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Volume II, Issue 8oentmel 500 HAVES ST.'. SAN FRANCISCO. CA 94102 (415) 861 -8100 ______April 12,1984 Dubs Bath House CANDIDATES QUIBBLE OVER GAYS IN MILITARY Washington, D.C. — The Democratic presidential hopefuls were recently polled by Forum magazine on the status of gays in the military. The magazine learned that Colorado Sen. Gary No Hart had told the NGTF that "military employment should not be restricted because of sexual orientation." Former Vice President by Gary Schweikhart Walter Mondale said he had "yet to reach a decision” on an The decision by Dr. Mervyn executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation Silverman, the city's Director of in the military. Jesse Jackson — the most expansive, according Health, to ban sex between individ­ to the article’s author — said that “discrimination because of uals at bath houses and sex clubs sexual orientation is wrong . . . Gays and lesbiaris have served is certainly a controversial one. It and continue to Serve honorably . . . The current policy of has already created a growing rift throwing out gays is wasteful." (Saw Francisco Examiner, 4/4/84) within the local lesbian/gay commu­ nity between those who wanted to shut down the tubs and those who are insisting that it is “business as usual” even during the current AIDS epidemic. While others will and should highlight the political and sexual ramifications of the no-sex decision. The Sentinel decided to meet with Dr. Silverman directly for clarifi­ cation of his somewhat confusing dictate. The interview was held in his office last Tuesday morning, just one day after his crowded press conference announcing his new policy. The following is a slightly edited transcript of that interview: The Sentinel: Would you briefly explain your decision on bath house sex? Silverman: Everybody has been saying for the last year that the issue isn't where you do something ic« on bath houta tm \ but what you do. And we have seen from the various journal reports and anecdotal reports from researchers that a great many Littlejohn Agrees to Compromise people who have AIDS have been frequenting bath houses, sex clubs, at Sentinel Forum on Bath Houses bookstores, those sorts of places . . . and statistics show pretty much by Gary Sehwelkhart blem, .we’re being forced to take ' irrational political power-play. anywhere from a two to ten times As part of the.continuing contro­ action in a cuuple of weeks. I hope Schietinger: It is also important greater risk if you are involved in versy over what to do about the Dr. Silverman gives us a 30-day to look at the scapegoating that that kind of activity of getting bath houses, and the spread of period for discussion and debate has happened over the last two AIDS than not. AIDS, The Sentinel recently assem­ before any final decision is announ­ years of the people with AIDS. bled a private forum of concerned ced. If the petition drive does People look on people with AIDS gay people to discuss the subject. succeed, we still have until Novem­ as a danger, and there is an We are aski This group met last Sunday, one ber to make a decision. So it incredible amount of denial on the authority which day before Dr. Mervyn Silverman seems to me that we are being overall issue. If we’re looking at businesses h 1 s< forced into a hasty and probably AIDS as being similar to hepatitis- CORPORATION SUED FOR BEING ANTI-CAY announced his decision to ban sex reach out and at the baths and sex clubs. an unwise position over this. B, then we’re looking at a disease San Francisco, CA — A $5 million lawsuit was filed last week Campbell: I agree. The precip­ that is probably endemic to a or regulate tin- against Digital Equipment Corp. The complaint filed in Superior Participants in The Sentinel forum include: itous decision on this made by community of sexually active gay it that Court on behalf of Brandon Stanford charged Digital with Sal Accardi, head of the Northern some in our community was for men. I think one of the things that business. "discriminating in its employment practices on the basis of an me the problem. In fact, many of has happened is that the gay employee’s sexual orientation,” according to a press release from California Bath House Association. WQliam E. Beardemphl, publisher those who signed the original men's institutions have not acted So I brought together a group Stanford’s attorney, Daniel N. Silva. A San Francisco ordinance, of The Sentinel. petition to Dr. Silverman have strongly enough to get through similar to the’recently vetoed AB-1, prohibits employers from of health experts in the area of Bobbi Campbell, RN, a person already reversed their position people's denial of the seriousness AIDS — national, state and local engaging in such discriminatory employment practices., The and admitted that they acted too of this. So far, it has just been lawsuit charges that Stanford is paid a lesser salary, denied with AIDS. experts, including gay physicians Bill Jones, owner of the Sutro fast. business as usual, even though and researchers — and much to promotions and advancement with’Digital solely because he is Accardi: It is clear to me that people are dying of AIDS. homosexual. Baths. my surprise got a unanimous Larry Littlejohn, Sponsor of the when Mr. Littlejohn presented Littlejohn: That’s exactly decision from this group basically his petitions that this disturbed why I got involved . . . because I SUBSTANCE ABUSE PATTERNS REVEALED petition drive to end sex at bath saying that sex between individuals houses. some of the “politico” in our saw it as business as usual. I have should not be allowed in those San Francisco, CA — The local Prevention Resource Center John Lorenzini, a person with community. They saw it as a no- tried for eight months to get some places that could lead to the spread has released its latest findings on substance abuse within the San AIDS. win situation for anyone involved action on this but I was ignored. of AIDS, Of course, we realize Francisco gay/lesbian community. The findings are based on Helen Schietinger. director of inthis. People told me that they agreed more than 3,000 questionnaires which were filled out and then that this action in and of itself the Shanti Project's AIDS Resi­ The fact of the matter is that with me but were afraid to speak isn’t going to solve the problem of analyzed. Among the findings: Alcohol was the most popular dence Program. because this has become a political out because they would be trashed. AIDS, but I think it would send a substance used by over 70 percent; marijuana and hashish were Dave Wbarton, candidate for the issue, people are looking at it in a And I saw no education program message to gay people about that the drugs of primary choice, second to alcohol; and overall level Board of Supervisors.' political way and the bath houses worthy of the name within the kind of activity and why we are of problematic drug use among gay men and lesbians of 20.2 are being scapegoated. We've said bath houses. I- think we’ve just trying to stop it. Hopefully, this percent was established, five percent higher than the problem The following is a transcript of that conversation: all, along that the problem isn't been fooling ourselves. Nobody will carry over into their personal drug use level of the general population; lesbians had a higher The Sentinel: Mr. Littlejohn, where people have sex, but what — not the Board of Supervisors, lives, while those facilities like level of problematic drug use than gay men; under 50 percent of you started this controversy with they do. Yet we’re apt to become not the Department of Health, not Continued on page 2. those surveyed "were aware of the various existing community your petition drive. Would you the victims in this emotional. ______Continued on page 10 resources that might be appropriate to the lesbians and gay take a minute and explain why? clients; and for all gay men sampled nine percent reported Littlejohn: Because I felt this intravenous use of methamphetimine which is an at-risk behavior for AIDS. issue wasn't really being addressed squarely. It was time to take this MARKS PUSHES AIDS FUNDING out of the area of discussion and Sacramento, CA — Senator Milton Marks (R-S.F.) has pushed into the area of action. I felt for a second year of funding in the state budget for AIDS bringing this up would get it out into the open. education, according to a press release from his office. "As a The Sentinel: Mr. Accardi, any result of my efforts last year, the Department of Health Services response? has spent $500,000 during 1983-84 to fund AIDS educational Accardi: We do not feel that projects being carried out by local organizations. -Continued this ever should have become a funding for AIDS research and education is absolutely essential. . political debate. It’s unfortunate There remains a need for further education efforts, especially of that this has come to the point the general population which holds many misconceptions about where people feel that their civil this tragic disease." Marks said. "Unfortunately, the governor's rights are threatened. This is a proposed budget provides no funding for.1984-85 based upon the medical, scientific problem which Department of Health Services argument that no further educational should be dealt with in those efforts are necessary.” terms. I understand Mr. Littlejohn’s frustration with the bureaucracy MS. FOUNDATION FUNDS LESBIAN over this, because we share that HEALTH STUDY !Sew York. NY — The Ms. Foundation for Women has frustration. The Health Depart­ ment, Mr. Littlejohn, the bath awarded $10,000 to the National Gay Health Foundation to- house owners, wd really aren’t fond a pilot needs assessment survey of lesbian health care in the very far apart. We're all interested United States. Heralded by NGHEF as the first grant of its kind in the well-being.of this community. in this country, the survey will be conducted over the next 12 months by experts ih female survey research. The goals of this Wharton: What troubles me is that we have been forced by the project- are to help identify the extent of the lesbian community rush of events to look at this as a Mick Hicks throughout the country, to demonstrate the health care problems yes or no question. And it isn't. in these lesbian communities, (with emphasis on Third World Unfortunately, we've looked at and working class lesbians) and to begin to translate the results the problem for a couple of years of the survey into needed services. now without taking any- action. Now, because of the spotlight on oqr community and the AIDS pro­

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What has been the biggest miscon­ AIDS agent. If that is so. the * community could do. Changings and that has been exciting. It’s a ception aboitt all of this so far? solution won’t be found over night, one’s sexual pattern which is so shame to have-something exciting Silverman on Sex Oh, that’s hard to say. I think but the'next steps could be right integral, so much a part of a that is so tragic, but it is a medical there are probably some miscon­ down the road. Those are cure for person is very difficult. People Continued from page 1. challenge to public health. The Secondly, we’re not talking about ceptions within the gay community those who have it, and prevention- don’t do that very easily. But if biggest challenge is just in [making the bath houses that remain open the people who go to the bath that are not appropriate for me to for those who could get it. How you look at the poll in the Examiner, the right decision on these issues. can serve to educate the gay houses being the victims. I have address because I’m not gay. One long that road is is hard to sav. 75 percent have changed their I think you could get & debate community. no intention of citing anyone in of the misconceptions is that the I think there is an incredibly lifestyles. That’s incredible, but team to argue both sides very I presented this idea to a very the bath houses who might be bath houses play such a major bright light ahead when you look people forget about it. convincingly. divefse group of gay leaders and indulged in sexual activity . . . it's role in the lives of gay individuals. at the figures for gonorrhea for The trouble on this bath house And I have always been very got almost unanimous support from the owner we’re after. I don’t think that’s true! gay males, They have plummeted. issue is that it is turning attention concerned about if I was moving them, as was evidence by those An analogy can be made to the I think there is a fear or a That is an incredible thing. I on that small percent which isn't in the right way. Should I have standing behind me at the press bars in this city which aren't sup­ misedneeption that if the bath think that is going to show a changing their sexual habits. And acted more precipitously? Should conference last Monday. The Milk posed to be serving minors. If houses are closed that this will