translation is SII ATR on plge II

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Boston, has folded due to financial Apuzzo reasons. But the suddenness of the announcement has left some staff appeal members bitter. Started in December, 1987 as a ALBANY-Virginia Apuzzo, for- self-proclaimed "bar rag" featuring mer liaison to the lesbian and gay entertainment and paragraph-long sto- community for Governor Mario ries, Next quickly grew into a popular CUomo, was recently trashed by the weekly magazine with local news state's commissioner of prisons for coverage and a fairly substantial fea- her idea about condoms and AIDS in tures section. "The biggest problem New York jails. was cash flow,' publisher Gary "Dismayed, but not terribly sur- Chefetz told OutWeek. "We simply prised," Thomas Coughlin, Commis- ran out of money.' sioner for the New York State The magazine's demise came as a Department of Correctional Services, surprise to several of its staffers, none and a member of the State AIDS Advi- of whom seemed prepared for the sory Council, fired off a letter attack- sudden shut down. ing remarks made by Apuzzo on "It's meaningless that the publica- September 21 to Council Chair David tion did not do well," editor Masha Rogers, M.D. Gessen told OutWeek. "I've never Apuzzo, who is now deputy VIRGINIA APUZZO Photo: T. L. litt worked on a publication that did executive director of the State Con- documentation "for [his] conclusions well. [Chefetz] should have known sumer Protection Board and also the that sex is rampant in prison as well further in advance, and he should Vice Chair of the Council, had called as the scientific basis from condom have told us." for distribution of condoms in State distribution. "I'm really upset about the whole Prison facilities in order to halt the Amy Kolodny of Department of thing,' said staff writer Nina Reyes. "I spread of HIV within that system. Corrections Public Information did worked for Next for nine months as a Calling Apuzzo's demand a "red- not return repeated calls for comment full-time writer receiving half-time herring type issue," Coughlin accused from Out Week pay. I'm still waiting for a paycheck her of upstaging the work of the Apuzzo told OutWeek that she from the first week and the last day I panel's work "in order to grab ...news- "would have been derelict in [her] worked. I invested so much into this, paper headlines.' Further, the correc- community responsibility if [she] and all I got back was a kick in the tions commissioner saw her request didn't bring u.p this critical issue," teeth." as a disservice to the people of New adding that the disaster of an AIDS staff members also cite rumors of York who suffer from AIDS because it explosion in the corrections system $100,000 in uncollected funds stm "reduce[d] the magnitude and com- was immjnent. owed Next, funds that could have plexity of the issue into a piece of Ernie Ray of westside State Senator kept the magazine afloat. synthetic material.' Coughlin denied Manfred Ohrnstein's office (who com- "Boston-based area businesses that "sex is rampant in the prisons" mented that the bottom line of the issue just don't pay their bills,' said Chefetz. and claimed there were no document- was that lives were at stake) and Beth "I could have given [the staff] two ed cases of inmates who "contracted Israel Medical Center President Dr. weeks' notice, but why have them AIDS in prison.' Robert Newman also raised the issue of work when I didn't have the money Rather, the corrections commis- condom distribution with Coughlin. Dr. to pay them?" sioner said prison AIDS cases are the Newman declined comment. "We got fucked,' countered result of IV drug use. Coughlin took Condoms are distributed, on a Reyes. "It's like ...the dark agesj it's pains to inform the AIDS Advisory limited basis, at Rikers Island in New bad business." Council Chair that "prisons are not York City. -Jon Nalley Originally, OutWeek was to hotels-sex is not aright," but rather become a sister publication of Next a privilege reserved for those inmates until negotiations between Chefetz eligible for conjugal visits. "All other What's next?· and Out Week publisher Kendall Morri- sex,' he reminded Rogers, "is prohib- son failed. ited by policy.' BOSTON-After nearly two years Gessen and Reyes, who have Because Rogers also supports the of publishing through precarious since joined the freelance staff of need of prison condom distribution, financial straits, Next, 3: lesbian and OutWeek as Boston stringers, are cur- Coughlin called on him to provide gay weekly news magazine based in rently assessing funding sources as

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they consider starting a news maga- bery, aggravated harassment and zine of their own "in approximately resisting arrest. Dalwood King, 18, of six months." Chefetz said he has no 20 Lenox Ave., was charged with sec- immediate plans to return to publish- ond-degree assault, second-degree ing a magazine in Boston, focusing robbery and aggravated harassment, instead on collecting his unpaid bills police said. and prorating refunds to advertisers David Weitheimer, of the New as he continues work on his other YQrk City Lesbian and Gay Anti-Vio- publication, Provincetown Magazine. lence Project, said the Washington "Masha and Nina are both great Square Park area has been the scene writers, incredibly brilliant," added of several antigay bias incidents in the Chefetz, "but it came down to a per- last year. "It's a space in which a lot sonal decision by me. (Next) was of very disparate groups of people dosed down with dignity." congregate,· he said, "including gay

o -Keith Miller people and people who have it in for gay people.· At a recent rally supporting the right to burn flags, a group of skin- It can heads harassed both protesters and onlookers, chanting "Burn a Fag, Not the Flag." happ~n JEAN O'LEARY OutWeek was unable to reach anywhere II Eatroff and Barkoff at press time. National Association of Business -John Voelcker Councils, board member of the Fair- ness Fund, co-founder and current NEW YORK-Two alleged gay- co-chair of National Coming Out Day bashers were arrested by New York and board member of Project Inform. City police after they reportedly DeDlocrats She was also responsible for organiz- attacked a pair of men walking ing the first meetings of gay leaders through Washington Square Park on go gay held in the White House and with key October 29. federal agencies, elevating issues of Police Sgt; Carl Zittell of the Bias WASHINGTON-Jean O'Leary, gay and lesbian civil rights to national Crimes Unit said that Peter Eatroff, 22, Executive Director of National Gay attention. and Jeff Barkoff, 21, both of Brooklyn, Rights Advocates, has been appointed ''The White House meetings were were wal&ing through the park to the Resolutions Committee of the during the Carter Administration," around 7:30 pm in the evening when Democratic National Committee O'leary continued, in a phone inter- a woman approached them and began (ON C), the governing body of the view with Out Week. "We brought· making ·antigay remarks. A group of Democratic Party by National Demo- together 12 national lesbian and gay ten people then surrourided the two cratic Party chair Ron Brown. O'leary leaders who prepared White Papers. men, knocking d0wn Eatroff repeated- is the first open lesbian to receive These were then presented to Carter's ly ·and· stealing his bag, which con- such an appointment. senior staff." tained records, and other goods. "I have a good understanding of O'leary also has a longstanding , Eatroff and Barkoff fled to a the needs of the lesbian and gay com- commitment to the Democratic Party. nearby new York University ddr.mito- munity," O'leary said. "I also have a She was the first open lesbian dei'e- ry, then' to' the NYU Security Office, good·. understanding of how the gate to the Democratic National Con- wher.e they were treated for abra- Democratic Party operates. 1 hope to vention 'in 1976, a Kennedy delegate sions; They'left before' ihe NYC police combine my knowledge to make, at,the 1980 Convention, a Dukakis , ,arrived; only to meet thCir attackers som<:=concrete headway." whip in 19'88 and served on the. again at the comer of Waverly Place AS'a 20-year champion for Board of Gay and Lesbian Democrats :and-University Place. Just as the human ·rights, with an emphasis on of America. 'group of ten' began to harass ·the two. the civil rights of the gay and lesbian "Jean O'leary's involvement as a ,men again, police arrived and arrest- community, O'leary has served as co- member of the Resolutions Committt!e ' .ed two of the group. executive director of the National Gay is well-timed,· said Steve Smith, the Ronald 'Gonzalez, 20 of 509 W. and Lesbian Task Force,' board mem- firSt openly gay man to serve on the 135th st. was charge'd with third- ber of the Gay Rights National Lobby, DNC. "Her understanding of the con- degree assault, second-degree rob- co-founder and past president of the cerns of lesbians and gay men will

28 OUl·... WEEK· November 12, 1989 ensure that our community is promi- clearly outweighed by the privacy administrative assistant Stephanie nent and visible as the Resolutions rights of the employees under the Grant. Committee charts the course of the Fourth Amendment. judge Strom's On Democratic Primary Day, Party.· -Keith Miller conclusion . was unanimously September 12, the Center hosted a approved by the Court of Appeals. turnout that was 25 percent higher By contrast, several federal courts than the turnout for last April's Demo- have rejected challenges to HIV test- cratic Presidential Primary at the old Just say no ing programs by branches of the poll site on 14th Street. Defense Department and by the State The Lesbian and Gay Community WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department, ruling that national Center is housed in what was once Supreme Court announced On Octo- defense and foreign policy interests the Food and Maritime Trades High ber 30 that it will not take up the outweighed the privacy rights of mili- School which was used as the poll issue of mandatory HIV testing of tary and foreign service members. site until it closed in 1979, when the public employees this term, effective- Lambda Legal Defense Fund's chal- area polling place was moved to a ly upholding a lower court ban on lenge to the mandatory testing pro- church on 14th Street. The site was such tests. The Court voted not to gram of the U.S. Labor Department's changed back this year when the city review a decision by the 8th Circuit job Corps is still pending before a ordered all polling places to be acces- Court of Appeals in Glover v. Eastern federal district court in the District of sible to the handicapped. Nebraska Community Office of Retar- Columbia. On Election Day, November 7, dation. In that case, the lower court The Glover decision by the lower 1989, the polls at the Lesbian and Gay ruled that such testing by a state-oper- courts had been hailed by AIDS advo- Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, ated mental health facility violated the cacy and civil rights groups as a major will be open from 6 am to 9 pm. Fourth Amendment of the Constitu- landmark in the battle against irra- -Keith Miller tion's Bill of Rights. Glover is the first tional HIV testing programs by case to deal with the constitutionality employers. Although the decision of mandatory testing by state, as strictly applies only to public employ- ACT UP opposed to federal, agencies. ers, the reasoning may be very per- Under the Fourth Amendment, as suasive in deciding whether private applied to state governments through sector testing programs violate federal seeks stuff the Due Process Clause of the 14th and state laws on ,private sector dis- Amendment, states may not conduct ability discrimination. NEW YORK-The AIDS activist searches or seizures of individuals in -Arthur S. Leonard group ACT UP is seeking items to sell criminal investigations without proba- at its flfst major benefit auction. Objects ble cause to believe that contraband already received include art works by or evidence of crime will be found. Poll pals Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Robert Non-criminal searches, such as HIV Rauschenberg, Francesco Scavullo and antibody testing, are judged by a less NEW YORK-Voters from nine Annie Leibovitz, as well as antiques, demanding standard of whether the election districts in Greenwich Village designer clothing, furniture, vacations invasion of individual privacy is rea- will be casting their ballots on Tues- and celebrity mementos. sonable in light of legitimate govern- day, November 7 at the Lesbian and Proceeds from the event, entitled mental interests. Gay Community Services Center. "Auction for Action,· will go directly Over the past few years, the "Becoming a polling place affirms that to benefit ACT UP. The aqivist organi- .. Supreme Court and lower federal the Center is an integral part of the zation, now in its third· year, has courts have ruled on drug testing pro- city,· said City Councilmember Ruth scored 'numerous successes in. its grams by state agencies in several Messinger, the Democratic nominee drive to fight government inaction cases, weighing the importance of for Manhattan Borough President, and speed the release of drugs to. drug testing in a particular job catego- "not only for lesbians and gay men, people with AIDS. This will be the ry against the reasonable expectations but for all New Yorkers.· first time ACT UP has raised money of privacy of public employees. "Many of our Village neighbors by holding an auction. In Glover, District Court judge who are not familiar with the' Center Exhibition of items will take Lyle E. Strom ruled in 1988 that the will now be brought into our home, place Sunday, December 3, from risk of HIV transmission from an and the heart of the gay community,· 12:00 noon until 3:00 pm at 890. infected employee to a client of the Richard Burns, executive director of Broadway. The evening will begin at mental health agency was so slight the Centef, told OutW~k. 6 pm with a reception followed by that the government's interest in "Hopefully it will encourage both a siient and public auction at. 7 detecting infected employees was more gay folks to vote,· added pm .. Admission is $5. Those wishing

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to donate items should call Sean orientation clause intact. es and have begun dropping bricks Strube at (914) 591-5900. For further Measure N supporters claim the and eggs on patrons standing in front information about the auction, call sexual orientation clause grants "spe- of the entrance," Borsos said In early (212) 989-1114. -Gabriel Rotello cial rights" to "homosexuals." October, the neighbors petitioned But Citizens United advisory board authorities close the club down. member Jim Boone maintains the cur- Police, meanwhile, have contin- rent ordinance provides only for equal ued regular raids on the bar, "some- Lavender in rights. Indeed, the measure defines times taking away patrons, but still "sexual orientation" as "heterosexuality, refusing to do anything about hooli- Orange homosexuality or bisexuality.· gan attacks on the establishment," The sexual orientation clause is according to Borsos. County important because there is no private And in the latest Lokal-related sector job protection for gays and les- disaster, a group of influential taxi bians under Californ ia state law, companies has called a boycott of the IRVINE, CA-Voters in this uni- according to Boone. bar, telling the media that it is a versity town 40 miles south of Los The courts have specifically ruled "queers" hangout." Angeles will determine Tuesday if'a that sexual orientation is not covered Lokal's problems were debated tough human rights ordinance will by the Fair Employment and Housing Oct. 4 during a six-minute broad- retain a clause prohibiting discrimina- Act (FEHA), California's major anti- cast on Hungary's first independent tion based on sexual orientation-a discrimination law, Boone said. TV channel (NAP TV). "The report decision both sides believe could He estimates that some 3,000 showed one of our drag shows and have national repercussions. Irvine residents have publicly come asked people to be tolerant of Irvine is located in conservative out against the Irvine Values Coalitibn gays,· 13orsos said. "It was positive Orange County, home to militantly by endorsing the No on Measure N overall even though the police anti-gay Congressmen William Dan- campaign. Some 300 Irvine residents maintained that their actions stem nemeyer and Robert K. Dornan. are actively involved in the fight from demands by nearby residents The region has been a hotbed of against the ordinance, he said. 'that order be observed. ,. Police anti-gay agitation in recent months, The Irvine Values Coalition has have denied any discrimination much of it spearheaded by the Rev. received a $500 contribution from against gays. Louis Sheldon, a right-wing lobbyist Dannemeyer. -Andrew Krastlns Despite all the bad news, Borsos who heads the Traditional Values says the TV report is only one of Coalition. numerous signs that Hungary's defec- The Irvine City Council adopted Whose tion to the West promises a vastly bet- the original measure, with the sexual ter life for its gay and lesbian citizens. orientation clause, by a 4-0 vote last "For the first time since World year. But right-wing Christia·ns revolution is War II,· he said, "a gOSSip maga- opposed to the clause succeeded in et ? zine- KACSA-has started publish- gathering enough petition signatures 1 ,anyway .. ing homosexual partnership ads. In to force a vote on the issue. addition, books about homosexuality Supporters of the sexual orien- BUDAPEST-Even as Hungary are being published one-after-anoth- tation clause formed Irvine Citizens officially declared itself independent er, including a brand-new book United, and launched a campaign to of Soviet Union and no longer a about lesbians.· retain the ordinance as it currently socialist nation in late October, mem- , Later. this year, Budapest'S first stands. The measure also bars dis- bers of the Eastern Bloc's only legal "sex shop· is scheduled to open "with crimination based on race, color, gay organization, HOMEROS Lamb- dildoes and other sexual devices on sex, religion, national origin, age, da, reported increased and more vio- display,· Borsos said. marital status or physical handicap. lent harassment here in the Meanwhile, in a rel,ated mat- A "yes· vote on Measure N Hungarian capital. ter-and .contrary to earlier would remove the sexual orientation According to HOMEROS report£-Borsos indicated that "a, sig- clause and prohibit the Irvine, City spokesman Sandor Borsos, the group's nificant number of the East Germans Council from enacting any similar nightclub (and Hungary's only gay who fled to the West via Hungary in legal protection in the future without bar, Lokal, is under constant attack September were gay. I personally first obtaining approval of the elec- from other tenants of its building, knew half-a-dozen gay refugees,· he torate by a two-thirds majority. authorities and nearby businesses. .said, "and sources in East Berlin say A "no· vote would retain the "Neighbors say they are scandal- that was just the tip of the iceberg.· ordinance as it stands, with the sexual ized by obscene scenes in the staircas- -Rex Wockner

