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Outspoken (Editorial) 4 !.etters 6 Sotomayor 6 THE BEAT GOES ON Stonewall Riots (Natalie) 8 Kiki Mason Takes A Trip Through Downtown's Swirling Night Scene page 36 Xeroxed 9 Nightmare of the Week 9 GIRlS' NIGHT OlIT Jennifer Camper 10 Nancy Kirton and Victoria Starr On The Ins and Outs Of Lesbian Nightclubbing page 39 GLAAD Tidings 29 Out/lAw (leonard) 30 Sandor Katz 32 Look Out 46 Out Of My Hands (Ball) 48 Gossip Watch 49 Social Terrorism (Conrad) 50 Going Out Calendar (X) 60 John Finch Community Directory 62 and Joseph Bar Guide 64 DiRocco in Adam and ClassiReds 67 . PlAYING GAY the Experts Personals 74 Crossword (Greco) 88 Michael Paller Reports On NY's First Lesbian And Gay Theater Company page 44 Hotshot (Conrad) 90 Re1lle1llbering the Gay Holocaust

History has not been kind to survivors of the Gay Holocaust. Firstly, Paragraph 175, which had criminalized homosexuality in Nazi Germany, was allowed to remain in effect after the war, since the Allies were hardly more sympathetic to gays than the Nazis had been, Thus, when the concentration camps were liber- ated at the end of World War II, the gay prisoners were reimpris- oned by the victorious Allies. Secondly, even after they were eventually released from Allied prisons, gays were denied the financial reparations which were accorded to Jews and others whose homes and businesses had been confiscated by the Germans. Thirdly, most gay camp survivors eventually emigrated to countries like the U.S. where homosexuality was, and in many cases still is, illegal. In order to enter these countries of sanctuary, gays were forced to lie on visa applications and thus emigrated illegally. As a result, most have felt unable to recount their stories to researchers studying the Holocaust. They fear that if they "come out" as Gay Holocaust survivors they will be deported from their present homes. This has indeed happened on several occasions. As a result, legitimate research into the Gay Holocaust has been effectively silenced. But finally, and perhaps worst of al\, the repeated attempts of Gay Holocaust survivors to have their experiences commemorated in the various Holocaust memorials, marches and museums have been repeatedly rebuffed. Many organizations have actually expressed outrage that gays have had the temerity to expect equal treatment with other groups as survivors of one of the century's worst and most systematic genocides. For many historically conscious gays, there has long been a feeling that society's pious assertion that we must "never forget" the Holocaust rings with the echo of a sad and banal hypocrisy. What is the value of such an assertion if it is belied by a deliberate attempt to cover up and "forget" the genocide of gays? Thus it was with a special satisfaction that participants at last week's Human Rights Campaign Fund Dinner were mesmerized and deeply moved by the eloquent speech of Elie Wiesel, who holds the Nobel Prize for his life's work of reminding the world of the Nazi horrors. Wiesel spoke of the commonality of oppression, and reminded the assembled lesbians, gays and their friends at the dinner that despite Biblical exhortions to the contrary, the spirit of Judaism does not exclude gays and lesbians from equality and respect. While his remarks were welcome and extremely moving, they did not address Weisel's usual topic, namely the Holocaust. It thus remains to be seen when, if ever, the gay experience of the Holocaust will be explicitly remembered by any of the major organizations which vow to "never forget." 'Y

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6 OUTTWEEK November 19, 1989 interviewed the three of us, Viva Visibility ACT UP.The results are pow- Lisa Olson, Julie Clark and I appreciate OutWee/(s erful and indeed, some are Natasha Gray, at the press coverage of anti-gay vio- so poignant they moved me conference the morning the lence in Tompkins Square to tears. I feel they would charges were filed against Park and at st. Vincents Hos- make an insightful portfolio Roger Ailes. He recorded a pital. It's especially great the for OutWeek ...as for other statement by us (given to you published photographs portfoliOSof another bent, let him by Lisa Olson) concern- of the gaybashers at the me say that Beverly Hills is ing the mistreatment on the park. It makes it easier for me always available if OutWeek night of the dinner and sev- to keep an eye out for them, finds itself in need of a gay eral other occasions by Giu- when I walk around there. and patriotic pin-up. I will liani workers and supporters Since last night's meet- gladly stand in a mound of where verbal and physical ing with the hospital con- Manhattan snow in my leop- abuse and harrassment firmed that they are keeping ard bathing suit or wrap occur ed, and asking Giuliani on staff at least four violent myself in white fox to with- to issue a public condemna- homophobes, it would be ditty about a ghostly stand the swelter of Fire tion against the violence useful if you could publish paramour, it gets interesting Island. I wish I could make directed toward the lesbian their names and photos, towards the end when she myself more available but a and gay community by the especially the one who they sings, "Gonna take off my goddess has her mystique to workers and supporters almost had in court. Perhaps pants for a different kind of consider, after all! involved. romance." Enjoy. Beverly Hills Did you, as an editor (or Hedda Hopper Manhattan reporter?) think our Washington, D.C. demands as a group were Opinion or Not not important enough to be Drag Bag Thanks for publishing voiced as a direct quote, I just wanted to thank the name of the physician rather than just a sentence you for the wonderful photo- who botched the New York within your article without a break you afforded little me Compound Q trial by not voice behind it? in your terrific October 29th having the second drug Does the fact that the issue ("Confessions of a given to the guy who died. only women editors on staff Lesbo Drag Hag: issue 19). I (Mentioned in the letter from at OutWeek are in the music was thrilled to toss my Larry Kramer, et al.) and art dept have anything brassiere into the ring, or Although I live closer to to' do with the frequent les- a good time to do it would should I say, charmed circle, your office than much of the bian invisibility within your be after the December 1 of OutWeek. The publication city, the mail takes so long to sometimes politically and deadline for the hospital's is long overdue, especially get to me that I don't sub- factually incorrect reporting? policy statement and since it equally addresses scribe to any NYC magazine, Your article about this "report" on the incidents ... lesbonic issues and queenly unless they offer to mail first incident shouldn't be just since it's 99 percent certain concerns. Bravo to all of you class. Nevertheless, I buy about Ben Currie, Roger that these gay-bashers and to Sydney Pokorny for OutWeek in the stores, every Ailes and Kevin Otterson. The won't be fired. zeroing in on an attitude other week or so. articles should include all of Keep up the good rarely confirmed but Some opinions: I don't us. ACT UP is a family of les- work! nonetheless experienced. need tacky phone sex ads bians, gays and yes, hetero- Jim Davis My female following was or photos of the social elite sexuals. This community Manhattan tickled Jayne Mansfield pink at clubs.... I could use bigger needs a publication like Out- and, well, it's always nice to more readable type for the Week. Lesbians have been "B" Side Herself part with something for the long and numerous tetters invisible for too long. Out- I, too, hope to read boys. I didn't even have to pages. Week has .a responsibility to more in the weeks to come send Halloween calling Good luck. include us and voice our about Sandra and Madonna cards this year. The fortune I A Reader opinions In your articles (the in your pages-indeed, I look saved on postage was spent Manhattan politically correct ones that forwar j to a/l news of at my favorite dermatolo- is). You are grown up now, celebrity couplings. Our cul- gist's office, repairing the It Ain't Necessarily So OutWeek; maybe it's about ture glorifies and admires the hazards of the free radicals I admittedly don't know time you acted like it. activities, wardrobes and photographer Bill Bytsura put from Adam. That's Adam Sincerely, behaviors of its stars, so if in the goblet Iwbs holding. Clayton Powell IV in this case, LisaA. Olson, Julie Clark famous people do it. it's Bill is a talented, sensi- In the OutWeek article ("New P.S.Maybe it would be okay, right? tive man (he blushed when Alliance Party BacksAnti-Gay wise to hire a few fact One obscure amuse- Beverly did bare butt Candidate" 11/12/89) Powell checkers like the real news- ment to savor: Play the "B" shots-so refreshingly unjad- isreported as being opposed papers and magazines. (Not side of Madonna's "Cherish" ed for New York, don't you to two major proposed les- that they are always correct single, a song called "Super- think?) and he is currently bian/gay issues in an Out- either.) natural: Ostensibly a little documenting the faces of Week poll of the candidates.

November 19,1989 OUTTWEEK 7 During the recent NAP collects signatures and Democratic Party Primary. money on Christopher Street XEROXED Powell appeared In·a three- making that same empty way debate with Incumbent claim. While their recent Councllper.on Carolyn Mal; candidate for City oney and the challenger Comptroll~r. stephen Rose. Is Hand Job sis.We have, as a matter of WIlliam Perkins. This debate openly gay. the NAP move- Editors fact, Mrs. Buckley, held wal on The Gay Show on ment embraces homo- Newsday hands at numerous hospitals WBAI (FM) 99.5. On that phobes such as Louis long Island. NY 11747 for for too many years, long broadcast. Powell supported Farrakhan. In addition. no In James Revson's before such an act was . specific legislation to protect NAP candidate has been 'Soclal Studies' column of considered newsworthy. We the civil rights of lesbians. elected to office In New November 9. 1989. Mrs. have, as a matter of fact, gay men and HIV+ persons. York to do work on any William F. Buckley lashed out often been those hands The candidates were ques- group's behalf. Rather. they against the AIDS Coalition to which needed to be held. tioned by me personally. siphon off marginal dollars Unleash Power (ACT UP) by And we have done much along with James Toms of and workers from the solidar- haughtily stating. "They more than hold hands. That the Gay and Lesbian Inde- Ity of progressive persons should hold the people's pendent Broadcasters and from electable political can- hands that ~ve held at St. Bob storm. of the Gay Men's didates. lately. In this mind- Vincent's: How dare shel Radio Collective. less scam, the NAP people There Is not a single person I As for as the claim by claim to support "progressive can think of within ACT UP Annie Roboff, of the New artists.' Sheer bunk I who has not been In some Alliance Party, that her orga- larry Gutenburg substantial way deeply, nization Is In the forefront of Executive Producer painfully and all too person- gay rights, I challenge her. The Gay Show ' ally affected by the AIDS crl-

such a basic act of com- passion is an aspect of this or any other catastrophe is not arguable but neither Is it the only aspect. The very point of ACT UP's existence is that in order to meet the demands of the AIDS crisis, far more is required than comforting and grieving. What is not required, however, is the hateful, incendi- ary bigotry which William F. Buckley is too frequently

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8 OUTTWEEK November 19, 1989 given the opportunity to dis- Margin of Victory cent of voters Identified seminate. The argument Mr, Max Frankel, Editor themselves as lesbian or that Mrs. Buckley Is on Indi- The New York Times goy. Using this figure, vidual distinct from Mr. Buck- Tothe editor: although It Is likely to be on ley Isnot, I believe, the Issue Your post-election cov- •. underestimate since many here, If Mrs. Buckley Is erage adds Insultto Injury In lesbians and goy men Indeed determined to your paper's coverage of choose not to Identify establish herself as some- the mayoral campaign. Pur- themselves publicly, one thing more than a mere porting to provide· A Por- stili arrives at a total of extension of her husband, trait of New YorkCity Voters' approximately 71,308 vot- and If she has chosen to be In this year's mayoral elec- ers, Of these, the poll a fundralser for AIDS as a tion, your voter survey has a determined, about two means of doing so, then I glaring hole In It. By omitting thirds (64 percent) voted would expect one. She cer- gay men and lesbians you for Dinkins. Sixty-four per- tainly has hod more than fall to accurately report the cent of 71,308 yields 45.637 enough opportunity to state results of this close election, lesbian and goy votes for publicly and empathatlcally an Insult which only com- weeklies as well as the Dinkins, That's 3,187 more a view divergent from her pounds your paper's lack of endorsements of all three of than Dinkins' 42,450 vote husband's. If for some rea- attention to this community the city's lesbian and gay margin of victory, son, she finds herself thus throughout the campaign. democratic clubs. Dinkins understood the Incapable then It might be I am happy to say that Had you seen fit to ask Importance of those votes advisable for DIFFAand for Mayor-elect David Dinkins voters in your exit polls If and courted the lesbian James Revson and for all of paid more attention than they were lesbian or gay, and gay community active- Mrs. Buckley's supporters to you did. Hisstaunch support as did the Daily News, you ly and respectfully. It's too reconsider her involvement for lesbian and gay rights might have appreciated bad the newspapers, yours In this IssueIn a more cynical and his record and propos- the significance of Dinkins' included, seem to lack the light and, therefore, to ques- als on AIDS garnered him active support by this con- same respect. tion Just exactly how that the endorsements of both of stituency. The Daily News Thomas M. Keane reflects back on them. New York's lesbian and gay poll found that four per- Manhattan Bradley A. Ball Manhattan

, AmFarOut American Foundation for AIDSResearch Dea Board of Directors: Tosee the name of Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr. on your fundraising list for the Mas- querade benefit is to insult the memory of those thousands who have died of AIDS. Being the wife of such a vocal homophobic bigot. she must share the responsibility of her husband's publicly stated views. One would think that an organization such as yours would be more cognizant of these matters. It is the epito- me of hypocrisy to accept This week's scary swamp thing is former mayor John Lindsay. We used to the patronage of those who have a crush on John, but not anymore. Seems he's taken to ranting at dinner par- are associated with the ties about the "gay problem" and expressing the opinion that AIDS may indeed be rhetoric that harms the very "God's retribution to the gay community." people that your organiza- As we all remember, Lindsay's disastrous administration, which left the city tion purports to help. bankrupt, was certainly God's retribution to the New York community. Ironically, Derek Mason this creepy homophobe is also on the board of Lincoln Center, where we hear bal- President let buffs and opera queens alike are planning to tear him limb from limb and hang Daniel Jacobs his remains next to the Chagall's in the windows at the Met the very next time he Sec. Treasurer even goes near that fountain. Careful, John. People with AIDS get retribution, too. The D&D Studio, Inc. Manhattan tt'

November 19, 1989 OUTTWEEK 9 Bach Shock You are as guilty as pants are too numerous and Ms. Gerri Miller Sebastian Bach of promoting too serious to come to any METALEDGE such a reprehensible mes- other conclusion. My dIag- Dear Ms. Miller, sage. We demand that you nosis of your hospital's con- As Executive Editor of issue an immediate and dition is, "The patient is in Metal Edge you are responsi- appropriate apology direct- critical condition suffering ble for its editorial content. ed at your reading audi- from a severe, systematic What you have allowed in ence. disorder (which may be the February 1990 issue is Bohdan Zachary reversible): homophobia.' both unacceptable and Chair, Among the incidents despicable. Response Committee discussed were several There is absolutely no GLADD/LA instances of verbal abuse of excuse for running two pho- lesbians and gays by hospi- tographs of Skid Row lead Nurse! tal staff; a seriously inconti- singer Sebastian Bach in a t- Mark G. Ackerman nent man with AIDS who shirt that prominently says Vice President, Development was ignored by your nursing AIDS KILLS FAGS DEAD. In countless acts of violence and External Affairs staff; several instances of fact, on page 20, you are against gays and lesbians St. Vincents Hospital and lesbian or gay patients' seen snuggling up to Sebas- that occur every day. You Medical Center of New York being told that a compan- tian Bach (wearing the are joining Sebastian Bach in Dear Mr.Ackerman: ion could not accompany offensive shirt.) promoting bigotry and I hope it is clear to you them in the emergency More men, women and hatred. There is no place for after the community forum room or spend the night in children have died of AIDS virulent homophobic mes- that cases of neglect and their hospital rooms; and a than did during the Vietnam sages in a magazine that harassment of lesbians and young, Black gay man who War. Sixty-five thousand lives. caters to readers of an gay men by members of was subjected to a lengthy A sombering fact. impressionable age. We your staff are not simply iso- interrogation about the By having run the pho- doubt you would have ever lated occurrences but form state of his health on the tos of Sebastian Bach in his allowed bigoted terms like a deeply troubling, consis- apparent assumption that AIDS KILLSFAGS DEAD t-shirt "niggers: "kikes: or "wet- tent pattern. The incidents he might have AIDS and you are condoning the backs' in your magazine. described by forum partici- probably was not being

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10 OUrYWEEK November 19, 1989 treated, despite the fact companions. Unlessthere is no such thing as sexthat is of the female actors so as that he was at the hospital a compelling medical rea- safe.Thatis, one musthave to "relax" him. The female for a routine test which had son to prevent it, all sex exclusively with men actor who had performed been recommended by patients at St. Vincents who have been "tested the massage then punc- his physician. And finally should have the right to be and cleared." tured a finger of his left there were the two inci- accompanied by a com- Don't stock the book. hand with what was dents that precipitated panion of their own choo,s- TellSimonand Schusterwhy. described as a "for veteri- the recent demonstrations ing at any time, including in Don't contribute to the nary use only" syringe and at your hospital. the emergency room and opportunistic profiteering sucked with her mouth the After a demonstration overnight. around an Issue already blood from his finger. Sub- precipitated by the first S) Notify cil patients of fraught with fear and anxi- sequently, there was a incident, staff members of their rights. A "Notice of ety or to the callous and darkened-face interview the Hetrick-Martin Institute Patient Rights" informing inexcusable misguided with the actual individual attempted to conduct patients of their right to peddling of incorrect infor- who had been portrayed sensitivity training among prompt, courteous, appro- mation. by the male actor who st. Vincents personnel. The priate care without regard Monica Pearl explained that the woman attitudes encountered by to their race, sex,sexualori- ACTUP/NY involved had been an indi- the trainers ranged from a entation, religion, ethnic Women'sAction vidual of casual social lack of seriousnessto out- background or disability .Committee acquaintance who was right hostility. shouldbe drawn up by the involved in a marital rela- I believe there are hospital administration in I VantToSuckYour... tion with another man. Fur- five steps that the St. Vin- consultation with appropri- DavidAxelrod ther. in the 20 minute cents hospital administra- ate representatives of the CommissionerofHealth segment which I viewed, tion must take to rectify local community. N.Y.state Department there was another dark- this appalling situation. It required three of Health ened-face interview with a 1) Reveal results of demonstrations of increas- DearCommissionerAxelrod.. woman who explained investigations. The lesbian ing militancy and disruptive- I would like to file a that she practiced "va'm- and gay community has a nessin order to get you to complaint with your office pirism" by the venipunc- right to know the resultsof agree to participate in regarding a television pro- tural withdrawal of "one your Investigations into Wednesday's community gram which was broad- half cup of venous or arte- the two recent and any forum. I am certain that my cast during prime time on rial blood" during encoun- future bias-related inci- community feels strongly ChannelS, WNYC, Fox ters, also. with persons of dents. enough about the issues Broadcasting jn the New casual social acquain- 2) Institute a compre- addressed in this letter that York metropolitan area, tance. hensive anti-bias program. if we do not receive a and, to my understanding, Even discounting the Anti-lesbian and gay inci- response from you by may have been part of a current AIDS epidemic in dents will continue to December 1 that indicates larger national broadcast. this country and particular- occur in an environment your clear resolveto correct This was a two hour ly in the New York City where bias is not vigorous- this situation, further action "special" inserted as a region which is among the ly opposed. St. Vincents willdefinitelyfollow. seasonal offering into the 8 hardest hit areas of the employees need to be Aldyn McKean pm programming slot country, the other health told (both by their supervi- Manhattan which is usually occupied riskswhich such practices sors and in a clear memo by a movie and followed pose render this a shame- from the hospital presi- All BookedUp by this network's evening less act of reckless and dent) that bias against ToWhomit May Concern news program. The show mindlessly irresponsible lesbians and gays (as well Please be aware that was on the subject of television broadcasting, as prejudice based on a campaign has recently "vampirism" and the indeed, had it rather been race, sex, religion, ethnic been initiated to eliminate approximate 20 minute contained within the con- origin or disability) is the availability of a highly segment which I saw text of responsiblenews or wrong and is not tolerated dangerous and insidious beginning at approximate- documentary program- at the hospital. book: The Real Truth About ly 9 pm concerned that ming. Surely, no sane per- 3) Set up and publicize Women and AIDS by Helen aspect of the subject son with but the simplest disciplinary procedures and SingerKaplan,publishedby which relates to the drink- understanding of thiscoun- punishments. All st. Vincents Simon and Schuster. The ing of human blood. try's freedom of speech employees must know that book suggests, among an Specifically, I viewed guarantees would resortto severeand swiftpunishment abundance of fallacies, a segment which included an argument along that will be meted out to any- that women should avoid a reenactment by two line I this particular one who shows overt bias, "high risk men: that a female and one male instance. including those who use "decent" man will avoid actors in a semi-darkened Thank you for any offensivetermslike "faggot" homosexual contact, that living room. Themale actor attention which your office and "dyke: lesbiansare immune to HIV was lying on a sofa and isable to give to thisitem. 4) Establish and publi- regardless of their sexual was messaged on the Wayne Douglas cize a policy on patient practices and that there is back and left arm by one JerseyCity, NJ November 19, 1989 OUrYWEEK 11 News SF Voters, inSqueaker, Reject Domestic Partners Law

tion S would have won. Polls showed a consistent majority of registered voters favored the ordinance, but the test lay in who would vote. "I don't accept this as an accurate reflection of the political will of San Francisco," Achtenberg said. "There is no question that we're hurt by this, but as to whether it's the will of San Francis- cans, I reject that." Pabich called the electorate "skewed." Although no one directly blamed the October 17 earthquake, Pabich and campaign fundraising director Carole Migden said that if they had had another week to raise money for direct mail to key voters, the measure DEPRESSED ON S Photo: Barbara J. Maggiani might have passed. Dick Pabich of Yes on S The Yes on S campaign took a by Michele DeRanleau on S" campaign, named for the letter week off after the earthquake to raise SAN FRANCISCO-The city's assigned to the referendum on the funds for the relief efforts. Also, polls domestic partners ordinance suffered ballot, said the campaign failed to taken before and after the quake a close defeat November 7 that was a turn out non-gay voters who were show many voters on both sides of discouraging blow to proponents' of supportive of the ordinance but are the issue moved into the "undecided" similar legislation across the nation. less likely to vote. column. The ordinance lost by just over 1,700 The legislation would have pro- But at least part of the blame for votes. vided legal recognition of gay rela- the failure of the legislation is being Campaign leaders had been pes- tionships and established attributed to a lack of enthusiasm on simistic about the ordinance's chances bereavement leave and hospital visita- the part of gay voters. Although they throughout the campaign, but had tion rights for registered "domestic turned out at the polls, the campaign hoped a concerted last-minute effort partners." It was adopted by the suffered for a lack of funds and vol- could generate a high turnout not Board of Supervisors, San Francisco's unteers. Local gay democratic clubs only among gay voters, but among city council, last summer, only to be devoted much of their energy to young, straight Democrats as well. placed on the ballot as Propositoin S debates over the proposal for a new But the measure was defeated by a referendum petition drive led by downtown stadium, which also lost 82,342 to 84,060 or 49.7 to 50.2 per- two fundamentalist ministers. by a narrow margin, and many gay cent. Of registered voters, 44.2 per- "If we did anything wrong," said voters seemed to be unaware of the cent voted, a surprisingly high Roberta Achtenberg, head of the Les- broader implications of the legislation. proportion for an off year election. bian Civil Rights Project, "it was to fail "We didn't do as good an educa- High turnout in gay precincts to take into account the possibility tion job as we should have in our counteracted the votes of the conser- that a referendum would take place in own community," Achtenberg said. vative electorate which votes consis- an off year election." Achtenberg is "I'm not sure everyone appreciated tently in off year elections. An early on the task force appointed by the the significance, whether they had a poll showed 54 percent of those who mayor to examine the ramifications of domestic partner or not, whether they voted in five of the last five elections domestic partnership legislation. felt this was the most important issue opposed the domestic partners ordi- Campaign leaders stressed that if facing the gay community or not. I'm nance. the election had taken place in a year not sure everybody appreciated how Manager Dick Pabich of the "Yes with state and national races, Proposi- important it was to avoid a defeat."

