Out of South Africa Ending a U,S, Tour, Gay Anti- Apartheid Activist Simon Nkoli Visits New York

ON ~jrARS Chip Duckett presents MARS NEEDSMEN/Sunday Nights at Mars/ Drinking/ Dancing / Go-Go Boys / Drag Queens / Live Bands / DJ's Michael Connolly, Larry Tee, Perfidia & John Suliga/from 9pm/West Side Highway and 13th Street Ftlm Sea of Love 48 Art Cary Leibowitz 50 Art Jean Cocteau 52 Music Nona Hendryx 54 ACTING UP ON Book The l})g Collar Murders 55 WALL STREET Photo: On The Cover: lee Snider/ Simon Nkoli Photo Images photographed by Jim Marks iiiOur Own Hands Gane Post We!Jger) 28 Political Science (Harrington) 30 SIMON SAYS ~ Gay Anti-Apartheid Activist Simon Nkoli Comes To Town And Chats With Mark Chesnut 32

Outspoken (Editorial) 4 TO TEIl11lE TRUTH Letters 6 Polly Thistlewaite Tours The Lesbian Herstory Archives Saormyor 6 Nigbtrmre of the Week 7 Jennifer Camper 18 Sandor Katz 31 Out Of My Hands (Ball) 40 Gossip Watch (Signorile) 41 Look Out 42 Social Terrorism (Conrad) 44 MY MARTINA Going Out calendar (X) 58 Rachel Lurie On A Match Made In Heaven 46 Community Directory 61 Classifieds 63 Personals 68 Pacino in SEA OF LOVE, Bar Guide 78 page a Best Bets (X) 79 Crossword ~ Hot Shot ((imrad) 82 Vive la Difference In a world brimming with sad irony, few ironies are sadder than that of oppressed groups oppressing each other. This is particularly true when it comes to lesbians and gays, who share a similar predicament but often experience it from different perspectives. Oppression between the lesbian community on the one hand and gay men on the other comes in many forms, but none are as insidious, or indeed as ridiculous, as one group putting down the sexuality of the other. Since OutWeek began publishing, a number of gay men have objected to articles, photos, or features discussing women's sexuality or depicting their bodies. "I don't want to know that much about lesbians," they say. "Why do we need to look at mAT in a gay magazine?" Some women feel the same about men. A lesbian newspaper recently chided OutWeek for urging a contin- uation of the Coors advertising boycott in gay publications while at the same time we ourselves continue to accept "disgusting" phone sex ads that "lesbians find so offensive." Both of these negative attitudes have been traditionally upheld and affirmed by many facets of gay and lesbian ·culture. Some even go so far as to say that there's something 'natural' about expressing disgust for the sexual practices of the opposite homosex. There's not. It's important to remember that straight society's oppression of us is based on a similar idea: that there's something inherently disgusting about homosexuality, and by extension homosexuals. It's not our brilliance they.hate, or our love for each other, or our compassion, or our politics, or what we wear or the food we eat. It's what we do in bed. It therefore stands to reason that we couldn't more foolishly play into the hands of Jesse Helms or William Dannemeyer than to agree with them that what our gay brothers or lesbian sisters do with their bodies is disgusting. Our message to the heterosexual sea that surrounds us is: Our sexuality is not bad-just different and as good as yours. How can we expect them to believe that if so many of us express disgust toward the sexuality of the other half of our community. We think that both gay men and lesbians should seek out and familiarize themselves with the images and con- cepts of the others' sexualities. We should reject the learned tendendes to make fun of or express revulsion toward the others' sexualities.And we should learn not just to tolerate our sexual differences,but to celebrate them. 'Y

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TELEPHONE· HOME BUSINESS CHRISTOPHER STREET FINANCIAL, INf;. 80 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 Member Securities Investor Protection CorPoration Member National Association of Securities Dealers ------pass legislation protecting tor of NGLTF.NGLTFis sup- gay rights? Improve and posed to be the educational multiply drug treatment pro- arm of our communitY. In his grams? Would it help find a new role, he will function cure? No, It would simply strictly as an AIDS lobbyist Enough Is Enough? I'm not going to argue feed a pathetic appetite for dealing with the release of In answer to BillChafin's about whether Summer said vengeance. Have we not new drugs. Jeff's spouse, Dr. complaint regarding the Fire what it issaid she said. I am better things to do? Bopper Deyton, is the Direc- island Pines (OutWeek, Let- far more concerned with the David L Cameron tor of the CRI program at ters to the Editor, no. 11, negative energy we have Manhattan NIH. His ultimate superior is Sept. 89), the djs ploy Donna allowed this problem to gen- P.S.I am very curious to Dr. Fauci. In my mind, therein Summer because she hap- erate within the gay com- know If OutWeek investigat- lies the most disturbing ele- pens to have the most popu- munity. If someone has at ed Donna Summer for them- ment of this appointment. lar records on the island this one time said something selves before naming her a Do we hold our relation- summer and her songs pack against us, are they then to "freak of the week. " ships in such slight regard the dance floor (despite be permanently damned? Is that we believe that· we are what the Post page 6 said). there a time for forgiveness, Yes we dd. See issue no. 13, not influenced by the person But what about all the old or should we wish them eter- Sept. 18, page 22. -Ed. most close to us, our spouse? Donna Summer played at nal misery? Prsonaily,I do not Will Jeff back off under Bop- Mars? The last time I was have such hatred. Vital Relationship per's Influence? Will this there I heard "MacArthur I think those who still In all the diaiogue impair Jeff's Judgment? Will Park" on the first floor aid a protest against Donna Sum- about why or why not Jeff the AIDScommunity b!'l truly couple minutes later heard mer are wasting their energy Levi should or should not be represented by the strongest "Sunset People" on the sec- . and precious time. She really hired esa lobbyist. I believe possible advocate who sees ond floor. Kind of retro, huh? has so little to do with the a critical element has been nothing but the immediate If Mr.Chafin hates this kind of state of things. If a cam- overlooked. needs of the PWA? Can he music, fine, but it seems to paign against her were to Jeff did an excellent job be criticai of a program that me more a matter ofteste. . succeed, would that help in hisrole as Executive Direc- his spouse is directing? Will

I bONT SEE AN'( AIDS ~REAT "ERE' NO pOiNT \N FRtG\t'rENtNG- \OU~\ST lXlL\.IlS WIn( ALL T\t1SSAfE SEt SToFF!

6 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 GMHC have a better so knows full well that its sister to apply for grants from the career and a successful rela- chance at getting a govern- organization, the National NIH;so the possibility of con- tionship. If a heterosexual ment grant with Jeff and Gat and Lesbian TaskForce, flict of interest isabsent. couple like Bob and Eliza- Bopper in their respective is our community's advoca- But what is most disturb- beth Dole can be a United positions? How will this cy arm; it is not simply an ing isVivian's claim that I am states Senator and Secretary appear to all the other AIDS educational organization. I somehow devaluing my rela- of Labor without Bob Dole provider organizations? am not new to lobbying on tionship with Bopper by con- having to deny the people It aso pains me that we our community's behalf-I tinuing to do the work I have of Kansas representation on as a community continually did that for the last six years done for the last six all labor issues,then it is not diminish the Importance of at NGLTF,primarily on AIDS. years-simply because my unreasonable for me to think our relationships. As we are So there is a record-prior to spouse works in a related that Sopper and I can han- first beginning to win gcins in and during my relation- field. I have no problem with dle fairly the separate recognition of our domestic ship-a record that shows the public scrutinizing my responsibilities of our profes- partnerships, we easily ratio- that I have been willing to record of the last six years to sionallives. nalize away that impor- praise or criticize anyone in determine if I have in any Or does Vivian Shapiro tance. Would a health or out of government when- way compromised the inter- think gays are not equal? organization hire a spouse in ever it was appropriate. I ests of the constituency I Jeffrey Levi the heterosexual sense, to know there are some at NIH represent because of my Washington, D.C. lobby his or her spouse? who wish I would temper my relationship of the last three Would the ethics Issuescome pressure on them because of years. I do have a major Dyke Dearth to play? If we believe that my relationship, but I haven't problem with Vivian's sug- Have you noticed the we do not need to have the and I won't. gestion that I am not profes- number of Letters to the Edi- same code of ethics in Vivian claims my rela- sional enough-and, it tor that have complained of employment and govern- tionship with Bopper will would seem from her letter, the dearth of lesbian-related ment as do non-gay married assist GMHC in getting NIH all gay people are not pro- articles in your magazine? couples, do we truly deserve funding. GMHC has not fessional enough-to know We have. We were talking equal recogQition of our received and has no plans how to carry on a successful about it the other night and relationships? ~eff levi Is a talented man. The issue for me is not his abilities but the ethics of his seeking this job, the appearance of conflict of Interest and hls ability fo stay patlal to the people he represents. He must always remain an advocate of the PWAand at times, an adver-· sary to the NIH. I trust that Jeff will consider the issue of ethics and &xplain his position. Vivian Shapiro· Manhattan

.Dole Model Vivian Shapiro's letter questioning my Integrity and ethics In my new role with GMHC sirrply because of my relationship with Bopper Deyton Is·a very disappointing demonstration of the This week's nightmare is Zsa ZSBGabor, who said she's terrified of going Internalized homophobia to jail because "I'm afraid of lesbians'- It seems the slap-happy Hungarian, that oppresses so many in who hauled off and smacked a member of the Beverly Hills Police Department. our movement. isn't happy aboqi disappearing into the goulash gulag. We've got good news aut first some facts, that Vivian either ignores or mis- for you, daah-link. We polled &00 jailed lesbians, and every one of them said represents. they wouldn't touch you with a ten foot... Vivian is past co-chcir of Zsa Zsa is shown here reacting to her thirty-first face-lift in the classic the Humoo Rights Campcign "Queen of Outer Space ... Fund, our community's politj. cal action committee, and

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 7 we cane up with: blans aren't reading it? and Gay Community Center. ing input. A bigger concern TEN REASONS WHY Clitoria Van Dyck. Buffy among other things) is not of mine is that your letter DYKESAREN'T WRITING FOR Ballbuster, Karla Marx making a dime from this pro- could be equally valid if you OUTWEEK: ject. And since I'm also the replaced the word 1. The pay is lousy for a OutWeek Contributing Editor Comptroller. I should know. women/lesbian for ·people for-profit pubication, and we Victoria star responds: As for the articles about of color: but nobody both- cermot afford to work cheap. Nothing in the lesbian fashion and clubs. or snide ered to write that letter. 2. OutWeek ignores how and gay community is more remarks about separatism. Victoria Starr lesbians participate in gay frustrating than lesbian invisi- consciousness raising and culture. It's different. As sin- bility, especially when it is potlucks. yes. they can get OutWeek contributor Venei- gle dykes and as couples, perpetuated by lesbians. In tiring. On the other hand. ta Porter responds: we make less money than this case, It is truly unfortu- there are real lesbians who Usuallywhen one of my gay men and have devel- nate that a few flippant arti- are tired of being criticized editors calls up air hot under oped different forms of com- cles by one or two agitating because they happen to the collar. it is not good munity as a result. dykes can cause such a shave their legs (and the news and this time was cer- 3. Most of OutWeek's furor that the rest of us go fact that all of the women in tainly no exception. It is dif- articles about dykes man- unnoticed. By the rest of us I the ·Social Terrorism· pages ficult to answer accusations age to put down: 1) lesbians am referring to writers like have cool hair cuts and of underreportage or over 30; 2) feminists; 3) sepa- Donna Minkowitz, Maria wear make-up does not gender-related bias coolly. ratism; 4) the entire history of Maggentl. Sandy Dwyer. mean that they are either My unprescribed response is lesbian life on this planet Jean Carlomusto. Eva Yaa drag queens or straight). Per- often some primitive quote before 1981. Asantewaa. Rachel Lurie. haps the articles are acts of about ·fuck·em if they 4. There are no women Sue Burke. Andetrie Smith. rebellion by women who can't take a joke: but that In power (full-time editorial Catherine Saalfield. Sarah could not broach these sub- is clearly inappropriate in staff) on this publication. Schulman. Veneita Porter. jects In other lesbian publi- this circumstance. I will not S. The only women in Sarah Petit. Jennie liv- cations. After all. ageism. defend OutWeek by saying your weekly gay society ingston. Kim Christensen. elitism and trying to define that its coverage on lesbian photo spread ("Social Terror- Desma Holcomb. Victoria what is ·PC· are problems Issuesis adequate, but I will Ism·) are either straight Brownworth. Liz O·Lexa. that exist not only In Out- say that I have written for women or men In drag. No Wickie Stamps. Susie Day. Week. They are huge prob- several of our more ·tradl- offense to straight women or myself and others. who have lems in the lesbian tlonal· newspapers and dragsters, but they're just not covered such topics as les- community. Does this mean there are a few insights I'd lesblansl Have you ever bians in the military. lesbian that OutWeek should mirror like to shae. heard of Park Slope, or the marriage. Sharon Kowalski the community. with all of its Primarily I think that Duchess, or softball? (and domestic partnership faults? Hell no. OutWeek most gay/lesbian mags' 6. Most dykes do not Issues). safe sex. lesbian should be leading us to coverage of women's Issues live In downtown Manhat- health. Katherine Herzog resolving these problems. or isInadequate at best. Many tan, wear fancy clothes, or (and job-related discrimina- at lea.t serve a. a forum for of our community publica- have expensive hcircuts. tion). violence against les- debate. tions fall Into the trap of a , 7. lesbian life Is not just bians, lesbian creativity. Which brings up my final certlan kind of political cor- style-like gay men, we have lesbian cultural expression. point. ·Why should you write rectness that leaves those of our political Issues:child cus- dykes and the Insurance for the magazine If most les- us who don't subscribe to tody, 'pay equity, violence Industry. lesbian love. lesbian bians aren't reading It?· Is the party line squarely on against women. Or If you pornography and lesbian that like ·Whlch came first, the uninvited list. must write about lesbianism history. not to mention les- the chicken or the egg?· Unfortunately, many of as style, why have you bian political commentary, No, I call It more like ·If you our publications are so sore- Ignored our children, our news and regular arts writing. aren't part of the solution, ly short of funds that paying dogs and our cats? Nevertheless. you bring you may be part of the staff is problematic enough 8. We're tired of snide up some Important problems problem:'1 am not being without the added burden cracks about: potlucks; con- that we at OutWeek are, flippant; we take this quite of paying freelance or vol- sciousness raising meetings; indeed trying to deal with. seriously. But have lesbians unteer writers. In the life in the boroughs; women Yes, we need more lesbians and gay men ever succeed- decade or so that I have who are angry about,being on the editorial staff. And no. ed in working together written about life as a les- sex objects. And we're tired we don't pay tons of money. except around single issues bian. sex activist. AIDSworker of crticles con,:>osed of lists. We do however. pay more and major epidemics? The or/and person of color. I 9. Ninety percent of than most gay mags (it's goals that OutWeek has set have been paid for my your so-called lesbian arti- ea.y to pay more than noth- for itself are monumental. efforts exactly seven times cles seek to explain lesbian ing!). and as the magazine and it will be historic if we (twice by OutWeek). This life to gay men. Is that becomes profitable. the pay succeed. But it will take all of also includes several ·pro- becaJse 90 percent of your will improve. Suffice to say us to pull It off. The fact that fessional" journals many of readers are gay men? that OutWeek's publisher (a you bothered to write is which have reprinted my 10. Why should we write PWA who founded and encouraging, since it means articles. in several other for this magazine if most les- financed the Boston Lesbian you are still reading and giv- publications.

8 OUTYWEEK September 24, 1989 The fact that the vast we have a dangerous habit Have you considered an ing for us all. But not these majority of lesbian writers of cannibalizing our leaders investigation on why so back seat gossips hissing are paid shit or less is a fact and our young. It is a table many of our friends and against ACT UP! How ugly; that forces all of us to do to which I do not wish to be colleagues who have lost how fa, for worse thCJ1any other things for money. One invited, but I'll gladly share as dearly as any of us of ACT UP's shortcomings of our longest-standing my tofu with you. And we choose not to ACT UP (and beyond the sheer newspapers barely pays its will try to teach the boys "united In anger against lunacy of having no notion writers and editors more some manners, just give us AIDS"? For those of us who that Wigstock is highly politi- then $200.00 a week. sometime. have fought for our loved cal by its very existence), There seems to be this ones. as well as fighting for these sniveling peHy bour- mistaken assumption that if OutWeek contributor Liz those who won't or can't geoiS among us are DAN- a reader writes In to com- Tracey responds: fight. we know it continues GEROUS PEOPLE WHOSE plain about editorial I do not believe I am to be tough: last Tuesday's SENSELESSNESSTHREATENS approach, something will arrogant enough to speak miserable turn out for the THE CRUMBS OF FREEDOM change. There is a hope, for the entire lesbian commu- housing rally; and after a WON BY EVERYPERSONOF but believe me it should nity. If you choose to do so,1 lovely day at Wigstock, the COURAGE. The time is past remain in the realm of wish- think you might examine your violence that ended the due to let these indi",duals es. As for knocking con- own lack of tolerance of the bliss raised chilling issues know that they are the Von sciousness raising and diverse community we are, forme. Karajans, fiddling while potluck I hate to spill the and perhaps take yourselves After the police had Berlin burns, and they beans, but there are many lessseriouslywhen doing so. arrested and impounded a deserve the same rage we of us lesbians who have Maybe we could have a man for defending others aim at City Hall and the retired our collective men- potluck consciousness;aising who were attacked by FDA. And these wimps talities CJ1dcasserole dishes. night to discussit... lacrosse-sticked idiots, lady didn't even have the guts Call me sacrellglous, but I Bunny and crew permitted to wear a wig at Wigstock. think if we cannot make fun OutWeek Features Editor an announcement of a "'gil Jamie leo . of ourselves, we are in seri- Michelangelo Signorile to be held at a nearby Manhattan ous trouble. look, when I responds: police precinct. There, near walked into this office and Not that we're so much the stage, I recoiled at sever- BaD Recall saw all those serious white Into numbers,statistics,figures, allnsidious exclamations from In your 9/11/89 editors' boys I got a little nervous ... etc., but we do feel certain people, some of whom are reply to correspondents Erik there Is no gender equity in things need to be clarified. AJ purported to be prominent Smith, Dan Hunter and gay/lesbian journalism. OutWeek's masthead shows, figures in NYC's gay elite. Thomas Hickey you stated, There are several publica- nearly half of our contributors "They Intend to turn Wigstock ostensibly for the sake of tions that do a damn good are lesbians. And 42% of Into an ACT UP meetlngl" clarification, that the Coors job of It, but they are OutWeek's subscription cus- "They have to politicize logo appealng In the back- besieged with letters saying tomers so far are women. everythlngl" and the like. ground of a photograph of that their coverage Is too Without question, OutWeek From ACT UP's begln- your offices was a postcard lesblan-orlented. needs lesbians on Its editoriai nlng,l have observed rrlJch, "sent to us mlscflevlously by I would venture to say staff, and we are now work- Including obscene oppor- columnist Bradly Ball." AsIde that one should also Ing to achieve that. tunism among some IndMd- from the fact that the cor- remember that "new" Is the We have encouraged, uals, key players who rect word Is mischievously, I operative word here. Out- and continue to encourage, appear more Interested In wish to state for the record Week is embarraslngly women with CJ1ypointof "'(!HI who or how many they go that I never behave In this young and Is bound to do to write for OutWeek. We are home with each committee manner (not at these some tactless and slngle- chastized by women wno say night; chiding, sexism, wages). Maliciously, some- Sighted things. There Is vaiue we are not representing their racism, cruel arrogance and times; Imperiously, often; In being critical and realistic. views, and yet they don't politically Irresponsible mischievously, neverl Fur- like someone finding her actually offer them to us. actions potentially detri- thermore, I feel that by voice in a loud room, one is Access to OutWeek does not mental to us all. But all this is attributing the quality of ms- definitely going to have to reQ,Jirethe serne kind of corr old news. In short, from the chief to me you have seri- try different pitches to make frontational tactics necessary trust funders to the home- ously . undermined the oneself heard. I think we in dealing with government less, ACT UP New York is a integrity of my column. How agree that our lives are bureaucracies. A few story bunch of New Yorkers,often on earth can I be expected multi-faceted, and we are ideas jotted down on paper behaving frumpily human. to continue advising our rightly tired of educating willsuffice. We have celebr¢ed victo- community while my own boys about that fact. It's sort ries even as dear sweet editors have- publicly of like trying to get your best Wigged Out friends die and equally inno- maligned me as a prankster male friends to carry tam- I hope that OutWeek cent and unknown strangers or, worse, an Imp? Enough pons. Once again we will will thrive in its intentions to add another digit to the of these di"'si"vetactics! have to be patient with carry a long-needed ban- grizzlystats. Indignantly, each other, and kick some ner for activism to lesbian like it or not, ACT UPers Bradley A Ball ass when ,necessary. I think and gay communities. are among the ones fight- Manhattan