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graduated with a BFA In Painting from at its inception in 1974. She don~~ed JiJhn;Bohne/ Bennington College. After working as her personal library of lesbian ~s I a laborer in Vermont and in the oil and artifacts to the collection 'Qut fields of Montana, he moved to New more, her invincible spirit symbolJiid York in 1980. the political and social vision that if at' In NYC, john worked first as a the core of the Archives. I' . taxi driver and limousjne driver and Hampton was an annual parilf;i- he enrolled in Union Theological pant in.w York City's Gay and ~- Seminary. At Union he was active in bian Pride March and was ho~or~4:.,.~s the Gay and lesbian Caucus serving its Grand Marshall in 1985. She ~ilS as convenor in 1983. He wrote his the recipient of several awar& fiQm theses on pastoral care and AIDS national Black, gay and lesbian 0T- Issues within hospitals. He received nizations acknowledging her pion~er- his M. Div. in 1984. ing efforts on behalf of tpe He Is' survived by his friends and movements for Black, feminist and fellow activists; his sister Nancy Rube, gay civil rights. his brotq~r Philip Bohne and his par- When asked· wh1en she had ents Edrfiund Mildred Bobpe. His lover \r Bill dle(l of AIDS In 1988. A memorial serviCj'was held on October 29. Photo: T. l.Litt i I john Bohne died of unspecified Nfabel Hampton pneurI10nia in Lenox Hill Hospital on Msy 2, 1902-t)ctobl1r 26, 1989 October 15.He was 35 and lived in Man- ha~d Valley. It had been almost four If Mabel Hampton, an African- Y'~sinceI. his inkialAIDSdiagnosis. I' . .. ohn was a founding member of 'American Lesbian c()~munity activist ACJ!UP, and represented the group,at who played a founding role in the many conferences, including thel ian Herstory Archiyes and was an retent meeting of the National,1HV inspiration to many in the battle for COmmission, the negotiations t~t Ifd Civil rights and gay liberation, died of tp the development of ·paralle,I' track" pneumonia at St. Luke's Roosevelt guidelines for increasing a¢ce~s to Hospital in New York City on October experimental drugs. • 26th at the age of 87. In the 1980s, 'john had volunteered with Gay Hampton was featured in several film Menls Health Crisis, and the AIDS and television programs, documenting "come out,· Hampton would firmly Resource Center early in botb organi- her involvement in the Harlem reply, with a characterrstic twinkle in zation's existence. Before his AIDS Renaissance and in gay life before the her eye, "What do you mean, come / diagnosis, ,he was employed by the 19705. out! I was never IN." Hampton is sur- American Red Cross.-arranging home Born in Winston-Salem, North vived by hundreds and hundreds of health care for PWAs. Carolina, Hampton came to Green- loving friends. A member of Morningside wich Village when she was sevenj in A celebration of her life will be Monthly Meeting of the Religious her teens, she became a member of held at the Lesbian and Gay Commu- Society of Friends (Quakers), john an all women's dance troupe that per- nity Services Center, 208 W. 13th held several positions within the formed in Coney Island. Later, during Street in Manhattan on November 16, Meeting .. He and his lover William the 30s and 40s, she appeared in sev- at 7:30 pm. McCann were married under the care eral productions at the Lafayette 'the- Donations in her memory can be of Morningside.Meeting in 1987. Their ater and was a dancer at the Garden sent to the Lesbian Herstory Educa- marriage was the first same-sex cere- of joy in Harlem, New York. tional Foundation, Inc., P.O. Box mony to be calle? a "marriage" by the In 1937, Hampton met LiIlian 1258, New York, NY 10116 and to sponsoring Meeting within the Society Foster who was her life partrier until Senior Action in a Gay Environment, of Friends. john also served on the Foster's death in 1978 .. Hampton 208 W. 13th St., New York, NY 10011. AIDS Advisory Caucus of the Ameri- be. associated with the Lesbian For more information, please can Friends Service Committee. Herstory Archives, the largest collec- contact: .joan Nestle or Deb Edel at .john was born in Summit, Nj and tion of lesbian material in t,he world, (212) 874-7232...

November 12. 1989 OUT~WEEK 31 A.IDS Treatment News DOC ~ rhe Low-Cost Antiviral

which eliminates these obstacles de- ditional healers which are already in by John S.James serves careful attention. place in most cultures. The true cost of a drug must in- In the United States, the govern- clude not only the cost of manufac- ment has claimed exclusive world- ture, but also any other costs of ap- wide rights to DOC as an AIDS treat- DC is an antiviral closely propriate use, including detection and ment, and licensed these rights to rdated to 001, which is management of side effects. For ex- Hoffman-LaRoche. We checked with a widely considered to be ample, the cost of using AZf must in- patent attorney, and learned that ne of the most promising new AIDS clude the cost of blood tests for patent rights are in fact highly geo- tfeatments. DOC may be as effective hematological toxicity, of transfusions graphical, and that it would probably as 001, and is currently undergoing when needed, and of the Western be entirely legal to manufacture DOC large-scale clinical trials sponsored by medical infrastructure which makes for medical use in many countries. In Hoffman-LaRoche. And DOC costs this technology available. But with addition, DOC can only be covered hundreds of times less than 001 to DOC, the management of toxicity by a "use patent" (the weakest of all manufacture, meaning patents), since the that its potential cost, chemical has been pennies a day, is within commercially available reach of every person in ; and has been know for the United States, and of over 20 years. A use every government in the patent for a drug is vi- world. olated only at the time About two years of ingestion. ago, DOC was found to In the United cause serious peripheral States, DOC was avail- neuropathy in some pa- able as an "under- tients, and therefore ground" drug over a many people gave up year ago, but few peo- on the drug. But now it ple used it because of appears that DOC may fear of its toxicity. The be effective in doses most serious side ef- much lower than were fect is peripheral neu- previously used, and ropathy, often noticed that at these low doses, first as pain in the feet. the toxicity may be rare, However, the new and easily manageable clinical trial is using a when it does occur. We very low dose, .01 mil- may not have an ulti- ligram per kilogram of mate answer until the body weight three current large-scale trials times a day. This dose are completed; these trials are expect- consists largely in not exceeding the is less than a quarter of what the U.S. ed to take two years. But at least 300 proper dose, and stopping the drug "underground" has been using even people have so far taken DOC in clin- immediately if neuropathy does de- recently, which itself is much less ical studies--and others have used velop (treatment may be resumed than the doses which caused serious "underground" DOG-and there ap- later at lower doses). The manage- side effects in the first clinical trials, pears to be enough information avail- ment of toxicity, therefore, has little before it was known how little of the able now to make practical decisions. or no economic cost. And this drug chemical was effective. This .01 Since most of the world's people with does not require the expensive infr- dose-which has enough preliminary HIV have no access to treatment be- tructure of Western medicine; instead, eVidence for efficacy that a major cause of economic obstacles, a drug it might be delivered through the tra- corporatiop is will ing to test it in

32 ourTWEEK November 12,1989 hundreds of people-is so low that for persons of average weight, a single gram of DDC will last for well Anal Warts, Fissures, over a year. [III' In the U.S., both DDC and DDI COMMUNITY Hemorrhoids have sold for about the same price, about $30,000 per kilogram. For DDI, HEALTH treated in minutes this price translates to hundreds of dollars a month. But DDC is used in P ROJ'ECT with Lasers such small doses that it usually costs . under 10, cents a day. (Note: the DDC which has been on peoples' • Call for a FREE CONSULTATION " with a Male or Female Board'Cer- shelves for the last year or more may tified Surgeon or Gastroenterologist. have deteriorated, and must be test- • We successfully treat all rectal ed before ·use.) problems with LASERS in our mod, The official trials of DOG. will 208 West 13th Street ern offices-without surgery. Eve. & probably' take at least two years to Sat. appointments avail. New York, N.Y. 10011 • Laser Benefits: No Pain! No Bleed- complete. Meanwhile, the AIDS com- 212/675.3559 ing! Fast return to normal activities. munity may want to develop DOC as No hospital stay. a treatment for those who have no _~ • Insurance Plans accepted. other option. The whole continent of ~ Africa has: been written off, ign.ored in '. ~ Laser Medical Assoc. . drug-development decisions because WILLIAM B'.DeBONIS D.D.S. Jeffrey E. Lavigne. M.D. Fel/ow International Col/ege of Surgeons it cannot pay what U.S.. companie·s. . Quality, Personal Dentistry" OFFICES: UPTOWN: 7 East 68th St. N.Y.C .• 704 . DOWNTOWN, 5 Broadway. N.Y.C .• want to charge for their drugs. Within Suite QUEENS: 23-91 Bell Blvd .• Bayside. the U.S.; minority groups are also 200 \Vest 57th Street . WESTCHESTER: 697 Central Ave .• Scarsdale. likely to: be written off-and many JIlew·Yor~ New York 10019 people from all social classes who. . (212)333-2~5~.. Call: 1·800·MD·TUSCH cannot use AZT will fall through the: Office HoW's A mtment Oni I 'cracks of the DDI trials and ~::If::ll1f>l~ I. ,i access system. _U,U, ._. TeJevisiiin.That Matters to the DOC might be as good a treat- , ment as ,any that exists today; .and it is- " readily available and the~e are no Le~biail snd Gay Community. economic barriers t~ its use. But it is also dangerous, and successful ways of using it will not happen automatically; they must be systematically de- velopeq. In different countries, for example" the drug would need to be (auriN TI(E80s J integrated differently into existing ", ... health systems. News • Interviews • AIDS Updates, , . We published this article to point out the,se possibilities. We call on development experts, AIDS organizations and others to examine new systems fpr providing state-of-the-art Tuesday Nights Ilpm-12midnite treatment now, without waiting for bureaucracies to move, for corpora- Manhattan & Paragon Cable tions tp find profit, for the time re- . qu!red.for national health care to be Channel C/16 established, or for a Western medical infrastructure, to be created where it does npt noy,r exist. Reprinted by permission of AIDS Treat~ent.News, P.O. Box 411256, • San Francisco, CA 94141 .• GAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM

November 12. 1989 OUTTWEEK 33 Anaheilll Journal REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK Learning ,Homophobia .Commie Pinko Fags and the Radical Right

by Andrew Krastins don't want to have to pay for 'em." there was the man who plans to sell One speaker solemnly warned his seminars and videos on the occult to audience that Americais "on the veJge

34 OUT'YWEEK November 12, 1989 doers (a la -Jew bankers" of old); clas- ridiculous. But slapstick in real life is sic ·anti-Semitism slightly altered. And no laughing matter, least of all in the the "liberal press" is blamed for the realm of politics where millions of ~~yearseve closure of a Christian AIDS hospice by lives can be directly affected. PAC K AGE Long Beach, CA health officials. The reason that political homo- 2 nights only Sad violin music is played when phobia is raging with such intensity Sunday, December 31 and Monday, january 1. Third night lWIIilllbk for SSO.OOplus hu. Christian AIDS patients are shown. Old these days is two-fold. AIDS comes to science fiction movie music is played mind immediately. But I ·think AIDS is when any sort of gay activism is depict- more a pretext than a root cause. ed. And the whole video is a succes- For the last 40 years, the main sion of blatantly manipulative images vehicle for extreme right-wing agita- and juxtapositions, a lengthy piece of tion was virulent anti-communism. vulgar, hate-mongering propaganda. But massive political climate changes What kind of minds can produce between the West and Eastern Europe Single this kind of thing? Political homopho- has destroyed the usefulness of 50 56 bia Sheldon-style can be summarized demons upon which many Americans $97 $112 per night per night as follows: had grown dependent. No more com- (2 nights only) (2 nights only) "Militant homosexuals, though munists under the bed. A void needs Includes f; • I~oom .lnd t.)XPl'Tnight. their numbers are tiny, control vast to be filled. • Fulll:trl'.,kf.lst w/Bloodv Marvor Mimos.l. amounts of money and secretly dic- So political homophobia promis- All nll'nu itl'm"'l'X(l'pt for Stl't1k .,·nd Egg!'>. (J.m. J) 1 • Contim'nt.ll brl'.,kf.lst on .l(comp.mying morning. I tate the decisions of many important es to be the commie-hunting and the • Split or (h.,mp"f:n,·. (0..'':' ]1) politicians. They have a sinister hid- Jew-baiting of the 90s. And the most • P.uty (cwors in room. (Dl"(, 31) den agenda to destroy ~eligion and likely result will be an increasing flur- l-i>rrL'sl'rl'afi,,,/s. caI/1-8IJIJ-842-345IJ subvert the, United States government. ry of mean-spiritedness and outright "We real Americans and uphold- demagoguery focused at local and CHANDLER• INN ers of traditional values have been county levels throughout the nation. Inn Town Bed & Breakfast pushed out of power and made sec- Under the guise of affirming tra- 26 Chandler at Berkeley, 8oslon, MA 02116 (617) 482·3450 ond class citizens by a cadre of evil ditional values, right-wingers will at- B· O'S' T·O·N government insiders, the liberal press, tempt to publicly show their power international financial wheeler-deal- by enforcing conformity, mirroring in ers, secular humani~, who control all their intent the various "English only" New York the public schools, and homosexuals. measures .adopted throughout the na- We want to get even." tion as a vent for resentment against Characteristic of right-wing agita- recent immigrants. tors and their followers is a compul- In some less than coherent re- sion to don the trappings of an intel- marks Sheldon made on Oct. 7, he told lectual and social respectability which his Orange County audience to keep down deep they feel really is not up its anti-gay battle because "this is theirs, and of which they are pro- our turf." A revealing phrase indeed. foundly envious. Right-wing politicians are not sim- Hence a "West Coast Symposium ply obsessed with homosexuality, they Charming, Newly Renovated on Homosexuality and Public Policy are rapidly growing dependent on it. Brownstone Conveniently Implications," as if it were an Ivy just as in the 50s right-wing political located in Chelsea League meeting of minds. Hence also opportunists with little real interest or • All Rooms Have the orgy of pseudo-academic prose, skill in the day-to-