comparable drop in AIDS six one of the frustrations is that we I have closed the baths a year Club was represented, the Toklas they’re caught serving liquor to lead to other kinds of restrictions (" months, a year, two years from will probably never reach some of ago? Have my actions allowed Club, physicians and lay indi­ minors then their license is re­ on behavior. I don’t know if that is now. I don’t know many other those people. There will be some one more death to take place? viduals were all behind me. voked. It'll be that same kind of so, but I think the solution we communities that could have done who’ll go to the bushes or whatever. Your decision was not to allow That’s difficult, especially when situation. Now obviously if people came up with gets away from that. These Evil Knievals of medicine you’re talking about young people’s sex in the bath houses, but what are going to try and flaunt the that. We’re not closing anything. Getting back to that miscon­ are just out to kill themselves. exactly qualifies as sex? lives and a kind of suffering which law, then there will be problems. You said at the press conference ception idea, I think there has You are in an extraordinary I think is horrible. AIDS, having Well, basically we say sex be­ There are a number of estab­ that this action was just one of been a misconception that the gay position as health director of a city tween individuals. Unfortunately, it and dying from it, is a terrible, lishments in this city where sex many that are being taken to combat community isn’t concerned about during a time of an unprecedented terrible thing. as you talk to experts on AIDS, doesn't take place . . . now that AIDS. Just where do we stand in AIDS. Gays are incredibly con­ epidemic. How are you able to there is not a unanimity on what has to be the same thing in these the battle? Is there light at the end cerned, and they’ve reacted in a ideal with this personally? exactly is safe. To give you an places. The cartoon in the Chronicle of the tunnel yet? most responsible manner. They’ve I think it has taken a fair toll on example, conceivably even with depicting a man with a gun peeping Well. 1 think we have found the done more than I think any other me, it really has. It’s a challenge, masturbation and there was semen through'a keyhole at the baths on the floor and you had athlete's isn't at all accurate. I assume it’ll foot, you could catch AIDS. I be a good faith effort by the don't think there is any documented owners of these places and because Aprii 12 (Thurs. ) — Ari Evening wltti Unta case of that, but certainly that of the support within the gay (or Ua. Supeofor Tina Tumer will appear kind of spread could be possible. community, I think they’ll be al a fundratser for Ua BeV s (or Siate Serate Al Mome's” Palazzo. 389 Bay SI (al Moson). We’re not going that far, however, helping to see that kind of activity 7 30 P.M. $20 odvance. S25 al door 986- because all we're saying is sex doesn’t happen, too. 3999 or 986-4555 between individuals. One of the local TV stations has And another reason why we’re reported arrests can be expected at In r« : CUAPTEB 11 FR0CHEDIHC8 8 monthly potluck Al saying it that was has to do with p jic iric express, ih c. c*>* mo: 284- 00394- 0-11 1 284- 00395- 0-11 4085 18th SI , 7:30 PAI Free. Pul bring o first. PACIFIC EXPRESS HOLDING, IBC. Date P e titio n F ile d : 2-2-84 polluck item. For into, coll Brian Evitch at policing the activity. We’re not There are no arrests. The Health Heeting oí Creditors: 5-1-84 t 9:00 a.a. 821-6773. policing sex, we’re just saying Department has no arrest powers A ttotney fot D ebtor: Janes L. Lopes . there isn’t going to be any sex. If whatsoever. That's just taking this, (4Í5) 434-1600 we said you could do this and not thing and making it much, much POTICI OF 11 r AOTOHATIC STAT this, and you could do this but more than it ever was intended to TO T . • Com* Danny Williams at Fanny's, from only with a condom.. .then you're be. I don’t have arrest powers. 7 to 8 PM. no cover,Lynda Bergren from really talking about policing and For example, if a restaurant doesn’t entered on a p e titio n f ile d by (or a g ain st) the above-named debtoi 9:30 to 11 P.M . $5 cover 621-5570. checking to see if people are on the above d a te, meet licensing standards, then I ■OTIC! IS BEREBT GIVES THAT: ApfU 14 (Sal. ) - The 1929 sileni film abiding by that kind of directive. close that restaurant. There isn't 1. A Meeting of c re d ito rs pursuant to .11 use Sec. 341 (i 11 class*. Th* New Babylon at the Castro So jack off parties are also be held in Rooo 8311, U.S. Courthouse, 650 C apitol M all, Sacraaento. any cops-and-robbers atmosphere C a lifo rn ia on the above date and tia e , Theater. Tickets are $10. SI 5 and $20 For forbidden? to that. This is basically a health 2. The debtor shall appear in person (or. I t the debtor Is a- details, coll 861-4794. Well, the city can’t license any issue which will be dealt with in partnerahip, by a general partner, or I t the debtor is a corporatio: by its president or other executive officer) at the time and place April 15 (Sun. ) - «AM« “Oay Ufe* airs a kind of sexual activity. In my that way. specified above for the purpose of being exaained. talk by Dr. Robert Cathoart on Vitamm-C ' estimation, masturbation poses no Twice now in the last few weeks . TOO 111 FOETHS* HOTIFIES THAT: therapy in the treatment of AIDS At 6 AM risk in the transmission of AIDS, much of the major media have ie tin g may be continued or adjourilsd iron tiae to tiae by on KSAN (95 FM)! a t the a c ré d ite therefore it isn't something we're reported that you had definitely t the n t c la i going to worry about. Basically, decided to close the bath houses debtor, and transac. ___ . • San Francisco Hiking Club day hike m a e e tin g . Attendance by ere remote Mann beoches For carpoolmg. what we’re concerned about is the ... then, after your press conference required. meet at McDonald's parkinglol. Slanyon transmission of fluids or the pos­ last Monday, we heard a reporter Aa a result of the filing of th and Haight streets. 9 AM. 992-8827. sible transmission of fluids, cer­ for one of the local TV stations proceedings against the debtor and h > property a in 11 USC Sec. 362(a). • O 40+ hears from Lou Fatica who tainly almost any other thing you grumble about how you had em- Unleas the Court extenda the tiae, any complaint to determine do with another individual poses harassed them again. . . just what dischargeability of any debt pursuant to 523(c) of the Code shall t shows his documentary of the 1982 and '83 filed not later than 60 days following the first date set for the Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day parades role did the straight press play in aeeting of Creditors. Also Prank How*« on "Japan Up Close At all of this? The debtor has f ile d o 2 P.M. at Fist Unitarian Ctxxch. 1)87 Frohkkn Last Sunday UPI came out with security- holders pursuant t (at Geary). 552-1997 a listed claia which is not listed as disputed, contingent, • IWMT-SF fundraiser cl the Alamo Square a report that I was going to close unliquidated as to aaount, may but need not, file a proof o f c la ia i Saloon (Hotel Casa Loma). Fell and FiBmore them. UPI had never spoken with this caae. Any creditor who desires to xely on the list has the responsibility of determining that he is accurstely listed. Credito streets, from 3 to 8 P.M. A raffle win be held ' me. I can't capture what the media whose c la ia s are not lis te d or whose c la la s a re lia te d as d isp u ted , says. I think I have related pretty contingent, or unliquidated as to aaount and who desire to participât • Th* Inter-dub’s big beer bash in the well with the media and they in the case or .share in any distribution aust file a proof of claim, patio of the San Francisco Eogle. from 3 to proof of claia Bay be filed on or before June 29, 1984. A claia ay b 6 P.M Beer. food. wine, soft dinks - all for know they will get a straight filed in th* Office of th* Clerk of th* Bankruptcy Court, Boon 8020*, story from me, but I think at the 650 C apitol M all, Sacramento, C a lifo rn ia , 95814, on an o f f i c ia l form tôt a proof of claim. Envelopes containing claims must be first press conference there was a larked ‘CLAIM* rontain other correspondence. AptU16(Mon. ) - Lesbian/Oay Freedom lot of confusion for which I Dated: FOR THE COURT Day program subcommittee meeting. AI apologize. RICHARD G. HELTZEL Valencia Rose. 766 Valencia SI.. 7 P.M. 86) - CLERK, U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT 5404 This time I was dear that I •To insure prompt processing, all correspondence other than claims wasn’t going to make a statement must be d irec te d to Room 8038 a t 650 C apitol M all, Sacramento, Aprs 17 (Tu**. ) — KynthlaatfoniVs. 5 30 until last Monday morning, and' I California, 95814. to7PM nocover ValDiamond.830to 10 didn’t. The fact that someone is PM. $5 cover. 621-5570 reporting that I’m going to do • Prtd* Center presents weekly bmgo . something is coming from another games Admission is $6 for sa cords per sourcei I have never told the media game, cash prizes start at $50 At 715 P.M Dr. Mervyn Mverman that I was going to do one thing 890 Hayes St. 863-7845. that risk. and then do something else. Bill Jones of Sutra Baths has How much pressure have you brates a Passover Seder At 150 Eureka St. been quoted as saying that barring been under the last few weeks? 630 PM Pnces from $9 to $27 Call 621- sex at bath houses is really closing I have been under a tremendous The Fitness* 10201^ details them. amount of pressure .on this issue for a full year now. I have been E xpert! • Congregation Sha’ar Zahav celebrates I think the various bath houses Passover with the traditional Seder. At 220 owners are men of good will with grappling with this problem on a Danvers St. 630 P.M Pnces from $1850 to ai social responsibility and they daily basis and it hasn’t been S30 CaB 861 -6932 for details don’t want to do anything that's easy. But this action looked like it YWCA Apr! 1A (Wed )-H*

Gorder. Many local gay/lesbian political and civil rights areas on politicos think that Harry has made behalf of the gay and lesbian a big mistake on this issue and he community. could alienate major section^ of • "Recently after the release of his political base. Not so, goes Dan White and the governor's, the current thinking of the Milk veto of AB1, various Sisters were Club bosses. They see Britt interviewed by national news net­ solidifying his support among works in their 'drag attire’ and Britt's Boo Boo straight voters on this issue which were acknowledged as ’gay activist' will help him on a future Assembly and ’spokespersons.’ These are just some of the examples of The word oi’ Octavia hears long time. He was the one person bid. As for the angry gay voters, the Milkies are confident that this continuing media exposure of the around Silly Hall is that the current they couldn’t control, who wouldn't Sisters in relation to serious gay bath house flap is -all . part of play politics the way they wanted - will all be forgotten by election time. It’s the old "He's a sonofa- and lesbian issues. It has become Dianne Feinstein and Roger him to." The obvious solution? obvious that the Sisters are being Boas' attempts'to sack Dr. Mer- Give Silverman the oF heave ho. bitch, but he's our sonofabitch" routine. manipulated and used by the vyn Silverman. The dty's Director Another person who may have national media' because of their of Health is too popular to be Stumbled in all of this bath house T t t + + outrageous crossdressing attire. pushed aside in public, so DiFi broughaha is Supervisor Harry It is also obvious that men with and King Boas are trying to get Britt, currently running, a heated Girls Girls Girls: The San Fran beards dressed as Catholic nuns the good doctor to hang himself or race for re-election. While Britt cisco-based Sisters of Perpetual speaking on gay and lesbian issues be put in a position where he will has tried to keep confusingly quiet Indulgence have been the recipient on national television are not taken be hung by an angry lynch mob on the controversy, it is no secret of a group face slap from the nine seriously and Tesult only in nega­ (either a tubs less gay community that hf personally spearheaded Imperial Courts of Southern Cal­ tive reactions. or a twice-embarassed news the efforts to get the baths boarded ifornia. In an open letter to the “Thus, the Imperial Courts media). up. In fact, the first erroneous tip- SPI, the assorted courts declare therefore make an appeal to the . Onp .City Hall insider put it this off to the press that Silverman ".. .we feel we must take a stand .Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to way: “The Mayor and Roger Boas was going to close the tubs came concerning the damage being done stop granting or soliciting national have been after Silverman for a from Britt's aide, Dana Van nationally by the Sisters in the media’interviews dressed as nuns.