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 9 News AIDS Activists Storm Stock Exchange, Halting 'Trading High Price of Burroughs' AZT Under Fire

by Michelangelo Signorile UP, targeted the drug company Bur- we're robber barons, ripping people NEW YORK - For the first time in roughs Wellcome, maker of Actifed, off,· David Barry, vice president, history, trading at the New York Stock Sudafed, Neosporin and a host of research development and medical Exchange was interrupted by other over-the-counter drugs. Bur- affairs for Burroughs Wellcome told protesters last Thursday, when seven roughs holds an exclusive patent on the Wall Street Journal "It would be AIDS activists slipped past security the anti-viral drug AZf, which costs theoretically possible for us to gM: guards and delayed the stan of trad- individuals an average of $8000 per away all our drug,· he continued. ing by five minutes with a loud and year, making it the most expensive "Everyone would get it for a while, vibrant demonstration. drug in history. It remains the only and then we'd go bankrupt.· Shortly after the seven were federally-approved AIDS treatment arrested and taken into custody, at proven significantly effective in slow- Fake Name Tags approximately 11:10 am, a crowd - ing the progression of AIDS. At approximately 9:25_a.m. seven at one point swelling to over 1500 Activists demanded the drug be men, all dressed in suits, entered the people - began arriving for a rau- made available free to the millions of Stock Exchange using fake Bears cous, ear-splitting demonstration in people in the U.S. who are now Steams name tags. According to for- front of the Exchange at 30 Broad infected with HIV, the virus associated mer bond trader Peter Staley, who is Street in Manhattan's Financial District. with AIDS. the chair of ACf UP's fundraising The protest, organized by ACf "There is a myth out there that committee, he and four others then ~' quickly went up to the VIP balcony which overlooks the trading floor, immediately chaining themselves to a bannister and handcuffing themselves to each other. Staley says he looked at the clock at that moment and noticed that it was 9:29:45. The Exchange opens precisely at 9:30 am, when there is usually a surge of trading. Staley said the five unfurled a banner which read "Sell Wellcome" and hung it from the balcony. They then used loud emergency marine fog horns, attempting to make hearing anything else impossible. Although the trading boards and ticker machines did not stop, it was impossible to verbally communicate and, therefore, most transactions were halted, according to several traders who were on the floor. The Stock Exchange, however, reported that trading was not interrupted.

limes: No Story Two of the seven protestors had LAYING OUT THE WELLCOME MAT positioned themselves below the bal- Activists on th, New YorkStock Exch.ng. H./cony

10 OUT~WEEK September 24, 1989 BULL MARKET? Photo: lee SniderIPhoto Images ACT UP zaps thll Nllw YDrk StDck Exchang. cony and immediately began taking years ago (Hoffman had used real and booing." Andersen said the visi- photographs (using cameras which money). The bills were reportedly tors were immediately hurried out by they had smuggled in) when the ban- printed with the slogan, "Fuck your guards. Robert Hilferty, one of the ner was unfurled. They then qUickly profiteering, we're dying while you activists who had taken photographs walked outside and gave the film to play business.· and then walked back into the other activists who brought it to the While security guards tried to Exchange, described the traders_ as Associated Press, which sent the remove the protestors, traders and "an angry, mobilized mob." photo and the story across the coun- brokers surged toward the balcony in "They were waving their fists, try. Reports of the demonstration large numbers, booing and jeering, while one trader was yelling to the appeared in all of New York's dailies, according to Staley. "They were others: 'you've seen faggots before, except The New York Times, which angry. They were screaming things get back to trading!'" has come under attack recently for like 'Mace the faggots!' and they were The. guards eventually removed what activists have called its spotty, throwing wads of paper at us," he the protesters from the Exchange. But inaccurate AIDS coverage. The story told Ou/Week. at that point, a "witch hunt" ensued, ran on the front page of the Wall according to Hilferty. "Some traders Street Journal; it was also covered by "You've Seen Faggots Before~ were looking on the floor for out- national television networks and most Eva Andersen, a Swedish tourist siders." Hilferty said a trader looked at local network affiliates. who was on a tour of the Exch?-nge,. him and yelled, "Who the fuck are Staley said that the chained, said there was panic on the trading you!" and ran for him. Within sec- hand-cuffed group on the balcony floor at that moment. "It was· a bit . onds, Hilferty claims, he was being began throwing fake dollar bills out frightening," she said. "They [the chased by dozens of "blood-thirsty onto the floor, imitating a: demonstra- traders} were rushing at them [the and violent" traders. tion by Abbie Hoffman nearly 20 protestors}. There was lots of anger Se. STOCK EXCHANGE on page 57

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 11 News Dinkins Wins Primary With 580/0 of the GayVote Acceptence Speech Angers Lesbians, Gays, AIDS Advocates by Gabriel Rotello NEW YORK - When Manhattan Bor- ough President David Dinkins won the Democratic mayoral primary with 51 per cent of the vote, ending the reign of Mayor Ed Koch and becoming the first Black man to win the nomination, it seemed to be a cause for celebration in the lesbian and gay community, which favored Dinkins to Koch 58% to 34%, according to a Daily News exit poll. But Dinkins immediately ran into trouble with his lesbian and gay supporters when he failed to mention AIDS or give prominence to gay men and lesbians in his acceptance speech. Many in the AIDS community were exultant that Koch, and presum- ably his controversial health commissioner, Stephen Joseph, will be out of a job next year. Most lesbian/gay organizations, political clubs and politicians had endorsed Dinkins, and it was Widely considered that the community's support would be crucial to his success. But on election night, despite a lengthy victory speech delivered in the Grand Ballroom at the Penta Hotel during which Dinkins spoke of numerous minority issues and thanked countless supporters, he failed to mention the AIDS epidemic, and omitted recognition of his lesbian and gay support.

-Gays? AIDS?- After a small group of campaign volunteers fashioned a makeshift sign reading, "Gays? AIDS?" and held it beneath the podium from which Dinkins was speaking, the candidate, KING AND QUEEN? Photo: Ellen B. Neipris at the urging of Manhattan Borough Dinkin. and M.ssinll.r visit the Duchess before Sheridan Square rally

12 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 President nominee Ruth Messinger, political and financial support, and there has never been any ques- acknowledged his gay and lesbian through the Borough President's tion of his support.· support, mentioning a rally the previ- office, of the AIDS community. Polls of New Yorkers, who are ous Friday in Sheridan Square. According to Babick, Dinkins also five times more likely to be The following day, at a Demo- "spoke repeatedly about AIDS and Democrats than Republicans, place cratic Party "unity rally· on the steps the lesbian and gay community· in Dinkins squarely ahead of Republican of City Hall, Dinkins again spoke at his most recent State of the Bor- rival Rudolph Giuliani. Nevertheless, length about the problems facing the ough Address. it is widely believed that Giuliani, city and the diversity of his support, "I was a little disappointed with who has also received the nomination without mentioning AIDS or the les- his victory speech, and I do wish he of the Liberal Party, will mount the bian and gay community. had emphasized AIDS and his gay strongest Republican bid for City Hall In an interview with Out Week, support,' Babick continued. "But since John Lindsay's successful Dinkins' campaign manager, Bill Dinkins has always been accessible, attempt twenty years ago. ~ Lynch, insisted that the omission was accidental. "I want to apologize to the gay and lesbian community,· Lynch said. "We're deeply concerned about IT'S UP TO US! the community and about AIDS.' Lynch pointed to the large number of lesbians and gay men working at the THE LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES NEEDS: Borough President's office, and Dink- ins' strong pro-gay stand on domestic 1 LESBIAN TO GIVE $1,000,000 partnership and AIDS. "I hope Dink- or ins won't be pun ished over this,' 10 LESBIANS TO GIVE $100,000 Lynch said, adding, "It will not hap- or pen again." 100 LESBIANS TO GIVE $10,000 or Leaden express concern 1,000 LESBIANS TO GIVE $1,000 Community leaders, however, or expressed concern, and Dinkins' gay 10,000 LESBIANS TO GIVE $100 campaign workers called an emergen- or cy meeting Thursday night to assess the damage that was done. 100,000 LESBIANS TO GIVE $10 Campaign staffer Leslie Kagan or told OutWeek, "We need to remind Mr. 1,000,000 LESBIANS TO GIVE $1 Dinkins and his speechwriters that we are an important part of his constituen- Since 1974, The Lesbian Herstory Archives has existed to preserve, protect, and cy. But we must also remind the com- nurture Lesbian culture. Bursting at the seams in our ISth year, the Archives munity that he has a very good record needs a new home. Our dream to create a new Lesbian Archive and Cultural on gays and AIDS." Kagan added, "We Center can come true only with your financlal support. please help by can feel comfortable being part of this donating generously to the Lesbian Herstory Archives Bullding Fund. We need campaign, but we feel justified in your help now! pushing our .concerns. " As always-more if,less if Referring to appointments and innovations made during the Koch OK, HERE'S MY CONTRIBUTION: administration, Joyce Hunter, a campaign volunteer, stated, "If I'm going $------to plug Dinkins, I want to know NAME: ___ what's going to happen to the mayor's office for lesbians and gays, ADDRESS:---- __ the health commissioner's office, and the police liaison. The fact that he is CITY: STATE: ZIP: ------not talking about us publicly is of great concern." - But Christopher Babick, the Mail to: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, Inc (or IHEF, Inc.), deputy director of the People With P.O. Box 12S8, New York, NY 10116. All contributions are tax deductible. AIDS Coalition, was reluctant to Please write or call (212) 874-7232 for more information. criticiz~. Dinkins, pointing to his

September 24. 1989 OUT'YWEEK 13 News Greitzer Survives Another Gay Challenge Duane Loses by 3,000 Votes, Announces 191 Candidacy

by Sandor Katz have to listen to that for four more and the Stonewall Democratic Club, NEW YORK - Openly gay City years," he quipped, turning off the set. both of which also endorsed Koch, Council candidate Tom Duane was "We ran a wonderful, thrilling, exciting cost Duane the votes he needed in defeated in his attempt to unseat campaign. But the numbers just the West Village as well. Coucilwoman Carol Greitzer, who has weren't there this time,· he told the Parrish said of the district'S East represented the third council district, dozens of supporters and campaign Side neighborhoods, which lack the which includes the Village, Chelsea workers who had packed the room. west side's huge concentrations of gay and parts of the East Side, for twenty Duane won nearly 60 percent of men and lesbians, "We did a lot of years. Duane received 16,704 votes, the vote in Chelsea, where he lives work there, and it shows,· noting that or 46 percent of the Duane received twice as total, to Greitzer's many votes in Peter Cooper 19,716, or 54 percent. Village than Rothenberg In 1985, Greitzer was had four years ago. challenged unsucces- Most observers at- fully by gay candi- tributed Greitzer's victory date David to the inertia of incumben- Rothenberg, who lost cy. Challenges to incum- by a similar margin. bents are notoriously The growing difficult. Of the nine coun- belief in the weeks cil races that involved before the election incumbents, only one, that Duane would Hilton Clark of Harlem and win, fueled by a New Morningside Heights, was York Times September defeated. Twenty-five of 1 endorsement, made the Council's incumbent's his defeat all the went unopposed in the pri- more disappointing to maries. supporters. Duane But some Duane sup- tried to tum that dis- porters blamed progres- appointment around sive, non-gay supporters of with an election-night the lesbian and gay com- announcement that munity, like Manhattan he will seek election ON TO 1991 Photo: Ellen B. Neipris Borough President candi- to the Council again TomDuane giving concession speech in Chelsea date Ruth Messinger and in 1991. Congressman Ted Weiss, Duane, wearing his own cam- and has served as a Democratic Party State Senator Manfred Ohrenstein, paign button, a baseball cap from the district leader and community board and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried Amalgamated Clothing and Textile member. But according to campaign for failing to endorse Duane. (Accord- Workers Union, and a loosened tie, manager Lisa Parrish, Duane fell short ing to Greitzer campaign literature, arrived at his victory party at a of the 50-50 vote she was counting on Weiss endorsed Greitzer.) Chelsea restaurant just after 11 pm, as in the Village, the eastern regions of Duane seemed determined to Mayor Edward Koch's concession which are a traditional Greitzer continue his quest, however, and con- speech blared on a television behind stronghold. Some involved with the cluded his concession speech by say- the bar. campaign said that the endorsement ing, "I'm not going away. This is really "The good news is that we don't of Greitzer by the New York Native the kickoff to the 1991 campaign." Y

14 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 ~ the total number of votes cast for her was more than double that of her nearest opponent, Scott Stringer - was achieved in part by a good deal of support from the lesbian and gay community. Reached by phone at her home two days after the election, Eldridge told OutWeek, "I've always been supportive of the lesbian and gay community, and I was very pleased that I had that support." Speaking of Dave Taylor, she added, "I recognized and supported gay people's interests in supporting a gay candidate, and I hope to be a champion for the gay community even after it elects one of its own. I hope to be joined on the City Council by a gay .. person very soon." In heavily Demo- r..r~ . '\ it!\ I ( ." \ cratic Manhattan, Eldridge's nomina- -' ' "" CANOl-DATE? Photo: Andrew lichtenstein tion, like Messinger's, more or less Dave Tay/of (I.) and his lovef eliH Randefs. assures her of a victory in November. Observers told Out Week that Eldridge was particularly interested in and supportive of Tom Duane's City Council campaign (see article). Taylor Defeated Taylor, who had put drug abuse, homelessness, lesbian and gay rights and AIDS in the forefront of his cam- in WestSide paign, said Tuesday night, "When I began this campaign 15 months ago, AIDS wasn't even mentioned by the CouncllRace other candidates. "This is not the end," Taylor by Keith Miller and Andrew Miller "intelligent and humane approach" to added. "One of the main reasons I ran NEW YORK - Dave Taylor's bid to addiction and treatment issues. was to build a progressive coalition become one of New York City's first "Doubters said that he would not of lesbians and gays, of Blacks and openly gay city council members get the Black and Latino vote Hispanics, [of) women [and] minori- ended on election night, when he fin- because he is gay,· said Rachel ties: people with progressive ideas, ished fifth in a field of 8 candidates Breen, Taylor's campaign manager, people who want to see this city vying for the leadership of Manhat- "but we proved them wrong.· Breen turned around." Referring to David tan's fourth district, which includes the said that Taylor was in an "excellent Dinkin's successful bid for the Demo- Upper West Side and Hell's Kitchen. position" to win a seat on the council cratic Party's nomination for mayor, he Taylor received 3,070 of the in two years, when planned changes concluded, "We now have one hel1 of 41,998 votes cast in the race, which in the city's charter would expand an opportunity to do that - we can was won by Ronnie Eldridge, a long- New York City's legislative body by elect David Dinkins as mayor." ... time West Side politician who was about twenty seats. once the liaison between the lesbian Addressing a crowd of forty vol- and gay community and fonner Mayor unteers and supporters in a small audi- John Lindsay. The district's incumbent, torium next to his campaign Ruth Messinger, was successful in her headquarters on Broadway near West run for the Democratic nomination for nnd Street an hour after the pol1shad Manhattan Borough President. dosed, Taylor was reflective and opti- According to his campaign staff, mistic. "You don't always win your first Taylor finished second or third in the time out. But we are building an orga- election districts containing the largest nization that will eventually bring populations of Black and LaJino vot- about the kinds of changes on the ers. Taylor, a substance abuse coun- West Side that we want," he said. selor, attributed this success to his Eldridge's resounding victory -

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 15 News AIDS Doc Blasts City on Treatment Access Claims Minorities, Women Can't Get New Drugs

and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) is told the assembled media at the CRI by Chris Bull denying life-prolonging treatments to office on West 26th Street. NEW YORK-Dr. Bernard Bihari, the low-income-people with AIDS. Iris Long, director of AIDS Treat- director of the Community Research "Treatment for AIDS is increas- ment Registry, which tracks clinical tri- Initiative (CRI), an organization that ingly going to include both FDA- als in the city, said that few of the conducts community-based clinical tri- approved and experimental drugs," thousands of the people with AIDS als on potential AIDS treatments, Bihari said. Contending the policy dis- (PWAs) and people with AIDS-related demanded that the city change its poli- criminates against poor women and Complex (PWARCs)that use city facili- cy that prohibits city-run hospitals and people of color-who are more likely ties receive even the most standard clinics from distributing drugs that have to depend upon city facilities for treatments for the disease. ·We have not yet been fully approved by the health care-Bihari called on HHC to been working at this for years, but Food and Drug Administration (FDA). seek experimental drugs from the there just has not been enough action At a September 7 press conference National Institutes of Health (NIH) for [from HHC)." Long advocated getting organized by CRI, several other· repre- its patients. "These patients will not activists on hospital boards in order to . sentatives of AIDS advocacy groups have equity of access to what will be push the city to open trials. She also charged that the New York City Health ~tandard treatment for AIDS,· Bihari noted that even FDA-sanctioned drugs like pentamidine are often not available in city emergency rooms. ·We have to force them to deliver,· she said.

