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he recent ordination of Reverend Robert Williams, an openly gay priest, by Bishop John Shelby Spong of the T Episcopal Diocese of Newark should be a cause for cele- bration not only for Episcopalian gays and lesbians, but for everyone who values justice and compassion. Coming on the heels of the ACf UP and WHAM! civil disobedience at St Patrick's Cathedral, the Episcopal ordination served to underscore the true spirit of Christianity. The contrast between Bishop Spong's loving stance of support and the rigid hatred and condemnation of Jerry Falwell, Noach Dear and John O'Connor could not be sharper. For gays waging an uphill struggle against religious anti-gay bigotry, Bishop Spong's action is a beacon of hope. Gays have long labored under the incorrect impression that Judaism and Christianity in and of themselves condemn homosexuality. This fallacy, nurtured for centuries by deliberate mistranslations of biblical texts, has been one of the chief pillars of homophobia. But starting in the late 1970s, and reaching a peak with the publication of John Boswell's masterful Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality in 1980, the myth of inherent biblical anti-gay bigotry was demolished. Modern historians and religious scholars, accurately and objectively retranslating original biblical texts, have surprisingly shown that the Bible is often merely indifferent toward homosexuality, and frequently tolerant of gays. The story of Sodom, for example, wasn't mistakenly interpreted as a story about homosexuality until millennia after it was written. Even the proSCription in Leviticus that gay sex is an "abomination" occurs in a passage stating that the eating of pork, rabbit and shell- fish, the wearing of certain fabrics and even the cutting of the beard and hair are abominations as welL And although he lived in the gay- tolerant Greco-Roman world, Jesus, it need hardly be noted, never mentioned homosexuality at ali. As absurdly archaic as these points may seem to some, they are crucial in separating the otherwise expansive Western religious her- itage from the narrowness of homophobic hatred. The discovery of the biblical acceptance of gays opens up a new world of spiritual tol- erence in which homophobes like Falwell, Dear and O'Connor are denied the moral cornerstone of their hatred. Unfortunately, truth often travels slowly in ecclesiastical circles. The work of modern biblical scholars will take tirne to be absorbed by the more hide-bound traditions of Christianity and Judaism, just as the discovery of evolution or heliocentrism took time to be accepted. . The groundbreaking ordination in New Jersey is a part of that slow but steady process. As the Episcopal Church joins others like the United Church of Christ which have already ordained gays, a fundamental pillar of homophobia crumbles. Actions like Bishop Spong's ensure that future generations of even pious Christians and Jews will look upon homo-hatred with the same sorrow and pity that we look upon witch burning and slavery. T

4 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 working relationship with Dig- completely false, like when LETTERS nity for the action because he stated in a radio interview of the possible application ·of that he had been a member the injunction. Hisquotations of ACT UP but left when ACT in the media were at the UPhad voted to abandon its MissionsAccomplished members of Dignity and ..... non-violent agenda: Can First.as one of the orga- members of WHAM! and someone please tell me nizersof the demonstration at ACT UP. He went about try- when that vote was taken? St. Patrick's I want to coming to invite individuals with Were we all on vacation? Is mend you on the brilliant and radically different opinions in Mr. Humm trying to incite on-target ~Outspoken" in order to have, in his words, more police violence your last issue,and your accu- ~sparks fly." In my opinion, against us? Mr. Humm claims rate and insightful coverage this was a direct attempt to to speak for the Coalition for of the events of 10 December deride the unity and coali- Lesbian and Gay Rights, a 1989. OutWeek has again cut tion which had been built. In ", coalition of 100 groups (of through the bullshit of the addition, because of the , which ACT UP is a member). straight media to arrive at the injunction against Dignity'" We in the community know real reasons for this demon- and the Cathedral Project, th·at CLGR is really nothing stration (of course I wouldn't any tape showing coopera- but a ragtag group of a few expect lessof you). There are tion between Dignity and members who speak for no several issuesconcerning the the demonstrators who one but themselves. demonstration I would like to chose to go inside, could ,.l\'~., .. J I also want to address Photo: Lee Snider/Photo Images address. have been used by the Dignity and its leader Robert Andy Humm is a traitor authorities to prosecute least inflammatory and at Pusillo. Never have I been and is extremely dangerous. those people under the worst possible catalysts for more proud of Dignity,than as Prior to the demonstration, injunction with more severe violence against members of I read the storiesin the papers Mr. Humm tried, unsuccess- penalties. I believe that Mr. ACT UP and the entire les- in the days that followed the fully, to have a "debate" on Humm purposely tried to set bian and gay communities. demonstration. Bob artiCUlat- his cable show between this up. This also ended our His statements were often ed the reasonsfor the demon-

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January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 5 stration impeccably and released on the increase in gious community, which is fact that tens of thousands made it clear. while they did teen AIDS cases, an increase killingus with their fake morali- of young men and women not approve of the action caused because there were ty, but also the political com- who have died and are insidethe cathedral, they sup- no condoms in schools,thanks munity. The message is NO dying horrible deaths while in ported the reasons for the to the archdiocese. And asfor MOREBUSINESSASUSUAl!Our the prime of their lives for the action inside the cathedral. I Ed Koch, the greatest outra(ile elected officiaL and evil reli- past ten years and this soci- salute the brave women and of dL Hisreprehensible behav- gious leaders should run ety just plain doesn't give a men of the Cathedral Project ior at the cathedral was the scared. We will never be silent. damn! And that especially and Dignity who for almost final FUCKYOU to the lesbian There are no boundaries we includes the religious com- three years have opposed, and gay community from the will not cross (barring vio- munity, our so called moral through direct action, the hyp- genocidal monster himself. lence). As we move into the leaders. It's because this ocritical hierarchy that says all Freeat last indeed. second decade of AIDS we materialistic society has people are ·sinners" but some In ending Iwant to reflect will escalate the fight. We will absolutely no sanctity for life ·sinners" don't deserve the on the demonstration. Am I because we must. whatsoever but only a rever- support of the church. Dignity proud of what we did? Abso- Victor Mendolia ence for money and power issurelya friend in the struggle lutely! Never in the recent past ACT UP that this sad state of affairs to stop church interference in have people stood up to the has come to being. AIDS is our lives. church in such a powerful Freedom From Religion still largely perceived as Our elected officials way. We have stood up to. I am disappointed but being a gay disease and should be ashamed of them- save livesand to allow women not surprised at the editorials since homosexuals are con- selves. Where was Mario to choose by their own morali- of the major N.Y.daily news- sidered "intrinsically evil" by Cuomo's outrage when on ty. We have stood up to say papers condemning ACT UP the churches we are simply October 1st,Cardinal O'Con- Right to Life is a farce. We and WHAM!'s protest at St. an expendable segment of dom proclaimed "I'd like to have stood up to a church Patrick's Cathedral last Sun- the population. go out on a rescue" and shut that respects a cluster of cells day as being sacrilegious I say it's too bad that down a women's hea~h dnic. more than living, breathing and disgraceful behavior. Cardinal O'Connor had his Where wcr, David Dinkins'out- human beings. We have sent What is indeed sacrile- feathers ruffled because we rage when the statistics were a message, not only to the religious and a disgrace is the disrupted his sermon of hate and bigotry lastSunday. ~was srONEWAt.t. RIOrS BY ANDREA NATALIE long overdue! And if he's offended by our actions Sun- day, we are offended by his 'ErT THE spearheading the church's wHOlE itEr! I campaign of condemnation of our very existence! Who is kArl/INA. I I.EFT Cardinal O'Connor and the Catholic Church to judge any- DI/RI/AII I.AST W~E/(. THAT votll f)N'r one with their bloody 2,000 I' SA/~ NET l/,/ppeN T~ B£ year history of violent repres- 74 DAB;; sion, censorship, bigotry, YOUIVI: 60T TO KATRINA /iflliNSI hypocrisy, racism. torture and ()~ /)IIIiIMh V~i.() murder? (One historian calcu- !lQV£ TO A 8/6 lated over 100 million human .zT1 Yflf.l'.f€ N()T CI ry WHERF NO ONE beings met with violent deaths JANET I.16e£"II..t directly because of thischurch K"'~V5 A !/N6t.E A~E· r()v? over the centuries-the 400- /lIN& A e()V T YOII- year Inquisition,the Crusades, .the burning of witches, etc., etc.) The Catholic Church was the single biggest obstacle to the development of scientific knowledge in the history of western civilization, a tradition it continues in the subject of sexuality. It has effectively reduced itsmembership to the status of superstitious,primitive savages. How dare this vile institution preach morality to anyone with the incredible amount of human suffering that can be laid at its doorstep? How many unwant-

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ed, unloved and economical- tdime. fwe stthillhavdeto buy mass is like diS-' .~'.."..•.':;;}};:r';~:~:'..:'!I._.' , ly-deprived children have rugs rom e un ergro.und rupting a Nazi i !.i'~~::;::'1-'" . been born into this world to help prolong our lives rally. Theirstupid- iT' ,<~.. because of the church's idiot- because the federal govern- ity and sourness ...~ ic stand on birth control and ment. the NIH, the FDA and has killed and is ~;~r. ' abortion? Wherever you find the pharmaceutical compa- continuing to kill IV,' ¢ ::.:. the Catholic Church en- nies select drug testing our community. rl... ;,.-ch.O trenched you'll find ignorance based upon profit potential, 0' Con nor I and poverty in 1hesurrounding not saving human lives. served on the communities. The first amend- What should we do? Throw President's Com- ment provides for the separa- flowers at the church and mission on AIDS· tion of church and state as the thank them for persecuting for a full year. He foundation of our democracy. us so thoroughly for 2,000 knows what's The Catholic Church makes a years? For once we stood up going on. He mockery of this provision- to the church and now it commands the despite the generous tax hides behind its robes and ri~- medra like no exempt statusit enjoys upon its uals and feigns injury. one I know. Has prolific wealth-which we as Peacef~1 demonstra- he ever spoken taxpayers are subsidizing. tions are lost against our out once on the The media laments oppressors. The only real criminal lack of Photo: Ellen B. Neipris about how we attocked gains we have enjoyed have testing of drugs for AIDS? No, and straight people dying, freedom of religion-I'm come from less than polite he hasn't! But he incessantly then we should continue to much more concerned with confrontations as we enter rambled on about how gays disrupt their organization- freedom FROM religion. It the second decade of the are moral degenerates (even whatever form it takes. has consistently intruded its AIDS genocide. If nothing though homosexuality is ram- According to Christian morbid and guilt-ridden else, we communicated our pant among the church's mythology, Jesus Christ moral teachings in our lives outrage at society's indiffer- clergy). The Catholic Church walked into the temple of because it enjoys so much ence to this epidemic by doesn't show any resped God with a whip and drove power in influencing the going into a very major towards us as human the money-changers out! I public, our politicians and source of hatred and igno- beings-why shouldn't we think we did something com- the media. Where were the rance against gays-the return the favor, as we did parable lastSunday when we editorials of outrage when church. As far ds I'm con- last Sunday? When their poli- entered and protested at the O'Connor publicly stated cern ed, disrupting a Catholic cies and dogma result in gay cathedral. ACT UPis becom- . that he wanted to get arrest" ed with Operation Rescue, . an organization that violates the law. by blocking entrances to abortion clinics thus interfering with women's health care, not to mention the violent verbal abuse these women are subjected to by these fanatics. What about the 30-plus abortion clinics that were bombed because of the hate campaign engineered by the chufch? We have the right to prevent this monstrous organization from continuing to interfere with our lives. Demagogues like O'Connor have made substantial contributions to creating an atmosphere of intolerance and hatred toward gays in general and therefore the resultin~;l·we-don 't care' attitude of society towards people dying of AIDS. We lost sympathy by this demonstration? We never had any sympathy by society at any

January 7, 1990 OUT~WEEK 7 ing increasingly isolated from Church hates us. They active- I can respect that there Now he's runto the homo-hat- society as our voices grow ly would prefer if we were not are those among us who ing daily rags to present him- louder and our tactics esca- around. They and all other chose to pick and choose self as a spokesperson for the late in intensity. But·there can Christian sects have proved what of these religions they "good" gays. Andy Humm be no doubt of the righteous- this over a period of nearly can follow, and stressinstead should examine the fact that nessot our cause. I'm proud of i~! all that love, peace and he has received something no ACT UP's involvement at St. brotherhood stuff; ignoring other gay "leader" has ever Patrick's and I salute the those explicit calls for our mur- gotten-positive coverage in courageous activists that got der in their religiousbooks and the New York Post The rest of arrested there that day. We overlooking centuries of bru- usshould examine that too. In wmnot die quietly! tality that makes AIDSlook like my book that makes Andy Tom Shultz a picnic. But Cardinal O'Con- Humm a collaborator-and in Brooklyn nor is not one of these. His the worst sense of the word. words mean our death. His It's high time the rest of us No Regrets active intervention in the make it known that we have I just finished reading affairs of state 'offer us no nothing to be ashamed of. some of the. coverage in your choice but our active opposi- Nothing to be forgiven for. No December 24 issue.As always tion. I applaud the demonstra- sins, no repentance and no I am impressed WIThyour abili- tion inside of st. Patrick's by respect for an institution that ty to report a story from so whatever portions of ACT UP quite literally drips with our many different aspects, accu- might have been involved blood rately reporting conflicting Those who got arrested are Ian Daniels Horst Photo: Lee Snider/Photo Images views of controversial subjects. our heroes. We've had Brooklyn . That said, I feel it appro- 2,000 years. And the Jewish enough martyrs. priate to throw in some com- religion has hated us for 5roo We've also had enough Slop ACT UP ments to th e controversy years. (Alas the Muslims run back-stabbing Uncle Toms. On December 9, I around the ACT UP/WHAM! behind with only 1.400 years Andy Humm has been running received a phone call from protest at St. Patrick's. of homo hating and faggot around pretending to repre- an ACT UPer reminding me Let's face IT:the Catholic genocide under their belts.) sent ffi organizationsfor years. of the "Stop the Church"

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8 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 demonstration held at St. feel pride and dignity. I don't membership in such an orga- center should rethink letting Patrick's the following day. I like seeing despicable idiots nization if it continues to facili- ACT UP have meetings have had extremely ambiva- like Sunday's demonstrators tate hatred, malice and there. lent feelings about ACT UP placed in the same catego- eventually violence. Govern- Bob Johnston over the past few years. ry. So intense are my feelings ment funding, of course, may Manhattan Last October I attended about this incident. that I'm likelybe jeopardized as well. the Liberal Party dinner and chagrined to find myself Michael Flynn Drawing the Line witnessed their deliberate agreeing with much of Brooklyn Your argument in favor provocation of Rudy Giuliani. homophObic Ray Kerrison's of NAMBLA's use of the I saw the feigned injury and New York Post column of Ban ACT UP Community Center for a hysterics of the demonstrator Monday, December 11th. I deplore the actions poetry reading is seriously who refused to leave the hall. The Community Center inside of st. PGltrick'sCathe- flawed. We do not have a I suspect the injuries allegedly recently showed integrity and draL The desecration of the responsibility to support the caused by Roger Ailes are backbone in refusing. space host during communion was activities of all groups repre- exaggerated. I wouldn't to a NAMBLA-sponsored a real offense to God. senting different factions of know. Thisinsultwas hurled at event. Many times before It is one thing to attack our community. And the a man who, for weeks, had ~nday's offenses,the Center O'Connor and another thing Center is correct in weighing an extensive position paper provided space to the to attack JesusChrist! the needs of a small group on AIDS,ten pages in depth, demonstrators to organize ACT UP is responsible within our community covering every aspect of the and plan their conduct. The and they should try to undo against the needs of our city's response to this Board of Directors needs to the damage to the gay community as a whole. tragedy. Included in the know that many of us will community .. What if an organization paper were creative meth- reconsider keeping a paid The gay community called North American ods to finance the city's services for HIVs and PWAs. His opponent. to my knowledge, Nightmare of the Week did not have such a paper despite the fact only two weeks remained to the campaign and he had received blind support from many of us.ACT UPleft him alone. Since I felt the planned ~; •• ~'J "Stop the Church" demon- J' . stration to be pointless and since I have seen plair:1 . r' unchristian hatred directed at O'Connor, I told the Saturday caller Iwould not participate. Sunday's antics should be the last straw! True, O'Connor is no friend of ours. He's authoritarian, rigid and remote. Yet as a' Christian, I believe he deserves to be treated in the same way we demand to be treated-with respect and dignity. I also believe that a church service should never be a place to vent hatred. To see unbalanced miscreants ridicule the faithful's beliefs, mock the churchgoers feelings and desecrate the most sacred element of Catholic worship-a consecrated host-is sickening and repul- sive. I resent their being portrayed as "gay and lesbian" to the larger NYC community. That's a category about which I have worked hard to

