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HEALTH FEATURES AIDS Treatment News (james) 30 .Political Sdence(Rarrlngton} 33··· Positive Alternatives (Lederer) 34 It·s A Wonderful Strife THE ARTS Waller waxes historic about a big night in FILMThe New Festival 49 the "annals of anals" page 38 THEATERdiy Pride Roundup 50 POPPhranc&Two Nice Girls 51 OPEAAPower Failure" 52 CABARET Pride Week picks 53 Wall Of Stone

...... DEPARTMENTS Maggenti muses on the landmark Outspoken (editorial) ..... 4 page 40 DykesTo watch Out For (Bechdel) 5 Out of COntrol (Day) 26 Inside Out (Navarro) 28 Rebellion Over The Look Out! 46 Out Of My Hands (Ball) 48 Rainbow Gossip Watch (SignOrlle) 48 Russo on the Judy and Punch Connection Going Out Calendar (X) 54 page 42 Bar Rounds 78 Sports 82 Present At The Creation Fouratt recalls the night they raided hairpinski's page 44 OUTSP'OKEN OUT~WEEK Publisher Kendall Morrison Editorial Editor In Chief Gabri el Rotello

From the mome,nt we' announced our intention to Art Director Mark Finlay-Arthur publish a new lesbian and gay news magazine in , News Editor we've been overwhelmed with good wishes and barraged Andrew Miller with advice. If the reaction has been awesome, so has the Features Editor sense of responsibility it engenders. Reasons for this reaction are not hard to find. Many EDITORIAL American cities have several gay and lesbian newspapers. Contributing Editors Strangely, New York, with the largest lesbian/gay population Kim Christensen, Rick X in the country, has had only one. Contributing Reporters For several years, the long-distinguished history of our Chris Bull, Mark Chesnut. Suzanne Hall, Rachel Lurie, Donna Minkowitz, Jon David Nalley, chief competition has been marked by an. editorial bias Cliff 0' Neill, Sarah Schulman, concerning the cause of AIDS. Their unwillingness to print Jim Whelan, Rex Wockner, Phil Zwickler health news which conflicts with that bias has often resulted Contributing Writers • in slanted, inaccurate articles presented as inve~tigative Tim Allis, Bradley Ball, Marion Banzhaf, Charles Barber, Alison Bechdl1l, Jill Benderley, Susie Day, Risa Denenbl1rg, Ann journalism. Giudici Feltner, Gary Glickman, Mark Harrington, Craig G. Women have regularly been neglected in New York's Harris, Terry Helbing,George Heymont. Sandor Katz, Bob gay press, both in coverage of pertinent issues and in Lederer, Jennie Livingston, Maria Maggentti,Ray Navarro, Sarah Pettit. Veneita Porter, Patrick Rogers, Vito Russo, Karl represeritation among writers and reporters. People of color Soehnlein, Daniel Sotomayor, James Waller, John Wasser have been rendered virtually invisible. ART OutWeek is committed to accurate and inclusive news Contributing Photographers reporting. Our AIDS coverage will reflect the widest, not just n. Litt, Tom McKitterick, Scott Morgan, Ellen B. Neipris, Ben Thornberry the wildest, range of facts, sources, information and PRODUCTION opinions. We will report responsibly on AIDS treatment and Jon Cooper services issues, and doggedly investigate the politics behind ADVERTISING them. Hopefully, our reporting will enable the women and Director of Sales men in our community to make their own decisions about Kit Winter health, politics and other issues that affect us. Account Executive We hope to extend this ideal of inclusiveness throughout Sidney Briscese our features, arts and entertainment sections as well. Rather BUSINESS Vice President than being one person's newsletter, we hope to be a true Peter Housos forum for our community. Treasurer This will be a difficult task. The complexities and Lawrence Basile diversities of the lesbian and gay world are daunting. Without the input and support of the community, our vision OUTWEEK is published weekly by OUTWEEK PUBLISHING has little chance of success. We will need your criticisms and CORPORATION, 77 Lexington Avenue Suite 200, New York, New Yolk 100tO. The entire contents 01 OUTWEEK are copyright e 1989 by suggestions, your understanding and perhaps most OUTWEEK PUBLISHING CORPORATION, and may not be reproduood in any manner, either in wHole or in part. without written permission from importantly your patience. We hope to reward that patience the publisher. All rights reserved. Publication of the name or photograph 01 any person, group or with a newsweekly of lasting value to our embattled organization appearing or advertising in OUTWEEK may not be taken as an indication of the sexual orientation of such person, group or community. organization unless specifically stated. The opinions 01 OUTWEEK are expressed only in our editorials. Other opinions are those of the writers and artists and do not necessarily represent the opinions of OUTWEEK.

4 our~WEEK June 26, 1989 ON THE COVER: COMEour! was the first lesbian/gay newspaper to appear in New York after the Stonewall reb~lIion. This photograph was the poster advertising their first edition. and celebrating the . with which they were associated. Among those we've been able to identify are Earl Galvin. Judy Greenspan. Fran Winant. John Erdman. Dan,Smith. Carl Miller and Bob Bland. We'd be interested in hearing from anyone who knows others in the picture (Ed.)~ (Photo courtesy: Jim Fouratt)

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released a joint statement at a June 14th Axelrod Vetoes Jo~ephls Plan press conference, condemning Joseph's proposal. The statement declared, "We AIDS Groups United in Opposition should not forget the most basic public health lesson learned over the years of the AIDS epidemic: measures of by Chris Bull compulsion or coercion directed at NEW YORK-- ~rsons who are HIV infected drive Health Commis- these people away from medical care sioner Stephen continued on pagl 14 Joseph's much maligned proposal to curtail anony- mous HIV antibody First Gay Group testing, and im- plement mandatory in Puerto Rican name reporting and aggressive contact Day Parade tracing for those who are infected with HIV, was by Mark Chesnut abruptly vetoed by NEW YORK - For the first time in its State Health 31-year history, an officially-recognized Commissioner lesbian and gay contingent, made up of David Axelrod one an estimated 100 participants, marched week after it was in the New York Puerto Rican Parade unveiled. on Sunday, June 11th. The march began Joseph's plans, at Fifth Avenue and 44th Street and presented in a June Act Up Zap. Joaeph No till ,. tNt pilln. finished at 86th Street and Third Avenue 5th address at the Fifth International infection will usher in a new era in in . Conference on AIDS in Montreal, were which policies will shift toward a "This is our Stonewall," claimed decried by AIDS activists and service disease-control approach to HIV- Pedro Velazquez, a member of the proViders, who quickly organized infection, along the lines of diseases Boricua Gay and Lesbian Forum, and protests, both in Montreal and New such as tuberculosis and syphilis,' one of the organizers of the contingent. York, to blast the recommendations. Joseph said at the conference. 'We're to the Puerto Rican Under the proposal, physicians He went on to predict that the community to let them know we're would, be required to report to the policy, if adopted, would set a here." Health Department the names of all nationwide trend toward routine contact Although this is the first official people who test positive for HIV, the tracing. "Follow-up to assure adequate lesbian and gay presence in the Puerto virus thought by many to cause AIDS. treatment and more aggressive contact Rican Parade, a smaller group called the Health Department employees would tracing will become standard public- Comite Homosexual Latinoamericano then ask those who test positive to health applications for controlling HIV (CHOLA) marched in 1979, voluntarily disclose sexual and needle- infection and illness,' he said. "We are unrecognized by the parade committee, sharing partners, who in turn would be fast approaching a time when we will as part of the "Pe9ple's Contingent," contacted by the Department of Health. have to rethink the wisdom and which included groups like the Puerto Joseph told the Montreal audience effectiveness of many of our present Rican Socialist Party. "We had to that because new AIDS treatments are public-policy issues,' Joseph added. struggle with homophobia from increasingly successful, new testing and bystanders and also within our own tracing measures are necessary in order I New YorkersBlast Proposal contingent,' said Francisco Dominguez, to proVide medical care earlier in the who marched ten years ago and was progression of the disease. "Changes in I A group of 46 AIDS service- present for this year's march as well. "I our capacity to prevent and treat prOViders, physicians and activists found that [this year] the people's