60 Percent Mortality Rate "The city is not even trying drugs that have been proven to save lives, which is criminal,· said David Kirschenbaum of ACf UP's treatment and data committee. He pointed out that there is still a 60 percent mortality rate among PWAs from pneumocystis pneumonia, which can be prevented with the use of drugs such as trime- trexate and aerosolized pentamidine. HHC said the criticism was unfounded. An HHC spokesperson, Sue Halpin, told OutW~k that the city never had an official policy prohibiting the distribution of experimental drugs. "We were very disappointed with CRI's presentation. We feel it was off base and innacurate. The real focus should be on the FDA and the NIH, agencies that should be encouraged to make drugs more available. We agree with CRI that access for the poor and DEMANDING THAT THE CITY CHANGE Photo: Ellen B. Neipris minorities should be improved, but to CRIB Bernard Bihari suggest that we are not doing our best

16 OU~WEEK September 24, 1989 to provide care for our patients is very GayBasb unfair,· said Halpin.

No Guinea Pigs Murder According to Halpin, HHC presi- Convictions dent Jo Ivey Bouf- ford has already written to Anthony Reversed Fauci, director of the National Insti- by Keith Clark tute for Allergy and SAN FRANCISCO-In a two-to-one Infectious Diseases deCision, the state court of appeal here (NIAlD), asking for reduced the 1984 second-degree mur- the agency's assis- der convictions of three men to invol- tance enrolling untary manslaughter in the bashing minorities and IV death of a San Francisco gay man, drug users Into tri- bringing angry accusations of homo- als. The letter phobia from local activists. The state admitted that only attorney general's office announced about 200 out of August 28 that it would appeal the deci- over 4,000 HHC sion to the California Supreme Court. patients with AIDS The three men, Timothy White, were enrolled In MAKING DRUGS AVAILABLE TO ALL Photo: Ellen 8. Neipris 26, and Donald Clanton and David NIH trials. The let- ADAPT. Yolanda S.'rtlnD Rogers, both 23, were convicted in ter also acknowl- 1986 of second-degree murder in the edged that while over 60 percent of ulation is excluded from the one thing July 29, 1984 killing of John O'Con- the city's PWAs are people of color, that could save their lives,· she stated. nell and were sentenced to 15 years only about ten percent of PWAs For example, she said new trials for to life by a unanimous jury verdict. enrolled in NIH sponsored trials at ddI, an anti-viral drug related to AZT, In reducing the verdict, the city facUities are minorities. should be available to all. "Many sub- appeals court found that evidence Halpin also said that HHC urges stance abusers have been denied during the trial indicated O'Connell caution with the use of experimental access to drug trials and have to claim had been struck only twice, which AIDS treatments. "We don't want vul- to be gay or bisexual to get into a courts have ruled does not have the nerable minority patients to be used trial,· said Serrano. "high probability of death" usually as guinea pigs for toxic AIDS drugs.· "IV drug users and women of required for a murder conviction. The child-bearing age are routinely denied three men, who have been in jail Testing and GMHC access to drug trials based on stereo- since their arrest in 1984, could be eli- The press conference was seen types. Addicts are seen as unreliable gible for parole immediately as a by many as a response to an earlier although many do care about their result of the appeals court ruling. announcement by Gay Men's' Health health,· added George Bellinger, Edu- ''The attack was unprovoked and Crisis (GMHC) advocating anonymous cation Coordinator for the Minority seems clearly to have been motivated HIV testing for people at risk for Task Force on AIDS. solely by mindless homophobia,· jus- developing AIDS. GMHC's announce- Of the 7,500 PWAs and PWARCs tice William Newsom wrote in the ment was criticized for failing to rec- who are served by HHC, less than majority court finding. "But the pres- ognize that treatment is still not 100 receive experimental drugs, said ence of such circumstances, however available to most people who test Bihar!. "We are sympathetic to a cer- reprehensible they may be, cannot HIV antibody positive, especially the tain extent,· said Bihar!. "The HHC support an inference that the isolated poor and uninsured. A number of staff is overworked and not aware of act of striking a person with bare representatives of minorities commu- many AIDS drugs. They are often per- hands in itself imports a high degree nities addressed what they said is the forming what amounts to battlefront of probability that death will ensue.· almost total lack of treatment avail- triage, without the kind of time to Justice John Racanelli concurred in able to the poor. spend with patients that private physi- Newson's findings. Yolanda Serrano, executive direc- cians have.· Asked who is to blame Justice John Holmdahl dissented, tor of the Association for Drug Abuse for the failure to make drugs avail- however, pointing out that the three Prevention and Treatment .(ADAPT), able, Bihari said "there is a lack of men left the scene of the assault on said women and' minorities are not leadership at the top of HHC and at O'Connell laughing. Holmdahl also participating in drug trials. '1'his pop- local levels: ~ S .. GAY BASH on Pili' 57

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 17 News AIDS/HIV Anti-Bias Bill Passes Senate Vote Excludes IIHomosexuals, Pyromania, Compulsive Gambling"

by Cliff O'Neill tion on the basis of physical or mental Bray, communications director for the WASHINGTON-Moving the country disability in the areas of employment, Human Rights Campaign Fund. "The one step closer to a national ban on public accommodations and telecom- fact that it passed by such an over- AIDS and HIV discrimination, the U.S. munication systems in both public whelming margin in the Senate proves Senate approved on Sept. 7 a historic and private sectors. A ban on such to us that the time has come, finally, bill banning discrimination on the basis discrimination in housing was passed for what we have been fighting for the of disability, by a lopsided 76-8 matgin. last year as part of the Fair Housing last six years: an~i-discrimination pro- The bill, the Americans with Dis- Act of 1988. tections for people with AIDS.· abilities Act (S. 933), would extend to Lesbian/gay and AIDS activists ·People should be judged on the estimated 43 million Americans wasted no time in praising the Senate for their abilities, not their disabilities,· with disabilities, including persons passing the landmark discrimination bill. stated Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the with AIDS and HIV infection, the pro- "This is the centerpiece legislative bill's lead sponsor. Likening the bill to tections of the Civil Rights Act of priority for the entire AIDS and a "20th Century Emancipation Procla- 1964. The bill would ban discrimina- gay/lesbian community,· stated Robert mation,· Harkin called the bill "one of DC a= I

18 OUT~WEEK September 24, 1989 the most critical pieces of legislation Gays and Helms Agree? affecting people with disabilities ever Sen. Helms also introduced an addressed in this nation.· amendment excluding transvestites OutWeek from the bill's protections, which also HIV Commission passed. The North Carolina Republi- Seeks Editor "This bill implements the key pro- can successfully attached a similar visions of the Presidential Commission amendment to the Fair Housing Act on the HIV Epidemic," stated Sen. last year. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) who called Lobbyist Steve Smith said of the OutWeek is accepting the legislation "not only simple justice, Helms and Armstrong amendments, resumes for the paiition of [but] sound public health policy.· "Homosexuality and transvestism and Arts Editor, a full-timepaii- Although at the onset of the day- bisexuality are not disabilities and we long debate on the bill's provisions, are very happy to hear that Sen. tion. Applicants should Harkin stated that he and Senate Helms has taken this position and we have strong background in Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-KS) agree with him 100 percent.· journalismand the arts. Edi- would oppose any amendments to The only senators voting torial experience a plus. the bill, several measures were against the measure were conserva- attached to the bill with varying tive Sens. William Armstrong (R- OutWeek is an equal degrees of support. Ca), Jesse Helms (R-NC), Gordon opportunity employer and After a long and heated debate, Humphrey (R-NH), Jake Garn (R- encourages women and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) lost on a UT), Steven Symms (R-Idaho), people of color to apply. motion to allow an amendment to James McClure (R-Idaho), Malcoin provide tax breaks to certain small Wallop (R-WY) and Christopher Send resumes and clips businesses trying to comply with the "Kit" Bond (R-MO). to Gabriel Rotello, Out- bill. During floor debate, Hatch also The bill will be making the round Week, 77 Lexington Ave. made a reference to expected amend- of requisite committees in the House ments to exclude certain disabilities through September and is expected to Suite 200, New York, NY from the bill's protections. "All of be passed before the fall recess. ... 10010. these communities deserve support, l I' ,I regardless of our personal points of i view whether we like or dislike various communities where disabilities Television that maHers to the exist,· Hatch said. Lesbian and Gay community -Gender Identity Disorders- Afterwards, Armstrong asked Harkin if a series of conditions- including drug abuse, homosexuality, pedophilia and kleptomania-were covered under the bill's protections of people with mental disabilities. Although Harkin assured Arm- strong that they were not, he later introduced an amendment specifically excluding from the bill "homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestism, pedophilia, transsexualism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, compUlsive gambling, kleptomania or pyromania, gender identity disorders, current psychoac- News • Interviews • AIDS Updates tive substance use disorders, current psychoactive substance-induced Every Tuesday Night at 11 pm-12 organic mental disorders ...which are not the result of medical treatment or & other sexual behavior disorders." ManhaHan Paragon Cable After brief comment from Kennedy that the bill did not cover Channels C/16 these groups in the first place, the amendment was passed. Gay Broadcasting System

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 19 Out Takes

Rican Day Parade on June 11, in viously the staff attorney for the Dis- Gay, Black which nearly 100 gays and lesbians trict of Columbia City Council Com- participated. Many of those organizing mittee of Human Services. and proud the African American contingent had The project will address the polit- attended the Puerto Rican Day ical and policy issues of the lesbian NEW YORK-Nearly 60 lesbians Parade, and several members of the community, and develop strategies to and gay men joined hundreds of Latino community were present this advance those issues through federal other participants in the African Amer- week, bearing a banner from Hispan- legislation, education, and advocacy, ican Day Parade on Sunday, Septem- ic United Gays and Lesbians. according to HRCF. It will also "reach ber 10, and as the marchers made Plans are in the works to bring a out to inform the lesbian and their way up Adam Clayton Powell lesbian and gay presence to other eth- women's community of politcal devel- Boulevard in Harlem, they made their nic parades. "This certainly sets an opments, and to proVide feedback to place in history as the first official les- example,' said Aurelio Font, an orga- HRCF on women's issues.· bian and gay contingent to participate nizer of the lesbian and gay contingent Stoll called the job a "dream in the annual event. in the Puerto Rican Day Parade, who come true." She added, "Every person The contingent was spearheaded also marched in the African American knows there is one issue that is by several organizations, including Parade. "We're hoping it catches fire, uniquely special to them. For me, it's .Salsa Soul Sisters, Gay Men of African and this sort of thing happens in the the struggle for lesbian rights.· Descent (GMAD), Other Countries (a St. Patrick's Day Parade, too." HRCF,which essentially functions collective of writers and poets), and -Mark Chesnut as the lesbian and gay community's the Minority Task Force on AIDS. lobby in Washington, also contributes '"We want this community to see money to pro-gay candidates for us as a part of the community,· said Congress. -Andrew Miller Jeff Haskins, a member of GMAD. Movin' on up Haskins said it was important that those attending the parade realize that WASHINGTON - The Human ·we don't go away and we don't stay Rights Campaign Fund has a new Les- Clip and in the closet.· bian Issues and Outreach Project, and "From Stonewall to Soweto, Peo- Kathleen Stoll, a 31-year-old former save ple Fight Backt" was one of the legislative aide to Congressman Robert chants that boomed from the contin- Matsui (D-CA), has been hired as its NEW YORK - About a dozen gent as they marched in the 90- director. She will begin on October 1. women and men protested outside degree weather. Members of the Cardinal Spelman High School in the Minority Task Force on AIDS handed Bronx, where 150 members of Opera- out condoms as they moved along the tion Rescue had gathered for a meet- sides of the parade route. ing on Saturday, September 9th, Response from onlookers varied according to Julie Clark, a spokeswom- from positive to negative, with many an for WHAM!, the Women's Health calling cheers of support for the Action and Mobilization. group. Marchers were generally WHAM!, a direct action group pleased with the reception. "committed to demanding, securing But Dionne Freeley, a board- and defending absolute reproductive member of Salsa Soul Sisters, said that freedom and quality healthcare for all responses -can differ for gay men and women,· called the protest to draw lesbians. "They may not feel as threat- attention to Operation Rescue's ened by Black gay men because renewed presence in New York City. there's the myth of the Harlem sissie Operation Rescue is an anti-abortion in every church,· Freeley told Out- group best known for its nationwide Week. "But when you talk about a blockades of abortion clinics and Black lesbian, it's a much, much big- women's health centers. ger threat. African American women KATHLEEN STOLL Photo: Patsy lynch Police arrived when WHAM! are expected to perpetuate the race.' members surrounded the Catholic Lesbian and gay participation ·in Stoll, who has worked in Mis- high school's entrance, but there were this march was modeled largely on souri and Washington for foster care no arrests. what is regarded as a successful les- reform, supplemental income for the· Together with the Reproductive bian and gay presence at the Puerto elderly and Medicaid reform, was pre- Rights Coalition and the Black

20 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 Women's Health Project, WHAM! is planning more clinic defenses and abortion rights demonstrations in the «II: i i'i uno upcoming weeks. TRATTORIA To coincide with a planned With Two Dinners Operation Rescue action, clinic Courtesy bottle of red wine - Salice Salentino Riserva '82 defense has been scheduled for Satur- **** day, September 23. The location of Special Pizza from our Woodbuming oven the clinics targeted will be announced ****. on WBAI radio, 99.5 FM. Your host Sal Acquista For the first day of the U.S. **** 165 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY. 10011 Tel: 212·989-2330 Supreme Court's 1989-90 session, an October 2 demonstration entitled "Stop the Court Before it Stops You· has 1_.1IIII"-1! been scheduled for the steps of the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse at 5 pm. At 5 pm' on Friday, October 13, WHAM will protest at the site of the ~ National Right to Life offices, at 15 West 34 Street in Manhattan. The following week, a ·Pro-Choice &t MEXICAN Crime Watch" is scheduled at the Man- RESTAURANT hattan Pregnancy Services, an anti-abortion counseling center at 255 West 23 First Avenue between 49th & 50th Streets Street run by Operation Rescue leader 883 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. Chris Slattery, who is also an advertising TELEPHONES: 935-3749 • 421-1212 sales representative at Financial World Magazine in New York City. WHAM! meets every Wednesday HELP WANTED evening at 6:30 pm at the office of the Village Independent Democrats, 221 The Gay & Lesbian Alliance West 4th Street near 7th Avenue Against Defamation, Inc. South. Call 212-353-2678 for more (GLAAD) seeks a Development information. --Andrew Miller Assistant to help the Executive Director and Board with fundraising and national GLAAD network development Salary low ABC's'on Q 20's plus benefits. Women and persons of color encouraged to apply. Resume and cover letter to OK GLAAD, 80 Varick St #3E, New York, NY before October 6. For SAN FRANCISCO-While appar- More information call ently not the "magic bullet" cure earlier 212-966-1700. laboratory tests suggested it might be, preliminary results from the communi- The Gay & Lesbian Alliance ty-based Project Inform clinical trials of Against Defamation, Inc. the experimental anti-AIDS drug Com- (GLAAD) seeks a receptionist/Data Processor to pound Q indicate that it slows the answer phones, maintain fIles and activity of HIV, the virus most medical computer databases and perform authorities believe causes AIDS. other clerical tasks. Salary high Martin Delaney, co-director of teens plus benefits. Women and Project Inform, an AIDS treatment people of color encouraged to information clearing-house, and Dr. apply. Resume and cover letter to Larry Waites, one of the physicians GLAAD, 80 Varick St #3E, New involved, in the San FranciSco branch 1-800-CALL-EDF York, NY, 10013 before October 6. of the trials, said the early results For more information call cl~~Ei>l:m 212-966-1700. September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 21 Out Takes

showed "evidence of significantly decreased viral activity" among the 14 patients involved in the tests here. The Project Inform trials have also been going on in New York, Los Angeles and Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, with over 60 total patients in all four cities. According to Waites, almost all the San Francisco patients showed a lower p24 antigen level, which most AIDS researchers agree indicates decreased HIV activity. Waites said the p24 antigen level appears to decrease dramatically immediately fol- lOWing an infusion of Compound Q and then to increase somewhat again a few weeks later, but remains at a Significantly lower level overall, sug- gesting a general, marked decrease in HIV activity. Nearly half of the patients also showed slightly increased levels of T-4 cells, the immune system's -helper cells." The lowered T-4 cell count among people with AIDS is believed to be caused by HIV, and makes people vulnerable to a variety of diseases and opportunistic infections. Waites emphasized, however, that until a fmal statistical analysis of the trials was completed it was not possible to say whether the increased T-4 cell counts was clinically Significant or not. Compound Q (known clinically as GLQ-223) is a purified protein derived from the Chinese cucumber. Results of laboratory experiments in test tubes announced earlier this year showed the drug selectively killed cells infected with HIV, leaving un in- FIVe AIDS activists, employed as waiters and waitresses on the Gracie Mansion staff, fected cells alone, and generated a zapped Mayor Koch Sunday, September 10 at a reception at the mayor's residence. They took the mayor and his staff by surprise, chanting MCityAIDS care is a lie, Koch campaigns while wave of optimism. people die: The protesters, Tom Blewitt, Heidi Dorow, Tom Keane, Frank Smithson and Ellen The final results of the Project Spiro, are all members of ACT UP.Blewitt. Dorow and Keane had been previously employed by Infonn trials should be available later the Gracie Mansion catering staff. this month, Delaney said, and will The five worked preparing and serving lunch until the mayor began his speech, when also be presented to the FDA. WaiteS they left their posts and went through the mansion to a porch directly behind the mayor, Ble- added that Project Inform would also witt with a sign he had carried through the mansion above his head disguised as a serving tray. Smithson, who was assigned to grilling hot dogs, reportedly left the wieners to burn. be seeking an FDA-sanctioned com- According to Blewitt, after the group began holding up the signs behind the mayor and munity-based program for further chanting, the mayor stopped his speech and turned around. MHeturned beet red, and started studies of Compound Q and how it shaking his head. Then he went green, still shaking his head. Then he turned white," Blewitt can most effectively be used in fight- said. They were eventually ejected by the police. ing AIDS. Although it went public Outside, the activists attempted to distribute fact sheets as the guests, who were work- several months ago, the Project ers in adult literacy programs, left the reception. Some expressed support for the action; com· Infonn trials were essentially conduct- ments included MGodBless You,· MRightOn," and the thumbs up. However, Pat Del Bello, who oversees events at Gracie Mansion, refused to comment ed underground, without the approval -Sandor Katz Photo: Ellen Spiro of the federal agency.

OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 Researchers at UCSF involved in the FDA-approved study declined comment either on the Project Infonn results or the status of their own tests. A spokesman for the FDA would connnn only that the Proje<1 Inform trials were still being investigated ~ Clark Here CODle the brides

COPENHAGEN-Activists with Denmark's Landsforentngen For Bass- NeT VE er Og Lesblske [LBL) say they have overcome a myriad of bureaucratic roadblocks and will Indeed be cele- brating a mass gay wedding in the Coppenhagen Town Hall Oct. I-the day Denmark's first-in-the-world law granting homosexuals equal rights takes effect. The wedding had been on- again/off-again for several weeks as activists scrambled to secure a mayoral decree keeping the town hall open on a Sunday, and worked to insure that the bureaucracy printed • and distributed the marriage license applications in time. LBL activists have been attempt- COME TO THE BEACH THIS SUMMER. .. Cf) ing to get a count of just how many gay/lesbian couples will tie the knot ...STAY ALL YEAR Oct 1. Jacobsen says she knows of 50 .- so far, but expects that there will be FULLY RENOVATED APARTMENTS ... more as publicity increases and the z date approaches. ...IN THE ART DECO DISTRICT Some couples are choosing to uJ wait a few days because they are not PERFECT FULL TIME RESIDENCES ... prepared to be beamed around the globe by the world press, which has ....OR THE BEST IN AFFORDABLE SECOND HOMES. indicated it will descend upon the mass wedding. Following the ceremony, LBL will host a grand reception for the couples, their families and friends, "a lot 1520 Euclid Avenue of politicians, - the media and "all the people who worked for this law for Miami Beach, the last 20 years, - Jacobsen said. FL 33139 On Saturday night, Sept. 30, gay stag parties and bridal showers are scheduled in all of Denmark's major VINTAGE cities. Called "polter abend- in Den- mark (altbough it's a German phrase), PROPERTIES I (305) 534-1424

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 23 Out Takes

the parties "mostly involve getting called the "big lie" of local fundamen- awfully drunk, "at.least in heterosexual It's a He, it's talists, who are protesting the upcom- society," Jacobsen said. ing Gay Games III by claiming that Legislators in Sweden are expect- a sh8lll ... gay men want to turn all people into ed to be the next to permit gay men homosexuals. and lesbians to marry, probably a cou- "It's patent nonsense," said Price, ple of years from now. The Swedish VANCOUVER, British Columbia "It's just simply not the way sexual prime minister has indicated he is sup- - Openly gay Vancouver Alderman orientation works.· portive of the idea. -Rex: Wockner Gordon Price denounced what he But Prayer Canada head Arne

