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VoL 9, No. 4 50c Outside San FranciscoSentinel500 Hayes Street S.F..CA. 94102 (415)861-8100 Next D to fln t; January 15 Next Inue: January 21 January 7.1992 Murder Most Homophobic State' Oklahoma Supreme Suspect Court O.K.s Gay Sought Student Group by Jerome Szymczak by Russ Kahn when the suit was filed, said the Police have issued a warrant for The Oklahoma Supreme Court court action was taken more “to the arrest of Frank Anthony Baca has confirmed the right of a gay bring out just how much discrimi­ as a prime suspect in the Decem­ students.’ group to receive official nation and prejudice there is ber 19 slaying of musician Sean recognition from the University of against gay people in Oklahoma." McLamon. Oklahoma. The court ordered the Mehring, who now lives in San Police described Baca a a light­ university's Regents to grant recog­ Francisco, said he doubted that skinned, Latino male in his early nition to the group. the action would be won on appeal twenties, with brown eyes and The December 30 decision fol­ after being denied in a lower court. black hair. He is approximately lowed a five-year court battle. Gay In that derision, District Judge 5 7" tall, 155 pounds, with tatoos Rights Advocates counsel Don Alma Wilson said, "There is no on both hands. Police Lieutenant Knutson called it “a benchmark constitutional guarantee against dis­ Larry Gray said he is considered for college gay groups nation­ crimination with reference to sexu­ armed and dangerous. Gray added wide." G.R.A. joined the case as a al orientation or sex preference.” that “there is strong evidence” impli­ “friend of the court" on appeal in In the suit Mehring said his cating Baca, but he declined to 1978. group was organized “to advocate specify what that evidence is. American Civil Liberties Union the elimination of legal discrimi­ McLamon. 50. was shot to death lawyer Glenn Rawderi argued the nation against homosexuals, to in­ SOONER OR LASER: Thousand's disco d In Iho now year Gallon* ai Conceptual Entertainments RESOLUTIONS case for the U. of Oklahoma Gay sure the integrity of the individual hs Laser Media s light show radiated throughout the 82 party. in his car at Eighth and Townsend Streets shortly after midnight on Activists Alliance. In San Fran­ regardless of orientation, against the Saturday before Christmas. He cisco, Knutson said, "This issue is personal and social prejudice and lived at 701 Taylor Street. A wit­ now decided as far as I am con­ to affirm positive self image of the INSIDE homosexual." ness heard shots about 12:30 A.M. cerned.” and saw someone running from University Regents will decide Knutson hopes the state su­ Police Don’t Indulge Siste rs...... Page 2 McLamon's 1965 Cadillac. The at their January monthly meeting preme court derision will improve San Francisco Chronicle reported it whether to appeal the latest ruling the ACLU’s chances of Winning a Upper Market Sidewalk Plans revealed...... Page 3 was so dark, however, “that no to the U.S. Supreme Court. Univer­ suit in federal district court in Okla­ description of the suspect could be sity officials did not return phone homa opposing a law which re­ Can You Be Too Beautiful?...... Page 4 given.’' calls inquiring about the matter. quires that all gay teachers be Police have pinpointed robbery Gay groups at the University of fired. “The psychology is the same. Fox Comes On Strong for “Making Love”...... Page 6 as a possible motive. McLamon's Missouri, Texas A & M, the Uni­ They are forcing gays into the wallet was missing, but investiga- versity of New Hampshire, and closet," Knutson said. the University of Virginia won T he ACLU has had difficulty Nurse s First-Person Story Continues similar decisions in the last ten finding teachers fillin g to take the Vidal To Address years. But Knutson said the Okla­ stand in that suit because they fear homa decision “put the final nail in they will lose their jobs, Knutson GGBA Dinner the coffin.” said. Nonetheless, he hopes that Coming Out As A “Oklahoma is probably the most the state supreme court derision homophobic state in the union. It will ease sentiments against gays. January 28 has to be the worst place to live if Meanwhile. Knutson is now fo­ Gay Cancer Patient you are gay." He added that the. cusing his attention on the right of ruling comes at a time when a gay groups to be recognized at Gore Vidal will deliver the key­ by Bobbi Campbell. R.N. the questions,,“Who should I tell, resurgence of right-wing support privateColIeges.Thosecases, invol­ note address to the Golden Gate What? Another story on gay and why?” Acknowledging one­ is setting back some advances of ving the University of San Fran­ Business Association's eighth an­ cancer? self to one’s friends and family is gay groups. cisco and Georgetown University, nual installation and awards din­ Well, I’ve lived nearly thirty an important step and one which is Justice Randolph Hargrave, wri: cannot be agued on the same consti­ ner. association officials an years, each year filled with adven­ fraught with hazards. ting for thé Supreme Court, said in tutional grounds beause the institu­ nounced this week. The novelist, ture. I had to come to terms with a All of us know lesbians and gay the 14-page decision, “mere undif­ tions are private, Knutson said. cancer diagnosis in 1981—a social critic, raconteur, wit. and men who have not come out to ferentiated fear of apprehension Those schools are trying to side­ possible U.S. Senate candidate crisis topped only by coming to their family, or who did so with on the part of the Univèrsity Re­ step local ordinances on religious joins cnmip Robin Tyler and S.F. terms with my homosexuality in disastrous results. On the other gents or disagreement with philo­ grounds. Both are Jesuit Catholic } Municipal G um Judge Mary Mor­ 1970. hand, if this disclosure is met with sophy. no matter how repugnant schools. gan on the January 28 program.. The adjustment process in acceptance and love, it is a grow­ to these officials, is not enough to Knutson said the suits should be Tyler will emcee the event, and these two situations was similar. I ing experience for all concerned. WANTED FOR MURDER: overcome First Amendment free­ helped out by a December 8 U.S. Frank Anthony Baca the openly lesbian judge will de had to acknowledge to myself that Obviously, everyone's circum­ doms." Supreme Court ruling that said liver brief remarks, G.G.B.A. exe­ I really was in a particular situa­ stances are different. If you work tors found some cash in the vic­ The university's student con­ public Universities must allow reli­ cutive director Kim Girtright tion, that I had not chosen to be for the F.B.I., and it's important tim's pocket. gress denied official recognition to gious groups to meet on their cam­ said. The association wili also pre­ there, but I could choose what I for you to keep your job, then it's McLamon had worked as a cock­ the gay student group three times puses. sent its annual community-service would do in response, and I espe­ probably in your interests not to tail-hour pianist at Napper Tandy's beginning in October, 1976. The When it ruled against the Univer­ and member-service awards at the cially could decide how public or come out. In general, I encourage restaurant in the Hyatt-Union Regents upheld those decisions. sity of Oklahoma! the state su­ dinner. private I wanted to be. gay people to be as open as they Square Hotel. Official status entitles a group to preme court denied the gay stu­ Gtrtrighi said Vidal would of­ Gayness, like a cancer diagno­ safely can. It’s healthier for you Nikos Diaman, a San Francisco apply for funds from the student dents' request for attorney's fees. fer "one variation or another" of sis, is socially stigmatized, and it not to have to disguise an impor­ author and publisher, said that he congress and to use càmpus build­ The court granted the Regents his current "state of the state" can be concealed or divulged. tant part of your life. It's education­ and McLamon were lovers for a ings. immunity from liability, saying speech. In a recent Nation essay- Homosexuals, unlike racial or eth­ al for the straight community, brief period some twenty years But John Mehring, the presi­ they did not act with malicious reprinted in the Sentinel, Vidal nic minorities, women, or obese which may not have realized how ago. dent of the gay student group intent. roundly, attacked neo-conservn people, can generally escape so­ widespread and diverse we gays tive. anti-gay stereotyping. cial censure by hiding that which are. / G.G.B.A. officers for 1982 are makes them different. A person diagnosed with cancer Roger Gross, president; Bob Cog Obviously, a closet can be social­ also faces the issue of coming out. lianese. vice-president; Laurie ly protective. However, it can be a Here again, every person has a McBride, secretary; and Bill Clark, psychological disadvantage if the different styl^, and every situation treasurer. closeted gay person internalizes is unique. Cocktaijs begin at 6:30, and the oppression. Then, the person My lover told me in no uncer­ dinner is at 8:00, at the Golden blames him or herself rather than tain terms that if he were ever to Gateway Holiday Inn on Van N ess' the intolerance of a homophobic get cancer, he wouldn't even tell Ave. Tickets are S35 in advance. society. me. I, on the other hand, have told $40 at. the door. If it never occurred to you that a anyone who stopped long enough cancer diagnosis is a ticket to mi­ to listen. nority status, think again. People Hopefully, I'm helping to edu­ have lost their jobs, their homes, cate our community about these their friends, and their lives be­ illnesses that are striking gay cause of others' reactions to their men. Several brothers have called illness. to tell me that they became wor­ Less extreme, but also frustrat­ ried for themselves after reading ing, is the stereotyping that is this column and sought medical -often associated with cancer. I attention. One man was indeed walked into, a friend's office and diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma. saw his face tum pale. Later he His early diagnosis greatly im­ told me that when he'd heard I had proves his prognosis. Also, my cancer, he assumed it was fatal openness has won me a lot'of and he was surprised to see me personal support in a time of looking so well. crisis. In many cases, people with can­ It hasn't all been smooth, how­ cer can conceal their illness. Since ever. In late October, 1981, my I only have purple spots on my doctor told me that the painless, feet, no one would know I have flat purple spots on the soles of my Kaposi's Sarcoma if I didn’t tell feet were Kaposi's Sarcoma- Police oft .cor* Win trod Jew (left) and Kotvln Lai (right) them. the so-called 'gay cancer'. I spent attempt to takaSister Pius Peak of Colorado Into custody at 18th and Castro on Christmas Eve Peak escaped. Gore Vidal * Thus, people with cancer, as the first two weeks of November well as gay people, are faced with (Continued to page 5) Sentinel Page 2 January 7,1982 Police Cite Castro ‘Nuns’ Bathhouse by G reg Day been told to leave before, and you As the whistles and screams A riot nearly ensued on Christ­ continued, Community United mas Eve when two San Francisco have five minutes to move.” The patrol car was on the opposite side Against Violence director Bob police officers attempted to force Job Fees of 18th Street, and its message Smith reasoned with the sergeant . the Sisters of Perpetual Indul­ was difficult to understand above in charge. Smith said he told him gence from the corner of 18th and the roar of traffic and the crowd. they should leave the area, since Castro. Over 100 people gathered The sisters