6 our"'WEEK June 26, 1989 ..: ! reaction was much more positive. It was a powerful group. It ended up with City Unveils Condom Campaign a real good feeling." This year's arrangements were not Targets liMen Who Have Sex With Men" without complications, according to Velazquez, who submitted the by Andrew Miller and radio .announcements, subway application to the parade committee. NEW YORK -- Declaring the end of "the posters for platforms and trains, and "They gave us a hard time. So I let them era of Tuffy the Tooth and similarly dull print ads' for magaZines and know that if they didn't accept us pUblic service announcements," New newspapers, as "the nation's boldest because of homophobia, we would talk York City Health Commissioner Stephen government-sponsored AIDS prevention to Lambda [Leg.al Defense and Joseph announced an AIDS prevention media campaign.' He was also quick to Education Fund] ... and we would do media campaign utilizing print ads point out that he expected the materials civil disobedience or whatever was depicting condoms, and 1V and radio to be labelled "controversial" by many. necessary to march." spots portraying openly gay men. Th.e The campaign also includes a television The lesbian and gay marchers were announcement came at a hastily- commercial with Joseph himself urging delayed for more than four hours, along scheduled news conference on June men who have sex with other men,' 'no with several other ~groups and floats, as 14th that preceded by two hours a matter how infrequently," to always use a result of a reported float breakdown, press conference called by the Gay condoms. striking hotel employees on the parade Men's Health Crisis (GMHC). That So far, the CBS route, and numerous shiftings of the conference was called to criticize affiliate has approved the use of that group's position in the parade by Joseph's remarks about anonymous commercial, but not those portraying parade marshals. Some, however, felt HIV-testing and contact tracing" made gay men. Although tapes of the spots the gay contingent received more of a last week at the Fifth International have been submitted to other local television and radio stations, there has runaround than others, due to the Conference on AIDS in Montreal. , homophobic attitudes of parade organizers. Response from onlookers varied from thumbs up and cheers, to spitting MAN H~MBRE on the ground and hisses, but most marchers agreed that for the most part, T~ A the response was positive. "I would say 75% loved to see us, 25% hated us. But I think that's a great percentage," MAN Velazquez said. He also noted that H~MBRE spectators from the crowd joined the CuIIndoIlll'lgllJ~"""'~~I,I_hoIItna. gay contingent as it made its way up 1t)'CIUn.v."lwiltlOllWmen.nort'\lllllrhow~ 1M~~dI_x. .. UM ..... CXII"ICIoI'M. ~besUilOlouneyUPIQIIrWllmilir .. ..w.dllSO\I BecauN OI'Q It .. It IfNs 10 II'~ the AIDS YIn-. AII~~ .•.yprglege.",pnjI. Fifth Avenue. SoprOl8Cf~ •.•~yourpenner.ForlllOftllnlonnPon.c.It Members of Las Buenas Amigas, a AIDS Hotline 718 485-8111. at SlDA.11Ima---81: 718 485-8111. Latina lesbian organization; handed out flyers explaining the goals of their presence at the parade. "We believe it is The end of the era of Tuffy the Tooth: N.w Ad. f""" the D,,,""'.nt of.H•• lth. necessary to let you know who we are been no decision from any of them yet, in order to put an end to the myths that Joseph said that "the key target group' according to Joseph. That fact led some marginalize and, oppress' Latina for his department's 'Rubber Up for in the community to speculate that the ," their flyer read in part.- Safety" campaign "is men who have sex health department's announcement of Even so, some of the marchers with other' men but who do not the ad campaign's launch was were quick to point out that the necessarily self-identify or identify Hispanic community still does not outwardly as gay." Although n'ot present premature. "The number of people who get to deserve the homophobic, "macho' at the press conference, Joseph said see these commercials really depends reputation some attribute to it. 'People that the mayor supports the endeavor upon the TV stations,' said Terry tend to generalize and think that Latins enthusiastically. The city provided Chabrowe, pr~sident of Cappiello & have a bit more homophobia than other $46,000 to fund the ad campaign's .Chabrowe, the advertising firm that groups, and that's not the case," noted production costs. Joseph characterized the material, created the commercials. "It's up to the continued on page 14 which includes public service television continued on page 12

June 26, 1989 our-.WEEK .7 News

Activists Seize S'tage At ,AIDS Conference

by Rex wockner of persons living with AIDS in Canada chronic, manageable condition; and around the world, I would like to enactment of an international code to MONTREAL -- To their own .officially open the Fifth International preserve the rights of people with AIDS; astonishment and to the cheers of many Conference on AIDS." Referring to the development of an international data conference participants, more than 300 disruption, McCaskell continued, "This bank of AIDS information; an end to 'members of ACT UP/New placebo drug trials; support for York, Toronto's AIDS Action the right of women to control Now, and Reaction SIDA of their bodies; medical aid to Montreal marched into the poor nations; and worldwide Palais des Congres, diversion of military spending commandeered the escalators, to health-related projects. entered the main conference By the time activists site, took over the stage, voluntarily vacated the stage demanded that the and conference planners microphones be turned on, regained control of the room, and, in the name of persons the opening ceremonies were with AIDS, "officially"opened running two hours behind the Fifth International schedule. The action was the Conference on AIDS on June first in a series of 4th. demonstrations carried out by Three hours later, activists during the week-long activists were again given free conference. run of the huge conference The evening's keynote site as they relentlessly speech was given by President heckled Canadian Prime Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, Minister Brian Mulroney who said he had lost his fifth- throughout his 20-minute born son to AIDS and had address to the conference. decided to speak publicly Although Mulroney has been about it. Kaunda received a in office over five years, it was standing ovation when he his first major statement on called for an end to "the AIDS. wanton destruction of The activists remained on ourselves" with nuclear the stage for nearly an hour. weapons, and demanded that Montreal and Royal Canadian military money be diverted to Mounted Police seemed health care worldwide. unprepared for the rowdy, On a day when the U.S.-style activism, and -- to Chinese army clashed with the obvious surprise of 'demonstrators in Beijing, 800 demonstrators -- took no died in a Soviet train crash, action at alL and Poland held free eictions, Responding to posters TAKING CENTER STAGE the Canadian Broadcasting and banners criticizing Activists At The Montreal AIDSConference. Corporation (CBC) evening government inaction on AIDS, (Photo: T.L Litt) news devoted several minutes about half of the thousands of to the anger of the AIDS people awaiting the opening ceremonies conference has now changed activists in MontreaL "It wasn't the way cheered and applauded the disruption. international AIDSconferences forever." the Fifth International Conference on After half an hour of chanting and A lengthy manifesto was then read AIDS was supposed to begin at all," the stomping by the demonstrators, Toronto in both French and English. Activists CBCcorrespondent reported .... activist Tim McCaskell took the main demanded, among other things, microphone and announced, "On behalf reclassification of HIV-related illness'as a