NEW YORK-Over two hundred ACT UP members converged on tivity program. St Vincent's Hospital's waiting room at 10 p.m. on September 11 to Francine Shifrin of the Hetrick·Martin Institute told OutWeek protest an alleged incident of harassment The second such protest that she perceived a resistant tone in the sensitivity.sessions she had this year the demonstration was sparked by the treatment of Darren conducted. MTheythought it wasn't necessary at St Vincent's and felt Britton, who was brought to the hospital after being assaulted in a that they provided compassionate care without looking at their gay-bashing at the Wigstock festival in Tompkins Square Park. Britton, patients' homosexuality: who was in drag for Wigstock, said he was referred to as a Mprosti- A staffer in St Vincent's Public Affairs office, who would not give tllteM and Mfaggot" by three hospital staff. His lover, David Robinson, her name, commented that the recent incidents were Munderinvestiga' was not allowed to accompany Britton into the emergency room. tion right now: St. Vincent's vice president for external affairs, Mark According to Robinson, the physician who treated Britton said he was Ackerman, told OutWeek that he Mwelcomed continuing dialogue with appalled at the homophobic harassment, apologized to Robinson and the representatives of the lesbian and gay community.MBut on the issue speculated that the man responsible was a surgeon atthe hospital. of a town meeting, one of the protesters' demands, Ackerman said that Earlier this year, a similar protest was held after a lesbian rape for now, 'We at the medical center feel small meetings are more fruitful: survivor and her lover were physically and verbally assaulted by St Robinson said he is exploring the possibility of a class action suit Vincent's personnel. After that attack, activists demanded St Vincent's against the hospital, and asked that any lesbian or gay man who has . provide sensitive training for its staff. Ironically, Britton is an employee experienced harassment or abuse from St Vincents to call him at (201) of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, an advocacy group for lesbian and gay 653·2881.He assured confidentiality for those who wish anonymity. youth contracted by St Vincent's to conduct its gay and lesbian sensi- -Jon Nalley Photo: Andrew Uchtenstein

24 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 ~ Bryan, of nearby suburban Surrey, said ued to deny Widespread reports of her sey Legislation Committee wrote that the Gay Games - which will be held husband's homosexuality, and insisted "homosexual acts are morally wrong, at some 25 sporting venues throughout that he contracted AIDS through a 1979 and are unnatural acts: Shortly there- the city - would -lure people to blood transfusion. after, on Aug. 27, police raided and homosexuality· and cram Vancouver Denson said he shared McKin- closed Thackery, the island's only gay hospitals with AIDS patients. ney's house in Washington while Lucie bar, charging the owners with allow- Gay Games III and an associated McKinney remained in Connecticut, ing after-hours drinking and dancing arts festival is expected to attract over and kept their relationship a secret. on Sundays. 10,000 athletes and artists from The existence of their relationship has A bartender at a mixed around the world, according to Barry been confirmed by a number of Wash- gay/straight bar in SL Helier, reached McDell, an organizer who was reluc- ington sources. -Andrew MUler by telephone Sept. 10, said the com- tant to respond to the evangelical fun- munity was "very sad" about the clo- damentalist charges because it would sure, but feels even more motivated "play into their hands.· now "to write letters to Strasbourg," The Games have the support of Change the seat of the European Court. Vancouver Mayor Gordon Campbell. The challenge is being assisted by Only four out of 316 names on a Channel Peter Ashman, the lawyer who beat N0rth- petition against Gay Games III sent by ern Ireland's sodomy law in a previouS Prayer Canada to the mayor's office ST. HELlER, Channel Islands- FJ.Jrq:ean Cwrt a&Se. --lk':x~ are actually residents of Vancouver, Poised in the English Channel near according to Muriel Honey, a the coast of France, the Channel spokeswoman for the mayor. She said Islands are a bit off the beaten Opera the rest were from nearby suburban track-so far off apparently that the and rural areas, adding that the peti- government on the Island of Jersey tion would have no effect on the feels exempt from the obligations that queens city's welcoming the sporting event. other signatories to the European - Keith Clark Convention on Human Rights follow SAN FRANCISCO-AIDS activists to the letter. from Stop AIDS Now or Else (SANE), But that will likely be changing the same organization that shut down soon, now that the tiny gay and les- the Golden Gate Bridge last January, Conn. con? bian community in the Islands' largest went up-scale for the blacl<-tie and city-St. Helier, population bejeweled opening night of the San WESTPORT, cr - Arnold Den- 26,351-has filed a formal complaint Francisco opera season, stunning and son, the man who says he 'Was the with the European Human Rights horrifying the decked-out audience of lover of the late Rep. Stewart B. McK- Commission 3,000 with a 15-minute demonstration inney (R-Cf), lost his claim to a share The complaint followed an just as the house-lights were dimming of McKinney's estate when a Connecti- August decision by the government to and the curtain about to rise on Verdi's cut judge ruled that McKinney's wife, keep on the books a law allowing "Falstaff,· a performance some patrons Lucie, is entitled to nearly $400,000 she four years imprisonment for men con- had paid as much as $500 to attend once lent her husband. The late liberal victed of having sex with each other. Abo!Jt 50 smartly dressed demon- Republican Congressman, a vocal sup- For the past three years, the law strators, who had apparently gained porter of homeless and gay/lesbian has been suspended, in an effort to entrance to the performance by pur- rights, died of AIDS last May. encourage HlV testing and other anti- chaSing standing-room-only tickets, Probate Judge Earl Capuano's AIDS measures. But now that the Leg- began blowing whistles from the rear September 11 decision, which cited islation Committee, Jersey's of the War Memorial Opera House McKinney's frequent borrowing, with law-making txxly, has opted to keep here as maestro Kazimierz Kord was permission, against his wife's trust the law, pro-gay Attorney General entering. As some demonstrators fund at City Bank in Bridgeport, effec- Philip Bailhache permitted the sus- tossed leaflets from the balcony onto tively made it impossible for Denson pension to expire on Aug. 31. the audience below, other SANEmem- to collect the money left to him in the The expiration places Jersey in bers marched down the central aisles, former Representative's will, accord- full violation of the European Con- shOVingushers aside, and handing out ing to the Associated Press. vention on Human Rights, which for- replicas of opera house programs that Rep. McKinney left real estate bids discrimination based on sexual read "Stop AIDS Now or Else proudly and a car whose total value is approx- orientation. Just last year, Ireland was presents AIDS-the Epidemic, a dra- imately $59,000 to Denson, a 34-year- ordered to repeal its sodomy law after matic evening in three parts." old real agent now living in an openly-gay senator pursued the Audience members, including Whitesburg, GA. matter through the European Court of some of the Bay Area's wealthiest and Lucie McKinney, an· heir to the Human Rights. most influential, began trying to shout Procter'& Gamble fortune, has contin- In rejecting law reform, the Jer- down SANE members' chants of

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 25 Out Takes

"We're here, we're queer. Stop AIDS now!" Others, perhaps more interested in the glitterati of opening night than familiar with grand opera, reportedly believed the uproar was a staged prelude to the performance. As the noise of the demonstration and the shouting audience members began to deteriorate into actual violence (there were, in fact, two minor assaults reported during the disrup- tion), Maestro Kord led the orchestra in a spirited version of the Star Spangled Banner, bringing the audience to its feet with perhaps the loudest singing of the national anthem ever witnessed in this city. -Keith Clark (L TO R) JOHNSTON, GARCIA. DAMSKI AND DITTMAN Photo: Rex Wockner carry over into the permanent group. woman's right to an abortion. It is the "The Gang of Four is really a first time the nation's high court has non-violent guerilla group targeting agreed to hear a case involving an Gangof5 activity and getting things done quick- individual's right to terminate extraor- ly and deftly,» Darwin said. "Fre- dinary medical life support. CHICAGO-The activists primari- quently homocrat organizations have The case involves a 31-year-old ly responsible for last December's so many people involved in the deci- Missouri woman who sustained dev- passage of Chicago's comprehensive sions process that it really hampers astating injuries following a car acci- Human Rights Ordinance, which speed. Of course, we won't be exclu- dent six months ago. She is described includes anti-discrimination legislation sionary," she promised. by doctors as being in a "state of per- that protects lesbians and gay men, Action Network's first goal will sitent vegetation.» have formed a permanent organiza- be Chicago's hate crimes statistics act, The woman's family and friends tion to further the local fight for gay which was introduced in the city have maintained that she would not and lesbian equality. council this summer by pro-gay alder- want to be kept alive under these con- Veteran activists Jon-Henri Dams- man Bernie Hansen. ditions, and have tried to have her life ki, Arthur Johnston, Laurie Dittman "What we need is Mayor [RichardJ support terminated. Nonetheless, the and Rick Garcia-Chicago's so-called Daley's nod so we can start working with Missouri State Supreme Court, citing a Gang of Four-along with newcomer the [city's lawyersJ,"said Dittman. "That state anti-abortion law, ruled that the Susanna Darwin, say the Action Net- hasn't happened yet and now is the time. state's "policy strongly favoring life" work for Lesbian and Gay Issues will Daley's been in office long enough to be outweighed the woman's right to die. work toward a wide variety of short- settle now." -Bex:Wockner "This case has obvious implications and long-term goals, including domes- for people with AIDS and their loved tic partner legislation, a hate crimes ones, who may have to make similar statistics act and strengthening of the decisions," said Jean O'leary, NGRA's Human Rights Ordinance so victims of Life or death executive director. Benjamin Schatz, the discrimination receive compensation. firm's civil (ights project director, called A final long-term hope is that the WASHINGTON - National Gay the right to medical privacy "crucial for group might some day hire full-time Rights Advocates, the nation's largest people with HIV disease, because it employees. At present, Chicago's only lesbian and gay civil rights law firm, encompasses soch important concerns as full-time, gay-community-paid politi- has filed an amicus curiae brief in a access to treatments and freedom from cal activist is Bob Adams of IMPACf, privacy case currently before the U.S. forced testing." a political action committee. Supreme Court. The case, Cruzan lIS. In an unrelated case, NGRA will The defming characteristics of the Cruzan, will consider whether the announce on September 19 a lawsuit "Gang of Four" during the fight for the right to privacy, which is not explicit- filed against the U.S. Department of Human Rights Ordinance were their ly guaranteed by the constitution, Housing and Urban Development for stubborn single-mindedness and their includes the right to die. Experts con- denying a loan to Housing for Inde- refusal to become involved in intra- sider the case important because of its pendent People, a San Jose-based not- community political squabbles. Accord- potential impact on a broad range of for-profit housing agency which is ing to Darwin, that same credo will constitutional issues, including a seeking to develop a hOUSingcomplex

26 OU~WEEK September 24, 1989 for homeless people with AIDS. The loan was denied in October "IN OUB OWN WBiTEFI 1988 based on HUO's contention that Lesbian and Gay Reading Series peole with AIDS would not live long enough to benefit from such housing assistance. HUO Secretary Jack Kemp, L..b.... ad Gay ..... _ •• n formerly a Congressman from upstate reading from their poetry and prose New York, is named as the suit's defendant. - Andrew Miller Thursday, September 28 7:30 pm Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Teachers 208 West 13 Street 3rd floor auditorium pet? $3 suggested donation / $2 for students

SAN FRANCISCO-As the nation's nearly 3 million public school teachers headed back to the class- rooms this fall, the estimated 2 million DO THE WRITE THING who are represented by the National Education Association (NEA) had a Your checkbook can change the world. So new negotiating tool to bring to the however much-or little-you can afford, collective bargaining table: domestic partners benefits. please support your community The Association's Representative Assembly adopted a number of pro- organizations. Or they might not be around posals from the group's Gay!Lesbian to support you. Caucus this summer, including resolution F-4, which states, "The Association l' , [NEAlbelieves that education employees should have access to comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance for their spouses, domestic partners, and/or family members.· The resolution will have no irnrne- WE WORK WITH diate impact on NEA members, since it is only a statement of NEA policy at the national level. But, Bob Bide, head of QUEENS the Bay Area Network of Gay and les- and Brooklyn, Manhattan, and even Boston! bian Educators, and newly-elected co- WE DON'Ttake listings over the telephone, give out "pre-printed" lists, or distribute . chair of the NEA Gay!Lesbian Caucus, outdated information. said the policy statement gives the local teachers' unions affiliated with NEA a WE DO use computers to pre-screen your listings for you, update listings daily, personally meet each and every applicant, and give referrals to both people seek- "gUideline" for issues the national ing shared housing and people with housing to share. group endorses as part of contract negotiations. -Keith Clark If you've been disappointed in other gay referral agencies, give us a call or stop by. We think you'll be pleased. Navy over- board THE ROOMMATE ~ WASHINGTON-Navy officials The Nation's Largest Referral Network have announced the findings of their four-month investigation into last 24 Hour Info: (212) 518-2953 i Out.leI. NY: (800) ..... 283 spring's explosion on board the u.s.s. NEW YORK 162 W. 561h St.' New York, NY 10019 II.QlilQIf 316 Newbury 51.' B0510n, MA 02115 Iowa" singling out sailor Clayton BRQQKUNE 1469 Beacon 51.' Brookline, MA 02146 CAMBRIDGE 52 JFK SI.· Carrbrldge, MA 02138 . S•• OUT TAKES on page 57

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 27 In Our Own Hands Sisters Doing it for Thems'elves ' Safe Self-Abortion

by Jane Post-Webster Besides these "personal" reasons, bians and gay men and the ability of there are also strong political connec- all women to make life decisions in- tions. What's at issue is the right to dependently of men pose a significant control our bodies, control our health threat to patriarchal institutions like K, boys and girls, why is care and declare our right to have sex the nuclear family. Lesbian and gay this appearing in a lesbian for the pleasure of it. The right-wing activists are natural allies of reproduc- O and gay magazine? We're understands that the visibility of les- tive rights activists- and both bring about shattering myths, different perspectives to and that's what this article the demand to control will do. First, women can one's own body. Lesbians deal with their reproduc- and gays contribute a sex- tive health themselves, positive stance and repre- Supreme Court be sent an alternative to damned. Lesbians need to monogamy, marriage and know this information just . motherhood. The repro- as much as straight women ductive rights movement because a lot more of us brings, we hope, a femi- have sex with men than nist view that argues for we'd like to admit Even if women first-not fetuses .we're practicing safe sex (a first. When either perspec- good method of birth con- tive is down played or ig- trol for women), some- nored, both movements times condoms break, or are weakened. the man's cum on your The AIDS activists thigh connects with all that movement is yet another stretchy fertile mucous you natural ally for reproduc- might not even have tive rights, since both known was there, and movements are trying to in- zapl- where's those fluence how much people bloods? For those lesbians themselves can be deci- who've never had sex with sion-makers in their health men, we've always taken care and destiny. Men have care of our sisters (even to try to understand that separatists would still help sex has never been safe for out their old friend who's women because of the still sleeping with the threat of unwanted preg- -enemy-). And there's nancy, rape and sexual ha- rape. My bet is also that rassment. Women have a some of you boys are hav- stake in fighting for sex to ing sex with women. All be safe. When we learn to .the better if they're les- appreciate what's important bians. to each of us, we will have

28 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 a stronger basis for working together. tion is the presence of fertile mucous ~i------~~ One thing we all agree about is which is different from the rest of New York that we don't want the Supreme Court your secretions. Put your finger in in our bedrooms. Even though abor- your vagina (you can get distracted, I tion will remain available in New know, but think clinically), and get York for at least a while longer, the some of your secretion on your fin- fight for reproductive control has to gers. If it's clear, stretchy and looks escalate. Part of our political offensive like raw egg white, it's fertile mucous. to demand our right to control our The chemical structure of fertile mu- bodies is learning how we can do it cous allows for the easy transport of ourselves independently of our doc- sperm up to the egg tube. That's how tors, our partners of the state. Our some women have gotten pregnant Charming, Newly Renovated knowing how to do. it ourselves from man's cum on their thigh or Brownstone Conveniently thwarts the powers-that-be. It puts us their labia. Fertile mucous usually ap- Located in Chelsea in a better negotiating position. Once pears a day or so before ovulation • All Rooms Have they know we can do it by ourselves, and lasts for about three to five days. Washing Facilities they'll want to do it for us. You need to notice your own patterns • Share Bath If we hadn't been duped into be- since every woman is different. • Continental Breakfast lieving our rights were secure after The following are recipes women Included the 1973 Supreme Court decision le- have used if they think they might • Single $50 • Double $65 • Suite $80 ALL TAXES INCLUDED galizing abortion, we wouldn't be in have gotten pregnant during the • Weekly Rates Upon Request this position now. Some feminists did month -and want to try self-abortion. keep up the early practice of Self- This is anecdotal information. If you Advance Reservations Suggested! Help Clinics which are training trust other women's experiences, COLONIAL HOUSE grounds for how to do pelvic exams, you'll see value in anecdotes. If INN track ovulation, experiment with you're caught in the "scientific" model CHELSEA herbs and vitamins to bring on a late and need double-blind studies or ef- 318 West 22nd St., N.Y.C. 10011 period, and even do menstrual extrac- fectiveness statistics, remember that 212·243·9669 tion using a suction device and medi- women's issues rarely get researched, cal instruments. But the Jane Collec- and that women haven't had access to , . ;\r~ •••• •• tive in Chicago, 'which provided controlling research, reSUlting in • abortions for 10,000 women illegally, women relying on their experiences, ~-tJ-viting! • disbanded in 1973. By and large, a la "old wives' tales" which often • women's health care again got co- represent reliable folk medicine_ • • opted by doctors (male and female) passed from generation to generation. • • and business people (medicine is big The follOWing information has • • bucks). It looks like new Jane Collec- been collected from a number of fem- • • tives will be necessary, and we need inist health groups who would tell • • to get ready. women about these recipes and then • • The best time to interrupt a preg- hear back from them about the re- • nancy is e_arly, when that fertilized sults. Hundreds of women' have tried • egg is trying to implant itself on the them, and while they aren't always • You are inn-vited to experience our style of • small-hotel hospitality. Where strangers • wall of the uterus. 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September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 29 Political Science Rewriting the Social Contract

by Mark Harrington her designs upon the health system lobby of retired Americans, which op- have been thwarted by opposition poses the tax surcharges (of up to even within her own party. $800 a year) to be imposed on the The U.S. missed a chance, just mote affluent recipients. ow come we're the only in- after World War II, to extend the re- Medicaid was intended to pro- dustrlalized country besides forms of the New Deal to the health vide health care for the poor. But be- H South Africa without national care system. President Truman fought cause the criteria for implementing health care? The simplest answer to a long and losing battle against the the program were left up to the states, that question would identify what else American Medical Association (AMA) over half the poor don't qualify. And we have in common with South to implement universal health care. those that do qualify are subject to Africa-a pervasive history of racism Doctors banded together to defend routine bureaucratic brutality and deeply rooted in our national history. their economic and social privileges, careless medical attention. Even when The lack of federal provision for the claiming that universal health care was good doctors attempt to treat Medi- well-being of all Americans is directly the thin end of the communist wedge. caid patients, many are driven away tied to the fact that many Americans Instead, the U.S. subsidized from the effort by relentless audits by are left outside the social contract- widespread hospital building in rural cost-conscious bureaucrats like New and this means poor people;'people of areas and improved the health care York State Health Commissioner color, gay men and lesbians. infrastructure. Federal funding of re- David Axelrod. This is not to say that nations search through the National Institutes American is a diverse country, with universal health care aren't of Health burgeoned. more diverse ethnically than the Euro- racist. In many cases, they are. But In the 1960s, President Johnson pean and Japanese countries which the broad outlines of their national engineered the greatest expansion of do have national health care. The pro- health care systems vision of universal cov- were in place 40 years ••• enige to all their citi- ago, before the rever- Medicaid was Intended to zens occurred during sal of migration which. periods when many of brought former colo- prOVide health care for the those nations were nial subjects home and • • ethnically homoge- made explicit racism in poor. But because the criteria neous. South Africa is these countries a rela- f . I . h' ethnically heteroge- tively novel phe- or Imp ementlng t e program neous, and it does not nomenon. I ft th t t have universal health Take Britain. The were e up to e s a es, over care. The same is true world was shocked half the poor don't qualify of the Unit:d States. when, on the verge of • And the SOCialcontract victory in World War II, which prevailed from the British electorate ousted the Con- the welfare state since the New DeaL FDR to LB), and which prOVided at servative regime of Winston Churchill In 1965, LBJ Signed Medicare and least the illusion that all citizens were and elected a huge Labor majority. Medicaid into law. Medicare, disguised entitled to certain basic equities, has But what had the British been fighting as an addition to Social Security insur- been wholly revoked during the last for? Not the empire. Not a return to ance for the elderly, would provide nine years of the AIDS epidemiC. Pres- rigid class hierarchies. The British health care for people who were over ident Bush, a "kinder, gentler" Reagan, working class had put their bodies on 65 or had been disabled for over two won office on the basis of crudely the line, and they wanted some years. Even then, old people had to coded racist and nationalist appeals to changes. Among those changes was pay for many of their own prescription white heterosexual voters. universal health care. drugs. Only in 1988 was an amend- Under Bush's social contract, the No one .would claim that the ment passed that would proVide for hundreds of millions spent on AIDS British health care system is in great coverage of outpatient prescription research in the last nine years will shape today, after 44 years of imperial drugs by 1991-and this amendment is help only the few people who have decline and ten years of Thatcher. But under attack by the well-organized See POUTICAL SCIENCE on page 56