November 12. 1989 OUT'YWEEK 35 !Food for Thought

by Harry Wieder especially those serving the disabled no longer severable, not even with a were not addressing the needs of par- blow torch. Psychologists with brains ticular constituencies within them. would say that that merging is healthy, I They were too busy looking at the particularly since it is done in a cli- ! it back. Relax. Drink your bigger pictures-not pretty sights in mate which makes bigotry towards i coffee. Eat you, Ixeakfa~. themselves. Still, one cannot talk gays and lesbians chic. Read about the i'S Work will overwhelm you about disablism without talking about punks who attacked two men in soon enough. racism, sexism, etcetera-and vice- Tompkins Square Park with lacrosse Right now, though, I just want versa. One cannot advocate for the sticks. Observe the roasting of Barney you, the thousands of OutWeek read- disabled unless one includes all who Frank. Talk to Jim Courter, who is run- ers nationwide, to get to know me. are disabled. The frustrations of multi- ning for governor in New Jersey. For a reason. ple minority members in Ms. McMur- Which leads me squarely to men- I am' a para paretic dwarf who ray's article had a profound affect on tion at length the bullies in our legis- ambulates with the noisi- latures who in the cloak est pair of crutches in of. goodness and protec- New York. Fine. I am also tiveness are torturing and a playwright and, I be- ostracizing some of the lieve, a damn good one. best people America has Never have I been verbal- to offer. ly abused, thank God, Here are three noto- never have I been physi- rious examples: cally attacked. I have al- 1) The New York ways felt protected. State Senate with its Re- Indeed, once upon a publican majority had time, when I was a been contemplating the teenager, bullies in my passage of the Hate neighborhood decided Crimes Bill making physi- that they were going to cal assaults against certain befriend me, help me classes of individuals on cope, live, become inde- the basis of their identities pendent. They were not a felony, rather than a going to allow any out- misdemeanor. These sider to harass me. Out- classes include race, reli- side meant anyone: neigh- gion, gender, disability bor, stranger, relative, and sexual orientation. In friend; harass meant: any- . other words, if you punch thing: invite me to a Photo: n. Lltt a Black man because he movie, play, talk, whatever. They my view of civil rights, yet somehow, moved into your all-white neighbor- threatened to punch out anyone who to me, these minority members were hood, that is a felony. The fine and came near me. They were going to be "others," not I. I was not Black and I jail term are more severe than if you my guardian angels. Just what I need- felt removed. Until three years ago. punched your best friend, even if he ed, right? So I said to them, "Bye-bye, Three years ago, at the ripe old were of a different race, for calling I don't want you'" age of 33, I came out of the closet. you stupid. About ten years later, on April 6, Sexually. I am gay. Actually I, a dwarf The measure never passed. 1977, a New York Times Op-Ed piece using crutches, am sexual-a revela- Republicans in the Senate indicat- by Georgia McMurray entitled "A Mi- tion in and of itself. I get erections. I ed that it would have passed had sex- nority Inside a Minority" detailed how happen to love men. My life as a gay ual orientation been taken out, even children who were Black and dis- man has merged with my life as a dis- though sexual orientation accounts abled were not getting their proper abled man so that I have become a for the highest proportion of bias education and health care because whole new product-vibrant, very po- crimes in New York State. major institutions serving Blacks and litical, determined. My two selves are 2) In Congress, an amendment to

36 OUTTWEEK November 12. 1989 .~, an appropriations bill spearheaded by such behavior be moral? No! No! No! need of accessible, affordable housing Queen Bully himself, Senator Jesse If these legislators are trying to place and transportation, let alone non-dis- Helms of North Carolina, mandates a wedge between persons with discrimination in employment and else- that the National Endowment of the abilities and gay men and lesbians, where. The gay community recog- Arts be prohibited from funding ex- they will not succeed Omagine such a nizes that. So does the disabled hibits which display any form of wedge between the disabled and community. sadomasochism-never mind the fact Blacks or women and Jews). Indeed We in the disabled community· that the crucifix is an instrument of we share some issues together-the will eventually get all that is right. torture-homoeroticism or denigra- Sharon Kowalski tragedy, domestic You can count on that. But none of tion of objects or beliefs of adherents partnership needs, Medicaid cutbacks, us will win unless all of us will win. of a particular religion or non-religion to name just a few. Persons with Yes, we can wait. (Sigh!) (i.e. Communists?) or that which "den- AIDS, many of whom are gay, are But don't expect us to be quiet. igrates, debases or reviles a person, persons with disabilities. Many are in You can go to work now. ... group or class of citizens on the basis of race, creed, sex, handicap or national origin.· Let us forget that I, a disabled playwright, for whatever reason, may one day want to write a lacerating ex- NeT VE amination of certain types of persons with disabilities, yet may be restrained by the bill from doing so, the fact is, Jesse Helms has never been a champion of civil rights. Exactly the opposite. Check for yourself. For him sud- denly to use civil rights language as a shield for tyranny and bigotry gives cynicism a while new definition. 3) The Americans with Disabili- ties Act, a long-awaited bill expanding civil rights for the disabled, including those who test positive for the HIV • virus, to include the concept of access and non-discrimination virtually everywhere in the private sector, ex- IT MAY BE AUTUMN ... en cludes from the definition of disability homosexuality and bisexuality as well .:.BUT WHY LEAVE THE BEACH? t- as pedophilia, pyromania, kleptoma- FULLY RENOVATED APARTMENTS ... nia and others. Not that gayness is a Z disability. Or bisexuality. They aren't. ... IN THE ART DECO DISTRICT In the early 70s, the psychoanalytic u.J community wisely but belatedly elimi- PERFECT FULL TIME RESIDENCES ... nated 'homosexuality as a mental dis- order. But to put into words the ex- ... OR THE BEST IN AFFORDABLE SECOND HOMES. clusion of homosexuality in an otherwise superb piece of legislation and to lump it together in print with behavioral conditions which are clearly anti-social are so heinous as to in- 1520 Euclid Avenue duce catatonia. The above three are examples Miami Beach, where legislators in their sado- FL 33139 masochistic zeal to shackle the gay community are really holding the disabled community and others hostage VINTAGE to their bigotry. Must the disabled beg PROPERTIES (305) 534-1424 for what is obviously right? No! Would

November 12, 1989 OUT~WEEK 37 t I I o CONTROL ~ o~

Commentary by Susie Day even if you hadn't told me, Tom, the 10 Room Inn delicate herbs and spices that so poet- Piano Bar If you have lots of social con- ically adorn your little tube would sciousness but almost no money, have said it all. Somehow, they re- & Restaurant chances are good that you are a les- minded me of what it is like to be 135 Gough Street bian. Having no money is not our perceived as an artificial additive to, San Francisco, California ~4102 fault, of course; it's the System. Capi- rather than a natural product of, West- .415-621-0896 talism hates us. It won't rest until we ern Civilization. (I was there a long each live in a modern, dependable time, Tom. I had to think of some- ranch-style home with a hubby who thing). Then I started to muse on the drinks, five kids-three of whom are cruel irony embedded in a culture bedwetters-and a broken down May- that allows its toothpastes made with tag. Straight white liberals who do natural ingredients to be priced two well in the System know this and feel to three times higher than those with guilty. This is where we as lesbians the enthotryocephalinchloride-6 and move in to hasten Capitalism's demise. colors that could only be the result of I have here a modest example: a nuclear accident. I couldn't help thinking, what with Gay Pride and all, A' Dear Tom, that-as a natura~ gotta-be-me les~ Just thought I'd drop you a line bian in my own right-I, too, ought WOMfliEWS to let you know how deeply affected to be worth just a little more. I, as a lesbian, am by your toothpaste. So I was wondering, Tom. Since We lesbians are pretty much invisible you seem to be a real sensitive, highly- DArtCE! to the world, as you must know. evolved, liberal type of guy; and since at CIRCOS MflXlMOS That's why it was such a comfort for I'm oppressed; and since you make 99 2nd Street (between First Avenue & Avenue A) me, as I sat in my bathroom the other two to three dollars extra on every day, to come across your bold yet tube of your toothpaste, why don't NOVEMBER 18th, 1989 caring note on the back of Tom's you send me, say, 20 to 30 percent of Toothpaste. I felt as if I'd found an your net profits before taxes, on a reg- DJ "JC" from old friend. ular, quarterly basis? That's little JUMPCUT PRODUCTIONS I, too, am committed .to "natural, enough to help the world recover it's Will Spin sensible products.» I, too, seek to pH balance, isn't it?My best to Kate. avoid "artificial preservatives.» But Your friend, Susie

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.•. The· Seduction of Monika As Seduction: The Cruel Woman Re-opens in New York,

·Director; Monika Treut Talks Abol,lts S&M, Politics and Her /~, .' Next Offering . t···; .' .

)- > •• .":. By Catherine ~aalfield ';/ . ~Yo"lf'lIknow who I am when you come into the cafe because I wear all black,·, she said. That in itself might not have hel~d since we were me<;:ting on the Lower East Side, but t / . ¥&nika Treut was rather unmistakable. Straight blond hair /' /pulled tightly back across her head. A cigarette in her hand (the F ,. w90le time). Black nail polish on every nail. :; ,.1 This is a woman who wrote· her PhD on the Marquis de I;;' ..Sage and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. . i,:/..;" dyke who moves as easily between New York and her ,.h·omebase Hamburg as she does between speaking English and " / German. . A self-defined "movie maniac." .',' This is the 'woman who brought us Virgin Machine. And, five year~...earlier, she wrote, produced and directed Seduction: The·Cruel Woman (with Elfi Mikescl)). Here to scope o,ut loca-· tions find actors for her new feature film, which will be 'shot "h~rlin April and May of next year, her visit coincides W!th the .' rirrelease of Seduction which opene~ last week at .the ~Ieecket .. )s.~eet .Cinema. /. OUTTWEEK. November 12. 1989