ignored the message. their presence was moving the and became so angry when the On Way Out Ten minutes later, the car re­ situation towards a riot. police began arresting one sister turned, and Officers Winfred Jew Smith said the sergeant told him that the police decided to with- and Kelvin Lai emerged to tell the they would leave this time but The San Francisco Board of . draw. Police did. however, issue sisters to leave because they were wouldn’t be “so polite” the next Supervisors’ Finance Committee citations to two sisters for ped­ peddling without a license. Sisters time. voted, 2-0, on January 6 to recom­ dling without a permit. Adhanarsuara (Ken Bunch) and Smith said he replied, “I hope mend that the full board abolish T he events began when several .Missionary Position (Fred Brun- that I don't have to quote you in the permits, fingerprinting, and sisters set up their confessional gard) protested that they were court.” fees required of bathhouse em­ booth outside the Hibernia Bank merely “spreading joy as we have As the police were leaving, ployees. The board will first hear at 2 P.M. They started preaching always done on this comer.” Smith heard Officer Jew tell one the measure on January 11 and their message of joy without guilt When the officers demanded to man, “Get out of the street, fag­ could give it final passage by and distributing “holy cards," T- see identification, the two sisters got.” Others in the crowd heard January 18, according to Del Daw­ shirts, and ashes of the Folsom at first complained of “discrimina­ the same thing. Smith said the son, Administrative Assistant to Street fire (“holy relics") in return tion and harassment.” They even­ man, who did not want his name Supervisor Lee Dolson. for suggested donations. Other tually produced identificaion, and released, is planning a formal com­ Supervisors Dolson and Ri­ groups and artists had also set up the officers cited them. plaint in the courts or to the police chard Hongisto introduced the mea­ tables and displays at the busy The comer became increasingly department’s Internal Affairs Bu­ sure on December 21. At the com­ comer. crowded as people gathered to reau. mittee meeting, Dawson read a Around 3 P.M., two police of­ observe the events. Several on­ (Police spokesperson Sgt. Steve letter from Police Chief Con Mur­ ficers told everyone set up at the lookers yelled at the police, “This Johnson later said that the depart­ phy which stated that there was comer to leave. One man reported is our neighborhood. Get out!” ment considers the use of such no record of criminal activities that the police told him that some­ T he police also demanded iden­ slurs “conduct unbecoming a po­ among those employees. There one in the bank had complained tification from the only other sister lice officer." If reported, it usually was therefore no further justifica­ about the large Salvadorian flag then present in. habit, Sister Pius results in disciplinary action, John­ tion for the permit and fingerprint which his group had attached to Peak. Sister Position explained son noted.) requirements, Dawson quoted the building. The Salvadorians re­ that Peak was a visitor from Colo­ C.U.A.V. reported the presence Murphy. moved the flag but, along with the rado and had not been involved in of police department “tac squad" Dawson said Dolson had re­ sisters, remained at the comer. the “distribution of holy relics." units in the area during the remain­ quested M urphy's opinion. Dolson 0r»9 Or, Soon, a police car stopped at the One of the officers ¿ id they would der of the afternoon. The Sisters was unable to attend the hearing intersection and announced A SlSTcfi OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE *pr®ad the mestafl® ol joy without fluHt" have to take Peak to the police of Perpetual Indulgence remained because of the death of his mother. through its loudspeaker, “You've at 18lr. & Castro before the police arrived on Christmas Eve. station. At this point, two more at the comer until 8 P.M. ' Supervisors Hongisto afid Louise police patrol cars arrived, and a Sister Position said the event Rennebothsupportedthemeasure. sergeant joined the officers. was an example of “how they stop Dawson said that Mayor Dianne The crowd spilled into the street community....They stop people Feinstein “has been fully informed as it grew larger and noisier. Sis­ from gathering and talking to each on this matter and would have no ‘Counsel’ Mayor ter Position angrily told the police, other on the street. This is the reason not to sign the legislation." “Honey, you have made your cdmer where we confronted the Dolson and Hongjsto introduced Representatives of the Sisters Indulgence. “There are real nuns who have point! Now, why don't you leave?” Moral Majority and where we had the amendment to abolish the em­ of Perpetual Indulgence met with Sister Adi reported that one taken vows of chastity and seques­ The crowd yelled its support. our dog show.” ployee permit system after pro­ Mayor Dianne Feinstein January man at the “leader’s meeting" tered themselves all their lives. Officer Jew then grabbed Sister Several sisters have expressed tests from bathhouse owners and 4 tu discuss their Christmas Eve asked why Position had been ex­ How can you be so offensive? Peak by the" arm and bent his wrist concern that whether they are employees. On December 18, the confrontation with the San Fran­ cluded. The mayor responded that T heater is theater in a hall but not backwards. Many in the crowd found guilty or not, their finger­ city raised the fees from a once- cisco police. Sister Missionary Posi­ she wanted to focus on “the total on the street.” blew their whistles and yelled, prints will be entered in national only $28.50 to an $86.50 initial tion and Sister Adhanarsuara (Adi) issue" and not “isolated examples" Adi said that Position replied “Cops go home!" computer files. They regard this charge and $36 annual renewal both reported, however, that they and that she wanted to maintain a that theirs was a spiritual order Sister Peak calmly said, "Please permanent record as a form of fee. spent most of their time “coun­ group continuity in these regular dedicated to "joy and the expiation let go. This is ridiculous. I’m not punishment. At a December press confer­ seling the mayor about her hang­ meetings. of guilt." resisting.” Officer Jew let go, and Sister Position said, “It's the ence, Sutro Baths owner Bill Jones ups. and that could have gone on Adi said that he asked the may­ The mayor, Adi reported, re­ Sjster Peak escaped through the bully again. It’s the bully I knew -called the new fees “outrageous" for hours;" or her position on selective en­ plied: “I don’t see anything spiri­ ,/CTowd, ran into a shop, and chang­ from sixth grade." and “illegal." He said the average After the sidewalk confronta­ forcement. He said she responded tual about it. What about John Doe ed into "secular” attire. He later The citations order the sisters to employee works at a bathhouse tion, Community United Against that “as long as she was mayor, all who works 40 hours a week and is returned to the scene unnoticed. appear at 8 A.M. on January 19 in for only six months and is paid Violence director Bob Smith sug­ the laws of San Francisco would religious and faithful' to his wife? ^ People continued to -join the room 425 of the Hall of Justice. only the minimum wage. gested that the sisters attend the be enforced equally." Aren’t you offensive to him?" crowd from all directions. As the Jones noted that the city trans­ mayor’s next meeting with “gay When that meeting adjourned, Adi said he questioned the may­ two officers moved through the ferred control of the permits from . . community leaders." Smith said he Adi said, the mayor asked,Sister or whether such a person actually- crowd to their car, Officer Lai The Sisters o f Perpettidl Indul­ the heSCPfl^^iffient Iff tFe -po-1 asked one of the mayor's aides Position into the office. Adi said exists...... shoved a gay man who was yelling gence have designated- Greg Day a lice departfhen&ditnietime in the? about inviting Sister Position that Police Chief Con Murphy, Deputy Mayor Roff later report­ and knocked him to the pavement. “Saint".of their order. 1930s. (a.k.a. Fred Brungard)to the meet­ police-gay-community-liaison of­ ed that he was in and out of the ing. Smith said the aide said it ficer Paul Seidler, Bob Smith and meeting and did not hear every­ would be no problem and that the Carl McMillin of CUAV, District thing. He confirmed tht the mayor sister am id be added to the CUA V Attorney's in vestigator Ron Huber- called the sisters’ behavior “offen­ delegation. man, and Adi remained. sive to the average person on the Q: Wny aia me gay chicken cross me road? When Sister Position (in habit) Huberman opened the meeting, street" and “a mockery of real and Sister Adi (a.k.a. Ken Bunch, Adi reported, by asking that the nuns.” Roff could neither confirm and not in habit) arrived at the_ specifics of the December 24 inci­ nor deny that the mayor talked, a mayor’s office, Deputy Mayor Had­ dent not be discussed because the lot about dildos. ley Roff inquired about Sister Posi­ court case was still pending. Smith Adi said that he and Position tion's presence. nonetheless outlined the occur­ explained to Feinstein that each Roff twice asked Sister Position rence and explained his position person perceives the Sisters of not to enter the meeting. He said it that “people on both sides did not Perpetual Indulgence through his would best for the sister to wait use their best judgement ” or her own hangups. Making until a time at the end of the Adi compared the Christmas people aware of their hangups and agenda. Smith asked that Sister Eve situation to the Castro Street raising their consciousness, the Position be placed at the top of the mini-riot which preceded the May sisters said, was their mission. agenda. Position reiterated his de­ 21, 1979, riot at City Hall by less Adi said CUAV’s McMillin then sire to participate in the full meet­ than two weeks. Adi said that the explained the concept of conscious­ ing, which would discuss police mayor and police chief did not ness to Feinstein. Huberman and disciplinary problems. comment on the December 24 inci­ others present, Adi continued, ex­ Smith said it became clear to dent. plained the sisters' importance to ■him that Position's attire was part “A half-hour of encounter-group the gay community and why the of the issue. Sister Adi, in “secular" therapy for the mayor" then en­ community felt threatened at the clothes, entered the meeting unhin­ sued, according to Adi. Christmas Eve incident. dered. . Adi said the mayor opened by As the meeting ended, Adi said, Roff later denied that Position saying she was "offended by our Position asked Police Chief M ur­ had ever been invited and that the appearance,” and that she repeat­ phy if he would like to get to­ sister's clothing had anything to edly commented about "standing gether and discuss his Catholic do with being excluded from the on streetcomers in habit waving background. Adi said Murphy de­ pe Sint peaj oj noA ¡a6 oj_ :\y meeting. Roff added that he had dildos.” clined: "Some things are better admitted no one whom he knew to “How can you dress like that?” left undiscussed." be on* of the Sisters of Perpetual Adi quoted Feinsteiq as saying. -Greg Day 'J Januay 7,1982 Page 3 oentmQ J h e j . el I ‘Sexual Orientation’ 3 Groups Plan Soon on State Job Notices January 20 Dance State job notices leaving Sacra­ Black, white and Asian gays and social. Friends of all three groups mento after next week will contain lesbians will be celebrating to­ are welcome. a sexual-orientation non-discrimi­ gether at Menage a Trots, an inter- Stonewall Gay Democratic