30 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 Sando.· Katz Cmlll11l'ntary aueers Fighting Back

It seems like every time I put on the two bashers whom they had ar- cause they were unable to establish my high heels, I end up running rested. Then they lied to the group exactly what occurred, they decided around town chasing-queer bashers. that had assembled, telling us they to drop the case. It happened in June, on the were bringing the arrestees to one ObViously in such a chaotic and twentieth anniversary of Stonewall, precinct and actually going to a differ- scary situation people will have differ- when several cars drove right into ent one. Then they decided to let the ent recollections. ·One witness stated crowds of people after shouting anti- criminals go with desk appearance that the car had reversed twenty to gay epithets. tickets, rather than putting them thirty feet while other witnesses stated And it happened again on Labor "through the system,· a judgment call five or six feet,· reports the D.A. "One Day, when a group of young men indicating that calling us faggots and witness, who was knocked to the wielding lacrosse sticks attacked a swinging lacrosse sticks at our heads ground directly behind the car, told us couple of drag queens in the midst of is a minor offense. that the car backed up no more than Wigstock. one foot. n So are we supposed In both cases, the faggots to bel ieve that in every case fought back. We fought back be- deemed to be important the wit- cause we had to. nesses' accounts are all identical? Who else is going to do it Are we supposed to believe that for us? The police? The District they could not have refined the Anorney? story by reinterviewing the wit- I vividly remember sitting in a nesses? And most importantly, paddywagon last summer after are we supposed to believe that being arrested at a demonstration it is alright for someone to drive against anti-gay violence. The cops into a crowd he has just called in front were telling faggot jokes faggots, even if he only drove for the listening enjoyment of their one foot into them? dozen lesbian and gay prisoners. Is there any good reason for Or how about the incident us to believe that the police and on Christopher Street "last year the DistrictAttorney are capable of when a gay man who had been protecting lesbians and gay men? fag-bashed was asked by a po- Face it: The police can't liceman, "What do you expect if seem to stop harassing us, you walk around looking like never mind taking the bias that?" Not to mention the long- crimes against us seriously. standing tradition of the on-duty And the Manhattan District At- police at gay pride parades turn- torney, with 350 assistant ing their backs when the Gay Of- D.A.s, has not a single one ficers' Action League walks by. who is openly lesbian or gay. At Wigstock, a group of The D.A. appears to relegate teenage boys with lacrosse sticks bias crimes against us to a low taunted a pair of men in drag. Photo: Ben Thornberry priority while vigorously pros- When the drag queens shouted ecuting political cases against back, a couple of the boys attacked With regard to the incidents on AIDS activists. them with their lacrosse sticks. The the night of the twentieth anniversary We're going to have to form police advised the attackers to dis- of Stonewall, when two cars literally angry mobs chaSing down fag-bashers -perse before they got into trouble, in drove into crowds of lesbian and gay many more times before we get any that wink-wink, nudge-nudge, boys- demonstrators, the Manhattan District decent protection. It's always scary will-be-boys kind of way. Then they Attorney has decided to "decline being in the middle of one of those arreste

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 31 When Tseko Simon Nkoli was a to a close at New York's Lesbian and small child working in the white man's Gay Community Services .Center where field and seeing daily the abuses Blacks Nkoli will speak on Tuesday, September suffered under white minority rule in 19, at 8 p.m. South Africa, he probably never thought Nkoli provides a disturbing, first- he would become so actively involved person account of the realities of being in the struggle for human rights, both for Black and gay in an oppressed land the Black community and the lesbian where political and social justice is still and gay community. He also could not nonexistent for the majority of the popu- foresee that he would be the focus of lation. Clearly there is much left to be international attention and concern. But done to end the political system in that is what has happened as Nkoli fin- South Africa known as apartheid. Per- ishes his tour of Europe and North haps it is the efforts of activists like America with a visit to New York City Nkoli that provide the greatest hope for this week, bringing his story of the a truly non-racist, non-sexist, non-homo- struggle against apartheid, the struggle phobic society. for lesbian and gay rights, and the urgent need for AIDS education for Growing Up in South Africa Black South Africans. MC: Where were you born? Nkoli first involved himself in the SN: I was born in Soweto in 1959 Out of anti-apartheid movement when he was and I grew up in a small town in in his teens. Soon after realizing he was Orange Free State. I left the Orange Free gay, he also became a strong advocate State when I was eleven to go to the of lesbian and gay rights. But the two Township. causes, while equally fundamental in MC: How would you describe your their respect for the value of human life childhood? and freedom, did not co-exist easily in SN: My growing up years were not South practical pursuit. Nkoli confronted really so good, in terms of I being a homophobia and accusations of political child of many children my age. You opportunism from the black and anti- know, my parents were not allowed to apartheid community. From the white live in [Bopeelone) Township. They had gay community and one of its prominent to have a. temporary permit to be organizations, he encountered racism allowed to live there and until maybe and an unwillingness to take a stand after 13 years, they could be considered Africa against apartheid. Still, Nkoli committed residents of the Township. So when I himself to both struggles and managed moved to them, life was not so easy for to earn the respect of many anti- me because of the raids the police used apartheid and gay activists. to do on people living there without Nkoli gained wide attention when being residents. So my parents were part Ending a U,S, Tour, Gay Anti- he and 21 others were arrested follow- of those people. ing revolts in townships surrounding MC: They would have to hide from Johannesburg to protest rent hikes the police? Apartheid Activist Simon Nkoli imposed by local councillors. In the SN: I think they did. If you had ensuing violence, five councillors were money they would not arrest you, but if killed. Because the South African court you didn't, they would arrest you, so Visits New York denied him .bail, Nkoli spent over four you would have to appear in court, or years in detention. He and nine other otherwise you would have to be defendants were acquitted of all charges released at the police station. in November 1988. MC: What sort of housing did you After receiving considerable support have then? and interest from organizations around SN: At that time, we were in a by Mark Chesnut the world before and after the acquittal, squatter camp. Until 1976, when my par- plans were made for Nkoli to visit ents found a house of their own, and Europe and North America, to educate, even those houses, they're not proper network and raise funds for the Town- houses, you should see, the township ship AIDS Project that his organization, houses are what we call a -box of GLOW (Gay and Lesbian Organization matches.· They're small, tiny little things, of the Witwatersand), helped to found. four-roomed things, and we were six at The tour began in July at the annual home, my mother, my stepfather and the conference of the International Gay four children. We were very crowded. Association in Vienna, and now comes But some other people live in those little 32 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 houses, being eight to twelve members regarding homosexuality? ofa family. SN: The Black population doesn't MC: What during your formative accept homosexuality and they don't years influenced you to become really think it Is there, it is existing in the involved in activism? Black community. And if they happened SN: I grew up seeing conditions that to know that there is a homosexual man Black people live in in our township, in society, they really fear that this per- experiencing the hardship. I mean, if son is either beWitched, or this person is police come to the township and arrest insane, abnormal or something. And you for a pass law and they arrest your they try all the possible means to take father for a pass law, we used to see that person to witch doctors or psychol- them not coming home. We used to see ogists or whatever. And they try to con- our mothers going from one police sta- vert that person, to tion to another looking for our fathers. make that person When Iwas at high school, Isaw a lot of straight. And it's also these things in practice, especially in our very difficult accord- schools where the students were subject- ing to our own cul- ed to wear school uniforms, and because tural background the parents could not afford to buy and traditions. We school uniforms, could not afford to buy live in the Black textbooks, lots of schoolchildren were community that we, expelled from school. And I became as children, our par- involved in dealing with those issues ents want us to grow practically, because I didn't really believe, up like they did. if one child was brilliant, wanted to have And I as a man, they an education for her or his future, he were very disap- should not have to leave school because pointed because all he did not have those school uniforms. It they need to do is I was then that I really decided that the for me to get our government should have put more family name going. money to Black education. So I have to have MC: So was that what really pushed children, I have to you to become involved in improving have a son. conditions for Black South Africans? MC: So there SN: Well, there are lots of other was a lot of pressure things, Mark. If I have to mention every from your family? particular thing, I'll really spend a long SN: Yeah. time talking about it. Things started very MC: Do some early. I started experiencing racial dis- Black South Africans crimination on the farm when I was a lit- think that homosex- tle boy. When I was eight years to uality was brought' eleven, I experienced it. I was one of the by whites? children who were working for nothing SN: That is true. in the white man's field. I was one of Lots of people those kids who would wake up early in believe so. My moth- the morning at about 5:00 and take the er, for example, sheep and cattle to the fields. And I regretted sending me would see these white people chaSing to Catholic school, Black men and whipping them. Things which w~ dominat- SIMON NKOU Photo: Jim Marks like that make me very angry because at ed by whItes. I had that time I was too small to react. And just finished at school when I came out. some Black people had accepted the sit- I went to Catholic school for two years. uation like that as part of life. It was a boys-only school, I think there were about 400 boys and only 24 of us Coming Out were Black. MC: When did you first identify MC: It was predominantly white? yourself as gay? SN: Yeah, it was a private school. Pri- SN:In 1978,I suspected that I was gay. vate schools are very expensive. I was lucky. MC, And what responSe did you get MC: What was the reaction at when you came out? What view does school about you being gay? the Black culture in South Africa have SN: My mother told my priest about September 24. 1989 OUT'YWEEK 33 ,.

me being gay, and my priest wanted to MC: I won't say that, then. But were other people last year, November. talk to me. And I was really depressed at you involved with anti-apartheid groups MC: And what were the circum- the time when I was coming out. Espe- while you were involved with GASA? stances of your acqUittal? cially because in the beginning I didn't SN: I was a member of a support SN: The judge said the state had really accept it myself. I found it very committee then. failed to prove their case against 11"of us. difficult to cope with it. But when I had MC: And what sort of response did MC: What about the 11 others?, learned to accept it, I didn't think I was you get when you came out in the SN: The 11 others were found doing anything wrong. I was not even group? guilty-four of them on treason, seven involved in practical things at that time. SN: I did come out to some of my of them on terrorism. So six of them MC: What influence does religion anti-apartheid people, and some of them have been sentenced to five years, but have on South African attitudes about accepted me, and some found it very suspended. Five of them have been sen- homosexuality? difficult to communicate with me. But tenced to between five and twelve years, SN: The Christian religion doesn't the general response is that people and they are in prison. At the moment, favor it at all, they condemn it. The responded really well to me. They never their appeal is pending. We still feel that priest condemned my lover. He told me discriminated against me. And I did not the people who have been sentenced that man must be possessed and his evil hide the fact that I was gay. I did not should have been free. We still believe spirit is coming into me. So there is no talk about it very much in anti-apartheid that they need support. It is just unfortu- church that supports homosexuality. But organizations. I didn't really need to talk nate that they were sentenced. there are a few priests who are in the about it, because nobody had ever MC: Is there any hope for the closet and coming out now and then. talked about his own sexuality. So the appeal? MC: Homosexuality is illegal most important thing was for me to be SN: We hope so. We don't know. according to white South African law, accepted. So if people asked me, I Everything in South Africa is done by isn't it? would tell them. the judges and the judges happen to be SN: Well, they don't mention it in sometimes biased. the book of law. They mention sodomy The Delmas Treason Trial MC: So what are you and the others and immorality. Whenever gay people MC: When did you first get involved who were acquitted doing now that have been arrested, it's been for in what was to become the Delmas you're out? sodomy, and anybody that's been arrest- Treason Trial? SN: Well, I really don't know. Some ed for sodomy has been gay people, gay SN: I was arrested at the funeral of people have gone back to working, men. It's very difficult. They cannot a friend of mine who was killed during doing whatever they did before. arrest you for being gay. the Vaal uprisings. MC: You weren't allowed to work MC: Do they use other charges as MC: You were detained in 1984. or visit your family for a time, were you? an excuse for arresting gay people? . SN: Yes, and charged in 1985, June, SN: That was the bail condition SN: Well, they can use other things with treason, three alternatives of terror- imposed on me. I am allowed to work as an excuse. A lot of gay people have ism, two alternatives of subversion, five and visit my family now, but I haven't been arrested for child molestation, for counts of murder and one count of fur- found a job. loitering, for soliciting. Many gay people thering the aims of a banned organiza- who go to parks and stations to pick up tion. AIDS and Racism in Gay South Africa people, they're being arrested under MC: And when did you get bail? MC: I understand there is not a lot soliciting. SN: I didn't get bail until June of of education about AIDS in the black MC: How did being involved in the 1987. community. anti-apartheid movement affect your MC: What happened to you during SN: No, there is not. Part of my coming out? Did it make you more that extended period of time? travelling now is to raise awareness and aware of the struggle for gay rights? SN: Well, between 1984 to June funds for the Township AIDS Project SN:.Yeah, it did. That's why when I 1985, one was in solitary confinement. that. GLOW [the Gay and Lesbian Orga- came out, I decided not to waste time, So one was not really doing anything. I nization of the Wiwatersrandl has helped and really think of gay rights. Because in was interrogated only four days of my to found. the beginning, I thought I was the only detention and I was left in my cell until I MC: Is that the Zulu AIDS Project? one. And as time went on, I realized that was charged. In 1985, when the charges SN: The Zulu AIDS Project is help- I could not be the only one. There must were brought up, they brought us ing us. That's the name the New York be other people going through the same together and gave us our charge sheet people gave it. crisis that I went. And those people, if and we all appeared in court. Then for MC: Is there any other AIDS educa- there is no one there to help them, who another six months we stayed in prison tion program in the Black community will help them? So I decided that it's until the case began in January 1986. We besides the Township AIDS Project? high time, that we needed a gay support were refused bail several times. SN: No, not in the Black communi- organization. And that's why I joined the MC: Why? ty. The white community is well-orga- Gay Association of South Africa (GASA). SN: Because the state said we were nized around the whole issue of AIDS. MC: Did you help to found that very dangerous, we will run away from They can't come to our townships and group? the country. It was me and 21 others. share with us their knowledge, or edu- SN: No, I didn't. The papers are MC: But then you were acqUitted. cate us on AIDS. The leaflets that they very wrong to say that I had. SN: Yeah, I was acquitted with ten have been sending, they're written in 34 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 only one language, and that is English, of socializing. In the town, they've got least in Johannesburg, anybody can go and the majority of the Black people lots of gay bars, gay and lesbian restau- anywhere. But there are still attitudes, if speak very different languages. So rants, etc. In the [Black) township, noth- you get what I mean. GLOW is hoping, together with Town- ing. Until last year, GLOW founded the MC: You still might encounter ship AIDS Project, to publish more infor- GLOW Bar in Soweto. racism from individuals. mation in a language that people are Me: What sort of reception did the SN: Yeah, from individual gay peo- able to read. opening of the bar receive? ple. But anyway, the bar that we all like Me: Is GLOWa multi-racial organi- SN: We really had a good reception. in Johannesburg is called Skyline. It's at zation? SN: We prefer to call ourselves a non-racial organization. Me: So you have a mixed membership? SN: Yes. We are actually mixed both racially and as far as sex is concerned, men and women. Me: Most of the people we hear about in the gay rights movement in South Africa are men. To what extent are women involved? SN: There is OLGA (the Organiza- tions for Lesbian and Gay Activists) in Cape Town, and their leadership is women. Sheila Lapinsky and Julia Nicol. MC: What are the attitudes of the Black community regarding AIDS? Do they see it as a threat? SN: No, they actually ignore it. They think it's a white gay man's disease. Just the same that they think being gay is a western thing. They think AIDS is from the western countries. Me: How hard has AIDS actually hit the Black community? SN: Well, at the moment we don't have statistics of AIDS in the Black community, we only have it in the white community.

Lesbian and Gay Spaces MC: How much do different races interact within the lesbian and gay community? SN: We all have the same problems of wanting to be accepted in our soci- \,', ety, but the difference is that we come SIMON NKOU WITH HIS SISTER AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM JAIL from different backgrounds. I mean, the white people, at least now, they've got We were surprised to have that good a least 20 percent Black. more tolerance to homosexuality than turnout because we had advertised our Black people. And then of course the thing even in the commercial press, and The Gay and Straight white community has more resources. we thought "oh my gosh, now we're of South African Politics It's easy for white people to live com- going to be gay-bashed.· But there was MC: What do you think is the signif- fortably as gays and lesbians. At the age really nothing. There were lots of peo- icance of the loss of seats by the Nation- of 18, the white young people can move ple who were curious to see "these al Party in the recent elections? out of their parents' place and live by queers who were going to open their SN: Well, I'm not optimistic, and themselves. While we who are Black own bar next door to our places,· etc. sometimes I really ·prefer not to talk about have to live with our parents until we It's quite popular now. it. I mean, I'm not optimistic until the can afford to move out, and normally, MC: What about the gay establish- Black people are allowed also to vote. we don't until we get married. In the ments in the cities--can anyone go into MC: Do you think there is any Black community, we don't even have one? chance of this vdth deKlerk? How does privacies. The same applies to the place SN: Well, now anybody can go, at s.. NKOU on page 73 September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 35 To Tell The Truth t 6,45 p.m. I trudge up out of The Lesbian Herstory Archives: theA 96th Street stop, Walkman affixed, and head down Broadway. I've got my Chronicling a people bag full of 1960s scandal sheets I found at a flea market last weekend, all bearing and fighting invisibility since 1974 headlines like: "Lez Kidnaps Minister's Wife" and "Lesbian PickUp on 42nd by Polly Thistlewoite Street-Actual Photos Inside." "Welcome to the Lesbian Hcrstory Archives," reads the little framed sampler