I When it debuted in Germany at the Berlin Film Festival in everyday opiniQn on masochism. Normall~ you think, 'okay 1985, Seduction caused a .pndal because of its unapologetic the masochist is the weak part, the sadist is the strong part:" and complicated masochi~ic content; a deep blue fantasy in One wonders, where did we really ~et the idea that ·s" which the dominatrix bor~s of her male slaves and engages in and -m- go together, and that they mean 'Certain things? Hav- taboo activities with herl female lovers. West Germany's right ing written that PhD, Treut knows that "de Sade and Sacher- wing Minister of the Interior vetoed its funding after the sup- Masoch have nothing to do with each With Caren (a shoe fettishist) and a jeal- subconscious feeling and think it was about violence. So they ousy ·thing-includi 'g role switching-with Justine (played by are scared. I think th~ film's exac1ty the contrary of fascism . 1 • New Yor~ filmma, er Sheila McLaughlin). beca\1SC;in it you. can ,e what is a real violent thing, what is a "'f~en ~ou ~r a dominatrix, you are sometimes very game, what are the pOssibilities for people to escape from an lonely, ~ery sad I . Wanda's on top of it and when you are slm game. I have a very deep sympathy for slm people, espe- on top, \you as . po is here with me. There's nobody there. cially undergrou~ s/ro people, because they have the highest Caren is!from, Qother, different world. She lives there in her consciousness ~?( violence since for them it's all consensu- shoe. st~re an 1he's bourgeois, and she tells Wanda to lead a al. They are Playing very safe with submission and domi- norrqa.1 ife,; qich Wanda can't do. Bourgeois 'people are per- it nance. ", fect wi harin'g fetishes af)d fantasies and ~v~rything, but they ThZ cond reason she provides mayor may not affect consider theq\selves to be quite normal. The moment some- audien s here because our expectations for juicy genital con- body k19~ld/ShOW up in leather they would say, 'Ooh!' But at tact 'nd lots of abuse, aren't heightened by the Berlin contro- home t:;Y !~ve all kinds of fetishes around." v,rsy. ·They told us that the film's not at all erotic,' she recalls. T~t ;s fascinated and obsessed with different lifestyles in ,JfThey expected that in a scandalous movie about 'sado- Germ or {and the U.S. In Virgin Machine, a character from masochism they would see real intercourse. They expected to Germ~nYRends up hanging out with Susie J3right in th~ Castro, see a (lorn film, which Seduction is not at all because it deals jUst~I' e. reut did. "Different people ad9ress themselves to with masochistic fantasies. Actually, it's motives are based on specia Sf bjects like sex and love with different perspectives. Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the Austrian Euro 1$ very traditional and people neep more time to open a1,!thdt.That's the term masochism ...there's just an 'ism' behind up. w~at I like in America is that the superficial way ~f behav- his n,me." ior is ind of relaxing, faster, more open. People are more treut's staunch feminism emerges in the way that the film open t, you on the streets, like Susie Sexpert [Susie Brightl. In diverges from that book's narrative. She doesn't want a lot of Virgin, she talks to you. No way to find a person Ii~e ~is, in credi\ going to men for teaching women how to do "it.- "We Euro~. She's very American for me, Susie, in a very good tried to keep one structure from that novel which is the classic masochistic relationship between a man and a woman, Wanda :a:,' tfer~:::;~oso:a~~~~~;u~~::,~~~u ~~~nl~n~kt~~~~ 1 and. Gregor, their names from the novel,· she explains. ·But like t~i~ would do it. But not normal people, they never do;' dillnged it all completely. In the novel, the man is the w, this. that I like a lot." I ~ired~r of the whole story, so he is the masochist who tries to n Virgin, the character is searching for her mpther. B~t educite the woman to become a dominatrix. In the film, we whe, ~he gets to San Francisco, she drops that qutst for 6ne had the dominatrix just there. That's completely against' the which: has more to do with "romantic love." This i$ ¢e "holy .Ii' f I/ 42 . OUTTWEEK November 12. 1989 i .. f ' I 'J, I J I lesbian rule" that Treut teases out in the film: "I made fun of phone to her tit while she's talking to show how much she American structures in a way because you have this mother loves "tit torture"). image in the first part to get her over to San Francisco. She's Both Demech and Sprinkle will be in Treut's new film. overwhelmed by her experiences there. Susie Sexpert says to "The working title is Success because it deals with another her, 'Why are you looking for your mother, you're a grown up sickness of human beings, that is to say, to make it in the girl, you don't need to look for your mother, just look after world, to make it in society, and in the arts. The lead character yourself.' In Germany she's reading books, doing very tradi- is a German actress and she came to New York to make it in tional reasearch and she doesn't get anywhere with that So the ~o~ie industry here, and she is a big failure. The film here she does lively, real research with real people. The tradi- starts when her father arrives from a small town in Bavaria to tional way to do things like mummy's told you doesn't work see her because he's worried about what's going on with his and all of a sudden she feels I don't need the traditional way, I only daughter. He gets mixed messages from her and he sees don't need mommy. So this is a kind of freeing of the self to that she's changing her address constantly. He is worried that do something new, to experience something new for herself." she has married a man, so he doesn't know what's going on." Shellie Mars has this great scene in Virgin, doing male She gestures a lot to represent what an idiot he is. impersonation and a strip tease. !-tow Treut finds characters "What actually happens is that she married a gay man, like this is a funny story. It's actually the gen~sis for that entire because of immigration, to get a green card. Along the way, film. Treut beams when she says, "The first time I was in San Franslsco was"for the Les- bian and Gay Film Festival in 1985, and believe it or not the first night there I met nearly everybody who is in Vi~in. I was supposed to stay only for a couple of days but because I met all those people, like Dominique and her sister, Susie Sexpert, and all the women from On Our Backs at the opening party, I decided to stay for three weeks living at the magazine's office." This is a smart pattern for low-budget filmmakers. You find people on the street and make connections. And Treut loves working with what she calls, ·original people," or "naturals." In her new film she will only use "naturals," adding," American naturals are for me the best. In In. Blum .nd Susie Bright in Virgin Machine this city [New York) especially there are just natural actors allover the place." In fact she you see her auditioning for some independent film produc- has made two short films each .of which focuses on a "natu- tions in New York and you see the father slightly opening up. ral": Bondage, with slm dyke Carol Demech, and Annie, with He's more like the conservative guy, he's a teacher in Latin porn star Annie Sprinkle. Both played in the New York Les- and history. He's a very Germanic person." , bian and Gay Experimental Film Festival in September. The presence of Demech and Sprinkle in Success, points It was, in fact, not long after Treut arrived in the. U.S. further to the kind of collaboration process which Treut cham- that she met Demesh and Sprinkle and began working on the pions. Not only in her use of spontaneity and "originality," but films. She came in the early 80s with a small grant to make a also in her production process, Treut represents the need and documentary on "women's culture" in New York. She possibility for women independents to share the burden of remembers, "I was kind of lost. My English wasn't very good. production and protect each other along the way. Reflecting I had my PhD [called The Cruel Woman} on de Sade and on her collaborative work with Elfi Mikesch (they have a joint Sacher-Masoch and I was living at that time in an slm rela- production company called Hyena Films), she says, "I rely on tionship with a woman from Holland. So I tried to contact close co-working with Elfi. You don't find this very often, and the LSM [Lesbian Sex Mafia) group in New York." The meet- it's special because we've worked together for five years now. ings were so interesting and different for her than lesbian She's doing the cinematography for the next film, like she did groups in Germany that she asked Demech, a member of the in the. others. This is a very different way for women to protect group, to be her subject for Bondage. (My personal favorite themselves in this hard and harsh and cruel world of the film scene in the film is when Demech clips the video micro- business." • November 12. 1989 OUT ... WEEK 43 "We're a football choir, not a golf choir," Chas. Bennett Brack told the audience at St. Clement's Church, encouraging us to join in and clap or stomp whenever we like, rather than saving polite applause for an appropriate moment. And with that, the choir kicked off with a rousing rendition of the inspirational piece, "Revive Us Again," opening last week's benefit performance by Lavender Light: The Black and People of All Colors Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir. And in no time, the audience was enthusiastically keeping time to the stirring sounds of a unique gospel choir that not only seeks to keep alive the tradition of gospel music in an environment supportive of lesbians and gays, but also to provide information about AIDS to people of color. Lavender Light did not begin with such a booming voice or such big plans. The idea for the choir grew out of Chas. Bennett Brack's and Lidell Jackson's involvement with the advocacy group Men of All Colors Together (MACT). "Every big event that MACf had, all the Blacks would get together, and somehow, we always ended up singing spiri- tuals or gospels," Brack says. Brack and Jackson both grew up in churches, but according to Brack, they "left the church because of the discrimination against lesbian and gay people. It's one of the only places where you there was a definite need for education." can be that flamboyant and gregarious, To answer this need, Lavender Light but you have to be in the closet. You developed a program called "Please can be the biggest sissy that ever hit the Touch Somebody ...Right Now." The pro- face of the earth, as long as you don't ject aims to bring information about say 'I'm gay.'" AIDS to New York City's Black and His- Their dream of creating a choir for panic communities throughout the five lesbians and gays was cemented further boroughs, during programs that feature when, in 1984, Brack ran into music inspirational music and brief presenta- director Tony Teal at laGuardia Airport. tions by representatives of color from WEI Teal had worked with several church the Department of Health's AIDS Educa- choirs and had been the organist at tion Unit. The program is helped by a Brack's church on Chicago's south side $42,000 grant from the U.S. Conference years earlier. Teal was enthusiastic about of Mayors. the idea as well, and by the spring of This is a classic example of an LIG 1985, Lavender Light was making music. important function of gospel music: its As AIDS continued to take its toll on organizing ability. "That goes back to the African-American and Latino commu- when gOspel music was used during nities in the following years, members of slavery time and during the civil rights GOSPEL WITH Lavender Light saw an additional purpose movement," points out Sojourner for their music: education and informa- McCauley, a facilitator for the group. "It's by Mar tion. «AIDS organizations are predomi- always been a thing that's brought peo- nantly gay white male," Brack points out. ple to meetings." AIDS education has "But upwards of 50 percent of people since become an integral part of Laven-· with AIDS are people of color. And der light'S message, and is included in churches were not addressing this. So detailed bilingual pamphlets handed out 44 OUTTWEEK November 12,1989 that's where most of the members ran from in the beginning," agrees McCauley, "only because they had to , choose between their blackness and their gayness, and whether or not they believe in hellfire and brimstone." The group is concerned, however, with preserving the authenticity of the music and its African-American roots. But being true to one's roots can be tricky, especially given that Lavender Light's membership includes African- Americans, Latinos and whites from several religious backgrounds. Many of these people were not raised in a gospel church, and singing gospel doesn't come automatically. Because gospel is not a subject widely taught, Teal is frequently on his own in developing effective instruction, and he receives much credit from the group for cultivating the sound of lavender Light. "I think the hardest part is getting people to sing it and to sing it right," comments Brack. "And that was difficult for some of our members, when Tony would say 'you're singing it too white-I don't want a European sound, this isn't European music. Sing it like 'Black people. '" Another byproduct of the diversity of Lavender Light is conflict derived form issues of racism, sexism, ageism and internalized homophobia. To deal with this, Sojourner McCauley, who is a at each performance. social worker, carries the title of Resi- Lavender Light has received count- dent Facilitator. "Lavender Light is a less enthusiastic welcomes from audi- microcosm of the gay and lesbian com- ences in New York, as well as munity," she says. "And by nature of Washington 6.c. One recent perfor- that, all those 'isms' that exist in the out- mance that is often mentioned, however, side world are blown up into greater was at Project Return, a rehabilitation proportion. Do we struggle with it program for drug addicts in the Bronx. everyday? Yes." The group had been somewhat appre- "It sometimes makes it difficult,"Brack ~DER hensive about performing for the pri- agrees. "But with Sojourner's 'help and marily heterosexual audience, according everyone's commitment, people stay'in." to Brack. He said it was like going to the The commitment is evident in the Apollo Theater. But their fears were powerful and inspired voices that fill the allayed as soon as they began singing. rafters of Saint Clement's Church. As the HT "The audience absolutely went off," says audience appreciatively sways, claps and McCauley, "They were so excited, they stomps their feet, it's also evident how gave standing ovations to every song!" this music can reach out to people. And EW MESSAGE "People didn't want us to leave," with AIDS education now a priority for adds Frank Rosario. "They actually Lavender Light, reaching out has never hesnut blocked the aisles!" been more important. ~ While they are generally pleased Lavender LJgbfs- major fall concert with the reception they get when performing, Brack maintains thai they are will be Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7pm at the Friends Me(!ting House, 221, E 15th St. not looking for, or expecting, acceptance Admission'is $10. For information call from the mainstream Black churches. "We're not attached to a church because (71lJ) 624-1196 or (212) 222-9794. November 12. 1989 OUTTWEEK 45 We've known for a long time that rich dykes come out of the closet In a much different way than the rest of the lesbian nation.

And now the Hew YOlk Times has confirmed It. Lesbians above 57th Street come out In "style. II The process seems to Involve typical upper class rItualistic patterns: The young dyke realizes her sexual preference and tells her mother In one of those "woman-to-woman" discussions. They giggle, hug, even shed a few tears of Joy. Mom breaks the news to Dad, who couldn't be happier (no big wedding to pay for, you sec). Then Mom and daughter head for Saks Fifth Avenue, where they buy the "coming out" dress. Soon after, the real work begins-the photo session, the Invites, the reception hall, the caterers. (And of course someone's got to get a head shot and short blo to the Hew YOlk Times to run on the page each Sunday where they feature rich lesbians who've come out of the closet). Life truly Is about these special moments. -M.S.

46 OUT'YWEEK November 12. 1989 · . "......

Thc dismal truth Is that Skid Row, thc band pictured herc In Metal Edge magazine, Is now at number 10 on thc Billboard charts with Its dcbut album. And as you can sec, lead slngcr Scbastlan Bach has a problcm which compcls him to wcar a T-shirt that reads -AIDS Kills FagsDead- (and Metal Edge magazlnc has a problcm which cOfl1)cls thcm to rcproducc such garbagc In thclr publication). Anothcr Intcrestlng tldbltt Skid Row was slgncd by Atlantic Rccords' Ahmct Ertcgun, a largc contributor to AIDS organizations. (Shades of thc Bucklcys?) And GLAADILA has gladly given us thc addrcss and tclcphonc numbcr of Ertcgun whom they'd IIkc you to volcc your opinion tOt Mr. Ahmct Ertcgun, Chairman, Atlantic Rccords, 15 Rockefcllcr Plaza, Ncw York, Ncw York 10019. --M.S.

November 12. 1989 OUT..-WEEK 47 UT OF O MV HANDS I

DearBrad: started dialing and the' next thing I maybe you know somebody who I used to think your column was 'knew I was being 'brusquely escorted resembles me. Do you? a fake. I mean, that's what my friend out of the building. -Fugitive Ron told me when we were laughing From there on things got at the letter from that guy who thought stranger. I was about to pull into my Dear Fugitive: his dog was acting suspiciously. But driveway when I saw two uniformed God, you're so lucky! I always then something bizarre happened to police officers and a plainclothes wanted to have a twin (I always want- me and you're about the only person detective standing on my front porch ed to have a lover too, but fate appar- in the world who might possibly be so I kept driving. From a payphone ently holds a different plan for me). I able to help. You see, I came back to outside a 7-11 I called Clark at his thought we could have such fun pre- town after a three week vacation, job. He asked me where I was and tending to be each other and fooling slightly annoyed that Clark wasn't at when I told him he said he'd be right everybody at school and getting my the airport to meet me like he'd said over to meet me. I waited in my car parents back together ...well, that last he would. Once I finally gOt home and then I saw Clark's car pulling into part wouldn't have been too much fun and paid a hefty cab fare I phoned the parking lot-followed by two but you get the point. It would have Clark to find out what happened but patrol cars:"Despite a great deal of tire been especially helpful if he could there was no answer. I took my lug- screeching and gunfire I managed to have taken Phys. Ed for me. Oh, to be gage into the bedroom, thinking it was lose them and now I'm writing you· fair, I'd have gone to, say, his French strange that the whole house stank of from a motel room in a small town class in exchange or something like tobacco since I don't smoke, and way off the Interstate. I've had a lot of that but as it was I had to devise my noticed that the bed had been sloppily time to think about this and I sudden- own clever way out of that particular made. When I went to my next door ly remembered something my mother ordeal. I had this long talk with the neighbor'S to pick up my mail I was had said on her deathbed about my Phys. Ed. instructor and explained to going to ask, her if she had seen any- having a twin. At the time we sup- him that my life had been threatened body in my house while I was gone posed the medication had made her in the gym too many times and I didn't but the minute she opened her door delirious but noW I realize she must . think the school's already shaky repu- she slammed it again in my face and have experienced one last moment of tation could withstand a ghastly mur- told me to get off her property or else lucidity. Somewhere out there I have der. He seemed to understand in his she'd call the police again. a twin brother who obviously knows own athletic kind of way and, frankly, All night I never did get an of my existence and, crazed by a I think he was just as glad to have me answer from Clark so I called a couple need for revenge, he has plotted to out of there. We worked out this of my friends but they all hung up the destroy my life, quite successfully. Of arrangement whereby I would write a phone as soon as they heard my voice. course, who on earth is going to weekly essay about different kinds of The next day I went to work and dis- believe some evil-twin-story? I need sports and though he didn't quite covered that the 'nameplate had been to find this person and somehow expect the papers I submitted on jai removed from my office door and my force him to make a full confession alai and synchronized swimming he desk had been cleaned out. My boss but I don't even know where to begin still gave me full credit for the course. walked· by and saw me in my office looking. You strike me as a popular I guess what I'm trying to say is that and said she was calling security if I kind of person so I'm enclosing a people can get themselves out of diffi- wasn't off the premises in 30 seconds. I photograph of myself (I'm the one on cult situations by using a little ingenu- started to ask her what was going on the left wearing the sweater and that's ity and not expecting somebody else but she picked up the telephone and Clark on the right) in the hope that to come along and help them. I bet if you'd try thinking for yourself you'll come out of this pickle with a stronger sense of self-reliance.

Confidential to You Know Who You Are: Don't worry. Believe me, I wouldn't give you the satisfaction. ~

48 OUTYWEEK November12, 1989 tion, over the heady rise of this paper's 'fables of Content' fund-raiser." society pillar, William Norwich." And I'm now asking you r:eaders I am delirious that Billy is getting to pay good money to dine with him at a little press (but, of course, not as the home of my boss, whose ass I also much press.as I get). must lick in order to keep this tired column goin~. "Surviving minor knocks and the biting of a few gnats, I see Billy "Way to go, young Billy!" prominently featured in Gael Greene's Billy, I told you over a year ago recent New York piece on the popular- when I ripped you apart in my column ity of 150 Wooster St., appearing and embarrassed you back into By Michelangelo Signorile among the grandees in Morocco in place-after you had gotten up some Vanity Fair, and chatting it up with spunk for a few fleeting moments and Claudia Cohen in the pages of actually tried to expose my good friend Harper's Bazaar." Calvin Klein in your column-that if Well, it's seems to have become a Sure, Billy's been totally exposed you just played by the rules, wonderful full-scale war of words. For the uniniti- by "biting gnat" Signorile as a spine- things would happen for you! And ated, last week James Revson less, self-hating homophobe, but at now I'm giving you a pat on the back (Newsday) came to the aid of Pat and least his postage-stamp size photo is to keep you in line and to reward you Bill Buckley, defending the for not buckling under when homophobic hypocrites-as that "gnat" Signorile attacked well as fellow Buckley ass kisser you. I will always protect you, William Norwich (Daily young Billy! (This could be you News)-from attacks Michael too, dear "gnat," if you'd just Musto (Village Voice) and I had play by the rules.) launched on them. That skir- mish brought the fighting out "The most important and into the mainstream press, interesting of charity happen- where the Buckleys-with ings has to be Pat Buckley and Revson coming to their aid or Peggy Fleming's 'Skating for , not-would certainly rather not Life' AIDS happening on Nov. see it. 6, a week from tomorrow." Now, on the following The most hypocricital event Sunday (Oct. 29), self-hating of the decade has to be the AIDS Liz Smith (Daily News) party organized by the fascist'S launched what will go down as better half, Pat Buckley, and the "The Battle of the Gnats." famed skating star of the 70s, (And for those of you who Peggy Fleming. This transpar- ~ ..~4."'U'~" have said "enough is enough" A COUPLE OF GOOD SKATES, PE'gg( Fleming (I.) and Pat Bu"kl~y. lead AIDS !)erleflt. ent do is a benefit-for William about Liz, I'm sorry. She should F. Buckley's image. have stayed out of this one.) Of next to Dianne Brill's and 35 other course, Liz wrote her column entirely party idiots' in New York Magazine "Every name supporting this in codes. Though she's obviously in return for a thousand mentions effort is a winner, and the cocktail immensely frustrated and seems to which he gave to some nauseating reception with skating performance desperately want to come out full- restaurant and at least he's pictured with formal dinner-dance after in the speed ahead and rip me to shreds, Liz in Vanity Fair at the closet case's party Armory at Lexington Ave and 26th St. is trying feebly to get her points where they dragged sick people off the ISalmost sold out." across without publicly and openly streets for the night and put them in Most of the' names supporting addressing the issues (which, for her, jail so that the rich would not have to this event. are hypocrites, homo- are much too personal) and without view them, and at least he can be phobes, nightmares, closet cases mentioning my name. It's quite per- seen in Harper's Bazaar kissing up to and/or murderers and the skating verse, but, nonetheless, true. And, a tacky woman because she's also a rink is costing a fortune to install actually, hilarious! So, what follows is wormy goSsip columnist and is mar- inside the Armory just for this event, a "translation" of some of Liz Smith's ried to the richest man in New York. which is located in the middle of a October 29 column. (All of Smith's crack hotel neigborhood on seedy words are in quotes, while the transla- "And people are being asked to lower Lexington Ave. where we can tions are below them in italics.) pay good money to dine with him in gawk at starving children and walk the home of his publisher, Jim Hoge, on over the homeless (since, unlike "I am musing, with some satisfac- Dec. 5 for the New York Public library'S S.. GOSSIP WATCHon pall' 67

November 12, 1989 OUT ... WEEK 49 ,Social Terrorislll Photos by Erich Conrad T:

PIG MEETS WIG Lord,. Hog .nd The LAdy Bunny at Broadcast Arts Halloween party

FtJCK ME, AMADEUS Hlldel Hlcho/e .nd Matthew Kasten at Mars A DIFFERENT PAIR OF BAllS Sistei' Dlmcntlon at th'c Roxy SPEAKING IN TONGUES OutWeek publisher Kendall Morrison and friend Yann

WE ARE FAMILY Sc.ry people .t Mars LIZ SMITH LOOKALIKES /{amp .t the Roxy '0 -' THE GIRL MOST LIKELY TO SUCKCEED Lo/•• t the Roxy

'CHEESECAKE, ANYONE . Mr. Butler.t the Cop. ,.