agression. It is rape-no less brutal baths talk about the cubicles as than anything that happened on mini-homes (and therefore mini­ the pool table of a Massachusetts castles), but what of the steam- barroom. rooms, glory holes and orgy rooms? In our fight for and celebration Doing nothing about the baths of individual liberties, gay people sends the wrong message to those have spent little energy developing who don’t go as well as to those community norms on the limits of who do. acceptable behavior. In fact, our Some people argue that, regu­ PLATFORM BED SALE Private Rights & Public Health entire movement.has been based lating the baths will not stop high- on the rejection of traditional risk behavior, but only move it Two Popular Styles to Choose From Friday, April 6 norms. That's a fine first phase elsewhere. Yes, but it will stop ALPINE NORWAY The gay movement has come life and limb, the same sudden for any liberation movement, but some people and it will reduce the from “Oh. Mary!" to Typhoid Mary libertarians who now cry Out community-building requires the overall level of high-risk activity. in just fifteen uneasy years, but against government intervention development of new forms and So is it a bad idea because it we’re still a little late. The last would be demanding it instead. institutions, not just separation might save only a thousand lives two weeks’ general debate about The city has not acted sooner in from old ones. We still haven't instead of two-thousand? AIDS and the baths, forced by the this matter for the very same done this, but we must do it now. It is late in the day to talk about filing of the Littlejohn petition, is reason the U.S. government still This may be sooner than some using the baths as locales for about eighteen, months overdue. subsidizes tobacco growers 20 might have wished it, but neither sexual re-education. Previous ef­ Double, Queen * 9 9 Delay has lost us many options. years after the Surgeon General's life nor history can expect to be forts by the baths have been feeble Unfinished, K.D. Community action to reduce report on smoking and health: fair. and reluctant. We’re years late, GIANT high-risk sexual activity at the political clout has been invoked to In short, it’s time, to grow up. but some of Allan Berube's sug­ FOLDING BEDS FLOOR PILLOWS baths (including t-room clubs and protect cherished - and profitable We are.now in the fifth - not the gestions in Coming i/p/this month theaters).would be preferable to — institutions. second — year of this epidemic, nonetheless deserve careful consid­ administrative action by thé city’s But the institutions that grew and we have known it is contagious eration. health department. But admini­ up in the springtime of gay liber­ since July 1982. From all reports. Fqr those who still say the strative action — to temporarily ation do not always serve its AIDS kills slowly and painfully, doctors don’t know enough to be dose or restrict these businesses principles well today. Times and and there is no gay liberation in -prescribing behavior, that’s what — is much better than facing a conditions have changed drasti­ the coffin. Mary Mallon said, too. The cook There is no way to tell if you o r, who was the original Typhoid public referendum that would most cally.. What was liberating in 1969 Doubl« Slz« certainly force an absolute shut­ can be lethal now. All that is gay anyone else is carrying this killer Mary caused at least 53 cases and down. ^is not necessarily good, and no If you engage in high-risk sex three deaths. Want to multiply FROM * 1 1 5 that by some thousands? What forced usjr\tt> comer? «.institution automatically and unde- outsjde a relationship that's been w/Främe • 1 8 5 * 1 5 . Why the sudden deadline for bateably deserves the protection mutually monogamous since 1979, If you're still engaging in high- action? By and large, the local of our movement's undivided poli­ you could be an AIDS Mary or risk sex or misguidedly defending gay newspapers have covered the tical clout. soon become an AIDS statistic the supposed rights of others to issue only when the mainstream The issue is definitely deba- yourself. do so, please listen to these words _ / o n m & media focused general attention teable. It is not ideologically imper­ Unsafe sex is unsafe no. matter from HaiTy Britt: “Big Brother on the problem. Even then, the missible to question treasured where it occurs, but the baths isn't saying this to you. It’s all cusHion limited discussion centered on the' beliefs. What do viruses know particularly encourage high-risk your brothers who are saying to you, 'We want you to live.' ” 1222 Folsom St.. San Francisco, CA 94103 issue of whether the closure of the" from “politically correct,” anyway? behavior. Those who defend the baths should even be debated, not ’ There has been no treachery here,, 861-3182 on what to do about the baths. and those who speak of “traitors” MON. -SA T. 10-6 Between 8th & 9th Finally, the pressure from within do nothing but betray their own and outside our community grew foolish irresponsibility. too great, and real debate has The notion that everything sex­ S :F NOW OPEN hurriedly begun. But the same ual is O.K. and great is today a adolescent media lords who lost dangerous and outmoded philo­ us so much time — and so many sophy. To speak only of civil D.J. lives — are now trying to frame liberties is to ignore that AIDS is /»TRIANGLE the debate in their own spurious no longer a matter of private terms. In tragic irony, they-who consent, but of public health. form erly .Saturdays suppressed the debate now speak Dr. Marcus Conant has told.us highmindedly of civil liberties. about AIDS patients who go to They're not thinking with their the baths and engage in high-risk - „ P .M .- heads and their hearts, but with sex without telling their partners THE TRIiNCM 6 their crotches and their bankbooks. about their illness. One of these * i l D**, 9 A M I doubt they truly distinguish covers his KS lesions with makeup. common sense from common Another, who still-looks healthy, UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT sensuality. told Dr. Conant, "Anybody that If the risk levels that now exist goes to the baths is a damn fool, SAN FRANCISCO'S NEWEST BIKE BAR at the baths occurred at a unionized and I think they get what’s coming workplace, the union would long to them.” 164 - 8th STREET 552-0280 ago have sought safety-and-health The first half of that is right. • (between Mission and Howard) regulation. 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CONTROLLING THE QUEERS Sentinel by W.E. Beurdemphl Next D eadline April 20, N ext Issue April 26 The controversy about closing gay bath houses has created a political Published b y SILVER PHEASANT, INC. c 1984 atmosphere which is destroying civil rights for homosexuals. Particularly at fault for the ensuing hysteria is the media. Specifically, professional E4ltor...... w .e . Beardemphl journalists have cared little about objective reporting of facts and have Managing Editor...... Gary Schweikhart Art Director...... Vaughn Frick spread lies instead. Equally outrageous are some liberal politicians who . Contributing Writer*...... Randy Alfred. Paul Boneberg have taken the lead in advocating actions that bring to mind World War II Chris Bowman, Bobbl Campbell, Octavla Hayes attitudes of “getting the Japs." John Mehrlng, Pat Norman Larry Littlejohn, on March 27, filed a notice of intention.to circulate Ed Power, Priscilla Rhoades, Sal nosselll petitions on a silly but outrageous idea. While I disagree completely with Art A Entertainment Writers...... Bill Hock. Pennl Klmmel Larry’s reasoning and his proposals, he certainly took a classical radical Steven Saylor, Mark Woodworth approach that got immediate attention for his aims. Mr. Littlejohn learned Contributing Artists...... Peg Adamson/AJice Preston Photographers...... Mick Hicks, Peter Marcus. Nick Rodgers his lessons from SIR very well, indeed. What happened was a hysterical Typesetting Cynthia L. Seagren. reaction. This uproar is more important than the merits of the proposals. Business Manager...... George Banda What many seemed to overlook was what we printed on the front page Advertising...... Don Brown. Jerry Tartaglla, James Leslie Yates Classified Advertising...... Larry Eastwick of the last Sentinel. Larry proposed a “Declaration of Policy" ballot Production Assistants Adam Fowler. Peel J. Lelfer, John Markert measure. This means, that if passed by the voters, a recommendation is Roy Perkel made to the Board of Supervisors to consider amending the Policy Code to prohibit sexual activity in bath houses. Larry has a long hard path to get this accomplished. He has to: qualify his petition for JOURNALISTIC DRAG but from organizations and all their Bytined columnists' opinions are their own and do not necessarily circulation; print enough valid petitions; within a limited time period get Contrary to popular belief, the name petty policies and politics, and per­ reflect the opinion of The Sentinel. sonalities. The only losers in these over 7,332 signatures; these signatures must be validated; the measure Randy Shllts is not an anagram for The Sentinel welcomes unsolicited news and feature articles and Warren Hinkle — their coverage of battles are the people that have AIDS must be approved by the voters; the Board of Supervisors must hold Fewer people are getting involved ' photographs. If return or acknowledgement is requested, please enclose gay concerns just seems similar. By a stamped, self-addressed envelope. The Sentinel cannot assume public hearings, draft an ordinance, pass that ordinance twice and then manufacturing an AIDS/gay bathhouse in these organizations set up to help people with AIDS. They are also afraid responsibility for unsolicited material the Mayor must sign it. Well folks, this is only the beginnings for such "crisis" last week, an issue apparently Publication of the name or photo of.any person, business or organization ideas to become law in our democracy. The ability for one person to dear to his objective heart. Shilts proves 'to donate money to them because of in articles, letters or advertising in The Sentinel is not an indication of that power politics Is still alive and well the unfavorable publicity created by sexual orientation achieve all of this is financially and physically damned near impossible. and all gussied-up in journalistic drag these bitter fights. Their credibility is So why all of the hysterical reactions? disappearing. The Sentinel is distributed in San Francisco and outlying areas. Mail at the Chronicle.. Speaking of drag, subscriptions are $30 for 26 issues or $ 18 for 13 issues Non-subscription The issues are encompassed in fear, fear of the democratic process and when does Shilts start wearing an There is a huge amount of work to mailed copies are $1 each. an even more intense fear that has stimulated around AIDS. The fear of eyepatch to go with his blue-nose be done. This is not a "social" disease! The Sentinel's lists of subscribers and advertisers are confidential and morality - you know: "Close the bath­ It is death taking our brothers away in are not sold, rented or released to anyone, at any time, for any purpose. AIDS is somewhat understandable because it is deadly and is part of an evry part of the world. In God s name unknown. Larry Littlejohn, as do practically all of our overpriced houses. stop AIDS, or is it, "Bring Content herein is protected by one or more copyrights. All rights back prohibition, prevent alcoholism?" help save us in your organizational reserved. Reproduction in any form without written permission from the practitioners, assume but never prove that AIDS is acquired by sexual It's so hard to get things straight these efforts. Don't make us victims. publisher is forbidden. contact. This is because the only common denominator found so far days: I'm surprised Shilts is having a If there are other AIDS people that The San Francisco Sentinel was founded in 1974 and renamed The amongst male homosexuals with AIDS is that they all had sex with other go at it. feel the way I do. write your local Sentinel in 1978. Published every other Thursday. Advertising rates Randy A. Worden papers and organizations set up to available on request. male homosexuals. Want to bet that if all of the 99.99 percent of male - S.F.. CA fight the AIDS battle and let them homosexuals who do not have AIDS were surveyed that doctors would know how you feel. ' 500 Hayes Street. San Francisco. CA 94102 (415) 861 -8100 find out that they all had sex with other male homosexuals. Men having Tom Wicker sex with men is the definition of homosexuality and is not the basis for an CUTESY PROBLEMS S.F.. CA objective epidemiology of AIDS. More