Photo: Polly Thistlewaite do-dad hanging on the wall. Yes. Wel- come. It's a Thursday "worknlght.· When I enter this place, home to Joan Nestle, Mabel Hampton and the lesbian Hersto- ry Archives, I'm usually met with a high- "The roots of the archives lie in the silenced voic- spirited bustle that takes a second to sort out. It's like letting your eyes adjust to es, the love letters destroyed, the pronouns changed, the daylight or waiting for the fog to the diaries carefuUy edited, the pictures never taken, clear from your glasses or something. This house full of dykes is just so stri- the euphemized distortions that patriarchy would dently non-routine compared to the rest let pass." of my work-a-day that it's a bit jolting; it's like entering an anarchistic sanctuary. -;loan Nestle Mabel, who is 86, is sitting at the Lesbian Herstory Archives Newsletter, Spring 1979 dining room table eating dinner. Tonight she's feeling pretty good and hollers 36 OUT'YWEEK September24, 1989 greetings like "There's my girl!" or uJoanie, here's another one!" to each of us as we enter. I get little kisses from girls I haven't seen since last Thursday which is a real nice lesbian custom. They die over the scandal sheets. As I make my way to the kitchen, I find Beth, one of the volunteer coordinators, already giving a tour to four wide-eyed women from New Jersey visiting the archives for the first time. She's starting out in the little back room where the xerox machine resides, the pantry where the archives was first housed before it spilled over into most of the rest of the two-bedroom apartment. "Depending on who you ask," Beth says in her crackling, animated voice, "the archives was founded in 1974 after the idea grew out of a lesbian-feminist consciousness-raising group. Joan lived here then, and Deb moved in shortly after that, then Judith joined them as a coordinator in 1978, about the time we incorporated as the Lesbian Herstory Education Foundation ..: The tour trails off behind the kitchen, and Irare; another archives regular, fixes Mabel some ice water. Irare says she's fine but tired and she's going to work on the subject files tonight-that means filing flyers, inVitations, catalogs, newspaper clippings and the like. I decide to help her after I eat my salad bar, dinner I bought across the street. I first heard about the archives in the early 80s when I was in library school. Some dyke librarian told me RUNNING THE ANARCHISTIC SANCTUARY Photo: Courtesy lesbian Herstory Archives about it and I remember being so joy- fuUy astounded then, utterly amazed Mabel Hampton and inspired sitting there in the mid-' I see Max already on her knees in dIe of Illinois, that there could be a front of her pet organizations file, the lesbian archive since having an best-<>rganizedcabinet in the house. JP During the 'BOs we've archive means having the power to is sitting at the table by Mabel scratch- strengthened, as has our wield your own vision of yourself in ing her head over something, probably the world. And from my take on les- trying to figure out a word in joan's history, but still we don't bian history then, "orrned largely from handwriting. Vicki is back (!) after too have enough of that power reading the queer books cloistered in long of an absence, and she's updating in the world. the forbidding "cage" in the library's the mailing list on the PC. Deb is main stacks, lesbians just didn't have already on the phone, answering the much of that. During the 80s we've thirty- or forty-odd messages that strengthened, as has our history, but could be left on the phone since just still we don't have enough of that two days ago when she was here last. power in the world. That's what Carol is badgering Jean to finish her µtakes the Lesbian Herstory Archives article for the archives newsletter that so precious. was supposed to come out this week, NoW leaning against the kitchen but obviously won't now (I sheepishly counter as I stuff lettuce in my mouth, remember I don't have my newsletter September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 37 thing done either). Leni's reading a lesbo is the "possibilities" file where you put balls, hats and helmets, an autographed periodical on the couch; no, it's a Glam- thing like pictures of unannounced yet 1960 cover of the Ladder, a brightly our magazine, hmrnm. Amy's working on butchy-looking politicians and obituaries painted denim jacket that says "Head something-er-other I can't figure out, containing tell-tale phrases like "surviv- Lez· over the pocket, rhinestone pasties maybe the button collection. There are a ing the deceased is her long time com- that belonged to a lesbian stripper. few women in the living room I don't panion ..." The Lesbian Herstory Archives Dominating the corners are huge posters recognize--either new volunteers or visi- keeps material running the gamut of les- of Mabel, Lillian, Radclyffe, Sonny, Rota tors. I hear Joan's laughter from the bed- bian experience and identity, with arti- and Gertrude-all images that are room, she's probably on the phone. I facts of lesbian oppression as well as always greeted by the most raucous of wonder if Judith is here already or will liberation. shouts and applause in the NYC Gay she show up later, and I notice all of a The archives has served to strength- Pride March. Over 6,000 books; 13,000 sudden that my eyes and my spirit have en lesbian identities and history. The periodical titles; 12,000 photographs; 500 adjusted to this place. guest books are brimming with heartfelt unpublished papers and a slew of "The archives exists as a labor of praise and thanks to the archives for just posters, artwork, buttons, T-shirts, films, love by the ''''''''''iiii,;;;iiiiiiiE--::-'iiiiiiiiiii - I women who run it." Boy, isn't that the truth. That's a quote from the "Friends" brochure, for the archives' fund-' raiSing campaign. The Lesbian Her- story Archives is now the largest and oldest lesbian archive in the world with over 200 special collec- tions and hundreds of biographical files from lesbians who have sent or willed their letters, writing, photographs and diaries. These are artifacts from famous, infamous THERE'S NO PLACE UKE HOME Photo: Polly Thistlewaite and unfamous les- Joan Nestle and Mabel Hampton at home at the Archives bians, you know, just like you and me, because that's a lot being there, for serving as a "stopping- records, videotapes, audiotapes round of what the archives is about. We know off place" for lesbians searching out out the collection which now spills out from being edited out of history that all their world. Students, scholars, writers, of the apartment into five rented cli- lesbian lives are important and ever so film- and video-makers have used the mate-controlled storage lockers. wonhy of remembering, cherishing and archives to assemble lesbian history into researching. films like Before Stonewal~ Silent Pio- In addition to the personal collec- neers, and Neighborhood Voices as well Check it out: The New Yo'* TimeS tions, there are seven drawers of Max's as books like Lilian Faderman's Surpass- June 1989 coverage of the Gay Pride organization files which include papers, ing the Love of Men and JR. Robert's March included mention of the flyers and paraphernalia from lesbian, Black Lesbians: A Bibliography. Current- "Women's Herstory Archives.· Ferchris- lesbian/gay and gay political and social ly, the archives is sponsoring a video sakes, how could they miss it?! It's the organizations around the word, e.g. ACf project on the Daughters of Bilitis, the big L-word-the Lesbian Herstory UP, Daughters of Bilitis and Salsa Soul first national lesbian organization in the Archives! Get it right, already! Sisters. Thirty drawers of subject files are U.S. Even with the cooperation of jour- chock-full of clippings and whatnot on Inside, the archives looks like a nalists, historians and biographers, so topics like lesbian mothers, bars, festi- combination museum-library. Pho- many archives have failed to preserve vals, sports, butch-fern, passing women, tographs are displayed all over the place records of lesbian lives. For example, in s/m, lesbians in Yugoslavia. My favorite along with other dyke artifacts-soft- the largest research library database 38 OUTTWEEK September 24. 1989 (RLIN), only 23 out of over ., ; lesbian lives and history. 211,000 archival records (that's The archives welcomes .0001 percent) are indexed with material donations from all les- the terms "lesbian, lesbians, or bians. Organize your writing, lesbianism" as descriptors. Most photos, videos and other objects archivists will not index a f of lesbo culture to send to the woman's personal collection with archives. It's very important to "the L-word" unless she herself is put in your will that you want the self-defined and publicly known archives to receive it, because for being a lesbian. Archives on you never know what's going to the left have done their fair share happen. You can also provide the for lesbian invisibility, too. The archives with newspaper clip- Communist Party, for example, pings, oral histories and video has inexplicably "lost" particular tapes of things like dykes on The segments of activist Elizabeth Phil Dona~ Show. Gurley Flynn's papers-particu- Visitors and researchers must larly her correspondence with remember that the archives has Marie Equi, a "known lesbian" severely outgrown its space. If and Flynn's, uh, roommate from you want to use things that are 1926-1936 (from Rosalyn Baxan- stored off-site, you have to make dall, Words on Fire. The Life and arrangements to have them Writing of Elizabeth Gurley retrieved, a time-consuming task Flynn, pp. viii-ix). Face it, only for a volunteer organization. Even lesbians can do this job the way on site it's a major chore to get at it should be done! To affiliate the 1':" ·~."ft1 the periodicals which are stacked Lesbian Herstory Archives with a <: ~1?}N in gray acid-free "elephant boxes· public or academic institution LABOR OF LOVE Photo:PollyThlstlewalte one on top of the other. The file would allow re-colonization of A volunteer updates the files drawers are crammed and the over-crowding slows upkeep and research. Sadly, the archives can't conveniently accommodate all the visitors who want to see or use the place. Visitors are welcomed two regular nights a week and by appointment. Even though several volunteers provide hostessing and reference assistance, it still means a lot of company for Joan and Mabel. As it is, the archives received over 1,200 visitors and 3,000 phone calls last year, and demand is growing! Especially now, the archives needs FISCAL FITNESS money. it is funded entirely by donations WILLIAM B. DeBONIS D.D.S. IT MAKES OUR COMMUNITY from individuals and from lesbian, gay, Quality, Personal Dentistry A FORCE TO BE RECKONED feminist and radical funding sources. Suite 704 !~ITH. LET'S KEEP IT THAT Please contribute generously. The legacy 200 West 57th Street WAY-SUPPORT YOUR you're prOVidingfor is our own. ... New York, New York 10019 LOCAL LESBIAN AND GAY (212) 333-2650 ESTABLISHMENTS. The Lesbian Herstory Archives has Office Hours bv Aooointment OnI grown for over 15 years in an apartment on NYC s Upper West Side. It has now outgrown its original home, and seeks a new one. About $1,000,000 is Dr. Charles Franchino needed to buy a building outright, to fund operations and to ensure that the 30 Fifth Avenue archives continues to shape and ref1ect lesbian lives. Make contributions to the New York, New York 10011 Lesbian Herstory Educational Founda- tion, Inc. P.o. Box 1258, New York, NY 212.673.4331 10116. Call (212) 874-7232 for more information.

office hours by appointment September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 39 UT OF o MV HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL

Dear Brad and therefore I am taking it upon of the joke and not its perpetrator. This is a chain letter from six kids myself to break this chain and to spoil -Nathanael in Germany. It was started in 1989 it for someone else just the way Dear Nathanael: and if it goes on until 1990 it will be things were spoiled for me nine years I think you're feeling a little in the Guinness Book of World ago when I, myself, believed in possi- blue-as who of us is not in this mis- Records. It has not been broken yet. bilities and just rewards. Besides, the erable heat? There have; been, you PLEASEDON'T SPOIL IT FOR SOME- verY idea of receiving 80 picture post- might be surprised to discover, ONE ELSE!!!Copy this letter and send cards from around the world· has a moments when I, too, have experi- it to six people. Then send a picture greatly diminished appeal to me after enced similar doubts (although I can't postcard to the first name on the list. the avalanche of mail I received on think of a specific occasion offhand, Move the three names up and place the Jane Fonda controversy. strangely preoccupied as I am by that your name in the fourth position. Do damn Christmas of 1980 when one this in four days or less and the chain Dear Brad: more word or one less drink might will not be broken. In 20 days you Perhaps I can make you under- have made all the difference in the wi1l receive 80 postcards from around stand. Let's start from the beginning. A world). What )K>U must understand is the world. This game has been man is hired to gi ve advice to the that there are no jokes, not really, only appraved by the us. Post OffICeas an readers of a newspaper. The job is a cruel and bitter ironies. There can be, educational game. circulation stunt and the whole staff therefore, no victims or perpetrators Thank you. considers it a joke. He welcomes the but only participants, wi1lingor not. So -M.P. job, for it might lead to a gossip col- don't be so hard on yourself. Go out umn, and anyway he's tired of being a and buy a new sweater for the failor, Dear M.P.: leg man. He too considers it a joke, better yet, some new shoes. I pur- I, for one, am delighted to learn but after several months at it, the joke chased a pair of Kenneth Cole loafers that the U.S. Post 9ffice has estab- begins to escape him. He sees that the not too long ago that never fail to lished criteria for educational games. majority of the letters are profoundly revivify me every time I put them on! Certainly the most valuable lesson humble pleas for moral and spiritual that the aforementioned children in advice, that they are inarticulate Confidential to Moral Dllenuna at Germany could learn is that some- expressions of genuine suffering. He Memorial High: times the things we most want in this also discovers that his correspondents .I don't care how excellent you world are not to be had, no matter take him seriously. For the first time in think he is, you need to keep this in how hard we try (the Christmas of his life, he is forced to examine the mind: Plagiarism is considered, by 1980 immediately leaps to my mind values by which he lives. This exami- some people, to be a serious offense but that is, I suppose, another story), nation shows hi~ that he is the victim and, as a consequence, should be regarded as a high-risk venture. Before you take that risk for somebody who, let me assure you, will later try to run you over in the school parking lot before proceeding to ful- fill his ultimate destiny of becoming fat, broke and bald, then you should at least secure a worthwhile cash payment up front (which payment should include charges for supplies, time and administrative overhead). If, after taking these factors into consideration, you still want to do this, let me suggest that, based on my experience, the best book report to write for a football player is one of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. ~

40 OUT~WEEK September 24, 1989 TI sought-after exclusive rights to photo- pany of - the very men whose graph her 50th birthday bash for hus- ignorance, negligence, greed and band Saul last month, with its ten homophobia are fucking over our tableaux vivants and $1 million price community something fierce ~ tag. The result is a three-page spread Bush, Reagan, Trump, Buckley, Bass, in next month's issue with an appro- etc. And, paradoxically, these priately gushing text. The pictures are women are, at the very same time, perfect and why shouldn't they be? whirling with many of our own: Gayfryd approved all of them before sad, self-hating, social climbing, publication. Yes, that's how journal- crumb-sucking deSigners, hair- ism works in the Age of Excess." dressers, artists, gossip columnists, By: Michelangelo Slgnorlle Now this is all starting to make writers, actors, etc. These rich women, you see, fuck the men who are killing and oppressing the very people who supply these gals with every ounce of entertainment and tUl in his forgetful mode, self- creativity in their lives. (But hell, , hating William Norwich these women aren't stupid. S(Daily N6U4) last week wrote Politically, they agree with their all about how artist Robert Longo said men, while they parasitically zap the "it was perhaps a good thing" that his life blood of everyone else.) performance piece wasn't en route to We wonder sometimes what is Washington's Corcoran Gallery in lieu really being said about Liz Smith.when of the "Corcoran's decision to cancel an she leaves a room filled with all of her exhibit of work by late photographer some sense. It was our own gal direct married, snobby, upper-crust women Robert Mapplethorpe." But self-censor- from the Texas range, Liz Smith (Daily jrlImds. We figure they must giggle, as ing brother BUly,who knowsftrst hand N6U4), companion of the archaelogist these women realize that they have to about certain things, fails to tell his Iris Love, who last month raved about tolerate Liz in order to get a mention readers why Mapplethorpe was cen- how wonderful Steinberg'S party· was, - while they'laugh at her. Could you sored In the first place ('I'he National and also defended Gayfryd's spending imagine what these sequined and Endowment for the Arts' had threatened all that loot. Liz, you see, is also this bejeweled Big Hairs say about Liz's to cut off funding to the Corcoran close with Tina Brown, as can be seen western wear and tuxedos? Could you because members of the Senate found by the many plugs Liz gives Brown In imagine the' other things they say? Mapplethorpe's homoerotic work to be return for some Vanity Fair back rub- Pine, perhaps, If Liz knew what was "disgusting"). How can one t8U a story bing. So now it is clear that Liz, really going on (she could adopt an to his or ber Ignorant, straight audience empowering, Hfuck you· attitude, be without actually t8Utng the story? ~II, proud of herself and do her job). But, It's euy when perhaps you feel that from reading her column, we can see some language is just too ua/Y to print that Liz thinks these people absolutely for the Mladleswho lunch" - even if it adore her. Oh, yes, stupid Liz thinks may be the language of your own life. she's one of them, playIng the game But we can't ignore reality, brother perfectly. And ditto for Billy Norwich columnist. Billy, read my lips: G-A-Y, and others. So they keep on giorlfylng A-I-D-S, S-&-M,H-E-L-M-S,H-O-M-O-P- these monied maniacs, praising them, H-O-B-I-A, D-E-N-I-A-L,SoE-L-P,P-A-T- kissing their asses - and reaffirmIng H-E-T-I-C. their Immense and oppressive power But all is not lost. In Tb6 VtUase while they continue In their nightmar- Votce, Michael Musto has declared, ,"I ish fashion. hate heterosexuals." And we're Brown and Steinberg are all in bed And of course, Liz would say that thrilled to see that James Revson (New together (so to speak?) in their media- I'm wrong and bad and no goodi that York Newsday) is suddenly on the whoring, social climbing quests. I'm overreactingi that I have some nerve. attack again, giving a Jab to some of But here's the really insidious And I say back to you her: Liz, those most detestable types. He part: Par different from Liz, SteInberg you and the rest of the gang are mur- writes: "Billionaire wife Gayfryd and Brown are both happily [sic] derers - responsible for the deaths of Steinberg and Vanity Fair editor Tina married to men, and spend their over 50,000 men, women and chil- Brown are pals. They're neighbors at time lunching, shopping, floating dren. You participate in a genocide of the beach in Quogue and buddies in with other wives of the rich and indifference, worshiping the boys with town. In fact, they're. so close that famous. All of these women are, of tile blood on their hands. And I Gayfryd awarded Tina the much- course, married to - or in the com- kn6w you're reading this, ASSHOLE....

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 41 '. , !

Though we're certain it was belched forth from that vortex of activism at 13th Steet and Seventh Avenue, we don't officially know who it was who produced and - in typical guerilla advertising fashion - ·placed- these placards in sub- way cars throughout the five boroughs. What piqued our curiosity most. however, is the fact that all of the copy was culled directly from an early outWssk editorial. And we have one question for the ·creators- of the poster: Not that we're egoma- niacs, but. since you forcibly sucked us into the seedy world of advertising copywriting, couldn't you at least have given us an i~, bitzy,teenie, weenie credit?

-M.S.

42 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 . • .,...... ' . .. .

With a glut of dyke detective novels on the lesbian and gay book market (many seil- ing quite well), it's interesting that this homophobic cover line is gracing the top of the Octo- ber issue of oHicial Detective - complete with a curious-looking woman holding a gun.

-M.S.

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 43 Social Terrorism Photos by Erich Conrad

MY GIRLFRIEND'S BACK AND THERE'S THE POSE KNOWS GONNA BE TROUBLE Mod.1 .t Mars Women .t LOll. Machin.

DRINK? Irs FIVE O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE FILL 'ER UP WITH ETHYL Tony .tSound F.ctory Eth,l.t Sound F.ctory

BABY I'M AMAZED LOUNGE UZZARDS Christopher Amazing at LOlleMachine Susanna and Genelliell. at Canal 8ar 44 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 QUEEN OF THE NIGHT Lois at Love Machine ARM AND GLAMOUR Myra at Mars I FEEL PRETIY, OH SO PRETIY Sweden's Adreas at Tiki Tiki Tom's