FROG O· MY HEART B.rt.t BrOllda.t Art. H.lloween p.rty November 12.1989 OUrTWEEK 51 In thc 1970s, ncwly IIbcratcd gays wcrc stylishly vlslblc. Just as somc of them (not always Iconoclas- tically) doncd straight stcrcotypes, fashlonablc hctcroscxuals rcadlly adoptcd gaily tapcrcd shirts, tight dcslgncr Jcans and bikini briefs to thclr own sartorial agcndas. Sevcn- ties stylc was a reiatlvcly casy Intcr- action bctwccn straight and gay scnslblllty, proving If nothing clsc that bad (or for that mattcr good) tastc Is not ncccssarily related to sexual proclivity. In the 1980s, as AIDS unjustly altered public perception of gays (as well as gay perception), gay visibility got, proverbially and morc and more often literally, a black cye. What started as, at best, a celebration of Individuality, became, at worst (and In too many cases)a cautious closing of closet doors. With gay bashing ris- Ing at an astronomical ratc, and little bclng donc to protect us, gay vlslbU- Ity Is no longer simply a matter of

Photo: Scott Morgan 52 OUT~WEEK November 12. 1989 f.

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.. ". . ~~ :,-', paganda agarnst II Congressional study that concluded sulddc among gays was prompted primarily by outside pressures; Including the gullt- Inducing teachings of Institutions like t", Baptist and Catholic church. McClcod went, on and on In a com- passionately whiny voice about how being homosexual was a slckn"ss that' could' be' reversed by coming) ': back to Jesus Christ; how he 'IOv~s,. , hOmosex~als but hates the sin thJt ,'; makes than sick, dc_ Darling G.mn:· went o";to claim !that his HollYwoOd homosexual friends were renouncing thelr'lIfestyies In droves. '.' / '.,. Wetat's Incredibly Interesting Is the one-time Captain Stublng's n~~ I~ok. McCleod, dressed In a white suit and:~14e, pink poly- satin ··tle, has developed a porcine figure and white hair: . around his balding p.te~·Ii; fact,: he resembles ·the latt,~J~mented' Divine, ,0ut,of:drClg. Vlsl~le dlf(er~ ences, Indeed! ~ . '_ , ","', Art The Excessive Eighties SM- color and form speak volumes about nance of post-modern Reagan-era the dislocation of this decade and aspi- capitalism are captured under the rations for a better future. harsh light of a bare lightbulb. Sharded edges of glass, unam- Stabbed five times, the represented biguous colors and a jarring image figure can be seen in terms of an indi- give power to Rick Prol's 1988 unti- vidual living in today's America-a by Jon Nalley tied work. His signature medium-a society bereft of couth or compassion wood window frame with glass-in that is literally ready to violate then this case could easily have been my spit out its own. In this painting exud- bathroom window when I lived on E. ing the spirit of Threepenny Opera, , ringing together 18 emerg- 12th between 1st and Avenue A. Prol gives expression to feelings of ing artists, this' inventory Economic viol

the end of this dec- < comforting gentle- ade, Painters can be ness of the past are seen in the context of :1 seen in the works an aesthetic barome- ' of both Caroline ter of the 90s. The Ivester and Maddy myriad of influences Rosenberg. While and media seen Ivester craftfully here-products of ac- • I infuses harmonious celerated pluralism . interiors with a during the 60s, 70s richness of color and 80s-look as if and form recalling they will thankfully the work of Ma- follow us to the new ).' tisse, Rosenberg decade. ",',;( inc 0 r p 0 rat e s Adrian Kellard's Italianate motifs 1989 Blue Flowers suffused with gold- incorporates refer- en light and rich ences to the folk art I color into her still tradition and to Van life. Gogh, a painter who Bill Schiffer's has influenced him. In . work must be his usual medium of .. viewed in terms of heavy carved wood , common threads panels, shutters and with Malevitch's objects-painted with constructionist tra- vivid color-this r dition. His 1989 painting is in colors painting in relief, not of the 80s. <. utilizing shaped, Recently praised by cut-out and painted \ New York Times critic constructions, car- Michael Brenson for ( ries a keen sense his work in A Density of line and form. if Passions at the New ,., .,~,'~'-~,. • . ". of particular con- Jersey State Museum, RICK PROL Photo: n. Litt sequence is its cap- Kellard's very use of Untitl,d, oil on wood and glass ture of innocence

54 OUT~WEEK November 12. 1989 ~ lost within shapes, '< impatiently. This angles and col-" while the geometric ors-resulting abstractions of from interplay of painter and art critic dark and light--"'·'·'''-- "_ Robert Storr-in cir- areas and subtle ~.} •.... . des, arcs, squares use of shaded .. ,' ,11 and amorphous areas color. . of color-loudly as- In 1989's; sert the convergence Steel Frame Con- of influences found struction with in the art world as Skeleton Crew, we approach 1990. Roger Brown Notable for its compiles various texture and move- genres into a per-; ment, Benjamin Lie- spective on the pelt's Honeymooners alienation of ev- consists of precisely eryday people a- painted black and mid the turmoil of white geometric a SOCietyin search . abstractions, gener- of transition. His .. Photo: T.l. Lltt ated alternately as work gives voice (I.-r)GORDO~ GREEN, Untitled, 011 en Canvas; ALEXANDER KOS~LAPOV, Gorby. the swastika, the to a national com- sllkscreen 011 on canvas; BENJAMIN UEPm Honeymooners, 011 on canvas Native American munity which can only watch, not and Hirah, both acrylics on panel from Four Winds symbol and the ancient act. The figures passively lookiflg out 1989 are abstract works which can be symbol of the Buddhist religion. Peter windows in various states of reaction read either as landscapes, faces or nei- Drake's 1988 work Stave-an oil on are truly an American image and ther. Kahn's works explore what lurks board-is very rich in qualities of bespeak the contradictions of our beneath the veneer of civilization's energy and strength. Whether in its society which vacillates between trappings as a new milennium awaits depiction of primeval forests or mass indignant mobilization homoerotic representation, and the complicit license of Drake combines these images 1964's Kitty Genovese murder. into an isolated and immobi- On a good scale for her • Iized landscape. work, Judy Glantzman's 1989 How could such an exhi- untitled 24" X 48" oil on wood bition not include Gorbachev? ,swirls powerfully and emotion- > Gorby, a 1989 silkscreen and ally in vibrant color. Mean- oil on canvas by Alexander while, Lori Taschler's The Kosolapov-a conceptual artist Be~a 1989 oil on linen and j from the Soviet Union now liv- wood further brings to bear ing in New York-draws from the alienation of the 80s, the icon spirit of Warhol's Mao explored by the other artists in ~ and Marilyn. Further, the ruby Painters. In chartreuse, grey . red lips, exaggerated pink and ivory, Taschler exposes flesh, and bright aqua eyeshad-

the emptiness, loneliness and I ow found in this representation search for meaning by post- of the Soviet leader is reminis- industrial Americans--desper- cent of last year's irreverent ate to get beyond the brief portrait of Mayor Harold Chinese-food satisfaction of- ! Washington at the gallery of fered by material gain. the Art School of the Chicago In tabula rasa quality, . Institute of Art-and which Russel Sharon's group of land- I turned that city upside down. scapes in abstracted forms with Painters punctuates the muted colors which utilize paint culmination of today's conver- mixed with sawdust, stand out gence of influence and styles sharply in their serenity amidst and lets the viewer question the inherent turmoil of the other ~, "~ y.-hich direction, if any, we will artists' works. On the other ROGER BROWN Photo: T.l. Litt travel in the last decade of the hand, Toby Kahn's Kli-Eva" Steel Frame ConstnJction WithSkeleton Crew, oil on canvas twentieth century. 'Y

November 12, 1989 OUTTWEEK 55 Theater Kill!, Dig!, Bury!

play given no more depth than a things could only get better. If they piece of matzoh. Set in contemporary got any worse than this, they would England, which means that this 'com- have to turn the whole thing into a pany of Chicago-based actresses must performance piece about pain. speak in British accents for the full 90 Dig, Volley, Spikti is one of those minutes of the play, Dig, Volley, Spikti plays that, because it says it's about is a simplistic little tale of a group of women and because it's being per- women from disparate backgrounds , formed by a women's theater compa- coming together against great odds ny, brings out a lot of hopeful (mostly the men in their lives) and . dykes. Then it turns around and pre- by Marla Maggenti final1y succeeding at something. They sents female characters who are start out as underdogs and rise above mostly straight, mostly concerned don't know what it is about their station in life to become win- about their male partners in life and sports. Playing them is one thing ners. Sort of. Because the vol1eybal~ mostly still incapable of mentioning but writing a play about the game is the source and structure for menstruation without tittering in experienceI as though it were an easy everything that happens (and doesn't embarrassment. The press packet metaphor for the human says that the Footsteps condition is another. But Theater Company is dedi- what about women and cated to producing plays sports? What about a play which present women in that uses sports as a way to strong roles. But according explore the female experi- to playwright Penny ence? Wouldn't the sports O'Connor, female bonding angle be great? Oh yes and and ·strength" still centers let's make it a game you around periods, tampons, can simulate playing on body hair and unspoken stage-how about vol1ey- col1ective female anxiety ball? Great! And then we about success. There aren't can use the whole sweaty any real1y strong women in team thing as a way to this play because there isn't develop the idea of women any real strong dialogue; together-loving, laughing, nor is there anything about losing and laughing again. the story that is particularly And we can have one les- challenging, dramatic or bian, one repressed les- meaningful. Women are bian, one beleaguered presented mostly as girls housewife, one bad girl, with al1 the worst attributes one pious spinster and of coerced femininity-coy- they'll all get together and ness, lack of confidence, a through the game of vol- preoccupation with one's leyball; they'll learn so nTTEillNG IN EMBARRASSMENT looks, a preoccupation much about life and love LYnn,Mllgnllllit, lind Vitll D,nni. with one's reproductive and womanhood and ... happen) in the play, we are led to system and ambivalent feelings about Such is the trite plot Hne of Dig, believe that somehow what has hap- being competitive. Their alleged Volley, spilem, a superficial and inane pened to each individual through friendships with each other are based new play at the Rapp Arts Center. being on the team is somehow or on nothing but constant, chatty, small Using the -team experience" as an another going to help get her on talk and meaningless, vapid pseudo- attempt to build a story about female through life. Indeed, these characters insightful observations about the friendship and autonomy, Dig, Volley, have such dismal lives already and so world and volleyball. If only it were Sptl,el Instead reads as the worst little capacity to develop anything funnyl If only they'd decided to play Hollywood distillation of the female except superficial nosiness about each this one so straight (as it were) that it experience with every character in the other's business that it seems like s.. KILLI DIGI BURYI on plge 61

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LEFT STRANDED Photo: Johnathan Siaff Harris Serlinsky and Christopher Oden make the words he speaks believ- occasionally idles, and often sputters able-or unbelievable. An actor's suc- to a stop. cess often depends on the A coincidence of history had it appropriateness of. the images stirring that James Joyce, V.l. Lenin and his imaginationj the person most Tristan TZara, the founder of the responsible for feeding him the right Dadaist movemenL all lived in ones is the director. Zurich in 1917. In 1918, Joyce, was The production of Travesties now business manager for an amateur playing at the Jean Cocteau Repertory production of The Importance of by Michael PaUer suffers from engine trouble. To the Being Earnest, which featured an degree that the director Robert Hupp English consular official, Henry Carr, has found a style for Tom Stoppard's as Algernon. From these facts, frenetic meditation on art and artists, Stoppard has fashioned a highly styl- hree cylinders drive the it's the wrong one. The images he has ized artifice about style, artifice and engine of a play: 1) the helped most of his actors discover art. A cold electricity shoots through director's ability to give it usually convey neither the play's Travesties. The characters debate theT three-dimensional life it lacks on meaning nor the characters' inner what is art, who is an artist, what art paperj 2) the actors' techniquej 3) lives and intentions. Add to this the will last, what is the function of images. A skein of images should fact that much of the cast-seems tech- form. What the piece lacks in unwind like a film in an actor's mind nically unable to handle Stoppard's warmth it makes up for with brilliant as he goes' through his rolej they words, and one is left with a play that S.. TRAVESTIES on page 65