on that in a future editorial. When Randy Shilts says in the inter­ view with Gary Schweikhart (77ie Sent­ REPUBLICANS A AB-1 What occurred next baffles me. Why did Littlejohn’s proposal cause In a recent Sentinel interview of the continues to overwhelmingly fight not care enougli to write or call. If we inel. 3/29/84) that "if you're a gay man against our right to job security? are from 2 to 3 million Californians, such fear of the democratic process? It is utterly unbelievable to me that a in San Francisco, most of the information CRIR president, it was stated that "it handful of misguided homosexuals (and one,lesbian) actually signed a was Republican votes that got AB-1 How can one seriously believe that only half that many could have temp­ you have on AIDS probably came from our anti-gay governor is "open, fair- orarily paralyzed Sacramento with their a guy named Randy Shilts" and (later) through both the Assembly and the petition to the Health Director, Dr. Silverman, to close gay. bath houses so Senate." Yet only one lonely Republican minded" when he panders to the bigots communications to the office of the that Littlejohn’s initiative would not get on the ballot. This is sick, that "I do wish both of you papers (The of his party siich as Senator H.L. Moral Majority s man in the Governor's Sentinel and The Bay Area Reporter) voted for our rights in the Assembly Ricnardson or Assembly Representative office. convoluted thinking. The mistakes made by these misguided people and could write more stuff about AIDS." he and a small brave band of four did so in by the media accomplished Larry Littlejohn's main purpose without him the Senate. Using such logic one would Don Sebastiani? Didn't CRIR support Arman J. Boulay presumes a self-importance on one Sebastiani s plan to reapportion the Berkeley. CA having to do hardly a thing. Larry wanted attention paid to the issue of hand and displays a faulty memory (or . believe that it passed the Assembly by a vote of 1 to 0. in the Senate by 4 to 0. legislature so as to assure the election AIDS and to the methods of its contact and eventual cure. We all want ignorance) on the other, both of which of a greater number of conservative OUTLAWING SEX may explain, in part, why he has Where was the majority, the great that to happen. Larry did it, though, and is now ready to work for a more majority, of the Republican Party'’ Republicans, i.e. anti-gay votes? The proposed initiative to outlaw become the lightning rod for all this Since civil rights should not be a sex in gay bathhouses has as much informed and beneficial educational program. anxiety" about AIDS. Our homophobic Governor Deuk- What remains offensive is the media reporting of the series of events. majian made it plain how his party partisan issue, it is distressing that it logic as outlawing eating steak in For sure, good reporters need strong remains a contradiction in terms to be steakhouses - the March 26 issue of egos but do they necessarily need feels'about civil rights for gays and Let us start with the publisher of a gay tabloid who spread false rumors lesbians as did the party hack. Ed gay and Republican in California. The Time magazine documents that heart as fast as his fingers could dial a phone. When he couldn’t reach enough such big ones? real villains are not those who call disease is caused by eating foods high This reader hopes that Mr Shilts. in ’ Reinicke. when he was quoted recently persons by himself, he had some of the gullible help with his in a conversation with gay Republicans themselves gay Republicans since they in fat and cholesterol, and heart disease following his own credo that his "role commendably acquitted themselves in kills more San Franciscans than AIDS téléphoné tell-a-queen rumor mongering. His tumor was that Dr. as journalist.(Is) not to give the answers at their recent state convention Can one truly state publicly that the Re­ .their serious campaign to sway their Silverman would close the bath houses'.tW'ô"\fréeks back) and that but to pose the problems, remembers Party toward justice. The real villains that when reporters succumb to being publican Party has traditionally been Silverman was ordered to do so, by Mayor DiFi. I had three calls from c the party of human rights' when it are those of our community who did persons this publisher had told the rumor to. Their concern was obvious. "cutesy" they are the problem. Thank you tor running that interview. One was contending this set back our struggle for homosexual civil rights John D. Dolan 200 years. S.F.. CA But it was the straight media that outdid itself. They picked up these false rumors and ran with them. Every TV station broadcast unverified MISUSE OF FUNDS lies as facts trying to be the top boob on the tube. The good ol’ Chron No wonder the National AIDS Founda­ announced on its front page: SF PLANNING TO CLOSE GAY BATHS tion has resisted efforts to account for by Randy Shilts. I quote from that .article, “Dr. Mervyn Silverman, San its monies If the monthly expenses listed in the Sentinel reflect how the Francisco director of public health, plans to order the closure of the city's ' place is run there should be an imme­ gay bath houses and private sex clubs as an emergency measure to curb diate investigation the spread of AIDS. It is my assumption the National and “Silverman is acting at the request of a coalition of gay leaders who SF Aids share the same offices! The decided a health department order is preferable to a potentially divisive same person answers the phone. Do these figures represent 54 of the water and embarassing fight over a proposed November ballot proposition.. . ” bill, the garbage bill and the electric What vomit! bill? \ There has never been a retraction nor an apology from the Chronicle. Who is kidding whom!!!! $100 a month Not one person spreading all of these fake stories ever tried to verify the for water. My entjre apartment building doesn't use $20 a month. PG and E of facts. When the Associated-Press wire service got the story to my $250 a month. Someone ought to start hometown's homophobic newspaper, it ian with a real cutesy picture of turning out some lights. Trash $45 a two bearded men, nearly naked, who were kissing on the steps of San month How much garbage can a 254 Francisco City Hall, with a caption reading, “San Francisco protestors in man office generate a month bath towels." Their story headline read, "BAY AREA GAYS IN An immediate investigation should be started into possible misuse of funds UPROAR OVER PLAN TO CLOSE BATHS." A complete outside audit should .be Granted, living a situation of stress, frustration and "bigotry and still immediatley conducted acting with some degree of intelligence, trying to control one’s anger, is a Stew Anderson lot different than viewing the same situation years later and being able S.F.. CA with some objectivity to judge what occurred. But we should learn something from oür history. Here is one example: It was easy for the Supervisors and the Mayor to look at the past and ORGANIZED VICTIMS make token reparations, passing resolutions full of words and rectitude As a person with AIDS since De­ about Americans of Japanese ancestry who 40 years ago were outrageously cember 1^83.realizing that most people who have had AIDS since that date arp stripped of their property, civil rights, jobs and then interned in prisons. dead, but with the help of good doctors This was for their own protection as well, it was stated at the time. How and close friends. I anrvery lucky to be does one protect someone by putting them" in chains? How could our alive. In the last few months on an ' predecessors have been so stupid? The recent blabberings about closing average of two people a week that) ve known have died in this city, and across the bath houses by Mayor Feinsfein, Supervisor Çritt and Supervisor the state Hongisto have been just as stupid as those arguments for the internment I have always rejected the. word of the citizens who happen to have Japanese ancestors. victims However, more & more I realize To make victims of homosexuals, to take away business rights, to that we are victims not from the disease bankrupt persons, to attempt to control individual lifestyles, to ¡(logically scapegoat the civil rights of a community all because some unknown disease is plaguing part of the homosexual community makes as much sense as stripping all rights, taking property and putting into prison nor American citizens of Japanese ancestry four decades ago. The "get the Japs" (for their own protection, of course) mentality of the 1940’s is resurfacing in'the 80's as "controlling the queers" (for our own protection, . - - of course). Government’s only role in the present situation of AIDS must THE BEST OF THE be to find the cause of AIDS and cure it. To victimize the patieqt is stupid V * and damned mean. It must be stopped. ROCKIES IS YOURS \ r i i r n o i R,s Subscribe CALIFORNIA MIM M il ¡The BEVERAGE COMPANY I 111 M l M 2550 Army Street, San Francisco S en tin el t M-H44

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i m Best of SF Film Fest ’84 by Penni Kimmel Don McLean’s replacement? That's a big triple-D cup to fill. Does it Bird-dogging the best pf the mean that I have to put on a dress when I want to make a joke? I console 1984 San Francisco International myself that I’m not so much replacing Don as continuing his tradition of Film- Festival is a delightful, if casting a hopeful but tough eye on the theatre scene. impossible, task. Thanks for the My column's title? Written by John van Druten, author of Bell, Book motivation - the pleasure is now and Candle and I Am A Camera: "Even in Babylon, even in Manhattan, all yours, in order of schedule: men and women are aware still that they have souls, and that these souls April 11-24 at the Castro Theater can be lost." From its lightest glance to its most serious intent, theatre is Charlton Heston in the Clementine Tango (France) C- lead. (Press Agents broke their ovaries vowing their committment to the 13. 9:30 P.M. & C-14, Midnite. play. Representatives of three different offices called soliciting interviews, Captivating cabaret characters, via each unaware of the others efforts. A year and a half run in Los Angeles an innocently sensuous girl-child, labeled it Unqualified Success — I didn’t know LA had enough lesbians ensnare a young aristocrat in to keep a show running that long.) Caroline's Roboh's stylish, genuine, Ah, relief. The play itself wasn't swamped in this monsoon and doesn’t free-wheeling and, above all, enter­ survive on ticket sales to women. Gay men and straight people flock to it, taining film of a fast-disappearing because it's fun and it's.human. It does have a certain titillation faetbr, art-and life-form. Bare asses and thankfully not sensationalized by author Jane Chambers. But at many bared souls both decorate the moments its The Boys in the Band of lesbian theatre. Six dykes in a closed, though not at all closeted, room bitching. The inside scoop seems to be at hand, and the first act is milieu. funny and biting. Then there's a passionate love story and a tragic death. La Belle Captive (France).G- A full evening. Shock seekers will be disappointed, theatre pleasers will 14. 