nation clase, according to a state cultural social event at the Endup Club, which has led the commu­ official. Charles Walter of the state on Wednesday, January 20th from nity in many actions during the personnel board's Public Employ­ 8 P.M. to 2 A.M. The event in­ years since its formation in 1975, ment and Affirmative Action Divi­ cludes dancing to music of the has been instrumental in bringing sion said the addition of the phrase '60s, 70s, and '80s and a compli­ this event together. Black & White to the civil-service announcements mentary buffet. Men Together will produce the had been delayed by holiday vaca­ The Association of Lesbian and decor of the occasion, which will tions. Gay Asians (ALGA), Black and feature the music of recent de­ Early in December, Walter had White Men Together, and Stone­ cades. ALGA will have charge of promised that some job notices wall Gay Democratic Club are door admissions and the table of would be changed by the year’s jointly sponsoring the event. information materials. In this three- end. These three organizations believe way host operation, the title Me­ this to be the first time any three nage a Trots will become a reality. Walter reported that the “master such groups have jointly staged an The Endup is already familiar bulletin" showing the change was event. Cover charge is $1.00, and to many of the people involved in now due in his office on January 7. the bar is no-host. Information staging this event. Its owner, A1 After January 11, all announce­ about the three dubs will be avail­ Hanken, is a member of Stonewall ments would be prepared on the able, but the evening is primarily Gay Democratic Club. new form. Those would go out later in the week. Governor Jerry Brown issued Cable Car Awards Set for February 7 an executive order in 1979 direct­ The Journalism Committee of lism committee are Randy Shifts, ing all state agencies not to discri­ the 1982 Cable Car Awards & Frank Robinson, Jim Rivaldo, Dan minate against gay persons in hir­ Show will this week begin pre­ Cureon, and Ken Maley. ing or other personnel matters. paring their nominations, for this Journalism is one of several year’s presentation. Now in its areas of endeavor recognized for eighth year, the event will be pre­ achievement at the Cable Car sented Sunday, February 7th at Awards & Show. The presentation the Japan Center Theatre. also recognizes contributions in the The categories for journalism fields of sports, entertainment, pu­ have been modified from previous blic service, and business within years. The Journalism Committee the San Frandsco Bay'Area’s gay will choose the winners in four and lesbian communities. categories. They are outstanding Tickets are $15 for $20 for achievement in breaking news, in main-floor, reserved-table seating, feature writing and in entertain­ and $10 balcony general admis­ ment writing. The committee will sion. Ticket outlets indude Head­ also choose a winner in a new lines, Gramaphone Records, the category, outstanding achievement Starlight Room, and Urban r in broadcast journalism. Country. PATH OF GOLD streetlights will soon be erected at Castro classic light standards, newly planted sycamore trees, and Two journalistic categories will Doors open for the 1982 Cable Street Architect's drawing ot the northwest comer ol a red brick sidewalk. Arco service station Is off-tketch at be dedded by public ballot. One is Car Awards & show at 6:00 p.m., Castro and Seventeenth Streets, facing west, shows the right the outstanding columnist of the with awards balloting continuing year. The other award is outstand­ until 7:30. The show starts at 7:00 ing achievement in photo journa­ P.M. T he Japan Center Theatre is Market Street Sidewalk Work Begins A Gay Resort lism. located at Post and Fillmore The five members of the Journa­ Streets. Work on the $704,000 beautifi­ the north side, near Pat’s Liquors time for the lettering and a plaque cation of two blocks of upper Mar­ and the Arco service station, re­ to be dedicated on Milk’s birthday, Awards Seek Photos for Voting ket street sidewalks began this- ported Don Doon, a.civil engineer May 22. • h e a t e d p o o l week. The project covers both in the city’s department of public The sidewalks near the Church » HOT TUB____ For the second year, the Cable ted unframed in 8 x 10-inch size sides of the street from Church to works. He added that planting on Street Muni Metro station will be Car Awards & Show will indude and should identify the photogra­ Sanchez and from Castro to Colling- • PRIVATE SUHDECK the 17th-and-Market gore in front concrete with red brick borders, an award for Outstanding Achieve­ pher, the publication, date publish­ wood. of the City Athletic Club would be according to Doon. He cited mainte­ • FIRESIDE LOURGE ment in Photojournalism. All who ed, and a brief caption. The work will include land­ limited, but that there would be nance problems downtown as the attend the event will have the 4. Photographs must be submit­ scaping of the Harvey Milk Plaza more later, after weekend service reason for limiting the use of brick opportunity to vote for the winner ted for nomination on or before. on the south side of Market at on the K, L, and M trolley lines w / POOL TABU on this block. Doon said benches in this category. The award was January 15, 1982, at the starlight Castro, at the Muni Metro subway goes underground. will be added, and Muni coach • 3 I conceived to honor gay men and Room, at 1121 Market Street, near station, according to Jack Barron, Dick Pabich, an aide to the late stops will be moved adjacent to the lesbian photographers. 7th Street and the Civic Center head of the city's Transit Task supervisor Milk, is raising funds subway entrances west of Church • FREE CORTIHERTAL The photos will be captioned, Muni/BART exit. Force. Path-of-Gold light stan­ for 'Harvey Milk Plaza’ lettering on on both sides of Market. but will not indude the names of 5. The legal owner of the photo­ dards like those on lower Market, the pedestrian bridge at the Sub­ Homer J. Olson Co. of Union City photographers or publications. graph, whether photographer or will be erected on both sides. way station. Pabich hopes to have is the project contractor, ft will take •CAMPING These will be identified after the publication, retains ownership, and Sycamore trees, benches, and a plans approved by the city’s public about six months to complete. voting has conduded. the photo will not be reproduced red brick sidewalk will be added to utilities and arts commissions in HOSTS: BILL & STEVE Rules for photographers are as »•ithout written permission of the follows: legal owner. (707) 869-0333 1. The photograph must have Freelance photographer Greg Day won tfte first award in this 1 4 0 0 0 WOODLAND OR. appeared in a publication publish­ category for his photo of the Milk- P.O. BOX 34« ed in the year 1981. 2. The award is for photograph'c Moscone Memorial March, which QUIRNKVILLI. CA 0844« THE CASTRO S MOST COMPLETE journalism, not photographic art. appeared in a 1980 issue of Alter­ 3. Photographs must be submit- nate magazine. 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4033 18th s t r e e t • s a n f r a n c is c o (415) 863-5253 Sentinel Page 4 January 7.1982 HEAD S P A C E with Randy Alfred Help! I'm Too Beautiful! CROSSOVER: California maga­ Thieves stole the 4500-year-old zine (formerly New West) will print golden saw of Mesopotamian Queen by Jim Boland Ph.D. & Alan Sable, Ph.D. major excerpts from Randy Shilts’s Shub-Ad from the University of Dear Head Space, good looking man with little or no new book, The Mayor o f Castro Pennsylvania Museum in Phila­ My problem is that I'm too good- sexual stimulation. Street: The .Life and-Tim es of delphia. That proved that though looking. Please don't laugh. This It is absolutely essential for Harvey M ilk in its February issue. you can't plagiarize an old saw, really is a very big problem for me. good-looking men to get in touch Shilts, now an openly gay reporter you sure can rip it off. As a kid l was pawed over all the with their own sexual feelings. To for the Chronicle, hails the planned Authorities in Mexico City time and now I get the same treat­ remain always the object and nev­ condensation as a “breakthrough" charged two bus drivers with del­ ment. Everybody's always coming er the subject of sexual activity is and a "major crossover from gay iberately backing over and killing on to me. A ll this has made me very disastrous not only for a person’s to mainstream publishing.” two pedestrians they had hit and shy. Also, I have a very low self ability to enjoy sex but also for his The biography of Milk is likely injured. The judge said bus com­ image. A n d I'm very uptight sex­ or her self concept. to ruffle feathers all over town. panies instruct their drivers to do ually, Usually, in fact, I don't get A good place to start is with Among other subjects, Shilts re­ this because it’s easier to defend turned on at all. Do you have any your sexual fantasies: who and views the feud between Milk and criminal charges than lawsuits advice or help for me? I get very Democratic Party activist Jim filed by surviving victims. what turns you on in the privacy of little understanding from anybody. your own head. Pay special atten­ Foster’s “responsible gay leader" A parent’s argument over a little- I know that it’s all connected to tion to fantasies in which you take cadre. St. Martin's Press plans to league baseball game in Tahlequah, being good looking, but when I tell Oklahoma, resulted in a shooting the sexual initiative and in which have copies of The Mayor of Castro people that they just laugh. Street in San Francisco in late death and subsequent conviction you are the subject rather than the Shy Fox object of sexual interest and activ­ January, only weeks before the for second-degree murder. It’s ity. Alice B. Toklas Memorial Demo­ sometimes hard to explain those Dear Fox, Thé next step is to go out and cratic Club celebrates its tenth erratic heterosexuals. Over the years we have learned anniversary by honoring Foster, An Ohio grand jury indicted San experience some of these fanta­ from some of our clients that being sies. This will entail the necessity its founder, with a gala, $50-a- Diego cult déprogrammer Ted w offices are located at 500 Hayes Street, at very good looking can be a very plate dinner. That’s politics. Patrick for allegedly attempting to to reverse your cruising pattern: big problem. Very good-looking you must approach men you are “deprogram" a woman from a les­ people are approached by others POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE bian relationship. That should interested in, rather than let your­ far more often than they would self be approached by them. Simi­ YEAR, 1981: John Maher of the remind us which side of the First like to be, leaving them with the Delaney Street Foundation to the Amendment our bread is buttered larly, once home in bed it will be unpleasant task of rejecting peo­ necessary for you to take the sex­ Harvey Milk Gay Democratic Club on. ple frequently. on September 22: ”1 don’t believe The chorus of the Bavarian S en tin el ual initiative as well as letting the Dianne is the worst mayor we’ve State Opera protested low wages As a consequence, many very other person do so. ever had. I don't think she’s the by silently mouthing, rather than PUBLISHER...... W. E. Beardemphl good-looking people develop shy From your letter it is difficult to ascertain whether you will be able worst we’re likely to get. But she singing aloud, the third act of EDITOR ...... •...... R an d y Alfred (or cold) personalities to protect ain’t a good one," he concluded Richard Wagner’s Die Meister- themselves. Similarly, because to make these changes on your ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR...... Edward Guthmann with waving finger. singer Good choice of opera, that. much is often expected of very own. We are sending you our list Die Meistersinger is about love ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS good-looking people, they some­ of gay mental health professionals POLITICAL QUOTE RUNNER- nearly thwarted by guild rules, the Steve Beery, Adam Block, D. Lawless, Terry Marshall. times fell inadequate because thay who can work with you to make UP: Harry Britt described himself forerunner of modem union reg­ Beau KQc>. Steven Simmons, Cobbett Steinberg know they connot live up to expec­ these changes if you sense that you may require their help. at his third annual swearing-in as ulations. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS tations. This happens notoriously It is sometimes very difficult to Superviseras “someone who came Wagner does move people. Irf Jim Boland. Bobbi Campbell. Alan Sable. Sue Zemel in the sexual realm. onto this Board as somewhat of a Marseille, a 22-year-old music reverse long standing cruising and ART DIRECTOR...... Leroy Burt We are all constantly bombard­ sexual patterns or even to get in scared rabbit." student was carried away to the ed by the message that good-. Britt took the oath as an appoint­ hospital after geting carried away PRODUCTION...... John Deleon. Deborah DeMott touch with one’s own sexual feel­ looking people are sexier than ings. We wish you very well, dear ed district supervisor on January by Parsifal and leaping 50 feet BUSINESS MANAGER...... George L. Banda others. Actually, sexiness is a pro­ 10, 1979, as an elected district from the second balcony into un­ fox. If in addition to being foxy, ADVERTISING...... Bobbv Moske and GrabltAds. James Freeman cess that occurs between two peo­ supervisor on January 8, 1980, occupied front-row seats as the you become sexy, you will bring ple rather than the automatic con­ very great pleasure into your life and as an elected city-wide super­ curtain came down. sequence of good looks, and the visor on January 8,1981. He might Examiner headline reported and others’ as well. sorts of sexual relationships good- We also hope that this column take the oath again this week from Israeli Prime Minister “Begin a bit looking people tend to get involv­ may help other not-so-foxy men force of habit. behind on eve of the Iranian elec­ ed in tend to make it difficult for realize that their often brutally tion.” Israel, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, them to get in touch with their PERSON OF TH E YEAR? NOW cold rejections at the hands of Italy: what’s the difference, own sexual feelings. News, published by the San Jose good looking men are motivated anyway? Very commonly, very good- chapter of the Natiopal Organiza­ not always by arrogance but all tion for Women, asks: “How many looking men find themselves in PREDICTIONS FOR 1982: Med too often by fear, insecurity and women have been Time maga­ sexual encounters in which they low self esteem. ical researchers looking for the Published every other Thursday at 500 Hayes Street. San Francisco. are the object, rather than the zine’s ‘Man of the Year?' ” Answer: Foxes need love and under­ “T hree—Wallis Warfield Simpson elusive causes of the so-called “gay California, 94102. Telephone (415) 861-8100. Office hours. 10 A.M.— subject, of sexual, activity. Be­ standing too. If you grab at them in ’36, Madam Chiang Kaitfhek in. , cancer” and “gay pneumonia" will 6 P.M., Monday— Friday. Advertising rates available on request. cause he is so turned on, the other '______c S0vcr fheaaaAt.'fa: 1081 ■ they often become very frighten­ check our all aspects of our life­ man takes over and "does all the '37, and Queen Elizabeth II in ’52." ed. But j,£w mr.qaJ,Ü^m vyteqtfç,,,, styles. Brunch will be a prime sus­ work" and has all the sexual feel­ and respect, as the Little Prince THINGS I LEARNED FROM pect. By year's end, however, the ings. Further, many good-looking TH E N EW SPA PERS IN 1981: intrepid scientists will announce found out, they may corne to love men report feeling that their sex­ you very, very deeply indeed. The Hartford Courant reported that neither Eggs Benedict nor ual- partners’ interest in them is that our folding money is printed mushroom quiche is carcinogenic. shallow, that men seem to be so Jim Boland and Alan Sable are Your Gore Vidal article in the Sometimes I see S.F. as a uni­ on currency paper “made from cot­ Meanwhile, scientists working interested in their good looks that noted Bay Area gay psychotherapists. December 10th issue was excel­ versity. First we teach ourselves, ton and linen rags, which might for the National Institute of Oc­ they ignore everything else about They write this column in response lent. The man is so perceptive and and then it spreads. I think we include remnants of underwear or cupational Safety and Health are them. This tends to create a feel­ to letters from our readers seeking blue jeans." planning to test the effects of pop­ can deliver the information with should make ‘ r. Vidal president full wit. ing of low self-worth. mental health advice, support, infor­ The Jacksonville, Florida, fran­ per inhalation on mice. Turkish of the university. It is extremely important for us, Another common pattern re­ mation and understanding. Write chise of the North American Soc­ scientists will refuse to let them Thanks for the article. It was ported by good-looking men is that Head Space care o f Dr. Jim Boland. cer League is called thé “Tea use the same mice they- sup­ as gay men and womçn to begin to very affirmative and affirming. question what has been handed to their partners are able to get off 1466 Hopkins, Berkeley 94702 or Men.” I’m still Wondering what posedly “turned gay" with loud us. And from the questions we Lou Kerns with little or no real sexual inter­ Dr. A Ian Sable, 222 3 Lincoln Way, they call their locker room. disco music last year. have to re-create. San Francisco action. This in turn leaves the San Francisa> 94122.

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Luigi,, real estate business, Castro: Lynn, insurance company worker. Tony, banker, Castro: M argaret, retired housewife, 50- B urt, singer-dancer, Dolores Street: A fireplace, my family, and a lot Ord Street, I got some brandy and I got the year Castro resident: I cuddled Up with a friend in of lovin’. I wore sweaters, blankets, and one I loved, and I cuddled up on I have a nice, big m attress and a front of my fireplace. It sure kept cuddled with my lover. the couch and stayed home all nice, fat bed. I went to bed with a Asked at Castro & 18th Streets. me warm. That’s all I did. I didn't night and all day. book and was very happy. go to work. I didn’t go to school. /

January 7.1982 P a g e 5 oen h iiel CANCER include those who have personal (Continued from front page) While my folks had some initial trouble in coping, they rallied knowledge of what I’m going Popper Finally, my experiences have beautifully. They said, ‘I t must be through. We have formed a sup­ taught me that my best friends hard to keep a secret for 14 years port group for gay men with can­ undergoing exhaustive diagnostic cer. (For more information, con­ Panel tests to determine whether or not —we’re glad you told us." They How Rude! even drove me 900 miles back to tact the Shanti Project at 849- the cancer had spread to internal 4980.) Several of my friends have Postponed by W. E. Beardemphl organs, such as my intestinal tract. San Francisco when ipy visit was over, and our relationship is much surprised me. by telling of their A man walked into our office, plunked mopey on the counter, and said, One doctor scheduled me for a own fights against cancer, tubercu­ The San Francisco Board of ’T h is is a donation for that wonderful article you published.” W e were all Barium enema. This is an enema the stronger since then. I remembered this experience losis, and a few other diseases. Supervisors’ inquiry into the safety wrecked by this wonderful gesture. with two quarts (quarts!) of a thick when I phoned my parents in And they’ve given me hope when of poppers, originally slated for An advertiser walked into our office and renewed his ad. He said, “My fluid that shows up on X-rays. The November to tell them that I had I was depressed. January 7, has been postponed business is back to form al now that the Sentinel is back carrying my ad.” object is to get a good picture of The people I have to watch out until February 4 at the earliest He went on to explain that when the Sentinel was not being published, he the large bowel. cancer. Again, I was direct: “I have some bad news. I have a type for, on the other hand, are the Brandy Moore, administrative as­ nearly went out of busin ess-th is despite the fact that he had been adver­ Anyone who has tried to hold in of skin cancer. It’s serious, but my who could be in the same situation sistant to Supervisor Doris Ward, tising in other publications. We were ail pleased by this wonderful support. this much, fluid, while the X-ray prognosis is very good, and I’ve I am but who refuse to recognize said that the constituents who This has convinced us that in the long haul the Sentinel is needed and is table tilts this way and that, started treatment.” that. asked for the hearings had not yet providing an essential service to the homosexual community. But we have knows that this is one of the most My mother's first reaction was, As an. upfront gay man, I’m presented to Ward’s office “a list experienced a frustration and an anger in reviving and. reorganizing the uncomfortable experiences that “Oh, no!” My dad’s first reaction threatening to those who don’t of the people they want to be con­ Sentinel It is difficult to explain, but it is typified by pettiness, backstab- modem medicine has to offer. was silence. (This one surprised acknowledge or accept their own tacted.” bing and just plain meanness by some persons in San Frandsco, many of Nevertheless, I joked with friends, him.) Once again, they demon­ homosexual component. Homo­ Hank Wilson, head of the Com­ them “friends” and business persons we know. _ “1 don’t know what 1 dread more, strated their concern for me by phobia is rooted, I believe, in a mittee to Monitor the Cumulative When John and I moved out to the country four-and-a-half years ago, this the Barium enema or telling my asking a lot of questions. My fear of one’s own potential. Effects of Poppers, said he would meanness was not evident in San Francisco. We were rather shocked that mother I have cancer.” mother asked, “Well, is it O.K. for In a similar vein, I’ve seen some deliver such a listio W ard’s office some persons in San Francisco had become hypocritical, self-centered, I was lucky. Doctors substituted you to be sexually active?” very defensive responses in the by January 15. Wilson added that moneygrubbers. When we moved to San Francisco many years ago, we another test and cancelled the bar­ gay community to the subject of he will also forward information found the homosexual community disorganized, we found politicians using ium enema. My mom and dad, I was nonplussed. You have to gay cancer, and to the related on popper safety which he has homosexuals as scapegoats, we found the police beating homosexuals and however, were not cancelled. Af­ understand that my mother is a concerns about .long-term popper •gathered since delivering an earlier raiding homosexual hangouts, and the very places that were known as gay ter a few weeks of stalling, I got conservative, little, old, Southern safety. T his makes me sad. Some­ packet of such information late establishments were limited and depressing in their ambiance. up my nerve and made