12 OUTTWEEK November 19, 1989 "This is like many civil rights issues in that it is on the cutting edge of social change and difficult for the majority of people to understand,» said Mayor Art Agnos, a long-time supporter of the lesbian and gay community, and a proponent of the legislation. "Whether it wins or loses, it will have an effect on this kind of leg- . islation throughout the country," he added. Like its counterpart, the No on S campaign made a last minute effort to target voters the weekend before the election. Rev. Charles McIlenny and Rabbi Leib Feldman have maintained a low profile since leading the referendum drive, and opposition to the ordinance was taken over by the Catholic Church and the No on S group, San Franciscans for Common Sense, composed primarily of evangelical Christians. Pabich says he estimates the No on S campaign must have raised nearly $50,000 in the final days of the campaign to overcome a $28,000 debt and pay for a slick brochure mailed the weekend before the election which he estimates cost $20,000. Leaders of the opposition movement did. not return OutWeek~ phone calls. The brochure has photographs of prominent San Franciscans and their arguments against the ordinance. A photograph of former mayor and gubernatorial candidate Dianne Fein- stein and excerpts from a letter she wrote after vetoing a similar ordinance· as mayor in 1982 are prominently displayed. Feinstein said in a letter to the Yes on S campaign that the photo and quotes were used without her permis- sion and did not reflect her views' on the current· piece of legislation. The brochure also pictured ethnic minority leaders who opposed the ordinance. Despite the endorsement of the Chinese American, Latino and Bayview Hunters Point democratic clubs, minority voters in the city went heavily against Proposition S. Local Baptist churches, led by prominent Black community leader Rev. Amos Brown, who was pictured in the No on S brochure, were strongly opposed to domestic partners, which they said failed to take into account

November 19, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 13 extended families common in the munities of color. research and treatment. Black community. Although the domestic partners Both Agnos and openly gay ACLU attorney Matthew Coles legislation was defeated, San Francisco Supervisor Harry Britt, who spon- said that such criticism is not valid voters did approve two ballot initiatives sored the legislation, restated their since the ordinance is only setting up that will allow employees to transfer commitment to passing the ordinance a system to recognize relationships their vacation time and sick leave to in another year, and said the mayor's that are not already recognized. other employees, measures designed to task force will continue to look at And some in the gay community help employees with AIDS. Voters in ways to implement provisions of the are criticizing the Yes on S campaign the city also overwhelmingly supported measure. The legislation must now be for not reaching out further to com- a proposition calling for more AIDS shelved for at least a year.

14 OUT~WEEK November 19, 1989 I _ I ~ At a subdued party after the election, Britt urged supporters to call New York friends and family in other cities like they did after the earthquake and tell them that "gay rights are still alive and well in this city." But he didn't try to conceal his

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November 19. 1989 15 News Gay Artists Accuse NEA of Censorship Grant Revoked for Exhibit Deemed Too IIPolitical"

by Ben Currie NEA grants which "promote, dissemi- about possible action by the gallery to NEW YORK-"This is not a show nate or produce materials considered sue the NEA over its decision. She about politics, this is not a show about obscene, including sadomasochism, repeated her earlier assertion that the sexuality, -this is a show about AIDS," homoeroticism, the sexual exploita- gallery's board of directors had voted said Artists Space executive director tion of children or individuals unanimously not to return the grant Susan Wyatt last Friday at a press con- engaged in sex acts." money. ference where she criticized a decision The bill also uses language, The exhibit's curator, Boston pho- by the National Endowment for the inserted by liberal legislators in a tographer Nan Goldin, speaking on Arts to withdraw a $10,000 grant made compromise with Helms, that borrows National Public Radio, said that she to the TriBeCa gallery. The NEA cited from a 1973 Supreme Court decision had expected support from the NEA the exhibit's political content as the defining legal obscenity: "and which, and was "very dissapointed" that the reason for its pullout. when taken as a whole, do not have agency was "operating out of fear." This latest art-versus-obscenity serious literary, artistic, political or sci- controversy began earlier in the week entific value." Hatred, Bigotry, AIDS when Wyatt contacted the NEA '''The use of Endowment funds to She said the NEA had been regarding the show's catalogue, in exhibit or publish this work is in viola- informed about the catalogue'S con- which gay photo essayist David Woj- tion of the spirit of the Congressional tent by Wyatt with the hope and narowicz reportedly lashes out at directive," Frohnmayer said this week. expectation that it would be all the some of the country's best known more able to support the exhibit. homophobes, including John Cardinal First Amendment Concerns Aldo Hernandez of Art Positive, a O'Connor, Senator Jesse Helms (R- However, in all press acounts to group of activistswho protest censorship NC) and Congressman William Dan- date (Frohnmayer failed to return any and homophobia in the arts, said that nemeyer (R-CA). of OutWeek~ calls) he never describes the government was moving to "legislate the work as obscene. His most critical our invisibility,"adding, "It's more than -Fat Cannibal in a Black Skirt- assessment, in fact, has been that some just about art, its about hatred and big- But the show, entitled "Witness: of the work is in "questionable taste." otry towards the AIDScommunity." Against Our Vanishing,» scheduled to Art Eisenberg, an attorney with He speculated that the art com- open Nov. 16, will go on exactly as the New York Civil Liberties Union, munity would "fight this injustice all planned, offICialsfrom the gallery insist told OutWeek that the legislation does the way." According to the Daily News, not give the Endowment the authority But Paul Taylor, a gay art critic at Wojnarowicz's photos "include het- to "permit government funding to The New York Times, commented that erosexual and homosexual acts with serve as a vehicle for political censor- "the gay and lesbian community has accompanying text that describes ship," adding that "we think the dec- to understand that the art world is not O'Connor as a 'fat cannibal in a black sion of the NEA raises serious First a monolithic scene and therefore is skirt.'" The artist could not be reached Amendment concerns." not going to respond to any crisis in a for comment. He said it was "absolutely uniform fashion." Last Tuesday, John Frohnmayer, wrong," that questions about the cata- He said controversies like this who was recently appointed to head logue's supposed political content are often have the effect of reaffirming a the NEA by the Bush Administration, relevant to any standard articulated in division in the art world between said the agency was cancelling its sup- the Helms' amendment. activists on the one hand and those port because it viewed the exhibit as During the lengthy press confer- others who typically react by insulating "political rather than artistic in nature." ence, Wyatt called the pieces "moving themselves from the vagaries of politics. What was inexplicable for many and poignant," adding that they "depict Taylor said he feared that in this observers was his contention that the these artists' expression of loss, memo- particular case it is likely that the more show violated a recently enacted law ralization, anger, grief and spirituality." successful and famous artists will sponsored by Sen. Helms forbidding Wyatt did not comment Friday come under the latter category "and

16 OUTTWEEK November 19, 1989 leave the dirty work to the others.» The present debate arises from earlier reaction to works by Andres Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe 6: which led to the cancellation of a Mapplethorpe retrospective at Wash- ington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery and ii-II: l'I.I:J~SlJI~I:<:I-II:5i eventually to the equally controversial Helms bill. helping you meet the sex Blacklisting challenges of the 90's Referring to what she beleives as misrepresentation of those artists' work in the mass media, Wyatt said she con- ~U:'\'YO"K I C:I·IIC:/\GOII.OS I\NGI:I.I:S tacted the NEA in an effort to prevent the show from being "twisted, miniPu-1 lated and used as a political tool." CHIROPRACTO She decried what she termed "blacklisting" of certain art groups by the NEA, and said she was operating Dr. Charles Franchino under the assumption that she too was now on a blacklist. . 30 Fifth Avenue She also refused to release a copy of the catalogue, saying that New York, New York 10011 reporters had attempted to lead her down a "garden path" and get her to 212.673.4331 "say that they are individuals engaged in sex acts and to characterize the work in certain ways," adding that the "art can speak for itself.» office hours by appointment

Connie Butler, speaking for herself I I and not on the part of Artists Space T. I .. Tie t.. H' "th where she is curator, commented that ,e eVlslon ",a ,,,,allers 1'0 e "a huge element of homophobia and AlDS-phobi~" is part of the controversy. . One fnend of the gallery, who Lesbl·an and Gay Communl·ty.• did not want to be identified, said "of course its about homophobia." She made the point that the Mapplethorpe photographs of naked men are too blithely characterized as homoerotic, ( OUT IN THE 80s) an assumption she said, which "anni- hilates the possibility of female desire." Her point follows the old wis- News -Interviews - AIDS Updates' dom that homoeroticism, like all artistic concepts, is in the eye of the beholder. ~

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November 19.1989 OUTTWEEK 17 News meeting with Jones. Queer Bashers' The anti-gay attack being prose- cuted took place in July in Carl Schurz Park, near Gracie Mansion. Bruce Ellerin and Stuart Elliot were Light Sentences assaulted after being called "faggots,· as was a third man who came to their rescue. Ellerin suffered a broken Spark Protest cheekbone and permanent eye injury, a detached retina, in the attack, Two of the convicted attackers were sentenced to 90 days in prison. One of them, Richard Arce, initiated the attack, and caused the most permanent physical injury. Arce has a record of two previous convictions, and was on probation at the time of the attack. He is being permitted to serve his gay-bashing sentence concurrently with a sentence from a previous assault charge. Said Bill Monaghan, an activist who was present at the sentencing, "He never gets to serve one minute as a gay-basher, he's serving it for other crimes." The other defendant sentenced to 90 days in prison, Mark Arroyo, used a hammer as a weapon in the assault, . NOJUsnCE Photo: Ellen B. Neipris and was charged with a felony, which Bruc_ EII_rin (I-h) and Stuart Elliot carries a maximum sentence of two and one-third to seven years. by Sandor Katz protect against violent attacks were The other three defendants' sen- NEW YORK-Lesbian and gay heard at last Monday's ACf UP meet- tences, Christopher Faldetta, Joseph activists are angry over what they ing, in the courtroom following the Fodera and Robert Watson, were plea view as lenient sentences handed sentencing and again following the bargained down to probation. Despite down Wednesday by a State Supreme Court judge to five men convicted in a violent queer-bashing incident. They are also charging the Manhattan District Attorney's office with mishan- dling the case. About 25 activists walked out of the courtroom after the sentencing November 7 shouting "No justice, no peace" and marched to the DA's office, where they were barred from entering. The demonstrators, who were members of ACf UP and GLAAD,the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, demanded a meeting with DA Robert Morgenthau, but left after First Assistant DA Barbara Jones agreed to meet with them the following morning. Meanwhile, calls for lesbians and NO PEACE Photo: Ellen B. Neipris gays to arm themselves with guns to OA$lJIlYliaison Kati_lJonJn (left), 1stAss't DA Barbara Jones face protestelS aftertJiaL

18 OUTTWEEK November 19. 1989 requests from the DA and one of the survivors of the attack, the judge ROMANTIC DINN€RS refused to send their cases to trial, TUE:S·SAT 6-IIPM iI where harsher sentences may have , resulted. THE At the time of the plea bargain, the DA's office objected to the light COMPLE:TE: DINNE:RS sentences and demanded jail time for IFIRST all of the defendants. Judge Weissberg 6-8PM· BI~E replied, "If I have erred on the side of WITH THIS AD .. leniency in this case, it is because of the youth of the defendants and my fABULOUS BRUNCH belief that they will not do this again." Defense attorneys appeared to be playing to the judge'S sympathy for the youth. They explained the attack in terms of "peer pressure" and the young men's needs to "maintain standing with their friends." VE Several activists could not contain NeT their outrage. Said jim Fouratt as he was being ejected from the courtroom, "What does it take? Does somebody have to be killed first?" At one point, ACT UP member Mark Fotopolous stood up and asked the judge where he could obtain a gun permit. "Here I am surviving AIDS, and this guy is' going to be out in 90 days and going to come at me with a hammer." .' But the DA's office was criticized as well. The charges and penalties in .. assault crimes depend, in part, upon the degree of physical injury. When Ellerin spoke to the court during IT MAY BE AUTUMN .., C/) Wednesday'S hearing and explained the permanent nature of his eye ... BUT WHY LEAVE THE BEACH? injury, the judge informed him that t- the DA had never entered that injury FULLY RENOVATED APARTMENTS ... as evidence to the grand jury which Z made the indictment in the case. Said ...IN THE ART DECO DISTRICT the judge, "The District Attorney has I u.J been derelict in his duty." PERFECT FULL TIME RESIDENCES ... The j\.ldge defended the sentences by saying, "Within the parame- ...OR THE BEST IN AFFORDABLE SECOND HOMES. I~ ters of the criminal justice system, this is a strong signal to the community." t- Ellerin countered that giving such light sentences "is to condone, is to ~ encourage, is to nothing to deter" 1520 Euclid Avenue Ic::x:: homophobic violence. In their meeting with Assistant Miami Beach, (L DA jones, activists presented a list of FL 33139 complaints regarding particulars of this case, as well as demands relating ,c::x:: more generally to the prosecution of VINTAGE anti-gay bias crimes. SH SENTENCE PROTEST on page 64 PROPERTIES I (305) 534-1424 I I I November 19, 1989 OUT"VJEEK 19 News

For one thing, both Ken McPher- Milk's Ashes son in San Francisco and Marla Stevens in Indianapolis have been working on the project, but did not know of each other's existence prior to the research Still Await Action for this news article was done. According to Hanley and Stevens, Harvey Milk, the first open gay to $500 is needed to finish paying for the be elected to the San Francisco Board plots Matlovich reserved and $250 is of Superv.isors, was assassinated along needed for interment. Stevens has with San Francisco Mayor George already collected $400 from Indianapo- Moscone by disgruntled ex-supervisor lis"gay community-after reading of the Dan White in 1978. When White problem in her local gay newspaper. received a short jail sentence, because But McPherson says the project is the jury decided his mind had been going to be relocated to a larger plot affected by eating too much junk food, and, in order to include a memorial it sparked"the "White Night" riots in that will do Harvey proud, will San Francisco. He later committed sui- require about $3,100. After learning of cide after he was released from prison. Steven's actions, McPherson planned Hanley says once Milk is proper- to tell Hanley not to bury Milk's ashes ly buried, he will be added to the in the original space should $750 hap- cemetery's roster of famous peo- pen to show up. ple-"along side such figures as j. McPherson worked with Mat- Edgar Hoover and John Philip Sousa." lovich on the project prior to Mat- But, the final deposition of these lovich's death, and Milk's lover-Scott last few of Milk's ashes, it turns out, is Smith--deferred to McPherson when ASHES TO ASHES Photo: Rink Foto not quite so simple. ('The majority of asked for comment on the problem. Hllrvey Milk the ashes were scattered in San Fran- In the meantime, Hanley grows cisco Bay). S.. MILJ( on page 64 by Rex Wockner Some of gay hero Harvey Milk's ashes are stuck in a safe at the Con- gressional Cemetery in Washington. NY State Protects The late gay activist Leonard Mat- lovich took them there for a ceremo- ny in connection with the 1987 March Gay Partners' . On Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, but ran out of money before the ashes were actually buried. And John Hanley, the straight Housing Rights man who oversees burials at the cemetery says he is "personally upset" that by Art Leonard apartments in New York City, and rent "this great man ...is sitting in my safe. NEW YQRK-New York State regulated apartments in Westchester, "He's been here for a consider- Housing Commissioner Richard L. Nassau and Rockland Counties. The able length of time and he doesn't Higgins has announced emergency emergency amendments were intend- deserve this," Hanley said. "Harvey amendments to state rent regulations ed to go into effect immediately, but a Milk was a person everybody should which will extend survivor rights in all threatened lawsuit by landlord groups be proud of. I can't imagine that the rent-regulated apartments to domestic may delay the implementation. community of millions of people who partners of tenants, effectively codify- Paula Ettelbrick, legal director for looked up to him can't come up with ing the Court of Appeals' decision in the Lambda Legal Defense and Educa- $500 to buy [the rest of] the site, Braschi I). Stahl Associates. At the tion Fund, called the action, which "I get these long distance phone same time, Higgins set in motion pro- goes beyond the narrower court ruling calls," .Hanley continued, "but never cedures for permanently amending that applied only to rent controlled any action. It really bugs me, I want the regulations after a required public apartments, "an extremely positive somebody to do something. I respect hearing, The new regulations apply to move forward,· adding, "It's an indica- this man." rent stabilized and rent controlled Se. HOUSING RIGHTS on peg. 64

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News r, t, Chicago Mayor Charged With Gay Lock Out by Rex Wockner the new Daley regime, which will go when COGLl-venturing far out on a CHICAGO-Members of Chica- on forever,· he said. "But we will brittle limb-released to the press a go's four-year-old Mayor's Committee make things not quite so neat, not scathing letter demanding that Daley On Gay and Lesbian Issues [COGLl] quite so clean." honor campaign promises to appoint and key activists from local gay rights The untidiness began in earnest oPen gays to city boards and commis- groups say the administration of new two days prior to the Oct. 25 meeting See LOCK OUT on page 65 mayor Richard Daley-longing for a return to the days when Daley's father ruled the city with an iron fist-has Wendy's Retracts cut off gays and lesbians from participation in city government. The gay community and other minorities had seen their input to Gay Slight Chicago government encouraged and nurtured under former Mayor Harold by Rex Wockner Wendy'S spokesman Denny Lynch met Washington. and former Mayor DUBLIN, OH-The Wendy's with his superiors and, within an hour, Eugene Sawyer, who replaced Wash- hamburger chain, headquartered here, announced that "if you can tell me ington when he died in late 1986. said Nov. 1 that it will apologize to what 'GLAAD'stands for, we will write But meeting Oct. 25, the city's the gay and lesbian community fol- them a letter.... We in no way intended leading activists said those days lowing charges that the corporation to offend the gay community. We made appear over and that they fear Daley defamed gays in a form letter sent to a mistake. We'll talk to GLAAD and will ultimately disband the indepen- angry Christians. The written apology apologize for any misinterpretation." dent-minded COGLI in order to have will be sent to New York's Gay and But Lynch added that Wendy's more control over who can speak Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation "does consider itself a family restau- from inside city government. (GLAAD), company officials said. rant that tries to advertise on shows The mood at the meeting was The company angered gays by that appeal to families. We also avoid somber as participant after participant reportedly sending a form letter to programs that depict minorities in an detailed the alleged slights Daley has members of the American Family unfavorable light [and] do not adver- handed the community during his first Association following their complaints tise on programs dealing with bulim- six months in office-including cut- that Wendy's commercials aired dur- ia, obesity, profanity, nudity, religious ting off his own Coordinator of Gay ing an episode of the TV program beliefs-it'S a full list," he said. "We and lesbian Issues, jon Simmons. LA. Law that portrayed homosexuali- don't take sides and avoid shows that COGLl's Linda Rodgers expressed ty in a positive light. are heavily skewed in one direction." fear for Simmons' job, saying: "As we According to GLAAD, the Lynch said he would not consid- increase pressure ...your position, jon, is episode featured an Olympic athlete er a TV program "skewed heavily in going to beoome more tenuous. You can't who sued a cereal company for can- one direction" merely for failing to walk this tightrope forever. It's already celling his ad contract after he came take the position that homosexual impa;sible to advocate through you." out of the closet. acts are wrong. "The American Family Stepped-up pressure on Daley, Wendy's letter to the Christians, Association," he said, "has a very nar- activists say, will appear in the media, GLAAD said, included these remarks: row point of view." which they proved they can skillfully "Obviously this particular episode of On Nov. 2, Wendy's consumer manipulate, during last year's successful this show was not consistent with the relations manager Susan Kosling fur- push for the city's gay rights ordinance. kind of programming we wish to be ther clarified the nature of Wendy'S "Negative publicity is the one associated with. Moreover, Wendy's "mistake" in responding to the Chris- thing this administration understands," tries to sponsor programs we feel tians, explaining that most of the' promised activist Rick Garcia. COGLI nave a wide appeal to the family complaints the company receives chair Larry Rolla agreed: "Daley wants viewing audience." about LA. Law ~'are concerned with the transition [through the] 1991 [elec- When told Nov. 1 by this reporter the violent nature of the program." tion] to be a pleasant celebration of that gays were upset about the letter, See WENDY'S on page 27

