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Mar 04 1982, Vol09 No. 08 The 50c Outside Son FranciscoSentinel500 Hayes Street S.F.CA.94102 (415)861-8100 Next Deadline: March 12 Next Issue: March 18 IN SID E Í College Board Cytomegalovirus.................. .Page 2 Ted Kennedy Dishes Reagan. Page 5 I “ Personal Best” ................... .. Page 6 I Race Heats Up A Fox of a Theater................ ANALYSIS says, of projects that had feminist .. Page 7 I by Bruce D. Pettit more than lesbian focus. Accusations of "machine politics" “The chief problem that has in the gay community have sur­ plagued lesbians has been their faced, as a lesbian and a gay man invisibility," she explains. "Some campaign for election to the San 50,000 are behind the scenes from Milk Bio Flawed Francisco Community College those of us who have been involved Board. in the gay movement in San Fran­ A Review an hour looking for a dog turd in Because it is felt that, at best, cisco." Now women are in second by Randy Alfred the park, so he could accidentally- only one can win this November, terms as presidents of the two Randy Shilts has written an ex; on-purpose step in it later that the two sides are sniping at each largest gay political clubs - both citing, but also disappointing, bio­ day, while demonstrating how his other. Only one of the three incum­ male dominated. Voter registration graphy of Harvey Milk. The Mayor newly passed pooper-scooper law bents whose terms expiré is re­ among lesbians is increasing, o f Castro Street is imaginative, would work. It got great media garded as undecided about seeking Migden believes. Lesbians are controversial, and flawed. coverage, and that's just what the another four years. excited about a project of the local It excites because it captures clowning supervisor intended. CAROLE MIQOEN and SAL ROS8ELLI are both trying to corner the ,"gay vote" In Carole Migden candidly reveals National Women’s Political Caucus November's election for the S.F. Community College Board. the measure and message of the Margo St. James warned she wants to begin a political career. that is encouraging registrations man. It disappoints because it Moscone that disgruntled police As executive director of Operation with a "Ms.",designation. is littered with factual errors. Shilts' officers planned to shoot him. says Concern of the Pacific Medical ’ "Harry Britt has done much to account of Milk's life is convincing Shilts. The book also contains Judge Delays Roff Trial Center, she feels she can offer the bring lesbians into the movement," and ultimately effective docu-drama, details of Milk's romantic life and Migden insists. His support for Munidpal Judge Mary Morgan Attorney Ken Cady. community college the benefits of but it js weak history. references to the loves and lusts of improved pay scales for dty jobs on March 3 granted a delay until her five-year administrative back­ The Mayor has sweep and unnamed local politicians and White The D.A. has charged Roff, son in which women predominate March 24 in the trial of Timothy of Deputy Mayor Hadley Roff, ground in mental health, here and breadth. It chronicles Milk’s child­ House aides. in Berkeley. "shows that a progressive gay man Roff, John Fitzpatrick, and Joseph and the other two defendants with hood, adolescence, sexual awak­ Shilts’ epilogue offers some Sal Rosselli finished fifth for can care about women. It is hard Brady. A defense lawyer had asked misdemeanor battery in an alleged ening, early loves, financial and trenchant analysis. Castro Street four college board seats two years for us to abstain from the political for more time to prepare his case, anti-gay incident aboard a Muni show-business careers, moves from and the Harvey Milk Gay Demo­ ago. He had been the board’s non­ process any longer." according to Assistant District bus on Superbowl Sunday. New York to Texas and San cratic Club may both be spoiled by voting student member, frustated Britt evaluates, “This movement Francisco, and 'his unsuccessful their own success, he suggests. with the post's minimal influence from separatism is not dissimilar political campaigns of 1978,1975, National entertainment centers to change things he saw as adminis­ to the experience of Harvey Milk. and 1976. 