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about these differences. CONDOM CAMPAIGN cOlltinued fro.. page 7 talked long into the night. Finally we kissed. Then he asked if I enjoyed safer The health department has media to show how committed they are sex. I have never felt so good about previously sponsored AIDS prevention to preventing the AIDS epidemic." saying yes." It ends with a shot of two campaigns aimed at heterosexual The subway ads will begin going wrapped condoms, and a voice-over women, IV-drug users and adolescents. up immediately. But even Chabrowe narration: "When you have sex with The campaign aimed at teen-agers was admitted that the commercials another man, always use a latex criticized by some AIDS activists, who portraying gay men were "something condom to prevent transmission of the charged that the text of the ads ·was that networks and affiliates just don't AIDSvirus." m~ralizing and sex~negative. Some want to talk about on the air." It The Spanish-language ad follows interpreted those ads as promoting remains unclear whether the more or less the text of the English abstention from sex altogether. Department of Health will be able to ones, although it does not mention The new ads were produced with persuade any television or radio kissing. Similarly, the Spanish print ads the cooperation of many AIDS service stations to run the ads, or whether any say, "if you have sex with women or organiZations, including GMHC, the newspapers or magazines will pick other men,· where the English ads Minority Task Force on AIDS, and the them up either. mention only sex between men. . Hetrick-Martin Institute. The There are three versions of the ad "All our consultations with the Department of Health will make video in question: two in English and one in Hispanic community and the Hispanic tapes of the commercials available to Spanish. One English version uses a gay community advised us that if we bars and clubs around the city, which Black actor, and the other a white one, used language that spoke only to men Joseph said he hoped would enable the but the text for each is identical: having only sex with men, we really DOH to reach a large percentage of its "Dinner was perfect. Candlelight, music. wouldn't get our message across,· target audience. T Later we had coffee by the fire and Joseph explained when questioned

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when asked to comment on the INS guidelines allowing HIV-infected Americans, Canadians controversy and said, "It's a non-issue." visitors into the U.S. for up to thirty Clash On Men-Only Pleau and several other gay days in order to attend' conferences, Quebecers also spoke of conflict conduct business, visit family, or obtain Space between French-Canadian and medical treatment. American activists. Differences of That revision followed a highly- opinion arose on the second day of the publicized incident in April, when conference when Quebecers requested Dutch PWAHans Paul Verhoef, en route by Rex Wockner that the media be excluded from activist to a gay and lesbian. health conference MONTREAL -- U.S. AIDS activists in meetings. ACf UP members explained in , was imprisoned in Montreal for the Fifth International that they use the media to effect social Minnesota, where he had stopped to conference on AIDS repeatedly clashed change, while members of Montreal's change planes. with Quebecers over the local policy of Reaction SIDA said they didn't trust At press conference held in denying women entry to gay male bars a reporters. Since New Yorkers Montreal, the Danish man, Knud and clubs. outnumbered locals, reporters were Josephsen, said he was sent to North As the tension in'creased, ACT allowed to remain. . America for seven weeks by the Danish UP!New York cancelled plans to hold a At several demonstrations, small Ministry of Health to 'look for large party at Securite Maximum, a groups of Quebecers could be faintly experimental approach~ to the care of popular gay disco in Montreal. AIDS patients." Earlier in the week, several women heard initiating French chants that were quickly drowned· out, to their great Boston INS agents allegedly asked accompanying ACf UP/Los Angeles' dismay, said several gay Quebecers. Josephsen if he had AIDS after he said Mark Kostopolous were allowed entry, ACf UP and Toronto's AIDS Action that his first destination was Montreal. but only after Kostopolous threatened Now published all of their literature in He acknowledged that he was HIV to organize a 600-person-strong both languages and were careful to antibody-positive "because it's a matter demonstration the next night. include a French-speaking person at of dignity to say yes to that question" "People seem to take it as a given every rally. But the written French and because he had AZf in his luggage, here that the gay and lesbian often contained grammatical and he said. (AZf is a drug taken by many communities are pretty separate," said syntactical errors and the spoken people with AIDSand HIV illness.) Maxine Wolfe, one of a large number of French was not understood by most After several hours of detention, women from ACf UP!New York present New Yorkers, said the Quebecers. Josephsen was granted a $50 "HIV at the conference. "But it's not a lot ACT UP members said they waiver," good for thirty days -- three different from New York." regretted the cultural tensions but felt weeks less than the time of his research According to a volunteer at that overall their visit was tremendously Montreal's Gayline, the men-only policy project. "It's sad that the U.S. in this way is in place at most of Montreal's gay successful. ... disrupts the international network of bars and remains unchallenged by gay, seropositives," Josephsen said. "I see no lesbian or heterOsexual Quebecers. reason why I should be a threat to the . Gisele Cloutier, a spokesperson for Two More PWAs U.S." the Human Rights Commission; Stopped at u.S. Border At the same press conference, said the bars are in violation of Section British activist Simon Watney explained 15 of the province's Charter of Human by Rex Wockner the case of P.WAHenry Wilson of the Rights and Freedoms, which also bans Terrence Higgins Trust, Britain's leading discrimination based on sexual MONTREAL-- A Da'nish man with AIDS (PWA) en route to Montreal's Fifth community-based AIDSorganization. orientation. International conference on AIDS was Wilson, who was travelling to San 'No one can inhibit the access to a detained by U.S. Immigration and ,Francisco June 2nd to particpate in a public space based on sex," Cloutier Naturalization Service (INS) officials at drug trial, was arrested in Minneapolis said, "but we have never received any Logan airport in Boston June 2nd. The by INS officers who verbally abused complaints about this. I think people same day, a British AIDS activist him, strip-searched him, and placed him ac.cept that some people want to have travelling to San Francisco to receive in handcuffs, according to Watney. their own places." Wilson was told he could wait six Marcel Pleau, a writer with the experimental treatments was sent back home by INS agenls in Minneapolis. weeks in jail while application was Montreal gay newspaper RG, scoffed Both actions follow recently-revised continued on palle 15

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::>.... policy is most damaging for people of that it could be modified. In response to color. "There is a very real fear of a question abOut why the communities discrimination in Black and Lttino most affected by AIDS were not first communities,' he said, contesting the consulted, JosepQ told Out Week, "I feel benefits of mandatory reporting. "It's a we have been in lots of round and cruel hoax to talk about clinical round and round discussions that in advantages of HIV testing, while many cases get nowhere about health knowing the reality of the health care policies relating to AIDS." system,. which often entails waiting New York State's Axelrod, whose periods of two to four months [for relationship with Joseph has become access to treatment]," he continued. increasingly strained in recent months, "Joseph must talk about services that sided with Joseph's critics. "I think it are currently available. We can't wait for services to trickle down," he said. continued on page Z3

14 OUTTWEEK June 26, 1989 ... made for an HIV waiver, or could return immediately to the Uniled Kingdom, N.Y. STATE CERTIFIED R000846 Watney said. There was apparently no explanation why Wilson was not offered an on-the-spot waiver. Audrey 1. Steinhorn, CS. W. "The preposterous fantasy that the PSYCHOTHERAPIST. is at risk from people with