January 7, 1990 Man/Infant Love Association, representation of our issues community representatives deal! Where is his leadership where members had sexual within government. (including ACT UP and the in ·loudly and publicly relations with male infants, It is a testimony to the PWA Coalition) to discuss denouncing gay bashing called for us to recognize its effectiveness of community the issues of contact-trac- and the government's half- right to exist? Or how about activism that this office was ing and improved early hearted efforts in fighting the an organization advocating established in March, and it is intervention treatments for AIDSepidemic? sex between men and a credit to the mayor that he the HIV-ill; we took the ini- Other sacred cows who retarded boys? According to instituted it. Some say there is tiative to produce lesson ne·e·d to be exposed are your argument, we should no need for this office, or for plans addressing lesbian New York Times columnists provide our support for such that matter any office and gay history and culture Anthony Lewis and Tom organizations as well. addressing a "special interest and continue to lobby for Wicker. While they write elo- The question is, where group: becClJSEltrue integra- their inclusion in the city's quently and passionately do we draw the line? As a tion of openly gay and lesbieJl"l multicultural education about such issues as the community, we also have a people in city government will plan; we were instrumental homeless and apartheid responsibility to our common address our issues in all con- in the issuance of Executive they are murderously silent goals. We need not behave texts. But given the history of Order 123 establishing a about AIDS.I nominate them in ways that lawmakers and exclusion our community has registration process for for OutWeek's next "Night- others would force us to experienced (e.g. the NYC domestic partners and pro- mares' listing. behave, simply because they Gay RightsLaw is not yet five viding for bereavement Hal Bramson say so. But we should show years old), the need for inter- leave benefits. Our office Manhattan that gay sexual relations are governmental advocacy and staff attends community based in the same awareness responsivenessisapparent. meetings and forums as Bitter Over Ritter and natural desires as hetero- The issuehere isnot only participants and listeners to As a former teenaged sexual relations. The founda- one of presence but also keep informed and to street prostitute, I'm happy to tion of our position isthat we one of participation. How inform in return-we are see the scandal come out comprehend our own deci- often can an openly gay outside St. Patrick's Cathe- about Father Bruce Ritter and sionsto be gay and have gay Assistant Commissioner of· dral and inside the Com- his Covenant House.They are sex. Any claim that young Sanitation or a lesbian Public munity Center, we read the the biggest pimps in the city as boys or girls can make and Information Officer for the Native and write letters to they rake in millions of dollars comprehend such a decision Office of Management an9 OutWeek, some of us have using prostitutes.The price that isdubious. Budget advance issues of lovers, and all of us have gay and lesbian youth are In addition, NAMBLA particular concern to our friends with AIDS-we are charged for shelter amounts should recognize the dam- community? Just because not fooled by tokenism but to control by the Catholic age it does to our communi- an executive assistant in the are conditioned by realism. Church with itswarped morality when its activities and Health and Hospitals Corpo- To learn more about the ty. Were it not for the teach- opinions are assumed (incor-' ration is gay doesn't mean Office for the Lesbian and ings of this church, so many rectly) to be endorsed by the that he will be able or willing Gay Community call for our would not have to leave gay community. NAMBLA to assistyour organization in newsletter, Outfront-(212) home to begin with. puts its own agenda ahead applying for a city service 566-7385.:...orwrite: Mayor's Gay youth does not. of the efforts of our commu- contract, or for that matter Office for the Lesbian and need sexual guidance from nity as a whole, and should lobbying for more hospital Gay Community, 52 Cham- self-professed virgins who are realize that many. of us resent , beds for PWAs or improved bers Street, Room 31L New often anything but virgins! it and applaud the Commu- . services for the HIV-ill. York,NY 1(0)7. We vallie your I'm glad that I worked as a nity Center's decision. We need people who opinions and encourage you prostitute: it brought me To say that sexual rela- are responsible to the com- to call or write. money and a chance to tions between adults and munity, with access to gov- Jan Carl Park work in an all gay environ- children does not exist is ernment officials at all levels Assistant Director ment. Problems surrounding obviously faulty. But to sup- (the director of the Office for Office for the Lesbian prostitution result from its ille- port an activity or opinion the Lesbian and Gay Com- and Gay Community gality not from any.thing simply BECAUSEmany con- munity is also an assistant to Manhattan intrinsic about rental sex. sider it illegal and immoral is the mayor) to be specifically ACT UPand WHAM! did not solidarity, it is lunacy. employed to address com- Where's Pat? sexual liberation a great ser- BillBerry munity iss.ues-in policy OutWeek's "Night- vice by taking a demonstra- meetings, on task forces, at mares' listswere fun to read tion inside St. Patrick's. Let Out Front conferences, in the media but why didn't you include the Catholic Church be In response to Sandor and on the streets. New York's Senior Senator, warned: we are answering Katz' commentary ("Insula- Since March; this office Daniel Patrick Moynihan? all attacks on our lives and tion, Window-Dressing and has accompiished much to· Sure they guy votes right, liberties. A bunch of self-hat- Turning Up the Heat: Out- address some of our com- lends his name to AIDS and ing pederastic men in drag Week, December 3), we wish munity's many needs. For lesbian and gay causes and will not be making the laws to outline a few reasons why example, we assisted with a even was the honored for gay men and women! an office for the lesbian and meeting at .Gracie Mansion speaker at a Human Rights Robert·Chakassi gay community isvital to the between the mayor and Campaign Fund dinner. Big Manhattan January7,1990 OUTTWEEK 10 nor's political skills, only a protracted process of coalition- buildin(;jamong com- XEROXED munities with otherwise diverse ACT DOWN vinced ·the hierarchs arS interests and agen- ACT UP/New York wrong. Most Catholic hetero- das will achieve suc- Brothersand sisters: sexual couples practice birth cess. The church's I write to you today to control, the Pope's admoni- power is. strong express my profound dis- tions notwithstanding. Many, enough that it is not agreement with the behav- perhaps most Catholic elect- now capable of ". ior of ACT UP and its allies at ed officials, follow Governor being defeated by the demonstration at St. Cuomo's lead in distinguishing frontal assault-and a Patrick's Cathedral on Sun- between the church's position frontal assault is what day, December 10. I am on abortion and what mbkes Sunday's demonstra- convinced that as a result of good senseas public policy in tion attempted to be. your actions safe sex educa- a pluralisticsociety. The church's anti- tion and practice will be There is another area in condom, anti-sex dealt a severe setback. which your anti-Catholicism is education position Photo: EllenB.Neipris I write to you as a gay evident: the presence of men will only be defeated man who, as a proudly in nun drag at the demonstra- by a strategy of subversion or religious institutions but major lapsed Catholic and long- tion. While much drag cele- outflanking. subversion in the conduits of political organiza- time secular humanist, has brates women or subverts sense that Catholic lay peo- tion within the community? A very little good will toward gender categories, there is a ple and low level. clergy will progressive union such as the Roman Catholic hierar- sub-category of drag which eventually be persuaded of Local 1199 may ask: Why chy or Cardinal O'Connor in belittles or demeans women: the foolishnessof the church's should we ally with ACT UPto particular. But I also write as Nun drag, a 10 the Sistersof official position and will act denounce O'Connor when a person who through long Perpetud Indulgence, increas- accordingly (as they do with the contract we signed with years of political activity has inglyfallsinto thiscategory. respect to birth control); out- the Catholic hospitals he con- become convinced of the Nun drag demeans flanking in the sensethat other trols was the key to winning a need for patient. long-term what istoday the single most religiOUSand secular institu- breakthrough contract with all coalition-builing as the sine progressive bloc within the tions will eventually be per- hospitals? qua· non of progressive Catholic Church. Religious suaded of the need to I fearthat in the future social transformation. communities of women criticize the Catholic Church's ACT UPwill only be able to find I am conVinced that have been key actors within position and to prevent it from allies among those who share your actions last Sunday liberation struggles in Central adversely affecting public its overwhelming commitment reflected considerable anti- and South America. A nun· policy. ACT UPshould be able to what, for lack of a better Catholic prejudice. The des- today is as likely to be run- to understand outflanking: term, may be described assex- ecration of the Eucharist by ning a shelter for homeless you've repeatedly used it with ual radicalism. Thiswould be those of your members who women or a drop-in center success on the issue of highly unfortunate, because were inside the cathedral is for street prostitutes as she is mandatory testing. ACT UP'sachievements, partic- the most dramatic example to be teaching parochial But while this coalition- ularlywith regard to AIDStreat- of this attitude. You may not school. There is something building is desirable, even ment issuesand to goading believe that the Eucharist is peculiarly sexist about gay necessary, I sincerely doubt government bureaucracies, the body of Christ, and I men who feel the need to whether ACT UP,in the wake are tremendous lessonsfor all don't believe the Eucharist is travesty a group of women of Sunday's demonstration, political organizers. the body of Christ, but prac- who have consciously cho- will be able to find many ACT UP must decide ticing Catholics obviously do sen to live their lives in com- coalition partners. The ques- which it wants to be: a believe the Eucharist is the munities of women. And to tion is: How sensitive is ACT movement of AIDS militants. body of Christ-and if you show up in nun drag at a UP to people of different or the vangu9rd of gay sexu- desecrate the communion demonstration at the cathe- lifestylesand subcultures? al liberation. ·It can be either host ·you display tremendous ··dral shows that you're not Jewishcongregations. for some of the time, but it can- contempt for those believ- really interested in commu- example, will ask: How differ- not be both all of the time. ers-and you write them off nicating with practicing ent is the desecration of the ACT UP must decide as potential political allies. Catholics; you only wish to Eucharisrfrom the desecration which ismore important: vent- This is foolish, because display your contempt for of synagogues? African-Amer- ing its rage against sexual practicing Catholics in the them-and once again this ican communities may ask: If reactionaries, or building the United States have a demon- writes them off as potential ACT UP, an overwhelmingly coalition that will defeat AIDS strated track record of ignor- political allies. white organization, disrespects and transform the politics of ing the church hierarchy- I harp on this point white churchgoers, what are hea~h care in thiscountry. especially on issuesrelated to because, given the church's they likely to do in Black James E. Keenan sexuality-when they are con- secular power and O'Con- churches, which are not only Brooklyn

January 7, 1990 OUT"YWEEK 11 News Times Blasted for AIDS "Cure" Report Coverage Criticized By Feds, Doctors and Activists

the Times for immune system cells, which become sensational infected and impaired in people with and mislead- AIDS. ing reporting. The scientists attempted to And in a destroy the man's entire immune sys- article the fol- tem, and thus his HIV infection, lowing day in replacing it with healthy bone mar- the Washing- row transplanted from a donor. This ton Post,. NI- new bone marrow would then pro- AID director duce a new immune system free from Dr. Anthony HIV. During the procedure, the Fauci char- patient was suffused with high dosage acterized the AZT, to prevent any lingering HIV Times report from reinfecting his cells. as "blown out According to the scientists, the of propor- transplanted bone marrow grew to tion" and stat- replace the man's old marrow. He ed that, "To continued to show lingering signs of in any way HIV infection for 32 days, but after construe this that all HIV tests were negative. The as having man died 47 days after the operation, reportedly from the lymphoma, which ACCURACY UNKNOWN Photo: Jim Marks cured this pa- Dr. Anthony Fauci tient of HIV remained uncured by the procedure. infection is FollOWing his death, scientists by Gabriel Rotello not warranted by the data.· The Times conducted an extensive autopsy to NEW YORK-When The New itself ran another article on Dec. 21, search for remaining HIV, but report- York Times reported Dec. 19 that doc- also by Kolata, reporting Fauci's objec- edly found none. They employed a tors at Johns Hopkins School. of tions and more or less recanting much technique called polymerase chain Medicine had completely eliminated of its original story. reaction (PCR), which can detect viral HIV from the body of an AIDS patient genes, in examining his brain, heart, in an experimental bone marrow Cure or lure? lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys, operation, the front-page story sent a The original Times article, which intestines, lymph nodes and tumor. whirlwind of hope and recriminations ran under the headline "Physicians rid through the AIDS community. a man's body of AIDS virus in experi- 'Within the limits" or Out of Bounds? Although the patient ..'lbsequent- ment" reported on a paper appearing The Times article was careful to Iy died of AIDS related Iywphoma, in the December issue of the Annals mention that the HIV had been elimi- the articl.e, by AIDS-beat rei ')rter of Internal Medicine. In that paper, nated "within the limits of detection: Gina Kolata, marked the first tim<.. hat scientists from Johns Hopkins And NIAlD's Fauci told the Washing- scientists had made such a sweeping describe the experimental treatment ton Post that "the accuracy of PCR for claim about eliminating HIV from a of a 41-year-old man who had AIDS detecting the virus in the tissues of living patient and effecting a "cure" and ah advanced lymphoma. AIDS patients after death is not known. for AIDS. According to. the Times article, It's a big, big gap in this study." But many in the AIDS community the scientists removed the man's Dr. Bernard Bihari, the executive immediately raised questions about entire bone marrow through a combi- director of New York's Community the report's techniques, urged caution nation of radiation and chemotherapy. Research Initiative, called the report in evaluating its data and criticized Bone marrow produces the body's naive. "We don't know how PCR

12 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 works even in living tissue, so claim- ·ally be some therapeutic benefit for at ing HIV was eliminated based on a least some patients, the transplant New York PCR done after death, that's a big procedure nevertheless costs between claim to make," he told Out Week $100,000 and $200,000 per patient, Mark Harrington, of ACf UP's according to Torres, who said the Treatment and Data Committee, con- government provides no funding for curred, saying "It's hard to believe the patients seeking this form of therapy. procedure got rid of every HIV cell." "We at GMHC heard about this a Others, however, were while back,· Dr. Torres said. ·We intrigued by the scientists' claims. investigated to see if one of our Jim Eigo, also of ACf UP, called the clients would be eligible. But there technology "a promising matter to are no agencies who provide funding explore." And Gina Kolata, in a for this, insurance companies won't Charming, Newly Renovated telephone interview, expressed con- fund it, and the cost is exorbitant". Brownstone Conveniently cern that the AIDS activist commu- In addition to these hurdles, Tor- Located in Chelsea nity was discounting the story res pointed out that access to "mar- • All Rooms Have simply because she had written it row banks" is· extremely limited even Washing Facilities for the Times. "I first heard of this for those few patients, mostly people • Share Bath story from an ACT UP member," with leukemia, who presently could • Continental Breakfast Kolata told Out Week. "It's a treat- benefit from such a procedure. Many Included . ment that AIDS activists had been leukemia patients die while awaiting • Single $50 • Double $65 • Suite $80 ALL TAXES INCLUDED calling for. There's a funny reaction a marrow donor, according to Torres. that when it finally shows up on ACf UP's Eigo noted that finding • Weekly Rates Upon Request page one of the New York Times, a suitable marrow donor is easier Advance Reservations Suggested! people say that it's no good, that when fetal tissue can be used. How-. COLONIAL HOUSE it's stupid." ever, he pointed out that the Bush Administration's recent ban on the INN Headlines and Deadlines use of fetal tissue obtained through CHELSEA Nonetheless, many in the AIDS abortions would complicate research 318 West 22nd St., N.V.C. 10011 community who have previously in this area. "It's a shame that we 212-243-9669 blasted the pa~r for what they called would be proscribed in this area . , its .inattention to the epidemic· criti- because fetal tissue was unavailable," cized the Times for raising false hope Eigo said. "It raises enormous social .11'- about an extremely tentative and problems." unproven experiment. About 25 percent of bone marrow \}t"-viting! Doctors and members .of AIDS recipients die from the procedure service organizations were particularly itself, according to the Times article, critical of the headlines accompanying adding another obstacle to widespread the story, which included one stating use of this therapy. Those along with C~RINN "Doctors eradicate AIDS in patient." the fundamental unanswered question Dr. Bihari called such headlines, "Eth- of whether it even worked in this first ically highly questionable" and "irre- experiment, raised questions of why TIlE CHANDLER INN has adoptp.d sponsible." the word "cure" appeared prominently ,1 f.lvorite European tradition. thl' "Bl'd Derek Hodel of the PWA Health in the Times article. &< Brl'akfast" CIIncept. A small hotel Group said, "I question those head- "I never said the man· was locatl'd in the' Cl'nter of the city. Our 56 newly refurbished. cuntl'mporary lines, and why it's a front page story cured," reporter Kolata told moms are eqUipped with privatl' bath. at all. We suffer from these articles Out Week. "I went nuts pointing out color TV. and direct dial telephonl'. because the front page of the Times that the guy died. No one wants to Undl'r the Chandler. visit FRITZ. onl' of Boston's most frequented gay has intense political ramifications." raise false hopes. But I disagree bars. . Dr. Gabriel Torres, a medical when people say we were giving consultant with the Gay Men's Health false hope to people with AIDS. I'm Enjoy Boston the INN·expensive way! Crisis said, "My main problems were not an ACT UP member. I don't say RATES: $64. SINCLES, $74 DOUBLE the headlines, and the fact that rele- to myself, 'What would ACf· UP say' . INCWDES CONTINENTAL BREAXFAST vance of the story to the community every time I write a story. But they is not really addressed." don't understand how a stqiy is writ- As a rule, it is editors, rather than ten." Kolata added that 1!hehad been 26 Ch.ndl~r .Ilkrbl~y. Boston MA 0211' reporters, who write headlines for the unable to reach Fauci for comment 16171482·3450 Times. by press time. • Assuming that there may eventu-

January 7, 1990 OUT'YWEEK 13 News ACTUP/Boston Slams HIV Test Stance of Major AIDS Group

by Masha Gessen renounce their neutral stands of HIV test- cized this philosophy, arguing that the BOSTON-In a rare public display of ing in favor of pro-active policies. Other AAC should actively use its resources and discord within the community, ACT groups followed suit last summer, when influence to encourage people at risk for UPlBoston staged a day-long picket at the the government publicized the putatively HN infection to be tested. "Early testing offices of the AIDS Action Committee of impressive results of a study of AZT in saves lives--period!" proclaimed one of Massachusetts on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day. asymptomatic HIV-positives. AZT is cur- the placards at the picket, while another At issue, activists said, was the AIDS-ser- rently the only government-approved charged that the AAC "fails the HIV test." vice organization's lack of a policy encour- treatment for HIV-infection. aging voluntary HN testing. Among institutions that have taken a Timing is Everything The successful use of aerosolized stand in favor of voluntary testing and Even participants in the ACT UP pentamidine to prevent pneumocystis early-intervention treatment are the San protest acknowledged that members of the carinii pneumonia, the leading cause of Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Whitman- AAC staff had indicated that the organiza- death among people with AIDS, has Walker Clinic in Washington, D.C., New tion was preparing to change its policy. prompted many AIDS organizations' to York's Gay Men's Health Crisis and even Kessler confirmed that the AAC board is f f\\DS t5 the Mas- "committed to making a statement in Jan- ~J\LL \M sachusetts uary," that will herald a change in policy. ~j 7 Department of But ACf UP members still decried the ser- L 'Public Health. vice organization's lack of urgency in tak- G(:.r'{'; r \ ,;Ji\LU But AAC ing what other groups have seen as a ,;", II . ~N\LL\: Executive critical step. tJ(\ Director Larry "We are confident that they're going to 1.,,; come out with a policy, but they're taking .~ ,f\ICoi

14 OUTYWEEK January 7, 1990 also warned that a campaign encouraging testing would create increased demand for STRATEGIES OF PASSIVE IMMUNOTHERAPY IN AAC services. "A kind of service gridlock THE TREATMENT OF HIV INFECTION results," stated the author of the article, describing the changes precipitated by the A PUBliC FORUM SPONSORED BY POSITIVE ACI10N OF NEW YORK San Francisco AIDS Foundation's change in testing policy. "Worse, AIDS service organi- SPEAKER: DR. SUSAN ZOLIA-PAZNER zations ...are perceived to be unresponsive Associate Professor-New York Universily Medical School and to HIV-positive people,· the writer contin- Director of atnical Immunology Section-New York VA. Hmpttal ued. ·Volurueers, staff and donors struggle Information Regarding Free Immunological Evaluation and become demoralized." For HIV Positive Individuals WiUBe Available Interpreting the article as a statemeru Tuesday, January 9, 1990--7:30·p.m. Sugggested donation: $3.00 that the AAC does not encourage testing St. Joseph's School, 111 Washington Place For further information, because it cannot afford to serve the peo- (Two Blocks South of 8th Street Off Sixth Avenue) call (212) 727-7768 ple who test positive, ACT UP members decided to lend a helping hand to the AAC's fund-raising auction two days after the protest. Several members of the activist organization greeted auction attendees with leaflets that urged them to "bid high tonight [for]HIV testing-the stakes are high!" But when questioned about the newsletter anicle, Kessler acknowledged that the AAC has never served HIV-positive individuals who have not been diagnosed as having AIDS, and that the organization has no plans to offer new services. Kessler also expressed concern that if . AIDS Action began encouraging voluntary testing, Boston "might see what happenec! in New York: everybody rushed out for six weeks, ...and it flooded the market in a way, contributing to the collapse of the system of care." Kessler later acknowledged, however, that the state of healthcare institutions in the greater Boston area is already as bad as that of the New York City health-care system.

A [Not So,)Simple Issue The executive director also raised objections based on what he called "the psychology of testing." "The thing that bothers me is the kind of calls we get on the [MC) hotline two to three times a day, from people who tested positive and think that they are fIne, or in the opposite case, from people who test negative but are convinced that they are infected and get tested every two months," offered Kessler, suggesting that a A Serious Gym for Men.· change in the AAC's testing policy may not encourage the right people to get the test. "The 'worried well' have been a prob- CHELSEA lem since the beginning of this epidemic," Kessler added. Further narrowing the definition of suitable candidates for the HIV test, GYM Kessler declared, "We don't want some 267 West17th Street (cor 8th Ave) New¥ork 212 255.1150

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 15 15 1his ~he Pollc~ policyholder is the health department's already-squeezed HIV-positive, budget allows for this addition, the earliest Kessler pro- point at which the state can offer T-cell posed that at monitoring will be August of 1990, accord- least some ing to Draper. anonymous Kessler pointed to the T-cell counts testing sites as just one issue that makes the question add T-cell of testing policy "not simple at all," con- counts to their trary to what he hears ACT UP representa- menu. Cur- tives saying. "We're going to urge people rently Mas- to get tested, but we are going to have sachusetts has some qualifiers," Kessler promised. approximately ACT UPIBoston members responded that they did not object to caveats in ActiON COM"Si'f~~27 state-run of 1ne ·~Ios anonymous AAC's policy. "Most of the organizations A TOUCH OF EVil? testing sites, that have a policy do have exceptions in ACT UP flyer blasting AAC which are their policies," acknowledged ACT UP's people who have insurance to rush out to required by law to offer pre- and post-test- Daniel Pitcher, who wrote a staterpent an alternative [anonymous) testing site and ing counseling. ACT.UP offered to the AACas a prototype then go to their primary-care physician Duane Draper, director of the AIDS for its new policy. The proposal simply and get their T-cells and bill it to· their Office at the state health department, con- stated that "personal circumstances should insurance." Since a T-cell count-a mea- firmed that public health officials and be a determinant in when and how to get sure of immune-system health--'serves as AIDS advocates "are discussing adding the tested, not whether to be tested." a tip-off to the insurance company that the capacity to monitor T-cells." But even if Draper of the health department

16 OUT~WEEK January 7, 1990 seemed to favor ACT UP's approach. "You y don't just need T-cell mOnitoring," Draper K E w E s T stated. "You need mental-health services, you need better access to health care. But at the same time, people who know they are HIV-infected have a chance to get medical help, and people who do not know they are HIV-infected have no chance to get medical help."