the phone Methodist lady who taught me one who doesn't even want to last year. We had the opportunity to work and organize in the gay community to call to Tacoma. about sex by handing me a text­ discuss the issues is using the Wilson believes that poppers— upgrade our lives. W hen we moved from San Francisco to the country, we I come out to my parents twice. book. Her direct questions about process of denial. “It can't happen amyl and butyl nitrite inhalants— felt that the homosexual community would continue to upgrade the quality My experience with my parents my sexuality were a real jolt. to me, so shut up, already.” I may be involved in causing out­ of its existence. Instead we find it reverting back to the self-consuming aptly illustrates the similarities be­ Anyway, the end result, again, didn't think it could happen to me breaks of previously rare forms of paranoia of 20 years ago. We wonder why. tween coming out as a gay man was that they offered to support either, b ut it did. cancer and pneumonia among gay Maybe our country experience can help a little to regain a positive and coming out as a cancer pa­ me in any way they reasonably Anyway. Have a happy new men. W. Jay Freezer, President of direction. There the quality of one’s life seems self-determined to a large tient. Both times, my parents were could. They agreed with my deci­ year, brothers and sisters. Make a Pacific Western Distributing Co., exten t For example, w hen we get up in the morning, we have to feed our the last people in my world to find sion to take a medical leave of resolution to take care of yourself, which manufactures Rush and pheasants, our turkeys, our peacocks (which squawk our attention for hand out. absence from work and to remain whatever that means'for you. other brands of poppers, hotly feeding), our chickens, and the sheep (Momma—who baas at us for I admit it: they worry so much in graduate school. When I could disputes that contention. special treats). Our dog. Pepper, loves to run from pen to pen barking all over little things that I didn't trust not pay tuition for the winter quar­ Wilson said he would suggest during feeding time and the other chores. We are in a state of peace, them to properly handle a real ter, or rent in January, my dad Bobbi Campbell and Dr. Marcus that the supervisors’ committee surrounded by the creek, pasture, and trees, overlooking the valley with crisis. Both times, I was scared, sent a check. Conant will discuss "gay cancer” oh ask Freezer and other nitrite- its vineyards. The whole countryside has a serene beauty. but felt that I was doing the right Finally, my experiences have The Gay Life on K SAN , 9 5 FM. industry figures for testimony. Then, we get into our'car to drive to the city. At first, the traffic on th e thing. Both times, my parents sur­ taught me that my best friends on Sunday. January 10. at 11 P.M. highway at 55 is sparse. As we approach the dty the traffic gets heavy, prised me by getting over their people start speeding and cutting across lanes. Traffic jams come about at initial shock and then asking lots various times where people express their anger and frustration?. of questions, reflecting a deep con­ When we talk to people in the d ty, it’s easy to see how tense they are. cern for my welfare. Many depressing thLhgs occur in San Frandsco. W e have experienced In 1978, in the wake of the na­ 1981 S.T.D. STATISTICS the theft of articles from our locked car, which we leave unlocked in the tional, anti-gay backlash, I went country. We have gone to restaurants where the quality.of food and service on a visit to my parents and decid­ Reported cases of sexually transmissible diseases in the City and County of San Francisco. has fallen even as the prices have skyrocketed. The thing that is most ed that the time had come. After RANGE, 1975-1980 appalling is driving into the neighborhood of 6th and Howard, where the dinner one night, I sat down and old Sentinel was located. The increase in the number of alcoholics and said, “There's something I’ve 1981 1980* High Year Low Year persons strung up on dope in this area is amazing. been meaning to tell you for 14 We were beginning to identify the depressing street characters who years but I didn't have the nerve. would stand and sleep in the doorway, filthy with their own feces and Amebiasis. 752 693 678“ W 76 75 I’m homosexual.” urine, dutching brown-bagged wine bottles. Each day we were buffeted by My mother’s first reaction was, characters more inconsiderate and outrageous than we had seen in the last Giardiasis 242*“ 286 Not available “Oh, nor My dad's first reaction Not available half-decade. They imposed themselves by coming into the business and was stony silence. We moved from begging. Some even broke into the upper stories of our building, endanger­ Gononhea 16,689 17,600 18,640 79 this inauspicious beginning to a 16,558 77 ing our business and security. lively discussion of the' issues of If people wish to flaunt their inability to cope with alcohol and drugs, Hepatitis—Total 1,718 2,065 2,053“ ’80 893 75 being gay in an anti-gay society. that is certainly their business. They have every right to be any way they My mom asked me, "But, I don’t want, but they don’t have the right to impose their behavior on the rest of ■ T y p rA 829 1,004 Not available Not available understand. Bobbi—what 7 do us, and they certainly are not representative of the overall community. A small minority of homosexuals similarly misrepresent the overall yoii dtf when you’re on a date?"1 \ T jp e B I realized that she didn't mqan Nof available homosexual community. ^ . “Who buys the drinks?”, she want­ We recognize the need for. diversity within our community. We also Unspecified 174 189 Not available ed the nitty-gritty details. I told Not available ' recognize the need for quality,'for style, for excellence, and for integrity. her, “Well, like any couple, there’s We feel the Sentinel is needed for objective news coverage, for present­ Shigellosis 534 523 602 76 338 75 a lot of hugging and touching and ation of a broad range of informed opinion and commentary which are al­ . kissing.. Besides that, I also have ways labelled as such, and for thought-provoking reviews of, arid essays Syphillis 1,890 1,502 1,922' 75 1,238 79 oral and rectal sex.” on, the arts. She was suprised. “Oral sex? T here is a place for explicit pornography—many people like ¡L We do You mean, you put it in your not feel that place is in a news-paper of general interest to the male and SOURCE: San Francisco Department of Health, Bureau of Disease Control and Statistical female homosexual communities, however. Consequently, you will find no mouth? What do you do after you Office. put it in your mouth?” photographs or coverage of cock-measuring contests in the Sentinel Now it was my turn, to be sur­ •53- week reporting year. There is a place for opinion, dish, and the well-deserved insult That prised. Unable to describe the pro­ ••Figures for 52 weeks. place is not in the news columns of a news-paper, however. Consequently, cess accurately or adequately, I •“ Decline may be due to drop in efficiency of voluntary reporting. the Sentinel will tell you what's news, not what to think about the news. just changed the subject Whew! If the Examiner and the Chronicle exhibited the same sort of bias and general lack of restraint manifested by some local, gay publications, you can be assured that outraged citizens would be dismantling their head­ quarters, brick by brick. ) SAN Our point is, there is a time and a place for everything. That is why, many years ago, we advocated private, homsexual sex clubs. Today they FRANCISCO’S provide a place for activity whidi would offend people elsewhere. Ironically, some who chastised me for making this suggestion now indirectly profit from the very sort of establishment which I then proposed. THE We are hard put to find an appropriate time and place for such hypocrisy. BEST The Sentinel will continue to fight for sexual freedom and sexual health. ADVERTISING We intend to provide sexual information, not sexual arousal! Stiff cocks are as out-of-place in the Sentinel as a brilliant Gay Men’s Chorus concert OPPORTUNITY SENTINEL would be in a Golden Gate Park tea room. If, as an advertiser or reader, you find it necessary to let gossip and in­ nuendo pass for news, to be told what is "politically correct" according to BELIEVE .... BUT an editor’s latest whims, or to view explicit pornography on the selfsame . pages, you have abundant outlets. 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according to'B arry Lorry, vice- There’s a very well-drawn, president for Publidty and Promo­ ful and sensitive, outfront love scene tion. between the two men. As Vito • A half-hour radio interview Russo said regarding La Cage, 'You program, to be syndicated by the could never imagine those two men new Inter-Gay Broadcasting Ser­ going to bed together."’ Marketing “Love”: Guess Who’s Coming to the Box Office vices, will go out ot the approxi­ “The first time I saw this movie," mately 25 gay radio programs in Di Sabato said, “I kept waiting for the nation. Author Vito Russo (Cel­ them to do something wrong. But by Edw ard Guthmann luloid Cbset) will interview pro­ there are no murders, no suicides, ducer Allen Adler, screenwriter no drag queens, and no condes­ Making Love, the slick new Barry Sandler, stars Hamlin and cension. It’s presented in a way that Hollywood melodrama that may Jackson, and possibly director we’ve always wanted Hollywood to open the field for gay films with a Hiller. present us, and that takes balls." gentle touch, opens nationwide • Full-page ads will “probably" Di Sabato predicts Making Love February 12. In the next five appear in every gay publication in will do “repeat business” among weeks, 20th Century Fox will every city upon the film’s release. gay men, as well as attracting a mount a huge marketing campaign • Joe Di Sabato, owner of the large share of the women’s aud­ aimed at getting gays into the New York-based ad firm Riven- ience, due to the sympathetic theatres. dell, and ad rep to nearly every portrayal of Jackson's character. The film, directed by Arthur gay publication in the country ex­ But straight men? Both Di Sabato Hiller (Love Story), follows Zade cept the Advocate, has been re­ and Lorry agree that this i? the (Michael Ontkean) and Claire tained to advise Fox on the pro­ real challenge. (Kate Jackson), a doctor and TV ject. Di Sabato specializes in “help- “If they go.’’. Lorry said, “straight executive whose cozy marriage ingmajor corporations reach the men will like the movie. The collapses when Zack’s love for a gay market, either through adver­ problem you’re faced with is that handsome West Hollywood nov­ tising or publicity." in selecting a movie, the wife or elist (Harry Hamlin) comes to the Clearly, 20th Century Fox girlfriend will frequently say, ‘Let’s surface. sees Making. Love as a break­ go see this move.’ In the case of Some film writers have spec­ through film. After the malignan­ Making Love, once the guy or the ulated that the film will whitewash cy of a Cruising or Looking For husband learns what it’s about, he its subject. One wag even called it Mr. Goodbar, or the derisive anti­ may decide not to see it; he won’t “the gay Guess Who's Coming To gay jeers of a Serial or History o f want to deal with the issue, or Dinner.” 