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Chaney. "I'm a licensed social worker the medical and legal bills he incurred Burroug~s and a felony conviction would have during the experience. pulled my license." David Predmore, a spokesperson unwelcoDle ACf UP/KC then held a demon- for ACf UP/KC told OutWeek that the stration in front of the Main Street organization has sent a letter to the KANSAS CITY-Felony charges store on October 21st to draw media retail chain drug store asking them to brought by the Osco Drug Store attention to the situation. Two days remove the over the counter products Chain against Mark Chaney, a mem- later, Osco dropped all charges made by Burroughs Wellcome and to ber of ACT UP/Kansas City, have against Chaney, who must still pay donate the $552.50 in restitution paid been dropped two days after an Octo- Osco $552.50 in compensation, plus by Chaney to a local AIDS service ber 21st demonstration by ACf UP in front of an Osco store in Kansas City. _Chaney was arrested on Septem- ber 21st a: the Main Street store for placing a sticker marked "AIDS Profi- teer" on over-the-counter products produced by Burroughs Wellcome, the drug manufacturer which has been accused of profiteering on its AIDS drug, AZT. The arrest gave Chaney the dubious distinction of being the only person ever arrested in the international campaign to relabel Burroughs' products. "What I didn't know was that representatives from Burroughs Wel\- come had been in the store that morning warning them to keep an eye out for this type of activity,' Chaney told Out Week. "I had been [relabellingl for less than ten minutes when 1 saw a store manager coming down the aisles. I headed for the turnstyle and instead of going over it, I went through it. They grabbed me and called the police." Destruction of property over $700 is a felony in Missouri and Chaney was held on such a charge based on the police-estimated product damage of $996.17. Twenty three hours later, he was released after posting bail. During the 23-hour period, Chaney was not allowed a phone call- and had to be taken for medical treatment because he is a diabetic on a four-shot insulin regimen. After the treatment, he was not allowed food. Weeks later, at a preliminary hearing, Osco Drug Store representatives appeared in court with a grocery bag full of the stickered products marked "Evidence." Osco Drug Stores calculated the damages to be $552.50, which lowered the charge to a misde- meanor. "I was relieved," said

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NEW YORK-Concerns of expo- Gay Men's Health Crisis, the world's first AIDS sure to asbestos have caused the organization, will provide the training, supervision Department of Health to relocate and support you need to make a difference. some of their offices at the New York City AIDS Hotline, resulting in a four- If you want to help put a life back together, please hour shut-down of the phone line and reduced HlY-testing and counsel- call the GMHC Volunteer Office at 212-337-3593. ing services at that site. Dr. Stephen Shultz, deputy commissioner for Epidemiology and Pre- vention Services, told Out Week, "We ~ _ • _ __ don't think that this was a significant II II exposure, but prudence demands that you approach it with caution and GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS reduce the risk to exposure." • Asbestos testing was done after water damage caused parts of the ceiling to collapse. Both a city agency and an outside contractor found that bulk samples from the 1967 building were I. 'IIIII!mi composed of cellulose and asbestos. Air and dust samples were negative. The city said the collapse was due IN & OUT PRIVILEGES AVAILABLE to a recent water main leak. But sever- OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY, al employees, who asked not to be • Three VIP Suites with VCR's as well as cabins, rooms, & 69 Lockers named, said that this is just the latest in • 18 - 25 yr. olds receive 1/3 off lockers at all times a series of grievances about work con- • Sun Special: Lockers 1/3 off 8 a.m. - 2 p.m., Mon. - Fri. ditions. Frustrated by what they char- • Nude Swimming encouraged in our 89' Heated Swimming Pool acterize as "city bureaucracy," they • Pool Party & Cook-Out Sunday 2 p.m. with free beer called repr~sentatives from AFSCME, • Full Gym with Instructor. the union representing municipal • Aerobics Classes Mon., Wed., & Fri. workers, as a means to expedite the 8 p.m. Call 444-TRIM repair. According to the employees, • Hair salon open from noon, 6 days the ceiling had been in a state of dis- a week with $8 haircuts repair for over a year and a half. • X-rated videos for viewing, Dr. Shultz said that the phone rent or sale line (212) 485-8111 has already returned to normal, and that the city SAFE SEX WORKSHOPS is determining how long the asbestos featuring abatement process will take. Mean- while, they have reduced the testing Sgt. Glenn Swann, his brother and counseling services at their 26th Carlos and other hot men. Street offices. People are being Live shows are held on our referred to other HIY testing sites in stage: Call for times.

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Chelsea and East Harlem making the ation of a "gay and lesbian" subhead- waiting period for an HIV test longer ing in the social service organizations Dykes to at each. -Rick Sugden section of NYNEXdirectories. Potts acknowledged that he used watch out information from GLAAD!NYas lever- age with Pacific Bell, adding "[They] You can ring acceded to a major change in les- for bian/gay visibility based upon discus- Dly bell sion, input and principle rather than a MINNEAPOLIS-A lesbian couple hostile confrontation of community from Minneapolis will be hired as SAN FRANCISCO-Following a action and lawsuits." -Keith Miller assistant pastors at a Lutheran Church July 12th presentation by the Gay and in San Francisco in defiance of the Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's national church policy. San Francisco Bay Area chapter Attention St Francis Lutheran Church voted (GLAAD/SFBA) to the Yellow Pages to hire open lesbians Ruth Frost and Heading Group of Pacific Bel\, the Phyllis Zilihart. It is the first challenge to telephone company agreed October SF bigots the Evangelical Lutheran Church rules 16 to establish a gay and lesbian orga- prohibiting gay and lesbian ordination. nizations category in directories MINNEAPOLIS-The City Council Frost and Zillhart's hiring tests throughout California and Nevada. here is considering adopting a domes- the power and influence of the Min- The decision becomes effective tic partner ordinance that would neapolis based Evangelical Lutheran in all Yellow Page sales campaigns extend benefits to lesbian, gay and Church of America (ELCA),which was after November 13, 1989 with Los unmarried heterosexual couples. formed through of merger of three Altos, Monterey and Palo Alto in "It's time the city council passed Lutheran dominations in 1987. northern California and Imperial, San domestic partners," said Minneapolis "We are very surprised and Diego, North Coastal and San Diego City Councilmember Barbara Carlson, impressed by the boldness of this con- North Inland in Southern California the ordinance's chief proponent. gregation," Zillhart said, who is not rec- being the first directories to include "Frankly, it's inherently unfair that les- ognized as legally ordained by the the category. Pacific Bell has estab- bian and gay people are not eligible ELCA.''There is a very large vision held lished a company wide service area for city benefits." there by a small group of people." precedent, with application to over Members of the city's civil rights The 120-member congregation's 100 directories. commission unanimously voted that a membership is approximately 50 per- "It was a clear-cut smooth pro- city-wide alternative familyordinance be cent gay and lesbian. The couple cess," GLAAD/SFBA co-chair Byron adopted. The commission considered have been called without the require- Potts told Out Week. "Pacific Bell such an ordinance in lSS5, but failed to ment of sexual abstinence. dealt with us in a quick, courteous ever advance it to the CityCouncil. St. Francis may become subject manner and recognized the impor- So far, six of the 11 city council to an ELCAinvestigation, which could tance [of establishing the category]. members are committed to approving result in the congregation being sus- They have been very supportive in domestic partner benefits for the city pended or permanently expelled from getting further listings." employees, but Carlson says that the the domination. The United Church of The GLAAD/SFBA Pacific Bell Council would not approve a city-wide Christ, Unitarian-Universalists, and action follows a hard fought eight ordinance. And opposition from funda- Quakers are the only protestant month battle between GLAAD!NYand mentalist groups has already emerged. churches that affirm gay and lesbian the New York-New England phone "Issues of home and family will . ordination. -David Anger company, NYNEX, when NYNEX come up during the debate," said Ann refused to create a heading for gay DeGroot, Director of the Twin Cities' and lesbian social and service organi- Gay and Lesbian Action Council. "But zations, suggesting instead they could more and more people in Minneapolis It slices, it be listed under "Escort Services." know that this is a crock. People real- GLAAD/NY responded with a let- ize that our relationships are valid." dices, it ter writing campaign, demonstrations, Yet one of the City Council's con- pressure from New York officials and, servative Democrats, Walter Dziedzic, chops ... finally, a successful lawsuit charging said, "I don't agree with that kind of NYNEX with sexual orientation dis- alternative lifestyle. I'm committed to a WASHINGTON-With all the crimination in "accommodation and heterosexual, traditional kind of family subtlety of a chain-saw, automatic public access," resulting in the cre- relationship." -David Anger across-the-board cuts have slowly

26 OUT~WEEK November 19, 1989 ! s :.,,;

";been slicing their way through the "Gay In America" includes an WENDY'S from page 22 ,~budget of virtually every agency fund- account of the growth of the gay and She said her department doesn't actu- ed by the federal government since lesbian community, a nationwide sur- ally read letters from Christians but ·the passing of the government's Oct. vey of gay and straight attitudes instead scans them for key words. 19 deficit reduction deadline. And this toward gay life in America, and news Upon seeing the words "L.A. Law," year, among the programs being stories and personal accounts on such she explained, Wendy'S employees pruned by the funding cuts will be topics as gays and religion, gays and "data-processed" the letters to be the nation's AIDS budget. politics, gay culture, gays in the arts answered with the standard "vio- . The cuts, five percent from all and the impact of AIDS on the gay lence" form letter. federal programs with few exceptions, community. Its publication marks the "Had we actually read the letters were mandated by the Gramm-Rud- first time that a detailed and accurate and then read our own form letter, we man-Hollings deficit reduction plan account of the growth of the gay and would not have used that form letter after the deadline passed and Congress lesbian community was brought to to respond to complaints about posi- was not able to come up with an the attention of a primarily straight tive portrayals' of homosexuality," acceptable budget reduction bill. readership. Kosling said. Congressional Democrats had "This is the type of coverage we According to Lynch, Wendy'S previously expected to 'press President would like to see all papers do," International has a "sexual prefer- Bush into accepting a budget bill quite GLAAD Assistant Director Karin ence" clause in its corporate anti-dis- different from the one he wanted, Schwartz told Out Week, "It reflects the crimination policy, and has gay and because the automatic cuts sharply goal of our organization: to encour- lesbian employees at its Columbus, reduce the Pentagon budget as well. age the mainstream media to report in Ohio suburban headquarters. They were stunned, however, when an accurate fashion on the lives of Columbus has an aggressive on Nov. 3 the White House lesbian and gay Americans." gay/lesbian activist community. announced that it could live with the By arrangement with the San The city has had anti-gay discrimi- automatic cuts rather than accept a Francisco Examiner, GLAAD is nation protections for gays since budget bill the president did not want. making the 64-page reprint avail- 1974, and each summer, the city's Among those cuts will be a five able to anyone interested in the Stonewall Union staffs a hugely percent reduction in the 1990 $1.6 bil- series. Prices are '$4.50 each successful gay information stall at lion AIDS budget, which was to have' See OUT TAKES on page 64 the Ohio State Fair. T been a 26 percent raise in funding I I ' I 'I I' , _i.l]g;.=d~i'~C;"iS':L4~,n;Cr._ overI ast year seve s. Each agency funded by the AIDS budget-the Centers for Disease Con- trol, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administratjon, among others--will be directed to cut A its budget by five pe(cent, although where those cuts would be made WOMfliEWS would be left up to the individual agencies. -Cliff O'Nelli DAriCE·! at CIRCOS MflXlMOS New York 99 2nd Street (between First Avenue & Avenue A) Times: take NOVEMBER 18th, 1989 OJ "JC" from note JUMPCUT PRODUCTIONS GAY$$ Will Spin NEW YORK-In a major break- It's a powerful tool. And through for the mainstream press, the one that should be San Francisco Examiner observed FOR INFO CflLL (112) 919-1963 last june's celebration of the 20th nom 9:00 PM UNTIL... excercised judiciously. Admission $7.00 anniversary of Stonewall by publish- So please, patronize ing a 16-part series called "Gay in lesbian and gay America," which is now available in businesses. reprint from the Gay and Lesbian fiLL WOME" WELCOME! Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in New York.

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\ GLAAD Tidings Media Watchdogs Target Ga, Andy Rooney and Geraldo

homosexuals as / do about cigarette used freely. When questioned about smokers. / wouldn't want to spend this double standard on the show, much time in a small room with one Geraldo got defensive and refused to but they don't bother me otherwise. " discuss the issue. You can write to Andy in care of We're pleased that the Geraldo The West Side Spirit,l363 7th Ave., Show deals with lesbian and gay is- 12th floor, New York, NY, 10001 and sues, but we wish the people in- tell him what you think of pontificat- volved in the show would have the ing straight bigoted writers. courage of their convictions, not only ...... talking about us, but treating us as equals. At some level Geraldo Rivera Help deliver this message by seems to want to be our friend. Yet writing to: Geraldo Rivera, Investiga- he and his producers can't seem to tors News Group, 311 West 43rd GQ Magazine probably has one get over their prejudices about les- Street - PH, New York, NY 10036. of the largest gay readerships among bians and gay men. -Tom Ruggiero, !(arin Schwartz non-gay identified magazines. But Two recent Geraldo episodes and Craig Davidson that didn't stop the magazine from were somewhat sympathetic to our trashing and· stereotyping gay men in community. On one, six lesbians dis- a recent article. cussed the topic, "When Women In "What Men Want," (GQ, Vol. Leave Their Husbands For Another Anal Warts, Fissures, 59. No. 10. pg 298) a group of macho Woman." On the other, Geraldo dealt guys talk about women and relation- with the problem of anti-gay, anti- Hemorrhoids ships. When discussing their reluc- Semitic and racist lyrics in rock and tance to talk about their private feel- rap music. ings with other men, one man, Ted, However, despite their generally treated in minutes exclaims, "Well, all that tender stuff is sympathetic approach, both of these kind of like homo stuff, you know shows managed to be offensive to with Lasers what / mean?" gays and lesbians. As though being a cold, unsenti- The show about lesbians began • Call for a FREE CONSULTATION mental, swaggering real man is some- with the disclaimer, 'The program you with a Male or Female Board Cer- how "hetero," right? are about to see contains material that tified Surgeon or Gastroenterologist. We~ve got to push GQ beyond may not be appropriate for children. • We successfully treat all rectal representing gay men as stereotypes Parental discretion advised." When problems with LASERS in our mod- ern offices-without surgery. Eve. & and objects for revulsion. Not only you think of the vastly more bizarre Sat. appointments avail. for the gay readership, but also for topics that Geraldo .regularly deals • Laser Benefits: No Pain! No Bleed·· the straight readership, many of with without feeling the need for a ing! Fast return to normal activities. whom sit back and accept these disclaimer, it's insulting that a show No hospital stay. • Insurance Plans accepted. stereotypes as reality. about loving lesbians would be target- Write to: Arthur Cooper, Editor- ed in this way. The non-sexually ex- In-Chief, GQ Magazine, 350 Madison plicit truth about gay people is entirely Laser Medical Assoc. Jeffrey E. Lavigne, M.D. Ave., New York, NY 10017. appropriate for children. Fellow International College of Surgeons On the show about bigoted rock OFFICES: UPTOWN: 7 East 68th 51., N.Y.C .• ...... DOWNTOWN: 5 Broadway, N.Y.C .• and rap lyrics, someone- decided that QUEENS: 23·91 Bell Blvd .. Bayside. WESTCHESTER: 697 Central Ave .. Scarsdale. In his syndicated column in The all derogatory terms about Blacks and West Side Spirit, Andy Rooney recent- jews would be bleeped out, but the Call: 1·800·MD·TUSCH ly wrote, "/feel the same way about term faggot could be-and was-

November 19, 1989 OUT~WEEK 29 Out/Law The FamiIy Law Debate: Spouses or Partners courts in several Jurisdictions rejected but it is clear that court challenges to these challenges by reference to dic- existing marriage laws will be difficult by Arthur 5,. Leonard tionary definitions of marriage as a to win. union between members of the oppo- Legal recognition of gay mar- site sex, usually referring to procre- riages would provide some important ation as a major goal of marriage. Re- advantages not available under cur- ,:0' ur families are the focus of futing the argument that bans against rent domestic partnership laws and increasing national debate same sex marriage discriminated on proposals. For one thing, the status as the momentum builds the basis of sex in violation of the of family would be accorded immedi- for legal recognition of lesbian and equal protection clause of the Consti- ately upon the marriage taking place, gay couples. tution, these courts insisted that as while domestic partnership laws all Efforts to achieve such require some period of joint recognition, undertaken main- residence before the relation- ly by gay political and legal ship receives recognition. For movement leaders, have used another, gay marriages would a variety of legal theories, but automatically bring a cascade all really assume that domestic of legal and social benefits, partnership rather than legal while domestic partnership marriage is the more appropri- laws tend to focus narrowly ate vehicle for achieving such on particular benefits without recognition. Perhaps it is time addressing others. to step back and ask whether For example, under the this is so, since the community rules of evidence in most has not really been heard from courts, one spouse cannot be on this issue. compelled to reveal confi- The alternative, of course, dences of the other spouse. is to push harder for a change If a spouse dies without hav- in the marriage laws so that ing left a will, the surviving lesbian and gay couples could spouse is automatically enti- enter legally recognized mar- tled by law to a share of the riages. In the August ~8 issue estate. Many businesses ac- of Tbe New Republic, Andrew cord special rates and privi- Sullivan argued that gay mar- leges to legally recognized riage Was preferable to domes- families not accorded to un- tic partnership because it married single people living would simultaneously extend together. (A vivid example: both the responsibilities and In a court ruling last year, a benefits of marriage, while do- New York judge upheld an mestic partnership would ex- insurance company's refusal tend the benefits without the to sell a family tenant insur- responsibilities. Why should ance policy to a gay couple. society grant us recognition Gay marriage would get rid and benefits without imposing the long as the ban on same-sex marriage of this hassle right away.) Spouses of obligations which have traditionally applied equally to both sexes, there hospital patients are automatically gone with those benefits? was no sex-based discrimination! granted access and decision-making During the 1970s attempts were These decisions in a few states do not status not normally accorded non- made to have restrictions against gay rule out the possibility of future suc- spouses. marriages stricken from the law. State cess in other states or federal courts, Joint tax filings for spouses sim-

30 OUT'YWEEK November 19, 1989 TI plify the bookkeeping on the tax ben- against the estate, even If they parted Issue In gay legal circles, but I have efits arising from a Jointly-owned on the worst of terms. Furthermore, not made up my own mind. When I home, Including deductions for Inter- support responsibilities in marriage think about my own relationship of est and local taxes, as well as the continue to apply as long as there Is ten years with my partner, I am un- complications of allocating Income no legally recognized dissolution. certain whether we would marry If from Jointly-owned savings vehicles While equitable distribution we could do so legally, or whether a and investments. The law provides a sounds like a neat way to divide up domestic partnership agreement method, called equitable distribution, the assets of a splitting couple, many would be more appropriate were .for dividing the assets of married cou- women have complained that the sys- such an option available . ples undergoing divorce. Of course, tem In practice is not as equitable as Now Is the time for our commu- marriage also provides protection for it seemed in prospect, especially nity to enter Into the debate, since family relationships Involving chil- when there are children involved. our political and legal organizations dren, and presumably gay couples Marriage brings responsibilities as are poised to commit substantial re- would be able to adopt children joint- well as benefits. Spouses are respon- sources to gay family law Issues. It Is ly (or the "non-biological" gay parent sible for each other's support and time for you to respond, using the let- could adopt the child of a "biological" each other's debts, Even though joint ters columns of our community publi- gay parent), Gay marriage might help tax filing may simplify life regarding cations as a forum. Should we be in leaping the hurdles now facing les- joint incomes and expenses, there is mounting a major challenge to the bian couples which split up after con- the famous marriage penalty to con- marriage laws, should we be concen- ceiving children through new repro- sider: aggregating the income of a trating our efforts on getting domestic ductive technology, since both gay couple of two wage earners may partnership laws passed, or should members of the couple might auto- throw the couple into a higher tax we just focus on accomplishing as matically be recognized as having bracket than would apply to one or much equality as possible by using parental rights. Gay marriage would both of them as single taxpayers, existing "marital status" and "sexual solve the problem of survivorship As to the advantages of domestic orientation" non-discrimination rights in rental housing without the partnership, perhaps the main one is statutes? Let's hear your opinions on need for complicated regulations on that domestic partnership may better this one. ~ who qualifies as a family member. accommodate the variety of ways in Legally recognized families also which people decide to order their re- receive special recognition from em- lationships. Marriage requires that we ployers. Most employers make group fit into a prescribed mold which is insurance available to cover the based on generations of evolution WILLIAM B. DeBONIS D.D.S. spouses and dependents of employ- within the context of a male-dominat- Quality, Personal De~t1~try ees, and extend their bereavement ed, child-rearing heterosexual culture. Suite 704 200 West 57th Street and sick leave programs to cover situ- Most current domestic partnership New York, New York 10019 ations where employees need time off propOsals select certain benefits rele- (212) 333-2650 to attend the funeral of an in-law or vant to joint living situations without Office Hours bv Aroointment Onl take care of a sick spouse. incorporating those attributes of mar- There are, of course, downsides riage which might be inappropriate. to gay marriage. Ideologically, mar- Furthermore, some. of the automatic riage is objectionable to many as an advantages adhering to marriage can institution which has evolved over be simulated for unmarried domestic generations of masculine domination partners through careful legal plan- and hierarchy, and however modified ning involving wills, powers of attor- . by current practices marriage still has ney, guardianship agreements and the about it the connotations of the hus- like. band's identity prevailing over that of Considering the arguments for the wife. and against gay marriage as opposed More practically, marriage is to domestic partnership, I remain harder to dissolve than a domestic firmly uncommitted as to which is partnership, although an increasing preferable. I've read the debate be- number of jurisdictions are moving to tween Tom Stoddard and Paula Ettel- no-fault divorce. If a married gay brick in the most recent issue of Out- couple separated without the formali- look; I've read the articles about . 208 West 13th Street ties of a divorce and one member of lesbian marriage and gay adult adop- New York, N.Y. 10011 the couple subsequently died, the tion in this magazine, and I've partici- 212/675.3559 other could claim an "elective share" pated in policy discussions on this