AIDS coming into the U.S. from outside DAY: EVEN'NG. is not only punitive to individuals who 125 RIVERS' DE DRIVE 110 WEST 86TH STREET NEW YORK. N.Y. 10024 NEW YORK. N.Y. 10024 have to undergo this form of sadistic 212/877·5486 2121799·3298 treatment, it is also profoundly irrational," Watney said. Dr. John Ziegler, co-chair of next year's conference to be held in San Francisco, called these two newest INS incidents "deplorable and embarrassing." He said organizers CryJtal GariJellJ wanted to move the 1990 conference QUARTZ. MINERALS. JEWELRY out of the U.S., but that it is too late to SEMINARS. CONSULTATIONS do so. Benjamin Schatz of National Gay Rights Advocates said he could not 21 GREENWICH AVE. JOYCE & CONNIE understand how the U.S. government IN decided that "people with HIV infection P~OPRII<;TORS NEW YORK, N.Y. 10014 (212) 727-0692 could not possibly have more than thiry days of legitimate business to conduct in the U.S., or· why someone would be incapable of transmitting a virus in 30 days but would be capable of doing so in 31." 'Y Or. Charles Franchino 30 Fifth Avenue Salk Reports Vaccine Progress New York, New York 10011 212.673.4331 by Rex Wockner MONTREAL-TwoHIV-infected monkeys showed no further signs of HIV office hours by appointment infection, and the conditions of 17 of 19 humans with AIDS Related Complex (ARC) stabilized or. improved, after all received injections of an HIV vaccine developed by polio vaccine pioneer STEPHEN A. CAPSON. PSY.D. Jonas Salk. HIV, or, human immunodeficiency virus, is believed to Licensed Psychologist be the cause of AIDS. Salk reported his Psychotherapy results on June 8th at the Fifth Couple Counseling International Conference on AIDShere. Biofeedback-Stress Reduction A third chimpanzee received the vaccine before being infected with HIV. 212/870-0573 Although the amount of HIV in the animal's body declined over time, HIV THE BIGELOW BUILOING. SUITE 500 was not cleared from the body entirely. 412 Sixth Avenue. New York. NY 1001 1

June 26, 1989 . OUTTWEEK 15 The new vaccine is made from live intensive lobbying campaign for the virus that has been treated with bill's passage. chemicals and irradiation. Researchers According to Libby Post of the New Gay and lesbian hope it can be engineered to create an York State Gay and Lesbian Lobby, the immune response in infected humans. Republican Conference's actions were lobbyists had The tests conducted were phase- surprising because there were many one studies which, as defined by the' previous indications that the bill would been overly Food and Drug Administration (FDA), be allowed to proceed to the Senate are designed only to determine if the floor. The legislation was sponsored by optimistic. vaccine causes adverse side effects. Salk four key Republican Senators, and even ~eported that it does not. To detennine, Marino has indicated in the past that he hate crimes. under FDA regulations, if the vaccine is would vote favorably on the measure, Virginia Apuzzo, Governor effective, researchers must now tum to she said. Cuomo's liaison to the lesbian and gay lengthy, double-blind, placebo- Bills are allowed to proceed to a community, said 'we expect the controlled trials, where some volunteers vote by the full Senate only after governor to pull out all the stops' on receive the vaccine and others receive unanimous consent at the Republican the issue, and "demonstrate his an inactive substance. Conference is achieved. Most legislation commitment to the community.' In fact, Declining to call his vaccine a is normally allowed to proceed to the the bill originated from the governor's breakthrough, Salk did say that 'there is floor, where individual senators may office. She said that the governor has light at the end of the tunnel," and that vote their conscience, according to Post. promised to raise the issue with treating AIDS is going to require In this instance, 'the Republicans Republicans at every single leaders' multiple strategies, including use of the kave buckled to the threats of the meeting he attends until the end of the only government-approved anti-viral conservative members of their party," legislative session. against AIDS, AZf. ... Post declared. The Albany lobbyist said Apuzzo complained that because there are only five or six Republican ti}e Republican Conference operates Senators, opposed to legislation behind closed doors, there is little Republicans Snuff Out protecting gay and lesbian rights, who accountability for such' actions. "ThIs is Bias Bill are preventing the bill from going to a an instance where a minority full vote. detennines the agenda for the majority,' The Gay and Lesbian Lobby hand- she fumed, accusin~ the Republicans of by Jim Whelan delivered a letter to Marino'S- office "holding this bill hostage. She said, NEW YORK-With just two weeks requesting a meeting on the bill: but he 'Ralph Marino cannot declare this bill remaining in Albany's legislative has not as yet responded. The lobbyists dead." Lobbyists and Senate observers session, State Senate Republicans have have organized a contingent of about 20 point out that there are various unusual all but derailed the passage of bias bill people who plan to march i.ntoMarino's legislative scenarios that could still bring legislation providing some protection office on Monday, June 19th, to the bill to a vote. against hate crimes for gay men and demand the majority leader speak with According to statistics compiled by lesbians. Meeting behind closed doors, them about the matter. the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force the Senate Republican Conference, Ed Martin, a spokespe~son for (NGLTF), which recently released its headed by Republican Majority Leader Marino, said that gay and lesbian annual report on anti-gay Violence, gay Ralph Marino (R-Oyster Bay), prevented lobbyists may have been overly men and lesbians are victimized by hate the bill from proceeding to a vote on optimistic in predicting that the crimes at a rate seven times greater than the floor of the Senate, where many felt Conference would allow the bill to the average rate for the U.S. adult it would have been passed. proceed to the floor for a vote. He said population. The NGLTF documented The bill mandated stiffer penalties that during the Conference, senator 625 reported incidents of anti-gay for violent or intimidating acts after senator opposed sending the bill harassment and violence in New York committed 'with the intent to deprive to the floor because it would involve state last year, of which 122 were an individual or group of individuals of lengthy philosophical and legal debates physical assaults and 14 were the exercise of their civil rights.' The late in the legislative session. Were the homicides. New York ranked fourth in bill specifically mentioned sexual legislation to make it to the Senate floor, the number of reported inCidents, orientation as a protected group, along "it would probably not pass and would behind North Carolina~ Ohio, and with race, creed, color, national origin, serve no useful purpose,' he predicted. IllinOiS,and just ahead of California. ... sex, disability and age. The Black and Martin suggested that improved police Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus joined protection would be a better way to gay and lesbian rights groups in an protect gay men and lesbians against