20th Century Fox, how­ the W orld-Part I, the time may won’t see the entertainment value ever, is touting their product as a be right. therein." sober, sane and intelligent treat­ How is the film different? “It “I don’t know how to attract ment of a badly-abused subject. doesn’t make gays look like ter­ straight men to the movie,” Lorry Counting on the gay community's rible human beings," Lorry said. said, “except to screen it." To that concurrence, the studio is vigor­ “It doesn’t show a seedy side of end, 20th Century Fox will defin­ ously solidting gay patronage for life, or leather and chains and itely not limit their marketing the film’s initial bookings. sadism. Nobody kills himself. As a strategies to the gay community. • In the current issue of the matter of fact, it’s a movie with “It’s important for the gay press Advocate, a 20” x 13" poster insert three happy endings.” to promote this film,” Di Sabato of Making Love shows Hamlin, "Let me put it this way,” Lorry said. “If this movie is a success we Ontkean and Jackson in a Richard said. “I’ve sat through the film may see other treatments on the Avédon-posed triad. Ontkean’s three or four times and I happen to same subject." Di Sabato sees his right arm wraps around Hamlin’s like it a lo t-a n d you'll probably efforts as more than simply a chest, and he dasps hands with never meet a straighter guy than I commercial venture. "This could Jackson over Hamlin’s shoulder. am. I weep so hard at the end. I be a turning point in Hollywood’s Hamlin is bare-chested; his nipples mean, I get a big kick out of it." depiction of gay themes, and if the shine brightly. So does Jackson’s Di Sabato is equally sanguine. gay community supports Making wedding ring. Fox is also shipping “You're not dealing with an ex­ Love, that will be the signal to the same poster to the nation’s gay ploitation movie, which was [Wil­ Hollywood to handle other gay • bars. liam] Friedkin’s intent with Cruis­ projects with the same care.” • Over the next month, Fox will Hamlin and Jackaon will aubmlt to a rigorout p ing. And you’re not dealing with a hold hundreds of invitational screen- HARRY, MICHAEL A KATE: Hollywood * loxy triad. 20th Century Fox It banking on their chtrm t to tell a gently- schedule In the coming week*, while Ontkean - farce, as in La Cage Aux Folies, ; ings for “gay bartenders, commu­ rendered gay tilm to both gaya and straights. thunt the prett alwtyi - remalnt mum. which is to say that it’s not harmless. nity leaders and opinion makers,”

In Praise of Edward Hopper: An “Ultimately Heroic Legacy” light and shadow remains constant often does, Hopper places a hu­ precise lines and the remarkable blems of our recent past sadly, Edward Hopper: The A rt and the ceptofnatureasform,their embodi­ throughout his life, but again in man figure (in other paintings, two clarity of his compositions owe perhaps with longing; nor should Artist ment of psychological feelings in one. Yet form is ultimately the landscapes, .and, above all, their contract to the variegated flow of figures) far to one side of the something to the sharpness of San Francisco Museum of Modem preservative of art, and I would emphasis on the play of light. sunlight in the French impression­ picture plane, toward the end of graphic art. And it is precisely his Art paintings' “flatness" and their for­ argue that with the passage of Hopper's paintings from roughly ists and in his own early work, one of the diagonals, devoting the Through February 21, 1982 mal severity that make them seem time, while Hopper’s paintings 1907 to 1920 are a record of his . Hopper in his later paintings near­ rest of the plane to flat, “empty" ly always places light and shadow spaces. Here, as elsewhere, this so “modem" today, and that ac­ will retain a certain value as social by Steven Simmons struggle to redefine these “French” documents—in the same sense preoccupations in relation to the that Velasquez’s paintingsare valu­ Edward Hopper stands on the American scene and tempera­ able social documents of the six­ landscape of American art like one ment, a struggle that is full of teenth-century Spanish fourt— of, the figures in hjs own land ­ stops and starts, tentative thrusts they will ultimately survive as art toward a personal iconography, scapes: luminous, isolated, singu­ because of their formal rigor and and experiments with forms, co­ lar. The best American visual art brilliance. produced in the last fifty years lors, types of brush strokes—a Even today Hopper’s paintings struggle that is extraordinarily in­ comprises one of our greatest na­ transcend the nostalgia that is also teresting, moving, ultimately tional cultural achievements. The evoked by the work of many les­ abstract canvasses of Pollack, de- heroic. ser painters of his period who The palette that Hopper deve­ Kooning, Louis,‘Stella, and a host employed the same iconography. loped during these years of strug­ of others ended a two-century-old In fact, thematically Hopper’s paint­ gle remains one of his glories and legacy of dependence on and infe­ ings can more relevantly be linked riority, to European models and secures his place as one of the with a much older American liter­ master colorists of American art. moved American painting in the ary and artistic tradition than with In contrast to the light pastels of last half of this century into a other 1930s realist painters. Hop­ French impressionism and of most position of world-wide influence per's calm, isolated figures and his of Hopper’s own Parisian paint­ and dominance. still, haunting landscapes evoke ings, the experiments during Edward Hopper, however, the self-reliance and individual these yeprs tend more and more stands completely outside this ab­ worth arid the reverence for the toward the rich, somber hues that stract, mainstream tradition. And imminence of nature that is central characterize his later master- yet his paintings, unique among in a native tradition that stretches works. In the mature paintings those of twentieth-century Ameri­ from Emerson and Thoreau and one especially notes the recurring can “realists,", have the aesthetic Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and brick reds, bottle greens, deep and emotional power to standbe- John Ashbery. golds, and cobalt blues that play side the best work of the abstract The Hopper retrospective at the off neutral areas of black, white, expressionists and their various San Francisco Museum of Modem gray. Perhaps Hopper actually saw -progeny. Why? Looking at this Art is stunning, monumental. Per- enormous Hopper retrospective, American landscapes and city­ hapsinevitably,certain majorpaint- scapes as darker and with fewer organized by and first seen at the ings are not included (I particular­ tonal variations than their Euro­ Whitney in New York, one can ly missed Western Motel), but the pean counterparts, or perhaps Hop­ begin to formulate some answers omissions pale beside the splen­ per's deliberately subdued palette to this question. dor and largesse of what is assem­ stemmed from his own tempera­ Given Hopper's popular repu- bled. In a show this exhaustive, ment and philosophy. In any case, . .tation asa quintessentially "Ameri­ however, one tends to experience the dark (but never dull) colors of can" painter, it is curious, if hardly retitial and intellectual fatigue to­ Hopper’s greatest paintings pos­ historically surprising, th a t Hop­ Edward Hopper's "Carolina Morning ' (1955). part ol the currant Museum ot Modem Art rétrospective. ward the end. For this reason, I sess immense formal and psycho­ per's rites de passage as a painter would recommend starting one’s logical power. Even when it de­ took place in France, and that viewing in the exact middle of the picts summer scenes. Hopper’s against one another in large geo­ compositional method is formally counts for the esteem in which French impressionism seems to Hopper has long been held by show in the section the curator wot;k tends toward the autumnal metric blocks. This flattening of brilliant, but it is also emotionally have been a decisive and abiding many non-representational pain­ Gail Levin labels “The Mature in mood and often recalls Emily areas of light and dark and of the affecting, creating the sense of influence on his work. As late'as Years." For it is in the second half Dickinson's poem about “a certain entire compositional frame is evi­ stillness, isolation, and melan­ ters. 1956, at the age of seventy-four. of the exhibit that most of Hop­ slant of light...That oppresses, dent in the accompanying photo­ choly that pervades many of Hop­ There is no doubt that as one Hopper still referred to himself as views many of Hopper’s paintings per’s masterpieces are hung. Then like the weight/Of cathedral graph of Hopper's 1955 painting, per’s most famous paintings. an “impressionist.” Like a number today, the aesthetics of nostalgia go back and look at the apprentice tunes:" Carolina Morning. Notetherectilin- Unable to support himself as a of American artists of his genera­ are powerfully at work. His depic­ work and the transitional paint­ tion (Stuart Davis, Hemingway, When it comes, the landscape ear shaft of light in the doorway, painter until his mid-forties, Hop­ and the way in which large and per worked for years as a. graphic tions of 1930s gas stations and ings. Or better yet, see the show Stein, Wallace Stevens'). Hopper listens. twice, the first time to trace Hop­ Shadows hold their breath: small planes of light and darkness artist and illustrator. In the valu­ hotel rooms, of luncheonettes and spent a period of enthusiatic Fren- per's heroic development, the se­ When it goes, 'tis like the dis­ intersect in sharply defined lines. able kinescope that accompanies women’s fashions, of a mostly- chification as a step towards even­ vanished rural peace, now possess cond time to savor the later, great tance Like a number of Hopper's paint; the present exhibition, Hopper tually discovering his American undeniable pathos as subjects. One paintings at your leisure. On the look o f death. ings, Carolina • Morning is com­ speaks scornfully of this bread- worth. Hopper took from the and-butter work, yet surely his can’t help looking at these em­ French impressionists their con- Hopper’s interest in the play of posed on the diagonal, and as Jie f

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Ten of The W orst 5) Richard Pryor (Circle Star T he­ as a pop property? I only hope her I try to avoid the bad shows, so atre): exile to the 'burbs is temporary. I’m sure I’ve overlooked some deep­ I’m a big fan, and maybe catch­ 9) Van Morrison (Great American ly deserving candidates. Those I ing the last of six nights was my Music Hall): Another scoundrel, saw should be considered failed mistake. I figured he’d be loose and recently reborn and now simply promises. (I have only reliable re­ rolling by then. Instead he seemed going through his paces. Despite Critic Confesses: After ’81, “All I ports that these were dogs: The to lose his timing, and with it any reports that his dance concerts Slits. Duran Duran, A u Pairs. Iggy interest in continuing after about camé alive with tough blues rendi­ Want Is One Night of Glory” Pop, and Human Sexual Response.) 20 minutes—just when he was tions, this sit-down affair stuck to For the rest, I apologize to those getting warmed up. An extended recent, undistinguished material— who visited the disaster areas on apology, that he was fed up with never ripping into the classics that my recommendation in Pop Pre­ the business and no longer angry he has lost either the ability or the by Adam Block Larry Mullins manned his drums 8) Pat Metheny (Warfield T he­ views. What do you want me to do? enough to do comedy, was deeply inclination to pen and proffer. I like a transported cabin boy, lash­ atre): This stunningly lyrical gui­ Cut off my arm? moving—but how about a refund could forgive the fact that he is Reviewing the year's Ip’s is ing down the rigging in a tempest. tarist just keeps improving. This on that S20 ticket? beginning to look like a rodent if tough, but at least the suckers are When the power failed, the lads year he joined forces with key­ 1) David Crosby (Great American 6) Tom Verlaine (The Cinema): the little geek would only deliver there to page through—the evi­ carried on a capella with flash­ board whiz Lyle Mays and percus­ Music Hall): The founding member of New the goods. dence persists. Rating the year's lights. When Romeo Void's Deb- sionist Nano Vasconcelas on the Only morbid curiosity could York’s legendary Television, the 10) Rolling Stones (Cable TV from live shows is more like dredging borah Iyals joined U-2 for the year’s best instrumental lp, As have tempted me to this show — man who taught Patti Smith to Virginia); Live broadcasts of rock up 200 one night stands: blind encore, the whole room waselectric. Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita some sick insistence on eyeballing sing, an elegant guitarist, with shows on pay-tv may be the wave dates, awkward reunions, em- 3) New Order (I-Beam): This lot Falls. The live show was magnifi­ the grotesque degradation of one some intriguing solo Ip's and rave of the future, but this was an barassing encounters usually un­ had a ghost to live up to: their cent. Even the masterful lighting of the '60s most flatulent super- reviews from the Big Apple to his unbearably shoddy attempt. Ori­ der savage circumstances. The reputation as Joy Division, which seemed to inspire the players’ sump- stars. My ugly instincts were re­ credit, finally arrived in SF. And ginally planned as a small club mind ages visibly in the process. had only mushroomed when their tous improvisations. Some say he’s warded: the obese growth arrived how was he? Thunderously dull. date, with a roster of great black It used to be easier, back when lead singer hung himself, prompt­ too cerebral; I say he lit up the an hour late, with an unrehearsed Beware of New York critics raving talent to be beamed to massive there was some consensus to pop ing the name change. Their show night. band, and strutted around for a about fellow New Yorkers. They screens in 300 clubs, the ultimate tasté, when we could agree on the more than met. the challenge. The probably share a parking space. broadcast wa a sleep-walked sta­ heroes. 1981 was a godawful year lead singer moved with the awk­ 7) Roger McGuinn (Old Waldorf): dium show—the wrong scale for for mainstream pop, the airwaves ward authority of Tim Hutton in Another '60s veteran, founding video intimacy. It smelled like cold, ruled by faceless heavy-metal for Ordinary People, and the tunes member of T he Byrds with Davis tired, g re e d -a n ugly portent for the skateboard set, soft rock nostal­ that seem distant on record came Crosby. A few years back this the spirit of rock. A nd for the gia for the exhausted Me-genera- together in fragile and assured gent did some stunning solo gigs, future of live shows as public cele­ tion, and gormless Country for the collisions. The music seemed to but, since then he has found Jesus brations of intimacy and sweat- Moral Majority. The artists and discover itself in performance, and and apparently lost track of his drenched communion. No fun. shows to get excited about came that was breathtaking. talents. There was no loud arro­ from the fringes and often reached 4) Grace Jones' One Man Show A final depressing note: '81 was gance here, more like a chastened the year that Dreamland and Thé only a cult of afficianados. Shows (The Cinema): uncertainty as he ran through his that sweep up a mass of strangers Her Nightclubbing lp finally Cinema became new wave venues, catalogue of oldies as if he didn't only to close down; the I-Beam in a liberating stampede of shared made virtues out of Grace’s limita­ deserve them, let alone own them. decided to stop booking major new discovery have gone the way of tions: a musically chill, rhythmi­ That was a bit sad. cally suggestive setting for her wave shows; and Winterland was pharmaceutical hallucinogens. In 8) Donna Summer (Concord tone-deaf vocals. It was a surprise officially slated for conversion to- '81, it was largely the chancey Pavillion): Another artist who triumph: of her style over sub­ condos. Every venue’s death cheats little shows, rarely drawing more seems to have found Jesus, only to stance, of pose over passion. us of opportunities, and these were than 1,000 fans, that offered a lose sight of her own gifts. The This show added the visual track some of the best. R.I.P. shot of revelation. Queen of Disco was out in poly­ and turned the tacky tradition of Hitting three to four shows a ester K-Mart land, seeming a bit Life Can Be Frozen, a KQED disco divas belting hits to pre­ week, occasionally that many on baffled by the politely respectful documentary on low-temperature recorded tapes into a class act. one night, I still manage to miss crowd. She inhabited her hits, but freezing of bodies for later restora­ The amyl-stoked circus hysteria of some scenes where the annointed never ripped one loose from the tion, will air Saturday, January 9 her earlier gay club extravaganzas saw god. This year they included scrapbook. Who’d’ve thunk that at 2 P.M., and Monday, January .was missing. Grace looked almost Prince at The Stone, Laurie Ander­ Grace Jones would outclass Donna 11 at 2 P.M., Channel 9. son; William Burroughs, and John convincinglyalien. New fansseemed Giomo at The Cinema; Sylvester's both fascinated and a little dis­ birthday at the I-Beam; Madness turbed. Gosh, it was almost like at California Hall; and King Crim­ art. son at the Old Waldorf. By all 5) James Blood Ulmer (The Stone): reports as monumental as any on If Jimi Hendrix had lived, and gone H A V E WE G O T A N my list, atjists worth keeping an oh to work with jazz-innpvator Or­ eye peeled for. nette Coleman, he might have ALTERNATIVE FOR emerged sounding like this man. Live Pop Top Ten Ulmer’s talent and range were 1) Rolling Stones (Candlestick LAURIE ANDERSON: When she played The Cinema last year, "the anointed saw god.' dizzying as he moved from in­ YOU! Critic Adam Block Is still kicking himself for missing that gig. Park): spired reverb-funk into complex This was the pop event of the polyrhythms; sketching glorious W ere GREAT OUTDOOR ADVENTURES an d we a r­ year; the one show that generated and accessible figures only to veer range the opportunity for gay people from all walks of life to near.universal anticipation. Appro­ 9) Iron City House Rockers (Old half-hoursingingoff-key.inaperfor- suddenly into a series of astonish­ participate together in things that they might not ordinarily priately, it was as much spectacle Waldorf): mance that even the club-owner in g explorations. Ulmer is the most do alone. We run the gamut from learning to make a good [a£ concert, and the Stones seldom This team of critics' favorites labelled “despicable.” gifted and challenging new per­ aspired to anything more risky finally made it to town, and about 2) Lounge Lizards (I-Beam): These souffle to magnificent all Gay Caribbean Cruises on authentic former I encountered this year. than reassuringly ragged nostal­ 100 people showed up. They're guys wear charcoal-grey suits, skin­ clipper ships. Pinch me Sheila. gia. The choreographed fireworks blue-collar steel workers from Pitts­ ny ties, and play what they call display that closed the show, set to 6) Dead Kennedys (American In­ burgh with a sound out of Spring­ fake jazz.' If this was intended as a If you think 1981 was a good year, just look at dian Center): steen, but stripped of his melo­ Jimi Hendrix's version of "The satire of the arduous pretentions of some of the things that we have planned for Star Spangled Banner." was as I thought these jokers were no­ dramatic romance. Initially, they the beatnik era, the subtle irony moving as any of the perfor­ thing but an argument for the stunk: flat vocals, plodding rhythm passed me by. But ah—the hack­ 1982.... mances. Yet the show was pre­ descent of punk into contrived no­ section. But as the three-hour set neyed sludge got through. velty until I saw this show. Jello wore on they improved, and by the Sail the Caribbean with 75 to posterous and it was touching. 3) Carmen Me Rae (Great Ameri­ The music was often hilariously ‘ Biafra proved to be a charismatic final hour they were charging the 120 other gay people on any can Music Hall): sloppy, and Jagger camped with performer, mixing laconic humor stage with maniacal enthusiasm, one of our four Windjammer Lounging in stetch pants and a abandon; pulling off his shirt to with savage enthusiasm. He match­ leaving the crowd drenched in Cruises including round-trip sweatshirt with hand-painted flow­ drawl. "Am I the only girl going ed the slam-dancing crowd with sweat and howling. A rare and air fare, all accomodations fearless headlong leaps into the exhilarating reminder of what bar- ers, McRae seemed to suffer the topless today?" and meals, stopovers in each front rows, and his performance of ban rock’n’roll should be. burden of her immense gifts. Unfor­ 2) U-2, Romeo Void (California tunately, she never displayed them. port, and twelve daysy “Nazi Punks Fuck O ff' took on the 10) Bloolips: British drag queens Hall): . dumbest misconceptions of his own Juxtaposing unctuous patter with unlimited additional air These two young bands were mounted in the unfortunately fans. An astonishing night’s work. archly bored renditions, she deco­ travel (two week cruise ex­ both pushing stunning debut Ip's named Lust in Space, a fragile and rated her tunes with meaningless cepted), all for $995.00 when they teamed up for this gig. D U B 40 (The Stone): This band sidesplitting musical revue that snatches of scat. I felt as if I’d bachelor quarters. Romeo Void were the local heroes, emerge during Britain's ska-revi­ championed androgyny and eccen­ stumbled into a rehearsal for the but this show found them staking val craze, but they stand well apart tricity, mocked conformity and bi­ Merv Griffin Show. a claim as performers kicking from the ditzy dance outfits. Their gotry. Betty Bourne’s rendition of And also coming up this year...... through the stuffiness of their lp. roots are lush reggae, and spooky “Androgyny" was devastating. 4) Teardrop Explodes (Old Wal­ The fourlrish teens in U-2 turned dub. This night they paced Stevie Spiked with hard anarchic insights, dorf): This tot inched ahead of • Three trips to Puerta Vallarta the poignant panic of their lp. 