But Whet Will People Think? To further justify his organization'S choice to step slowly and carefully, Kessler A PRIVATE GUESTHOUSE suggested that a new AAC philosophy FOR WOMEN would lend credibility to increasing calls for contact tracing. "I don't want to make it too easy for the right wing to say, 'Look, even AIDS Action is in favor of contact tracing' because we're saying that now there is rea- Casual, Elegant Accommodation including son to get tested," Kessler stated. Although Massachusetts has one of Air Conditioning, Private Bath, and Pool the strictest HIV-confidentiality laws in the nation, a bill now pending in the state legislature would institute contact tracing in 707 TRUMAN AYE.,KEYWEST,FL33040 (305) 296-2211 the state. The legislation started out as a (800)526-3559 current-partner-notification enabling bill, but was amended to extend to past partners and other deemed unknowingly at risk. When the bill was flrst introduced in the state House of Representatives, Kessler testified in favor of it. "Partner notification is not contact KEV \N EST tracing," Kessler offered in defense of his support for the bill. "Primarily' the reason we supported that bill [as it was drafted] was to prevent contact tracing." After Kessler'S testimony in favor of the bill became public knowledge earlier this Rediscover A Man's Resort year, he faced severe criticism from ACT UP and other corrupunity organizations. The majority of members of the AAC's own Government Relations Com- mittee had recommended that the organization oppose the bill, and the board had voted to take no position. When Kessler testified in favor of the legislation, however, he created the impreSSion that the AAC HOUSE favored the bill. As the executive director , ., of the AAC since the group's inception, ._~.!!lJ\.•. and a member of the I5-person National •.. .Lr~~ AIDS Commission, Kessler is widely considered the most influential AIDS ,.""1:. . ..~... spokesperson in the state. "Another thing we need to acknowledge is that confldentiality, on a certain Ea. .,,,.,r 34"its c""pit' riM "." Byl, SalIna,Jacllzzi,, Clr, level, is a myth," Kessler elaborated. "I see 1129 FLEMING ST., KEY WEST, FL 33040 (305) 294-6284 it violated all the time, most of the time by people with AIDS themselves, talking (800)526·~59 about each other without permission:' T

January 7, 1990 our~WEEK 17 News 1989's Top Lesbian/Gay News Items from Washington Up on the HiU:JustWhere DoWeStand? by Cliff O·Neili Unlike 1988, 'thei-~was no landmark piece gay community seemed to draw as much WASHINGTON-While earth-shatter- of legislation passed ·to compare with the attention as did the revelations, first ingchanges ~>nthe political landscape and federal AIDS omnibus bill, reported in late August by the conserva- devastating natural disasters on the physi- And in the tradit~on of scandal as the tive Washington Times, that openly gay cal one made 1989 a memorable news chief focus, ··of the pu blic attention, in Rep. Barney Frank had employed a male year, events in gay and lesbian news 1989, one of Rur .own, openly gay Rep. prostitute as a personal aide after initially throughout the year were also quite con- Barney Frank' (D"MA.) found himself paying him for sex. spicuous. caught in the downpour of bad press that While the right-wing newspaper But from inside the Capital Beltway, accompanied many, other 1989 congres- made no secret about its career expecta- where wins and losses on the gay and les- tions for the tough-talking, liberal standard sional deba~~s.., ~ 1 .' bian agenda were felt on a daily basis, But while It ~y 3,ppear that the Bar- bearer, a month after the revelations were . none stood out as clearly as others had in ney Prank mess overshadowed other made, even some of his supporters began years past. developments ip A;fO~ and gay and les- to doubt he would survive the deluge. Unlike 1987, there was no National bian issues, appearances can be deceiving. But while a handful of Prank sup- ~.;;; ~ March on Washington on which to focus. No subject throu.ghout the year in the porters-most notably the Boston !.. Globe-called on Prank to resign and spare himself and his party continued bad publicity, the leaders of ·the gay and lesbian movement, nearly in unison, supported the cigar-smoking congressman. And in the wake of the scandal-which now promises to continue through into 199O-up from the headlines came a new celebrity destined to rank alongside the Jessi- ca Halms and Donna Rices of history: male prostitute and pimp Steven Gobie. The man who would be the gay "Mayflower Madame," but who describes himself as a heterosexual, has since invoked the Pifth Amendment in testiinony before the House ethics committee investigating the fracas, and has sold his ·tale to Penthouse magazine, where it is said he will name up to four other Congressmen in his tales. . Pentagon Covers up Pro-Gay Report In investigating another of what had become a series of legal challenges to the military's policy of excluding lesbians and gay men, staffers at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Pund came across a "smoking gun." Armed with the cover page of an undisclosed Pentagon report on homosexuality and the military, they DUCK· GOOSE employed the aid of openly gay Rep. Gerry Studds (D-MA) to uncover the com- Newsmakers Barney Frank,Anthony Fauci: plete document. Robert Mapplethorpe and Jesse Helms . Photos: Jim Marks

18 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 For months, the Pentagon balked. And even after its existence became public knowledge, the report was so politically KEY WEST "hot" that Pentagon officials still would not, make it available. , ~ The paper, a Department of Defense- "- commissioned study into homosexuality ~ and security risks, was never officially released, but it leaked into Studd's office Nome ~ _ through an anonymous source. ... a tropical island paradise and America's premier goy resort 0;80. Address _ Once it was made public, however, the For FftE Key West Information and . Cily _ report, "Nonconforming Sexual Orientations brochures from member guest· houses write: The Key West Business and Military Suitability," and the defense Guild, P.O. Box 4640· OW, Key West, Slale Zip _ department memos rebuking it, shook the Fl 33041. USA or call 305-294~3 P . mba boo be .. I . , entagon to Its co t ts, cause mil, .- - - l OCCCCCCCCCCCCC=CCC homosexuality was called no more relevant I to semrity risks than "left-handedness." DO. UBLE As might have been predicted, the I 1 Pentagon had no comment. "-Bill~~Z'=~~~I DATING I

NEWS ANALYSIS II For a I·· Imlte d t· Ime, JI ity of the movement to have the military . we'll double the rescind its exclusionary policy-a move-· run of your 1 ment that had both wins and losses in 1989. I_personalad, f:REE. Short of the passage of a congressional gay and .Iesbian rights bill, the That means ·you 1 reversal of the military's policy is the most get twice the dramatic affIrmation of fede.ral gay and exposure, twice 10 Room Inn lesbian rights on the horizon. the responses,· I. .Piano Bar twice the fun. ..Just I & Restaurant AIDS Activists Shake Federal Bureaucracies Massive, persistent demonstrations enclo.e this 135 Gough Street across the country led the war against coupon with your 1 San FranCisco, California 94102 AIDS in an unprecedented direction last order form, and 415-621-0896 year, as activists were ushered through the very. doors at which they had protested so we'll double the 1 loudly and long. number of weeks Dialogue between AIDS activists and your ad runs. the government's official AIDS machine sur- L --1 prised many in the community, when federal ---- .1--- bureaucrats and seasoned radicals sat down together to dine, negotiate and set policy. ROMANTIC DINNE:RS Led by a handful of well-versed AIDS TOCS·s.lT 6'11P1'I, ,I activists, most notably from ACT UP/New York and San Francisco's Project Worm, THE the AIDS community finally got a· seat at the table. COMPl!:i p~NN€RS 1brough a savvy combination of tes- IFIRST timony, closed-door meetings and direct . WITH THIS AD BITE action, activists gained key victories at the Food and Drug Administration, and made notable inroads into the nation's Public fABULOUS BRUNCH Health Service. See Hill on page 69

January 7, 1990 OUT~WEEK 19 News Police Admit Errors, Re-Open Abuse Probe by John Voelcker Matters came to a head on Thurs- she said, "if people are making up a NEW YORK-In an unusual rever- day, Nov. 30, at the last meeting of story, they do it about everybody." sal of a previous decision, a police the current Mayor's Police Council. She also noted that several peo- bureau that investigates allegations of More than two dozen gay men and ple who attended the meeting said police misconduct agreed to re-open a lesbians attended, according to partic- they had information that had not Civilian Complaint Review Board ipant Gerri Wells, as well as Police been requested by CCRB investiga- (CCRB) investigation into alleged Chief Robert Johnston and other high- tors. She called the lead investigator police violence at an ACf UP demon- ranking officers. Gay community from the meeting, Marsh said, asked stration on Wall Street in March 1988. members unanimously and vocally him about the new points that had And the head of the investigative condemned the board for its complete been raised and then instructed him unit, Sandra Marsh, admitted that the lack of credibility. to prepare to re-open the case. investigation was done in ways that "I was very surprised," Wells said. t "Everybody was outraged and in total Things That "Wouldn't Happen Today" agreement that the whole investiga- Based on issues raised by the tion was done incorrectly. We Anti-Violence Project after the case demanded that they re-open the case, was closed, she said, she told investi- and that they do· the job right this gators to prepare a matrix that corre- time. It's what we pay them for.· lated the different allegations, Questioners who asked the CCRB complainants, witnesses and officers. for details of its investigation were told, The goal was to try to "get a common Wells said, that the results were confi- thread" among the varying reports dential and could not be released. and statements. Attorney Joan Gibbs, of the Center for The matrix is now a standard tool Constitutional Rights, is now preparing for CCRB investigators. But it was not to subpoena the CCRB'sfull report on used when the complaint was first the results of the investigation. investigated, Marsh said. "Lots of things happened in that investigation Statements "Troubling" that wouldn't happen today,· she said. The most heated disagreement, The CCRB has done a post- Wells said, came when Sandra Marsh mortem on the demonstration, she told questioners that not enough cred- said, and "we know the mistakes ible witnesses to the alleged violence were made. We should have been I"~ existed. faster, more thorough and dealt better OUTRAGED,OUTSPOKEN Wells responded angrily that she with the issues raised." Gil"; Wells Photo: Ellen B. Neipris had statements in her· hand from 13 "wouldn't happen today," and that the demonstrators and four witnesses, Credibility MA Difficult Question~ board in general probably lacks credi- including herself. "They all told the Asked if she thought the CCRB bility with New York's lesbian and same story,· she said. "On the bus, after had credibility in the New York gay gay community. "People who are vic- we were arrested, we all saw one and lesbian community, Marsh said, tims rightly believe the system doesn't sergeant [whom Wells identified by "That's difficult. I do understand the work in their interest," she said. name and shield number) hitting and perspectives of individuals from out- The CCRB investigates allegations kicking people at random. I even side the system, based on the results by citizens of violence and miscon- leaned out the window to tell another [produced by investigations)." duct by members of the New York officer what he was doing. And they say She cautioned that while only 12 City Pollee Department. It is made up all 17 of those reports aren't credible?" percent of allegations of misconduct of six police officers and six civilians. In an interview with Out Week, are substantiated-up from ten per- The bureau that investigates such alle- Marsh said she had found it "troubling" cent before she arrived in March gations is staffed by both police and that all the statements alleged misbe- 1988-a finding that charges are civilians. havior by a single officer. "Usually," unsubstantiated does not exonerate

20 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 the officers involved. Investigations can result in various outcomes: substantiated, unsubstantiated, unfounded, officer(s) exonerated, or complainants or wit- ~ nesses unavailable or uncooperative. In this case, she said, "I don't MEXICAN. want to raise anyone's expectations. &t I'm hoping that we will get good and RESTAURANT solid evidence that will move us ·toward a just resolution. Whatever the First Avenue between 49th & 50th Streets outcome is, we want to be satisfied 883 FIRST AVENUE,NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. that we did everything we could do." TELEPHONES: 935-3749 • 421-1212 At least one complainant, however, will no longer answer questions from the CCRB. Lewis Holman, 30, an ACf UP member who was at the Wall Street demonstration, told OutWeek he felt that cooperating with the new investigation would simply validate "the pretense that [the CCRB] is a functioning body." Holman complained to the CCRB in 1985 about press statements by uniformed officers who said that lesbians and gays should not be part of society, much less on the police force. He told the board, he said, that he did not feel the police would protect him as a gay man and he asked that the officers be disciplined.

"Laughably Ineffect~ve" No action was taken, Holman said. The board told him that the officers' right to free speech under the First Amendment took precedence, and that only if their words incited a riot could they be disciplined. Hol- man says he has'now given up on the CCRB, and doesn't intend to "waste time" giving them information beyond what was in his initial affidavit. "It's a laughably ineffective body," he shrugged. Wells voiced a similar skepticism. She cautioned that a new investigation is no guarantee that the CCRB's findings will change. "The system isn't designed to work for gay people," she said. "They just laugh at us." Anyone who has information on any improper police actions at the ACT UP demonstration on Wall Street on March 24, 1988, can contact either Gerr; Wells,at (212) 475-4363; the NY Lesbiar and Gay AntiNiolence Project, at (212) 807-6761; or the Civilian Complaint Review Board at (212) 323-8750. 'Y

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 21 Out Takes

against Hollywood's s~ereotyping of Rosanne's women in rums and was not made out of bigotry. Geraldine reportedly further "faggy" expressed that Roseanne was very recep- tive to the idea of creating the public ser- dilelDlDa vice announcements. However, after the week of tele- LOS ANGELES-Movie actress and phone conversations, described by television comedian Roseanne Barr on Schwartz as "highly productive," personal Dec. 20 responded to critics in the gay problems on Roseanne Barr's part led to a and lesbian community regarding pub- postponement of further negotiations. lished comments in which she referred to Soon thereafter, the matter was a film competing with her own new referred to Roseanne Barr'S public rela- release as being "faggy." tions agents who released the comedian's "I will continue to work against Dec. 7 statement, one week after the last racism, sexism, class ism and homopho- contact between GLAAD and Geraldine bia,· stated Barr through a spokesperson. Barr. Roseanne Barr "I will add 'faggy' to my list of unsayable, Still, GLAAD is disappointed at what hateful words.· they are characterizing as the "smoke- Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Bill Cosby, Barr, star of ABC television's screen" which has been put up· between Billy Crystal and Malcolm Jamal-Warner, in Roseanne, made her controversial state- her and the Barrs by the public relations an attempt to generate other pro-gay ads. ments in the Dec. 7 Washington Post, agents. Uist year, Schwarlz negotiated a widely speaking about her new film She-Devil. "Evidently,· Schwartz contends, "Ms. publicized public selViceannouncement from "Our movie is not like Steel Magno- Barr's public relations experts didn't like comedian Bob Hope after he casually used lias,· said Barr. "That was a faggy movie the direction in which the negotiations the word "fag" on an episode of the Tonight where all the women were men. Our were heading, and have interceded. Con- Show. -CllffO'Nelll movie depicts strong, bitchy women who sequently, pure public relations interests don't just sit around. And no, I don't think may prevent Ms. Barr from doing some- they are too bitchy. Women can never be thing truly decent at this time, something too bitchy ..." that we think we honestly believe in. The But those reacting to Barr's original bollom line is, that in the homophobic WOlDen and statement are now only marginally satis- world in which we live, it is beuer text- fied with the comedian's succinct response book public relations to alienate the gay AIDS in to their concerns. and lesbian community rather than run the "Ms. Barr's statement is a good first risk of angering bigots in the straight com- step in that it acknowledges that the word munity." NYC 'fag' is not appropriate for common use," Since receiving Roseanne Barr's terse reported Karin Schwartz, assistant director statement, Schwartz's attempts to contact NEW YORK-More than a third of of the New York-based Gay and Lesbian Geraldine Barr directly and through her New York City women at highest risk for Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). press agent have been unsuccessfuL AIDS incorrectly believe that the disease "However, it doesn't begin to go far •A week ago I was talking the lan- affects only homosexuals and that HN can enough when you consider the millions of guage of commitment with Geraldine be transmitted by mosquito bites, accord- people-particularly straight people-who Barr," Schwartz added. "So this all is ing to the findings of a major citywide sur- heard about the first quote, but will never unfortunate. " vey on women and AIDS by ~he health hear the statement.· Schwartz said that even before being department here. Shortly after being apprised of the apprised of Barr's controversial statement, Citing the large number of low- comments, GLAAD began a series of had contemplated approachirlg Barr for a income, minority women who are statisti- negotiations with Barr's openly lesbian sis-. pro-gay public service announcement, cally at risk for AIDS, the Department of ter Geraldine Barr to secure a commitment based on her history of feminism and her Health interviewed 1,850 women in from the entertainer fo~ an apology and, public acknowledgment of having gay Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhat- possibly, a videotaped public service family members. tan, most of whom were Puerto Ricans or ann01,lncement condemning anti-gay and And in the ·meantime, GLAAD will African-Americans living below the federal :j.nti-Iesbian discrimination and violence. concentrate on other candidates it consid- poverty line. According to Schwartz, Geraldine ers approachable, includirig Tony Danza, While almost all women knew that Barr expressed that Roseanne's comments Beatrice Arthur, Clint Eastwood, Madonna, HIV can be transmitted via semen and that were made in the context of speaking . Whoopi Goldberg, Jay ieno, Bette Midler, "condom use is effective in preventing

22 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 ~ HIV transmission,· only 32 percent have its Human Dignity and Diversit.ypolicy. They also said the policy would begun using, or increased their use of, Board president Alexander Schmidt encourage students to turn gay and bring condoms. told reporters, "Frankly, I was· a little sur- homosexual teachers to the district. Some 14 percent cited their partners' prised at the vehemence of the opposition At one public hearing in November, refusal to use condoms as the reason they and the distortions." more than 400 people argued abou.t the ·occasionally· or ·never" used condoms. Christians had faced off against a policy for four hours. Many said they had Fifteen percent stopped having sex all coalition of school groups, church leaders, come only because of their anger over the together. government officials and community Christian "hate mail." More than half of the women mistak- activists in opposing the gay protections. According to Mel Wilson of the Oak enly thought transmission of the virus The Christians blanketed the city Park Lesbian .and Gay Organization, the associated with AIDS impossible by shar- with anti-gay leaflets and took out large lengthy public debate "has been the best ing food utensils and by giving blood. In ads in newspapers, charging the bO

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population and passed a city gay rights National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said said, "to know that to some degree the law earlier this year. it may be the first in the nation. right-wing religious arch-conservatives The new school board policy is Bray added that ·whenever we win sealed their own fate on this. People will believed to be the first of its kind in Illi- in the suburbs, we know we are making respond negatively to hate mail because nois, and Robert Bray, spokesman for the formidable progress. It's gratifying," he they believe in the truth."-RexWockner

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SYDNEY,Australia-An Austr:ilian airline has agreed to give a sizable lump sum payout to employees who have AIDS if they become too ill to continue working. Australia'S national carrier included the new provision in its superannuation scheme, Australia'S version of Social Secu- rity, following lobbying efforts by the flight attendant's union on behalf of three flight attendants who have AIDS. Previously, people who could not continue working because of illness or disability had only two options. They could resign and take a modest payout based on the·ir superannuation contributions, or they could remain with the company which would pay them a small weekly disability pension. If they died while on the pension, they would still be covered by the superannuation scheme's life insurance policy, and their estates would receive a considerable death benefit. For some PWAs this means they will receive up to three times the payout they could have expected if they resigned under the old conditions. One of the three flight attendants who first approached the AFAAfor help in getting the improved entitlements described the deciSion as a major victory for PWAs in an area where to date they have received "a pretty raw deaL" "Superannuation and insurance are the two areas where people with AIDS and HIV infection have suffered major civil rights defeats," he said. "Decisions like this go a long way to recovering some of the ground we have lost." -Terrence Bell

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January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 27 Boston Journal

tained at least three instances of the Lesbian Allegiances words gay and lesbian, and a special cover letter declared war. An uneventful ten months later, I by Masha Gessen all four of us accumulated enough resi- received an invitation to appear in the dence time to become eligible for u.s. cafeteria of Boston Latin High School Nothing happened. At least that's citizenship. for the swearing-in ceremony. Despite what the newspaper reporter said, My parents and my brother applied my attorney's insistence that she would when I called to tell her about the ap- and were naturalized, and my mother be breaking INS policy, the INS official proval of my application for U.S. citi- and father registered to vote as Republi- who interviewed me had approved my zenship. What she meant is that noth- cans, like everyone else who lived in application. And the agency processed ing out of the ordinary happened: I the neighborhood into which my fa- my papers about four months ahead of applied for naturalization, and, like any ther's by-then six-figure income had schedule. other legal refugee who has lived in taken them. I stalled, because I am a The morning of the ceremony I this country long enough and can procrastinator, and because for four was filled with dread. Joking with my demonstrate proficiency in U.S. history years already I had been quite publicly lover about the possibility that the INS and the English language, I was grant- out as a lesbian, which most likely notice was a trap, and that I would be ed citizenship-despite my insistence made me a person of insufficiently put on a plane to Moscow instead of on mentioning at every juncture that I good moral character in the eyes of the getting sworn in, I suddenly developed am a lesbian. Immigration and Naturalization Service. an uncomfortably heightened awareness The reporter was right. The se- Over the next two and a half years, of my surroundings and of the ease quence of events briefly known as my I updated my application for naturaliza- with which my condominium-owning, test case would make for a terrible arti- tion three times-each time filing the Levi's-wearing, Japanese-car-driving, cle: a drawn-out tedious beginning, a completed form in my desk two-kinds-of-computers-using lifestyle drawer-wrote. half a could be destroyed. I was suddenly dozen articles about conscious not only of being in the the immigration laws shower with my lover, but of all the im- pertaining to gays and probability of such a setting in the lesbians, and continu- country where I grew up. ously performed a With my right hand raised as mental risk-benefit though I were taking an oath, I mod- analysiS of applying for eled several outfits in front of the mir- naturalization as an ror. I checked the amount of cash in my open lesbian. In August pocket and mentally assessed its buying of 1988 I finally called power in Moscow. On some not-so- a gay immigration deep level, the possibility of being sent lawyer and told him I back to the Soviet Union seemed no THE AUTHOR BECOMES A lESBIAN-AMERICAN wanted to challenge more unrealistic than the possibility of Photo: Nina Reyes the INS policy of dis- becoming an American citizen. short and shallow middle part and a criminating against homosexuals. The flag was the first thing I saw completely predictable ending. No ten- I felt breathtakingly liberated, like I when we entered the oldest high school sion whatsoever. A flop. had felt the day we received the exit in the country (founded in 1635, a 'year It all began in December of visa. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I before Harvard University). There were 1978-precisely 11 years, or half of my actually looked forward to the hurdles already several hundred people in the life ago-when my father took our ap- of the next five or eight years: the hear- school cafeteria, most of them still wear- plication for an exit visa to the Office of ings, the appeals, the fundraising to ing their coats, jammed together on un- Visas and International Travel in cover the astronomical legal fees, the comfortable benches, Ellis Island-style, I Moscow. A trying two and a half years demonstrations in front of the INS and sat down on a nearly empty bench, but later, my mother, my father, my six-year- the Supreme Court, the endless phone was immediately joined by people on old brother Konstantin and I landed at calls from reporters, the fame, the both sides. A woman and her teenage Boston's Logan Airport. Over the next glory ...Even my new lawyer seemed ex- son sat down to my right, speaking En- five years, my brother changed his cited, in a lawyerly sort of way. glish to each other. The woman's accent name to Keith, I tried in vain to keep We filed my papers with some fan- identified her as Soviet-born. A young everyone from calling me Marsha and fare in February. My application con- man squeezed in to my left. He was