November 19. 1989 OUTTWEEK 31 Sandor Katz COlnlnentary Categorical Denial

it pisses me off to no end that we are statistics put out by the federal gov- omitted as an 'analytical category. ernment. 1. Marienhoff, my social Oh, there are plenty of excuses. I looked in the index. There was studies teacher at Hunter A pollster I know tells me that his or- nothing between "Homicides" and College High School (a ganization's exit polls generally in- "Horseback riding," where "Homosex- veritableE. queer factory, as it turns out), clude a question about sexual orien- uality" should have gone, and nothing was an eminently quotable sage. The tation, but the sample of people who between "Sewage Treatment Systems" line of his which I still find myself re- identify themselves as lesbian or gay and "Shareowners, stocks," where peating, one of the few things I learned is too small to be statistically reliable. "Sexuality· should have been. like- in high school which I remember, and (Then do a bigger sampleD wise no "Gay" or "Lesbian" listing. which he rio doubt borrowed from A City University political scien- This book has statistics on things some other eminently quotable figure, tist, john Mollenkopf, who studies as obscure as the percentage of Amer- is this: "'There are three kinds of lies: shifting voting trends and political icans who never eat breakfast (24 lies, damn lies and statistics." alignments over time, says he's percent). It charts such activities as The coverage of the mayoral stymied by the lack of concrete infor- the use of hallucinogenic drugs. Yet election, with all the polls and statisti- mation about where lesbians and . somehow gays and lesbians escape its cal analysis which are used notice (even, miraculously, in to make it a dramatic horse their AIDS statistics). Lies, race, has me thinking of lies, lies. Marienhoff's wisdom. For us It is the eerie embodi- as lesbians and gays, all ment of our government those statistics are nothing wishing us away. but lies, lies, lies. Lest you think that these All the polls and the statistics and the categories strategic analysis and the around which they are con- speculation and the typical voter pro- gays live. (He could take a cue from structed are abstract and meaningless, files are organized by Voting Blocks. drug researchers and identify a "sur- they form the basis of many crucial So we read all about "The Black Vote" rogate marker," such as the locations policy decisions. and "The Catholic Vote" and "The Se- of subscribers to gay and lesbian One example is the bias-related nior Citizen Vote" and "The Hispanic publications, or members of gay and violence bill pending in the state leg- Vote" and "The Jewish Vote" and "The lesbian ·'organizations.) islature. State Senate Republicans Women's Vote" and "The Men's Vote" The primary source of so much refuse to pass it because one of the and "The White Vote." statistical demographic information, categories of hate crimes it recognizes VVhoops!VVhathappened to "The the census, doesn't ask about sexual is violence against gays and lesbians. Lesbian and Gay Vote?" I guess we're orientation. Thctl990 census is just a They refuse to legitimize us with cate- a statistical anomaly. Lies, lies, lies. few months away, and we are gorical recognition, just like the cen- Is it that they don't think there nowhere to be found on it. Imagine sus and the major news organizations. are enough of us to be taken serious- these simple words on the census Similarly, recall that just a few ly as an electoral force? questionnaire: months ago fanatical right-wing mem- Is it that they don't want to give "Which of the following best de- bers of Congress stopped federal credence to the idea that there are scribes your sexual orientation? funding of a study of American sexual enough of us to be taken seriously as - Exclusively homosexual practices. It seems they would rather an electoral force? - Bisexual not know, because an accurate por- Is it that they think we don't - Exclusively heterosexual trayal of the reality would reveal the have specific interest as lesbians and - Other" diversity of desire and offer statistical gay men which inform our voting? Instead, lesbians and gays are confirmation of our existence. Is it that they don't know how to omitted, written out, forgotten, invisi- The good news is that we exist re- get information about us? ble, absent, denied. Lies, lies, lies. gardless of their lies, damn lies and statis- Is it that they never thought I went to the library for a look at tics. And we're going to yell and kick about it? the "Statistical Abstract of the United and scream and be in their faces until Well, I have thought about it, and States," an annual compilation of they stop trying to make us invisible. ...

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WWER LEVEL-WUNGE UPPER LEVEL-LIVE LIGHT SHOW BALCONYLEVEL-VIEWING AREA ' Positive Alternatives Big Brother is Watching: The Computerized Blacklist of IIUnprovenl1 AIDS Treatments Posing as an advocate of "patient ready sharply limited payments of by Bob Lederer empowerment," Monaco is trying to claims for experimental and unortho- get AIDS activist and service organiza- dox AIDS treatments. Emprise offi- tions to cooperate in distributing cials and the "expert panelists" on the, questionnaires to assemble informa- cancer project have 10Qg histories of atch out for a new tion on who's using what and how intense, publicly declared bias against AlDS treatment data they're doing. The data will then be what they call "quackery", but which W collection project "evaluated" by "expert panels," with really means: 1) non-government ap- organized by people whose inter- proved treatments not produced by ests are adverse to the AIDS com- the largest, high-profit drug corpora- munity. The "Evaluative Online tions, and 2) doctors who differ from Database on Unproven Remedies orthodox treatment approaches. for AIDS," funded by two grants The "expert evaluations" will be nei- from the National Institute of Aller- ther disinterested nor objective. gy and Infectious Disease, is being This project is the latest in a directed by Grace Powers Monaco, several-year "anti-quackery" cam- a high-powered attorney who by paign jointly coordinated by insur- her own account "regularly defends ance companies, the pharmaceutical insurance companies against pay- industry and the American Medical ment demands for questionable and Association, to reduce payment of unproven cancer remedies." Mona-'" insurance claims and check the co recently appeared on a TV pro- growth of competitiori to expensive gram strenuously opposing the drug treatments and orthodox doc- hard~won parallel track program tors - aU at the price of freedom of (releasing experimental drugs to choice' and access for people with PWAs while clinical trials proceed) life-threatening illnesses. as too costly. Clearly, PWAs need more infor- The AIDS database project mation to help separate the hype builds on Monaco's similar one for from the real among the many avail- cancer treatments, funded by the Na- POSING AS AN AIDS ADVOCATE able treatments. As I have previous- tional Cancer Institute and well un- Grace Powers Monaco ly written in this space, there should derway. Both are run by a w.tshington, the results placed on numerous wide- be more clinical trials and compre- D.C.-based corporation, Emprise, set up ly-used computerized medical data hensive data collections to determine to administer these projects. Emprise is bases and leased to insurance compa- effectiveness of alternative treatments. headed by Monaco and staffed by other nies to "assist" them in denying But that can only be done objectively insurance industry consultants. claims. And according to Emprise, by people within and accountable to The AIDS project's purpose, ac- the "evaluations" will be "disseminat- the AIDS community. That is quite cording to Emprise, is to compile in- ed to PWA organizations ...through different from outsiders with vested formation on "the dangers and gener- newsletters [and) Buyers Clubs." economic interests using biased eval- al worthlessness of questionable An analysis of the cancer uators to pass judgments on the pos- approaches." These include!'vita- database by an advocacy organization sibly life-saving treatments PWAs have mins, minerals, enzymes, herbs, for people w.ith cancer concluded in freely chosen. This amounts to a gov- botanicals and alleged nutritional sup- April 1989 that "seriol!s ethics viola- ernment-sanctioned computerized plements" as well as "the commonly tions, severe conflicts of interest and a blacklist. It will prejudice doctors used 'alternative' medications includ- systemic negative bias...permeate this against such treatments and prevent ing prescription products from over- entire project." The project's direc- PWAs from getting the insurance re- seas" and combination therapies in- tors consult for insurance companies imbursement they deserve. volving approved drugs. which seek to further reduce their al- See BIG BROTHER on page 59

34 OUT.... WEEK November 19, 1989 Political Science The Road To Prophylaxis

by Mark Harrington of T4 to T8 cells drops below 20 per- controlled comparison study of cent, immediately initiate PCP prophy- pyrimethamine vs. c1indamycinto prevent laxis with aerosol pentamidine or toxoplasmic encephalitis. The CRl is con- Bactrim. Tbe federal government is sidering a comparative study of two doses very day HIV infected Amer- doing nothing to implement the guide- of pyrimethamine (another drug brought icans pass from the asymp- lines of its own CDC. Assistant Secre- to you by Burroughs Wellcome). Both Etomatic stage of infection to taty for Health james Mason says the studies use approved, orally available an AIDS diagnosis, often without government can't afford to pay for drugs, and would use only people who warning. The government is doing treatment, only research. This is ab- were toxo-positive. A possible downside' nothing to develop preventive treat- surd, since the U.S. already pays over of pyrimethamine is its bone-manow ~p- ments which would delay the onset of 40 percent of the total AIDS health pressive potential. This might be alleviar- AIDS. Treatments already exist which care costs through Medicaid. Every ed with "leucovorinrescue,"which would could prevent the onset of the most case of acute pcp from now until the be given along with the higher dose. common, most devastating oppor- end of the AIDS epidemic could have Fungal infections: Oral thrush tunistic infections (OIs). But federal been prevented. Every fatal case of (candidiasis) is one of the early research is not investigating these PCP from now on will be an indict- harbingers of HIV infection. In later treatments. The best hope for making ment of the inhumanity of the U.S. stages, it affects the quality of life for the most common OIs preventable in government to people with AIDS. many PWAs, making it hard to eat or the next two years is persuading com- CMV/ cytomegalovirus: This swallow. Vaginal candidiasis also affects munity-based clinical trial groups like ubiquitous herpes family virus can many women with HIV infection. Exist- New York's Community Research Ini- cause colitis, pneumonia, en- ing treatments for candida are often inef- tiative (CRI) to conduct quick, well- cephalopathy (brain infection) and re- fective. Cryptococcal meningitis is a '. designed trials of agents already in tinitis leading to blindness in people deadly brain disease which affects about use for treatment of these Ols. Fol- with suppressed immunity. Usually it four percent of PWAs. The approved lowing is a catalogue of the most occurs in people with T4 cells under treatment, Amphotericin-B, is highly common Ols and which preventive 100/mm3. Existing treatments like toxic and inconvenient (administered in- treatments are the most worth testing: DHPG (approved for retinitis) and Fos- travenously). Both candida and crypto- PCP/ Pneumocystis carinii pneu- carnet (investigational and very hard to coccus can be treated effectively with monia: Still the most common 01, get) are both quite toxic and inconve- oral Fluconazole, a drug approved in PCP is diagnosed in up to 80 percent niently administered, through catheters England and available here through the of people with AIDS. There are sever- implanted in the patient's chest. PWA Health Group. But the FDA is al effective treatments - Bactrim, pen- Catheters can provide a site for Iife- dragging its heels on approving F1ucona- tamidine, trimetrexate - for an acute threatening infections on their own. zole, because it thinks PWAscan make bout of PCP, but each bout can be An effective CMV prophylaxis would do with Ketoconazole or Nizoral for can- fatal to up to 20 percent of those un- have to be oral (taken as a pill) and dida and with Amphotericin~Bfor cryp- dergo~ng it. Community-based re- less toxic than IV DHPG or Foscarnet. tococcus. The CRIs should consider search groups have proved to the Possible prophylaxes: high-

November 19, 1989 our.. WEEK 35 ••Ipplng the lNight 10>---ntastlc! •

a Turbulent Decade " IfMixedH is the in Downtown's Ever- ing Nightlife, While Drugs and Rock ',.' I Stay ~ the Come- back Trail.

by Kiki Mason Photo: T.L. Litt As gay people, we judge each other as much as society judges us .. That's nowhere more apparent than in our night- time identities. If someone tells you that he goes to Private Eyes or that she goes to Shescape, you form an opinion of who that person is. For years many of us thought of ourselves exclusively in terms of our nightlife. The closet by day; "out" by night. As a community we had some steam to burn off. We couldn't be ourselves during the day, so we perhaps overcom- pensated a bit. Now we're at the end of a decade of tumul- tuous change; a decade that has been both frightening and exhilirating, with groundbreaking highs and terrible, unforseen lows. Gay nightlife has changed as much as the community itself during the 80s. But as a people we still need to celebrate our ~ifferentness-in what some of us call tribal rites-just as much as we did ten years ago. just to refresh your memory a bit. In 1979, most nightclubs were gay clubs. Gay men and lesbians danced on Friday and ~aturday nights at clubs like Flamingo, Twelve West and Paradise Garage, all night dance clubs which served no alcohol. They gyrated for hours on the power of drugs and music. Uptown, the "glitter gays" and "Euro bisexuals" partied at Stu- dio 54, New York New York and Xenon. On weeknights you could dance at the Barefoot Boy or Crisco Disco. We used to say that Fridays were for dates, but Saturdays were for .dancing: As lesbian activist Candida Scott Piel remembers, "It would get to be five or six a.m., and we'd look around and realize that we were still here and we'd all be dead on our feet. Then the DJ would put on an old song. A tremendous euphoria always swept over the crowd. We were young, we were gay and we were never gonna die." ,What about now? A lot of the exclusively gay clubs and dance palaces are gone, falling in the face of a dozen variable:;. From soaring real estate to a rise in the drinking age to a certain "cool down" period and a slacking off of business brought on by the AIDS crisis, clubs owners have been besieged with lots of reasons to close their doors. Now, most of the newer nightclubs are "mixed." This means they're either clubs where heteros, gays and lesbians work their bodies side-by-side on any given night, or clubs which usually attract a predominantly heterosexual crowd but which offer one or two "gay" nights per week. - "Mixed" mean£-theoretically, at least--that clubs are trying to attract all kinds of people. The "right" people of course, meaning people who will spend money and make money for the club owners. Why isn't there a big nightclub specifically devoted to us anymore? And within the confines of the current scheme of things, why aren't there more nights at the existing clubs devoted exClusively to gay people? That answer lies within a curious diGhotomy in the club business right now. All of the owners are straight while the promoters--the people who make parties for a living, if you will-are gay. While this would seem to be the norm, it was not always the case. Many gay clubs in the past were owned by members of the community, The Saint's Bruce Mailman being a prime example. And the clubs were exclusively gay. Of course, one doesn't have to be a detective to figure out that the all-new, "mixed" club is here at a time when the clubs are straight-owned. But promoters like Larry Tee, who hosts and deejays at Love Machine on Tuesdays, insist that they are giving the public--the gay public-what it wants. "Twenty years ago," says Tee, "we needed to be by ourselves because things had been so opp'ressed before that. Now we want to share with other kinds of people." The promoters and owners claim any patron who harrasses a gay man or lesbian in their clubs is immediately ejected. "We constantly try to keep people like that, who will harrass gays, out of the club." notes Steve Lewis of the uptown club Red Zone, which caters to a mixed crowd on most nights. "I see all kinds of kids kissing and making out at Red Zone," says Tee. But as every lesbian and gay man knows, being "in the mix" is not the same as being in a gay-only space. No matter how "cool" it is, we are always open to harrassment. And sometimes we are even harrassed for making out io bars or clubs when they are hetero-owned. Among the things that have activists aroused about the straight owner of BoyBar, Paul MacGregor, is the charge that he has broken up same sex couples who were kissing in his club. Other charges include the fact that MacGregor has never used his space for an AIDS benefit and has an off-again, on-again policy towards leafletting (of either demo information or benefit invites) in his establishment. (However, it should be pointed out that Mathew Kasden and his Bo'yBar Beauties, the popular group of drag queens who started out performing at the BoyBar, have done dozens of benefit performances at other clubs.) Recently employees have protested and petitioned MacGregor, and the harrassment reportedly has stopped. A benefit is now planned for some time in the next two months with the proceeds going to an AIDS organization. Straight owners aren't the only culprits. There are at least half a dozen gay-owned establishments which have never hosted an AIDS benefit and which all make millions for their owners, who see no reason .why they should put money back into the community. Which leaves the politically aware fag or dyke to ask him/herself what the choices really are: going to straight- owned clubs for gay people that may not always represent our best interests, or going to straight-owned clubs with a mixed crowd whose owners assure us that we will be included and protected, or going to gay-owned places where the proprietors are just out to make a few bucks and don't have the community's best interests at heart? As for most of the gay promoters catering to mixed crowds, we shouldn't expect them to do much for us either. Their main goal is publicity, and it's doubt- ful that VIi-lor MfV would send a camera crew to a totally gay event. "People like Larry Tee are in it to get famous," says an activist. "So they push julie jewels [a heterosexual girl-of- the-minute] in front of the cameras." For lesbians the picture is even fuzzier. ·Women need to take this into their own hands," says record producer Amanda Scheer. "Hot women don't go out enough, and they don't support fun all-girl events." One of the difficulties regarding mixed clubs, according to Candida Scott Piel, is that "lesbians don't want to share a space with straight people. Gay men, possibly, but never with straights. It's just not comfortable." Tracks, which many lesbians frequented, recently closed, shutting down one of the few venues many men of color also say was the only place they felt comfortable. For many, La Escuelita, a club in Hell's Kitchen which has always been a haven for Latino gay men and fierce drag queens, is the only See TRIPPING THE NIGHT on page 41 \¥hat's A Girl'Yo'D'c:)? The Trials and Tribulations of Lesbian Nightlife by Nancy Kirton and Victoria Starr