9:30 P.M. & PFA-19. Alain be pleased and touched. All that arrived is a swell play with some good Robbe-Grillet (Last Year at Mari; actresses telling an interesting story. enbad script) plays with a film Well, apre les deluge, moi. Almost more fun than seeing Bluefish Cove )ioir theme in a phantasmic setting. was reading critical reaction to it — especially in the gay press, where the The “beautiful prisoner” (Gabriele general trend was to excuse its lesbian base. Listen: “.. .is more than a Lazure) of a Magritte painting pla about gay women;" “.. .transcends theme of lesbian love and death;” double-frames the mystery. Paced . .is not so much about lesbianism and its causes than it is to pull you gently into the chase about.. . . not a lesson on ‘How To Be a Lesbian’ and that’s why it’s story, bounce hallucinations off good." your head, and leave you with What is this "transcend,” “is more than," is good because it’s not alternative realities. actually about lesbians? Who are we apologizing to? What are we The Red Monarch (Great Bri­ apologizing for? It’s obvious its themes are life and love.. .but the lives tain) G-15, 9:30 P.M. Left, right being led on the stage are lesbian lives. Chambers wrote TV soap operas or astride the fence, Jack Gold’s for years. If she wanted straight people on stage she would have written gossipy satire of Stalin and Com­ them. I want to see life experiences filtered through the experience of pany in paranoid power is a wicked others, and lesbians have a particularly deep and tight communication. treat - as when visiting American Hey, theatres! Bring on the dykes! columnist (Caroll Baker) leaves It fell to avowed heterosexual Bernard Weiner to offer the simple news poor Uncle Joe with unanswerable to the Chronicles' straight readers: “While providing us with a view of questions, like- "Why is the sky A scone from FOURTY DEUCE. Notice I) i middle character It actor Kevin Bacon,tho atar ot Footloote.' lesbian life, Bluefish Cove is a comedy-drama about love and friendship." blue? and what are lesbians for?” But Mr. Weiner is a curious one. He never apologizes, or writes, that while yesterday's international of 42nd Street wash overhead. less than five at the Castro: four Rowlunds and John Cassavettes although Play X is about heterosexuals, it rises above that to tell a story headline names proceed to shred Paul Morrissey (actual director of in-person tributes and one special (22nd, 1 P.M.), plus a screening about people. Perhaps he’s just not sensitive. the Iron Curtain irreparably. Warhol's Trash. Heat and Franken­ evening of rampant cinema of their award-winning collusion Bluefish Cove is sensitive. Its characters display wisdom of thought The Plague Dogs (USA) C-18, stein). Based on Alan Bowne's nostalgia. on 1977's Opening Night. they can't always act upon and a wisdom of life's quirks when they must. 7 P.M. Local filmmaker, Martin off-Broadway play, it all hangs A Night At The Movies: '41 Go SPIFF! think about what they have done. When a straight woman enters the Rosen's last (he says) animated out, with fangs. (23rd, 7 P.M.) borrows the. unique Ettore Scola's Le Bal, based on enclave where they traditionally let their hair down, when one of the film is a knockout, tougher than An Englishman Abroad (Great dream-palace atmosphere of the Jean-Claude Penchenat's staging. the previous Richard Adams' novel Britain) C-22, 11:30 A.M. (free!). Castro Theater itself to recreate ’ is the last of this year's "Foreign adaption, Watership Down, and Alan Bates does a down-and-out the heydey.of movie magic: news­ Film" Oscar nominees to be re­ not for those who still have night­ Guy Burgess - if you recall the reel, coming attractions, short viewed in these pages and praise mares about Bambi. Snitter and Burgess & MacLean defection subject, cartoon — the works! — be I don't have to choose among Rowf escape from the horrors of scandal — discovered in his declin­ all’ leading up to a “clean" print them. Without a spoken syllable, being experimental subjects in a ing years by Australian actress from UCLA Archive vaults of the the last half-century of French government lab into an even colder, Carol Browne. Directed by John madcap RKO comedy. The Devil history comes alive, under Scola’s unintentionally cruel and; ugly Schlessinger-for the BBC. and Miss Jones (Charles Cobum, fine and humanistic Italian hand, world. Jean Arthur. Bob Cummings. without ever leaving its dance The Go-Masters (Japan-China) Okinawan Boys (Japan) G-22, Spring Byington. Edmund Gwenn, hall setting. The petit-bourgeoisie C-20 7 P.M. A game of “go,” the 4 P.M. A new filmmaker flashes essence of strategy and tactics, back with binocular vision — one occupies the intellects of two men critical eye. the other of romanti­ — one Chinese, one Japanese — cized images on the origin and over the. 32-year period of this effects-of a prejudice. What it's century's internecine Asian warfare like to be a stranger in yqiir own while the raising and training of land: growing up under the de­ the next "go" champion, occupies moralizing influence and stigma their hearts. Superb camerawork of the U.S. occupation that still carries the saga and its pure extract blocks young Okinawans' entry of story through the smallest into'mainstream Japanese society. apertures and out to dizzying vistas Intriguing location shots of unique in this first e,ver cross-cultural co­ Okinawan culture. Susan Sullivan and frland In a scan« from BLUEFISH COVE. production. L'homme Blesse, formerly The Ah Ying (Hong Kong) G-20, Wounded Man (France) G-22,9:30 women faces death, they are drawn into unfamiliar territory. They try to 9:30 P.M. Director Alan pong, F.M. Few new words for Patrice act sensibly in the face of the non-sensible. emotion wracked trials, and it whose 1982 Father and Son Chereau's superb emotional voyage is these reactions which seamlessly bind the play's growth from comedy crushed Hong Kong's ku'ng-fu B- through the shadowland of male to seriousness. It's the human .comedy, with an inspirational yet movie image into dust, here takes love where nothing is taken for GINGER ROGERS uncontrived and realistic ending. -the true story of an auditioning granted - its complex and driving Williams Demarest). Can't guar­ is- at once baldly exposed and The central figure is aptly, if accidentally, named Lil, suggesting both actress and builds a film around forces, its difficulty and violence antee the 1984-made popcorn will .gefitly cherished in eight popular the femininity of Lily and the toughness of Shanghai Lil. I think, too. of her. Remember the wild short- of expression, its inarticulate pas­ go at 43-year old prices, but you; period episodes (individually Brechts' Salvation Lil, the Salvation Army Lieutenant in Happy End, who order cook in Wayne Wang's Chan sion.. After screenings at Mill might consider "dressing" for the scored) wherein each dancer/par­ wins the souls of Chicago's gangsters'by proving she's as tough as they. Is Missing with "Fry Me to the Valley and Chicago festivals, the occasion. ticipant has a multitude of idiosyn­ Bluefish Cove's Lil shows her toughness to the gangsters of life - Moon" on his t-shirt? He (Peter controversy over the film's “gay On stage, ready to share remini crasies that call up laughter just a prejudice, disease — and wins souls by understanding softness as well. Wang) is now the mesmeric head ness” (fact: the milieu is unregen- scence and expertise are: One of moment before a different, under­ She’s a lovely woman, fascinating, well-drawn by the script and of a film school that attracts erately homosexual) demateriali the all-lime great cinematogra lying emotion wells to the suiface. handsomely played by the luminous, charismatic Susan Sullivan. ambitious Ah Ying form her lowly zes, as far as I'm Concerned, while phers. Gabriel Figueroa (14th, 2 (At the Cannery Cinema' Lil knows she's spending her last summer at Bluefish Cove, but cannot fishmonger’s lot in life and sardined the overriding quality Of "instant P.M.). notable for his inestimable • Okay. You Jane. So who Tafzan? know she’s headed for an affair in the moments before death. Since thé family. The tale is spun out with classic" remains intact. contribution to the best of John To find Orey stoke: The legend local realtor is a lesbian who always rents to lesbians. Lil assumes new the lightest touch of American Insiang (Philippines) C-22. 9:30 Huston. John Ford and Luis Buñuel of Tarzan. Lord of the Apes. tenant Eva is gay and invites her to a party. Turns out Eva is running overlaying the urban-Chinese P.M. Filmmaker Lino Brocka's (not to mention Tar ¿an & the Warner Bros, went back to the from a collapsed marriage and isn't gay. Lil sagely suggests Eva not come interior of the most populous city Manila: In the Claws of Darkness, Mermaids). Burgess Meredith, Edgar Rice Burroughs original to the party, her tact and understanding so fully shown in this opening in the world, alive and immediate, a 1981 SF1FF presentation, ra who began back in Winterset in back to the British beginnings, expositional scene that we know and admire her directly. and straight to the heart. dically altered outsiders' percep­ '36 and turns up, 50 films later, in and back to the jungle to start all Eva, however, may have been the world's most protected woman. She The Last Combat (FranceI.C tions'of Filipino society at the the likes of Batman's " The Pen over again with the ripping yam hasn't left her husband's home since their marriage and literally cannot 21,9:30. An adventure fantasy of thick and roiling lower end of a gqin" and Rocky II. still going of John Clayton, the erstwhile 6th cope with functioning alone. She's a frightened.little girl, desperately in exhilarating energy and gripping stubby social pyramid. Unfor­ strong: the most down-to-earth Earl (the new French face and need of some love and affection. She insists on attending the party, as any suspense — there's no second- gettable images are stirred up glamor-girj of all. Ginger Rogers decatholon-type bod of Christopher single man there will be a safe harbor. No men there? She's too dazed and guessing the plot or the rela from the depths of Brocka's own (2lsf. 2 P.M>). who may have Lambert>! Almost too richly photo­ scared to travel somewhere else. When Lil shows compassion for Eva, tionships; Luo Besson has designed experience and flung head-first played second-tapshoe ti> Astaire graphed i the work of 2001 and the girl turns to her for solace, sèdueing, no. throwing herself at Lil. It's new situations for' an original , into their own stories. in 30's billing but who more than Barry-Lyndons John Alcott). the a perfectly credible sequence, not at all suggestive of the timeworn qnd nameless character to fit the’ As all movie nuts li.e., film balanced the star team, later acting legend is reborn in a combination untrue theory that gays expect all straights to be on the verge of coming speechless world beyond The End. fans) know, it ain't all on the big her own way out of cinematic of bloody lale-Victorian realism out. Eva's seduction is not a sexual one. She wants a Father, but shell Forty Deuce (USA l C-21, Mid screen; there are rare opportunities paper bags to the top of the ladder, and today's nostalgic fantasies that, take a Mother in the immediacy of her need. nite. Take a deep breath, duck to enter into the real-life spirit of and a rare pair, the personal pro for the most part.-comes enjoyably and let the down and-dirty waves things. This year's fest has no fessional partnership of Gena together. (At the Coronet ) Continued on page 10 "Sentinel ÄFfe April 12,1984

Spring Bouquet off Concerts »»CEDAR»» by Bill Huck wealth of melody, as was here The small orchestra often As though to greet a bounteous presented.'Popp's ability to etch soured. The strings had a hard APRIL 15 -16 "EARTHQUAKE APRIL 25 - 28 spring, concerts have recently out a phrase helped Schoenberg time keeping their creamy music ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL" "NICK AND NORA RETURN" bloomed in a profusion usually considerably; still a singer cannot fresh, but Alan Curtis at the SAN FRANCISCO reserved only for flowers. ‘This create melody out of dioss, though cembalo and James Weaver at the D-W.S VanDvkrll. WV.ClarfcCjbfc-.|«an.-ii,-NUIX.n..kl. THE THIN MAN - run of g(x>d fortune began with they can hide it through ignorance. spinetta provided delicious key Lucia Popp s recital at Herbst Popp was wise and Schoenberg board accompaniment’. SUN: U.-JO. 4:00 7;3^/MON: irOT. V « * U'J' ' Theatre on March 27th. A'cruel was prodigious. The combination SAN FRANCISCO, YESTERDAY, TODAY A final flower stands out most AN^DTOMORROW^ fate kept Popp's voice out of San was nothing short of magic. prominently in our lush garden, Francisco until her debut here The next flowering of song that for he is a tall and sturdy tulip. A last season - first at the Opera as bedecked the concert hall was black tulip, magisterial and serene. Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage Alan Curtis's Collegium Musicam His detractors find Alfred Brendel -lirpri-v SUN: 2:25. Ik00. 9:«Q/MON: 8:00 * APRIL 29-30 of Figaro and then in a concert of performance of Pietro Antonio too thoughtful a musician. Indeed APRIL 18 <■ 21 "PRF.STON STURGES DUO" Hugo Wolfs Italian Songbook with Cesti's Semiramide. Originally there is a probing nature in the "EVE AND NORMA" SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS baritone Hermann Prey. Her Su­ BMI |orl MrCrra. Vmmica Iak<- tulinral iurm-ily aSnil mini written in 1665 for a wedding great Viennese pianist that belies ALL ABOUT EVE pruduirr who trank (hrinuntn li«*mg n.r "thr" wibi« i Inr " sanna, finely etched but a trifle that never took place, Semiramide the simple, naive view of Franz film SUN: 3:35,6:2S, 9:15/MON: 7:45 ' matronly, told us that Popp had was one of those joyous exper­ Schubert and Wolfgang Mozart, CHRISTMAS IN JULY managed to keep the bright, beauti­ SuppnrtinpAclivISaniltv«.)' WED-FRh MWAL iences that prove not all worthwhile the composers he played on his .»I a htipt-lul (iink-st vsinni-r going rn a choppingiptrr uilh'thr ful sound first made famous back music comes from the few com­ recent visit here. Yet to my ears, SUNSET BOULEVARD "hupvful winnings " SUN: 2:20,5:10.8 00/MON: 6:30.4:20 - in early sixties on Otto Klemperer's posers whose work are played there are many ways a performer Mfuhi-inv Civil B DrMilk- WhvS»jnwinw!wntgiiimlhrOw' MAY 2 - 5 can delve into the music he plays, u DnnMHkl. Ihv C.nnvl Star ..I th.