28 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 wearing a tiny gold hoop in his left ear, and was laughing and flailing his hands the way so many of my acquaintances do. I laughed at myself for thinking that here, of all places, I would be the only one. helping you meet the .sex To my surprise, everyone around me Was speaking English, joking and challenges of the 90's discoursing with ease. I realized that I had expected a bunch of immigrants and instead was confronted with Ameri- cans a lot like me. A number of people were wearing American-flag buttons in their lapels. Mine was an American flag with a pink triangle. Three hours later, we were finally ushered into a beautiful old auditorium, where the walls were decorated with the names of the high school's famous GAY VIDEO SUPER SALE alumni-Adams, Emerson, Kennedy. My lover and I sat down in the front row MORE THAN 650 TITLES AT $29.95 just as INS officials were placing a flag on the stage--a brand new one, with a . OR LESS. shiny gold fringe. ..HUNDREDS OF ADDITIONAL TITLES As the judge began speaking, I wondered if I would be allowed a final NONE HIGHER THAN $59.95 moment of truth---'some sort of a. ALL PRICES INCLUDE SALES TAX "speak-now-or-forever-hold-your.-peace" op·portunity, when I could get up in VIDEO SALES front of the 381 applicants and as many guests and declare that I was still a les- VIDEO RENTAL CLUB bian. I began to sweat as I imagined the ~s· Pi?AL moment. But then the court clerk direct- ~~ -vJfJ:b ed us to stand up and recite the oath of allegiance, and I realize9 it was all over. ~u ~G~vS 8~ /11(1' Then the judge began a speech, di- ~o'\) ~S ... PI/.. rected at all of us from Vietnam, Korea ~~ ~\.'\) '. ;'. r ~ S/..Ib <1t and the Soviet Union, about the Ameri- can tradition of democracy, the Ameri- G 1"'-:" ~S cans' tradition of apathy and our duty to ~~v ~G~S ~y.~ ..']_ Plio' participate in the political process even '\ ~~ ~311RU. 1'OS as those for whom it is a birthright ne- ,NC. glect to do so. To my surprise and em- ~?S barrassment, I felt close to crying in We offer the latest but we specialize· in gay memorabilia all front of the 381 people who would un~ the way back to the Vims, Trims, Demigods, TornomYW'sMans derstand, and about as many who prob- and Ones. We buy collections. ably wouldn't. After almost nine years in this GAY TREASURES country, I felt mature and healthily cyni- 546 HUDSON ST. cal. It had taken me a few years to feel (BElWEEN CHARLES & PERRy) secure enough to acknowledge that this (212) 255-5756 . country is not perfect. It was some time 7 DA YS 11 AM TILL MIDNIGHT before I decided that Ayn Rand was IN THE HEART OF THE GA Y VILLAGE See LESBIAN ALLEGIANCES on page 31

January 7, 1990 OUT~WEEK 29 able to look to television for (misin- ing and rolling that hit San Francisco formed) "reasons" to beat us up. in the form of the recent earthquake. We suggest you write to WABC A seemingly innocuous enough GLAAD and encourage them to cover some of subject, one would think. Yet Heaton the real stories relating jointly to gay managed to throw in a gratuitous issues and the homeless. Such as how paragraph about San Francisco dedi- TIDINGS the gay and lesbian teenage homeless cated to slamming the gays who live are forced out onto the streets by ho- there. He wrote: mophobic violence in the shelters and 'There's also the homosexual stig- inadequate social programs tailored ma. I lived there for three years and re- specifically for them. And such as how member telling people on airplanes or the government's inadequate response other places where people from all to the AIDS crisis, as well as homo-. over the map are forced to gather and ABC-lV in New York phobic insurance company policies, chat, that I was an S.F.resident... There has blamed gays and have forced many people with AIDS was always a bit of a pause and you lesbians for the fact in~o poverty and out of their homes. could see the subconscious eyebrows W being raised. Then you felt like you had that some homeless people are forced Write to: Mr. William Applegate, to sleep out in the cold, on the streets. News Director, WABC-TV, 77 West to make a joke or talk about your In late November, nonexistent experiences WABC-TV's Tappy in 'Nam so they wouldn't Phillips did a report on think you were a nancy- hOl1)eless people, and boy." how the violence and According to the theft in New York City GLAADmember, Heaton shelters is forcing many has been writing similar to sleep in the street. material ever since he Her report cen- was hired. He has la- tered on a comment by belled clothes worn by one homeless person European policemen that the reason he "nancy boy" uniforms, prefers to sleep in the and has editorialized on street is because homo- what he feels was Rock sexuals are attacking Hudson's questionable homeless people in status as a "real man." shelters and raping These are the kind them. The homeless of statements made by man then pointed to a homeless youth, 66th St., New York, NY 10023. one who is insecure about his.or her and stated that he was "violated" last A GLAAD member in Cleveland own sexual orientation, and who week. has written to us about a regular wants to affirm at all costs the he is There was no attempt to place columnist for the Cleveland Plain "not that way." They certainly this man's comments in the general Dealer, which is Ohio's largest news- shouldn't be confused as sophisticat- context of the general high level of vi- paper with over 350,000 readers state- ed social commentary and they surely olence and crime on the streets and wide. The columnist, Michael Heaton, don't deserve regular column space in in shelters. And there was no attempt also goes by a self-appointed title of a legitimate newspaper. to coun·teract the premise that the "Minister of Culture." As his columns Write to Michael Heaton's editor, threat of violence and physical assault bear out, the "culture" that he ministers Julie Washington. Let her know that derives entirely from homosexuals. to is a homophobic one . Heaton's insecurity-ridden and stereo- Viewers could not help but be . A column he wrote earlier this type-filled gay material belongs in a left with the impression that WABC- .Fall, entitled "Earthquake shakes one psychiatrist'S office, and not in a lV believes that gays are largely to flaky place," was supposed to be newspaper. blame for the plight of homeless peo- about how proud San Francisco Write: Julie E. Washington, Editor, ple. The people who hate us already should be of its cultural richness, Friday MagaZine, Cleveland Plain do not need to be told by WABC-lV· specifically as the home town of sev- Dealer, 1801 Superior Ave., Cleveland, that they are justified in continuing to eral famous rock music groups. A run- OH 44114. T do so. And gay-bashers shouldn't be riing pun was the very physical rock- .,-Karin Schwartz

30 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 LESBIAN ALLEGIANCES from page 29 wrong on many subjects besides homosexuality. It took even longer to stop equating political progress with the re- tardation of world communism. I could now bitch and p;otest with the rest of gay and lesbian activists without feeling slightly traitorous. But there was at least one bit of Ayn Rand-ism, described in some out- of-print book, that held meaning for me even after the age of 17. It seems that that other Jewish woman who fled the Soviet Union was standing on a New York street corner one day, hand- ing out political leaflets. Some passerby noted her accent and questioned her right to be proselytizing on an Ameri- can street corner. To which Rand responded with something like this: "That's right! I chose to be an Ameri- can. What did you ever do, besides being born here?" So, standing in a high school auditorium, listening to a federal judge give a speech he probably repeats weekly, I felt fiercely proud to have chosen this country, whose institutions discriminate against members of my community, whose highest court·rules that we have no right to privacy and whose· political leaders often exhibit the same kind of intolerance that I fled when I left the MI!N Soviet Union. I still cannot name a country where I would rather become a citizen. At home, I told my lover about my fruitless wait for a final opportunity to ask the INS why a lesbian MODEL was being sworn in as a citiZen. "You could have said something when the judge said, 'Speak now or forever hold you peace,'" she responded. It appears that in .my anxious state I blanked out my opportunity. RH Do you think you have what it takes to So, nothing happened. Except that be a proiessional nude model? one person with few rights anywhere in liberation Publications ~ looking for the world-my official designation until men of any age (18 plus) or race. You the ceremony was "stateless"-issued. a MUST have at least 2 of the following challenge, and a huge government insti- features: looks, great body, or size. tution did not even rise to defend We are also looking for photographers to decades of homophobic practice. As shoot future sessions. battles go, it was downright boring. But then again, perhaps most battles are not We will be in New York at The lncentra that exciting-which makes me wonder Village House ori Saturday and Sunday, January 20th and 21st. what this country would be like if only more Americans exercised their Call Glen toll free at 1-800-669-6565 birthright to fight. T m. 235 for an appointment.

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 31 Political Science

(TNF) levels produced by HIV activat- Drug of the Month ed cells. TNF has been shown to cause anemia, wasting syndrome, by Mark Harrington fevers and other symptoms associated and oxidized (two three-peptide with HIV infection and other condi- chains linked by a disulfide bond). tions in which the immune system is Glutathione roams through the chronically activated. Other work from blood scavenging harmful oxidizing the laboratory of Anthony S. Fauci at or far too long, mainstream agents (free radicals) which might the National Institute of Allergy and AIDS research has focused otherwise oxidize vital proteins, de- Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has most of its attention on the stroying their function. It also helps shown that herpes, cytomegalovirus behaviorF of HIV in the test tube. How transport amino acids across cell (CMV) and Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) HIV interacts within the human body membranes and helps maintain the infected cells also produce TNF, and remains poorly understood. There is iron atom inside hemoglobin may be cofactors in AIDS. still no concise explanation of how molecules (which carry oxygen from The most recent confirmation of HIV causes such immune devastation the lungs to other tissue around the the role of lowered glutathione in the while remaining difficult to isolate. body) in its reduced state. pathogenesis of AIDS came from the With tests like PCR (polymerase chain In 1985, Dr. Wedner and others National Heart, Lung and Blood Insti- reaction), which detects viral DNA in at the National Jewish Hospital in tute, where Roland Buhl, Ronald cells where the virus is not active, Denver demonstrated that glutathione Crystal et al. showed that glutathione HIV can be detected in only 1/1,000 was crucial for activation of lympho- levels were depressed in the lungs of T4 cells from people with advanced cytes (immune T cells and B cells). people infected with HIV long before disease. symptoms appeared. Glu- Clearly, many pieces tathione levels are deficien- are missing from the puz- cy throughout the blood- zle of the pathogenesis of stream of HIV infected AIDS. This fall, much pub- asymptomatics, according licity followed reports to their report. from Stanford and the Na- Total and reduced glu- tional Institutes of Health tathione concentrations in (NIH) about the possible the plasma of the HIV infect- role of NAC (n-acetylcys- en subjects were about 90 teine) as an immune-enhancing or an- The next year, German researcher percent of those in the normal individu- tiretroviral treatment. Wulf Droge showed that glutathione als. Since glutathione enhances immune NAC is available in the U.S. in an augments the activation of cytotoxic function, glutathione deficiency may oral form for Tylenol overdoses and (cell-killing) T cells in animals. contribute to the progressive immune as an aerosolized liquid to alleviate Earlier this year, Wulf Droge and dysfunction of HIV infection. symptoms of bronchitis ..It is available his colleagues at the Institute for Im- The NIH team is conSidering ad- in Europe as an effervescent tablet. munology and Genetics in the Ger- ministration of an aerosolized form of The major toxicities reported by the man Cancer Research Center in Hei- glutathione, through a nebulizer. This U.S. sponsor include "nausea, vomit- delberg, West Germany, published a is similar to how aerosolized pentami- . ing, other gastrointestinal symptoms" set of papers demonstrating that dine is taken. It is thought that per- and sometimes rash and fever, as side blood from HIV infected persons con- haps delivering glutathione directly to effects of high-dose oral NAC. tains decreased proportions of glu- the lungs, where its levels are de- NAC is the pharmaceutical form tathione. With AZT therapy, plasma pressed (and the most common AIDS of the amino acid,. cysteine. Cysteine (blood) glutathione levels rise, but in- related infection, PCP, appears most is the crucial middle amino acid in a tracellular levels remain low. often) might assist pulmonary im- three-peptide chain called glu- Since cysteine is a precursor of mune defenses. tathione. According to Robert Bohins- glutatione, . Stanford researchers The researchers noted that HIV ki in Modern Concepts in Biochem- Leonard and Leonore Herzenberg infection is, to our knowledge, the istry (4th edition, Allen and Bacon, added NAC to a cell culture in which only known condition in which there 1983) glutathione is the most common HIV proteins were active. The test is a generalized deficiency in ex- biologically active peptide. It exists in tube study showed that NAC blocked tracellular glutathione levels. two states, reduced (three peptides) the elevated tumor necrosis factor There are several ways in which

32 our~WEEK January 7. 1990 HIV infection could lower glutathione levels. 1) Glutathione synthesis may '-DO U B L E l HAYE YOU SEEN be depressed by some unknown /. . I THISMAN? mechanism. 2) Chronically activated, - ::;C~

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January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 33 Living with AIDS

Government. Benefits. for PWAs and PWARCs

this discrimination. cial Security or NYC's Division of by Robert Getso Relief agencies, in order to pro- AIDS Services must surely recognize tect their organization and their bud- the tactic of extending waiting periods get (most agencies under-budget to for financial relief. These waiting peri- save the agency as much money as ods create backlogs which weary ·possible), make it very difficult for people and discourage applicants. So- any people ~nd that people to get on· these programs, cial Security is expert at making a work is the added bur- even though they may meet the agen- PWA or PWARCfeel like a worthless, Mden which causes their cies' requirement for disability due to destitute piece of shit; they degrade health to decline, while those with se- AIDS/ARC. Termination of· benefits, people with HIV-disease so they vere disabilities due to HIV-ciiseaseare for example, is sometimes the result won't come back for the government simply un~ble to manage a job. In cases of errors in systems already overload- money. where continuing work is an option but ed with paperwork and haphazard While many of the agencies re- meeting financial obligations is a real procedures. Other cases are closed as quire in-person interviews, they may obstacle because of the actually require several high cost of medical care appointments to complete and therapies such as the paperwork. Social Se- AZT and pentamidine, curity, while maintaining government relief pro- a teleclaim system, is no- grams can provide finan- torious for requ iring cial assistance. If you PWAs and PWARCsto re- have been diagnosed turn home to retrieve with AIDS or AIDS-relat- documents, such as a ed complex you may lease, which they failed to not have to· continue mention would be need- working. This article is ed at the initial interview, an introduction to vari- and this can delay ap- ous government entitle- proval of the case by sev- ment programs, or relief '" eral weeks. Failure to agencies, available to complete any document PWAsand PWARCs. .. for Social Security, or Government enti- ~",...... documents not received tlements through relief agencies, such a means of disciplining the obstreper- by Social Security because they were as New York State Disability, Social ous. The administrative practices of "lost in the mail," may result in a ter- Security and New York City's Division screening people out of the system mination of the case. Believe me, the. of AIDS Services are nOl easy to get, because of, say, an error in paper- nightmare scenarios for dealing with even if you meet their qualjfications work or conflicting statements during Social Security are legion. for disability due to AIDS or ARC. interrogation are not merely the con- Government relief programs are What needs to be understood is 'hat sequence of inaccuracy in a cumber- worst for those without patience and relief is not readily conceded to a. v- some bureaucracy. Rather, secrecy, in- some financial means. The city, state one, no matter how severe the dis- timidation and red tape are adaptive and federal programs are most unfair ability. The relief agencies are whip- patterns designed to inhibit comple- to the poorest of the poor. It takes ping boys; they make visible the tion of the ~pplication for relief and about three months to receive a "pre- dependent poor and thus take much facilitate arbitrary rejections and ter- sumptive" disability check from Social of the blame for the poor. That those minations. Security, and then three more months with HIV-disease are considered Anyone in the HIV community to begin receiving checks on a month- morally or personally defective feeds who has applied for relief through So- ly basis. NYC's Division of AIDS Ser-

36 OUT~WEEK January 7, 1990 ~ vices also takes about three months to A Guide to Government Entitlement save you on bus and subway fare, get financial assistance to those who Programs for People with HIV-Disease and trips to Jones Beach and the apply. In both cases it's usually be- ADAP, 1-800-542-2437. the AIDS Hamptons. Complete the form l?rovid- cause of either a "backlog" or bureau- Drug Assistance Program, is one of ed by GMHC (or they'll tell you cratic bungling. A poor person with the easiest programs to get on if you where to get one), have your doctor AIDS with no financial resources will have HIV-disease. Armed with an complete the other half of the form have a difficult time holding out for ADAP card you can receive AZT, and send it to the addresS as directed. three months without shelter, without bactrim, pentamidine and alpha inter- You get th<;!card in about two weeks. medical attention, without regular feron free of charge at participating New York State Disability, 1- 718- meals, etc. while the government tries pharmaCies in New York Stat~.· It 802~6964, will process your disability to get the paperwork together. It's takes about two weeks to get the claim if you meet their requirements. criminal that many people die before card, and GMHC should have applica- If you think you qualify, talk to your they get the financial assistance to tions, or can tell you how to get one. doctor and consult GMHC's entitle- which they are entitled. The Metropolitan Transportation ments package. Request a form from A person with AIDS or ARC who Authority (MTA) half-fare card will See UVING WITH AIDS on page 54 wishes to quit their job and live on a supplemental budget of about $1,000 to $1,800 per month, can do so if they meet the relief agencies' require- NeT VE ments for disability due to AIDS/ARC. In order to avoid the problems of ne- gotiating with the relief agency, per- sonnel or caseworkers help can be obtained from Gay Men's Health Cri- sis, if you have registered, or through Community Health Project's Financial Advocate, if you are a CHP client. GMHC will give clients a package of information with telephone numbers of aJI of the agencies available to people with AIDS/ARC, ·a,nd some forms to complete, and this package .. of information is free. The Financial Advocate at Community Health Pro- ject, a soul of confidentiality, knows IT MAY BE FREEZING AT HOME ... Cf) the government entitlement programs well and can provide valuable infor- ...BUT IT'S HOT IN MIAMI. mation for those Who wish to apply. t- FULLY RENOVATED APARTMENTS ... These programs can make life a Z lot easier for people who successful- ...IN THE ART DECO DISTRICT ly negotiate their way through the UJ system. It takes about six months to PERFECT FULL TIME RESIDENCES ... get settled down with checks arriv- ing monthly. Giving up a job isn't so ...OR THE BEST IN AFFORDABLE SECOND HOMES. bad, either. Many people return to school or work part-time, others de- vote much of their time to working with activist organizations such as ACT UP, or helping out GMHC, 1520 Euclid Avenue Body Positive or PWA Coalition. But, these programs are not for ev- Miami Beach, eryone, so consultation with someone who knows them well, and can FL 33139 give good financial advice to PWAs and PWARCs, is very important be- VINTAGE fore applying. PROPERTIES (305) 534-1424

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 37 •

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L~ t i,; ~(~~~.. • ~~, ~ we look back on a decad which we were all hit by a steam loco- motive. We didn't even see it coming, busy were we bouncing to the disco beat •and exercising the sexual· freedom we thought we'd won. But reality raced in and smashed our glitter ball. Soon, we found our- &.selves living in hell. §· Yet, something else occurred. We discovered. each other in ways we hadn't before. We got our- selves together, thought things out and realized what was actually going on around us. For the first time in ayears, many of us began making collective decisions about . . our own fates. And things would never be the same. ~ ~ As we enter the 90sthere is muchto look forward to. Commu- nities have organized and, to some degree, joined forces. We're stronger, louder, morevisible.And we're not going away. On the following pages, a handful of people from within the lesbian and gay community talk about what they think will tlappen i~ e 90s or at least what they'd like to see. Some give an analysis of the mechanics of the movement in the next decade. Others simply toss off a funny line. But what they all have in common is the fact that each of them ~ will be doing much of the work that's to be done in the 90s, whether that means being an openly gay stand-up comic or founding a lesbian and gay research center. . The people represented here.are only the tip of the iceberg in a community ~ ~ oyerflowlng with diYersetalents and capabilities. If we at OutWeek had to pick "' "yen one ""rson from "yery fj"ld that gay men and lesbians contribute to, w,,'d have to publish a book. The men and women on the following pages are simply a few individuals; a tiny fraction of a "variedand great people. -Michelangcdo Signorile 38 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990

"I think the battle between family, religion and respectability and homoerotica will become even more fierce. For that reason we have to have more celebratory gay cultural work with the erotic image as the center; and this is as true for women as for men. The 90s is going to be the decade of gay and lesbian research centers, both at universities and in grassroots archives and museums. The importance of these are seen not just by our own communities, but we're also being seen by the rest of the world as valid intellectual communities. That can be a double-edged sword because grassroots contact could be lost. Therefore we have to keep supporting our own projects."

-Joan Hestle, historian and co- founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives

"Jimmy Somerville's new LP, Read My Lips (which recently went gold in England), and the title track-insplJed by his U.K. ACT UP commitments-promises to be a huge international hit. Unlike the dreari- , ness of Tracy Chapman and all the other earnest folkies so overrated in the 80s, it combines a right-on message with a right- on beat. In fact, disco looks set to return in . ,he 90s, as delirious as it ever was. Chic, Lolita Holloway and Dan Hartman are all working on new projects after a long hia- . tus. In England, indi bands like Happy Mon- days (today's equivalent of the Smiths) are trading in their jangly guitars and putting out twisted acid-disco records. The 90s are going to be a new. age, but ins.tead of being earnest and granola they're going to be a glittering and dizzy party like no other-with no one turned away at the door."