Marcella and Vivian are sitting in DT Fat Cat's discussing weekends there's nothing to do. The Cubby Hole will be way the film they had just seen on painter and potential lesbian too crowded, and this place gets boring for more than a night- heroine Frida Kalo. It is a Wednesday night, and the bar is pop- cap. And the Duchess? No way am I going to pay seven bucks ulated with the usual smattering of folks on their way to a to go there. If they think that we're gonna come' pay' just drunk. These are the real barflies, stopping by the place on because they have a DJ in that little place, forget it. I'd rather their way home from work, and always lingering for just one dance in the street." more drink. They're the ones whose face varies from night to "Well, how about if we take them to Gonzales y Gonza- night, but whose slurring style never does. And they like to pass les. It's not a lesbian place, but it's good food and good music. their time in a place where the bartenders are never far behind. We'll take them there to see the yuppies get ethnic, and then, "Where should we take the girls when they arrive here on to oU! favorite dance spot...La Escuelita." Friday?" ponders Vivian. "Now thtifs a great idea." "Where can we take them?" Marcella throws the question back. "They're going to want to go to a lesbian bar, but on the See WHAT'S A GIRLTO DO on page 40 November 19, 1989 OUTTWEEK 39 , WHAT! A GIRL TO DO-from page 39 mao This is the answer to the question Whenev.er the door to the Duchess that doesn't need to be asked. Money is swings open, a sea of eyes turn in that at the root of our lack of power (and direction, The women at the bar are therefore lack of choice) in every sphere always curious, whether watching for of our lesbian lives. And it has certainly someone they know, or simply expect- put a damper on our lesbian night life. ing a good look at someone who looks "We don't go out that much because good. And despite the fact that behind we're too busy trying to survive," the bar, above the liquor bottles, the quipped one friend when asked what wall is composed of one long stretch of she thought of the lesbian night scene. mirror which reflects anyone who pass- "Put that in your article!" " -. es, it's often been wished by the girls at Yet while money is the biggest item , the bar that we had little 'rear-view mir- preventing us from having a swinging rors on our glasses. This so we don't scene, we know this answer is too sim- appear too eager, and so we could tailor ple. For while it certainly speaks to why our view to our needs. the boys have more places to go in one Tonight we. managed to slip in night than we girls can visit in a year, it before the clock struck the cover hour doesn't fully address another fact: that (seven clams have to be shelled out after many women just aren't into the bar 7 ·pm.) We didn"t make plans to meet scene anymore, or ~t least not the one friends here, and we didn't have to. we've got. Between the ~wo of us, we'll most cer- Instead, a newer trend has popped tainly run into familiar faces. That's the up: the "roaming" bar or house party. one thing. the Duchess has going for These events occur as often as once a it...it may not be much, but there isn't week, or as infrequently as seasonal, much to choose from, now, is there? and range in location from large night Besides, we're only here to touch base, clubs to private homes, but they have desperately hoping that someone know's some things in common. All are an of a party to hit after a bite to eat. attempt to offer women something other Bouncer Bobbi Atkinson has also than the traditional bar ambience, just checked in, relaxing with a club whether it be by offering live perfor-. soda before the night gets into full mances, a smoke-free environment, or swing. We strike up a conversation with ~ven child care. None can afford a per- her, and before we know it, we find our- manent space (thus the "roaming"), and selves talking about the good times past. most rely on mailing lists and word of From Cookie's to Bonnie and Clyde's, mouth to attract a crowd. And some (but the stories abound. Eventually we get not all) have arisen to address two very around'to discussing the current scene. big problems that exist in our communi- "We really need more places to ty, namely substance abuse and racism. choose from for a:. good night out, ya "I got to a point in the bar scene know," said a friend we were with. where I felt like I was being herded into "Bobbi, you've tken a bartender, you've dark, dingy places full of alcohol and been a Dj a'nd you've been in the busi- drugs," explained one party organizer. "I ness for 23 years'. Why don't you open just didn't feel that the bar scene was up a place yourse!f?" meeting our needs." . "For the sam~ reason nobody else The truth is that our "local dives," as does. The big'gest problem is the some refer to the Duchess and the money." Bobbi quickly reviewed all of Cubby Hole, are very conducive to the expenses ope, would incur upon throwing back the drinks, and for many opening a/ new bar: buying or renting who prefer sobriety it's a tedious, if not commercial space (where there is no offensive atmosphere. Even in the few such thing as rent control), furnishing dance clubs that women frequent (like the space, stocking the bar, payroll and Tracks before they recently closed), it's a stash of cash to get through the first often the drinks and drugs that make couple of years without showing a prof- that mediocre house music bearable it. Finding an honest and dedicated staff hour after hour. What many women can be another obstacle, in addition to would prefer is a place that offered the myriad of lkensing, insurance and more to do in one space, like having a legal issues that are inherent in operat- cafe area to talk, and maybe a video ing a "night spot." room to lounge in, in addition to the tra- The 62 cents-for-every-dollar dilem- See WHATS A GIRLTO DO on page 42 , -' TRIPPING THE NIGHT from page 38 dance club where they say they can have a good time. "There's lots of us in this community," says Scott Piel, "who don't fit in at downtown clubs where everyone is 25 and wearing black. Where do we go?" ...... Sex, after suffering a severe setback, has made a remarkable, wonderful comeback in the late 80s. It took the community years to realize that getting off wasn't wrong, and that sex, as long as it was safe, was essential and great. That feeling has now permeated throughout the club scene. And of course, as with any new (or re-new) thing, there is conflict and debate. In 1987, after several unsuccessful tries, Dean Johnson opened the Rock 'n'Roll Fag Bar at The World. It was dar~. The music was sexy and different. There were go-go boys wearing only underwear, grinding their crotches into obliv- ion. After the uptight attitude of clubs like Nell's, The World spelled relief. The gay crowd spilled over from Tuesday's Fag Bar night to other nights, helping The World become a success. A year later, in the summer of 1988, Johnson did something that would have been unthinkable two or three years earlier. He opened a back room. Although he admon- ished the crowd to keep the "Testosteroom" safe, the space was dark and unmonitored. A controversy erupted. Some men claimed that unsafe sex was taking place and some members of ACT UP were so outraged by the fact that unsafe sex might be occurring at a gay event that they threatened a protest. But other activists saw it quite differ- ently, asserting that we shouldn't be "policing the community:" A debate raged throughout the community, most notably on ACT UP's floor. Nothing was ever resolved by ACf UP regarding the issue. And throughout the gay and lesbian community, the topic still flares up. This january, Rudolf, a long-time key figure on the downtown club scene who had just become the general magager of the then brand new Mars, hired gay promoter Chip Duckett to bring in a gay crowd on Sunday nights. With go-go boys, floor after floor of pulsating music and people taking their clothes off, Duckett built an atmosphere of wild, abandoned sexuality; something that many of the young men and lesbians who came to Mars had never seen before. He has since thrown events at other venues, two of which included so-called safe- sex back rooms. "I believe that people should have as much sex as they want," says Duckett. "It should be with whomever they want, as long as they're consenting adults," There are some who think Duckett has gone too far. "When he had two guys fist-fucking on stage at his birthday party," says one nightclub veteran (even though it was done safely, with a glove-a fact which many people didn't realize), "I left. It's just not appropriate for the times," A recent Hal- loween party of Duckett's drew criticism because of a dark and dank downstairs back room and nude go-go boys. "You can go to the Locker Room [a ].0. club] for that stuff where you know there are monitors," is how one obviously disgusted party-goer put it. As the debate continues over what's safe and what's not and who has the right to tell whom what they should or shouldn't do, another variable has come back into play: SII TRIPPING THE NIGHT on palll 43 What's A Girl To Do?

WHATS A GIRL TO DO frlllll ,.11' 40 feel unwelcome at the Cubby Hole. Not to be forgotten is the "Shescape ditional dance floor. Some say they are unnecessarily carded incident" that occurred two years ago. It should be noted that Deb Parker, at the door. Others say the Cubby Hole Shescape is another "roaming" club who organized Girl Bar, and later Girl only employs white women. Many say which currently hosts Wednesday and , World, had variations on just such a ~on- that simply by virtue of the type of music Saturday nights at Octogon. In 1987 a cept. But for a host of unrelated reasons, that the CUbby Hole features, there is an . complaint was registered with the she was moving the party every few attempt to attract a certain type of crowd. Human Rights Commission against the months. Her more recent attempts at a Liz Foris, who works the door at the Shescape organizers for discriminatory regular once-a-week event (Her Bar, Big Cubby Hole, and has worked for its door practices. COOL, or the Committee Haus and most recently Venus Flytrap), owner even in the days when she of Outraged Lesbians, came into being have been unsuccessful for reasons that owned Bonnie and Clyde's, disagrees. to investigate claims by several women are not yet understood. Perhaps it is as "When I enter the bar it feels warm and of color that they had either experi- one friend has suggested, that while cozy, almost like an Alpine lodge. I like enced, or witnessed, women of color most everyone enjoyed Girl Bar, it is dif- to also call it the UN of the bar scene, being denied entrance to Shescape ficult to keep up with the change of because while you may not see an over- events because they were wearing locations .• And besides," a friend added, abundance of Black women, or an over sneakers, while white women with "they always make those parties on a abundance of Hispanic women, you will sneakers were not being turned away. \. see a little of The conflict was eventually settled out every type of of court, with Shescape agreeing to women, of donate $1,000 to the Lesbian and Gay all nationali- Community Center, and to indicate on ties." When party flyers what the dress code would questioned be. It may even be a result of COOL's about the activism that Shescape's recent dances at door poli- Club Lafayette were staffed and attended cies, Liz by what COOL co-founders confirm to explains that be a truly multi-racial group of women. there are The lack of lesbian nightlife in New two reasons York remains a complex, and at times why she will baffling problem. If nothing else, we turn women can't help but wonder how our male away. "You counterparts manage to overcome such . won't get in obstacles as racism, substance abuse and if you are the mob. We do know, however, that in under age, addition to the Manhattan bars which Photo: Diana Osterfeld and you are listed for women in OutWeelts bar Duchess bouncer Bobbi Atkinson won't get in guide, many of us are turning to the ·weeknight. Maybe that's okay for the if you're drunk." And the types of people boroughs, exploring the few bars that trendy Manhattan crowd, but we live in who are not attracted to the bar? "If you already exist (Spectrum and Hatfields) Brooklyn, and suppose that on that par- have a lot of energy, too much energy and hoping that more spring up. Less ticular night we don't feel like going into for such a small bar, then the Cubby pretentious, less expensive and with a the city. You either have to go that night Hole's not for you." certain "neighborhood feel," they are or forget it." In terrns of music being a means of also closer to home. For alternatives to Such borough sentiments lead to determining. the type of clientele attracted the bar scene, there are the numerous another topic which many believe has to a given bar, Dj Ginny DeSantis, who nightly events at The Lesbian and Gay done the' biggest damage to lesbian usually tends the turntables in the Community Center, offering "something nightlife, and that is the problem , Duchess, feels that music has no color. for everyone" among the choices of cul- (whether real or, as some claim, "per- "As DJ, my biggest goal is to mix an tural, political or social gatherings. And ceived") of racism. of the two nightly evening of music that will make everyone there are always special "roaming" bars that women have to go to, most happy, and not just one segment of the events, like fundraising dances for com- who frequent the Duchess know that it crowd. I mix a little of everything that's munity organizations, and events like is the bar of choice for women of. color good." Nevertheless, nearly everyone the ones being hosted by Salsa Soul Sis- and their friends. This may seem strange interviewed said that "type of music" was ters, Cinnamin Productions and the won- given the seven dollar cover, and the first on their list when it came to deciding derful women from Hotter than july. fact that the Duchess is run by straight which bar to go to on any given night. So Whatever your fancy, the women are men, while the CUbby Hole is lesbian- while .it may not be the fault of the DJ or out there and lookling for fun. It just owned and operated, and has never io the mlmagement that different segments takes a little time to track them down. its seven ye3:r history charged a cover of the population listen to different types (not even for its birthday parties which of music, it must certainly be a fact that Research for this article assisted by Gay always thrpw down lots of great food). they recognize, and a fact that can poten- and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters Yet many Black and Latino women tially be manipulated. (GLlB). "f' 42 OUTTWEEK November 19. 1989 TRIPPING THE NIGHT from P811. 41 drugs. Recreational drugs for nightclubbing have made a big, big comeback. The recent arrest of a gay party promoter who was purchasing heroin in his lower east side neigh- bdrhood underscores the fact that in 1989, drugs are back for better or for worse. "Drugs come and go, like fashion," the promoter said after his arrest. "I knew I shouldn't be doing it, and I probably wouldn't tell other people to do it, but right now all of my friends do heroin, I guess we need new thrills." In c1ubland 1989, you can watch entire "after- hours" clubs swaying in a state of serene bliss on dll.!gs like Ecstasy, or watch people pass out on the new, "mellow," synthetic drug, Essence. During the past summer it seemed as if everyone, including this writer, was susceptible to the charms of the love drugs. By the fall, euphoria had been replaced with reports that party-goers were eating multiple hits. Another gay party promoter who started out drug free can now be found almost nightly at a notorious "after hours· club, chewing and gnawing his face while he uri- nates on his shoes. "The drugs that people are doing right now tell a lot about the scene," says one promoter who has given up drugs. "The Ecstasy that's around right now is glo- rified speed. And I've seen more Cocaine used now for everyday situations than I did five years ago." Some promoters have taken to walking around the dance floor hand- ing out treats, and drug dealers have become social lions, "I think that a lot of boys use drugs to get over the guilt after they've just wanked on someone's shoes,· says an East Vil- lage party boy only half tongue-in-cheek. "Or they use drugs to replace emotional ties to other people." After nine years of the AIDS epidemic, no one can deny that we all need an occassional release; a need to escape and have some fun. But where do we draw the line between a good time and pathology, especially when immunosuppression is involved? The promoter who has gone dry sums up the current attitude: "1 know that [clubbing] is all supposed to be fun without responsibility, but it seems like [the excessive drug use] is a panic reaction to these times.· ***** We're expecting a lot from the 90s. The current theory of consciousness is that if you want something to happen, it will. Right now the people who make the club scene swing are attempting this levitation. "The best thing going ori," says Kier Kirby of the band Deelite, "is the music. There are two or three really good tracks coming out each week. It's a hopeful sign for the future." Adds Larry Tee, "Now that we have some of our people on the charts, it's time for some new music in the clubs, and music always influences the way people think." The recent opening of the Sound Factory, an after hours club with a very racially mixed gay clientele on Saturday nights may herald a new era in gay nightc1ubbing. The political aspi- rations that have built up over the past few years will also have an impact. "It's important to remember,· says Candida Scott Piel, "that the disco scene of the 70s came out of the sharing, the opting for change that happened in the 60s. We were able to share our special ness , our otherness, our won- derfulness. That feeling has enabled us to weather the fact that some of us are no longer around. I think that this feeling is starting to happen with the kids who are out demonstrating now. I hope that feeling grows." ... PLAYING GAY

New York Gets Its First On-Going Gay and Lesbian Theater Company

by Michael Paller GAYARST The Three-Dollar Bill Theater Company: (clockwise from top) Nicholas Deutsch, Kate Moira Ryan, John Finch and Victor Bumbalo.

For several years now, the lesbian and gay community are not being done-and I mean plays on mainstream sub- . has been without a permanent theater of its own. The Meridi- jects. What will happen to gay authors and their plays? I could an and Shandol theaters are gonej the Glines produces only care less about what a middle-aged straight person has to say. occasionally. Even when these important theaters existed, they I've seen it all before." were perpetually under-funded, their staffs over-worked, their The second play of the season, scheduled to open january actors underpaid, if paid at all. Lesbian and gay theater was a 3rd, is, in fact, a play by a lesbian playwright. Kate Moira marginalized part of a marginalized community, Ryan's Wberes Marilyn? takes place during the second admin- On November 8th, when the lights went down at the istration of President Dan Quayle (it replaces Holly Hughes' Apple Corps Theater on West 20th Street, that all changed. The The Lady Dick, which Hughes has withdrawn for further work). Three-Dollar Bill Theater became New York's first gay profes- "My interest is in seeing the lives of people who haven't sional, on-going, subscription-based theater. Its directors are been on the stage, finally put on the stage. I haven't seen the four people well-known and respected in the theater commu- lives of Adam and Eddie on the stage yet." nity. The artistic director is Nicholas Deutsch (director of, Adam and Eddie are the main characters in Adam and among other things, the New York production of jerker)j the the Experts, Bumbalo's document, as he calls it, about the associate directors are actor jon Finch (who played Bert in AIDS crisis. "Document," however, is too dry a word for what jerker) and playwright Victor Bumbalo, whose plays include Bumbalo has written. Adam and the Experts is an angry, Kitchen Duty and Niagara Falls; and the literary manager is funny, moving look at not only the life of a person with AIDS, Kate Moira Ryan. His new play, Adam and the Experts, will but at the lives of his friends, who do their best to help. open Three-Dollar Bill's first season. When Adam's friend Eddie is diagnosed, Adam immediate- "We need an ongoing gay professional theater," Bumbalo ly goes into action, seeking out the advice of various believes, "where gay scripts are the priority-not one play in "experts"-a psychiatrist, a healer on the order of Louise Hay, a 30. There are theaters that now and then do a play that is the- doctor with an orthodox treatment he's certain will win him a matically gaYj that has gay characters. Circle Rep does them Nobel Prize, a priest-Only to discover that they are fallible occasionallYj so does joe Papp. But when was the last t,ime human beings with precious few answers. Adam's need to be you saw a professional production of a play about lesbians?" helpful almost ruins their relationship. Dragged to every doctor He pauses, eyebrows raised. "Across the country, new plays within hailing distance, buried beneath an avalanche of books 44 OUTTWEEK November 19, 1989 and articles supplied by Adam, Eddie complains to his friend "I'm a very political animal, but I'd rather read a polemic in Sarah, "He so wants to help, but he's driving me nuts." And a pamphlet than in a play," Bumbalo says. "The very relationship later, to Adam's protestation that he's only trying to help, Eddie of Adam and Eddie, the very action of the world they live in, is explodes, "Do what? Put me in my grave? You're lucky I haven't political. We have so many people whose actions are heroic; 1 killed you. I'm not a person anymore. I'm a god damn fucking don't have to put rhetoric in their mouths. Even the helpers who disease. Would you please talk to me about something else?" end up not helping much all want to help. I'm interested in ordi- Sitting in his Upper West Side apartment, Bumbalo nary people in crisis and the way they handle it." explains the various sources of the play. While he hopes Adam will be a cathartic experience for "It came out of the years I worked at GMHC at the begin- audience, he is uncertain whether theater can actually create, ning of the plague. The experts were telling PWAs what they or foment, social change. should be dOing, feeling and acting. They all meant well-but "A writer creates art; people bring themselves to it and some of them were liars. And most of their rhetoric worries then whatever happens will happen. Theater can bring an me-it defeats the individual. PWAs are human beings-not audience through an emotional experience. After that, they go victims, not numbers. Rhetoric is a way of diminishing people. do what they want about it. I don't like art that begins with In the play, I want to articulate the life. the premise, 'I am going to teach you something.' I think that's "I saw so many of my friends dying-and I realized that anti-political. Simply putting on a play is political; creating the horror of it was that my situation was not unique. 1 wanted characters caught up in action is political." Certainly, a play- to write a play about life, and trying to live. I wanted it to be wright makes a statement by the very actions he chooses to emotionally accurate, a celebration of our lives and a docu- include in his play, and those he leaves out. ment of what we're going through. 1wanted to write about my A romantic precept suggests that art only results from the experience, about people who are well dealing with the guilt, quiet reflection of an experience after a good amount of time . the love, the stress--even though that stress is not nearly as has passed. This is not always so, of course, and in the case of great as the stress PWAs feel." art having to do with AIDS, the opposite seems to be true. Not Adam is also full of humor: Not a gallows humor, but the every novel, play, dance, performance piece or picture about laughter of people to whom humor comes naturally, even . AIDS succeeds as art or entertainment (or even as polemic), when faced with disaster. A few years ago, the novelist but those that do have been forged quickly out of experiences Edmund White postulated that when writing about AIDS, writ- passionately felt. This is art which is red hot. This lack of emo- ers should avoid humor. Bumbalo disagrees. tional distance between .the ocigirial experiences informing the "Gay men have a great sense of humor. It's helped build a art and the finished product can make the creating of it emo- wonderful suppOrt system." tionally difficult for the artist. This was true for Bumbalo and For many gay men at the beginning of the crisis, sex was Adam-but only up to a point. another subject that was suddenly taboo: Sex, that is, as some- "It was often very difficult. I was writing it at the time my thing healthy. Sex became the great betrayer of gay men, an friend George Whitmore [the novelist] was diagnosed. I would act people ought no longer indulge in. When the play begins, get very emotional about it as I worked. At night I'd rent three this is Adam's belief. He is visited by his sexual self, a kind of videos and watch them until five in the morning-stories that unwelcome Ghost of Christmas Past in boxer shorts, who does had nothing to do with our lives. But the writing itself came everything he can to lure Adam into bed. Adam wants no part very easily. They say that one play in five is a gift: This was a of him. When The Man, as he is called, first appears, Adam gift. It came very quickly-when I could sit down and do it. tries to make him disappear by naming as many Ann Miller The first was a very emotional experience. After that, it was a movies as he can. Undeterred, The Man suggests they count matter of craft." Arnold Schwartzenegger movies instead. Adam decides it's Audiences who see Adam may find it difficult to believe time to visit a shrink. that this deeply moving piece became just "a matter of craft" to "Sex isn't the enemy," Bumbalo asserts. "The virus is the its aUlhor; that he could, after so short a time, arrange so much enemy. Sex is a life force. There is illness and death, and there pain and suffering into a form offering comfort and hope at the is sex. Sexual feelings are life-affirming." Part of Adam's strug- same time it expresses so much outrage. But art'has great heal- gle is to reconcile himself once again with his sexual nature, ing properties for both artist and audience. For the artist, the which literally stalks him throughout the play. healing is in the private struggle to give painful experience a If audiences expect that Adam's visits to the experts will meaningful shape; for an audience, it is in the gathering togeth- reveal them as simply crass, selfish exploiters, they will be dis- er to make sense out of seemingly senseless events. appointed. Bumbalo's writing always has been marked by a Near the end of the play, The Man says to Adam, "Don't strong sense of humanity, and a refusal to make judgments on worry. Time makes you forget." Adam responds, "No, we those whose behavior may not be all that one might wish it to shouldn't forget. I don't want to forget. Not anymore. We're be. There are no villians in his plays, no Good Guys or Bad their monuments, aren't we? We have to remember what they Guys: just people who respond more or less well in difficult were like to hold, touch and love. If we do that, we won't be circumstances and who are, above all, human. like a tribe that vanishes forever." Such an approach is particularly remarkable when the That is the reason for a play like Adam and the Experts. It subject is AIDS. While it has brought out the best in many also explains the need for a lesbian and gay theater. 'Y people, in some, the crisis has emphasized a tendency to see certain issues simplistically, or serves as an excuse to indulge For single tickets for Adam and the Experts call HfT-l1X at in polemics. While polemics may be useful and even neces- (212) 564-8038. For information on subscriptions and groups, sary in politics, they are usually the most ineffective sort of art. call (212) 989-3750. November 19. 1989 OUTTWEEK 45 It seems that nowadays ~en activist lawyers are fodder for glamour mavens. Last week Bill Dobbs, a .member of Art + and ACT UP, and an attorricy'for both! groups, was spotted-along with other actl- vantes-modeling in a fashion supplement In the YI/Jage Yolce (this just a week after he garnered some pretty major publicity getting himself arre$ted at the Yale conference for pasting up posters depicting queers engaging in sexual activities). We swGr, it's truel So we figured, 'Hey, why can't we give 15 minutes (or, at,lGst, a page in OutWeek) to one of our favorite legal Ggles?' Joan Gibbs, who works for the Center for Constitutional Rights has fought tirelessly as an advocate for people with AIDS and gays and lesbians. She's worked dozens of ACT UP demos and and has sat In the jailhouse many a time, representing hundreds of protesters. And she's been by their sides through hGrlng after hearing, defending them against homophobic judges and maniacal district attorneys. But actually, that's nothing. What we rG11y love most about Joan Is the fact that she's the hippest, coolest, hottest, grooviest, wowest, nowest lawyer In court today, whose hair and clothes and acces- sories, always, without a doubt, bGt out the DP:s. -M.S. Photo: T. l. litt