November 12, 1989 OUTTWEEK 57 Theater The Cult of Callas

will do anything, short of committing staged versions of La Traviata to appre- an opera-like suicide, to hear. date McNally's savage barbs. Mendy However, the recording is neatly terms Joan Sutherland "the beast from tucked away in Stephen's apartment Down Under" and when he says to where Mike, his lover, is having an Stephen, "You're too butch to know so affair with Paul, a Columbia much about opera," Stephen irnmediate- University graduate student. ly retorts, "I'm not butch. Rise Stevens is Act One bristles with savage humor butch." The ~o enact a subtle S & M and witty banter as the two friends, who game (Stephen and Mendy?) with perhaps could, or should have been Stephen holding the trump card-the lovers, exchange their individual views pirated recording. I on the operatic scene. One does not Mendy is a bearded, overweight and love hungry opera buff n those halcyon days (the word "queen" is never when Maria Callas' mentioned; I suspect a dra- 1956 Metropolitan matic choice), who wraps OperaI debut was page-one himself in a self-imposed material, opera buffs could cocoon. Callas and other feel secure knowing their opera recordings provide secret passion was deemed his fragile ego its main important enough to be solace. He even throws a shared by millions. Today, bash on Callas' birthday. As opera, and particularly he off-handedly mentions Callas, have acquired cult to Stephen, "Opera doesn't status, setting the stage for reject me. The real world Terrence McNally's acerbic does." Mendy, the hopeless and incisive play, The romantic, has resigned Lisbon Traviata. himself to his bleak situa- Susan Sontag once tion. It is interesting that wrote, ·Consumption is th~ his only long-term relation- disease of the creative, the ship was with his ex-wife poetic and the aesthetic." In with whom he has pro- the Verdi opera, La Tra- duced a 13-year-old son; viata, the heroine Violetta Stephen saunters is similarly afflicted, "burn- through Act One like the ing up" with passion. ·prelude to Lohengrin, a McNally, too, addresses the volcano about to erupt. passion'S potentially tragic' He's an editor at Knopf, consequences during his one step removed from the two and one-half hour play. creative process, rendering When we first en- him an instant judge of counter Stephen (Anthony other people'S character Heald), he is visiting his and work. But in Act Two friend Mendy (Nathan he finds himself immersed Lane) hoping to relax and in a love triangle, playing listen to their favorite oper- the unfortunate role of atic recordings. Devoted to cuckolded lover. Stephen the late soprano Maria A 'QUEEN' BY ANY OTHER NAME... Photo: Gerry Goodstein no longer holds the ace. Callas, Stephen blithely Nathan Lan. (I) and Anthony Keald inThe Usbon Traviata Unlike Mendy, he must announces he has recently procured a have to be a lifetime opera News sub- face reality, a world where Callas is pirated copy of Callas' Lisbon scriber or know the subtle differences dead and his opera-hating lover of Traviata, a recording which Mendy between the Visconti and Zefferelli S88 TRAVIATA on pa~ 61

58 OUT~WEEK November 12, 1989 Books Catfight at the ,OK Corral affair with Brag, a cold-hearted young Well, call me self-deluded, but I commodities trader who is more personally believe you are more likely interested in his silk ties than Polly. to die cros~ing the street than get Polly babbles to Brag on their first AIDS from oral sex, unless you are date; Eddie babbles to Merrit on their recovering from a root canal and your first date. The parallels are almost too partner is l1aving his-or-her period. by David Feinberg schematic; I felt like I was watching Later on, when Eddie's imaginary pig an Alan Ayckborn farce with a split- alter ego dies, he attributes it to set, where identical actions were tak- African Swine Flu Virus, when, as ing place simultaneously. every loyal reader of the Native asten your seatbelts: This is What else? There's a really icky knows, the imaginary cause of the going to be a bumpy review. safe sex scene between Polly and imaginary construct «AIDS· is really I had already written Brag (is our author pandering to the African Swine Fever Virus. myF acceptance speech to the Eddie Socket starts out as Academy for the Sarah Siddons another insufferable East Village Memorial Award for best NYC type, ,constantly tossing out apho- black comedy on AIDS by a , rismsi and then asking for their first novelist under 35. I had attribUtion: even picked out a glamorous outfit for the ceremony. Well, it !. He laughed, and stopped looks like I jumped the gun. in, the doorway with his The Irreversible Decline of Cigarette. He stretched his armr Eddie Socket is yet another o~t and hung his head, and

'entry into that overcrowded said, 1/ 1 thirst. Who am 1 quot- genre of NYC black comedies ing?" But he was disgusted with onAIDS by first novelists under himrelf. It was another photo- ·35. You know those cartoons graph. He was tired of posing with six or ten fish in a row, for photographs. arranged large to small, where each one is being devoured by , Unfortunately, the book the fish to its left? Well, reverse. doesn't come with a score card the order so small ones are eat- ..nd study guide answer sheet and ing the larger ones and label . t didn't get a single reference. them authors. (I'm sure that /What am I reading, Ed Hirsh's somewhere at this very minute f Cultural Literacy? Chapter titles a fetus is telepathically dictating I are wryly drawn from movies and her memoirs). Writers get !books, for Eddie practically lives younger and younger and bet- t in the movies. I only wish Weir ter and better. I 'h~d resisted the temptation' to be John Weir's Tbt /rrfWrStbl8 /. the .9,472nd person to use "Tea DlC#M of Edd~ Socltot Is sim- .and, Sympathy." . ply the best gay novel I have .JOHN WEIR . . But unlike your typical blank

read this year. . I generation protagonist, Eddie Now,. nobody believes In an hets?) which really seemectra'the'r' : develops self-knowledge. unqualified rave. So I suppose I must homo to me. Eddie discourses briefly come up with some minor qUlbblea. on AlDS and oral sex: ' , . H' bad always tbougbt of Okay. Eddie Socket, our nihilistic bims'lf as being in toucb, but now 28-year-old protagonist, lives with Why bad b, not bHn warned to b, saw tbat b, bad bUrWd all bis Polly Plugg in the East VUlage. Eddie talt, tbat dicit, which'Vlr dicit it fillings undsrn,atb a glosS,)lsbllt has a brief unsatisfying affair with was, out of bis moutb rigbt now, of easy alumtation. Merrlt, a cold-hearted WASP who is b'for, b, caugbt sometbing b, more interested in his sweaters than couldn't get rid oft Weir switches viewpoints adept- Eddie. Polly has a brief unsatisfying s. CAmOHT on INIII' &1

November 12, 1989 OUT~WEEK 59 Books B'attle Sations

War At Home: Covert Action whistle and publication of the ting violence, espionage and sabotage. AgainstU.s.~ and What We "Pentagon Papers· exposed years of With extensive documentation and Can Do About It Brian Glick South systematic official lies. research-including uncovered govern- End Press, Boston, 1~. $5.00, 92 pp. More unfortunate, as former ment memoranda- War at Home cites SDSer Glick points out, is that such the array of government infiltration, bYJonNalley governme~tal neutralization didn't end harassment, blackmail and general with COINTELPRO's exposing. It repression aimed at activists in an array merely changed its name and contin- of movements and groups such as alse' media stories, bogus ued on under the pretext of "national Physicians for Social Responsibility and ·F leaflets and pamphlets, security.· This most necessary book the violently persecuted· Committee in forged correspondence, was desi~ned to help today's activists Solidarity with the People of EI anonymous letters and tele- Salvador (CISPES). It also phone· calls, tampering with exposes the variety of ways in mail and phone service, pres- which government intelligence sure through employers, laild~ agencies aided extremist right- lords and family, monl'!y wing groups such as the Klan, stolen and equipment sabo-' Minutemen and American tag ed-all used in order ~o. Nazis. While receiving token discourage democratic discus- FBI harassment in the interest sion of public policy and pre- of appearing "even-handed,· vent effeclive organizing for . such organizations and groups social change. Conjures up of fascist vigilantes also images of the Soviet Union, received substantial funds', South Africa, Iran and Chile, information and protection. doesn't. it? Yet, this and much The experiences of GAA more happened-and hap-' and GLF were not isolated. pens-here. Covert operations were quite How do you spell involved against lesbian and repression? C-O-I-N-T -E-L-P- \ gay community organizing: R-O. Carried out secretly or One former FBI informer under the guise of legitimate revealed that from Octol;>er law enforcement, and coor- 1971 through June 1972 he dinated by the F~I, this pro- had received a weekly stipend

o gram attempted to neutralize to infiltrate gay publications U.S. 'dissenters through polit- and groups in Washington ical. ·repression, called D.C.-and conduct break-ins, "covert act:ion.· Paranoia? create racia.! dissension Unfortunat~ly the worst sus- between and within groups, picions and assumptions of and spread false rumors that people-in groups ranging certain gay activists were actu- from the Gay Liberation ally poli~e or FBI informants. Front and day Activists Lesbian activists, in particular, . Alliance to the National Lawyers , leam from the history of COINTEL- received terrible assaults by the FBI Guild and 'the American Friends 'PRO and its successors so that future during the mid-70s under the pretext Service' Committee-were confirmed movements can better fight this "war of pursuing anti-war fugitives Susan by secret files removed from an FBI at home"-which even the august Saxe and Kathy Powers. "Women's office 'in Media, 'Pennsylvania in Senate! Intelligence Committee viewed communities· in such places as . 1'971. At that' time of mounting as "m~intaining the existing social and Boston, Philadelphia and New Haven social unrest and declining faith in political order· and "subverting which had important initiatives such the U.S. government, agents resign- . demotracy· in its rejection of "intelli- as health collectives, were brought to ing from tht; FBI began to blow the gence community· claims of combat- a standstill through grand jury sub-

60 OUTTWEEK November 12, 1989 poenas and jailings-and the instilled TRAVIATA from page 58 CAmGHTfrom page 59 fear hampered lesbian and feminist eight years threatens to leave. He sav- Iy. This is a necessary device in a organizing nationally. agely strikes out at his tormentor book where the central character War at Home, while candidly using words as his gauntlet, but when undergoes an irreversible decline like recognizing other factors in the lost that tactic fails, he is left with no other Eddie's. Sections are convincingly momentum of the mass activist move- recourse anc,islowly begins to unravel. narrated by Eddie, Saul, Merrit, Polly ments (such as disillusionment at the Until now, operatic recordings and the and Eddie's mom. The Irreversible racism, sexism, homophobia, class written word have served as Stephen's Decline is heartbreaking, moving and bias and competition found within the means of communication. Toward the flip. "movement" itself), also recounts the end, when his language doesn't suf- The book is filled with great terrible tragedy of jobs lost, marriages fice, Stephen has to accept the conse- lines, such as: destroyed, movements torn apart, quences. His delicately constructed coalitions aborted and activists killed world is a pretense, an escape which I remember what I want, and I by the direct or indirect actions of precipitates his undoing. For Stephen, compare it to what I have, and the government agencies. life and death struggles are no longer gap between the two is big enough Yet, this book-illustrated by Off played out in operatic settings. They to set up a discotheque. Our Backs cartoonist Abbe Smith- have come home and hit him squarely should not be seen in terms of gloom in the face. Weir is quite eloquent on the fol- and doom. On the contrary, it is a Anthony Heald is one of our the- lowing subject: book of hope and resolve which can ater's finest talents. It is to his credit aptly enable activists, movements and that he makes Stephen's loss believable Eddie hated men and liked minority communities to prevent or and empathetic. From the first moment dicks, but he didn't see the contra- minimize such activities today. It does we see him, his fingers nimbly thumb- diction. Polly did... According to this in a series of practical and well ing through Mendy's records, we real- Eddie, dicks were the really thought out guidelines to limit the ize trouble awaits. Heald's face important thing; he had dedicated impact of various forms of gracefully masks Stephen'S pain and his life to wanting them, or dis- attack-and without encouraging anguish but we know it's there. It sur- daining them, which kind of left movement paranoia or being diverted faces in the second act and Heald's act- her out completely. The problem from major goals. 'Y ing virtuosity propels the play to its was, she kept on meeting men like dramatic resolution. Eddie. Whether they were straight KILL!. DIG!. BURY! from page 56 It is no accident that when The or gay, they were all menj they became completely distorted and per- Lisbon Traviata first premiered last were all more interested in dicks, verted and strange. But they didn't. spring, Nathan 'Lane received she suspected, than anything else. Instead we are asked to suspend our tremendous press attention. Mendy What was a straight banker, after disbelief for 90 minutes while a is an actor's dream, a wonderfully all, other than the flip side of bunch of obviously talented and written part brimming with theatrical Eddie Socket, played fast and competent actresses are forced to act possibilities. Lane doesn't just por- turned up high, with dru~ like teenage girls who still can't tray Mendy. He inhabits the role believe they have to wear such ugly using h·is entire body as a comic Unfortunately, most people are shorts in gym class. instrument. He elicits laughs by sim- reluctant to purchase what Richard This play expresses the same ply raising an eyebrow. Dan Butler Hall calls BWAs (Books With AIDS). problems that all media have when the and Paul Slattery provide excellent What can I say? That nine out of ten impulse is to create something "light" support as Mike and Paul, respec- books I read fall apart in the end and and funny and not too weighted down tively. John Tillinger's adroit direc- this one doesn't? That there.is an with the problems of the world. But tion looks seamless and the sets by offhanded comment about David light and funny doesn't have to mean Philipp Jung provide a well-bal- Leavitt on page 7S? (Check this at fatuous and foolishj nor does it mean anced contrast between Mendy'S your booksellers). That I am delirious that we have avoid the things that are Victorian decorated apartment and with envy? so particularly difficult about our lives the modern abode shared by People are bound to make com- as women, and especially as lesbians. Stephen and Mike. parisons between Socket and Eighty- One of the characters in this play says McNally has rewritten the play'S Sixed Although I'm hardly objective, to another in mock sagacity: "What we final sequences. The ending is now I will say that my cover is better. His need is the courage to fail." I can only more dramatically sound. Regardless book has a larger author shot (the say that this company of women and of sexual persuasion, McNally's truth- entire back cover)j we're both evi- this playwright can be lauded for just ful writing forces us to realize that dently wearing the same generic Polo that capacity-they all have an inordi- sooner or later, we all must face our shirt from Macy's Action Down nate amount of courage to act and own reality and accept the truth. And Under. Weir's novel retails for one produce this play, bring it to New York that is precisely the aim of first-rate dollar less than mine .. You want to and, quite simply, to fail. 'Y theater. 'Y save a buck? Buy it. 'Y

November 12, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 61 I __ • s. 2 prepared by Rick X ... , with information from The Gay lit Lesbian Switchboard of New York For more information or referrals, to rap, or to volunteer, call the GLSB AN CALENDAR daily, noon to midnight, 212-777-1800

Send calendar Item. tol Rick X. Going OUt 1HE WEST BANK CAFE DOWN- Ave (btwn 14/15 St)j $15 per WNET-1V/13 presents Cbllrles STAIRS 1HEATRE BAR presents workshop/$35 for three/$7 per IIIForly: A Priru:efor Our Box 790 CM1_ Doubts, by Richard Wil- workshop from the 4th one onj nmtl, offering a "critical but New York, NY 10108 lett, conceming "two best friends 243-8181 affectionate portrait of a man from college, Stephen and David, known to everyone and under- Item. mUit be received by and the emotional but also SAGE lesbian U1ness SUpport stood by few"j Includes British Monday to be Incble4ln the humorous confrontation that Group beginsj for lesbians afflict- MovieTone Newsreels of Charles' bllowlng "tftek'. I..ue. erupts between them when ed with serious illnesses and their daily activities at prep schools in Stephen announces that he is not primary female supporters, single London, Scotland and Australiaj only gay but In love with David, women welcomej limited to eight 1(}'11 pm who Is now a somewhat homo- participantsj at the Center, 208 W phobic phys. ed. teacher"j 407 W 13 Stj 7:30 - 9 pmj 741-2247 BLEECKER STREET CINEMA pre- 42 Stj 8:30 pmj $7j reservations sents ~ooWflgfor L_gs,mej see