-The Fabulous Pop Tarts, musicians/performers 40 OUT-"WEEK January 7, 1990 HMy great ambition Is to have Lucy's time slot Monday's at 8:00.• I just look at the TV set and visualize: Monday's at 8. Maybe by 1995. You know Lucy didn't become Lucy until she was 42, so I have a couple of years to be a great lady of TV. I just hope the public of the 90s will accept that the new Lucy Is a man. If they could swallow a TV show such as Aif where the star Is a·puppet, what's so hard about hav- Ing a leading lady with a dick?" .

-Charles Busch, tl1eatrlcal producer, director, writer, actor

"I think I've done all I can to participate with the gay and lesbian communities, and now It's time to go to those organizations that are traditionally heterosexual. ~or instance, there is a lack of Black lesbian and gay presence In organizations like the NAACP.Once we establish those necessary bonds within our own communities we'll then start to make Inroads into the larger communities outside the gay and lesbian communities. It's part of my personal agenda."

-Essex Hemphill, poet

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 41 "Activism. As a wholc wc arc arising out of our apathy and complaccncy as wc cntcr thc 90s. Thcrc's thc militant right, thc pro-lifcrs, thc gay-bashcrs, thc Asian-bashcrs and peoplc likc Jcssc Hclms tclling us what is art. It's coming closer and closcr to cach of us. Wc must movc. Wc must all bccomc activists. And I think wc will. In thc body-building world, onc of thc biggcst forms of activism rcccntly was world class body buildcr Bob Paris coming out. Hc did this at thc hcight of his carccr. And it was nccdcd. Young pcoplc must havc thc rolc modcls. Thcy nccd to scc that thcrc arc athletcs who arc gay, politicians who arc gay, pcoplc in thc arts who arc gay. Hopefully, many morc profcssional pcoplc will comc out in thc 90s. I think it's part of thc activism I'm talking about."

-Kitty Tsui, author; cditor; bronzc mcdalist, women's physique, Gay Gamcs "

"RcClaiming thc gay past holds immcnsc potcntial importancc for eye~y- . one, not just for gay pcoplc. Wc nccd to rccapturc our antccedcnts in as much detail as possiblc bccausc wc nccd to bet- tcr undcrstand what definitions wcrc oncc cmploycd to 'cxplain' our cxistcncc, what forccs wcrc brought to bcar to control our bchavior and what stratcgics our prcdcccs- sors uscd to copc with those forccs and procced with thcir livcs. Wc also nccd to rccognizc not mcrcly that samc-gcndcr scxuality has cxistcd through timc and across culturcs, but that it has ·bccn unccr- tainly visiblc, cnormously varicd, invcstcd in diffcrcnt cultures with diffcrcnt symbolic meanings. Wc nccd to learn that nothing conncctcd with human sexual bchavior or its catcgorization, has rcmaincd static."

-Martin Duberman, author; Distinguishcd Professor of History at Lchman Collcgc; founder of thc Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

Michael Wakefield

42 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 "Lesbian theater will become the hot ticket. Tour buses from the flat states will roll into NYC to see blockbuster musicals about behlnd-the-scenes power struggles at the Michigan Women's Music Fe.stlval. WOW will finally be able to pay their Con Ed bill."

-WOW Theater (counter-clockwise .from bottom center): Nancy Swartz, Claire Olivia Mo~d, Babs Davy, Diana McWilliams, Lois Weaver,Mo Angelos

slap herself.PUblicitY-starved Zsa Zsa Gabor Will

-MiChael MUsto, ViI/age Voice - COlumnist,- author

"In the 90s, gay women and men, and . our allies, having put an end to AIDS, won't stop there. We've always known that what's best about us Is directly attributable to our difference. Having taken real power, we'll use It as the brokers would never Imagine. So after the cure? Universal healthcare, shelter, fill In the blanks. We'll have learned that It's .not enough that a society tolerate difference: You have to actively support It. And-we will."

-Jim Elgo, writer and AIDS activist

January 7, 1990 OUT~WEEK 43 "There are a lot of difficult battles ahead around AIDS as the extent of the epidemic becomes evident. We'll organize a stronger movement, not just among gays and lesbians but among all people affected by AIDS-IV drug users, people of color, African-Americans, Latinos. Some people see domestic partnership as the big issue In the gay and lesbian community but I think [the concept] must be far more expanded. The state should not be sanctioning any relationships, straight or gay. All the trappings of heterosexism- the nuclear family and traditional Ideas of love, marriage and sex-must be smashed. Bdore AIDS I think the lesbian and gay movement and the women's movement were bringing into question the nature of traditional relationships. We have to con-

tinue that. H •

-Joan Gibbs, staff attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

Michael Wakefield

"I think gay literature will finally be under the control of gay writers. Many of us are now out and not making any bones about it. We're expecting the literary establishment not to be homophobic. We confront them. And with our own lesbian, gay . and feminist presses they can't shew us off •. I bought a shotgun for the 90s_ I love shotguns. It's a self-affirming thing. In my family the men got shotguns and the women got dishes. I believe In self- defense. I don't let anyone fuck with me. If I could have had the gun in the 80s, I'd have used It. Imagine it: dykes with guns.

That'll scare 'em.H

-Dorothy Allison, author

------Darlene/PhotoGraphics 44 OUT~WEEK January 7, 1990 "In the 19905 the AIDS crisis Is going to Impact globally and we're going to finally realize the extent -of the epidemic. At the same time the Latino gay and lesbian community Is going to finally come forward and cease being Invisible, both within Lati- no society and U.S. society. The crisis Is now making them come out and assume a voice and take leadership. They're saying 'We are here. You have to listen to us!' It's a good by-product of a very bad situation. And It's already beginning to happen."

-Emesto de la Vega, Director of AIDS In the Americas at The PanosInstitute

Michael Wakefield '" think doors are opening up for us In Hollywood. "m doing what. want to do: big budget films about marginal subjects and low budget films about mainstream subjects. , hope that will continue."

-Gus Van %ant,director of Drugstore Cowboy and Mala Hache

". do believe the 90s are going to be more femlnlnc. Earth Is a woman andshc's going to bc ruling again. Thc 90s arc just thc start of It. The cntlre next ccntury Is thc agc of .thc Goddess again. Thcre was a tlmc, you know, when goddesscs werc running things, and we're coming back to that. This Is going to be an agc whcre scn$ltlvlt~ intultlvcness and spirituality are more pow- crful than braun or brute force."

-RuPaul, pcrfonncr

Michael Wakefield "Already there's a slew of feminist lesbian singers coming through and hitting the top 40. I don't think homosexuality will be such a no-no In music as we enter the 90s. Music has always led people in different directions, and It lends them to experimentation. I think straight men, for instance, want to have gay men to bounce things off of, to get ideas from. A lot of gay music transcends gay/straight stereotypes. I'm hoping· we'll see more wild, colorful ads and lots of experimentation, without any sort of categories or boundaries. I hope people will be less uptight."

-larry Tee, deejay

Michael Wakefield

"In the 90s we'll work toward expanded recognition of our families and our relationships through domestic partnership ordinances and judicial decisions, as well as toward more widespread recognition of our civil rights. Our cause has a mor~1 force to it which the legal system cannot forever ignore. We must push it and mold it and. shape it."

-Bill Rubenstein, staff couns~I, American Civil Liberties Union, Lesbian and Gay Rights Project

Michael Wakefield

46 January 7. 1990 "I'm very excited. We've got a new mayor. We've elected a lot of liberal and progressive politicians to other positions. It's a new team with a new agenda. One of the things I'm looking forward to and I know 15going to happen 15that we'll see appointments of lesbians and gay men to visible positions throughout the administration. That's key to everything else."

-Barbara Turk, senior advisor to David Dinkins and a member of the mayoral transition team

"We're going to start talking about what we do instead of who we supposedly

are. Don't say 'I'm an S/M lesbian, H when you could be saying, 'I fimtasize eating out my manicurist on the bathroom .floor with her mouth gagged by a rubber ball,' or, 'I pinch my nipples when I masturbate until they're hard as points,' 0li 'Fist me until the sweat drips off my lips.' Isn't that much more enlightening?"

-Susie Bright, autholi editor of On Our Backs

January 7. 1990 OUTTWEEK 47 "Stars of TV and film will continue crawling back to Broadway. John Travolta and Sylvester Stallone wlJl star in the revival of La Cage Aux Folies. Also Jack Lord from HawaII Flve-O wlJl play Papa Rose in the all male version of Gypsy. "An extra-terrestrial will contact Earth via the party Jines. His first question to us will be, 'HI, what are you wearing?' We'll then ask him, 'How big Is your penis?' and he'll reply, 'Which ond' Bowing to popular demand, a 97-year- old Bob Hope will ask us to replace Brooke Shields on his annual Christmas Special."

-Funny Gay Males, comedians (I. to r.) Jaffe Cohen, Danny McWilliams, Bob Smith

Michael Wakefield

"I see us growing Into a movement that has fully-staffed organizations In every state. There are going to be some real big battles on local referendums and gay rights bills. These traditional values coalitions will keep springing up to battle us and we'll have to fight. But I also see lots of non-gay support for the gay movement. I think that this next decade Is going to be much like the 60s: tumultous and exciting. A lot's· going to happen. By the end of the decade I'm hopeful that we'll have a federal gay .rights blJl."

-Urvashl Vald, Executive Director, National Gayand Lesbian Task Force \

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Seeking the gospel truth, brothers and sisters? Seekno more. Billing itself as "the psychology behind the news," New Dimensions is a far-right glossy knock- off of Time and Newsweek. Obsessed with gays, guns and the government, the editors of thi~ news- monthly seeAmericansasvictims of leftist "Pavlovianconditioning." "Militant homosexuals" have gained control of the country and are dictating public policy. Queers are "human evil," AIDS is "an inescapable biological indictment" of homosexuality, and the inclusion of HIV-positive people in the Americans Disabilities Act will force them to hire" AIDS-infected homosexual[s] with bleeding sores." In what they call true Christian compassion, they say: "Of all the cruelties directed at homosexuals by 'straight' society...the· greatest cruelty is to accept homosexuality as a normal, alternative lifestyle. " . Aren't you glad someone is setting us straight?

-Rick Sugden

50 OUT..-WEEK January 7, 1990 LOOKOUT·,;

t: "I originally came up with the idea a few years ago when I got a really crummy calendar," says Aldo Hernandez, one of the members of the activist group ART+ , w;hlchfights homophobiaj AlDSphobia and censorship in the arts. The group collaborated to produce MILITANT EROTICISM (ART +), a calendar for 1990. Featuring twelve artists, the calendar depicts various·sexual images, and a blurb in the back explains that "militant eroticism is a philosophy of action exploring. our gay and lesbian sexuality thru art, politics and most importantly our personal lives.H But Hernandez puts it all in simpler terms: "The calen~r is something. Informative, interesting, entertaining and sexy to look at." And, of course, the calendar is also a wealth of all that extremely pertinent Information that the 90s queer will want to know, such as: the day ACT UP/SanFranciscQshut down the Golden Gate Bridge (January31, 1989), The Connie Girl's birthday (July 27, 1967)and the day.MUton Berle first flashed his dick (July 12,1903). MILITANT EROTICISM (ART +) is available at A Different light and most other bookstores, or by mall order: check or money order for $13 to ART+Positive, 429 W~st 44th St., #2B, NY,NY 10036.

-M.S.

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 51 UT OF oMY HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL

DearBrad: ed screaming from the bathroom that I help it but I still love that man, in Like so many people I never was scalding him. I replied that if he spite of the way he's treating me. Do thought I'd be writing to you but hadn't neglected his chores in the flfSt you think I should make another things have really gotten out of hand place this wouldn't have happened and attempt to get him back or have I lost around here. One night a few weeks I decided to get breakfast downtown. him for good? ago my manager and .her lover were That night, after work, I tripped -Wretched and Lonely going to see a show in my neighbor- over his running shoes and crashed Without Him hood so I invited them to stop by our into the glass panel of our wall unit .place beforehand for cocktails. When which shattered into a million pieces. Dear Wretch: I showed them into the living room I I swept up the broken glass and put a I don't know if it's your letter or realized with horror that, once again, few shards in his shoes. Avery just the season itself but I can't help my lover, Avery, had left his running claimed that I deliberately set out to but be reminded of the Ash shoes in the middle of the floor even cripple him which is, of course, non- Wednesday of 1986. Oh well, that is, I though I've asked him time and time sense. I explained that I just wanted suppose, another story. Or maybe it's again not to do so. Nobody said any- to teach him a good lesson about the not...entirely. We all of us come togeth- thing but I know they both noticed. importance of tidiness and had er, in one way or another, and we all (How could they not? Avery has size assumed that he, like everybody else, of us eventually come apart, in one 12 feet and those shoes could trans- always shook out his shoes before way or another, and in between a lot port an entire village of refugees putting them on in case brown of promises get made and a lot of through rough waters.) I was so furi- recluse spiders had gotten inside dur- expectations get raised and sooner or ous I couldn't think of anything else ing the night. He said that was the later they all result in a lot of broken and after they left, a full 27 minutes most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard glass and tearful telephone calls. And before they had to, I asked Avery if he but I told him he wouldn't think it maybe you have lost him for good. was trying to destroy my career. He was so ridiculous if he'd ever seen And maybe nobody else will ever swore it was just an accident and what happens to people who get bit- come along and you'll be alone for the p~omised to phone my manager .and ten by those spiders and he said that rest of your life. And maybe that's not explain everything if that would help it wasn't spiders he was afraid of. so bad. Maybe you can attempt to sub- the situation. I told him not to do me Then he limped out of the house and limate the loneliness by working late or any favors, just to keep his damn went to stay with his sister and her getting involved in community activi- shoes in the closet from now on. husband. I thought .she'd get fed up ties or taking a course at night school The next morning, while Avery with his sloppy habits in a couple of or, I don't know, maybe writing a col- was taking his shower, I went ·to make days and send him back to me but so umn for a magaZine. Of course you'd breakfast and saw that he had left all far that hasn't happened. Last night I still have to come back to an empty of the dishes in the sink. from the swallowed my pride and called him home at the end of the day but maybe night before, knowing full well that I up and told him how wretched and you can fill that home with books, with hate to face a messy kitchen first thing lonely I've been without him. I said if shelves and shelves of books. Maybe in the morning. he'd just come home I'd be willing to you can read books about people Grudgingly, I loaded up the dish- accept his apology. He slammed the whose lives are even more arid and washer and turned it on and Avery start- receiver down in my ear. Brad, I can't desolate than your own. You know, Day of the Locust is being reissued for its 50th anniversary of publication. I'd let you borrow my copy of Play it as it lays but I've been forced to institute a strict policy against loaning ou~ Joan Didion books ever since somebody lost my copy of Miami on the subway. I guess the point is that with books as well as with lovers, you can't expea to keep them around for too long. Happy New Year!...

52 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 TI his publication-took his pen and cut it. Cardinal and Catholics too much for I tell this story to illustrate the art of him to run a story on the group; 4) that story cutting and killing; an art which, in Kosner just felt the story was too "gay" New York City publishing, is more fasci- for New York. (The interesting thing nating, more intriguing and ultimately about New York was that the story, more telling than the writing itself. which I'm told was quite sympathetic Of course, it's not the actual act of to the group, was killed after it was cutting, but rather the reason behind it, handed in.) that is most interesting. In New York, Word filtering down from inside stories are cut and killed every ·day. Vanity Fair, however, suggests that The reasons are varied (no space, bad Brown killed the piece after learning By Michelangelo Signorile story, etc.), but much of the time it has that New York and Rolling Stone were to to do with the power-hungry editor's planning stories (New York, too, could I vividly remember the story about own personal, social and/or profession- very well have killed the piece after the lesbian columnist and the glossy al agenda, and the favors he/she owes they found out that it was being done magazine which, for years, she had to friends, business aSsociates and oth- elsewhere). This is common practice in loyally plugged. ers he/she needs to kiss up to. the mag biz, and, of course, even in About two years ago, the magazine Around the time of ACf UP's high- publishing, it's business as usual when hired a writer from a major daily who ly-controversial action at St. Patrick's it comes to the AIDS crisis. Perhaps if somehow had a reputation for being a Cathedral (which the group took a Tina Brown weren't so busy licking· fierce upstart, thoUgh he wasn't all that press beating for), two major magazine" Gayfryd Steinberg'S ass, she'd have dis- vicious, really. Anyway, he wrote a story pieces about the activist group were covered this story a long time ago. But profiling the lives of various colunmists killed. One, at the homophobic Vanity this isn't even the issue. The fact is that at the dailies, and for weeks he let on Fair, the other at the dreary, patroniZ- this is a life or death situation. The fact that he'd be revealing lots of facts. One ing and equally queer-hating New York. is that this story should be everywhere. thing he was going to talk about was In both cases the writers had been The fact is that if it were hundreds of this certain columnist's les- thousands of straight, middle bianism; her home life, her and upper class, white peo- lover, etc. After all, he was ple dying of a disease, writing about the personal Vanity Fair and New York lives-the WIves, the hus- would have attended to the bands, the families-of the issue a lot sooner and many other colunmists, all of wnom . times over, NO MATTER are public figures, and he felt WHO THE FUCK ELSE WAS that he should be able to write WRITING ABOUT IT. The about this particular columnist's life. working on the stories for quite some fact is that all of the media, so blind But when fact-checkers from the time. and bigoted, have ignored the AIDS cri- magaZine called the columnist's office When I called editor Ed Kosner's sis for the past ten years. But all of to make sure everything was correct, office at New York I was told, "We don't these facts aren't good enough reasons she blew a fuse that almost sent her to discuss internal decisions." Editor-infor EDITORS SO CAUGHT UP IN that Goddess in the sky. She hung up chief Tina Brown's PR people at Vanity THEIR NAUSEATING SOCIAL Sl-JIT on them, then picked the phone up and Fair never returned my calls. THAT THEY'RE AFRAID OF "BEING dialed the magazine'S publisher. It Meanwhile, I'd heard many unsubstan- SCOOPED" WHEN IT COMES TO A wasn't the first time she'd done such a tiated and unconfirmed stories and STORY ABOUT ANGRY QUEERS WHO thing. In fact, she'd spent most of her rumors about why the stories were TAKE TO THE STREETS AND JUST life having stories that mentioned her killed: .1) That the infamous lesbian WON'T DIE WHILE FIGHTING AN EPI- sexuality killed. You'd think she'd just columnist mentioned above, herself DEMIC OF IMMENSE PROPORTIONS! come out, brave the storm and deal upset with ACT UP (she even later It's amaZing the way. these idiots play with it rather than live such a nightmare expressed her anger at the church with our lives, making us some sort of where she had to spend so much time action in her column), made one of her special interest story that's not worthy covering her tracks. But, apparently, it's kill-a-story calls to have the piece cut after it's been somewhere before. And more important to her to stay in hiding, from VF; 2) that New York. wanted a it's all bullshit! There are a million dif- even though she's now pushing 70 and story about "yuppie gay activists" and ferent ways to write this story, a million sits in a seat of power. that the piece handed in by the writer different approaches to it. Anyway, the columnist told the just didn't fit the bill; 3) that New York's But no. We die, and Tina Brown publisher to take out all references in Kosrier, who spent the entire decade and her kind ·worry about getting the story alluding to her lover and her kissing up to Ed Koch (an enemy of "scooped" on our horrific tragedy and home life. And he-remembering all ACf UP), was furious about the cathe- the ways we're fighting back trying to those almost weekly mentions she gave dral action, and thought it offended the save our lives. T