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November 19, 1989 OUT..-WEEK 47 UT OF o MV HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL

Dear Brad: stopped running.and naturally I'm late in life. One teaches us how to think This guy, Allen Semchuk, decided. getting home ~rid my mother won't and the other teaches us how to liXe." to have this big party last Saturday even listen to me and grounds me for Now, arguably, the most valuable life while he was supposed to be taking two weeks. She might as well have skill one can learn is the ability to care of his sister's house way out in made it for the rest of my life because exact revenge and I believe that by Fairview because she and her hus- when I get to. sd;\Ool on Monday, dropping out of school right at this band had to go to a wedding in everybody's heard the story and crucial moment you might be losing Lethbridge and he invited a whole they're all avoiding me now and even out on the opportunity to begin devel- bunch of people since he's new to my teachers are looking at me disap- oping this skill. Understand that just school and I guess thought this would pointed. This is so unfair. I tried to because a girl like Melanie has her earn him a lot of friends. I went with talk to Melanie about this but she just own car this does not render her my girlfriend, Melanie, whose parents acted like I don't even exist and goes invincible. There is always a fatal flaw, bought her her own car when she on talking to these other girls about an Achille's heel if you will, and you turned 16 instead of giving her love the next party she's been invited to must be around her as much as possi- and everything was pretty okay until by this Beaverbrook guy. Since I'm ble to discover what that might be. these guys showed up who I guess over 16 I'd really like to drop out of This would be virtually impossible to were Allen's old friends from school right now and ask Safeway if do from behind the check-<>utcounter Beaverbrook and they brought along maybe I can 'work there. full time at Safeway but easy as pie from the all this beer. I told Melanie I thought instead of part and never have to see relatively close proximity that high we should take off before something these people again. Do you think I school affords. I'm not saying this will happened and she's like, "Get real, should? happen immediately, a well-planned Sandy," because she thought this -Miserable vendetta rarely does, but you have the Beaverbrook guy was fascinated by luxury of your two-week grounding her and she took a beer to show him Dear Miserable: period to begin formulating an how ultra-sophisticated she is that she You were right to come to me approach. Just as a suggestion to get drinks the stuff like water all the time with this. I, myself, have had some you started, think about Melanie's as though her parents would really casual (albeit prickly) experience with apparent attraction to parties which as keep beer around their house. So she the secondary school environment you now well know are veritable proceeds to get royally pissed and I and, not altogether convinced of its breeding grounds for ruinous behavior try to get her to leave beqlUse even if merits as an institution am therefore and the circulation of innuendo. It she can't see it she's making a total' inclined to agree that your plan does would be advisable to get yourself spectacle of herself and she turns real- indeed offer some substantial palliative back on that circuit which will of ly nasty on me and says I'm jealous solutions to an obviously disturbing course require that you reconsider because this guy likes her and why problem, not the least of which is the your rather rigid views on teenage don't I ever have any guys who like generous salary that Safeway pays its substance abuse. Not that you need to me and she tells everybody that employees. Having said that, however, participate On fact, more than ever maybe I don't like guys. So I just let me pass along something I heard now and in the months even years to wanted to die right there but instead I from my Grade 11 English teacher on come you will need a clear head to tore out of the house and had to walk one of those afternoons I happened to' achieve your goal) but there are all the way home since the buses had be in class: "there are two educations numerous ways to give the impression of participation or at the very least tol- erance for these activities. Once you start to put all of this together I think you'll be pleasantly surprised to learn how much better you'll feel about yourself by exchanging the role of vic- tim for that of an empowered individual with strong and active personal goals. Write me again later, I'll be interested to know how you're doing. T

48 OUT"VVEEK November12,1989 .a TI In that same lIle of three weeks twice is inexcusably lazy. As for the ago, Phyllis, in her lame, incohesive cover story on Phranc of which he's and incomprehensible "Press Breaks" so proud, when can we expect an column, attacked OutWeek in what item_pn Georgia O'Keefe.' can only be described as a horrible the answer to the above question display of homophobia and a hilarious which I asked: Yes, this woman is display of stupidity. She took us t() being an asshole. Phyllis, I asked task for writing the headline, "S.F. readers and no one "cringed" when Quake Spares the Castro, Lesbian/Gay hearing the headline. I would imagine Community Shak~ But Safe.· Phyllis it happens only to homophobes like claims that we are': gratuitously homo- yourself. And once again, as I told By MIchelangelo Signorile centric" and that such a headline plays' you on the telephone a few days ago: into the "stereotype of gay people as BRADLEY BALL'S COLUMN IS A Sometimes I pick up the pen- self-centered hedonists blind to the JOKE. HE ONLY SAID HE WAS nysaver, New York Press. It's usually concerns of the larger world ...Like too REPRINTING A PREVIOUS COLUMN when I'm walking my dog. Since I many 'special interest' publications, AS PART OF THAT JOKE. WE REAL- always forget to bring out newspapers OutWeek is belittling its audience by IZE THAT PEOPLE WHO WRITE FOR (and since I don't own a pooper serving up stories and columns solely PENNYSAVERS MAY NOT BE ABLE scooper), it's so convenient to have on the basis that they are written by TO UNDERSTAN!?SUCH INCREDIBLY that gross green cannister on every and about gay and lesbian people." SOPHISTICATED HUMOR. AND WE corner, filled with newspapers to pick OS this woman being an asshole, or SY~THIZE WITH YOU. As for clos- up shit with. Other times I gaze over what?) She then goes on to say that eted,. middle class, Georgia O'Keefe, if the boring stories hoping to be our cover featured "yet another inter- she had stood on a stage in front of momentarily amused, at least with view with lesbian folksinger Phranc thousands of rednecks and said, "I am gossip, while I'm held captive in the and that Bradley Ball "came up short a lesbian," we would put her on our laundromat or the pizzeria (where as well" because he "printed a previ- cover. Otherwise, we'll take Phranc there's usually a stack of them). I ously published column." just fine. never do get a rise, but what can I Out Week 'editor-in-chief Gabriel Phyllis, it's obvious what you're expect from a tawdry shopper which Rotello. wrote New York Press a let- trying to do with that cornball col- tries so desperately to have a politics ter, asking what Phyllis means when umn. And it's obvious what your that it goes in a hundred different she says the stories in Out Week are shop'per has been trying to do since it directions. Is it left-Wing? Is it yuppie? written by and about gay people. first began publishing. Everything in Is it reactionary? All three? "Meaning what?" he asks. "That a your publication is excessively nega- Well, there's one thing it certainly gay paper should not write about tive to a point where it's nonsensical. is: homophobic. And the leader of the gays? Really? Earth to PhylliS...Earth You've attacked every major publica- homo-hating pack at New York Press to Phyllis ... Come in please." He tion, institution jtd individual in New seems to be Phyllis Orrick, the associ- goes on to point out that Out Week York in a desperate attempt to get ate editor who, when she came was Phranc's first cover story and noticed, be quoted and therefore be worming around the OutWeek offices that we haven't seen her in Time, legitimized. But alas, no one ever a few months ago, I could have sworn Newsweek, Rolling Stone or New mentions your rag or you (I only do was a lesbian. Now I'm so glad that York Press. He also pointed out that so now because the serious issue of she's not Bradley Ball's column is "a parody, homophobia is involved). You will Dear Phyllis has, for some time Phyllis. You know, Phyllis, like kind forever be a worthless pennysaver, now, been doing stories which always of a joke, like the Weekend Update which doesn't appeal or write to a seem to have a dubious slant to them. on Saturday Night Liue kind of large part of your market downtown: Recently, for instance, she wrote a thing. Funny. Made up. Not real." gay men and lesbians. Arid could your piece called "Meat Streets,' in which On the column in question Ball had attacks on Out Week have something she quotes an unnamed person refer- said he was reprinting a column to do with the fact that so far we've ring to westside "transvestite prosti- from 1980, which of course couldn't been written about in everyone of the tutes" as "wild beasts." She refers to really be true since we were not city'~' daily and weekly papers from the "murkier uses" of buildings in the publishing at the time.) The New York Times to The Vii/age meat-packing district as "after-hours In last week's New York Press, Voice? That we have received more bars and gathering spots for a primari- Phyllis responds to Rotello's letter, press in five months without trying ly male, gay clientele." Phyllis calls the saying that we should "ask readers ~ than you have received in two years meat-packers and other workers who they didn't cringe over the headline of screaming, "write about us!" As I inhabit the area by day the "legitimate cited, 'Lesbian/Gay Community said on the 'telephone, Phyl, maybe denizens of the meat market district" Shaken But Safe'.• me parodies like one day you'll get a real job at a who "expressed fear that dangerous the Bradley Ball i6lfumn are Rotello's newspaper. Until then, could you characters were on the rise." problem but running the same one gu~s maybe run more coupons? ..

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~ D4'f, 7tA- ~, Film Blood, Gore and Video News tric chair, is transformed into a mania- perhaps by being the killer's son, cal electric current running rampant jonathan helps track him' down and through the bodies of individuals and, bring him to the electric chair, though finally, through the body of television not before Pinker has gone on to programming. In both exploiting tele- slash Jonathan's girlfriend, Alison vision violence and exploring his own (Cami Cooper), and a score of cops. violent and campy i.mpulses, Craven While this execution might seem attempts to point out that the real like the film's end, Pinker only loses by Peter Bowen "shocker" is the violence portrayed his body, not his mind. Transformed everyday on the television news. into electricity itself, Pinker hunts In the film, a mass murder has jonathan, shocking various individuals turned the town into a shadowy and taking over their bodies and ner- n1972,Wes Craven, with the nightmare by slashing up whole fami- vous systems. Moving from the body of cut-rate budget of $90,000, trans- lies in the privacy of their homes. a cop to a little girl, who comically formed Ingmar Bergman's Virgin While the police can't find a clue, develops the characteristic limp and I foul mouth of Pinker, Pinker starts to Spring, a 14th century saga of feudal Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg), t~e revenge, into inhabit bod- the camped-up ies closer to suburban slash- home: Jona- er, Last House than's coach on the Left: and, finally, Craven's re- his adopted make went on father. Pin- to make over ker's real $20 million. ambition, ATmostten years however, is later, Craven's television. Nightmare on As his video- Elm Street projected launched New body is pull- Line Cinema's ed from the financial suc- smoother, cess. It also realistic film revealed the body of unforgettable jonathan'S face of Freddy father, and Krueger, an sprayed as image that television would continue YEAH! waves into to haunt both Mass murderer Horace Pinker (Mitch Pileggilloves his juice. the night Nightmare on sky, Pinker Elm Streets numerous sequels and, adopted son of Lt. Don Parker triumphantly exclaims, "I'm going strangely enough, the drawings of (Michael Murphy), discovers how real nation-wide. " emotionally abused children. his own nightmares can be when he In the end, the real fight is not Craven has become a legend for witnesses the massacre of his family only about and through television, but not only touching the nerve, but the in his dreams and later witnesses their in television. In order to .catch Pinker, nervous system of the American pub- corpses being taken out of his home jonathan-with the beyond-the-grave lic. In Shocker-whose title in reality. jonathan, however, has love and assistance of his ghostly girl- unabashedly announces the film's seen more than just his family's death; friend-projects himself into a televi- intent-Craven takes the "shock he saw the gruesome face of Horace sion set in order to fight it out with appeal" of his films quite literally and Pinker (Mitch Pileggi), ~ television Pinker through the violent backdrop fashions a killer, who, in absorbing repairman who moonlights as a serial of television programing. Running the otherwise lethal shock of the elec- killer. Drawn intuitively to the killer, See SHOCKER on page 59

November 19, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 53 Music Nearly There by NoeUe Hanrahan movies and on Broadway, appearing anti-imperialist activist and an actress as the girl next door on Tbe Partridge who came of age under the spot- Family, in a leading role opposite light-Near is motivated to take risks by Don johnson (too bad it was in a her enduring belief that all growth tisa popular pastime. You too trashy film made before they both involves change. Wearing her multiple can be hip and feel smug by became famous) and as a cast mem- identities with pride, Near has revealed snubbing Holly Near, thinking ber in the original Broadway produc- herself to the public with unparalleled thatI her approach is passe. Yet even tion of Hair. The fall of 1990 will see candor, becoming arguably the most those women who are most. aggres- the publication by William Morrow of "out" public personality in America. On sively dressed up and into under- . Near's as yet untitled autobiography. her work with a variety of groups, she ground music scenes rely on the Not yet famous as an actress (rumor comments, "Some people have said I women's cultural community that has it that this is on next year's agen- have betrayed one movement to go off Holly Near and to another. They Redwood Records are missing the (the company that point that what I she gave birth to) learn in one place have had a strong gives me the hand in forming. stepping stone to Every self-respect- the next. I take ing lesbian over 25 where I have has probably pos- been with me so sessed at least one nothing is left of Near's records. behind." Time after t!me On the we have wanted to winos of the categorize Holly women's commu- Near, no matter nity's grapevines, how many styles rumors and infor- she works with, or mation travel at a how ma~y labels torrid pace. While we try to apply that this informal don't quite fit. method of com- Fourteen al bums munication serves down the road you the community would think that well by keeping we would learn to tabs on its daily give it up. Whether heartbeat, it can singing about love' also act like the or revolution, she proverbial tele- has never been phone game demure or backed where confusing down from her information is re- truth. Anyone who SWIRUNG AMIDST HER IDENTITIES peated or blown has followed her II, /I ' " rf th out of proportion. career will notice 0 YS 0 Ie year So what does the the political threads that hold it togeth- da), Holly Near has become a national women's community want to know er. Her last two albums Don't Hold political icon by singing about peace, about Holly Near? OutWeek caught up Back (987), a pop exploration of lust, lesbian liberation and a plethora of with her between performances and and Skydances (1989), which explores political issues. spoke with her by phone from Ukiah, the human life and death cycle, take a Swirling amidst her identities-- les- CA, asking her for an update on a few dramatiCally inward turn. bian folk-singer, country-raised daugh- issues. As a teenager she worked in TV, ter of an old Californian farming family, When asked to define her sexual-

54 OU~WEEK November 19, 1989 ~ ity, she replied, "I'm dealing with that made a significant impact on the Holly Near will be performing at in my book ...sexual politics are bigger music market, as much so as heralded Carnegie Hall on Friday, November than a box or a title. It is as tiny as groups such as The Clash and even 17, at 8 pm. For more information, our intimate selves and as big as Patti Smith. T call (212) 247-7800. patriarchy.· For the record, Holly wanted to put the whole issue in a longer context and she felt that one- Schlagzahne liners just would not do it justice. I was also curious to know it, at age 40, she was laying the ground work for a career change to acting. Near commented, "At one point I was doing 150 concerts a year which was 80 percent of Redwood's economic existence.· This over dependency became crucial in 1986, when Holly had to cut back on her touring sched-' ule because of a debilitating back problem. This forced Redwood Records to reorganize, separating product/record sales from Near's touring income. These developments seemed to coincide with the rekindling of Holly's interest in a~ting. In the winter of 1988 Holly Near appeared in the San Jose Repertory Theater's Tbe 1940 s Radio Hour. "I'm not pursu- .ing a living as an actress, which Alassandra Marc and Robart Bass Photo:Robin Hall would necessitate having to take anything offered to me ...1 am slowly , reintroducing myself to those direc- . tors whose work I admire." Near adds, "Redwood needs to be independent of me, and not rest on one person's mortality. The challenge and the weight need to be shared among many people." As for her book, "We have finished the copy edit. The hardest part was trying to explain everything in one book. If there had been another book on women's music, some of this information would not seem so over- whelming to define. I also had to realize that I will have'to write other books' and that this story is finished in this form. This was the hardest stretch, to let it go." Celebrating the release of a new album this past spring, working on the final drafts for her autobiography and touring the United States with Mercedes Sosa, Holly Near is well on her way to racking up another highly productive 20 years of activism. Not everyone has to adore her musical styles, but it is more than fair to say that this music and movement has

November 19, 1989 OUTTWEEK 55 Performance Schlock Around the Clock

FAN- TASIA TAKARAZUKA STYLE The prepublicity alternately hint- Takarasienne, she was the only one ed that the evening would be chock who seemed to embrace her role by Dominique Dibbell full of lesbian codes, and warned that entirely and play the sex appeal for it would be nothing more than all it was worth. She had that "je ne schlock. It was schlock throughout, sais quo is" expressed in the thinly with but a few winks to the sitters in veiled arrogance of her smile, little n the long subway ride the crowd. and mean like Vanessa Redgrave's, home from TAKARAZUKA: Not extreme enough in its the jaw which jutted forward merci- japan's Most Lavish schlock to be wildly amusing it, like a lessly, the d.a.-always a little rum- MusicalO Extravaganza, I saw two of Las Vegas show, was doggedly tame pled like Gable's and (finally!) some the butch est, most crisp young les- and repetitive, and only mildly amus- hip action. bians I've ever seen. I thought the ing. I'm not one to talk. I've never It pleased me deeply to see mid- noble Beebo Brinker was dead, and seen one of those big-budget dle-aged, well-to-do japanese men in yet here were two of them, alive and Broadway shows, and from what I've suites applaud like crazy when she well and riding the F train. The sandy- heard of them, Takarazuka supplied teased them from the runway with a haired blonde, so calmly arrogant, had the goods today's theater-going audi- posture that could only be described stretched her legs out on the seats. ence delights in: expensive trimmings as flirtatious. In the office these men The brunette had her legs spread supporting determinedly unimagina- may be creating advertising which comfortably wide in front of her. They tive content. I overheard a white, het- perpetuates compulsive heterosexuali- sported the preppie look-all .creases ero, professional couple remarking ty, or making policy decisions enforc- and plaid, with little faux-emblems after the show on the lavish costumes ing the phantasm of the nuclear emblazoned here and there. They and sets with bland approval, as family, but tonight they were getting conversed in relaxed tones like jock though there was some abstract for- tingly over a drag queen without a guys. If by their looks they aroused a mula of ticket price to production moment's hesitation. disapproving gaze, they did not costs equals good theater. It's not an uncommon phe- appear to notice. That indifference to One star cut through the cheese nomenon, which seems to happen queer baiting, feigned or not, made with the finely honed knife of sub- when the star has that charm which them seem invincible. They excited version. Mizuki aura, the top star of no one can deny, regardless of gen- and moved me in a way I had hoped this troupe and a player of male der or sexuality. I've seen it happen at to be, and was not, by the Takarazuka roles, delivered the real goods. a k.d. lang concert, where an entirely .experience. Unlike the many male impersonating Se. TAKARAZUKA on page 58

56 OUr..-WEEK November 19, 1989 .Performance You Fill UpMy Senses

performing with the Rubber Feet com- deep appreciation to Queen Elizabeth, edy troupe. She hasn't entirely severed Dame Diggy launches into one of her those ties, but it is our fortune she has bawdy poems. Ms. McLean is no ordi- begun expanding her artistic horizons. nary poetess. She is Eliza Doolittle sans Like Lily Tomlin and VH-l's Bobby .tutelage; Dan Quayle flagrantly acting Rivers, Filler is a keen social observer like an adult. The woman lacks class by Jonn Wasser commenting on life's idiosyncracies but this minor human failing does not with a mordant, yet amusing wit. Never prevent her from speaking frankly to didactic or allowing herself to slip into the Queen, going as far as to compare pseudo-high concept art, her characters Her Royal Handbag-carrying Highness icture, if you will, Deborah speak for themselves while serving as a to a cow. We never hear the Queen's Norville's mother. Morning microcosm for the late 80s. reaction, but it does not matter. Dame television's most Diggy has already per- notoriousP vixen must have formed the crucifixion. a bleached blond parent Often, it takes an out- cloistered somewhere with- sider, someone who can in these United States. focus on his or her adopt- Norville, a mint julep thor- ed country's foibles to oughbred, spent her forma- make us see ourselves in a tive boob tube years in clearer light. It is to Filler's Chicago, leading me to sus- credit that as an expatriate pect she really speaks in a Kiwi-New Zealand born flat, midwestern twang. and bred-she can ;Jbe Scarlett O'Hara lilt is a observe, decipher and vocal facade, akin to coat- accurately portray New ing a machete with globs York's transparent night- of honey. Add several club scene. Her character, years and one or two Charlotte von Hottenberg, crows feet for effect, and sports a tacky wig, a fluffy, viola! Enter Patti, a house- red boa and speaks in a wife from Fort Wayne, haughty German accent. Indiana, U.S.A., one of the An avant-garde perfor- zany characters you will mance artist and down- meet in Filler Up., Deborah town habitue, Charlotte's Filler's one-woman show. singing lacks tonality and Patti and her husband have intonation, but more been hijacked to importantly, her artistic Khartoum, but Patti's landscape is barren.' She is thoughts constantly focus devoid of depth, an East on her appetite. Never Village Sally Bowles. A mind the gunshots and mention in the Warhol death threats. Should she Diaries would have put a choose the rubber chicken temporary smile on her or the beef? Such decisions somber face. Charlotte are paramount to her exis- simultaneously exhorts and tence. Mama Norvjlle final- disdains Rudolf's new ly meets the press and you SORRY PATTI, WE'VE ASKED MERYL mega-palace, "Club Insect,· rest assured, daughter Deborah Filler B la Lu Pone Photo: Marke Daryl Webb where denizens find them- Debbie is cringing at her selves helpless victims of a every word. Filler opens with Dame Diggy giant fly swatter. Filler gave birth to Patti and her McLean, Australia's newly crowned Filler and director Steve other coterie of funny characters while Poet Laureate. To demonstrate her Continued on next page