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MONTREAL-- While organizers of the Fifth International Conference on AIDS boasted that it was the first conference to explicitly acknowledge the social dimensions of the disease, many LOOKING FOR LOVE IN AU THE WRONG PlACES attendees criticized its failure to facilitate $ex workers Cllrol Leigh, Vlllerie Scott lind Dllnny Cockerline solicit lit the AIDS Conference. a true sharing of persepctives among session, Ron Kelly, a 22-year-old HIV- story to emerge from the conference was positive Ontario man, commandeered New york City Health Commissioner News Analysis the microphone and spent ten minutes Stephen Joseph's bombshell announcing recounting. his experiences of his intention to implement contact scientists, health care providers, and discrimination. tracing and phase out anonymous HIV people with AIDS.AIDSactivists focused Because conference testing in New York City. their priorities on the needs of people registration was $500, AIDS activists Cynical colleagues have noted with AIDSand HIV infection. (HIV is the produced pirate conference passes, that such actions are impossible under virus believed by many to cause AIDS). enabling many activists and PWAsto get current New York State law, and But by the end of the conference, some in. And in an effort to save face, unrealistic on New York City's large scientists were complaining that the conference organizers added, at the last scale. Others in the AIDS community conference was too large and the minute, a PWA to the closing session have accused Joseph, a Koch appointee, atmosphere too political to allow them schedule. According to ACT UP/New of hedging his bets against Koch's re- to exchange research information. York's Tim Powers, the conference was election by attracting the attention of Meanwhile, an entire wing of "a big step forward for PWA self- conservative federal health the conference site was devoted to a empowerment." . officials/potential employers. The trade show which British AIDS activist But some scientists and drug publicity following Joseph's and author Simon Watney described as company reps were less than thrilled announcement eclipsed the press "a supermarket for the multinational about listening to people living with coverage of any medical news from the pharmaceutical companies." AIDSask questions about drug trials and conference. So, whose conference was it, treatment techniques. Frustrated The conference exhibition was anyway? researchers claimed that science should simply a world unto itself. One hundred Because of the aggressive be above social and political conflicts. ten booths housed drug companies, ingenuity of AIDS activists, people with On the last full day of the conference, condom producers, government health AIDS (PWAs) were actually a major Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer education programs, and a few conference presence. The only person Institute said, "I have nothing against the community-based organizations. with AIDS who had been scheduled to social aspect, but in order to work well, According to the coordinator of speak, Kevin Brown, died in May, and scientists need calm. They must be able exhibitors, Lise Anne de Varennes, the appeared via a video remembrance. But to meet and exchange [ideasl." smallest booths rented for $3,500, which during the activist takeover of the With delegates from most of proved prohibitive for most community- opening ceremony's podium (see news the world's major medical and public based, service-providing organizations. story), Canadian PWA Peter Wood was health institutions, the conference did The largest booth belonged to able to "officially" open the conference. provide. an ideal forum for certain types Burroughs Wellcome, the monopoly And at the Tuesday morning plenary. of announcements. Perhaps the biggest continued on page 23

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last March, when the United States district lines may divide the Fairpac Lobbies for Supreme Court declared community's population, and voting Les/Gay Council unconstitutional the structure of the power, among different districts. On \ Board of Estimate, for violating the May 31st, Green and fellow board Districts established constitutional principle of members Mark D'A1essio,John Sharkey one person, one vote. and Candida Scott Piel met with byJim Whe1an. In its preliminary drafts, .t.he Commission chief counsel Frederick A. NEW YORK - FAIRPAC,the New York Commission has proposed that the O. Schwartz, to discuss how the State gay and lesbian political action Board of Estimate be dismantled and Commission could insure the 'creation committee, sent board member Julie the City Council. enlarged from its of council districts which reflect local Green to testify before the Charter current 35 members to approximately gay and lesbian populations. Revision Commission on June 6th. SO. An expanded City Council would In a telephone interview, Green Green lobbied for the creation of city require the redistricting of New York reported that Schwartz was "responsive council districts that reflect the City, and many communities are now to the need for lesbian and gay established lesbian and gay scrambling to ensure their fair and representation,' and further described neighborhoods in New York City. accurate representation on a new, him as "friendly, accessible and The Charter Revision Commission larger City Council. knowledgeable." Schwartz and the was created over a year ago and FAIRPAC; like other community- lobbyists agreed that the language in charged with revising the structure of based organizations from the Black, the curren~ revision instructions is the municipal government. That task Latino, Chinese and Korean inadequate, according to Green. has become particularly urgent since communities, is soncerned that redrawn continued on page 24 WEWORKWITH QUEENS and Brooklyn, Manhattan, and even Boston!

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took over. In other words, in the early days, Duberman Addresses the GLF talked about and thought about the radical restructuring of this society. Gay liberation at its inception was Sto.newall Dedication indeed a radical movement for social change. It did not believe in mere liberal (Martin Bauml Duberman, were arrested. tinkering. Today, when our president has Distinguisbed Professor of History at City Those were, 25 years ago, very different made the word liberal a dirty word, or University of New York, is the author of 11 years from what many. of us now experience attempted to, it's very difficult to pick up books, the most recent of which is Paul and enjoy. I think it's hard for people under and use the honorable word radical. But io Robeson. He is also the author of About a cenain age, say 40 or 45, to understand me, it is indeed a very honorable word. And Time: Exploring the Gay Past, and a new those years. it is a very honorable tradition that book, Hidden From History: Reclaiming The I was not in the Stonewall bar on the inaugurated our formal gay rights struggle. Gay and Lesbian Past, due out in November. night ~f the aaual raid, when patrons fought The goals of the GLF were not only to Following is the speech he delivered at back, but I do want to recall for you and liberate the homosexual impulse in the ceremony which renamed a portion of with you that the particular patrons, or at everyone, but also to liberate the Christopher Street "Stonewall Place" in honor least the people who were on the street heterosexual impulse in everyone. And of the twentieth anniversary of the Stonewall imm~tely outside the bar who initiated the beyond that, the early days of the GLF were Rebellion.) It4 !II:. I take no pleasure in sharing a platform with Ed Koch, but I do take a great deal of pleasure in celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Stonewall, for which we're gathered. When I moved to New York in 1963 there were maybe five or six gay male bars and perhaps (;>nelesbian bar. Even though few in number, these were not what we would today call 'safe havens' from the oppression of heterosexist society. My own bar of choice rapidly became Stonewall. But in that bar no one was ever sure whether or not they would end the night by being arrested and thrown into jail. There was a lighting system at the door so that if somebody who was suspicious happened· to THE HEIRS OF THE GAY UBERATION FRONT? ACTUP at the Stonewan dedication. enter, the light would be flashed on, all (Photo: Enen B. Neipris) dancing would stop, and indeed many hearts would stop, because soon on the fighting, were in faa street. people and drag devoted and focused on an ideal of heels of an unknown plainclothesman queens. The early gay movement androgeny, in contrast to the ideal of would arrive the police. appreciated their role in the gay struggle and machismo which subsequently won favor. They would trample through the bar frequently made mention of it. But the early What happened to the GLF is a familiar with their customary arrogance and arrest, at years of the gay movement should not be story of what always happens to radical will, people who were patrons of the bar. confused with the gay movement that soon protest movements in this country. A radical When we went out at night in those supplanted it. cutting edge inaugurates a movement of years many of us carried in our pockets the When I speak of the early years I speak substantive protest, but the cutting edge is name of a woman lawyer, Enid Gerling. primarily of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). quickly dulled when the effort to win over (applause) I'm surprised and glad that so The GLF was very different from the mainstream America begins to take many people still remember her. Indeed, she organized gay movement which very shortly precedence. Once that begins to happen the did a lot to help gay people in those years. superseded and swallowed the GLF up. emphasis on real differentness - as is the Enid Gerling, according to the legend of What the GLF represented, among many case with our special gay and lesbian those times, was the only person who knew things, was first of all gay men and lesbian heritage - has to be downplayed. That who to payoff and how to get to the right women working togl!ther. And working indeed was the story of the organized gay people to make the payoff. And she did in together with goals in mind that were far movement in roughly the years that followed fact keep many people out of jail or in short more broad gauged than the goals of the order rescued them from jail when they organized white male movement which soon 20 OUTTWEEK June 26. 1989 continued from pllge 20 were on the streets for us 20 years ago. And and draw conneaions with other oppressed GLF, namely 1972 or 1973, down to the secondly, once we have made significant minorities within the country at large. Only o1.!tbreak of the AIDS epidemic. The room in our own ranks to represent the true that way, I believe, will we be able to reach organized movement became essentially, diversity in our communities, I think it is the goal originally set for us by the GLF, and I know some of you won't agree, a then 'important to begin to reach out beyond namely the radical restructuring of our movement by and for middle class, already our own movement in order to make links country as a whole. Thank you. ..,. privileged, white men. I think what has happened as a result of the AIDS plague, and i think this is perhaps the only positive development during these terrible years, is that a different 'kind of gay person has now been brought into the movement. If we are ever fortunate enough to see the day when the AIDS plague is behind us, m i Z:i a n 0 I think we will also see the dawn of a new TRATTORIA gay movement which in faa harkens back in With Two Dinners significant ways to the origina!movement of Courtesy bottle of red wine - Salice Salentino Riserva '82 the Gay Liberation Front. Because what we *.** are seeing among the legions of the young Special Pizza from our Woodbuming oven who make up ACf UP is once again gay * * * * men and lesbian women acting in concert, Your host Sal Acquista welcomiAg and appreciating each others * * * * 165 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 Tel: 212·989·2330 differentness, and also welcoming minority people. Beyond that change in 'personnel, what ACT UP has discovered in the process of struggle is the full extent of entrenched privilege which characterizes our society. They have seen it primarily in the way the hospitals are struaured, in the way the FDA is structured, and by and for whom the· federal government operates. Because of those insights gathered during ACf UP's struggles, I think we may yet see the birth of a new gay movement which is once more radically oriented. That at least is my own personal hope, that GLF will once more return, if n~ in name than. at least in principle. Therefore I would close with the additional hope that on this wonderful twentieth anniversary: of Stonewall we attempt to rededicate ourselves to two principles. First of all, to welcoming and appreciating diversity within the ranks of the organized movement, a diversity that once charaaerized that movement at its inception but which did not charaaerize it for a period of ten years. We need once more to welcome not only minorities, and for gay men and lesbian women to once more work together, but we need to appreciate and welcome into our ranks all minorities within our own extremely diverse co~unities, not excluding those heroic drag queens who