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 53 I I ~

LIVING WITH AIDS from page 37 rary Medicaid Card (good for two NYSD, complete and mail it as in- weeks), thus the applicant must pad structed. It takes longer to get a reply downtown to the SS office at Federal than they tell you. Most employers in Plaza or to the DAS office every two New York State are required to have weeks for the new Temp. Card. Disability!Workers Compensation in- Social Security claims can be GAY surance, but some insurance made by telephone, but for faster ser- companies, most notably Zurich vice masochists can get an interview American, tend to jerk people around. at the SS office at 26 Fed. Plaza. There It's a poweriul tool. And NYSD is there to enforce the rules are two programs at SS to which one and require the insurance carrier to can apply: Social Security Disability pay, if you qualify. and Supplemental Security Income. one that should be The Human Resources Adminis- Either way, it's a minefield. The re- tration of New York City, Division of quirements for both programs are AIDS Services, 11 West 13th Street, strict, and SS people are really nosy. provides assistance with rent, utilities, The wait for financial assistance, a excercised judiciously. food and more, and they are more "presumptive payment," is three generous than most other programs months and final approval or rejection proViding cash benefits. Despite the of the case is made about three So please, patronize inefficiency and mismanagement of months later. If it's approved, the ap- DAS, and complex rules for qualifying plicant begins to receive monthly So- for financial assistance (for example, cial Security checks from either SSD you should ask for "Home Care" or SSI based on previous income, lesbian and gay whether you really need it or not), until the case is reviewed again (usu- most of the caseworkers there are ally in about three years), or until sensitive to PWAs and PWARCs. No they find a reason to stop the pay- businesses. matter how sensitive and nice they ments. This business with SS is tricky are, it's still going to take three so counseling from GMHC or CHP is I' ., months to get a dime from these peo- very important. .... ple. Screening at DAS is pretty simple, just ask for "Home Care" and return GAY &1mB the MllQ document detailing your OUT TAKES from page 27 discriminationbased on their sex, arguing AIDS related illnesses which you and that had either of them been a woman, your doctor will complete. You'll also the license would have been issued. need a copy of your lease, a Social 'HE Accordingto the Chicago Sun Times, Security Card or something semi-offi- gay activists responded to the commis- cial with your SS number on it and a F:IINEST sion's rulingby vowing to get legislation couple of other documents (like rent introduced in the General Assembly this delinquency notices). Financial need year that would grant gay and lesbian IN A.ll must be demonstrated-but that's partnerships the same benefits as mar- easy for most people. Again, three riage. months is a long time for most people Other activists have said they may TYPES burdened with high medical costs and challenge the state in court. costs of living. GMHC or the Financial "I find it ironic that the commis- OF Advocate at CHP can help. sion appointed to address issues of dis- Medicaid is cru'cial for people crimination in Illinois is avoiding without health insurance. It's the tick- them," said Tim Drake, legislative GAY et to some treatment, but Medicaid is director of the Illinois Gay and Lesbian hard to get these days. The typical Task Force. jerk around is to invite an applicant to Wockner and Varnell, who are not CIINEMA the Medicaid office on West 34th lovers, say they will not appeal their case Street and then send them home be- into the courts because they believe a cause they "didn't have an appoint- "committed couple" should pursue the issue. ment." In other cases Medicaid insists They also said it had complicated that the card be issued by Social Se- their lives as journalists to Simultaneously curity or DAS. SS and DAS usually be newsmakers..... never produce more than a Tempo-

54 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 Film A Blaze so Hoary

Blaze. Produced by Gil Friesen and Dale Pollock. Written and directed by Ron Shelton. Touchstone.

by Bruce C Steele

redibility is inversely related to a movie's ~cbudget-of this I am increasingly con·- vinced. The more filmmakers spend, the less I buy. Take for example Blaze, a slick, big-budget biopic about the affair between crackpot Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long and stripper Blaze Starr during 1959-60. Earl was Huey P.'s little brother, and he took Huey's populism and cronyism to dizzying new heights of audaCity and decadence. He was the epito- me of that bayou-state phenomenon now best represented by David Duke: the openly c,?rrupt politician who captures the imagination of the common voter by loudly embracing common ignorance. In one scene based on a real incident, the governor runs amok in the state legislature, and the film briefly evokes the mesmerizing madness that the real Earl embodied. But Blaze, believe it or not, is a love story. Writer-director Ron Shelton's interest lies not in the committee room, but in the bedroom. The creator of Bull Durham, Shelton is an old-fash- \ See BLAZE on page 69 Governor Eart K. Long (Paul Newman) and Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovich)

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 55 Film A Real Dog sharp-tongued Broadway-beat columnist Waldo Winchester (Josef Sommer), the plot weaves through the adventures of a long list of characters with all the complexity of a Love Boat episode. Matt Dillon plays Regret, a womanizing hood who spends the film running from the cops and pursuing Lovely Lou, a cabaret star who spends more time whin- ing and pouting than singing (an attitude heightened by Jennifer Grey's performance, which is more suited to a high school drama club than a prohibition nightclub). At the same time, Feet Samuels (Randy Quaid), a com- pulsive gambler named for "feet as big as violin cases," is doggedly chasing down riches in poker and crap games, hoping to buy the affections of Hortense Hathaway (played by Madonna, who gets to reject material-girl status for true-blue love). Then there's Handsome Jack (Esai Morales), a vaguely shady character who, when he isn't trying to worm his way into the arms of socialite Harriet MacKyle (Jule Haggerty), tries to score with one flapper after another. His failed attempts provoke the film's bitchiest retort ("I wouldn't 'talk to you with someone else's mouth"), and the top shock-value event (which I won't reveal, seeing as the film has so few surprises). We're also treated to the demise of The Brain (Rutger Hauer), the "biggest gambling operator on Broadway," Who spends mos~ of the movie bleeding to death in the back of a taxi. The Brain is, in his final hours, tended to by Karl Soebnlein by a poor, angelic flower girl (yes, it's that kind of a film), and a grandfatherly Black doctor. One of three African- American faces in the 'film (the other two are a gaudy he only thing worse than the holiday season are street preacher and a slinky mistress), the doctor's pres- holiday movies. These films bombard us with the ence only serves to reveal just how very white bread this T seasonal myths of forced cheer and socially film is. It also calls to mind The Cotton Club, a film that, sanctioned celebrations. My ideal holiday film is The by contrast, acknowledged the cultural diversity of prohi- Poseidon Adventure, where a New Year's bash literally bition nightlife, gets turned upside down and the "morning after" is one Given that Bloodhounds of Broadway is not about not .to be forgotten. documenting an era realistically, and that as fantasy it tows Bloodhounds of Broadway is a film set on New Year's the straight, white party line, I'm not sure what to make of Eve, 1929, "the last big party," the film's narrator tells us. it all. It has no sense of irony, or even foreboding, merely Alluding to the oncoming Depression and setting up what diluted nostalgia. Director Howard Brookner, whose for- I thought would be an apocalyptic metaphor for today, mer efforts include a dOCumentary of William Burroughs, these hints at meaning unfortunately fade as quickly as died of AIDS before the film was finished. Perhaps this bubbles in a champagne glass, although with considerably contributes to the overall feeling of incompleteness. less exc·itement. . Ultimately, it doesn't explain the film's resolute het- Based on the stories of Damon Runyon, the mind erosexuality: sending all the little couples into the new behind Guys and Dolls, Bloodhounds travels atmospher- year on the road to marriage; off to "their little pieces of ically between uptown mansions,· downtown paradise," as the narrator tells us. For a film directed by speakeasies and Hell's Ki·tchengambling de·ns. a gay man (and acted by so many full and part-time Stylistically, the film is the cinematic equivalent of the queers), this amounts to another case of the vigilance of current Gap ad campaign: stylish, sexually teasing por- the heterosexist Hollywood machine. At least those Gap traits of some of Hollywood's hippest faces (only this ads leave their potential for homoerotica intact, more time they're in character). Narrated by the occasionally than I can say for this disappointing film....

56 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 Art Diminished Utopias

homophobe. In 1935, fed up with New Although he markets himself as York, he abandoned it for the heart- the successor to Andy Warhol, Kostabi land saying the city had lost its mas- is really' Thomas Hart Be.nton's pint- cuiinity. He described his feelings sized heir. Their paintings have an about museums in the New York eerie similarity. Kostabi uses the saqle World Telegram: "Do you want to ovoid shapes, the same generic know what's the matter with the art mythology, though his Everyman has business in America? ..lt's the third sex a blank face, a more banal existence. and the museums. The typical muse- The plow has been replaced by a urn is run by a pretty boy with delicate credit card. He could be Benton wrists and a swing in his gait.· These launched into outer space. homas Hart Benton's paint- remarks caused an uproar but the pub- There is, however,.Iittie real com- ings are easy to parison between the statlire T like. Swirling land- of the two artists. The crea~ scapes of saturated color tures in Kostabi's paintings capture and seduce the eye. have no energy, the compo- The paintings seem simulta- sitions lack complexity. neously jewelike and edible. Kostabi's paintings are Narrative and mythological, drained of life, tha"t's the they are easy to understand. point, but they barely quali- His paintings contain fy as cartoons. As a painter, very few straight lines and Kostabi's a hack. . . looking at them might make Besides being racist, you a little .seasick. I've sexist and 'melod~amatic, never seen a corn plant Benton's work can be quite as curvaceous as' the dynamic. Americans loved-it one in the "Wreck of the for a while. After World War Ole '97," 1947. Benton. II, the art world discovered worked from structural Abstract Expression. As models; he'd mold the scene Benton's popularity waned in clay before painting. he painted commissions for Many of the paintings look department stores and social like stills taken. from a c1ay- clubs. It's hard to believe he mation feature. Everyone lived until 1975. has enormous hands. Bootleggers, from the mural series The American Historical Epic. In many ways -the Most popular between 1927, by Thomas Hat1 Benton Thomas Hart Benton exhibi- the wars, Benton was herald- Egg Tempera with resin oil glazes on canvas mounted on cradled tion is as timely as any in ed as a true American masonite Photo: Whitney Museum of American Art town. Today no discussion of painter, uniquely capturing the land and licity-seeking Benton had been creat- art can avoid the issue of censorship. its people. Time magazine put him on ing and expecting uproars for years. Benton gives us a look at one possible its cover in 1934 and he became an art His outburst brings to mind acceptable art. Harry Truman called him star. Benton spent a lot of time traveling another self-promoting artist. In the "best damned painter in America."· around the country finding the inspira- March, 1989 Vanity Fair quoted the These paintings of a mythic America tion for his paintings through direct painter Mark Kostabi as saying: populated with settlers, farmers and a experience. Scenes from his folktale "These. museum curators, that are for few smashing nudes set in a lush land- America are varied. In "Struggle for the the most p-art homosexuals, have (:on- scape display an American ideal. Yet, Wilderness," 1924-26,half naked Indians trolled the art world in the 80s. Now they are cropped, diminished utopias. are slaughtered by. the settlers. Blacks they're all dying of "i-.IDS, and An earthy regionalist, Benton never cap- work the land in "Cotton Pickers,· 1928- although I think it's _sad, I know. it's tured the total picture. Like the sculp- 29. BillOWingblack smoke becomes a for the better because homosexual tural models he painted from, these sign of vitality in "Boontown,· 1927-28. men are not actively participating in all-American paintings are staged. They Benton was also an outspoken the perpetuation of human life." are made of clay. ~

January 7, 1990 OUTYWEEK 57 Music Women on the Urban Edge

Nightbreak. Every Wednesday night, in a weekly live Jai Jai Noire, Mermaid Tattoo and Linda music ritual, the club transforms itself into Female Perry. of San Francisco's underground women's Trouble. Playing host to the farthest reaches of rock scene women's dreams and screaming electric guitar runs, women here live out their aspirations and feed their appetite for ferocious, unrelenting music. The crowd is mixed: buzz blondes in leather studs, band members, Noelle Hanrahan black-clad NY art school types sporting straight cut b.' henna laced hair, generic suburban dykes on the prowl, a few land women in hiking boots and shorts and the I'm dancing barefoot heading for a spin, some strange best hip hop dancer I've ever seen-a punk in John music draws me in, makes come on like some heroine Lennon specs with pink two tone fuzz for hair. Out of -Patti Smith, Dancing Barefoot this cathartic rehearsal induced frenzy has developed a Our inspirations are the goddesses of amperage, new generation of underground women's bands, bands wattage and voltage like Mermaid Tattoo, Linda Perry (and the recently -MUDWIMMIN formed 4 Non-Blondes) and Jai Jai Noire. Each band has a story, but first let me tell you about their fore- mothers. Post-punk Patti Smith changed the world. In 1979 S.F.'s very bruising and raucous band of women in San The Contradictions emerged as the leaders of the first wave Francisco and probably the world over has disap- of San Francisco based women post-punk bands. The peared like flashpaper under the weight of Contradictions had stamina, profeSSional ability and were anonymity.E Sometimes we are lucky and they leave an LP visionaries screaming bloody murder for the entire course or 45 in their wake that makes a lifelong impact on some of their existence, blazing the way for today's bands. Other soon to be rock 'n roll musician's braiil. bands included Wilma (radical feminist who set Monique For at least a decade San FranCisco has cultivated one Wittig to music), G.OD. and Kathrine and the Varve. The of the most vibrant electric fueled underground women's women who survived and those who didn't are easily the post-punk rock 'n roll scenes. stuff of legend, laboring· in obscurity and in the shadow of At the end of Haight St. in the famed Haight-Ashbury the Dead Kennedy's, Flipper, The Mutants, Tuxedo Moon district is an eclectic neighborhood leather bar called and The Nuns. Traces of stories, photographs and graffiti "'__ -~ document the impact of women converging ~"",,,~.',",;Mm __ to upset convention. Patti Smith set the stage '._.~'-"W0_"~ and these women expanded on it, their work becoming their lives. In order to create .~,'-'"'''''aggressive electric music, living on an urban

;J ~'"'~'~_ edge was a necessity, the politics crucial and implicit. Some women turned tricks as domi- natrixes to get by, others lived off borrowed money and some lived off borrowed time. These are the legends which literaUyand fig- uratively gave birth to a scene. Some bands working today's scene deserve mention. Industrial Rainforest, featuring Slade's dramatic tom-based Cadences, evokes mystical and spiritual images laced with challenging political analysis. The She Devils are a tight and aggressive rock band that transcends the self immolating aspects of punk. And MUDWIMMIN,who appear at the base of a controlled population sedated SHOW US YOUR THIGHS Photo: Robert D. by 1V blue light, stir anarchy in the face of Victoria Schwartz, Tracy Oaklahoma, Nancy Kravitz and Cathy Curphey social convention, unwilling to fold into of Mermaid Tattoo

58 OUT~WEEK January 7, 1990 prefabricated society. These are women who live on the outskirts of decorum and they push limits. By day they are packing and shipping clerks for Crown Books, living on year-old disability checks, working at Radio Shack's customer service counter and waitressing at Spaghetti Western. By night they live at rehearsals and occasionally burst on to a stage in a dimly lit bar. Three bands currently in actiori and carrying on the tradition deserve special attention-as well as major label cash and distribution. Jai Jai Noire is persistent, dedicated and one hell of a songwriter and guitarist. Constantly on the move she forms bands, cuts demos and halks her product all the while living off the beaten track in Concord, CA, home to some of the most oppressive laws in the land. Noire is known for her political activism challenging the insidious right wing at every turn. Her sound recalls the Police when they were still a scruffy punk band emerging in the wake of the Sex Pistols. Mixed .into a wildly driving energy is just enough reality to wake anyone out of a total coma. Noire's lyrics are not suffocated by the enormity of political repression. Wrapped in reggae rhythms and growling vocal treatment, her music takes Buddy Holly on a ride into the 90s. Mermaid Tattoo, named in honor of the nine-inch tattoo that graces bassist Nancy Kravitz'S thigh, is fronted by Victoria Schwartz who plays lead guitar and pulls in and out of great psychedelic effects, creating a great groove out of a minimum· number of strums and notes. The band includes Tracy OklahQma on banjo, the aforementioned Nancy Kravitz (who doubles as the promoter of the club that is the cre- PRODUCT OF HER OWN IMA GINA nON ative force behind the whole scene), and the former Singer/songwriter linda Perry Photo: Jessica Tanzer drummer for the She Devils, Cathy Curphey. . Displaying ambitious reach, the band is likely to cover ju·st by an immensely powerful voice. Perry is the sole prod- about anything including Charlie Rich. Mermaid Tattoo is uct of her own imaginatio·n and her own creative at their best when launching into an original, composed genius. Brazilian-born, with dreadlocks and a complete- and played a~ break-neck speed. A relatively new band, ly deviant approach to anything resembling convention, they are combining the best of the scene and creating a Linda:·Perry would be the perfect reality check for a distinctive sound. world that is·immersed in its all too pretty imagination. With a still-growling, disenchanted whisper backed These bands and. this scene keeps me haunting only by acoustic guitar and reverb, Linda Perry has the Nightbreak for Female Trouble on Wednesday nights. best pure raw voice in San Francisco. Recently appear- Just feeling the sound bounce off of my ch~st, just ing with the newly formed group 4 Non-Blondes, Perry's giving in to complete anger at the world, gives me talent, if left undisCovered, will be a testament to what the courage to pick myself up and begin the battle total bullshit the music industry really is. In the spring again each day against a litany of ills created by capi- '88 issue of Puncture, Terry Sutton hit upon a truism talist patriarchy. The women who iohabit this club· with her comment, "The worst form of discouragement are the anti-thesis to the prescription, and in their is silence ...biased critics aren't music reviewing. They behavior lies one of the keys to freedom: Anarchy in are doing police work." This scene has suffered from the U.S.A. is certainly one place where the revolution. this activity for too long. Linda Perry's range of emotion ferments. ~ peaks in a musical place that harbors aggressive post- Nightbreak is located at 1821 Haight St., in San punk rock steeped in counter culture angst, a part of the Fran·cisco. rock world that most music does not even begin to To contact: . approach in terms of sheer intensity. With her cryptic Nancy Kravitz/MerrYUlid Tattoo; 3025 Army St.; Sa·ri and lyrical outpouring of frustration, Perry is creating Francisco, C4 94110 screaming thunder over an acoustic guitar style carried MUDWIMMIN;34 20th St.; San Francisco, CA 94110

January 7.1990 OUTTWEEK 59 Video . Speaking ill Tongues

Lesbian Tongues. A Pop Video lover, author Minnie Bruce Pratt, actu- most of us came out not for high Production. P.o. Box 60862, ally choose to stage their interview faluting political reasons, but simply Washington, DC, 20039. $29.95. cuddled in bed-the only place their "because lesbian sex is hot!" (How hectic lives dovetail. One old time dare she!) With a similar message, but by butch, complete with shades, cig and a divergent style, Joan Nestle, whose Wickie Stamps . deep throat twang, reveled in her pre- voice and demeanor throbbed with Stonewall lust when she revealed. th~ sensuality, lured us into our own sen- eshian Tongues, a glimpse erotic "scams" she used to orchestrate suality. She dug deep into her person- . into the lives of strong and for her partner; 'sexual scenes in al eroticism and, by comments like "I extraordinary women, was an which she'd fern out with garters and have always enjoyed being made love L to with a dildo ...and unstrapping my opportunity for co-producer Lil Pitcaithly to progress beyond the lover from her dildo and going "it's OK to be gay" films of 15 years down on her," Nestle unveiled the ago and create a work that says, "we depth of our eroticism. are more than okay-we are flour- The Jewelle Gomez interview ishing." In the 90 minute Video, cam- offers us all a sprig of hope. eras slip into the lives of 13 u.s. Through her coming out story, we lesbians meeting such diverse sub- grasp that our lesbianism need not jects as Barbara Grier, Jewelle always collide with the heterosexual Gomez and lesbian dairy goat farm- world of our biological families. ers from the land of "brogans and Beginning with a snapshot of her overalls." All of these' women lead with her grandmother, she guides us poignant lives, some more public through a feisty coming-out-to-my- than others. The filming of this Pop family tale. It occurred in a Times Video production (a Washington, Square theater bathroom (which D.C. based video company), inc1u9- Gomez felt was an apt locale for ed a trek to a South Carolinian les- their opposing worlds to coalesce) bian goat farm-an excursion which where her mom took it upon herself filled Lil with trepidation. "Quite to point out some eye catching graf- frankly, I was not looking forward to fiti-"dykes unite"-to her daughter. tramping out to a goat farm. But, I Gomez lassoed this opening by was pleasantly surprised. The goats casually retorting that, if she found were charming, they come when that graffiti engaging, then perhaps they're called and better behaved the rubber stamp that Gomez had at than most people!" . home might also strike her mother'S Viewing Lesbian Tongues is like fancy. It was then that her grand- putting a buttercup of lesbian sexu- mother chose to bat back a humor- ality under one's chin. Who we ous acknowledgment of her are-our sensuality and our histo- heels and seduce her lover. Her part- granddaughter's sexual preference. ry-shines warmly back at us. ner, who had listened attentively to From the nearby stall, her granny's Affirmations of lesbian passion ripples this time-worn tale, bawdily joked voice piped up, "I already saw it! It" throughout the video. In front of the that her butch was so good at oral sex says lesbian money!" camera five couples, most older and she should "get her mouth insured by But, Lesbian Tongues' power is in decade long dyads, perform the Lloyd's of London!" diluted by some shortcomings. Due to cherished lesbian ritual of sharing Sexpert Jo Ann Loulan and waffling technical expertise some their delicious how-we-met sagas. As author/activist Joan Nestle plucked interviews are off focus, others have they spin their intimate sexual histo- sensuality from the abandoned lot of muffled voices and, due to choppy ries, their bond as lovers becomes· lesbian passion and held it out to the editing, some segments ate jarring. A apparent: they frequently kiss, tug at viewers as key·to our survival as sex- wider range of types of relationships each other'S sleeves t9 interject a rel- ual beings. With the flair of a stand and forms of sexual e.xpressions ished detail or chide their more bash- up comedienne, Loulan wryly com- would have strengthened the piece. ful partner. Photographer JEB and her mented that, if the truth be known, See LESBIAN TONGUES on page 69