November 19, 1989 OUTTWEEK 57 Tj Rosenfield end the evening with a TAKARAZUKA from page 56 'dorm mother' in the Takarazuka dor- wonderfully comic Fiftieth mixed audience was drooling at her mitories, and makes herself available to Anniversary gathering reminiscent of feet just because she's so dam sexy. talk to the first-year students about Woody Allen. Philllip Roth's bourgeois Matt Dillon does it for me, my bisexu- their concerns and fears." We can just middle-class Jews are served as aperi- al lover and our straight-as-an-arrow picture the tortured 15-year-old crying, tifs and topped off with a stunning boy pal. Madonna gets everyone wet. "She doesn't even know I'm alive!" and rendition of "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," But besides her charisma, Mizuki the dangerously attractive "older Filler portrays every role, from the Oura was a woman playing a man, woman" struggling with her conscience aging grandmother whose middle which gives everyone the green light and her burning pussy as the plebe name is "guilt" to the tempestuous on fantasy. And there we find the spills tears on her breast. Takarazuka grandchild who wishes to spike every tiniest subversive door has been marketing minds assert that their Perrier bottle with ecstasy. Filler's opened. The drag transgression, situ- immense teenybopper following is fan- incisive writing and acting skills trans- ated in this mainstream context, tasizing along heterosexual storylines, late into extensive laughs. It does not seems to open people'S minds to the but every adolescent girl knows the matter whether the person watching imagining of all the genders and sex- allure of the horny all-girl camp. is Jewish or not. These are everyday ualities within us. People seem to Lesbians without access to the people. Strip away their accents and think, "in order to enjoy this pretend, steamy press release, could pass time guilt-indJJced craziness, and we are we must believe it, and maybe in between the show tunes and endless left with people similar to ourselves. doing so leave behind our rigid sex- high kicks by imaging which I first noticed Filler cavorting with uality boxes." The gay boy may iden- Takarasienne were sleeping with Rubber Feet. She is a full-figured tify with the image of the straight whom. That activity exhausted, there woman-she weighed ten pounds at man. The straight man may identify was always the crowd to be scoped. birth-with wavy, dark hair and full, with the young girl. I, the lesbian, This too was over quickly. We were sensuous lips. Her expressive face might find myself in love with the hardly one in ten that night. The most often reminds me of a stupefied Patti "man" on stage. . thrilling sighting of the evening was a LuPone after she realized she lost the I couldn't swear that any of this japanese couple, both female, film version of Evita. There are the mind expansion actually occurred. dressed (a la Rocky Horror) in a little wide-set eyes, the comic's rubbery Clearly, the founding businessman red dress and a smashing tuxedo. It mouth which purses on command and father of the Takarazuka institution made me wonder if more fan acting- that voice. Imagine Bela Lugosi never intended to suggest alternative out happens back home. crossed with perky Olivia Newton- sexualities to the paying public. At the finale, a few starstuck john. Drop in a vial of ammonia and Takarazuka was founded on secure girls, terribly sweet and timid, bum- you're getting closer. Add a few sexist underpinnings as a finishing rushed the stage. They looked, cute- Barbra and Bette-isms and you've school for young girls. The convent- ly, like they were feeling awfully reached vocal nirvana. like atmosphere of the Takarazuka dangerous for taking some rich per- All is not perfect in this most Music School is intended to promote son's seat who'd left early. Two imperfect of worlds including parts of the values of "modesty, fairness and square-bodied lesbians, so androgy- Fi1Ier UfJ. The pacing could be better grace." While some Takarazuka grad- nous I thought they were faggots, and several characters, including Dame uates go on to be movie stars, the jumped into the seats in front of me Diggy McLean, receive short shrift. majority emerge as well-behaved and could scarcely contain them- They warrant additional attention if wife material. selves, being so close to their idols. they are to sweep us off our feet. The story.of the Takarazuka Music They clapped as quick as rabbits and Rosenfield would be well advised to School is, in fact, far more tantalizing grabbed each other in an "oh-my- create a thematic unity among the than the actual show. For those of us god" overflow of excitement. characters. Right now, they are soloists who live by reading between the lines, This final spectacle served to searching for a common score. a big red flag goes up when we hear soften my resentment. If Takarazuka Still, there is no doubt in my mind "convent-like atmosphere." The sce- could stir girls in their formative that Filler is a unique talent, one worth nario of the school couldn't have been years, and bring joy to one or two watching. I suggest you catch her act more classic if Lee Lynch had scripted of us sad lesbians, then they were now before the masses find out and it herself-350 girls between the ages alright with me. I thought of the she ventures uptown. A word of advice of 15 to 18, living in barracks style iso- bland bourgeois couple getting their for the fainthearted. If you fear walking lation. The first year students must money's worth and thanked the below Houston Street, stop at Katz's endure elaborate humiliation rituals, goddess that I'd been born queer, Deli, schmooze with the locals and such as cleaning the school an hour and given rule over, if for all the order one of their tasty pastrami sand- each day and bowing to a second-year wrong reasons, the realms of pas- wiches. Make sure to ask Pedro, the student should they meet in the hall- sion and imagination. 'Y counterman, to make it lean. Eat one- way. To quote a juicy sample from the TAKARAZUKAwas performed half and later, give the other to Patti. press release, "An older woman, a for- at Radio City Music Hall from She will be most appreciative. ~ mer Takarazuka performer, acts as a October 25 to 29.

58 OUTTWEEK November 19,1989 ~ POunCAL SCIENCE from page 35 SHOCKER from page 53 attempts to censor "homoerotic· art, it many of these agents, used alone, through the channels (fighting it out in would seem that the real "shock" to might prove effective as prophylaxis. a KKK meeting, bouncing over the our society is not the graphic repre- sentation of bodily vidlence but cre- San Francisco's CCC is comparing c10- desk of a TV anchorperson, catching ative attempts to imagine the bodies fazimine, an approved anti-leprosy up Beaver's family car on Leave it to of same-sex couples together. We drug, to placebo as MAl prophylaxis. Beaver) the father and son-in an almost perfect sit-com comedy-fight might wonder, therefore, if Jesse New York's CRI is considering to get control of the remote control in Helm's wife, who, after seeing a ansamycin (rifabutin), which seems to order to control each other. In the Mapplethorpe photograph of white be one of the more effective anti-MAl end, one body is discontinued, and and Black men embracing, gasped, drugs, but is hard to get because the another goes on for another season. "jesse, I'm not believing this," might FDA required the manufacturer, Adria But is this really shocking? find the violent and gleeful images of Labs of Ohio, to limit the supply and Considering the huge profits of slash- women being murdered not only conduct further studies. er films and the recent public more believable; but easier to bear. T As the above examples show, I there are many existing treatments I I which should be tried to prevent the most common OIs. If the government's AIDS program continues its failure to recognize, treat and prevent the major AIDS-related OIs, Congress. should defund the AIDS Program and distribute the funds among community-based research groups so they can carry out trials which will actually im- prove the quality of life for people who are living with AIDS. T

BIG BROTHER from page 34

t. As a federally-fmanced project, its "findings" will also profoundly influence Medicaid/Medicare reimburse- ment policies. And Emprise argues ominously that its database "takes the place of expensive clinical trial procedures, providing physician (patient/ public) satisfaction without the need to divert critical research funds." So much for the scientific method. Emprise's Monaco frankly ad- mits that "for this to work" the project must be "perceived" as having broad cQmmunity support to "give it credibility on all levels." All the. more reason that the AIDS community should refuse to cooperate with it in any manner. There is grow- ing alarm about this blacklist among AIDS activists, and the Al- ternative and Holistic Treatment Subcommittee of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is de- veloping a proposal for action. For more information, call ACT UP at (212) 989-1114. T

Research by Ralph Moss and Robert Houston. '

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Send calendar Items to. Rick X. Going Out CONGREGATION BETII SIM- tormenting relationships, adven- CHATTORAHjewish Education turous journeys" in the Charles Box 790 FI///AJ' Courses; tonight: Hebrew Lan- 1 Angel/People of Color Room, at New York, NY 10108 guage Reading Class at 7:30 pm; the Center, 208 W 13 St (620- Principles of Kasrulh at 7:30 pm; BREAK1HROUGHPROGRAMAT 7310); 8 pm; GMADinfo 718/802- Items mUit be receival by Mel Rosen's WorlrshopiDiscu.sSwn GRACIE SQUARE HOSPITAL 0162, 718/7~1548 Monday to be Included In the on Issues that Confront Us as Les- Spirituality Weekend, Barbara fOllowing week's lAue, bian and Gay Jews at 7:30 pm, Warren and Michael Picucci lead NY SOCIE1YFOR ETHICALCUL- Biblical Women: Tbe Hurrian a 3-day renewal workshop for TURE and WEST SIDE YMCA Women, Israel's Matriarchs & gays and lesbians in 12-step Writer's Voice Series. 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COOPERSQUARE1HEAlRE pre- r//ES//AJ' comes a-calling on the Farm Cou- Past, edited by Duberman, Vici- sents NOSE JOB: She Had to ple. of the Year only to find that nus, and Chauncey, Jr.; at the Model, a new musical cO(Tledy everything's gay in ... ·; at the Reception Hall of the CUNY by 'William Love, the story of LAMBDALEGALDEFENSEAND Courtyard Playhouse, 39 Grove Graduate Center, 33 W 42 St; 6-8 'Tara Felchberger, a 17-year-old EDUCATION FUND Theater St; 8 pm; $12; 869-3530 (WED, pm; $30 advance/$40 door; press Barbizon graduate from Great Party and ~neflt: TbruPf1tltry nru, FRI at 8; SATat 6 & 9; SUN info 633-2673 Neck, LI who happens to be 6'4" Opera; with Sting in his Broad- at 7; limited run through DEC 10) with a nose like Karl Maidel!, way debut, also starring Maureen MEN OF ALI. COLORSTOGE1H- who is in considerable denial McGovern and Ethyl Eichelberg- GAY MEN'S HEALTII CRISIS ER Conslousness Raising Ses- about being a model"; starring er; at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, Eroticizing Safer Sex Work- sion: Prejudice + Power - William "Jasmine Allspice" Love 204 W 46 St; pre-theatre party at shop, to learn the how-to's of Racism: Does It Always Add as Tara, with Debra Granieri _Criterion Center, 1530 Broadway playing more safely while meet- Up? at the Center, 208 W 13; 7:45 (Women Behind Bars), Paul Phin- at 45 St, 5:30-7:30 pm; shQw at 8 ing Olher men; at the Center, 208 pm; 222-9794,245-6366 ney, Michael-Stewart Peters, Ger- pm; $150 - $1000+; 995-8585 W 13 St; 8-10 pm; free, no regis- ard "Mr. Fashion" Little, Kevin tration required; 807-6655, TOD VIRGINIA GIORDANO presents Bain, and Michael T; 50 E 7 St; 2ND TIJESDAYSATTIlE CENTER 645-7470 Holly Near with John Bucchino, 10:30 pm; $5; 228-0811 (also presents james Purdy, reading. and the Inti-Illlmanl Chilean 11/24, 12/1) from his latest novel, Garments SCRABBLE PLAYERS' CLUB Ensemble; at Carnegie Hall, 57th the Living Wear, at the Center, Game Night for men and St & 7th Ave; 8 pm; $15-$25; info 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $3; 620-7310 women; at the Center, 208 W 13 929-1585,tix 247-7800 St, 2nd Floor; 8 pm; $4 (and bring a board); 620-7310 THE ANSWER IS LOVING Women Talk.lng Women's Talk: LOUISE HAY INSTITUTE Love EAGLI; BAR Movie Night: Out "Friends: Invite a friend- a night Yourself, Heal Your life Work- Cold; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 of acknowledgement. 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60 OUT~WEEK November 19, 1989 -.; ABC NO RIO Expartdlrtg 'he 9 pm; 381 Bridge St, Brooklyn SAGE Thanksgiving Social at mont Theatre, Lincoln Center; Cosmic Trust, a one-woman (A,F to Jay StIR to Lawrence the Gay Synagogue, 57 Bethune 7:30 pm; $25-$150; 935-2200 show and exhibit by Sheila F. St/2,3 to Hoyt St/4,5 to Borough (in the Westbeth Complex); 1-5 Waten; with gallery viewing of Hall); $7; 71&'569-2009 pm; members $6 advance/$8 sculpture, water color, door, non-members $8 F//E.F//Ar jewelry/mixed media on canvas WOMANEWS Dance at Circus advance/$10 door; 741-2247 E from noon to 5 pm; poetry read- Maxlmus, with OJ "JC' from ings 8-10 pm; video features JumpCut Productions; 99 -2nd BROOKLYN WELCOMES AMAN- NEW YORK ADVERTISING & (Liana, Desert Hearts, Switch- Street (btwn 1st Ave & Ave A); 9 DA CENTENO Women's COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK blade Sisters, others) 10 pm - pm until ... ; $7; all women wel- Brunch, to welcome and talk Monthly Meeting, at the Center, midnight; 156 Rivington St (F, J, come; 989-7963 with the noted Nicaraguan femi- Network Room, 208 W 13 St; M to Essex/Delancey); 254-3697 nist and revolutionary; in Brook- 6:30-9:30 pm; 517-0380 GAY & LESBIAN UNION AT lyn; 1 pm; $5; 718/622-1773 CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHU- NEW YORK UNlVERSIlY Third SAGE sees Tyne Daly In Gypsy , RUN Shabbat Spiritual Gather- Saturday Dance, with OJ; at PROJECf CONNECf Actlrtg as to benefit SAGE's AIDS service Ing for people with AIDS and Loeb Student Center's Eisner & If Theatre Workshop, Levd I, program for seniors; at the St. their loved ones; luncheon, Lubin Auditorium, S66 laGuardia for Recovering People, led by James Theater, 8 pm; $70 ($30 music, conversation, study, wor- Place (off Wash. 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South); 9 pm Emerald O'leary who combines goes to SAGE); info 741-2247 ship service; 257 W 88 St; 2 pm; to 1 am (doors close at mid- classical acting training and the free; 787-7600 (also 12/16) night); photo 10 essential to Magic If of theatre with Acting As CENTER STAGE sees City of enter; $5 general/$3 students If from the 12-step recovery pro- "rtgels, by Cy Coleman and CENTER SPORTS sees Virginia with ID/free for NYU students; grams; at the Center, 208 W 13 Larry Gelbart, with Gregg Edel- Slims Women's Tennis, semi- 998-4938 St; 2-5 pm; $15; register 620-7310 man, James Naughton, Rene final matches; at Madison Square Auberjonois and Randy Graff; at Garden, 33rd St & 7th Ave; early SPECTRUM DISCO presents BISEXUAL PRIDE Focus Group: the Virginia Theatre; 8 pm; $58; afternoon starting; members Sybil, singing "Don't Make Me Relallo'lShlps: The More the 62(}7310 $50/non-members $70; 620-7310 Over" and "My Love Is Guaran- Merrierll, at the Center, 208 W teed"; 802 64th St, Bay Ridge, 13 St, 3 pm, $5, 718/353-8245 BISEXUAL YOUTH sees The PEOPLE WIlli AIDS COALITION Brooklyn (N train to 8th Ave Darlc Star Crew at the Knitting Singles' Tea, for PWAs, PWArcs, stop); opens at 9 pm; 718/238- JUDIlli'S ROOM BOOKSTORE Factory, 47 E Houston St; 8:30 lflV+s; 222 W 11 ST, 3-5:30 pm; 8213 presents Katherine V. Forrest, pm; $5; info 242-6815 532-0568 author of The Beverly Malibu; COLUMBIA PEP BOYS PRODUC- 681 Washington St (btwn W 10 & COMMITTEE OF OUTRAGED TIONS Same But Different Charles St); 3 pm; free, but seat- LESBIANS Monthly Meeting, Dance, for gay men and lesbians ing is limited; 727-7330 with a "provocative discussion and their friends; Columbia Uni- on multi-cultural relationships versity's Earl Hall, 116 St & B'way GAY MEN'S HEALlli CRISIS and GAY MEN OF AFRICAN 'among women of color and/or ("11#9 train); 10 pm - 2 am; $5 AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS DESCENT Communal Thanks- with white women'; singles and with invite or student 10; 629- COUNlY Producclon de Infor- giving Meal with the Hetrlck- couples welcome; at the Center, 1989 male AquU, con participacion de Martin Institute, in which in the SAGE Room, 208 W 13 St; la estrella Mario de Colombia; members of GMAD will con- 6-8 pm; 243-0202 tambien rifas, regalos, refrescos, tribute culinary creations and sandwiches; en el disco Love share thanks at a meal with -the NONSMOKING LESBIAN NET- Boat, Broadway & 77 St, youth served by the lIMI; at the WORK Dinner and Show, Elmhurst, Queens; 9:30 (entrada Center, 1st floor, 208 W 13 St 718/998-2536 till 10 pm LOUISE HAY INSTITIJTE Love gratis entre las 8:30 y 9:30); 807- (62(}7310); 3:30 pm; GMAD info Yourself, Heal your Life 6655 718/802-0162, 718/756-1548 GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Workshop, see NOV 18 (Note: there will' be no meeting Leatherfest, where leathermen of GMAD this Friday, 11/24) & leatherwomen enjoy fun and TERRY WEISSER Erotic Touch- festivities, including a hot Ger- Ing and Massage For Men, "a GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Pil- man buffet, leather fleamarket; at day of erotic exploration .. .learn grim Punishment and HoUday the Eagle Bar, 142 11th Ave (at Taoist erotic massage techniques PROJECf CONNECf Acting as Social, with a discussion of how 21 St); 7-10 pm; $8 members/$12 and how sex can help heal our If Theatre Workshop, Levd II, our naughty Pilgrim Fathers (and non-mombers (includes one free bodies and spirits ...this class is for Recovering People, led by sons) spent their time, followed drink); info 727-9878, bar 243- done nude"; at 135 W 14 St, 2nd Emerald O'Leary who combines by refreshments (bring dessert or 9688 Floor; 10 am - 6 pm; $75; rsvp classical acting training and the appetizers to share); at the Cen- 463-9152 (Note: this is a con- Magic If of theatre wittj Acting As ter, 3rd Floor, 208 W 13 St; 8:30 LAVENDER LIGHf LESBIAN AND densed version of Joe Kramer's If from the 12-step recovery pro- pm; $5; 727-9878 GAY GOSPEL CHOIR Concert at Healing the Body Electric two- grams; at the Center, 208 W 13 The Friends Meeting House, 221 day workshop) St; 6:30-10:30 pm; $15; register EAGLE BAR Movie Night: E 15 St (at Rutherford Place, 620-7310 Fright Night; 142 11th Ave (at btwn 2nd/3rd Aves); 7 pm; $10; CONGREGATION BETH SIM- 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451 222-9794, 718/624-1196 CHAT TORAH Walking Tour of MOMENTIJM AIDS OUTREACH the Synagogues of the Lower PROGRAM 4th Annual Benefit BROOKLYN WELCOMES AMAN- East Side, to benefit Project Ezra, with Honorary Chairperson DA CENTENO Party In support offering meals and assistance to Helen Hayes, and entenainment of Strong Nicaraguan Women, elderly Jews in need; meets at by Julie Budd, Kathy and Mo, with the noted feminist, revolu- Educational Alliance Bldg., 197 Pudgy, Bobby Short, Andrea tionary and organizer, in her first East Broadway (btwn Clinton & Marcovicci, Chris Durang & visit to the US; showing the Jefferson Sts); 11 :45 am sharp; Dawne, Danny Apolinar, Jamie video S~ Podemos (yes, We Can) $5; 929-9498 DeRoy, Weeden, Finkle & Fay, at 8 pm, followed by dancing at many others; at the Vivian Beau-

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To list your non-profit or to volunteer please call (212) 481·1050. sciou.n ... ·ral.ing and the development of the L.. bien and GIY Community, GMAD i.lnclu· organization in our com- CONGREGATION Imt SIMCHATTORAH aivi of African, African·Amlrican, Carribean munity directory, call Tom NY'. Gay and Lasbian Synagogue Servic .. and Hispanic/latino men of color. Meeting. Friday at 8:30pm 57 Bethune Street Ire hlld, weekly, on Fridays. For more informa· Eubanks at 212/685-5277. For info. call: (212) 929·9498. tion, clll718·802·0162.