-n. All THE WOMEN and Brendel's is among the more .WED-rpi: 7:fl0/SAJ: ¡*¡00, 7:20 [1 Ctstgi- Cukor. Ii*r. |iian Craw ItinJ. \o honest and illuminating. Leonard (aHlilard. Ktrsalind Kussrll. |iun Fnnuinr. APRIL 22 - 23 Innl loads tht- "l.idn-s as (ho brtchv Crystal Bernstein, for example, likes to "MARLENE DIETRICH" wouldn't hast- bum difliiull WED-FRI: «:< bring out an inner voice in a BLUE ANCEL SOME LIKE IT HOT familiar composition, because it is D |i*>i-ph VimSti-mbi-rg. N.Vi MirliwOn-lmh. km,I |.,rmir>g his newest discovery and he wants Marli-m ailaila-l i4a. Ihr ruthlv. »hin-t ingrr Thk w » ht-rv smtfs ‘’Falling in Low Again " SUN: 2:45. 5:50. B 55/MON 7:5 an all-girl ta// kind Ii-miH inrm-di , *M.n us to hear it. Vladimir Horowitz THE GARDEN OF ALLAH FRI: 7:00/SAT: 2:45.7:05 uses the symphonic sound he can Ch.irlvB.m-r create to add lustre to.whomever he is playing. Claudio Arrau treats the printed text as a road into the spiritual essence of the work at hand. It is the music's spirit that Arrau seeks to show us. Brendel Inflation-Fighter Perm — — _ seeks to deliver what the composer HunterDouglas $40.complete l\ / m S T / set down. As he admits, he is not the'light, his function is.to make Sunflex" Cut and bio — 1 FI Ur M fU the light come through. Custom Blinds: Men and Women The operating medianism that Men's short cut — $10 Plano wizard ALFRED BRENDEL keeps Brendel’s thought m the Combining service of the composer and not 760 Market at Grant recording of The Magic Flute. and replayed throughout every as a platform for himself is his Beauty and Rm. 401-6, Phelan Bldg. The singers musicianship had, if season. Cesti's style astoundingly secure inner metro­ Modern anything, matured over the years. does not include the grand melodies nome. It is not that Brendel is 362-5198 Tuesday-Saturday As a result, the Hugo Wolf recital of Handel or Bach, Bellini o.r afraid of a rubato, for he is not; it Craftsmanship introduced us to a supreme lieder Verdi. He depends more on a is, however, that this pianist knows singer, in full command of her art. sweeping declamation, a height­ how to set a tempo and keep to it. The expectations Popp aroused ened; sense of speech that focuses All the individual gestures, all last year she triumphantly fulfilled our attention on the words, the those deep and pearly thoughts, ENTERTAINMENT this time around. This singer’s voice and the pitches — in short, are accomplished within the tempo NIGHTLY at virtues begin with a clear, moun­ on the elements of the song. Not set. All the magnificent shadings tain-stream soprano. Vocal music that Cesti is without melodies, for of color that Brendel can get out No Cover • is so much the art of communi­ especially in a comic vein he is of his piano are made to serve the '■DYNASTY" cating emotion that we often over­ most inventive. It is just like that, ever-progressing line of the com­ look the purely instrumental as-, like Gluck after him, Cesti sees poser’s thought. V __ Wednesdays pects of our singers. But Popp nobility in a restrained style that I at 9:00 P.M. builds her expression upon the That Mozart's music exists at SUNFLEX* CUSTOM BUNDS g L M the unimaginative mistake for a the pinnacle of the human imagi­ musical basis of accurate sound. lack of imagination. Semiramide * spnng-tempered l i U n Open Mike' —Mondays This facility allows her to use the nation nobody now doubts, but um slab that spring back may not make me prefer Cesti to that Schubert also belongs to the into shape I f m Happy Hour — Monday- composer's musical design as the • Snug, tighter fitting slats Handel, but it makes me thirst for upper empyrean is less recognized. e• Head and bcflomboho----- rails• designed \ Friday 3:00-7:00 P.M. springboard for her emotional more of him. to keep bindWind hangmght straight Monday-Frtday 3 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-2a.m. portrait. Pitch relationship are- There is a starkness amid Schu­ bert's naivete that too few even ACHOCEOFBEAUnFULA CHOICE r exactly delivered, and thus music Among the singers Elizabeth COLORS 1160 Polk SI. (btwn. Post S Sutler! 771-6262 Is made as well as conveyed., want to acknowledge. Brendel A wide spectrum ot designer colors Anker was a rich voiced and proved that by taking Schubert as to create an element ot beauty si Yet it is not a flute. Ms. Popp- commanding Semiramide. Every­ many rooms ol your home • plays upon, nor is it a version of seriously as we would the difficult one, but especially Anker, delighted composers, the most exalted music THERMAL-STOP • vocalise that she delivers. Popp in the vocal ornaments that spice ENERGY-SAVING BLINDS wtll.unfold. ALSO ON SALE sings the words that composers this relatively austere style. James \ + t + T ARLEN INSURANCE MARKETING set as well as the notes. An Meade and Robert Tate as the Leontyne Price and Aida. The M. Ray Dorfman, Vice President intermission commentator found two comic servants practically Sentinel music critic Bill Huck a likeness between Lucia Popp walked off with the performance will give a talk with recordings SunflsC Specialists in Business Insurance and Workers Condensation (or and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, but and showed us how easily Cesti about Leontyne Price and Aida, Custom Blinds •R estaurants «Hotels «Bars »Motels • Retail Stores that comparison was not quite mixed styles. Sally Sandford as at the Marina Branch of the Public right. What my friend heard was 45% OFF the light-voiced princess and Chris­ Library, Chestnut Street, at 7 So-r _l.il Dim-IXII Its (Ol T. ivi‘f r ' C. an intelligence and a willingness topher Deane as the dark-voiced P.M., Tuesday. April 24. Bill will to inflect, to make, something out Touch Ups enemy king, however, helped trace Price's career and discuss (415)499-0540 Call Collecl (707)795-5470 of each word. But Popp has a ' Anker keep the noble's music her evolving relationship to Verdi's more linear, less precious style alive and beautiful. .great heroine. than Schwarzkopf had. For me. Popp is better linked with Sena Jurinac, a less famous, through no less true artist. The composers Popp sang were Schubert, Sdioen- berg and Strauss. How clever and . deep is Popp's musical taste! This lady came up with ten gorgeous Schubert songs, most of them unfamiliar. Closing the printed ;STfì M OCHG program were eight Strauss songs PRESENTS'THEIR ANNUAL that likewise stayed away from the handful of beloved favorites. However, the revelation of the recital came with the Arnold Schoenberg set, opus 2. The early opus listing, forewarned us of a late' Romantic lushness, but not . even the other early pieces that I . do know fold me to expect such a The new Ruffatl Organ at Davie* Hall. 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Italian Restaurant * We very seldom have a turn over wine. This is oné of my favorite ' of an employee. I think that speaks activities in the business. of how persons feel working in Are there any closing remarks Sidewalk Terrace Garden Room our houses. you want to make on the hard time It is generally difficult tofind an All pastas are home-made most gay restaurants are presently Good Food & Wine adequate Chef. How have you man­ having? Home-made bread aged this area? We are dealing wifh a changing Fine wines We work very closely with the world. There was an era when Cappucino Espresso — Gilmore Style kitchen staff. Two of our chefs at gay restaurants had an easier time Exclusive Dishes at PEPPINO’S: Castle Grand are people we trained. because when gay persons went by W.E. Beardemphl then flamed in brandy as it goes At the Fickle Fox our second man out to dinner they specifically ‘gnocchi alla Romano' Probably the most difficult busi­ on She plate, it costs a certain is also someone we trained. One went to a gay restaurant as opposed ‘Combination for two — Seven Flavors ness is operating a good restaurant. amount of dollars to produce that of the hardest things in this busi to a straight place. That is not so (gnocchi al pesto, cannelloni, lasagna K,or this issue we .interviewed a kind of /(iod. When you look at ness to control, that keeps cus­ anymore because gay persons are successful restauranteer, Read tortellini with meat sauce, manicotti the price of similar French rest­ tomers coming into a restaurant, not afraid to be seen out and Gilmore, to give our readers some aurants, we tend to run about crespelle, fettuccini Alfredo) is whether the food is going to be around. Also the competition has insight, into this precarious, esoteric 20 percent lower than others. consistent. We have been singu­ gotten stronger in the restaurant art form. • Open from 930 A.M. Daily At the Fickle Fox. we are one larly blessed that people who have business. When you are dealing W.E. Beardemphl: We understand come to us. who learn with us. with restaurant business in a city that you are getting ready fur an of the few restaurants in town that is still serving soup AND who work with us, stay. like San Francisco where the 1247 Polk Street 776-8550, anniversary party at one of your One of your most amazing accom - restaurants can seat the entire restaurants, the Fickle Fox. salad with dinners. All of our restaurants are in the moderate plishments is your wine lists. Parti­ population in a single seating, Read Gilmore: Yes, it will be price range with only the Castle cularly at the Castle Grand you obviously we have intense compe­ number 19 this year. The Fickle Grand running toward the upper have selected some of the finest tition. In years past we all remem­ Fox is the longest running gay moderate prices. wines I have ever tasted. How ber that gay restaurants were less OFF THE BEATEN PATH restaurant under one name and at 95 percent of restaurants go have you managed this? expensive than straight restau­ the same location in San Francisco. bankrupt in their first year. What The wine lists áre my great rants. That was due to the fact This is our second year there. is your management concepts that pride and joy. Currently at the that gay restaurants had very How will you celebrate this year? make your places work white most Castle Grand we have 42 wines busy, busy bars in conjunction Early Bird Special Oh! By having one of our spec others go under? on that list; at the Fickle Fox with them so that the bar was able tacular parties. We invite seven We watch every penny. A lot of there are 22. A lot of persons will to help subsidize the food costs. 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. or eight hundred of our most people get into this business with­ have a salesman come in and let Over the last ten years with the intimate friends and have a real out proper knowledge of cost them set up the list for them; of proliferation of gay bars, gay brawl. We will do a rather massive control. This is a business where course they just end up with restaurants/bars are not as busy 10% off on all entrees and lavish buffet-. Given the Fickle you can lose incredible quantities as they used to be. Rents have Fox’s tradition of making certain of money through nickle and dimes The also gone up. that no one leaves hungry, we without even realizing it. Cost Recently, I had a straight couple generally do it rather elaborately. control is something that must be FickleFox i come into the Fickle Fox and What other establishments do constantly watched. This is a high storm out because they thought you own and manage? risk business also because you the prices were outrageous for a We own the Castle Grand; we , are dealing with a perishable GAY restaurant to be charging. I will have our fifth anniversary inventory and you are dealing was rather amused by that. I there soon. Running a chic little with a huge staff to serve your thought that there are some preji- French restauraht south of Market public properly. If you understaff, duces that don’t die. Because those has been an interesting project. your customers are not going to particular straights were going to This last December we also took be happy. If you overstaff, you lower themselves to come to a over the dining concession at the won’t .be able to afford it. You gay restaurant they thought they Atherton Hotel. have to arrive at a happy medium. should be paying less money than The three places are distinctively First and foremost you have to in a straight restaurant. different from each other. Do you watch your food cost. You have to I think back to just a few years huve different management styles be ready to roll with the punches when there were a lot of good gay for. different places? as the market varies without restaurants in town and there just A variety of 12 different veal or pork Schnitzels The'management concepts re­ soaking the public. aren’t that many any more. Of the main basically the same. You are traditional gay restaurants, I think Our famous Saturday & Sunday Cham pagne Brunches While I have a background from running a business that is dealing my family in restaurants, my the Fox is a classic. Although we Outside seating & a full dinner with with the public. As far as our partner. Gecilia MacClareri, is an have a large straight clientale, ALL THE FRIED CHICKEN YOU CAN EAT’ approach, stylistically, each rest­ incredible business woman who is they come knowingly that this is For only $7.95 - Every Monday Night aurant is entirely different. The good with computers. We keep our world they are coming into. Brunch served Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. & Sun. 10 p.m.