60 OUT~WEEK January 7, 1990 Book How the Other Half Lives career, and sick friends with AIDS, offer three quotes from Macho Slut~~ but they did not fuck. When She "The task of creating high-quality tried, Margaret would never kiss, and pornography is a challenge worthy of when She moved on her she would any talented writer. It just isn't that never respond." When Margaret easy to get a reader hopelessly and by Christopher Davis arrives home after a six-week absence unforgettably aroused." And "Sadly, a she at first turns away. and then lot of the new lesbian porn (brave as relents and allows one chaste kiss; it it is) flunks what Dorothy Allison calls admit my qual ifications for is not the proper time for more, there 'the wet test.''' And '''Feminist erotica' reviewing a work of lesbian erot- is never a proper time for Margaret. that presents a simplistic view of les- Iic fiction are meager, but I am I go into this much detail so that bian sex as two women in love in a interested in work being written by the reader of this review will ask: So bed who embody all the good things lesbians and I read Roslyn Dane's why do they stay together; why not the patriarchy is trying 'to destroy is novel, The Assistance of Vice, careful- break up with the bitch [I quote the not very sexy. This stuff reads as if it ly. Unlike Pat Cali·fia's great collection I were written by dutiful daughters of short erotic fiction, Macho Sluts, I who are trying to persuade Mom that which is worth purchasing for the r lesbian sex isn't dirty, and we really thoughtful introduction on lesbian ! are good girls after alL" . i pornography and S/M alone, The ~: Using Califia's comments as ! Assistance of Vice threads the erotic guidelines, I can report that for the content through one story, a story that most part, the erotic portions of The is understandable equally to lesbians !, Assistance of Vice succeed .. Much· of and gay men: the destructive power it is certainly not something to send of a severely one-sided relationship. your mother to convince her that The narrator's lover, Margaret, is lesbians are really good girls after selfish, demanding, critical and non- all, unless your mother is a great sexuaL "If there were something on deal more enlightened than most, or television She wanted to watch, get has an exceptionally strong heart into, Margaret would start a harangue and a physician nearby just in case. about how She was always watching And as for the wet test: Well, I'll something instead of talking to her ... pass on that, although I can report But if She came home and Margaret that when I discussed this book were watching something, well, then with a lesbian friend she said I that was all right, inviolate." The. book on "bitch"] and get it over with? would know it was good if it gave author succeeds well in making Ms. Dane's answer to that question is me an erection. "But I'm gay!". I Margaret a thoroughly dislikable per- the strongest part of the noveL She said .. "I'm a gay ·man," I added, in son. A tiny scene when they are at a does an admira,ble job of making it case she had missed the point. "So?" club and Margaret won't dance- seem right, or at least understand- she answered. I'm still thjnking Margaret will never dance-tells able- which is not the same as about that. much, and when Margaret complains explaining it-that someone would This book does have some prob- when her lover. who is a photogra- stay in such a destructive, unfulfilling lems. The writing is sometimes rough, pher, gets up at five in .the morning relationship. It's not a big part of the transitions sometimes .abrupt, some of to work in her home studio so she book at all, but the reader gets a it should have been cut and I do not can later visit her. cousin who is sense of the power of the habit of a like stream-of-consciousness passages dying of AIDS, Margaret seems abso- shared life. of fond memories, of in italics. However, Ms. Dane did an lutely hatefuL non erotic intimacy. excellent job of mixing the erotica The worst thing about Margaret, The erotic content of the novel with the plot, mostly to the detriment though, is that she has lost all interest must be considered too. ·r am not of neither. I enjoyed it, and half way in sex, at least with her lover. "They going to get into a discussion of erotic through I couldn't wait to find out if could pop pimples on each others writing versus pornographic writing Margaret got what she deserved, so I backs,· She could trim their twat hairs, (and in any case, I do not consider turneq to the end to see, and no, I they shared the worries over money, "pornographic" pejorative). Instead, I won't tell. T

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by Gabri~l RoteUo

. Gays and lesbians have long labored under theories of nature which called us "unnatural," theories of religion which called us "sinners" and theories of morality which pronounced us "immoral." Yet these concepts, tied up as they are in a rapidly retreat- ·ing tide of nonscientificism, could not in themselves have seriously threatened our eventual I"iberation. The inex- orable progress of humankind away from the irrational and toward the empirical, away from the bigotries of the Inquisition and toward the glories of seekers such as Galileo, might have promised gays a less oppressive future. As the prejudices of the past were blasted away by the forces of reason, the unnatural construction called Richard Isay, M.D. Photo: Anne Hall homophobia should have been an early and easy victim. gays. As such, he feels that one of the primary weaknesses Alas, such was not the case. of psychoanalysis has been its focus on gays who were The reason why is amply illustrated by two recent unhappy being gay, a focus which would inevitably skew books, Being Homosexual by Richard Isay and The observations and results. To counter such bias he cites brief Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality by Kenneth case histories of well adjusted homosexuals from his prac- Lewes. These two psych~nalysts, well meaning supporters tice, and shows how his often lengthy but sympathetic of their profession, each in his way offers a fatal indictment analyses have generated positive therapeutic results. of psychoanalysis. That indictment essentially states that the Despite the author'S attempt at serious revisionism, his 20th century development of psychoanalysis was in error non-academic approach is unlikely to gain a hearing from when it proclaimed, with the same quasi-scientific certainty it dogma-bound theorists. lsay goes into little detail about the uses to proclaim anything, that male homosexuality is an ill- bases of the theory he attempts to debunk, nor does he build ness. It is that proclamation, not that gays are unnatural, sin- a coherent theory of his own. A book arguing the case for ful or immoral, but that we are "sick," which has done more gay normalcy which mentions the word Oedipal a total of' than anything ·aside from AIDS to marginalize, oppress and three times can't expect to be taken very seriously by those destroy the lives of lesbians and gays in modern times. The whose very meal tickets are stamped by Oedipus himself on HippoCratic maxim to "do no harm" has been so massively every conceivable occasion. Yet, the weaknesses of his violated by psychoanalysts when approaching gays, that approach from a classic psychoanalytic standpoint, recom- even a gentle army of Isays and Lewes couldn't hope to mend this book to lay gays who are curious about both their repair the damage. Yet against all odds, and despite the seri- modern oppression and an enlightened analyst's opinion ous omission of lesbianism and lesbians from their stydies, about the relationship between analysis and homosexuality. they both make a serious attempt. Isay is faScinatingly refreshing, for example, on the dis- Isay's anecdotal approach is brief, accessible and to the puted existence of bisexuality. His conclusion that many point. He's a psychoanalyst whose practice contains many bisexuals are really gays in denial may be music to the ears gay men who have come to him because of his reputation of some gay Iiberationists. But, he offers solid evidence for as someone who doesn't disapprove of or try to change the existence of some truly, equally bisexual men, a result

62 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 of great political importance. He is similarly enlightening on the subject of the fathers of gay men, maintaining that they often shun gay sons they perceive as unmasculine, which negatively impacts on the ability of those sons to form lasting relationships with men later in life. Indeed, Isay'$ theory of straight fathers' discomfort around ·their gay sons provides an interesting explanation for therapists' traditional observations that gays often have distant, uncaring fathers. His accessible, sympathetic approach may be akin to preaching to the choir, but it can't help but assist those who lives have been damaged by the homophobic Mengeles of modern psychoanalysis. * * * * * Kenneth Lewes' book differs from Isay's in that its approach meets Freud's successors on the exceedingly thin ice of their own pseudo-scientific conceits. Jt's a history of the dismal analytic mis-view of homosexuality from Freud to the present by a scholar attempting objectivity about the phenomenon of homosexuality. Lewes shows that Freud held at least three ambiguous and contradictory opinions about gays and their development, and stated flatly on at least one occasion that homosexuality "cannot be classified as an illness." Yet Lewes clearly shows that the future errors of his discipline can be traced to Freud's opinion that homosexuality represents· II deviation from "natural" heterosexUality, an ,opinion whol- ly based on social norms and not on empirical evidence. Kenneth lewes, Ph.D. .Photo: John Schultz The history of theory between Freud and Kinsey reads like a farce, with a hodge-podge of conf1icting, confusing Despite the quality and compassion of these books, they and contradictory opinions which trip over themselves like both contain a strange and significant omission peculiar to Keystone Kops. The plot descends from farce to tragedy their author'S profession. Both unravel arguments in a strange- only when we arrive at" ~insey's monumental study, the ly self-contained world, with seeming disregard for the knowl- first tmly scientific examination of homosexuality. Kinsey's edge and insights of history, sociology, biology ·and the results, still the towering achievement of sexology, flew numerous disciplines and sub-disciplines that have a bearing directly into the face of psychoanalytic theory. This set- on the subject. While both mention Kinsey, and briefly touch back marked the turning point at which psychoanalysis· on "classical Greece," and while Lewes openly complains departed from the realm of attempted objectiVity and, as about psychoanalysts' lack of respect for outside references, far as homosexuality is concerned, descended giddily into the level of discourse on the subjects extemal to psychoanaly- .gibberish. The inability of a supposed science to accom- sis is perfunctory in these books. No mention is made of the modate demonstrated fact by ignoring it, disputing it or constmctionist-essentialist debate, Foucault makes only the denouncing it, placed that discipline more in the realm of most fleeting of appearances, and vast bodies of recent histo(- a cult than a science. Despite the author'S reluctance to go ical data on the prevalence·.of homosexuality in non-Western that far, such is the clear implication of the tale he tells. cultures go unrecognized. It seems that even these thoughtful Of all the questions Lewes' book raises about psycho- writers exist in a selkonsuming galaxy, content to spin in rel- analysis, one of the most disturbing is the failure of ana- ative oblivion to the universe of knowledge around them. lysts to examine how their own prejudices about gays· The attempt of well-meaning psychoanalysts to correct colored their theories. Such prejudices are obvious to· the errors and abuses of their field in relation to homosexuality even the casual observer of the field, so the fact that they is sadly overdue. While not the fault of the~ authors, their were not obvious, or even acknowledged, by analysts efforts can hardly excuse the masSive damage· wrought on gay until Kwawer noted them in· 1980 is one of the more men and lesbians by their flawed and rapidly retreating profes- amazing lapses in a field of amaZing lapses. sion. What they seem to be aiming at is a reform of psycho- Even more disturbing is the failure of psychoanalysis analysiS .. But like those who thought that Czechs or East to consider how the intense social condemnation of Germans simply wanted a reformed communism ·and are homosexuality may have deeply affected gays, causing shocked· that they now demand its total abolition, psychoana- much of the gay guilt and pathology noted by the profes- lysts trying to cre.ate "Freudianism with. a human face" should sion. It remains to be seen if the field will ever spend a not be surprised if gays fmd their efforts simply irrelevant. After fraction of the time on this question that it spent spinning all, if psychoanalysis has bee:n·so fundamentally wrong on so fanCiful conceits to prove homosexuality an illness. fundamental a question, what else is it wrong about? ...

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Send calendar Items to. 1HE GLINES presents the press THE ANSWER IS LOVING SAGEFirst Brunch of the 90's, RIck X, Going OUt opening of Sidney Morris's The Women Talktng Women's Talk: at Gus· Place, 149 Waverly Place; Box7?" Whld Betreatb My Wings, a new MLlmit Setting/Boundaries,· noon or 2 pm seating; $9.50; rsvp New York, NY 10108 play about two gay men, a comic knowing when to say yes, and 741-2247 and an activist, and their conflict- when to say no without guilt or Items must be received by ing passions; at the Courtyard loss of love; led by Ruth Berman CONGREGATION BETH SIM- Monday to be Included In the Playhouse, 39 Grove St (at and Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead CHATTORAHWinter Film Fes- following week's Issue:. Bleecker); 8 pm; $12; 869-3530 Bay, Brooklyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; tival: Hill 24 Doesn't Answer, (plays thru FEB 4; WED-FRJat 8 718/998-2305 at 57 Bethune St (near West St), 8 pm, SAT at 7 and 9:30 pm, SUN pm, $4 (includes free popcorn & at 7 pm) MENOF ALL COLORSTOGETIi- soda), 929-9498 , ERlNY Educational Forum/CR STEPHENHOLT SHOW presents Session: Stak Roles and Tigbt THE GLINES presents Sidney New Year's Day Stepbert Holt's Life Ix tbe 80's, Buxs; a discussion on this Morris's The Wind Bertealb My with scenes from Fever oJ provocative film which examines Wixgs, see JAN 3 COMPANYRESTAURANTHang- Unknown Origin, Casting. oJ the media representation of -male over Brunch, 365 Third Ave Kevin Christian, Love, Oscar, and sexuality and desire; at The Cen- (btwn 26/27 St), 532-5222 the gay musical, Kareer Suicide, ter, 208 W 13 St; 7:45 pm; 222- Manhattan Cable TV, Channel . 9794, 245-6366 MENOF ALLCOLORSTOGETIi- 17/0; 9 pm (repeats on Manhat- ,tiMIAVal ER/NY 7th and Final Night of tan and Paragon Cable, 1/6) GAY MEN OF AFRICAN SAGE Sunday Drop-In, in the Kwanzaa: /manl (Faith); call DESCENTDiscussion: Stressed SAGE Room at The Center, 208 for location; 7:30 pm; 212/222- EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Out, dealing with work-related W 13 St, 1:30 - 4:30 pm; 741-2247 9794, 212/245-6366 Scrooged; 142 ·l1th Ave (at 21" stresses such as homophobia, St); 11 pm; 691-8451 prejudice, racism, sexism, BISEXUALPRIDEFocus Group: MARC BERKLEY'SKOOL KOM- demanding bosses, office politics, Coming Out. Bi, at The Center, RADSStripper of the Year Con- combative co-workers-, last- 208 W 13 St, 3 pm, $5, 718/353- test at Private Eyes, 12 W 21 St; minute deadlines; in the Assem- 8245 contest at midnight; $5, 206-7772 bly Hall of The Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310 BISEXUALDOMINANCE& SUB- GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE MISSION GROUP Share S/M presents JeweUe Gomez, with THE GLINES presents Sidney Experiences and Fantasies "in stories of Jantasy Jiction Jrom the Morris's Tbe Wind Berteatb My a positive, non-judgmental atmo- real world (from her new book Wings, see JAN 3 sphere"; at The Center, 208 W 13 ARTISTS SPACE presents Final in progress); at the Universalist St; 4:45 pm; $5; 718/353-8245 Week of Witnesses: Agalxst Church, Central Park West at 76 COLUMBIALESBIAN,BISEXUAL, Our Vamsbing, the AIDSexhibit St; 8 pm; $5 (for women only, GAY COALITION First Friday DONT TELL MAMA presents that the NEA almost un-funded meets every first Thursday) Dance, in Earl Hall, Columbia U., Don Grasso, singing Ah, Men; because of a "political" catalog; 116 St & Bway (#1/119 train); 10 343 W 46 St; 6 pm; $10 cover + 223 West Broadway (near· THE GLINES presents Sidney pm - 2 am; photo ID to drink; 2-drink minimum; 757-0788 Franklin SO; daily, through Satur- Morris's The Wind Bertealb My 854-3574,854-1488(Editor·s note: day, JAN 6; 11 am - 6 pm; 226- Wings, see JAN 3 the Columbia Gay & Lesbian THE GLINES presents Sidney 3970 Alliance changed its name last Morris's The Wind Bertealb My lliE PYRAMIDpresents Dudley month) Wings, see JAN 3 in his new performance work Second Sleep, a "homoerotic, religio-sexual work-in-progress"; 101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm; CONGREGATION BETH SIM- info 473-5625 (presented this and CHAT TORAH Jewish .Educa- every Thursday in January) ACT UP/ATLANTA and ACT tlon CQurses; tonight: UP/NEW YORKNational Action Contemporary Jewish Issues: to Repeal all Sodomy Laws, Alternative Families at 7 pm; at rally and march to the state capi- 57 Bethune St; info 929-9498 ~!f,ir.RiliY~li3J tol in Atlanta, Georgia, a state STEPHENHOLT SHOW presents which allows 20 years in prison GAY TEACHERSASSOCIATION GAY AND ~ESBlAN SWITCH- Stepbert Holt's life in tbe 80's, for oral or anal sex (more than General Meeting with guest BOARD/NY Volunteer Inter- with scenes from Fever oJ for armed assault); info 404/873- speaker, George Fesko, of the views, for those who wish to· Unknown Origin, Casting oJ 1097,212/989-1114 United Federation of Teachers' work at least two 3-hour shifts KeVin Christian, Love, Oscar, and Executive Board, and Liaison to per month; those chosen will be the gay musical, Kareer Suicide, TIMES SQUARES Free Square Lesbian & Gay Teachers; at The reqUired to attend an initial train- Manhattan and Paragon Cable, Dancing Class for Lesbians Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; Cen- ing the following day, 1/6; 6:30 Channel 16/c; 11:30am and Gay Men; at PS 3, 490 Hud- ter 620-7310 pm; 777-1800 son St (btwn Grove & Christo-

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.-,' ~ pher); 7:30 pm; 873-3962, 799- GAY MEN·S HEALm CRISIS Men note: the artist and director say and a 25-year-old Hispanic who 2492 (another free class is on Meeting Men Workshop, to you should "feel free to take loves the gcxxi life of sex, disco JAN 22; starting JAN 29 classes enhance self-confidence and photos") and drugs, and who puts the are $5 each and enrollment clos- abilitY to negotiate safer sex with other two through changes; at es that night) potential partners; at '!he Center, mE PYRAMID presents Dudley The Center, 208 W 13 St; five 208 W 13 St; 8-10:30 pm; free; no in his new performance work performances: today, SUN, MON WNET-TV/13 Stop AIDS, the preregistration, 807~6655 (TOO Second Sleep, a "homoerotic, and TUES at 8 pm plus an extra best student-produced videos 645-7470) religio-sexual work-in-progress"; 2 pm matinee SUN, JAN 14; $8 entered in last spring's High 101 Avenue A (at 6 St); 9 pm; advance/$10 door; reservations School AIDS Education Video THE GLINES presents Sidney info 473-5625 (presented this and and info 893-9852 Contest are featured; 10-10:30 Morris;s The Wind Beneath My every '!hursday in January) pm (repeats late-night FRI, JAN Wings, a new play about two THE GLINES presents Sidney 12,12:30 am) gay men, a comic and an activist, Morris's The Wind Beneath My and their conflicting passions; at FI///A I' Wings, see JAN 10 . "._ .'M ~ ... ,'.An,.,~·._" •.·__.y_,_j"""""""""'= .. ·"'''''''_"'' WNET-TV/13 Keith Haring: the Courtyard Playhouse, 39 Drawing the Line, profiling the Grove St (at Bleecker); 8 pm; INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF artist·s work, world view, and $12; 869-3530 (plays thru FEB 4; GAY MEN OF AFRICAN POETRY AND PAIN presents artistic influence; 10:30 - 11 pm WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 7 and DESCENT Discussion: He's· Annie Sprinkle: Post Porn (repeats early SUN, JAN 14, 5:30 9:30 pm, SUN at 7 pm) GoUa Have It!, dealing with the Modernist, see JAN 11 . am) ·controversial topic of "sexual GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS addiction," with Dr. Arthur Cly- BIWAYS NY (of the NY Area Meeting: The Distant Caress: mer and two recovering "sex Bisexual Network) Evening of Wbips and Cats, with tips from addicts,· who will discuss clinical Dinner, Fllm and Dancing Till -.:.¥'o('!j:~-,.y~.'~~..,\J.i~~R ~ whipmasters; at The Center, 3rd findings and treatments; in the Dawn; 718/353'8245 Floor, 208 W 13 St; 8:30 pm Charles Angel/People of Color ACT UP/ATLANTA and ACT (doors open at 8); .$5; 727-9878 Room at The Center, 208 W 13 UP/NEW YORK National Action St; 8 pm; 620-7310 to Change the CDC's Defini- EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Three J1E'««d.4tJLt:~_'Jxd'Et~~~1\;~f;":i~~%:4~ tion of AIDS and ARC, legal Fugitives; 142 11th Ave (at 21 THE GLINES presents Sidney picket and civil disobedience at St); 11 pm; 691-8451 Morris's The Wind Beneath My WNET-TV/13 Keith Haring: the Centers for Disease Control, Wings, see JAN 10 Drawing the Line, see JAN 8 to "abolish the outmoded and unscientific definitions of AIDS INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF KAREN SMITH directs Eric and ARC, revise the epidemiolog- POETRY AND PAIN presents Booth's Metamorphosis: a ical methods, and provide ser- Annie Sprinkle: Post Porn slice of black gay Ufe, see JAN vices and treatment to all people SAGE Afternoon at the Brook- Modernist, see JAN 11 13 who need them"; info 404/873- lyn Publlc Library, Kings High- 1097, 2121989"1114 way Branch, 2115 Ocean Ave at WNET-TVi13 Stop AIDS, see JAMAICA ARTS CENTER presents . Kings Hwy; 1-4 pm; info JAN 8 Sweet 1I0ney in the Rock at 2ND TUESDAYS AT. THE 2121741-2247 Colden <;enter for the Performing CENTER presents Pollee Officer Arts, Queens College, Kissena Vanessa Ferro, the first New NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFER- Blvd and LI Expressway; 3 pm; York Police Department liaison ENCE Metro Area Information $16-$19; 718/793-8080 to the lesbian and gay communi- Meeting, for the Atlanta meeting ty, who will show a police train- APR 24-28; at The Center, 208 W GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS THE GLINES presents Sidney ing video, Anti-Gay Vio1etu:e; at 13 St (1st floor, ASL interpreted); Workshop: Keep It Up!, to .Morris's The Wind Beneath My 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $3; Center 6:30-8:30 pm ·'reaffirm the importance of safer Wings, see JAN 10 620-7310, Ferro 374-5370 sex, and feel confident about CENTER STAGE sees The Mer- saying ·yes, whether you're into INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF CONGREGATION BETH SIM- chant of Venice, with Dustin casual sex or serious dating, and POETRY AND PAIN presents CHAT TORAH Tuesday Night Hoffman as Shylock; at the 46th no matter what your HIV status Annie Sprinkle: Post Porn Video Film Festival: Before Street Theatre; 8 pm; $70; 620- is"; at The Center, 208 W 1.3 St; Modernist, see JAN 11 . StonewaU, also a Documentary 7310 noon - 6 pm; register 806-6655, on SAGE; 57 Bethune St (West- TOO 645-7470 beth Complex, up center court- THE GLINES presents Sidney yard ramp); 8 pm; free; 989-9498 Morris's The Wind Beneath My CENTER KIDS Get-Together for }':iJ\j'N p~1A,Z'J!~tX~"rit!-1,,$~ WEDNESDAY Wings, see JAN 10 Single Parents and their Kids, JANUARY 10 1 pm; leave message at The Cen- MAR77N LU77-IER KING, JR. DAY INTERNATIONAL mEATER OF ter, 620-7310, for info SAGE Annual Meeting in the POETRY AND PAIN presents CENTER SPORTS sees NY first floor Assembly Hall at The Annie Sprinkle: Post Porn BORICUA GAY AND LESBIAN Knlcks vs: Chicago Bulls, bas- Center, 208 W 13 St, 6-8 pm, 741- Modernist, directed by Emilio FORUM Orientation Night, fol- ketball game; at Madison Square 2247 Cubeiro; "the work charts writ- lowed by social gathering with Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; 1 pm; er/performer Annie Sprinkle·s refreshments; at The Center, 208 members $30/non-members $40; CONGREGATION BETH SIM- personal odyssey through the W 13 St; 7 pm sharp; $2; 293- 620-7310 CHAT TORAH Jewish Educa- worlds of art and ideology, com- 0833 tion Courses; tonight: Mel merce and pornography, a jour- Rosen's Workshop/Discussion on ney which leads her to KAREN SMITH directs Eric Issues that Confront Us as Les- alternative models of sexual Booth's Metamorphosis: a bianand Gay Jews at 7:30 pm;' at health and well-being"; this and slice of black gay Ufe, an origi- 57 Bethune St; info 929-9498 next week only; nru & SUN at 8 na~ play about a 60-year-old pm ($12),FRI & SAT at 8 and 11 black drag queen, a 35-year-old pm ($14); 255-5793 (Editor'S ex-pimp and rehabilitated addict,