MY PAL CAL Cal at Love Machine

CHILD, DON'T EVEN TRY IT UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE Idallas at Gonzales Gonzales John Stapleton at Mars September 24. 1989 OUT'YWEEK 45 Game, Set, Match... and still LOVE Or Why Martina's Loss Makes Me Sad by Rachel Lurie

have a haod tUne talking about between the two tennis idols (I don't sadI events in my life. It was at least a think there is anything going on between week before I spoke to anyone about them, but certainly Mary Carillo, CBS's the loss I felt when Lucille Ball died. So very dykey commentator, could have it's important to sit down now and raised some questions and eyebrows reflect on what a bummer it was to see abOut something other than how much Martina Navratilova have to slam down Ivan Lendl spent on his house in· Green- her racquet in disgust after she gave wich, all as a gift for his fiance). away the final in the U.S. Open to that Of course "women's tennis" got twerp Steffi Graf. bonus TV time this year with the gold.- See, Martina isn't just the greatest en tribute to Chris Evert who was woman tennis player ever, she's a symbol throwing in the towel after 20 years of for dykes everywhere. A muscular, athlet- making aces. The best thing about that . ic woman who admits to loving other was they stopped using her husband's women. Quite a rare commodity in the last name as a tag-on to her long- ., realm of famous and watched people. revered tennis handle. But we sure got . And a true inspiration for every dyke the picture of her illustrious career, whose ever hit a slow-pitched softball both on and off court, complete with and dreamed of greater things. But of her thwarted engagement to Jimmy course, no one really talks about it much. Connors and later a real marriage to We don't see the camera focus in on Mar- that Lloyd guy. Yeah, Chrissie was tina's significant other during the big good, and her name was easier to pro- matches. And when the camera showed nounce for ~orth Americans who root- Billie Jean King, now coaching Martina, ed for the home team in her outings cheWing on her nice short nails during against Martina. But of course the antic- the tension filled match, of course no one ipation of a "Dyke vs. Het Showdown" alluded to her lurid past or the possibility never made it into the blathering dis- that maybe something else was going on course of the commentators or 46 September 24, 1989 sportswriters. And some people never slam dunk but play graceful, fast and player, not to mention the better even made the distinction. Once when aggressive b-ball? woman, and she was sinking fast. I was playing basketbalI with the broth- Like everyone else watching that If Martina won, she was winning for ers on the West 4th Street court my championship match last Saturday, I all of us, every dyke (and even more so teammates, always preferring nick- was convinced Martina had it all for those of us who wear glasses) who names to real ones, dubbed me "Chris wrapped up. She was playing flawless, wants to say, "Look, we're here and we're Everett» which goes to show, really, at-the-net tennis, making mincemeat winners, even champions. We live in your how much our culture is at a loss when out of that blond bombout (who bad- straight world but play by our own rule$ it comes to big name women athletes. mouths Martina's "lifestyle" but has as a and we can stUIcome out on top" And Only women tennis players (and track doubles partner, Martina's real succes- even in a world where we sometimes stars around Olympics time) m,,;ke it sor on the court, already dyke-watched have to grope for heros, Martina is a into the sports pages or bar screens and Gabriella Sabatini). Martina was valid, three-dimensional one. When Pam even that only once or twice a year. pumped up, and so was I, cheering Shriver asked her to play in an athletes' What will happen when Martina from my couch, calling my friends to benefit for George Bush, she readily heads off into that retirement sunset? tell them to tum on the lV, Martina was refused, saying, "I've been a lot of things Will we see footage of her and Rita Mae five minutes away from creaming Steffi. but I could never be a Republican .. Brown, complete with an analysis of But then Martina's game started to But Martina did lose the heartbreaker the nasty trashing Brown gave both soften: Steffi broke her serve and start- last week and stupid Stem got to run off Martina and the women's tennis Circuit ed to come back. Perhaps most symbol- the court for the trademark victory kiss in her novel Sudden Death? Will we ically, Steffi changed from her with her overbearing father. And I sunk in hear how Nancy tieberman coached, sweat-soaked lavender skirt into tennis my couch, grumbling, saddened, snap- trained and loved Martina back into a whites between games, all fresh in ping off the lV. But it won't slow my competitor, at the expense, some say, anticipation of a third set. Every admiration for Martina: out, emotional, of her own basketball career? Will we unforced error had Martina scowling, gracious in defeat and a thrill to watch. hear that Lieberman couldn't really cursing, pounding her racquet in Yeah, you've been a lot of things Martina, have a fucking career in women's anguish. And I shared each emotional but you could never be a loser. And don't sports because no one in this country grimace and moan because, god- worry honey, we're behind, or should I will pay' to watch women who can't dammit, Martina is the better tennis say, underneath you all the way. 'Y September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 47 Film

loose in Manhattan, luring in love-sick victims by answering personal ads Unsafe Waters passionately written in bad rhyme. And AI Pacino--whom one can hardly Peter Bowen and Casey Finch forgive or forget for his role in Cruising-plays another undercover lthough both of us admit to cop. As detective Frank Keller, he liking poetry, most of our can't help falling in love with the friends find it deadly boring. prime suspect, Helen (Ellen Barkin), :Ii AfterA seeing Harold Becker's new divorced mother who manages a posh thriller, Sea of Love, it's easy to see uptown shoestore. With the plot thus their point. Another psychopath is set afloat, the film rocks back and forth, as Frank discovers that, while he may not be able to live without Helen, more and more incriminating evidence suggests that he may not.be alive too much longer with her. As with most thrillers, it would be terribly rude to reveal the ending, since the very thrill of thrillers-when there is any-is exactly what lies unre- vealed until the climax. And in sexual thrillers-that perverse sub-genre where sex and murder are almost the same thing-climaxes are often hidden, since to uncover who had come (cum?) would also too quickly uncover who had killed. But while this film voyeuristically uncovers the supposed dangers of personal ads-that world where a psycho-killer might be lurk- ing at the end of every amorous line-the film performs a still more dangerous cover-up. For nowhere in this vast Sea of Love can one find a single condom. Nor are any of these lonely heterosexual singles who sleep their ways through the weekly personal ads able to utter the forbidden words of "safe sex" or "birth control" or' that simple but apparently unpro- nounceable work, "AIDS." Like the hysteric who uncon- sciously displaces what he wants to say into a nervous twitch, the film hysterically (and much less innocent- ly) turns its fear of AIDS into a fear of a female killer. If the film's opening image-a naked male butt erotically pumping into the dark space beneath it-teases a male gay audience with its homoerotic promise, a hand gun, which is suddenly revealed to be aimed at the man's head, puts to PERSONAL UAISON death not only the victim but any Ellen Barkin hope we might have harbored of see-

48 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 ing any real sexual issues-either gay never have to date a man, have died. And when Helen discovers or unhappily straight. Thus, while 'Sherman-too drunk to drive that Frank is not a lonely printer-as Frank and his amiable partner, home-accepts an invitation to stay advertised-but actually a cop, the Sherman (John Goodman), try to lure over at Frank's with the necessary suspicion becomes mutual. In this ter- the suspected female killer with a joke: "So what? Am I going to sleep ribly uninformed society, where sin- poetic personal ad, both end up tak- with you?" "Yeah," dismisses Frank, gles try to ward off their fear of AIDS ing out-and occaSionally sleeping since in this film even acknowledging by continually suspecting the HIV sta- with-what amounts to a virtual line- same-sex desire managages to deny its tus of their potential partners, this film up of female suspects. Turning post- very existence. makes at once embarrassingly evident modern dating into routine police And if casual sex is dangerous, and purposely vague the source of its work (and vice versa), these detec- getting to know someone proves an own paranoia. Unable to blame gay tives turn the real dangers of unpro- even more frightening possibility. As men directly for the AIDS crisis- tected ,casual sex into the imagined Frank falls for the film's prime sus- because then the film actually would criminal danger of single women. pect-a woman who at some levels have to represent them-Sea of Love Unlike Fatal Attraction-which actually promises to release him from instead floods the screen with a slip- keeps its homophobia and misogyny middle-age drunken depression-his pery male heterosexual story of dan- frighteningly focused-Sea of Love ardor is matched only by his suspi- gerous Iiaisons. And without giving seems unable to check its homosexual cion. First she has a 45 of "Sea of away the ending, be assured that impulses. In investigating the New Love," the Khoury/Baptiste tune that when the light of day breaks over York singles life, Frank is forced to haunts the murder scenej then, she Manhattan, heterosexuality will once acknowledge female bisexuality packs a gun in her pursej and finally, again have navigated the unsafe ("What is that?" he asks with bewilder- stuck on her refrigerator, is the red-cir- waters of late-80s sex to find safe har- ment). And although the detectives cled personal ads of all the men who bor in marriage. 'Y

CRVISINGFOR A BRUISING? AI Psc;nD

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 49 Art SugarBuns - ....;.-,,....& ~.-

ROOTING FOR THE HOMO TOWN TEAM Photo: Ellen B. Neipris Cary Leibowitz

by]onNalky Candy Ass is a textural delight. wallpaper are varying expressions of The work is encompassed by a homoeroticism which would leave continuous yardstick, both above and Senator Jesse Helms comatose. Prom below, which frames the central hang- two men in an intimate moment to a ing and suggests formal and structural smaller collage (hanging from a cock- boundaries between art and artist, ring!) of a Latinesque leatherman jux- person and art, homosexual and taposed on an ad for a Lannuier table, homosexuality and all of the afore- Candy Ass bespeaks the fondest mentioned in relation to the larger images of faggotry. American society. Possibly the yard- Running through the middle of andy Ass, Cary Leibowitz's stick suggests "measuring up" to par- the room is a series of found, typed first one-person exhibition in ents and peers as a man, and even responses to a. romantic pursuit on C New York can easily be (when seen in terms of the entire lined yellow legal paper which put called a retroactive coming out, and exhibit) dick size and the obsession off the suitor with an array of famil- should be seen in terms of reclaiming surrounding it. iar excuses and cliches. Significant individual childhood and youth for the Underlying the collage compo- is the "Puck Me Raw" series compo- homosexuality always there yet forced nents is wallpaper painted pep club nent of Candy Ass which explores underground. A Dadaesque collage style in those tacky yet fun colors one internal boundaries as the yardstick utilizing found objects such as greeting would find in an early '70s beauty does with those externaL "Fuck Me cards, baseball cards and magazines, parlor. On top of this poster paint Raw" (Now, Again, Please and One

50 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 Mo' Time), on lined, framed index lost moments of child- cards, speaks to the fine line of hood's nascent creativ- pain and desire. ity-a creativity that is Ironic use of still life is found no luxury for little gay throughout, conveying the conflict boys who must create of gay experience in straight society to survive in a straight and making an attempt toward world. autonomy and affirmation of identity. Texture and irony Bowls of fruit, particularly bananas, in terms of redefinition are identified not with names like are seen in flower cat- 1ft? -:.... Mindy or Mitchell, but rather with alog ads with cock- jerk off, cock, too damn big, penis, sucker and homo ouch, etc. Ah, the thought of eating imposed as well as in my 1964 Coco Puffs in a bowl the use of transfer foil marked butthole! Three large still life letters for fucked up paintings (Happy B-Day Loser, junior high school gay Misery Loves Company, and You're boy. Leibowitz rede-

Swell) explore typical evolution of fines small reproduc- LI ~ _ ___' gay self-image to acceptance. tions of famous Reclamation and redefining one's Picasso works with Photo: Ellen 8. Neipris childhood is seen in the series of helpful impositions of HOMO and exception is Andy Warhol's which has illustrations for children's tales (e.g. directions to the "butthole. n "Iuv' rather than "love." Little Miss Muffet) upon which recent The artist affirms his connections Through innovative color and photos of Leibowitz are juxtaposed, to fellow artists in over 60 adolescent texture, and with unflinching irony as well as in collegiate football ban- plaques along the top of the installa- and informality, 26-year-old Leibowitz ners with Go Fags and Homo State. tion which proclaim: I Love Tom of stands on the edge and touches the Painted hearts on colored lined com- Finland ... Norman Rockwell; Paul collected unconscious of Jetson's age position paper pry into and illuminate Cadmus; Diane Arbus, etc. One gay men with Candy Ass. ...

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September 24. 1989 OUT'YWEEK 51 Art Cocteau·s

Poetry by john Wing

s Jean Cocteau is the kind of artist who is typically A shackled with a blockbuster exhibit-so extravagant were his personality and talents-it comes as a delight to find a celebration of the centennial of his birth which sets forth his claims with modesty and elan. "The Poetry of Jean Cocteau," at the Pierpont Morgan Library through November 6, places Cocteau at the center of the vortex that was Paris in the first half of the century, displaying sculpture, paintings, drawings, personal photographs, letters and exquisitely- bound first editions of his books to illuminate that fertile period of artistic achievement. From his spectacular debut in 1908 at age 18 when his poems were recited on stage by the leading actors and actresses. of his day until his death in 1963, Cocteau never left the limelight. But no matter what art form he took up-film, drawing, the novel, drama, even costume jewelry-he always referred to himself as a poet first and foremost; poetry was the prism through which all his creations passed. And that is why the Morgan Library's title fo~the exhibit is so appropriate. Cocteau's facility in such diverse fields has long been taken as evidence of his being a dilettante, a poseur. That very serious surrealist Andre Breton considered Cocteau "the most hateful being of our time,· and the generally placid Andre Gide. contem- plated killing his literary and amatory rival. Yet at the Morgan Library, one can clearly see what a dedicated artist Cocteau was, and how much time and. trouble he poured into polishing up . MODIGUANI Portrait of Jean Coeteau his work. There are numerous correc- tions and revisions on the manuScripts Reproduced courtesy of The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation. Inc.

52 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 ~ of his poems, and careful annotations prodigiously talented protege, have a been wise in keeping them to the on his working copy manuscript for tenderness that bespeaks of their love bare minimum. A simple sketch of the ballet Parade, on which he collab- affair. In the few years he knew Jean Marais of 1945 at the time of orated with Erik Satie and Picasso. Radiguet, Cocteau was inspired to Beauty and the Beast is achingly Cocteau's novels, poems and essays produce some of the best work of his seductive and is as good as anything are almost always accompanied by career. A series of drawings for from the 1920s. The Morgan Library fine drawings by himself, Picasso or Cocteau's novel of military life, has concentrated on Cocteau's early Paul Iribe. Iribe's draWing of Thomas f Imposture, shows a soldier career, before the films, from the time Scheherazade for the cover of a maga- very much like Radiguet with stark when he was first stretching his wings zine Cocteau created is on display and expressions of agony, eroticism and and dazzling Paris, through the years one can savor the odd beauty of what bewilderment. They are an homage to he was in full command of his pow- Francis Steegmuller, Cocteau's biogra- Radiguet, whose death of typhOid at ers. We leave off at his peak, when he pher, has called "a gallicized age 20 left Cocteau, as he put it, seems capable of anything. It is a sight Beardsley vamp." "without guidance, incapable of steer- that should not be missed. .... The centerpiece of the exhibit is a ing my boat, of helping my work and The Pierpont Morgan Library is portrait by Modigliani of a youthful making proviSions for it." located at 29 E. 36th St. Hours are Cocteau brimming with confidence and Cocteau's later drawings are Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30 a. m. to worldliness. His praying mantis pose, uneven in quality, and this exhibit has 5:00p.m, Sunday 1:00 to 5:00. blue and orange cheeks and orange lips make him seem only remotely human (though the facial coloring could be realistic; Cocteau was not averse to a little makeup here and there). A 1920 white marble bust of Cocteau by Jacques Lipchitz still shim- mers and shows the "thin fish-bone nose and fascinating eyes" that Proust remarked upon. These are early images of Cocteau, before his opium addiction and the deaths of many close friends gave him the careworn face of the later self-portraits, of which there are a few fine examples on display. Cocteau has left a remarkable collection of drawings of the artists he col- laborated with and the men he loved. Some of the drawings are caricatures, poking fun at their absurdities, ego- tism, snobbery or pretensions. Perhaps the wittiest shows a gigantic Stravinsky pressing down his thumb on the head of a perturbed Diaghilev while Nijinsky prances nearby. Diaghilev, who kept jealous guard over his star. dancer, always suspected that Cocteau had designs on Nijinsky. If Diaghilev could have seen the sensuous, loving portrait Cocteau drew of the dancer from memory in 1930, a highlight of this exhibit, he would have felt his mistrust had been well-placed. But by then, Nijinsky had long been committed for insanity, and Diaghilev had met his death in Venice the year before. In these draWings, however, they live on and are thrilling to see. If the Nijinksy draWings are ideal- ize<:ithrough lack of real intimacy, JEAN COCTEAU Vas!av Nijinsky those of Raymond Radiguet, Cocteau's Reproduced courtesy of Mr. Francis Steegmuller

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 53 Music Taking the Plunge by Victoria Starr you weren't really listening to her what's keeping the pain in and alive... previous work. In fact, her last LP,the I'm most dangerous when the sorely overlooked Female Trouble, skin that I'm in isn't mine rwinStambler's Encyclopedia of contained the incredibly moving I'm a cold empty shell and I'm Pop, Roc" and Soul has many ·Wlnds of Change," a hal1mark to her living on borrowed time." omissions, even In Its most current LP. A more accurate way of Women who fly don't have these Iupdated form. The reason is looking at the new LP is to recognize problems, which is why Nona simple: to quote Stambler himself, "it it for what it really is: something that HendryX has grown some wings. She would be impossible to detail the has been inside Nona for a long, long has also come to terms with some careers of all the thousands of per- time. Only perhaps up '[il now, she very complex feelings, as Skindiver formers or groups who have impacted has not had to opportunity to express delves time and time again into the field in the last three decades in a this.more personal, ~. i'late and more despair (both individual and social), single _book.· Natural1y, some guide- honest side of herself. only to' rise above it all with the sim- lines, had to be set for determining The title track on Skindiver is a ple act of love. Songs like the stark which artists would be included in and haunting "No Emotion," about such a compilation. In this case the coping with the cold realities of urban process began with chOOSing"the rel- liVing, or "Through the Wire," a testi- atively smaIl number of acts that merit mony to the information age, serve as the title of superstar or supergroup. reminders of a cruel world. In fact, From the remaining list of candidates, "Through the Wire" is being used as a the criteria for selection included title track for a documentary by Nina chOOSingperformers who managed to Rosenblum about female political make some kind of mark in pop prisoners in the United States. Yet music history, and ensuring the inclu- even ''Through the Wire" manages to sion of the various subcatagories of' glean that glimmer of hope that pop music." seems to be a common thread This is assuming, of course, that throughout Skindiver, a hope that can we can al1 agree on some basic defi- only survive by believing that "Love is nitions. Definitions of such terms as Kind": ·superstar,· and even .pop music" (or I talk to myself when nobody is it lbp music). Or definitions that else has the answer determine what constitutes "making a I lie to myself when I know mark in history." I had to mul1 these nothing else will See me through ideas over when I realized that nei- I'm calling myself to say to ther Nona Hendryx, nor her former myself fear is the absence band, Labelle, was listed in The of faith in myself and everyone Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock, and SouL else that I see Certainly, if any artist has taken an Love is blind, Love is kind important journey through the music industry, it has been Nona Hendryx. From the good-girl group Patti And while at times her journey has and the Bluebells, through the daring been a personal one, it also serves as disco diva days of Labelle, to the a legacy for struggling musicians frightening years of trying to succeed everywhere. Skindiver, Nona's newest as a solo artist, Nona has obviously release, is a testimony to both her will metaphor signaling this honesty, yet it learned to have faith in herself. She and her faith. is the captivating cut "Women Who has also learned to take inspiration Sleindiver, produced by Hendryx Fly" that best exemplifies the state of from other "women who fly." Women and Peter Baumann, and released on soul that the LP captures like Winnie Mandela, like Nina Private Music, is being heralded by "I'm as tight as a drum and my Simone, and like her mother, who many as a completely new direction feelings are somewhere inside after raising seven children, at the age for Nona. Maybe, I say, but only if Beating hard against my skin See MUSIC on page 56

54 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 Books

once we understood that, we could take it in new directions, develop a In Hot Blood sexuality that was for ourselves. At the close of the eighties, that no longer by Wickie Stamps pects and we tag along. We rubber- seems such an easy prescription. Our neck around corners and snag threads sexuality is still repressed and misrep- of clandestine altercations. "".! heard resented."and the feminist movement raised voices ... I tiptoed towards is polarized on this issue [pornogra- them. ..! strained to hear.,,[theyl broke phyl as on no other.· off.· We back-pedal out of false leads. The Dog Collar Murders is not Tirelessly, we slip into strip joints, tip- free from a few contextual snags. Like he Dog Collar Murders is a toe into Moral Majority homes or the movement itselfj the voices of page turner. As the lights go snoop through sex stores. Guiltily, we women of color, such as Pam's friend T up, the Seattle women's com- poke our noses into the lives of the big June, a Black lesbian, are drowned munity (which provides the mystery'S and not so big kids of the anti-pornog- out by Wilson's rabble-rousing stars. backdrop) is on edge. Momentarily, raphy movement-and unearth damn- And, though Wilson works hard to the "Seattle Conference of Sexuality" ing liaisons between archenemies. portray fairly all the players of anti- (quickly nicknamed the "porn" or In The Dog Collar Murders, porn debates, did her pen slightly fal- "sex" conference) will jump off. As the Wilson creatively breathes life into the ter with Oak, the S & M dyke? Was "stars," evangelical radical anti- there a subtle taste of bias when, porn activists, brainy feminist aca- as our sleuth moves to question S demics and sexual outlaws emerge & M-er Nicky, her lover Oak not from their respective haunts. As only speaks for Nicky but "almost undertones of old grudges surface, jerk[sl her away" from the detec- the feminist rumor mill groans to tive? And isn't the spiritualist thera- life. When the conference finally pist "reformed" after her run-in blossoms, time-worn skirmishes with S & M, a little too strident in ignite between the sex radicals and her position? Perhaps. the feminists against pornography. Yet, the Dog Collar crew, with The lesser Gods, open-mouthed their soft, focused personalities (a attendees, wander from panel to stylistic leaning of Wilson's is vivid workshop, mesmerized by erotic enough to win your heart. lesbian flicks, seduced by the fire Vulnerable, three-dimensional and brimstone orations or, to the women peek out from embattled ire of their partners, in hot pursuit bunkers. Despite yourself, you'll be of some exotic feminist fling. As patient with obnoxious Miko or the curtain descends on the fitful drawn toward Dworkin-like Loie weekend, an antiporn star is "who made a heartfelt appeal.· bumped off, garroted by a dog Wilson's subplots, which collar. Egads! Have the sado- make your head spin with possibil- masochists finally gone berserk? Is ities, fuel the fast clip of The Dog it a plot against the movement? Or, Collar Murders. Will Pam's lover has a killer's hands reached out hop in the sack with "you know from the rat's nest of ancient sexual chimera of the U.S. porn debates. Her who"? Will "you know who" cross the liaisons and betrayals? characters, Miko the flamboyant sex leather dyke and finesse an affair with As shock and grief settles into the filmmaker, Oak the cantankerous her stripper lover? Will Pam and her women's community, enter Pam sadomasochist or Sonya, the staunch lover, sexually Ichallenged by their Nilsen, amateur lesbian sleuth (who right-Winger, give faces to the many investigative delvings into the sex just happened to be at the confer- facets of the violence against the industry, trailblaze- beyond their vanil- ence!). She's no stranger to feminist women's movement. Wilson's charac- la path? Stay tuned! malice, as she cut her teeth as a ter Gracie, a level-headed feminist, The Dog Collar Murders, despite gumshoe in author Wilson's previous captures our variegated history: some very minor flaws, will keep you who-done-its Sisters of the Road and "Twelve or thirteen years ago ...the sit- on your toes, quell your battle fatigue Murder in the Collective.- uation seemed a lot simpler to me. and-who knows-even add some 'Pam goes to work. Through a Women's sexuality had been repressed tong).le-in-cheek humor to our oh-s6- bramble of clues Pam dogs her sus- and misrepresented for centuriesj serious struggles. ...