-4 p.m. Fickle Fox is a wonderfully casual constant tracking on what money This is a tradition that needs to be Dinner served Monday thru Saturday 5:30 to 10 p.m. and eclectic sort of place; after its is being spent and how it is Jieing kept. One of the reasons I've 4238 18th St. (at Diamond) San Francisco 626-4755 anniversary, we wilLbe going into allocated to general operations, READ GILMORE always loved thè Fox is-that it traditional and thé new American particularly fluctuatiqns in payroll whatever that particular dealer's always has been a wonderful kind cooking, there. Our approach in as to whether we are watching wines are. Because of my great of hide-a way. One was able to go service is equally precise but our . hours worked closely enough. It is love of wine and my joy in tasting in and have dinner, go into the look is more casual. At the Castle an endless battle. it, I work with a broad spectrum bar and see a free cabaret show Grand our look is the classic French What is your position on unions of people in this area. Jusf this and have a hell of a good time. I look, black bow tie. black vests. trying to organize gay restaurants? week I was taken to lunch at would like to add that the Fickle Of course, at the Castle Grand we We have not seen any of the ' Orsi's with the Food and Beverage Fox will be closed for a couple of t h e have always featured a French union representatives in our esta­ Managers of Stanford Court and days, the 17th and 18th, for menu going from haute cuisine to blishments. Puring my theatrical Campton Place and we were tasting redecoration. The entire restaurant GALLI nouvelle cuisine. At the Atherton era, I was a union member and a series of French wines. Out of will be reopened April 20 with a we are dealing with a hotel where my union never did a damn thing that tasting I selected one for my fresh look and our new American s a n f r a n a i we do breakfast, lunch, and dinner for me. In our houses we pay our list. I also have an independent menu. The Castle Grand has and room service. We feature a staff well. We have a health plan, broker who deals with a lot of become in some ways very trendy. COME TR Y OUR NEW MENU continental style menu there. we recently instituted a dental boutique wineries in California It has become an interesting spot What about pricing of food in a plan and a jife insurance plan. I who supplies me with a number of for a lot of San Francisco society; Happy Hour 12 noon-7 P.M. restaurant? For instance. I have am not one who believes' in the wines. Then I have a delightful some gentlemen like to bring their heard some persons say that the workers supporting a money-grub- Frenchman with Charles Le Franc “girlfriends" there. It is also a Dinner Nightly 6-10:30 P.M. Castle Grand was pretty high. bling restaurateurs. I am jn this Cellars who I’ll be having lunch hide-a-way spot but of a slightly I suppose by some people’s business for the love of it. I enjoy with this Thursday for tasting different ilk. standards the Castle Graqd is doing this business and making it wines. Either they come to me or I At the Atherton, it is predomi­ Brunch served Saturday, Sunday and pretty pricey, but when you are go with happy results. If I wanted go to them and we’ll taste thé nantly a gay hotel clientele, but Holidays 10. A.M.-4 P.M. dealing with a house that is serving to make money out of the rest­ wines. I like to do this over lunch lately, we have a lot of show biz the food we do with terribly aurant business, 1 would go into a because I like to see how. the wine trade coming through. It is be­ expensive ingredients, for instance fast-food operation. We have a will go with a specific type of coming quite a spot for stars of John Trowbridge on the Plano every vegetable'is sauteed and good track record with our staffs. food. We will taste probably three various degrees. Recently we had Friday and Saturday 9:30 P.M.-l :30 A.M. wines in a day. They can all be Eartha Kitt and Lelani Brown the same variety, as.Chardohnays, there. or verticle styles of wines as We thank you for sharing some 718 14th St. Reservations: 431-0253 Chablis and Reisiings or whatever. of the trials and tribulations and DININC CUIDE Then we place them on our lists joys of the restaurant business with to give a balance so that .no matter — •— T------— .— us. 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Bath House Backstabbing Thinking that we had just re­ community two weeks to come up solved the issue Of the Century, with "safe sex" alternatives to the moment we gave a sigh of closing the baths. A consensus relief, Urry Littlejohn and certain developed that these alternatives members of the Executive Commit­ would include enhanced.“safe sex" tee of the Harvey Milk Club and a educational efforts, and structural smattering of other leaders of our changes such as closing or modi­ Community were advocating that fying the. orgy rooms, providing the baths be closed down. The better lighting and sanitary f^cili prospect of the Littlejohn initiative ties, etc. There was no consensus on what to do with the glory came as a tidal wave, and well- ______i o meaning leaders of our community holes. i Compromise were swept along by the machi­ The next day, CRIR’s board Continued firm page 1. Department of Health. And the positions on the subject within are the hemorrhoid...and Prepara­ nations of certain opportunists into met and agreed to issuing a state­ the public — really wants to deal guidelines we have been'given one week. tion H is this stupid legislation what was and continues to be an ment on the baths — which was with the issue. have been confusing and contra­ Schietinger: I agree. you want to get passed. untenable and unjustifiable retreat hamihered out the néxt day by Accardi: When you say “the dictory. Some people Want to Accardi: Britt has taken four Lorenzini: My regret is this from gay rights and sexual li­ polling the board's membership. public,’' do you mean San Francisco eliminate glory holes, some want positions: 1) Close the bath houses. petition drive has taken the front beration. It also condemned the Littlejohn , or the gay community? It seems to cut out the community activity 2) Don't close the bath houses. 3) row and has played down aids A forum was hastily organized Initiative as playing into the hands I to me that by placing this in the room because they aren’t condusive Stop sex at the bath houses, and Awareness Week. by Hank Wilson (initially to gain of die homophobes. aspect of the straight community, to safe sex; others want to eliminate 4) Boycott the bath houses. That community.support for Silverman the non-medical straight commun­ the private cubicles. The fact of kind of political game playing... The Sentinel: Mr. Littlejohn, Silverman agreed to the request what will it take for you to withdraw closing the baths and sex establish­ of the two groups to meet with a ity, is just asking for moralistic the matter is that if yqu eliminate which I feel you, Mr. Littlejohn, ments) on March 29. Two days broad. spectrum of community judgments that will just further everything or if you invite the have contributed to .. .is going to your petition intent? earlier, the Milk Club paraded leaders before making a decision. complicate this issue. You’re asking straight community in on this undermine the very thing we do Littlejohn: If I felt we hd an advocates of radical changes to Rossëlli's group then sponsored a the straight community to make a . problem, well never come up with need to do. The baths have to effective program that was saving our lifestyle and then .held small- second community forum last Wed­ decision on something they have any practical solutions. change. There is no question about lives, I woldn’t have got involved. group discussions to come up with nesday at the Pride Foundation no real idea about. . . the lifestyles Beardemphl: I think the edu-. that, but it can’t be done dictator- I have better things to do with my recommendations. When the lea­ attended by over 120 people. It of gay men. cation program has worked to a ially. life than get trashed. ders of the small-group discussions was standing room only, and no Furthermore, I disagree cate­ certain extent. We have been The Sentinel: But if a committee Beardemphl: Back in the days ' like Mr. Accardi has suggested c reported back to the membership, one other than Littlejohn advocated gorically that it has been business. publishing the VD figures and - of SIR and the “Check 33” VD none of them said that the majority closing the baths, and even he as usual over the last year. The they have been going down. was formed to further AIDS educa­ education program, it was the tion would that.be acceptable to of those Tn their group advocated backed off somewhat. On the other fact-is that I haven’t been able to Accardi: To an extent. community itself which created closing the bathhouses as ad- • hand, Rick Andrews, M.p., ad­ pick up a gay newspaper without Beardemphl: I think some of this program and made it work. you? dressing the problem of the in­ reading something about AIDS- the education efforts by the AIDS vocated that only masturbatory ' Wharton: The legal problem Littlejohn: If I see a program creasing number of new cases of sex .take place in the sex estab­ My concern is what we are reading . Foundation have been good, so it over this is, I think; a dangerous AIDS. Yet, some of the club's' lishment and bath houses. There arid' how accurate or inaccurate it hasn’t been business as usual that I -think will work, 111 step one. We are asking the' authority aside and support it.. .and with­ leadership took it upon itself the was no consensus for that position, may be. among gay men. which licenses businesses to some­ next day to advocate just that. So but a general agreement that “safe ScUetiager: I agree. Schktinger: The guidelines draw the.petition effort. how reach out and license or Campbell: I think it is important much for democratic process. sex” (however defined) should be Accardi: The confusion and released by BAPHR and AAPHR regulate the conduct of patrons at The forum on Thursday, was .facilitated. ‘ frustrations you fed, Mr. Littlejohn, have been pretty consistent now . that we look at areas, where w e' those businesses. Somehow that’s have consenus. We all realize that attended by about 100 people and The results of the private meet­ I share with you. We’ve asked for for about-a year and a half.- But I • the wrong implement to hoe. . 