WOMEN ABOUT Qlt-off date 695-6909 (also plays tomorrow) CONGREGATION BE'IH SIM- NOV 6 I for Beginner SWim Lessons lit CHATTORAHJew~hEduadon YWCA, 874-2104 CElLBLOCK 28 Hot Ash Party, Coursesj tonight: Hebrew lan- / for cigar smokers and their guage Reading Class at 7:30j ! DESIGN INDUSTRIES FOUNDA- admlrersj 28 9th Ave (btwn 13/14 Princ1p18s 0/ Kasruth at 7:30j at TION FOR AIDS (DIFFA) Skating St)j 8 pm - 3 amj $10j 733-3144 57 Bethune Stj info 929-9498 for life Fundraiser, with cocktail reception, gala skating perfor- BLEECKER STREET CINEMA pre- CONGREGATION BE'IH SIM- mance, formal dinner/dancej at sents LooW.gfor Lmrgs'OfIj see CHAT TORAH Semlnan Why the 69th Regimental Armory, lex- NOV 6 Mel Copbrg wi,b Grief, Loss ington Ave & 26 Stj $125-$1000j med Cbmege, with Rabbi Pesach IDEN11lY HOUSE Women's 477-1717 OUT IN 1HE 80'S presents live Kraus, author and Director of Conference: Womell fdvlflg Election Coveragej the gay/les- Jewish Rabbinic Counseling at Womell, today: DealIng with BLEECKER STREET ONFMA pre- bian news and interview cable Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer Your FamUy with Naomi Good- sents Loolmtgfor liMgs'OfI, a show will give our community's Center; at 57 Bethune SI, West- hartj 7-8:30 pmj see 11/8 film that focuses on Langston perspective on the day's results at beth Housing Complexj 8 pm Hugh~ and gay/lesbian life in the pollsj Manhattan and Paragon sharpj 929-9498 JUDIlH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE Harlemj 144 Bleecker St (btwn Cable, Channel 016j 11 pm to presents Phyllis Chesler dis- Thompson and laGuardia Place)j midnight GAY MEN'S HEALlH CRISIS Men cussing Womellllfld Mlldfless 10:30 pmj $7j 674-2560 (thru Meeting Men Workshop, to and About Mellj 681 Washington 1119) enhance self-confidence and abil- St (btwn W 10 & Charles St)j 7 ity to negotiate safer sex with pmj free, but seating is Iimitedj WNET-1V/13 Great Perfor- potential partnersj at the Center, 727-7330 mances: the lincoln Center 208 W 13 Stj 8-10 pmj freej no production of Our TOWII, with NEW YORK OlY DEPT. OF preregistration, 807-6655 (TOD CEN1ER SPORTS sees NY Spalding Gray, Eric Stoltz, and HEALlH Conference: The 645-7470) Knlcks VI. !IU Nets, basketball Penelope Ann MilIerj 11:30 pm (2 Impact of AIDS on Women, for gamej at Madison Square Garden, hours) women's health and social ser- 1HE WEST BANK CAFE DOWN- 33rd St & 7th Avej 7:30 pmj mem- vice providersj strategies for pre- STAIRS lHEA1RE BAR presents bers $30/non-members $40j 62(}' vel)tion, education and care; Cerltllfl Doubts, see Tuesday, 7310 practical exchange of informa- 11n tionj structured networking HERITAGE OF PRIDE Communi- opportunitiesj at New York 3-DOLLAR BIll1HEATER opens ty Speak-Out, which will "give ELEcnONDAY Academy of Medicine, 2 E 103 Stj Victor Bumbalo'sAdam lIf1d the public an opportunity to freej 566-3624, 566-4995 ,btl E:Kperls, a "comic examina- make comments and offer ideas MUSEUM OF 1HE OlY OF NEW tion of friendship, hysteria and and suggestions to help HOP YORK and 1HE HUMANITIES PUBliC HEALlll RESEARCH hope in our daily Iives"j at the make next year's Pride celebra- COUNCil. OF N.Y.U. Lecture: INSTITUTE Semlnan Under- Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 St tion the best ever"j at the Center, .~Radlcal Feminism In Green- standIngs In AIDS Therapy and (btwn 8th & 9th Aves)j through 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pmj 691-1774 wlch'VlUage: From Crystal Prevention with Dr. Anthony 12/17j 255-7161 (Editor's admonition: Don't com- Eastman to Eleanor Roosevelt.' Fauclj info 578-0809 plain in June unless you've spo- by Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cookj at GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS Meet- ken up in November.) Judson Memorial Church, 55 IDEN11lY HOUSE Women's Ing: Bikers and their Bikes, t { Wdsh. sq. Southj 6 pmj 534-1672 Conference: Womell Lovlflg with members of tri-state bike LA MAMA E.T.C. presents the Womell, three weeks of 23 work- clubs talking about Harleys vs. opening of Positive Me, Lisa CEN1ER STAGE sees Tommy shops exploring sexuality, identi- Hondas, bike safety, and bike Edelstein's ·original healing musi- Tune's GrmId HoUl, with Lil- ty, relationships and coming out, eroticismj at the Center, 3rd Floor, cal about life in the time of iane Montevecchi and Keene Cur- ends Nov. 1ij today: Making 208 W 13 Stj 8:30 pmj $5j 727- AIDS"j 74A E 4 Stj 475-7710 (per- II tiSj at the 46th St. Theatrej 8 pmj Peace with Your Body with 9878 formances 11IUR-SUN through $60j 62(}'7310 Mary Rose Dallalj 7-9 pmj 544 6th Nov. 26)

I ,. 62 OU~WEEK November 12, 1989 I GUERILLA ART PROJECT, MEN MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1H- Lovlrtg Wontell, today: Organiz- low income); 807-0721 (NOW- OF All COLORS TOGETIIER, ER/NEW YORK Game Nlte, Ing Our Legal AfCaJrs with NYC, 15 W 18 St, NYC 10011) COMMI1TEE OF OUTRAGED including Scrabble, Scruples, Linda Maryanov, 11:30 am - 1 LESBIANS Community Forum: Boggle, cards, Gay Monopoly, pm; Coming Out, Women OVer LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLAT- 7NrllllIg AIIgw 10AcffOff, to Gay Trivia; at the Center, 208 W 40 with Carolyn Pope and Susan BUSH Video Poduck and DIs- reclaim our humanity in response 13 St; 8 pm; 222-9794, 245~366 Harris, 11:30 am - 1 pm; Homo- cussion, viewing the movie Cry to the climate of violence in New phobia and Its Effects on Rela- Freedom; 3-8 pm; 7181851-4238, York against people of color, GAY MEN OF AFRICAN tJonships with Susan Gair, 7181633~596 women, lesbians, and gay men; DESCENT Discuslon: MUnien. 6-7:30 pm; Lesbian RelatJon· with Pamela Sneed, Robert Gar- donos,· tratando de la cuestion ships-Boundaries and Merg- NYC PARENTS AND FRIENDS OF cia, Gwen Braxton. Liz Walber, de como GMAD puede atraer a Ing, Part nwith Arleen Bandler LESBIANS AND GAYS 1989 others; Nancy Klrton moderates; los hermanos latinos y hacer que and Madeline Price, 6-7:30 pm; Annual Awards Dinner Dance at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; se sientan bienvenidos y que los see 11/8 to honor Dr. Mathllde KrJm, MACf 222-9794, COOL 243-0202 asuntos particulates de los latinos researcher and founder of reciban atencion adecuada (deal- SAGE Workshop: Gay Mell AmFAR, and David ·N. DInkins, BLEECKER S1lUlET ONEMA pre- ing with the issue of how GMAD _d Opera:Why', at the Center, Manhattan Borough President; at sents LooltItIg/or L_gslOff; can attract Latin brothers, make in the SAGE Room, 208 W 13 St; the Rqosevelt Hotel, 45 E 45 St; 5 see NOV 6 UJem feel welconu:, and give 1-3 pm; 741-2247 pm; $50/$450 for table of ten; their particular issues adequate 463-0629 attention); en el cuarto Charles KNIGHTS WRES'IlING CLUB FI///A' AngeVPeople of Color Room, del Tournament, with 20 wrestlers, HOT LAVENDER SWING BAND Center, 208 W 13 St (620-7310); 8 a fundraiser to send the club Big Band Tea Dance, at the ~ .t. : ~: ~ "' t pm; GMAD info 7181802-0162, wrestlers to the Gay Games th!s Center, 208 W 13 St, 7-10 pm. NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN 71&'756-1548 summer, and to support Team $10, 683-0919 TASK FORCE 2nd Annual Cre- New York; at the Center, 208 W ating Change Conference, RIDICULOUS TIlEATRICAL 13 St; doors open after 7 pm, through Sunday, November 12; COMPANY presents the opening tournament at 8 pm; $15; 627- KPI'A with plenary speakers, Perry J. of.v... JellyU 0, Mr. Hytk, direct- 1921 o .' I. ; ~i~~ Watkins, Vito Russo, Suzanne ed by Kate Stafford; with Everett Pharr; at the Holiday Inn, Bethes- Quinton, Eureka, Terence IDEN111Y HOUSE Women's NY SOCIETY FOR E1HICAL da, MD; $125; 2021332-M83 Mintern, Minette Coleman, Mary Conference SocIal, celebrating CULTIJRE and WEST SIDE YMCA Neufeld, and Georg Osterman; at the final day of three weeks of . Writer's Voice Film SerIes. MEN OF All COLORS TOGE1H- Charles Ludlam Theatre, One workshops, 7:30-9:30 pm; see James Bald"" ...· The Price 0/ ER!NEW YORK 7th Annlver- Sheridan Square; 8 pm; $22; 564- 11/8 tbe Tlclret, the first feature film saryWeekend In New Haven, 8038 (before 8 pm) about Baldwin since his death, through Sunday; 222-9794, 245- SALSASOUL PRODUcnON directed by Karen Thorsen; 2 W 6369 VIRGINIA GIORDANO presents invites you to Dance with New 64 St; 7:30 pm; $5; 874-5210 SWeet Honey In the Rock in York's Beautiful Women at ANSOIE CHESED Shabbat Din· concert for an annual fall cele- Club Circus Maximus, 2nd St ner and Lecture, with Judith bration; at Carnegie Hall, 57th St btwn First Ave and Ave A (F train F//ES'A' Plaskow, Prof. Religious Studies & 7th Ave; 8 pm; $15-$25; info to 2nd Ave stop, use 1st Ave p~ at Manhattan College, Towa,.ds a 929-1585, tix 247-7800 exit); 9 pm; $7; 529-9665 New Tbeory 0/SexuaJily. 251 W LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND 100 St; services at 6:30 pm, fol- CENTER 2nd Saturday Dance, EDUCATION FUND Theater lowed by catered dinner and lec- with DJ, cash bar, juice and Party and BeneRt: 'Ibreepell"Y ture at 7:15 pm; $16; rsvp snacks; at the Center, 208 W 13 Opera; with Sting in his Broad· 865-0600 St; 9 pm - 1 am; $8 generaV$6 way debut, also starring Maureen SAGF}SHERlDAN SQUARE members, seniors, students; 620- McGovern and Ethyl Eichelberg- IDENTI1Y HOUSE Women's TOURS Three Villages on Long 7310 er, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, q>nference: W'ontell Loving Island's North Shore, including 204 W 46 St; pre-theatre party at W'omM, today: Women and historic settlements of Stony SPEcrnUM DISCO presents Criterion Center, 1530 Broadway Money with Carolyn Pope; 7- Brook, Setauket and East Jlnuny ~Bo· Horne, singing at 45 St, 5:30-7:30 pm; shQw at 8 8:30 pm; also Unblocking Cre- Setauket; cost includes museum "Spank," "Is It In?" and "Let's Do pm; $150 - $1000+; 995-8585 - ative Blocks with Mary Wallach; admissions and lunch; $45; mem- It"; 802 64th St, Bay Ridge, see 11/8 . ber info 741-2247 Brooklyn (N train to 8th Ave 2ND 11JESDAYS AT TIlE CEN- stop); opens at 9 pm; 7181238- TER presents James Purdy, KATIIEXIS COVEN Open Circle BODY ELECTRIC SCHOOL pre- 8213 reading from his latest novel, MedItation and Ritual marking sents Joe Kramer teaching Ga,.ments the Living Wear, at the the Full Moon and in praise of Healing the Body Erotic for Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $3; the Godidess; in the Center's Men, with Taoist and self-erotic 620-7310 garden, 208 W 13 St; 7-7:30 pm; massage techniques; in a week- $1; 620-7310 end of "erotic exploration ...you will experiment with Tantric, WOMEN ABOUT CUt~ff Date BODY ELECTRIC SCHOOL pre· Taoist, and Native American for Hook Mt. Hike, 874-2104 sents Tantrlc Group Rebirth approaches to energetically and for Women and Men, an pl~surably connect with other NOW - NEW YORK CI1Y urges CENTER SPORTS sees VIrginia evening of "tribal joy, ecstatic men ...this hands-on class is done you to Mobilize for Women's SUms Women's Tennis, mid- breathing and freedom at the nude"; 135 W 14 St, 2nd Floor; Uves, with a march on Washing- week matches; at Madison core; this event is done clothed"; today and Sunday, 10 am - 6 pm; ton to "support legal, affordable Square Garden, 33rd St & 7th 135 W 14 St, 2nd Floor, 8-11 pm; $150; 463-9152, 415/653-1594 abortion and birth control"; NOW Ave; 5:45 pm; members $30/non- $15 advance/$25 door; 463-9152 has buses leaving from Union members $40; 620-7310 IDENTI1Y HOUSE Final Day of Square, Columbus Circle and Women's Conference: W'ontell 86th!Lexingtoo; $30 R.T. ($15