1977 was the year of aren't necessarily good neighbor­ trative shortcomings. Developments in the lesbian com­ Anita Bryant, Orange Tuesday, hoods for living, and the politics of Migden has the powerful backing munity give it a unique opportunity the Hillsborough murder, and Milk's using power may unduly strain an PUBLIC SEX this year. It is time that gay men of Supervisor Harry Britt, who election-as Supervisor from District organization conceived amidst the Supes Keep declares: “In 1982 the political support it.” 5. politics of taking power. Macy’s Caution agenda of the gay and lesbian Rosselli concurs that lesbian 1978 brings Milk’s swearing-in, Shilts concludes: “Had it not Castro Lot Open community is to elect a lesbian to entrance into politics is important, Board politics, the gay-rights and . been Harvey Milk in San Francisco, On Restrooms city wide office. If Sal is not willing but he feels Migden has sights on pooper-scooper ordinances, the the legend would have settled on ThcHoard of Supervisors Mon­ Peter Hirt, operations manager to support this most important the wrong office. Britt has identified suicide of Milk's lover, the Briggs someone else, in another city, at day defeated, 6-5, a Quentin Kopp of security at Macy’s-Union Square, agenda, this discredits him in my the community-college board as Initiative, Jonestown, the assassina­ another time. Harvey’s sense of proposal to close the parking lot at issued a "“caution" this week on eyes." In private meetings. Britt the best'gay political entrance point tions of Milk and Mayor George staging merely ensured that his 18th & Colling wood Streets daily continued, male-male sexual activity and his forces have failed to per­ for the foreseeable future, but Moscone. the mourning, and the legend would also prove good between midnight and 6 A.M. in the department store's restrooms. suade Rosselli to drop out. Rosselli wonders why a school politics of succession. 1979 was theater." True enough, but "People who live in the area are He said Maey’s would like to avoid Jack Davis, who directed Mike board option for Migden was fore­ the-year of anti-gay harassment, merely? offended by the disgusting and having to make arrests and was Henftesey to victory as Sheriff in closed. the Dan White trial, the man­ Here, Shilts has missed a major repulsive conditions in the parking therefore informing the gay com­ 1979, is a Rosselli consultant. “Sal Migden replies that, for her slaughter verdicts, the City Hall part of Milk’s story. Was Harvey lot in the nighttime hours,” Kopp munity "through channels" that is going to be one of the three specifically, the administrative riot, and the Elephant Walk raid. charismatic or wasn't he? All the contended. “People are outraged the store doesn't “care for this people elected," Davis promises. needs of the college board correlate It’s all there, and Shilts- skillfully elements necessary for an analysis at what occurs on city property." kind of activity." "I resent Harry Britt defining what more closely with her professional weaves the woof of history across pf this question are present in the In response to questions, Kopp Hart said the store has already is good for the gay movement. experience. She lacks the back­ the warp of biography. The author book, but the analysis itself is not. later said he knew of no complaints designated the most troublesome That's the kind of power-brokering ground in education that the school traces the emergence of gay male Early on, Shilts suggests that of public sex. He said his objections restroom for use by employees Harvey Milk fought against for so board would require, she continues. consciousness and communities in Milk had “something special...poli­ concerned “noise, urinating in only, but that has not stopped the many years. It seems like this is “Also we run up against the issue Milk’s transformation from a clos- ticians later called ... charisma." public, drinking beer, hooting at activity. Hart said the store manager Sal versus the machine — a néw of homophobia and children." eted.Wall-Street, Goldwater clone Shilts never raises the subject again, people, loud Singing.” asked him to get the word out, machine.” Rosselli contends that he has— to Broadway hippy to San Francisco except to call both Joe Alioto and Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver since Macy’s wants to stop the Gay machine politics has scarcely from prior involvement — the great­ merchant to mayor of Castro Street Dianne Feinstein charismatic. Not called the resolution "silly" and activity without losing “the good been mentioned since the 1977 er commitment to the community and finally to leader of a national in my book. Charisma is not some . insisted its effect would be the will of the city's gay community." battle between Milk and Rick college. “It was my total life’s work movement based on coming-out as easily staged media appeal, al­ opposite Of its intention. “You would Hart said Macy's does not want Stokes for district Supervisor. Milk for three years. I’m not running the supreme act of personal poli­ though that is often a necessary be encouraging additional, illicit a repeat of the 1970 situation when factions pinned the machine label because I’m gay." His base two tics. adjunct to the real thing. activities by creating an empty, the undercover vice arrests of 40 on the Stokes support cadre, which years ago came from the system's Shilts supplements the organizing Milk knew how to manipulate dark alley.” men in a two-week period led to until then had achieved most of students, faculty and administrators.
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