85 percent of those who spoke ings and forum were forwarded to meetings and information, too, that don’t think some of the headlines AIDS is a serious health problem, opposed closing the bathhouses. Silverman and he met last Sunday we have been unable to get. So and stories have been strong Littlejohn: Last week was AIDS and that surrounding it are legal Littlejohn and Britt didn’t show with a broad spectrum of leaders keep in mind that we’re trying to enough to get people to change Awareness Week. I wonder how and political problems. I think and Migden was verbally, attacked to present his decision. A handful get answers too. their sexual lifestyles. many discussions like this we'd, everyone here and everyone work­ . by .several in the audience. I spoke of activists spoke in general opposi­ It has been charged that the be having if I hadn’t filed my ing on. AIDS is sincere. We may out and likened those who were tion to what he was saying, but bath house owners have. been Accardi: But you don’t get a petition intent? disagree over tactics, but we are asking Silverman to close the baths dragging their feet. But the fact of good education program by threat­ all sincere in our efforts to see according to many observers, most Jones: Don’t be so proud of as an alternative to the-Littlejohn acquiesced. According to several the matter is that we’ve never, ening to close the bath houses. that people don’t die.' And you don’t get it by Harry what you’ve done. As far as Fm Initiative as playing into the hands people who attended the meeting, once. The Sentinel: Thank'you dll for of homophobes, much .in the way declined any reasonable suggestion Britt, supoosedly our community's concerned, Harry Britt- is the Silverman- advocated on {he one asshole of our community and you participating. that the Jewish Councils in the hand eliminating any sex which from the AIDS Foundation or the representative, taking four different Warsaw Ghetto collaborated un­ would lead to AIDS. He felt that wittingly with the Nazis. Both masturbation was fine and one were using the reasoning that if one of governmental edict. violated. simply can’t control themselves, should be ertcouraged, but he that closing such businesses will Silverman, in effect stated that someone has a gun against otir joined Andrews and Dr. Bolan in significantly curb high risk sexual and that the time has come to do The meeting was concluded by, no sex would occur in the bath­ away with Consenting Adults heads, we can- save suffering by opposing oral sex and rectal inter­ activity nor prevent the continued Silverman asking the leaden to taking a pistol out of our pocket course — even with a rubber. houses and that he would seek altogether. Thanks a lot — Silver- increase in the number of new" seek community support for his the Board of Supervisors’ support aid doing it ourselves. Much neater cases of AIDS. The issue is not • man! position. ’ to ensure that he had jurisdiction I’m tired of.our “friends” treating that way! POSITION ON THE CLOSING where one has sex, but how and The next day, Silverman held Based on the public furor over OF GAY BATH HOUSES AND with whom one has sex. over all sex establishments so he ,us as recalcitrant children and I the issue, the president and former his preSs conference, and a select could impose the same total re­ think that there is merit in con­ SEX ESTABLISHMENTS • We urge caution and responsi­ number of leaders (most of. whom striction on them as well. president of BAPHR and Hank (Approved by the Board bility by those at .risk of catching, sidering what Gerry Parker - supported stopping all sex) were ' the former president of the Stone- Wilson were moved to reverse of Directors of Concerned or transmitting AIDS, recognizing allowed to attend. Bobbi Campbell, their position, and. this movement Republicans for Individual that significant voluntary steps If Silverman is the last friend of : waH Gay Democratic Club — said convinced Silverman (as well as RN, a person with AIDS, was also at the second public forum, that Rights. April 3,1984.) have been made both by Gay there but was unable to leave- the gay community among the inability of the City Attorney bath houses and sex establish­ straights in San Francisco, we are we should reject ‘the Democratic when he discovered what was leadership of San Francisco and to fihd legal grounds to do so) to • C.R.I.R. opposes the closing ments ,and by, members of our about to happen. Others, such as in BIG trouble. It is'the'tJdfcf of postpone his decision to closing of Gay bath houses and sex estab­ Community to reduce'1 high risk this author that he is infringing on two weeks before the convention, Brandy Moore and Pat Norman re-register as members of the Gay the baths. lishments. unless’ there is com­ sex, but that intensified educational who had been more vocal against the 1975 Consenting Adults Act, The following Sunday, two pelling and graven medical evi­ efforts and additional structural and that a year from now, when Rights Party so that we can express radical restrictions on sexual acti- our displeasure. Additional, more. groups of leaders in our community, dence to do so. changes are still needed. • vities in the bathhouses decided the AIDS statistics still continue one chaired by Sal Roselli, presi­ • We feel the current impetus • -We strongly feel, however that to climb exponentially, that there elective and radical steps will not to attend the press conference still have to be worked out — but dent of Alice, the other by Rev. to closing the Gay Sath houses the questions of whether or not after seeing the Examiner story will be people, including some of Jim Sandmire of the M.C.C. came and sex establishments is solely one should go to the Gay bath the puritans in our own community as a Republican, I’m all for doing . up with statements and letters political and that there is no new houses and sex establishments is which proved the confidentiality who will say that Silverman didn’t just about anything legal to protect urging Silverman to give the valid medical evidence to suggest a matter of individual choice, not of the earlier meeting had been go far enough — that gay men our Individual Rights.

the June Allyson role of Eva, does when she proves incapablp of pulling lead-ins never made it dear what in the world was going on or why. With off the cathartic moment of the climax. Lil’s light has been passed. no announcement she disposed of' several South Pacific songs in .three Standing triumphantly,, sadly,, on the ocean-side boulder where we met minutes. Then the band launched into a minstrel medly. Hearing a Jolson Lil at the play’s opening, Eva should shine from within with Lil’s light. tune, my neighbor whispered to his wife, “That's what this show lacks — Perhaps she merely smiles and shrugs .because that damned Chris tunes!” No tunes, huh? That’s the impact Mitzi makes with South Pacific, Williamson remake of the Carpenters’ "Sing” is playing . . . again. her strongest claim to fame. For her part, Li! wants, to leave something behind. She sees in Eva her Bluefish Cove is ultimately alight, though with a rich array of people Her second act is. entirely different, a well-ordered succession of song chance. Shell help this child become a person. The story of Eva’s growing illuminating their way of life and therefore the ways in which we can and dance which dispells confusion and was enjoyable — esperially a fan awareness is combined in the second act with that of Lil's demise; cdncer approach ours. One respects these people, the play, and appreciates the dance. Mitzi is a talented performer ^nd deserves a director, a better set eats her even aa^love nourishes her into thinking shell live. It’s never chance to see a basically well done production. and a functioning sound system. As most of the second act showed, when maudlin, given the astringendes of gay humor and the subplots and Oh — I also joined the Susan Sullivan fan club. There seems to be more. she just does it she's one of the few around who can. personal stories of Lil's friends. These may seem more stereotyped than light around her than anyone else on stage, and she doesn’t want a follow She’s backed by nine dandng men wh6 range from butch to femme, Li! and Eva, but I suspect that's merely that lesser actresses fill some of spot. Perhaps shell join A.C.T. when she’s killed off on Falcon Crest. and I loved them all.They’re great dancers. Thommie Walsh’s choreography, these roles. If the entire ensemble had been cast as strongly., perhaps I. UP TO HEAVEN: when not ponderously boring, is anthologized (that's a polite word for would not call this a “siveet little play." I expect you’ll want to see Bluefish Cove, and I encourage you. It’s a stolen) from New York’s best. Bits of Champion, Fosse and others were Camilla Carr’s early portrayal of Kitty, world famous doctor turned good evening. I’m more emphatic about A.C.T.’s production of Angel’s from the evenings pick moments. Too bad he doesn’t steal more. feminist author, is cardboard until she drops her facade. Then I warmed Fall. I went prejudiced against Lanford Wilson, and left feeling he was I visited with Miss Gaynor before the show. Her knowledge and to theactress just as the character warmed up to the painful task of being becoming a fine writer. The play addresses similar topics as Blueftih \ experience in the theatre has been great. That interview next issue, Lil's friend and doctor. , ■ Cove — how shall we lead our lives? What sort of people shall we.be? Mitzi, direct and personal, ischarrrtihg . . . even in Babylon. The closeted Kitty has forced her lover to masquerade as secretary. It’s confrontation all the say - six characters, all at some crisis in their Joan Pringle in that role is never, more than plot device and mouthpiece. lives, trapped ¡none room. Though a bit slow in starting, it soon hurtles Lil’s close friends Annie and Rae (Nora Heflin and Lee Garlingtoq) are along, its storm, conflict and resolution leaving me entertained, cleansed THE BIG SHOW: well played, though Heflin’s monochromatic attempt at butchiness causes and ready to-face the world. My favorite show .recently was Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. It’s not at her to lose many lines due to her denched-tpeth way of muttering. Loosen Brilliant.performances are given by Sydney Walker, Barbara Dirickson any theatre. It’s being-played in life. Remember it? About a fellow who up, girl. The older generation gets its licks in through Sue (Winnifred and Dakin Matthews without disrupting a marvelous ensemble. Two says the baths must be dosed because the waters are poisoned but the Mann), a worldly woman who knows sees all too clearly the'good and bad young men add an,eyeful of aesthetics to their talent, and DeAnn-Mears' owners don’t want to-lose their profits and manipulate .things so that he's in her lover, the hot tomato gold-digger Donna (Sarah Langenfield- Some has her best - and most gracious - role since Three Sisters. Angel's Fall bonded an “Enemy of the People" and ousted. Entertaining little play. transparent playing from these women; but our sympathies are engendered. is a work of substantial depth and craft, being given the infrequently The titular enemy learns the majority is never right, and that “individuals While the cast is good enough for us to pleasantly embrace the play's encountered all-around excellent performance. It’s currently the best . should never .be subordinated to the whole/’ or especially to. those experience, it's rumored the production is Broadway bound. Some of show in town, and ACT should be proud. authorities, charged with the common good.” View the gay populace as these girls better get to work or they’ll be making the rounds in LA the minority, and you’ll see why we cannot trust the majority,- the sooner than they thought. ' WHEREFORE ART THOU, LEA: I presume it was a-decisipn to offer a different evening, a night at the authorities with our “common good." There’s a new sort of Enemy of the Since the author is deqd, it is difficult to rewrite the text, but much of People, and this drama still vastly affects our lives:- Read Ibsen for the first act is hopelessly retrograde. A feminist tract is sheer mid­ theatre, which led Lea DeLaria and Jeanine Strobel to traduce themselves entertainment and guidance, and get ready for a fight. This is gonna be seventies, and its dated rhetoric drew laughs. Other things date the play, in their recent Rhino stint of Ragihg Bull. Jettisoning everything that was one serious “play.” One we could have avoided if bathhouse owners had successful about their club act — its structure, its combination of music, like references to Gloria Steinem dating Mario Thomas, neither current hot feared for their profits and posted signs months ago. names. While the show’s values are timeless, it seems to be played today, comedy and politics — the women presented an amatuerish hodge-podge and so confusions arise. of that act which lagged sorrowfully to its non-ending. Not a smash send- I grew to loathe-Chris-Williamson, which is unfair to her; her music is off for their national tour, but a lesson for the duo, Fm sure. . used so poorly,’relentlessly. She sings one tune more than Hello, Dolly.' WHOSE GOT THEIR MITTS ON MITZI? AND repeats it title tune. Both the music and the ocean sound effects are too Mitzi Gay nor brought a poorly directed but frequently engaging show The irrepressible Hal and David Show is back. Two shows only, loud, drowning out the actresses; and the well-crafted set, though pretty, 1 to town, and overdid it a bit. It’s probably important for her to play Wednesday, April 18 at Marne’s Pallazo, a new club across from the seems too open and airy for what is basically an intimate play. These are against type (and entertaining), but her first act methedrine marathon of North Point theatre. They’ve been working more mainstream recently, minor faults, and won’t hinder enjoyment, although Katherine Cortez, m stories within stories, convoluted lead-ins to no songs and songs with no and have much new material, so don’t miss them.