January 7, 1990 OUT-.WEEK 67 OUTWEEK BEST BETS

Monday BEST BETS for Women's Dancing Private Eyes (preppie; male strippers, 2-4-1 till midnight) 12 W 21 St, btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772 NOTE: Party events are subject to change. Always call first to Tuesday confirm. Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925 *love Machine at Underground 860 Broadway, near 17th St; 254- Tuesday 4005 Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 718-261-8484 Wednesday Wednesday Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925 Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, Ll; 516-486-9516 Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213 -btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772 Twenty/Twenty (Shescape after work party) 20 West 20 Street Silver lining (2-4-1 drink) 175 Cherry La., Floral Pk, Ll, 516-354-9641 (btwn 5th & 6th Aves), info 645-6479, club 255-6579 Spectrum (free admission all night) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn, Thursday 718-238-8213 Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, Ll; 516-486-9516 Thursday Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213 *Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place, Friday btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959 Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, Ll; 516-486-9516 *Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susan Bartsch party) 10 *Carmelita's (Chip Duckett Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14 St E 60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755-6010 Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, Ll, 516-431-5700 *Pyramid (Queer-Amid, with host Ru Paul) 101 Avenue A, btwn Octagon (Shescape) 555 West 33 Street, btwn 10th & 11th Aves; 6th & 7th Streets, 420-1590 947-0400,645-6479 Spectrum (free admission all night, 2-4-1 drinks) 802 64th Street, Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213 Brooklyn, 718-238-8213 Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Wdsde, info 718-846-7131, club 718- Friday 899-9031 . *Boybar 151/2 St Marks PI., btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959 Saturday *Carmelitas (Chip Duckett Boy+Boy & Girl+Girl) 150 E 14'St Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, Ll; 516-486-9516 Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month, except July) 116th The Center (2nd and 4th Saturdays, & special events) St & Bway, 854-3574 days Silver lining 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, Ll, 516-354-9641 Private Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772 Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, Ll, 516-242-3857 Spectrum (male and female strippers) 802 64th Street, Brooklyn, 718-238-8213 Twenty/Twenty (Shescape) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th & 6th Aves), info 645-6479, club 255-6579 World (mixed gay/straight) 254 E 2 St, 477-8677 Saturday Sunday Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, Ll; 516-486-9516 Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays, Dega Productions) Sts); 832-6759 lads 130 West Post Road (Rte 22), White Plains, 914-683-5353 *Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves, 674-7959 Spectrum 802 64th St. @8th Ave, Bay Ridge, 718-238-8213 The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St, btwn 7th .& 8th Aves, 620-7310 Every Night Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, Cubby Hole 438 Hudson St. @ Morton St., 243-9079 btwn 5th & 6th Aves, 206-7772 Duchess IISheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South, 242-1408 Sound Factory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530 W 27 St (btwn 10th & 11th Aves). 643-0728 Spectrum (guest performer night) 802 64th St., Bklyn., 718-238-8213 World (mixed gay/straight) 254 E 2 St, 477-8677 Sunday Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925 *Mars (Chip Duckett's HMars Needs Men·' night) Westside High- way and 13th St, 691-6262 *Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th & 7th Streets, 420-1590 Spectrum (shoW; free admission 9-10 pm) 802 64th Street, Brook- Iyn, 718-238-8213 Every Night Grand Central (Rockville Centre, LI, closed Mon. & Tues) 210 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, Ll, 516-536-4800 Monster (West Village) 80 Grove St. at Sheridan Sq., 924-3557 Nimbus (West Village) 22 7th Ave South (at Leroy, 2 blks above W Houston),691-4826 .

68 OUTTWEEK January 7, 1990 BlAZE from page 55 Earl, heard at the tale-end of the clos- a nationwide tour in early 1989, few could ioned true believer in men-as-real- ing credits. What a fascinating, terrify- have imagined the flfestorm which would men and in the wom'!n-as-whores ing man! How unlike Newman's ensu·e. who sacrifice themselves for the endearing curmudgeon! Triggered by cries of "pornography" and boys. Blaze initially peaks Earl's Despite the millions spent on "blasphemy" from the right and countered by libido by refusing him, then she period costumes and sets, the sociopo- calls of ·censorship" and "politics" on the left, earns his undying loyalty by restor- litical context is almost nonexistent. In the debate led to a daily escalation of the fight ing his lost potency in their first sex- . reality, it was no wonder Earl's wife in Congress and in the streets. ual encounter. With such a deep (here noticeably absent) and enemies What started with the cancellation of understanding of sexual politics, it's had him committed to a mental ward the Mapplethorpe display at Washington's a wonder Shelton isn't making per- while he was still in office. In the mm, Corcoran Gallery of Art, ended with the fume commercials. however, the asylum sequence is just discrediting of the museum by the arts To make history conform to his one more in a series of incomprehen- community, a series of noisy demonstra- narrow notions, Shelton simply tosses sible political shenanigans carried out tions and the withdrawal of a major Earl out the window and replaces him by the amorphous opposition and bequest and the December resignation of with a squinty-eyed Paul Newman, thwarted, inevitably, by oh-so-c1ever the gallery's director. hair slightly mussed. Those baby-blues Blaze-played by Lolita DavidoVich, in And what began with constituent let- that melted hearts in the 60s and 70s a performance worthy of any daytime ters to congressional conservatives about a and burned with countless indigna- soap. No doubt true to the mistress' photograph of a cross immersed in a jar of tions (and Oscar nominations) in the self-aggrandiZing autobiography, the Andres Serrano's urine and selected 80s immediately vaporize any hope movie attributes Earl's downfall to his homoerotic and sadomasochistic images in that the Earl K. Long in Blaze will paSSion for his women and his insis- the Mapplethorpe tour being partially resemble the actual man. Newman tence on Black suffrage. Ot's true Earl financed with federal dollars, led to misbehaves and rants and raves, but wanted Blacks to be able to vote-he amendment after amendment--most spon- the method in his madness implies the figured they'd keep him in office.) sored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC}-limit- governor was somehow, deep inside, Not a moment is believable. The ing the use of tax dollars by the National a sane man in complete control of his movie turns a southern gothic Endowment for the Arts. government and his emotions.· Macbeth into a failed reformer, born Even after the byzantine congression- Newman's entire overwrought perfor- too soon, loving too fiercely. The al process resulted in a heavily neutralized mance is exploded by two minutes of rough edges that made him a legend Helms amendment being passed into law, a radio interview with the rea! Mad have been sanded smooth. T its "chilling effect" brought about a two week fracas involving the withdrawal and HILLfrom page 19 subsequent re-approval of an NEA grant LESBIAN TONGUES from page 60 In 1989, they helped secure final for a New York AIDS art show. (Although Pop Video is planning a FDA approval of ganciclovir, a previously Conservatives are expected to wield Lesbian Tongues 2 which will girth stymied AIDS-blindness drug; achieved the controversial arts-funding issue again more of our communities). Lastly, Lois preliminary approval of a "parallel track" in 1990, as the November elections Weaver and Peggy Shaw of Split drug distribution system, allowing approach, and take it to the House and Britches comment that the move- promising drugs to be more widely Senate floor to again discuss the merits of ment's focus 6n AIDS has meant accessible to AIDS and HIV patients who urine as an art form. women's issues are taking a back would not otherwise qualify for standard Helms Tactics Quietly Win seat. This highly charged statement clinical drug trials; and enlisted the sup- What would a year-end recap .of which needed either more c1arifica- port of the government's top AIDS gay!lesbian and AIDS news in the year be tion-or total deletion. Left hanging researcher, Dr. Anthony Fauci, among without a nod being given to Sen. Jesse without further development, this other victories. Helms (R-NC) ·and his anti-gay efforts? one-liner scrapes like an inflamed In typical bureaucratic fashion, many This year, unlike those just past, Helms' hangnail serving no purpose but to of the innovations remain unresolved and efforts have been less visible (with the offend or confuse. imperfect. And there continue to be con- noted exception of the arts issue), but Yet, in spite of these shortcom- frontations with the federal health agencies ·have been more successful. ings, Lesbian Tongues is a slip. of les- in suburban Maryland-all of which remain A synopsis of the· 1989 efforts of a bian greenery that re-roots us into our without appointed heads under the admin- man deemed by some as "The Prince of sensuality. It is a video that has istration of President George Bush. Darkness" underscores this. earned a niche in our community and Still, 1989 marked breakthr.oughs in In 1989, Helms: our Lesbian Herstory Archives. The cooperation previously thought impossible. • Successfully blocked approval of video mirrors Joan Nestle's stated goal additional funds to an AIDS drug distribu- for the archives, "It has given me The Summer Art CensQrship Debate tion play in March; back that despised part of myself and When a small retrospective of pho- • Blocked approval of a long-term is ending a deprivation of the most tographs by critically acclaimed late gay authoriiation of the same drug funding searing kind." T photographer Robert Mapplethorpe began See HILL on page 73

January 7, 1990 OUT~WEEK 69 au EEK BAR GUIDE

WESTSIDE The Works, 428 Columbus Ave EAST VILLAGE (at 81st), 799-7365, Cruisy west Bike Stop West 230 W. 75th St., side crowd. . The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 874-9014, Neighborhood bar, occa- 674-9714, East Villagers and ACT sional entertainment. UPers. EAST SIDE Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959, 874-9155 , Friendly leather/western Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., Dancing / Drag shows. bar. 650-1944, Sing-along piano bar. The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420- Cat's, 730.8th Ave., 221-7559, Older G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752, 1590, Dancing / Drag shows. men, younger guys Piano bar, mature crowd. Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave (7th St.), Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355- 777-9232 W. Village crowd in the E. 757-0788, Sing-along piano bar and 8714, Neighborhood restaurant and Village. cabaret. bar. Jason's, 23 W. 73rd St. Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 355- WEST VILLAGE 9465 Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St., The Annex ito Cellblock 28), 673 221-9152 Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807, Hudson St. bet. 13th & 14th), 627- Friendly guys, checkbook romance. 1140, J/O Cub. Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503 South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684- Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 8376 741-9236, Cruisy waterfront bar. Trixt 246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 664-8331, Cash and carry. Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688- Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 4710 929-9684, Funky dive and Jukejoint. Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144, METRO AREA INFORMATION J/O club. The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton MEETING St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar for For gay women & men. D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243- 9041, Piano bar. Mixed M/F. NATIONAL LESBIAN Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.), 242-1408, Women. CONFERENCE J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O to be held April 24-28, 1991 in Allanta club. Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672, Thurs., Jan. 11 Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors 6:30-8:30 pm Draft. The Center Keller's,384 West St. (at Christo- pher), 243-1907, Friendly neighbor- 208 W. 13th Street hood crowd. (between 7th & 8th Ave.) Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., First Floor 929-9322, Piano bar. . . ASL Interpreted The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave), 459-4299, J/O club. 70 OUTTWEEK January 7. 1990 Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th The Cubbyhole Ave), 243-9323, Sing-along piano bar. 438 Hudson Street The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th at Morton Ave.), 924-3558, Piano bar & (212) 243-9079 disco/dancing. A neighborhood bar for Nimbus 22, 22 7th Ave. South, 691- 4826, Dancing, pinball, pool, both gay men & women lounge. Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243- 9204, Younger crowd. Say· oodbye to Out in the aos. Ramrod, 185 Christopher St. It's time for a change. Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830. Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340. Television for a Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641, IN Cruisy neighborhood bar. new decade THE of lesbian Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787, Huge video bar. 90s and gay life. CHELSEA Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), News /Interviews/AIDS Updates 675-0385, Friendly, neighborhood .LiJat.Every Tuesday at 11pm bar. Manhattan Cable/Paragon Cable The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), Channel C/16 627-0072. Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17th), 929-7183, Neighbor- A hood English pub. GAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM Eagle's Nest, 14211th Ave (21st St.), 691-8451, Leather / Levi's. Private Eyes, 12 W. 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6th), 206-7770, Dancing, Video Club. . ... • CAS TlEe ARE INC. Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.), Leather / Levi's. Spike, 120 11thAve., 243-9688, Leather & Uniforms. Apartment Cleaning Tracks, 19th St. & 11th Ave., Dancing. 67-69 Morton Street #4E, New York, NY 10014

January 7, 1990 OUTTWEEK 71 Community Directory

A.c.a.c. CIRCLE OF MORE UGHT GAY & LESBIAN HEALTH CONCERNS AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian affir· An office of the NYC Dept of Health, provides link· SOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION' BUDDIES COUN· mative group. ages betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs. and the les· SElING· SUPPORT GROUPS West· Park Presbyterian Church bian & Gay community, focusing in ALL health Volunteer Opportunities 165 West 86th Street concerns; resource information for health services (118) 896·25OO(voice) (718) 896·2985(mD) Wed: worship service 6:30 pm, program 7:30. consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street. Box 67, Marsha (212):.>4-4373 Charlie (212)691·7118. New York. NY 10013. For info call (212)566·4995. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) 496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014 COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT GAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY (212)989 ·1114 208 West 13th Street, NYC. New York 10011 Sliding scale fees A diverse, non· partisan group of individuals united in For Appointments and Information Insurence accepted. anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS (212)675·3559 (TTYNoice) Institute for Human Identity. crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. nights 7:30, PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND lOW COST (212)799·9432 at the Community Center 208 W.I3th. HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS ARCS (AIDS-Related Community Services) Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since 198!. for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan. COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE Open meetings w/programs on 81M techniques, Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS education. PlNAs, PlNARCs & their physicians taking the initia· lifestyle issues. political and social concerns. Also client services, crisis intervention, support groups. tive to seek promising intervention against AIDS in a special events. speakers bureau, workshops, demos, case management, buddy and hospital visitor program. resp. manner. For more info or to volunteer please affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA ·Dept O. 214 Cantel Ptte. Whi1B Plains, NY 1!ml (914)!m-

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program in November; • Helped attach an ineffectual, yet THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS NINTH STREET CENTER Get your instrument out of the closetand come play. Since 1913, a community dedicated to demonstrating controversial amendment to Americans with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jau, Dixieland, Rock, that a homosexual lifestyle is a rational, desirable with Disabilities Act citing "homosexuali- , Aute Ensem bles and Woodwinds. . choice for individuals dissatisfied with the rewards of 123 West 44th St Suite12l New York, NY 10036 conventional living. Psychologically - focussed rap ty and bisexuality" alongSide a list of (212)869·2922, groups, Tues., Sat, 8to 10 pm, peer counselling avail· "sexual and drug-related disorders" able. 319 E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, for info call exempt from the bill's anti-discrimina- LESBIAN & GAY (212) 228-5153, COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER tion protections; 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011 NORTH AMERICAN MANJBOY • Helped add a rider to the D.C: (212)620-1310 9lm·llpm everyday: LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) A place for community uglnizing and networking. Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially interilted non-discrimination code exempting reli- social services, cultural programs, and social events in gay intergenerational relationships, Monthly Bul· gious educational institutions from its gay sponsored by the Center and more than 150 commu· letin and regular chapter meetings on the first Satur· nity organizations. day of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write and lesbian rights law; NAMBLA. PO Box 114, Midtown Station, New York, • Blocked the much-awaited Hate LESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORK NY 10018 or call (212)801-8518 for information. Crimes Statistics Act from floor action, An organization of lesbians and Gays who are active in their labor unions working on domestic partnership NORTHERN LIGHTS ALTERNATIVES despite lopsided passage of the bill in benefits and AIDS issuas. For more information call Improving Quality of Ufe for People with AIDSIHIV. the House; (212)923-8690, THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the pos- sibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of • Effectively banned federal funds LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212)331-8141 from being used for clean needle distribu- of the Americln Civil Liberti .. Union tion proirams and tried (unsuccessfully) ICNOWYOURRIGHTS/WE'REEXPANDINGTHEM NYC GAY & LESBIAN (212)944·9800. ext 545 ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT to ban bleach programs as well; Counseling. advocacy. and information for survivors • Condemned approval of a les- LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH of anti·gay and anti·lesbian violence, sexual assault, Brooklyn·s social organization for both gay men and domestic violence. and other types of victimization. bian/gay pride day postmark; . lesbians. All services free and confidential. • Threatened to undermine efforts to P.O. Box 106, Midwood Station 24 hour holline (212) 807-0197 Brooklyn, NY 11230' (118)859-9431 revamp changes in· AIDS immigration laws PEOPLE WITH AIDS COALITION which stop AIDS and HIV infected immi- LONG ISLAND· ACT-UP (212)532-0290 I Hotline (212) 532·0568 P.O. Box 291. New Hyde Park; NY. 11040 Monday thru Friday 10am·6pm grants and visitors at the border; Support us for change on long Island. Meal programs. support groups. educationalalid • And was the leader of a small (516)338-4662 (516)991-5238 Nassau referral services for PWA·s and PWArc's. minority op'posing AIDS anti-discrimina- (516)928·5530 Suffolk PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP tion language in the ADA. MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER NY Underground buyer's club importing not·yet-approved Appe·arances, especially in Washing- A multi· racial group of gay men against racism, Meet· medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 26th ings every Friday night at 1:45 at the lesbian and Gay St 4th Aoor (212) 532-0280 ton, can he deceiving. Community Services Center. 208W, 13th Street For But if the actual scope and impact more info. call: (212)245-6366 or·1212) 222-9194. PRIDE FOCUS GROUP of Washington events affecting the gay Topical discussions on issues of interestlD the commu· METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG) nity in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an informal and AIDS communities often seem nebu- Our 200 mem ber lesbian and gay tannis club includes dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every Sunday. 3:00 lous and open to· interpretation, that players from beginning to tournament level, Monthly • 4:30pm at the Community Center 208 W. 13 Street. tennis parties, Wintar indoor league, Come play with usl NYC, Part of the New York Area Bisexual Network. confusion can often be .traced back to For information: MTG, POB 2135, New York. NY 10025. how the neV{s items are .han-dled by our (212) 662-0695. . SAGE: (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) Social Service Agency. providing care. activities, & nation's mainstream media. MOCA educational services for gay & lesbian senior citizens. While indifference continues· to Men of Color AiDS Prevention Program. Also serves over 160 homebound Seniors & older masquerade as disinterest in newsrooms Provides safer sex and AIDS education information rNA's, to gay and bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a net- 208 West 13th St NYC 10011. (212) 741-2247 across the country (where sensitivity so work of peer-su pport groups for gay and bisex/Jal often falls victim to sensationalism), gay Men of Color in ailS boroughs of New York City. THE OUTREACH 303 Ninth Ave, New Yor~, Ny 10001 USING COMMUNAL HEALING (TO'UCH) "scandals" will almost always receive or call (212) 239·1196, Community volunteers providing a weekly buffetsupper more air time· and more column inches for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH meets Monday than the legislative and judicial issues NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE eves. 5pm to 6:30pm· at downtown Brooklyn Friends is the national grassroots political organization for Meeting House (110 Schermerhom St near Boerum which seriously impact gays. lesbians and gay men. 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