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January 7.1982 Cb l enThe oni - e! 1 rape scene: this is obviously a performance' by Bernadette specific drama, and self-induced, Peters. not a homophobic generalization. So much for the top ten. As far 8) STEVIE. Glenda Jackson as as the turkeys are concerned. I'm the poet Stevie Smith proves that loathe to admit that I didn’t make she's an endlessly fascinating ac­ it to Halloween II or to any of the A Year of Movies: Bringing Back the Spark tress even when housebound. Chevy Chase comedies this year, Jackson is the new Katherine Hep­ so what follows is a partial list of burn, a woman whose steely self- by Steve Beery time,and the exhuberent but over­ afraid to make. 5) B O D Y HEAT. Lawrence losers at best. praised Raiders o f the Lost Ark. 2) REDS. Warren Beatty’s big Kasdan's witty script and tight determination seems peculiarly 1) TARZAN, THE APE MAN. While 1 wouldn’t say there Highly-praised films which, for gamble paid off spectacularly. directorial hand made this the adaptable to all sorts of roles. This Bomb dty. A movie so bad, it’s weren't times during the past year one reason or another, I never got Reds is the first movie to combine most enjoyable of the excursions English import is that rare anoma- hard to laugh at. Miles O’Keeffe when you may have flipped hope­ around to seeing and therefore the romance of revolutionary poli­ into neo noir. At last there's been fy, a "literary" movie that’s en­ can see me personally about this fully through the pink section only which may conceivably have tics with an old-fashioned, tear- a romantic mystery with a truly grossing and revealing. listing if he doesn't like it. to conclude that there just weren't found their way into the exclusive jerking love story. Diane Keaton at unexpected, and satisfying, de­ 9) SUPERM AN II. A faiiy-tale 2) MOMMIE DEAREST. any movies in town worth seeing, cadre of personal favorites which the center of the Russian Revolu­ nouement. fable with cynidsm built in, it tells There's reason for all of us, movie it seems in retrospect that 1981 follows, include Excalibur. Heart­ tion steals everything but the cam­ 6) TAXI ZUM KLO. Frank us that it isn't enough to be bom stars and ordinary. Joes alike,, to was a very good year for film- land, Raggedy Man, On Golden eras in an astonishingly multi- Ripploh’s autobiographical grap with super powers, but that you fear this kind of hysterical rewrit­ going. Movies this year seemed Pond, and They All Laughed. leveled performance. pling with homosexuality and free always have to experience bow ing of history. T he movie cries for the other half lives before you can overall to have regained some of The reader is encouraged to 3) NAPOLEON. Abel Gance’s choice made for a zany, liberating, the campy attention of a Ken temper yoqr strength with matu­ the spark, the spontaneity, and the remember while perusing the fol­ masterpiece from 1927 enjoyed a life-affirming movie. Films like Russell, but Faye Dunway’s oper­ rity. atic performance defies direction. flair for illuminating interpersonal lowing list that all ten-best lists big-scale revival this year. Albert this one will help to undo the onus 10) PENNIES FROM HEA V- relationships that vanished from are highly subjective and that it is Dieudonne starred as Napoleon, of Cruising. A real mess. EN. This dazzling, revisionist look films with their increased formuli- precisely this quality which guar­ Carmine Coppola conducted his 7) SPETTERS. This brisk 3) RICH AND FAMOUS. Can- at Depression musicals introduces zation in the late 1970s. Unfor­ antees their enduring popularity. sweepingly romantic new score, Dutch comedy about the tran- dice Bergen overplays, Jackie Bis- tunately, dry spells are more pro­ set underplays, and all the men nounced than ever due to the undress. George Cukor is drop­ distributors' tendency to lump their ping hairpins all over the place, good releases together seasonally, but tearoom tricking in a remake especially at the onset of summer of Old Acquaintance doesn’t jibe. and the December holiday rush. 4) ROLLOVER. If Jane Fonda Most surprising trend of 1981 were truly committed to Tom was the return of the historical Hayden's Campaign for Economic romance, a genre which languish­ Democracy, she could have ap­ ed during the past decade despite plied the budget for this movie such interesting entries as The directly to the federal deficit. Wind and The Lion, but which 5) MY DINNER WITH AN­ reappeared with such unequivocal DRE. Didn't everybody have vigor that it grabbed the top four these “ultimate-nature-of-reality" spots on the ten-best list which rap session in their freshman dorm follows. rooms? Not a spellbinding subject Homosexuality was not as much for a movie unless watching food in evidence this year as, for in­ being chewed around mouthfuls of stance, 1971, when Death In Ve­ Carlos Castaneda mumbo-jumbo is nice. Sunday. Bloody Sunday, The your idea of a good time. Music Lovers. Johnny Minotaur, X, Y. and Zee. and Some o f My Best An abbreviated listing of the Friends Are...graced the screen, year's best performances would but strongly positive statements have to indude the following: were made with Taxi Zum Klo, Diane Keaton, Reds; Renee Sou- Polyester, and La Cage aux Folles tendijk, Spelters; Bernadette II. Even Zorro. the Gay Blade's Peters, Pennies from Heaven; Mel tomfoolery seemed to imply a Gibson, Gallipoli; Glenda Jackson, . Stevie; Howard E. Rollins, Rag­ new tolerance abroad in movie- EVERYTHING BUT THE CAMERAS: DUn* Keaton (1.) mads off Ifcaa bandit In Reds. American Werewolf In London and Edward Guthmann frtory below) is still catching time; and Alice Krige, Chariots o f land. Next month's big gay re­ leaving critic Steve Beery In her awe. David Naughton (r.) » lease, Making Love, is already Fire. being pitched hard to the Advo­ 1) GALLIPOLI Australian di and throngs of admirers packed sience of youth accurately cap­ Busby Berkley to Kafka. An in- All that reasonably needs to be cate's readership. rector Peter Weir’s profound and the Opera House. Gance’s virtuos­ tures the vibrance of adolescent triguingly fatalistic drama, Pen­ said with regards to the year’s Most astonishing in this year's handsomely homoerotic prayer for ity with the camera triumphs over sexuality and experimentation. I nies breaks new ground in ques­ worst performance cart be sue- crop of films is the breadth of qual­ peace. Mel Gibson and Mark Lee a labyrinthine story. don't think gay polemicists should tioning the nature of filmic reality rinctly summed up in the two ity among the runners-up, movies contributed unforgettably tender A) CHARIOTS OF FIRE. Hand­ protest too much about the gay and . features an Oscar-calibre words Bo and Derek. that may not have shone with the performances as the most likeable some men proving themselves glow of greatness but which re­ mates of the year. The horror of through competition. Hugh Hud­ ners: Other Side of Midnight and main memorable nonetheless: war has seldom been expressed son had directed television com­ The Eddie Awards: Eyes of Laura Mars.) with the dreamlike clarity Weir mercials before graduating to films as diverse, as Atlantic City. Fuel For Fantasy: William Hurt' The French LieutinantA. WiWfTm-i musters. .This heroic . entertain­ films with this-beautiful firat i ca- in anything, (Runner-Uqj Q atidt the aforementioned Pa^uterrjhe^ ment is the male-male k»ve story - ture. Ben Cross, the film’s Jttfldah , The Way It Was Naughton in American Werewolpin disappointingly enervated1 nag- that Hollywood has always been Harold Abrahams, is Camin to n e by Edward Guthmann favorite 1981 Movies (alpha­ London.) betically listed): Blow Out, Body Favorite Bad Performance: The Eddie Awards, one more in Heat. Eyewitness, Pennies from Edith Massey, Polyester. a vast legion of year-end bouquet- Heaven, Raggedy Man, the first Faded Expectations: John andTaspberry lists, was initiated half of Ragtime, Reds. Waters, Polyester; Rob Rafelson, in the Sentinel last year to acknowl­ MJTIEC IBAYH HOUSE Dog Meat 1981 Movies (alpha­ Postman Always Rings Twice. edge the highs and lows of 1980's betically listed): American Pop, Beyond Expectations: WarTen film performances. My own dal­ Back Roads, Health. History o f the liance with list-making began in Beatty, Reds. iena rciLSCM World-Part I. Modem Problems, Favorite Revival: New York, 1978 when, as a freelancer for the Superman II. New York. (Runner-Up: Disney’s Berkeley Gazette. I compiled a 10 Favorite Movie Performances: Freaky Friday with Barbara Harris.) Favorite and 10 Un-Favorite Sissy Spacek and Eric Roberts, Over-Rated Revivial: Abel Movie List. Raggedy Man; Burt Lancaster and Gance's Napoleon. Good movies at I felt then, as I do today, that Susan Sarandon, Atlantic City; 2 hours are usually called good. “Best" and “Worst" were ill-named Sean Connery, Outland; Faye ATTENTION Why are good movies at 4 ^ hours and untenable categories. As Steve Dunaway, Mommie Dearest; Wil; called masterpieces? i Beery points out in his film-year liam Hurt, Altered States, Eye­ Best Film L ecture: Ron Haver's wrap-up this issue, the nature of witness and Body Heat; Jackie “David O. Selznick’s Hollywood," film-going and list-making is GAY MEN! Bissett, Rich and Famous; Vemell Castro Theatre, January 19,1981. “highly subjective”: given as much Bagneris and Bernadette Peters, Best Local Reviewer: Naomi to personal idiosyncracy and mood, Pennies from Heaven; John Trav­ Wise, Berkeley Express; Steve NO WEEKEND ACTION? as it is to edicts of critical concern. olta, Blow Out; Frank Ripploh and This year, in pursuit of new Beery, Sentinel. Bemd Broaderup. Taxi Zum Klo; Favorite Columnist (now and diversion. I’ve expanded the Diane Keaton, Reds. Drop your clothes and oil Eddies to include not only movies always): Liz Smith. Dog Meat Movie Perform­ My Favorite Interview: Sissy and movie performances, but ab­ ances: Lauren Bacall, The Fan; solutely anything in the world of Spacek. up for our Gay Sunday M ara Hobel. Mommie Dearest; Dog Meat Interview: Barbara pop culture that’s taken my fancy. Ron Leibman and Lauren Hutton. Media Happening of the Year: Zorro—The Gay Blade; Chevy Carrera (for Disney's Condorman). Most-Deserved Tributes: Midnight Oil Party. (It’s Liz Does Broadway. (Runner-Up: Chase, absolutely anything. Annette Funicello at Beach Blanket Liz Does Soaps.) Favorite Hair-and-Nails Mov­ Babylon; Barbara Stanwyck, Lin­ Gossip Happening of the Year: ie: A tie between Mommie Dearest no fun to oil up by coln Center Film Society in New' Liz Dumps Warner. and Rich and Famous. (Past win- York. yourselves.) Sunday night Under-Rated: American Were­ wolf in London, Endless Love, Eye­ JANUARY witness, Fort Apache—The Bronx. lockers - just $5.50. Bring Rich and Famous. Over-Rated: Arthur, Breaker your own canned beer. Morant, French Lieutenant’s Wo­ man, Napoleon, Raiders of the Lost Ark. No membership required Most Homophobic Movie: Back Roads. (Runners-Up: The Fan, Hours 4PM Sunday to 8 POETRY History o f the World—Part I, Mod­ em Problems, Spelters.) 10. 17 - AM Mon. morning. I.D. req. 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Six months later, world: fans in England paid $10 to was anything but well received. to write 77 Sunset Strip, Donna All of them, and the rest of the along with the breakthrough of broadcasters were still gun-shy go to a theater at 6:00 a.m. and Even with guests like Mick Jag- Reed and Highway Patrol—says, video music—rescued television about reporting the murder of An­ watch the show on closed circuit ger, Rona couldn't struggle out of new shows, are failing to gel view­ “This year is the worst." And ers. In 1981, according to Variety, in 1981. But the dreadful fare war Sadat: no one wanted to go on TV. But the Stones ended up 66th. place in the Nielsen ratings, every year he’s right. To simplify churned out by Hollywood packag­ with the news first in case it reaching only half a million pay- * and ended up being cancelled. an astonishing 44 new series were things, 111 say the 10 worst shows cancelled by their networks: 17 by ers dramatized more than ever wasn’t true. Honors for the year’s TV subscribers in 17 American Conspicuously absent last year: were the year's Top Ten (accord­ that the medium has to undergo best news coverage must go to cities. Still, at an average of $10, NBC. 15 by CBS. 12 by ABC. It’s a the one big mini-series of Roots or ing to the Nielsen ratings): Dallas, trend that will have to be reversed drastic changes if the networks Pierre Salinger and the fascinat­ the $5 million gross made the Shogun proportions that make r£st- Dukes o f Hazard, Too Close For this year, if the networks don’t are to compete with improved ing three-hour documentary he Stones the highest-paid enter­ uaranteurs and theater owners Comfort, Little House on the Prai­ home, entertainment technology rushed together at the climax of tainers for one evening of work in want to lose out totally to.the Video curse the tube. Instead, viewers rie, Knot's Landing, MASH, Mon­ Revolution. offered by cable TV. pay-TV, and the Iran hostage crisis. 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