November 12. 1989 OUrYWEEK 63 ConlnlUllity Directory

To list your non-profit DIGNITY NEW YORK HEAL (Health Education AIDS Uaison) lesbian and gay Catholics and friends Weekly info. and support group for treatments organization in our com-' AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development for AIDS which do not compromise the munity directory, call Tom The Cathedral Project immune system further, including alternative Wo·rship Services & Social-Sun. Eves. 7:30pm- and holistic approaches. Eubanks at 212/685-5277. St John's Episcopal Church 218West 11th Wed 8pm. 208W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE. Street@Waverly-675-2179 A.C.Q.C. HETRICK-MART1N INSTITUTE AIDS CENTEROFQUEENS COUNTY EDGE for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in SOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION· BUDDIES For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk COUNSELING· SUPPORT GROUPS Community. (212)989-1921 High School, AIDS and safer sex information, Volunteer Opportunities P. O. Box 305 Village Station, New York. NY referrals, professional education. (718) 896·25OO(voice) (718) 896-2985(TOD) 10014 (212) 633-8920(voice) (212) 633-8926m for deaf ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unlelsh Power) FRONT RUNNERS 496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014 A running club for lesbian and gay athletes HISPANIC UNITED GAYS& LESBIANS (212) 989 -1114 of all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every Educational services, political action, counseling A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals Sat at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Park and social activities in Spanish and English by united in anger and committed to direct action and every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park. and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay Community. to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. For information: call (212) 724-9700. General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of nights 7:30, the Community Center 208W.13th. every month at 208West 13th Street THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY Call (212) 691-4181 ARCS (AIDS-Rallted Community Services) National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street

for Dutchess, Orange, Putiiam, Rockland, Sulli- "AIDS 800" on 1-800-S0S-GAYS Station, New York, NY 10019. van, Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS Educational Resource Center; Positive Images education, client services, crisis intervention, Media Center; NY State Arts Program LAMBDA LEGALDEFENSE support groups, case management, buddy and 6Ei6 B·way Suite 410NYC,NY10012 (212)529-1600 AND EDUCAT10NFUND hospital visitor program. Precedent-setting litigation nationwide for 214Central Iwe. While P\ails, mllBJi(9141!1D.aDi THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS lesbians, gay men and people with AIDS. 838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 122S!(914)562-5(1)5 OFWESTCHESTER(TheG.A.A.) . Membership ($35 and up) includes newsletter AIDSIi_ (914) 993-G607 is a community based support group formed in and invitations to special events. Volunteer Westchester County. Various activities are night on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon BAR ASSOCIAT10N FORHUMAN RIGHTS planned for the coming months. thru Fri Lawyers Referral Please call 914-376-0727for more info. (212) 995-8585 Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873 GL.AAD LAVA (LESBIANS ABOUTVISUALART) GlY & le.biln Alliance Against Defamltion Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, BAR ASSOCIAT10N FORHUMAN RIGHTS SO Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212)966-1700 Gay & Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For Free Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tu.esday6-8 pm GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and more information, send SASE to : Lesbian & Gay Community Centro Gro.und Roor elsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian Miriam Fougere and gay community.a(ld organizing grassroots 118 Fort Greene Place BODY POSITIVE· response to anti-gay bigotry. Brooklyn, NY 11217. If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer support groups, seminars, public forums, ref- GAY.& LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS erence library, referrals, social activities and . Sliding selle ,... Get your instrument out of the closet and come up-to- date national monthly, "THE BODY POSI- Insurlnce accepted. play with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dix- TIVE" ($l5/year). .Institute for HumIn Identity. ieland, Rock, Rute Ensembles and Woodwinds. (212) 633-1782. (212) 799-9432 123West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY 2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023 10036 (212) 869-2922. GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS CIRCLEOFMORE UGHT Dedicated to safe and responsible SIM since LESBIAN & GAY Spiritual support and sharing in a gayllesbian 1981. Open meetings wlprograms on SIM tech- COMMUNITY SERVICESCENTER affirmative group. niques, lifestyle issues, political and social 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011. West-Park Presbytarian Church concerns. Also special events, speakers (212)620-7310 9am-llpm everyday. 165West 86th Street bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups, A place for community organizing and net- Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30. newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept O,496A Hud- working, social services, cultural programs, Marsha (212)304-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118. son Street, -Suite 023 ,NYC 10014. and social events sponsored by the Center· and - (212)727-9878. . more than 150community organizations. COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT· 208West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011 GAY MEN'S HEALTit CRISIS HOTUNE· LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT For Appointments and Information (212) 675- FORINFORMATION ON SAFERSEXAND HIV- of the Americln Civil Uberties Union 3559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND RELATEDHEALTH SERVICES,AND FO~ INFOR: KNOW YOURRIGHTS/WE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM LOW COST HEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE MATI ON ON ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS (212) 944-9800, ext 545 LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICES . 212-IIIHi655 . . LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART (LAVA) CONGREGAT10NBETH SIMCHATTORAH 212-645-7470 TIm (For the Hearing Im,.ired) Call for slides for Lesbian Artist's Exibition, Gay NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services Mon·.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to.9 p.m. Sat 12:00to 3:00 and Lesbian Community Center, NYC,for more Friday at 8:30pm 57 Bethune Street' information send SASE to Miriam Fougere, 118 For info. call: (212) 929-9498. FtGreene Place, Brooklyn. NY 1217.

64 OUTTWEEK November 12, 1989 TRAVESTIES from page 57 language, a highly theatrical imagina- tion and teasing intellectual paradox. LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FlATBUSH NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNA11VES Most of that is missing from this Brooklyn's social organization for both gay Improving Quality of Ufe for People with production. As Henry Carr, whose fal- men and lesbians. AI DS/HIV. tering memories of these events are P.O.Box 106, Midwood Station THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring Brooklyn, NY 11230. (718)85~9437 the possibilities of a powerful and creative life the evening's frame (and are them- in the face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby selves a kind of art), Harris Berlinsky LONG ISLAND ACT-UP (212)'SST-8741 has all the wrong images. At the P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040 behest, one imagines, of Hupp, he Support us for c~ange on Long Island. NYC GAY & LESBIAN (516)338-4662(516)997-5238 Nassau ANn-VIOLENCE PROJECT (and many of the other actors) plays (516)928-5530 Suffolk Counseling, advocacy, and information for sur- this highly stylized piece in a stodgy vivors of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, naturalistic style. The character skates MEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER NY sexual assault, domestic violence, and other gracefully over Stoppard's dazzling A multi-racial group of gay men against types of victimization. All services free and ice, while the actor wades knee-deep racism. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at confidential. the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Cen- 24 hour holline (212)807-0197 through slush. For Carr and the other ter, 208 W. 13th Street For m re info. call: (212) characters, words are as necessary as 245-6366 or (212)222-9794. PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAunON air. In this production, however, they (212)532-0290 / Hotline (212)532-0568 stick uncertainly in the throatj the METROPOLITAN TENNIS GROUp(MTG) Monday thru Friday lOam-6pm Our 200 member lesbian and gay tennis club Meal programs, support groups, educational actors imbue them with no personal includes players from beginning to tournament and referral services for PWA's and PWArc's. importance that makes speaking them level. Monthly tennis parties. Winter indoor an urgent matter. As James Joyce, league. Come play with us! For information: PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP Joseph Menino suffers from the same MTG, POB 2135, New York, NY 10025. Underground buyer's club importing not-yet- sort of imaginative asphyxiation. (212)662-0695. approved medications and nutritional supple- ments. 31 West 26th St 4th Roor (212)53Hl2BO Christopher Oden, as Tzara, cuts NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE a dashing figure, but his director is the national grassroots prmance.The play, however, intereted in gay intergenerational relationships. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter would have been better 'served by a meetings on the first Saturday of each month. firmer hand on the wheel, and more Yearly membership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO potent' imaginations fueling the Box 174,Midtown Station, New York, NY 10018 engine. ~ or call (212)807-8578 for information.

November 12:1989 OUT~WEEK 65 Rounds D.l's Fat Cat Sneakers WESTSIDE 303 E. 53rd SI. 281 W. 12th SI. 392WestSI. 593-0807 243-9041 242-9830 Bike Stop West Piano Bar. Mixed MlF 230 W. 75th SI. South Dakota Two Potato 874-9014 4053rdAve. Duchess II 145 Christopher SI. 684-8376 70 Grove St (7th Ave.) 242-9340 Candle Bar 242-1408 309 Amsterdam Avenue. Star Sawhire Women Ty's 874-9155 400 E. 59th SI. 114 Christopher SI. 688-4710 J's 741-9641 Cal's 675 Hudson SI. 730 8th Ave. EAST VILLAGE 242-9292 Unde Charlie's 221-7559 yo 56 Greenwich Ave. The Bar 255-8787 Don't Tell Mama 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th SI.) Julius Video Bar 343 West 46th SI. 674-9714 159 W. 10th SI. 757-Q78lJ 92S.9672 CHELSEA Piano Bar Boy Bar Serving Coors, Coors L~e, & Coors 15 SI. Mark's Place Draft. Barbary Coast Jason's 674-7959 64 7th Ave. (14th SI.) 23 W. 73rd SI. Dancing I Drag Keller's 675-Q385 874-8091 384 West SI. (at Christopher) The Pyramid 243-1907 The Break Sally's Hideaway 101 Avenue A 232 8th Ave. (22nd SI.) 264 W. 43rd SI. 420-1590 Kelly's Village West 627-0072 221-9152 Dancing I Drag 46 Bedford SI. 92S.9322 Chelsea Transfer Town and Country Tunnel Bar Piano Bar 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th) 9th Ave at 46th SI. 116151 Ave (7th SI.) 929-7183 307-1503 n7-9232 The Locker Room 400 W. 14th SI. (9th Ave) Eagle's Nest Trix WEST VILLAGE 45S.4299 14211th Ave (21st SI.) 246 W. 48 SI. (bel. Bdwy & 8th Ave) yo 691-8451 664-8331 The Annex (to Cellblock 28) Leather I Levi's 673 Hudson SI. (bel. 13th & 14th) Marie's Crisis The Works 627-1140 59 Grove SI. (7th Ave) Private Eyes 428 Columbus Ave (at 81st) yo 243-9323 12 W. 21st SI. (bel. 5th & 6th) 79s.7365 Piano Bar 206-n70 Badlands Dancing, Video Club EAST SIDE Christopher & West SI. The Monster 741-9236 80 Grove SI. (7th Ave.) Rawhide Brandy's Piano Bar 924-3558 212 8th Ave 235 E. 84th SI. Boots & Saddle Piano Bar I Dancing (21st SI.) 650-1944 76 Christopher Street Leather I Levi's 929-9684 Nimbus 22 G.H.Club 22 7th Ave. South Spike 353 E. 53rd SI. Celblock 28 691-4826 120 11th Ave. 223-9752 289thAve Danching, pinball, pool, lounge 243-9688 733-3144 Leather & Uniforms Johnny's Pub yo Ninth Circle 123 E. 47th SI. 139 W. 10th SI. Tracks 355-8714 The Cubbyhole 243-9204 19th SI. & 11th Ave. 438 Hudson (Morton St) Dancing Regent East 243-9079 204 E. 58th SI. A Neighborhood bar for gay women Ramrod . 355-9465 & men. 185 Christopher SI. 66 OUrTWEEK November 12. 1989 GOSSIP WATCH from page 49 Morocco, bere tbey leave tbese dis- tasteful people on tbe street.) The Cubbyhole "Just a P.S.to salute the wonderful 438 Hudson Street work of Pat Buckley, who keeps adding millions to the coffers to fight at Morton AIDS.- (212) 243·9079 . Just a P.S. to lick Pat Buckley's ass in response to -gnat" A neJghborhood bar for Signorile's biting trutbs, and let Pat know tbat sbe'll always bave both gay men & women me and tbat I'm not taking any part in a boycott of ber name and tbat 1 will continue to belp ber get incredible publicity for ber good deeds, tbereby offsetting ber bus- . band's reckless rampage. !J-{otLavender 'J.&w ')'Or/(City S Premiere Les6wn and (jay Swing tJ3and "She is possibly, these days, the presents a most important New York name one Sunday '1Jre.ss: can put on a benefit invite." 9{pvem6er 12, 1989 tBig tBand Creative tJ3fac./('Tt.e Sbe is possibly, these days, ane of 7-10 pm .9ltfmission the most important names for me to liT" suck up to. $10 Cash. tJ3ar.9lvaifa6fe at tfte aoor "But she does more than just be 'lJance listed and/or show up." ,Les6wn and (jay CommunityServic.es Center • 208 'West 13tfi.Strut, 'J{7'C Pat does ber own place settings, too.

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TI YALE frolR page 21 ATR from page 2& ·We want to address the bigger munity was further angered when now underway, which he hopes will issues, to understand the needs and Schmidt told the New Haven Register be available by the start of December. concerns of trial participants and give that at least one of the BWAAposters them the information to be educated could be considered obscene accord- Demystifying Drug Trials 'consumers' if they decide to enter a ing to U.S. Court Case Law. Schmidt, But these publications are just trial." meanwhile, characterized Friday's the start. Beginning in AUgust, Cow- As always, the group's biggest events as being "a serious matter ing said, ATR embarked on a massive hurdle is staff and money. ·We're real- which demands careful and thorough outreach effort to "demystify" the pro- ly struggling,· says Cowing simply. He review ...[which will go forward] with cess of experimental drug trials. is always aware he may have to diligence and security." ·We need to educate the entire return to 'temping' if the money isn't The nine were to appear in a AIDS community about how trials there for his salary. ATR's president New Haven Superior Court on Thurs- work, and how to get access to and scientific director, Dr. Iris Long, day, November 2 where charges them,· he said. "We're not pushing gets no salary at all. ·We're a late against five were dismissed. Charges any individual trial, but it's vital that player trying to get a new piece of against the others, including Dobbs, people be informed about what's limited funding pie," Cowing noted. were held over until November 20. available. We want them to be able to Previous to the hearing, drivers make educated choices and become A Glamourous Struggle? in a State of Connecticut justice Dept. partners in their own health care." ATR would like to hire an out- vehicle reportedly yelled "Faggots, ATR's dedicated volunteers and reach coordinator and a paid science we're going to ·get you· as LGSCY two full-time staffers received more director, Cowing said, but can't afford held a press on the steps of the court than 100 responses to a survey ask- either now. Their directory is put house. Homophobic reaction has also ing local hospitals, AIDS service together on two borrowed computers been visible on the campus itself, providers and other groups if they and "an ancient copier donated by . where unsigned posters scrawled with wanted to know more about AIDS Gay Men's Health Crisis," he said. "When Gays ACf UP, Lock 'Em Up" drug trials. ATR is now giving semi- And their office space in the garment appeared. Fliers with the· message nars on clinical trials to other orga- district, which they got "for a song,· is "radical homosexual groups [are] niz~tions, including the Brooklyn barely furnished. deserving of our outrage and pity" AIDS Task Force and Minority AIDS Nonetheless, this small group of were also seen on the Ivy L~ague Task Force. activists is confident that they can campus, calling the conference partic- ·We know it's an interactive pro- educate the community and improve ipants "morally repugnant." cess," Cowing said. "We're ready to access to AIDS clinical drug trials. "We Meanwhile, the favored New tailor presentations to' the needs an<,l get a very, very, very high return rate Haven. mayoral candidate, john concerns of each group. We have a for the user survey in every issue of Daniels, a Democrat, listened with con- wide variety of representatives on our the directory,· Cowing said. "And· cern, at a Wednesday meeting of Yale's community advisory board, including we've gotten almost uniform praise lesbian and gay students, where the Yoland Serrano of ADAPT (Associa- for the format and the usefulness of week's incidents were discussed ~ tion for Drug Addiction Prevention the information. That's kind of and Treatment) and Ron johnson of encouraging. " AILES from page 24 the Minority AIDSTask Force." Moreover, others outside the in a Texas Hotel lobby. La Coute said AIDS community are starting to that the incident was not motivated Drug Trials = Health Care take note as well. From a world far by homophobia-"when somebody One of the biggest battles they removed from ATR's spartan comes up and hits, you don't stop face, he said, is conveying the mes- offices, for example, came the and ask them about their sexual pref- sage th~t drug trials are not all one- news that Glamour magazine had erence," he said. LaCourt added that sided: that well-designed trials selected Dr. Iris Long as one of Ailes was "never held or charged" in provide health care as well as gather- their ten ·Women of the Year" for the Texas incident. ing experimental data. her work with ATR and other AIDS Ira Manhoff of ACf ur says that Only 20 percent of trial partici- organizations. last week, Ailes indeed put Ottersten in pants are Black or Latino, he said, Although it's not particularly a stranglehold as has been alleged, and although these groups comprise more glamorous work, Cowing says, "we that he was forced to place his hand on than 50 percent of newly diagnosed can playa vital role. We want nothing Ailes' arm in an effort to prevent Ailes AIDS cases in New York. ATR wants less than a 180-degree shift in the from pushing Ottersten down a flight of to change that. It is working on sim- whole trials process." ~ stairs. plified versions of its outreach materi- If brought to trial and convicted als, to be published in English and of the third degree assault charge, Spanish. Ailes could face a possible year in "It's not just about getting anoth- prison and/or a fine. ~ er directory out there,· Cowing said.

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