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CONFERENCE (continued from page 18) The unfortunate flip side is that What I said was that because of recent, organizations. community-based service providers and not so recent, information about The largest booth belonged to cannot afford to be represented. And the broadening therapeutic horizons, Burroughs Wellcome, the monopoly the $500 registration fee and additional we are now in a phase of the epidemic manufacturer of AZT, a drug taken by travel expenses effectively restrict the :where there is strong consensus that we many people with AIDS and HIY access and participation of most people have effective interventions to offer infection. A huge structure with a public living· with AIDS throughout the people who are infected and ill. Not exhibition area and a labyrinth of world.'Y cures, not vaccines, but effective interventions that prolong life and private conference rooms, Burroughs AXELROD (continued from page 14) used the site to distribute slick booklets improve the quality of life. In .that setting it seems to me absdlutely of treatment information promoting would be premature to mandate inarguable that an approach that is AZf. reporting of HIY-infected persons,· he said in a prepared statement. The New much more' aggreSSive on the issues of Freebies were everywhere. York State legislature and health counseling and testing, still voluntary, The most sought after prize was a commissioner actually have jurisdiction still confidential, and an approach that graphic, safer oral sex poster designed over many of the AIDS policy changes is much more vigorous' on the issue of by the government of Quebec. Condom that Joseph proposed. The decision to contact tracing facilitated by mandatory manufacturers were distributing make HIY positivity a reportable public reporting of infection in a confidential, condoms of various sizes (small, large) health condition would reverse a public health framework, is the way for and flavors (like mint). Okamoto, a confidentiality law signed last year by us to go. The debate should be opened Japanese condom company, even had a Governor Mario Cuomo. up and engaged in q.uickly. I contraption to prove how· strong their While praising Axelrod's move to deliberately chose to do that in condoms really are. The machine squash the elimination of anonymous Montreal, which was, at least automatically inflated the condoms to testing, many AIDS advocates said they supposedly, a profeSSional setting. But I mythic proportions until they popped. remained angry that Joseph often works did not propose mandatory testing or Lyphomed, makers of Pentamidine (a against the communities most affected the elimination of anonymous testing,· prophylactic treatment for the by the epidemiC. Christopher Babick, Joseph said. pneumonia associated with AIDS), deputy executive director of the PWA Because mandatory reporting greeted conventioneers with the line Coalition, told OutWeek that Joseph was would, by definition, involve breaking ·We're part of the solution, not part of "once again preparing policies without the anonymity, although not necessarily the problem," and distributed tote bags. consulting the experts, i.e., the the confidentiality, of the person Sex worker activists proVided a community-based AIDS service involved, Joseph's attempts to explain few moments of stark reality when they organizations. • and soften his original statement have caused confusion and drawn more attempted to join other exhibitors in Activists Respond criticism from many in the AIDS peddling their wares. Protesting the The activist group ACf UP (AIDS community. scapegoating of prostitutes in the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which "Contact tracing has been the trend crisiS, they offered their sexual selVices sponsored morning and evening for the last three years,· said Yeneita to conference delegates, who demonstrations at City Hall on June 8th Porter, director of the New York State nonetheless mustered none of the to protest the pf(?posal, called for Office of AIDS Discrimination. "'There is shopping spree enthusiasm they had Joseph to be removed from office. With a lot of pressure from the federal shown to distributors of medical hundreds of police officers surrounding government to make New York a test paraphernalia all week. City Hall, nearly 200 demonstrators case to see how tracing works. But it The visible fiscal realities of disrupted early morning traffic on the can only work in an environment where the conference, and profit-oriented Brooklyn Bridge, and temporarily shut there is no discrimination and where health care in general, determine very down the nearby Department of Health treatment is available for everyone. This clearly whose conference it really was. bUilding. "First you don't exist, now situation certainly does not exist here." . In the final analysis, the conference is you're on a list," stated an ACf UP flyer Joseph said he would recommend big business. While it remains to be prepared for the demonstration, keeping HIY reporting separate from seen whether the Montreal gathering referring to Joseph's decision last the reporting of other sexuafly actually made money, last year's AIDS summer to halve the city'S official transmitted diseases in order to avoid forum in Stockholm turned a healthy estimate of city residents who are HIY "archaic" quarantine laws. But several profit. As exhibit coordinator de positive. activists said they fear that Joseph's ~arrenes explained, the drug companies At a press conference on June 14th proposal would play into the hands of and government ministries of health announcing the kick-off of tpe city's right-wing supporters of quarantine and other repressive measures. "It's have the resources to rent space, latest AIDS prevention media campaign, something we have to be very wary of," thereby helping to finance the Joseph responded to some of the charges of his critics. "I never proposed said Porter. 'Y conference. the elimination of anonymous testing. June 26, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 23 ~ .TAPAS.TAPAS.TAPAS'TAPAS.TAPAS.TAPAS' ~ T ~ ~ continued from page 19 su~ceed the embattled Rep. Jim Wright ~ LA ~ During her testimany an June_ 6th, CD-Texas)as Speaker. The reference an Green, who. is an' attarney, urged the the memo was to ''Tam Foley, Another ~ GRAN SCENA i Cammissian to. amend the redistricting Liberal Speaker." instructians to. read: 'To. the extent The four-page document was ~ OPERA CO. ~ practicable, district lines shall keep headlined, "Tom Foley: Out af the ~ ~ intact neighborhoods and cammunities Liberal Claset," and, accarding to. ~ Back By Popular Demand! ~ with established ties af camman interest Goodin's cover memo, was intended lo . at' I;' ~ ~ and assaciatian, whether histarical, set the' recard 'straight" an the new racial, ecanamic, ethnic, religiaus, ar Speaker. The merna repeatedly based an sexual arientatian." campared Foley's record to. that af Rep. ~ ~ 8 ~ Neighbarhaads targeted by Barney Frank CD-Mass.), ane of two ~ ~ FAIRPAC far redistricting protectians apenly gay members of Congress. ~ ...direct from hit performances ~ include the Upper West Side, The merna came just over a month ~ ~ ~ Greenwich Village and Chelsea in after an article in Memorandum, the ~ LONDON, BERLIN ~ Manhattan, Jackson Heights in Queens, closely-watched Democratic newsletter, ~ & THE KENNEDY CENTER ~ and Park Slape in Broaklyn. D'Alessia said that "fellaw Demacrats" were ~. ~ said that the zip cades af thase c\Jrrently spreading rumars to. the press ~ ~ neighborhoods shaw up mast aften an about the "alleged ho~asexuality af ~ ~ the mailing lists af gay and lesbian one Democrat" who might benefit from ~ ~ clubs and arganizatians, and affered Wright's resignation. ~ ~ ~ ~ that infarmatian as hard evidence to.the At the time, Frank bristled at allegatians that Democrats would be ~ ~ Charter Revisian Commissian. T ~ ~ spreading such rumors, but reserved his . S harshest criticism for the media reports ~ .;, af the whisper campaign, which was . 1« ,< ~ GOP Memo also recounted in the Washington Post. ~ But the implicatians in Gaadin's Baits Foley memo incensed Frank, who in a front ~ page June 7th Boston Herald article ~ by Cliff O'Neill threatened to give up the names af six I;' WASHINGTON, D.C.-A June 6th gay Republican members of Congress . ..~ Republican Party merna allegedly ~ "I think if they don't cut the crap, questianing the' sexualityaf new something might happen, and I'm going ~ Speaker af the Hause Tom Foley CD- to happen it," he tald the Herald. "The I;' VI Wash.) set off a storm of criticism from right to. privacy and the right to ~ bath Democrats and Republicans, hypocrisy do. not coexisl." 'THESE OPERA PARODIES SUCCEED!" leading to the reSignation of its author "I am pleased that [Goodin] Charming. full of sw"tlgdod humor... ~ just one day later. . mu.~ical comp('c~ncc ...a rcallovt ~ resigned, because it shows that he ofopua'" Under fire for the controversial admits they were misbehaving," Frank John R()ck,,~II. The New l'ork Timts ~ memo, in which he said Foley had later told Out Week. "ObViously, I don't .;, "Thost who acwally pay arrtntion 10 - come 'out of the liberal claset," "pua willl.ugh until thtydrop." think that being gay is anything wrong. O~r2 Qu~rr('rly ~ Republican National Committee CRNC) [But] it's a terrible thing to use gayness Communications Director Mark W. as a weapon in this way. But I meant JUNE 27 -JULY29 ~ Goodin resigned June 7th in a terse what I said. Gay Republicans should Tues.-Sal. 9 pm letter to his boss, RNC Chairman Lee understand that if they are gaing to. sit -- -- ~ Atwater. 'I deeply regret my decision on SPECIAL BRUCE HOPKINS Show at II pm ~ by and encaurage this kind af stuff, and the Foley memorandum," he wrote in support the peaple who do these RESERVE TODAY FOR BEST SEATS ~ his letter. "It was, as I indicated to yau, things, then the question becomes nat 212-244-3005 ~ bad judgment on my part, althaugh at privacy but hypocrisy, and I don't ENJOY DINNER 6z A SHOW ~ no time did I ever intend to.quest ian . OPEN FOR LUNCH 6z PRIVATI PARTIES :( intend to let them get away with il." ~ anyone's reputation. n Frank's statement brought quick 253 West 28th (7th & 8th Ave.) :;; The memo was released to. candemna~ians of the merna by both just J shore blocks from ~ Republican Party afficials natianwide Demacrats and Republicans, including Madison Square Garden I;' ,,11 just as Foley was taking the gavel to. President George Bush. T