A.C.Q.C. DIGNITY NEW YORK DAY MEN'S HWTH CRISIS HOniNE AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY lesbian and gay Catholics and friends FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV· SOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION· BUDDIES AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development RELATED HEALTH SERVICES,AND FORINFOR· COUNSELING • SUPPORT GROUPS The Cathedral Project MATION ON ONE·TIME, WALK·IN AIDS Volunteer Opportunities Worship Services 81 Social·Sun. Eve•. 7:30pm· COUNSEUNG SERVICES (718) 896·25OO(voice) (718) 896·2985(TDD) St. John', Episcopal Church 218 We.t 11th 212-107~5S Street 0Waverly·675·2179 212145-7470 TDD (Forth. H.. rlnglmpalredl ACT UP (AIDS CoaUtion to Unlaash Pow.r) Mon.·Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00to 3:00 496A Hudson Street, Suite G4 NYC 10014 EDGE (212)989·1114 For the physically disabled Lesbian and Gay HEAL (H.. lth Education AIDS Uallon) A diverse, non·partisan group of individuals Community. (212) 989-1921 Weekly info. and support group for treatments united in anger and committed to direct action P.O.Box 305 Village Stetion, New York, NY for AIDS which do not compromise the to end the AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. 10014 immune system further, including alternative nights 7:30, the Community Center 208 W.13th. and holistic approaches. FRONT RUNNERS Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St (212)674-HOPE. ARCS (AIDS· Related Community SelVlclI) A running club for lesbian and gay athletes for Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sulli· of all abilities. Fun Runs of 1-6 miles held every HETRICK-MARTIN INmTUTE van, Ulster and Westchester counties. AIDS Sat at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Park for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop·in education, client services, crisis intervention, and every Tues. at 7pm in Prospect Park. center (M-F, 3·6pm), rap groups, Harvey Milk support groups, case management, buddy and For information: call (212) 724·9700. High School, AIDS and safer sex information, hospital visitor program. referrals, professional education. 214Cen1rallwe. Wtile PJails, NY Ian; (914)mom THE FUND FORHUMAN DIGNITY (212) 633-8920(voice) 838 Broadway ,Newburgh, NY 122!i1(914)$2-5005 National Gay and Lesbian Crisis Une (212) 633·8926 TTY for deaf AlDSn ... (914) 993-0607 'AIDS 800" ... 1-800-S0S-GAYS Educational Resource Center; Positive Images HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & LESBIANS BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Media Center; NY State Arts Program Educational services, political action, counseling Lawyers Referral 600 B'way Suite 410NYC,NY 10012 (212)529-1600 and social activities in Spanish and English by Service for the Lesbian and Gay Community and for the Latino Lesbian and Gay Community. Full Range of I:egal Services (212) 459-4873 THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS General meetings 8:00 p.m. 4th Thursday of OFWESTCHESTER/The G.A.A.) every month at 208 West 13th Street BAR ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS is a community based support group formed in Call (212)691-4181 Free Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday 6-8 pm Westchester County. Various activities are or write H.U.G.L, P.O.Box 226 Canal Street Lesbian & Gay Community Centro Ground Floor planned for the coming months. Station, New York, NY 10019. Please call 914-376·0727 for more info. BODY POSITIVE lAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE If you or your lover has tested HIV+, we offer GLAAD AND EDUCATION FUND support groups, seminars, public forums, ref- Gay & lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Precedent-setting litigation nationwide for erence library, referrals, social activities and 80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 (212) 966-1700 lesbians, gay men and people with AIDS. up-to· date national monthly, 'THE BODY POSI- GLAAD combats homophobia in the media and Mem bership ($35 and up) includes newsletter TIVE" ($I5/year). elsewhere by promoting visibility of the lesbian and invitations to special events. Volunteer (212) 633-1782. and gay community and organizing grassroots night on Thursdays. Intake calls: 2-4pm Mon 2095 Broadway, Suite 306, NYC, NY 10023 response to anti-gay bigotry. thru Fri (2121995-8585 CIRCLE OF MORE LIGHT GAY & LESBIAN PSYCHOlltERAPY Spiritual support and sharing in a gay/lesbian Sliding scale fll. lAVA (LESBIANS AB OUT VISUAL ART} affirmative group. Insurance accepted. Call for slides for Lesbian Artists' Exhibition, West-Park Presbytarian Church Institute for Human Identity. Gay & Lesbian Community Center, NYC. For 165West 86th Street (212) 799-9432 more information, send SASE to: Wed: worship service 6:30 p.m., program 7:30. Miriam Fougere Marsha (212) 304-4373 Charlie (212)691-7118. GAY MALE SIM ACTIVISTS 118 Fort Greene Place Dedicated to safe and responsible S/M since Brooklyn, NY 11217. COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT 1981. Open meetings w/programs on S/M tech- 208 West 13th Street, NYC, New York 10011 niques, lifestyle issues, political and social THE LESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPlE CORPS For Appointments and Information (212) 675- concerns. Also special events, speakers Get your instrument out of the closet and come 3559 PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND bureau, workshops, demos, affinity groups, play with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dix- LOW COST HEALTH CARE SERVICESTO THE newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 496A Hud- ieland, Rock, Aute Ensembles and Woodwinds. LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY son Street, Suite 023 ,NYC 10014. 123West 44th St Suite 12L New York, NY , (212) 727-9878. 10036 (2121869-2922. COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE PWA's, PWARC's & their physicians taking the GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT) LESBIAN & GAY initiative to seek promising intervention 80 Varick Street, NYC 10013a support group of COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER against AIDS in a resp. manner. For more info Gay Men of African Descent dedicated to con- 208 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011

62 OUT'YWEEK November 19, 1989 (212) 620-7310 9am-l1pm everyday, NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE NYC GAY II LESBIAN A place for community organizing and net- is the national grassroots political organiza- ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT working, sociallervices, cultural programs, tion for lesbians and gay men. Membership is Counseling, advocacy, and information for sur- and locial evants Iponsored by the Center and $3OIyear. Issue·oriented projects address vio- vivors of anti· gay and anti· lesbian violence, more than 1&0 community organizations. lence, .sodomy laws, AIDS, gay rights ordi- sexual IIsault, domestic violence, and other nances, families, media, etc. through lobbying, types of victimization. All services free and LESBIAN AND GAY NETWORK education, organizing and direct action. confidential. An organization of Lasbians and Gays who are NGLTF 1517 U Street W/J, Washington, DC 24 hourhotline (212) 807·0197 active in their labor unions working on domes- 20009. (202)332·6483. tic par1nership benefits and AIDS issues. For PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTION more informetion call (212)923·8690. NEW YORK ADVERnSING (212) 532·0290 I Hotline (212) 532-0568 AND COMMUNICAnONS NETWORK Monday thru Friday 10am-6pm' LESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT NYACN is the community's largest gay and les- Meal programs, siJpport groups, educational of the Amerlcln Civil Ubertlls Union bian professional group, welcoming all in com- and referral services for PWA's and PWArc's. KNOW YOURRIGHTS/WE'RE EXPANDINGTHEM munications"advertising, PR, marketing, (212) 944-9800, ext 545 media, graphic design, illustration, photogra- PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP phy, copywriting, journalism, publishing, radio, Underground buyer's club importing not-yet- LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART ILAVA) TV and film--and their friends. Monthly meet· approved medications and nutritional supple- Call for slides for Lesbian Artist's Exibition, Gay ings, 3rd Wed 6:30pm at the Community Center. ments. 31 West 26th St 4th Roor (212)532·0280 and Lesbian Community Center, NYC, for more Members' newsletter, job hotline, annual information send SASE to Miriam Fougere, 118 directory. Phone (212) 517-0380 for more info. SAGE: ISenlor Action In a Gay Environment) Ft Greene Place, Brooklyn, NY 1217. Mention OutWeek for one free newsletter. Social Service Agency providing care, activities, and educational services for gay & les- LESBIANS AND GAYS OF FLATBUSH NINTH STREET CENTER bian senior citizens. Also serving over 160 Brooklyn's social organization for both gay Since 1973, a community dedicated to demon· homebound seniors and older PWA's . 208 men and lesbians. strating that a homosexual lifestyle is a ratio- West 13th St. NYC 10011 (212)741-2247 P.O.Box 106, Midwood Station nal, desirable choice for individuals Brooklyn, NY 11230' (718) 859-9437 dissatisfied with the rewards of conventional THE OUTREACH living. Psychologically - focussed rap groups, USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH) LONG ISLAND ACT-UP Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. peer counselling avail- a program of Brooklyn community volunteers P.O.Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY 11040 able. 319 E. 9 Street, New York. NY 10003,for providing a weekly buffet supper for the Support us for change on Long Island. info call (212) 228·5153. Brooklyn AIDS community. t. (516)338-4662 (516) 997-5238 Nassau Occasional programs of information, educa- (516) 928-5530 Suffolk NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY tion and entertainment TOUCH meets Monday LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) eves. 5p.m. to 6:30p.m. at downtown Brooklyn MEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER NY Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially Friends Meeting HOllse (110 Schermerhorn St A multi-racial group of gay men against intereted in gay intergenerational relation: near Boerum Place). Umited transportation racism. Meetings every Friday night at 7:45 at ships. Monthly Bulletin and regular chapter may be arranged. the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Cen- meetings on the first Saturday of each month. Info: (718) 622-2756. TOUCH welcomes contri- ter, 208 W. 13th Street For m re info. call: (212) Yearly membership is $20; write NAMBLA. PO butions of funds, food and volunteers. 245·6366 or (212) 222-9794. Box 174, Midtown Station, New York. NY 10018 or call~212) 807-8578 for information. ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN MElROPOLfTAN TENNIS GROUP(MTG) ALLIANCE Our 200 member lesbian and gay tennis club NORTHERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES Meets first and third Monday of each month includes players from beginning to tournament Improving Quality of Ufe for People with at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill level. Monthly tennis parties. Winter indoor AIDS/HIV. Road in Kingston. league. Come play with us! For information: THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring For information, call (914) 626-3203. MTG, POB 2135, New York, NY 10025. the possibilities of a powerful and creative life (212) 662-0695. in the face of AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212) 337-8747

November 19, 1989 OUT~WEEK 63 TI MIlJ( from PIG. 20 and regular performance of family func- the Bar Association for Human Rights more distressed. ·Ev~ry time there's an tions including mutual caring and of Greater New York. Lance Ringel, interview, I get calls from people say- reliance for daily familyservices. director of the recently-established ing the money is on the way," he said, To be entitled to a renewal lease Office of the Gay and Lesbian Com- "and I send out letter after letter show- under the emergency amendments, a munity, also participated in discus- ing them what the balance is, but I "family member" of a tenant must have sions with DHCR about the proposed never receive a penny. I even showed maintained his or her primary resi- regulations, as did Virginia Apuzzo, the Gay Cable Network the container dence with the tenant for no less than Deputy Director of the State Con- in the safe where we keep his ashes, two years, or since the beginning of sumer Protection Board. T but still, nothing. I'm personally upset. the tenancy or the beginning of the I'm from the Midwest and I'm not family relationship. The right to a SENTENCE PROTEST from pag.19 used to this kind of thing." renewal lease will apply when the ten- Jones conceded that there had Next May will mark Milk'~th ant permanently vacates the apartment been "miscommunication" between birthday and McPherson says he hopes due to death or any other reason. the DA and the attack survivors, as this will spur the community to locate The Division will supply a form for well as "possible homophobia." a designer for the perfect monument. tenants to notify their landlords of the Other than that, according to Randy But until definite plans are existence of family members entitled to Snyder, who took part in the meet- announced, McPherson agreed that renewal rights. Landlords will have a ing, "We were really dismissed all money toward the outstanding $750 right to request from tenants the names the way through." Their demands should be sent to John Hanley, Con- of all people living in an apartment included the recruitment and hiring gressional Cemetery, 1801 'E' St. S.E., who may claim succession rights. Fail- of openly lesbian and gay assistant Washington, DC 20003; or to the Har- ure to provide the information to the DA's, of which there currently are vey Milk Memorial Fund, c/o Marla landlord will not n~ily deprive the none, sensitivity training for prose- Stevens, 808 North Oxford Street, . individual of succ~ion rights, but will cutors, better preparation of prose- Indianapolis, IN 46201. All checks place an affirmative obligation on the cutors handling bias crimes, should be made payable to the Con- individual claiming such rights to estab- aggressive support of the bias-relat- gressional Cemetery. lish his or her eligibility. ed crimes bill in the state legislature, Anyone with money, ideas or solu- The emergency regulations go and a meeting with Morgenthau tions is invited to phone Hanley at (301) beyond the legislative proposal that himself. 283-2074, McPherson at (415) 44h7613 Governor Mario Cuomo sent to the Jones said she would report the or Stevens at (317) 635-2712.T '1' legislature last spring, which included demands to Morgenthau, but refused a lengthy residency requirement. As to say she would recommend that he HOUSING RIGHTS from page 20 described in thfjpivision's press meet with the group. She did, howev- tion that gay and lesbian relationships -release, the new ~es appear to treat er, express a willingness to meet are being taken seriously, and that domestic partners as equal to tradi- again to continue the dialogue. certain laws in this state cannot be tional family members in terms of Members of ACT UP expressed used against us." Lambda filed an their rights to apartment succession. concern over the upcoming trials of amicus brief in the Braschi case, and In the Division's press release, Com- cases involving alleged gay-bashing was an integral part of the strategizing missioner Higgins stated: "Emergency attacks at the Wigstock Festival on involvled in the case. action by the state is warranted. We labor Day and in Washington According to a Division of Hous- must ensure that non-traditional fami- Square Park more recently. "Some- ing and Community Renewal (DHCR) ly members of tenants, especially thing else has to happen," Randy November 9 press release, the amend- those most vulnerable such as the Snyder said. Monaghan echoed the ments will treat as a "family member" elderly, disabled and persons infected sentiment: "What happened in that of a tenant the traditibnal list of close with the AIDS virus, are not unfairly courtoom-that was not justice." relatives by blood and marriage and subject to eviction." Neither Elliot nor Ellerin could be "any other person residing with the The Division met with represen- reached for comment by press time. T tenant in the housing accommodation tatives of lesbian and gay community as a primary residence, who can organizations, tenant protection OUTTAKES from page 27 prove emotional and financial commit- groups, and landlord groups to dis- (including postage), or $3 each ment and interdependence between cuss various proposals before adopt- for bulk orders of 25 or more. For such person and the tenant." ing the emergency amendments. more information, or to order The amendments include a list of Lesbian and gay community groups reprints, write to GLAAD, 80 Var- factors to be consi

64 OUTTWEEK November 19, 1989 LOCKOUTfrom page 22 sions, formally appoint five COGLI nominees that have been pending for eight months, meet directly with gay The Cubbyhole leaders, hire gay men and lesbians for 438 Hudson Street city jobs, and give Simmons the resources to properly do his job. at Morton It is within Daley's power to sim- (212) 243-9079 ply dismiss all the members of COGLI and replace them with handpicked A neighborhood bar for supporters, but at press time there had been no formal re~ponse from both gay men & women the administration. Whatever COGU does to publicize itself and Daley's sins, however, the key to the group's success will be convincing rank-and-file gays that COGU is needed while simultaneously undermining Daley's mostly positive image in the community. Daley scored big last june when he led the gay pride parade in a 1955 MEXICAN baby-blue Thunderbird convertible. RESTAURANT And even the most left-wing activists had granted him a honeymoon from . First Avenue between 49th & 50th Streets criticism until a late October brouha- 883 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. ha surrounding the cancellation of a TELEPHONES: 935-3749 • 421-1212 human rights awards banquet brought simmering resentments to the surface. Suddenly the gloves came off, with activist Arthur Johnston pronounc- ing: "The blue Thunderbird has worn off just like Jane Byrne's hats wore off,"-a reference to a former "machine"-style mayor who rode in gay parades wearing stunning hats but was not otherwise helpful to the gay cause. Daley's assistant press secretary, Marge Halperin, has responded to the sudden criticism by scolding COGU and activists for "judging Mayor Daley by what they think he might do and what they think he might be thinking rather than by what he actually does and says. "If you're looking at his record on gay issues," Halperin said, "I don't think there's any room to complain. This is the first mayor to have two gay advisors [and) his commitment to . health issues is second to none." ... Activists have scheduled a num- _CASTLE CARE ber of pow-wows in coming weeks to strategize on confronting their "invisibility" in the new administration. ~

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November 19. 1989 our'YWEEK 79 t. monogamy-oriented en particularly 'wel- GWM, .6', lean, altr, come. Attention: !his clean-shaven, P.rof,in- lesbian Is not a sports Q:confused about telligent, non-smoker, enthusiast. Please runner and young 47 pardon me If ad partylines? years old. Seeking seems (is) disjointed. compatible GWM to Outweek Box 1520 55r/.l'l'l' share movies, theater, music, quiet evnsf DAMSEL.. DISTRESS, '\ e. .times, fun and more. 30 seeks GF to rescue " C1ct.,. Send letterfp/lonel to: her for quality relation- ~ Outweek Box 1507 ship and one who can c.. appreciate her SM YEARNING._ lady.Have many Inter- ~ GF 25 submissive, in- ests love cats and old ~ telligent, attractive movies.Cat lovers pr. seeks experienced, ferred. Outweek Box chivalrous, dominant 1521 ~t? butch. Treat yourself to the charms of a lov- TAKEA RISK?TRY ME ~b ing, liesty yet decidely Attractive Black-Lati- $. submissive femme. na, athletic, sensitive, 1,~ ? Outweek Box 1516 (herpes) looking for friends or more to talee 9qq9 llIERE'S A PERFECT in New York life with, t'+.~ MATCHFORMEl dancing, !h°eater,jog- ~ She just has to be ging, working out, 1 1, "found: I'm responsi- reading, are some of ~ ble, sensitive, intelli- my likes. Drugs, ...... gent, honest, fun, and cigarettes and alcohol -'~'" ...... sober. I prefer aggres- are out! Blue collar ~ooo sive women. It's hard workers a plus, any for me to make the race, sorry must be first moves, but only in thin, expect honesty, the beginning. If since It is my way of there'S genuine inter- life, ages 25-35. Out- est, a feeling of com- week Box 1522 patibility write, MA, Box 980, New York, ATTRACTIVE NY 10014. ANDROGYNOUS professional playful ALL YOUNIGHT Woman of Color, 30 WORKERS seeks sensuous at- Have the morning off- tractive affectionate sleep late afternoon, generous fun loving seek same for com- GF ints: art, Music, panionship and possi- dancing, being healthy ble relationship. Single and safe, Imaginative lesbian, 40, responsi- fantasy play. Do you ble and like to have fantasize about a fun. A little shy ok. woman you can re- Write AJ, Box 980, spect, pamper and New YorX,NY 10014. please? In between relationships? Visit the ONENICEGIRL NY area on occas- LOOKINGFOR sion? Intrigued by lin- ANOlllER gerie, leather, uni- GF, 35,.Bright, Funny, forms, phone sex. Creative Writer·Type, Then get out your pen Feminist. Partial to in- and let your fantasy be telligent .charmers and your guide. All races, independent thinkers areas and ages over who can make me 23 are welcome as are laugh. Outweek Box deaf women (lam 1519 hearing.) Write fanta- sia Box 1234 Edge- IAMWHATIAM mere NY 11691. Short, dark, and win- some lesbian, 27 AFRICANAMERICAN seeks way-above-av- MAN erage broad-minded seeks Oriental coun- woman.(u know who u terpart. I am 28, 6' r)lwanna croon to you 1851bs, open, Intelli- from my fire escape. gent, and funloving, I'm tone deaf but love let's explore all of life's is blind. Honest 'to pleasures together. I goodness kook wants enjoy the arts, danc- to watch your freezer ing, as well as quiet (or mine) defrost. Self moments with laugh- portrait or foto if you ter. Outweek Box 1524 please, but not neces- sary. PS Israeli wom-

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88 OUTTWEEK November 19, 1989

Hot Shot by Erich Conrad Photo by Lizzerd Souffle

RUPAUL,.inger, performer, actor and recently crowned Queen of Manhattan 1990, i. one of downtown'. most celebrated .uperstars. Thi.·double Scorpio, who.e idea of romance i. "danger-and intrigue," can currently be .een in the B.52. new video Love Shack, .haking her .weet thang like it'. never been .hook before. Ru, occasionally known a. Cupcake, i. a veteran of .uch undersround film clanic. a. Starbooty, American Porn Star and Trilosy of Terror. He al.o ho.tI "Ru Paul'. Hot Pantl," with DJ Larry Tee every Thur.day at the World. A love guru from way back, Ru predict. that "femininity will rule in the 1990 •." Current project. include how to love yourself 36.5 day. a year, a new record albumn and various film project •. "The pendulum has swung .0 far to the right that it has to come home to mama," .ay. Ru. Swing, mama, swing.

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11**** GLEEFULLY PERVERSE. AN INVIGORATING MIX OF CINEMATIC CAPRICE AND SLYLYCREEPYFUN." - Michael Upchurch, THE SEATTLE TIMES

"TAKES NOTH ING SERIOUSLY EXCEPT A SENSE OF DELIGHT IN ITS OWN WICKEDNESS. EVERYSEXUALITY --EXCEPT ORDINARY HETEROSEXUALITY-- IS EXHIBITED IN THIS MAD FILM." - Peter Miller, NY NATIVE

The underside of life Down Under

A F<;H p,,,,,·,,tJlj,,,, i", INTERNATIONAL FILM MANAGEMENT LIMITED XRTHUR DIGNAM MARK LEE HEATHER MITCHELL DENNIS MILLER. ,ndJOHN MEILLON Co:Producer SUE CA~LTON Executive Producer ANTONY I. GINNANE Written by FRANK MOORHOUSE Directed and Produced by MICHAEL THORNHILL Rel~ased by INTERNATIONAL FILM EXCHANGE, LTD.

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