September 24, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 55 POUTICAL SCIENCE continued from page 30 Herbs: One tried and tested recipe KAlZ from page 31 the knowledge and the money to ob- is tea made from equal parts (about down the street form the police tain HIV antibody testing, quarterly T- one fouth cup each) of black cohosh, precinct, and some stupid asshole cell testing and early AZT and PCP blue cohosh, pennyroyal leaf, tansy shouted faggots and threw a bottle at prophylaxis. According to a paper leaf and valerian. Make a quart a day one of us. About a hundred of us sur- published in the September 14, 1989, and drink the whole thing throughout . rounded him. He provided us with Journal of the American Medical As- the day for three to five days. Some such a clear and concrete target for sociation OAMA), this will cost about women get stomach aches and can't our collective cumulative rage that I $9,637 a year per person. Add just continue this recipe. Again, this is most was half sure he would be killed. At one additional drug Oike high-dose effective before you're due to start the time I was relieved when the p0- Acyclovir for herpes, or perhaps flu- bleeding, but has worked up to two lice arrived and arrested him. But conazole for candida) and the bill for weeks late. Do not use oils! One most probably he's out on a desk ap- early intervention could easily double. woman died in 1978 in Colorado from pearance ticket, too. About 600,000 Americans could drinking pennyroyal oiL Some women The protection rackets this soci- use early therapeutic intervention for use this recipe as their only form of ety has set up don't seem to be avail- HIV infections now. The total tab will birth control: three to four cups every able to lesbians and gays. We're not come to about $5 billion a year, if day during ovulation, and a quart right the only ones systematically excluded, someone would pay for it. The Viet- before period time. and this is hardly news. What is news, nam War effort cost the U.S. governg- Other herbs work as abortifa- and what I hope continues, is that we ment $1 billion a day. It's easier to cients too. Remember that herbs can are becoming increasingly Vigilant in get Washington to pay for dead bod- be as powerful as pharmaceutical protecting ourselves and each other. ies than for living ones. drugs, so study and/or consult herbal- One last note: Bring some com- We need to rewrite the social con- ists before concocting your own comfortable shoes along when you go out tract to include everybody. We need to binations. Both vitamin C and herbs in heels. You never know when you'll demand that our government distribute are readily accessible-it's the knowl- have to chase some homophobe the fruits of its anti-AIDS research to edge about them that remains hidden. creep or errant police. My feet are still everyone who needs them, now. T There are other methods outside killing me. T of the system for women to use after MUSIC continued from page 54 IN OUR OWN HANDS from page 29 two weeks of a missed period, but of 73 opened her own soul-food decided to try it. Lots of women have they reqUire more knowledge and restaurant in Trenton, New Jersey. taken 10-15 grams (that's 10,000- help from others. Suffice it to say that Nona, in turn, has become a ·woman 15,000 milligrams) of C for five days suction abortion in the first eight who flies· for a whole new genera- as close to the time they expect their weeks is a very simple and safe pro- tion of young artists who find them- period as possible. It works best if cedure. All it takes to learn is a good selves often having to make you can start five days before you ex- sense of touch, the right equipment compromising career choices. For pect your bloods, but it's worked up and training, and the Willingness to this, she has made her contribution to to two weeks late, although the take power in our own hands. history. longer you wait, the less likely it is to Even if abortion weren't under In addition to having faith, work. C affects the mucous mem- attack now, all women should have Nona's strength and survival have brane lining in the uterus like it af- the benefit of other women's experi- hinged on one very simple guiding fects the mucous membranes in your ences. The right to safe, legal abortion principle: staying honest and true to nose or throat when you take it for a is severely threatened. We need to get the music. Important advice, particu- cold. It seems to affect the implanta- out information about safe alterna- larly for women artists. As Nona tion of the egg on the uterine wall. tives so that women won't have to re- explains, "I know there are a lot of You could take more vitamin C if you sort to dangerous methods of self- women out there who feel that they smoke cigarettes or marijuana or al- abortion, like knitting needles and are working in a man's world, and ready take C on' a regular basis. Some coat hangers. yes, yes you are. And yes there are women report diarrhea from so much Women interested in learning preconceived ideas and prejudices C, so drink lots of water. Some more can contact Jane Post-Webster that you're going to have to ignore. women have developed symptoms of c/o OutWeek. T And then, you have to educate these vitamin C deficiency after they stop people to the reality of what it is that you're doing, and why you're doing taking it, like susceptibility to cold This article is not intended to it. If they can't see it, or be a part of sores or infections (in fact one theory give medical advice. It should be re- it, go and find someone else who is that it's the drastic drop in C that garded only as a starting point for can. Don't just stop because of this makes this method work). Basically, learning more about alternative one wall. Because if you go over that vitamin C is considered safe to take methods of abortion. wall, you gain strength." T even in massive doses.

56 OUT'YWEEK September 24, 1989 ~ OUT TAKES from plge 27 GAY BASH from Pili' 17 Hoffman said he expected the Hartwig as the "most likely" cause of said the circumstances of the crime Supreme Court to hear the case and the blast. But the report and subsequent justified the jury verdict of second- reach a decision quickly because the revelations of the investigation are now degree murder and said the three three men are in prison and either Incurring sharp criticism from gay and men "knew their conduct was danger- must be released soon if the appeals lesbian military activists because of the ous to life." court ruling is upheld or the original Navy's characterization of Hartwig as a . Witnesses testified that the three conviction reinstated. ~ suicidal, "troubled," gay man through a men had set out for San Francisco series of leaks to the media. from suburban Vallejo to "beat up STOCK EXCHANGE from Pili' 11 At a Sept. 7 Pentagon press con- some faggots.· White, Rogers and Hilferty, a filmmaker, and perfor- ference, Adm. Richard D. Milligan, Clanton ended up in the heavily gay mance artist Richard E1ovich, the who headed the investigation, Polk Street area where they hit other demonstrator who had announced that the navy has no con- O'Connell, knocking him to the pave- remained on the Stock Exchange clusive evidence as to the cause of ment. The court found the cause of floor, were eventually arrested. the April 19 explosion that killed 47 O'Connell's death was the blow to his sailors, and said, "We have heard no head when he hit the pavement, not Ear Plugs and Cotton evidence whatsoever of homosexuali- the two blows by the three men, and The other five arrested were: Lee ty in this case.· the jury unanimously found the three Arsenault, a clothing importer and a Hartwig left a $100,000 insurance guilty of second-degree murder. self-identified person with AIDSj policy to his one-time best friend and The appeals Court ruling said that Gregg Bordowitz, a video producer fellow sailor Kendall Truitt, which when there was no intent to kill with the Gay Men's Health Crisis, who triggered allegations that the two men demonstrated, an assault must be has AIDS Related Complexj Scott had been lovers and that Truitt may shown to have been deliberate, show Robbe, a film producerj James have caused the explOSion to cash in disregard for human life and must McGrath, a bar ownerj and Staley. on the policy. At the press confer- have been an Inherently life-threaten- They were each charge with a Class B ence, however, Navy spokesmen ing action. Newsom ruled that the misdemeanor for criminal trespass, a denied those allegations as well. verdict did not meet these criteria and Class A misdemeanor for criminal Milligan's statement came in the reduced the verdict to involuntary possession of a forged instrument and wal

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CYJMMUNITY DIRECTORY

To list your non-profit organization in our THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT community directory, call Tom Eubanks at National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line ofthe 685-5277. "AIDS 80Q'... 1·800-S0S·GAYS American Civil Uberties Union Educational Resource Center; Positive Images KNOW YOUR RIGHTS /WE'RE EXPANDING THEM (212) 944·9800, ext. 545 A.C,o.C, Media Center; NY State Arts Program 666 B'way Suite 410 NYC, NY 10012 (212) 529·1600 AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICESOEDUCATIONeBUDDIES GlAAD LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH COUNSELING-SUPPORT GROUPS Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men Volunteer Opportunities 80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 966·1700 GLAAD and lesbians. (718) 896·2500(voice) (718) 896-29851100) combats homophobia in the media and elsewhere P.O. Box 106. Midwood Station by promoting visibility of the lesbian and gay Brooklyn, NY 11230 ACT UP (AIDS eoalition to Unleash Power) community and organizing grassroots response to (718) 859·9437 496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014 anti·gay bigotry. (212) 989 -1114 LONG ISlAND ACT-UP A diverse, non·partisan group of individuals united GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park. NY 11040 in anger and committed to direct action to end the Dedicated to safe and responsible SIM since 1981. Support us for change on Long Island. AIDS crisis. General meetings Mon. nights 7:30 at Open meetings wlprograms on SIM techniques, (516)338-4662 (516) 997-5238 Nassau the Community Center 208 W.I3th. lifestyle issues, political and social concerns. Also (516) 928·5530 Suffolk special events, speakers bureau, workshops, ARCS (AIDS-Related Community SelVices) demos, affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA- NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE for Dutchess. Orange. Putnam. Rockland, Sullivan, Dept. 0, 496A Hudson Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014. is the national grassroots political organization for Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education, (212) 727 ·9878. lesbians and gay men. Membership is $3OIyear. clilflit services. crisis intervention, support groups, Issue·oriented projects address violence, sodomy case management, buddy and hospital visitor GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HOTLINE laws. AIDS, gay rights ordinances. families, media, program. FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELATED etc. through lobbying, education. organizing and 214 Central Ave ••White Pilins. NY 10606(914) 993-0606 HEAlTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON ONE· direct action. 838 Broadway ,Newburgh. NY 12250(914) 562-5005 TIME, WALK·IN AIDS COUNSELING SERVICES NGLTF 1517 U Street NW. Washington. DC 20009. AlDSline (914) 993-0607 212-807·6655 (202)332-6483. 212·645-7410 TOO (For the Hearing Impaired) BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS MON.-FRI. 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. SAl 12:00 to 3:00 NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES . Lawyers Referral Improving Quality of Life for,People with AIDS/HIV. Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community HEAL (Health Education AIDS Liaison) THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the . Full Range of Legal Services (212) 459-4873 Weekly info. and support group for treatments for possibilities of a powerful and creative life in the AIDS which do not compromise the immune system face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212) 337-8747 . BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS further, including alternative and holistic Free Walk·in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm approaches. Lesbian and Gay Community Center Ground Floor Wed 8pm. 208 West 13th Street (212)674-HDPE. NYC GAY & LESBIAN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT Counseling, advocacy, and information for BODY POSITIVE HETRICK·MARTIN INSTITUTE survivors of anti-gay and anti·lesbian violence, If you or your lover has tested HIV+. we offer for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in sexual assault. domestic violence, and other types support groups. seminars, public forums, reference center (M-F, 3-6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk High of victimization. All services free and confidential. library, referrals, social activities and up-to· date School. AIDS and safer sex information, 24 hour hottine (212) 807-0197 national monthly. "THE BODY POSITIVE" (S1!i/year). referrals, professional·education. (212) 633-1782. (212) 633-8920(voice) 2095 Broadway. Suite 306, NYC. NY 10023· (212) 633-8926 mfor deaf PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION (212) 532.0290 I Hotline (212) 532.0568 COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT lAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND Mondaythru Friday IOam-6pm 208 West 13th Street. NYC. New York 10011 Precedent·setting litigation nationwide for Meal programs, support groups. educational and For Appointments and· Information (212) 675·3559 lesbians, ga!( men and people with AIDS. referral services for MA's and MArc's. PROVIDING CARING. SENSITIVE AND LOW COST Membership (S35 and up) includes lJewsletter and HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAY invitations to special events. Volunteer night on COMMUNITY Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP (212) 995-8585 CONGREGATIO N BETH SIMCHAT TORAH Underground buyer's club importing not·yet· NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services approved medications and nutritional supplements. THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS Friday at 8:30pm 57 Bethune Street 31 West 26th Street 4th Floor (212) 532-0280 Get your instrument out of the closet and come play For info. call: (212) 929·9498. with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jan, Dixieland, SAGE: (Senior Acti.on in a Gay Environment) Rock, Flute Ensembles and Woodwinds. EOGE Social Service Agency providing care. activities, 123 West 44th St. Suite 12l New York, NY 10036 For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay and educational services for gay & lesbian sanior (212) 869-2922. Community. (212) 989-1921 citizens. Also serving over 160 homebound seniors P.O. Box 305 Village Station. New York. NY 10014 and older PWA's . 208 West 13th St. NYC 10011 LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES (212) 141·2247 CENTER FRONT RUNNERS 208 West 13th Street Ne·wYork, NY 10011 A running club for lesbian and gay athletes ULSTER COUNTY'GAY AND LESBIAN ALUANCE (212) 620-7310 9am-l1pm everyday. of all abilities. Fun Runs of! -6 miles held every Sat. Meets first and third Monday of each month A place for community organizing and networking, at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in .Central Park at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill social services, cultural programs, and social apd every Tues. at 7pm in ·Prospect Park. Road in Kingston. events sponsored by the Center and more than 150 Jor information: call (212) n4-9700. For information, call (914) 626·3203. community organizations.

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Please don't Write to OutWeek Good·looklng white drugs or heavy respond if not sending Box11S1 72" OUT'YWEEK September 24. 1989 NKOU fro.. , .... 35 MC: What kind of support do gay gay and lesbian community here very he compare to Botha? organizations get from other institutions? much privileged. More than our gay and SN: Mark, I'll tell you that I'm going SN: So far, we don't really get any. lesbian community in South Africa. I back to South Africa, and some of the MC: Where to you meet? mean, here at least gay people, they questions I really have to be careful SN: GLOW was meeting in people's don't seem to be struggling to get when I answer them. I really don't know homes. At least now, we're meeting at venues to meet, and in South Africa we who Is going to have your publication the GLOW bar. And of course we meet do. And anyway in South Africa, white here. I think one is followed all the time at the offices of the South African Insti- gay people, the majority of those gay and that's why I'm avoiding the conven- tute of Race Relations where I used to people are out. They don't even think tional press. work. They've got a community hall. We that it is important to pursue gay rights. MC: Do any of the political parties have to hire it, we have to pay it. Here, what impresses me is the way the address gay rights? gay community in these countries I have SN: Not as far as I know. All I The Visit Abroad been in are doing so much work on remember, before I left South Africa, the MC: When· did you first get the idea AIDS. And I think we also need to do Democratic Party had called on gay peo- to make this tour to Europe and North the same thing. ple to discuss with them, but by gay America? MC: What do you think will be the people, they meant white gay people. SN: The Canadian people, the ones result ciyour visl abrood, what do yoo hope MC: That was one of the problems from Toronto, they phoned me three to have acoomplishedwhen yoo go home? with the GASA. They were mainly inter- days after I was acquitted and asked me SN: ~I, firstly I would have shared ested in looking for gay power within whether I would like to do a tour in my experience that the gay and lesbian the current racist political structure. You Canada, and I said, "Yes I will." I didn't community share and elsewhere I have broke away from the GASA, right? know that I would have a problem been. And I would have also made contact SN: When I was in prison, yeah. obtaining my passport, because as far as for our gay and lesbian organization in They were not supportive of me, but I'm concerned, I'm acquitted and I'm South Africa. And I would have, for exam- that was not the only reason. The other out, a free person. And then I went to ple, raised enough funds for the Township reason was that they did not do any- holiday in Cape Town and when I got AIDSProject, and for GLOWas well. And I thing to improve the life of people in back, I applied for a passport and I would have gained a lot of knowledge, our country. They didn't say anything never got it That was for 18 weeks. And especially on the fteld that I want to c0n- against apartheid. It was a social organi- at the end I managed to get it. And it centrate on, being an AIDSeducator. 'Y zation mainly aimed at white members. I was only because I had to involve lots was a Black member of that organiza- of people. All are invited to a dinner with tion and I had encountered difficulty MC: Is this your first time in the Simon Nkoli and members if Men of All with them. That's why the Saturday United States? Colors Together(M4Cf) at Sy/vids Restau- Group was formed, because they didn't SN: It is my first time anywhere. I rant, 328 Lenox Avenue at West 126th do much for the Black gay community. haven't travelled. Street on Monday, September 18, at 8 P.m. MC: Was that one of the reasons MC: Where else did this tour bring •An Evening of Solidarilyand Sup- you helped to start GLOW last year? you? port for Anti-Racist Work, Anti- SN: That was one of the reasons SN: I went to London-I speht Apartheid Struggle and Lesbian and GLOW was founded. GLOW was found- more than 13 days in Canada. I went to Gay Liberation,· featuring Simon Nko/~ ed last year, after I came out of prison. Vienna. will take place at the Lesbian and Gay MC: What about the Congress of MC: You were at the International Community Services Center, 208 West Pink Democrats? Conference there. What did you do there? 13th Street, Manhattan. Sponsored by SN: The Congress of Pink SN: I've been really harassed by the the Simon Nkoli Support Committee of Democrats was supposed to be a nation- press people, I_want to say. It's not an M4eT, the event includes an address by al organization, an umbrella for gay and exciting thing. I attended some work- Nkoli, followed by a questton-and- lesbian organizations in South Africa, but shops. I had so many interviews from answer period. it Is now defunct everybody. It was so tiring. It was just Ta»deductible contributions can be MC: Is there any sort of organiza- like it was in San Francisco. And I'm not made payable to Rutgers, The State Uni- tion trying to take its place? going to allow that to happen anymore. versity Nkoli Fund and sent to: SN: No, not at the moment, because MC:What happened in San Francisco? Dean James Credle GLOW and OLGA have the same think- SN: I never had time for myself. I Office if Minqrity Affairs ing, that we have to organize our local really don't know how people think of Rutgers University organizations first, build them up to be me, I know they want to interview me, Paul Robeson Cf;ImpusCenter strong organizations, before we can con- but as a person. I want to be treated like 350 Dr. Martin Luther King, jr. Blvd. centrate on national organization. any other person, not just to be inter- Newark, NJ 07102 MC: How many cities have local viewed and have big receptions and Interested parties may also write to: organizations? things like that. ]be Gay and Lesbian Organization of SN: Johannesburg has got lots of MC: What are your impressions of the Witwatersrand, c/o Glen Shelton, local organizations, and Cape Town, North America and its lesbian and gay South African Institute of Race Port EIizal?eth, Durban, Bloemfontain, community? Relations, P.O. Box 30144, Braam- Pretoriaj several cities. SN: Well, I love them. 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