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News Focus wound up in the hospital, none were willing to testify in court, so a proposed --~~~-~ lawsuit went nowhere. _ Lake George, New York . - ---=--, Because of the community's Escape to the Adirondacks. Cozy Cabins or Luxury Efficiencies. increased political and economic power, Sparkling Pool &. Sun Deck • Wide Variety cif Lake Activities. raids are now infrequent occurrences; Nature Trails. Bicycling • jogging • Close to Antique Shops and but surveillance is another story. New Factory Outlets. Convenient to Saratoga with its Famous York Police Department (NYPD) files, Performin~ Arts Center. Baths and Track recently released by court order, contain A relaxing resort for special people. hundreds of pages of Intelligence , For ruervadons or further Informadon , Division reports on gay and lesbian call (518) 792-0418 groups, collected as recently as 1978. The Freedom of Information Act request MARC A. POLLINGER for the files covered only groups that had been established prior to 1973,' so any reports on groups established since that time remain unreleased. But surveillance has clearly continued in the '80s. The fact that police have apparently had advanced knowledge of un publicized actions by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) and many other REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT group's, as evidenced by police 96 EAST MAIN STREET COPS continued on page 70 HUNTINGTON,NEWYORK 11743 516-424-8080 June 26, 1989 OUrYWEEK 25 dUT OF CONTROL by Susie Day

am a lesbian and I have lesbian light in the middle of their circle. stop a black than a white person in a I pride. lowe much of my pride to Suggest that they relax, breathe deeply speed trap because cops have an extra the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969, and just be. muscle in their heads that makes them although at the time, I was but a Ask cops to imagine that, with each do those things, etc., etc. polymorphously perverse junior high breath, the light enters their heavy Try to channel the energy flow so asexual with no pride and a secret crush shoes, then travels up their uniformsn that cops begin to experience their on one of the girls who modeled training through their pants legs, their mace, innate cop-consciousness. Do they bras in the Sears catalogue. Yet their stun·guns, all the way to their think, for instance, that they were born somehow, over the years, Stonewall badge chakras--until it bursts out of their "that way," or did they become cops quietly widened my horizons. police hats in an arc of radiant energy. because of some unspeakably disgusting Stonewall--that rout'ine barroom This is their cop energy, their police childhood trauma? Give them time to bust in which assorted queers ended up see themselves as part of an' oppressed holding off the New York City Police group. Are there cop "tendencies?" Department for three nightsnhas helped Mannerisms? Hobbies? Discuss. thousands of women and men in the past twenty years to claim positive Exercise 3: Let Your Cop Out to Play lesbian and gay identities. I, for At this point on the road to self- instance, have remained a lesbian, partly esteem, your cops should be eager to because of. Stonewall, and partly use various modes of artistic expression because I would rather be a lesbian than to get in touch with their feelings. a cop. Because, if you think' about it, Finger painting is a marvelous avenue of cops have it worse than we do. self-discovery, as are macrame .and No one stops to reflect that it was modern dance. But perhaps the most the police who made Stonewall possible. evocative form for cop-identification is If the cops hadn't barged in, busted the theatre. Here is an excerpt from a heads, and yelled "Spread 'em, Sailor," script, by and for cops, which sprang when they did, our own from one of these workshops: personal/political growth could have been retarded for years. Cops have also Scene: A park at night. The mujjled used similar consciousness-raising noises of various muggings, gang wars, techniques to guide countless Blacks, and violent crimes can occasionally be Latinos, union activists and homeless heard in the distance as a ruggedly people to deeper, more commanding handsome male cop patrols the area. self-concepts. Yet cops have been slow Enter: A young man with bleached (Photo: Ellen B. Neiprisl to take credit for these achievements. Is blond hair, wearing pink tank top and this because they themselves are low,on "force," some say. Ask them to use this gold lame jeans. He minces over to cop self-esteem? force to imagine themselves running in and speaks in lilting soprano. Well, I think-it is time somebody slow motion, perfectly safe and relaxed, said, "Thank you, cops." To show my as they chase thugs through a beautiful, Man: Yoo hoo! Mr.Officer! appreciation for all they've done, I have misty meadow. Play cassette tape of Cop (a baritone): Yes, sir? devised a series of police empowerment Tibetan temple bells and whale noises. Man: You come here often, Beefcake? workshops, which may be presented, for Burn sage. Cop: Yes,·sir. a nominal fee, at nearly any precinct. --4_ Man: Can I buy you a drink? Exercise 2: Breaking Down Stereotypes Cop: Say--what are you getting at, sir? Exercise 1: Centering Have cops center. Pass out paper Man: It's this way, Joychunk: I am a The object here is to create a safe, and pencils. Ask cops to go deep within militant homosexual, and I nurturing ~pace that will allow the inner themselv.es and write down all the myths would like tOner, uh--play with cop to heal. Have cops form a circle, and vicious put-downs about police that your nightstick. cross-legged on the floor. (Gently they have encountered from ignorant Cop: I am not into that sort of thing, discourage self-ridicule if the cartilage in civilians. Examples: Cops are never sir. Be gone. their knees keeps popping; this is a sign around when you need them; cops are Mari: Oh, I love jt when you talk like of change and should be affirmed.) naturally lazy and will not answer calls thatnit makes you look like Now ask cops to close their eyes and for help in poor or out-of-the-way Nelson Eddy. (He grabs cop imagine a big, glowing ball of navy blue neighborhoods; cops are more likely to and sweeps him romantically

26 OUT'YWEEK June 26, 1989 SUSIE DAY cont'd

into his arms.) Cop: Stop it, you brute! (Calls out:) Help! Help! Entrapment!

Suddenly from the wings march two 59 STREET \ CHELSEA 328 BLEECKERVILLAGESTREET 221 EAST 59th STREET 110 8th AVENUE· police battalions in full dress uniform, NEW YORK, NY 10014 I NEW YORK. NY 10022 NEW YORK, NY 10011 who rescue the lead cop, then bring him (212) 242-8885 (212)7~1~ (212)~7420 downstage, where the entire company Comer ChrIstopher' __ ~ 2nd. 3nI Ave. ~ 15th • 16th St. sings all the choruses of "Stouthearted Men." Curtain.

Exercise 4: A Kinder. Gentler Reality Your cops are now ready to move A from art to life, and begin to create their own reality. Ask them to center and DIFFERENT visualize themselvd lying on a beautiful, warm beach. Watch their gruff exteriors LIGHT melt away as you explain that there is a Great Scheme of Things, and that eveIY one of them has a place in it. Yes, all things are interconnected: the sun and the moon, the wind and the waves have a vital role to play in this vast web of life, just as cops themselves have a role to play in the vast web of governmental control that extends throughout this great nation. Why, each of them, in a sense, is as important as the Justice Department or the FDA! While cops are thus deeply relaxed, calmly remind them that the U.S. now A GENERA110N OF PRIDE holds 627,402 prisonersuthe largest number of any countIY in the world--and that 800Al of these prisoners are People of <=olor. As cops sink further into bliss, Month speak to them of the recent tough on- 12 crime laws that detain people for years SPECIAL without bail; the bills for mandatory AIDS testing and contract tracing; the big, new detention centers for illegal '350· immigrants and political dissidents in the event of a national emergency. Cops First 100 should experience complete .. New Membe,. empowerment and peace with their withthisad world. Now ask them to open their eyes. Voila! Reality! There is a God! All hug. Exchange addresses. And the next time those cops bust a bunch of homos in a bar, they'll do it with pride, knowing, deep down, that somewhere there is a Reason...

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OUT~WEEK June 26. 1989 27 INSIDE OUT by Ray Navarro A Colorful Coalition never gotten together like that, except directors. B. Michael Hunter, a member for maybe at the dedication of the af GMAD and af Other Cauntries (a n Friday, May 26, an important Charles Angel Room ...The goal of the Black gay men's writing callective), was O coalition-building meeting took meeting was to set some guidelines, and ane af the primary arganizers af this place at New York's Lesbian and Gay the more we talked the more it became meeting. Hunter daes nat daubt the Community Center. For the first time in obvious that there were all of these Center's good intentians with respect to. the Center's history, organizations different organizations, and that there lesbian and gay People af Calar, but comprised of People of Color met, with might be a network developing." stresses the necessity far direct the intention of networking, establishing The strongest practical resolution representatian in the Center's decisian political power within the Center, and coming out of the meeting was the making bady. He says, "The Center is possibly marching together in the formation of a twenty-member steering falling into.the trap af claiming to.speak Lesbian and Parade. The committee, comprised of representatives far the respective Third Warld question on everybody's mind: Why of each of the groups, who would organizatians. They may be making the hadn't such a meeting taken place further discuss the logistical issues right decisians ...but this is a matter af before? If you open any copy of the direct access to. the decisians that are Center Voice you'll find a large number The Lesbian being made." Hunter underscared that of listings representing various ethnic any Peaple af Calar warking with the groups within the lesbian and gay and Gay baard must feel self-empawered to community: Asian-Pacific Islanders, represent the apinians and demands af Latinas and Latinos, and African Community this ad hac caalitian. "We need Americans. , sameane far wham ane af their primary The various groups in attendance, Center is fa II ing functians wauld be that." however, have no intention of Rabert Waadwarth, deputy directar homogenizing their cultural differences into the trap of af the Center and Fran Galdstein, under the sign of ethriicity. East Coast treasurer, bath attended the meeting and Asian Pacific Islander Lesbian claiming to cardially extended whatever suppart the Association, Salsa Soul Sisters, Las Center cauld affer to. the group. Buenas Amigas, Brooklyn Lesbian and speak for Third Hawever, ane unidentified white gay Gay Forum, Men of All Colors Together, Center valunteer challenged the group's Mama Doesn't Know Productions, World agenda as a whale, claiming that Rainbow Repertory Theater, Lesbians introducing the problem af "race" into. and Gays of Flatbush, Majority Actions organizations. the concept af "gay pride". wauld Committee of the AIDS Coalition to seriausly threaten the already fragile Unleash Power (Aq UP) and Gay Men involved in securing an effective political unity af New Yark's lesbian and gay of African Descent (GMAD)all agree on voice within the organized New York cammunity. The respa'nse af the group this one point: The goal in working lesbian and gay community. was cardial, considering the backward together is to inform one another as to The issue of the many groups but widespread sentiment expressed in their political intentions as activists marching together in this year's Lesbian the camment .. Elbert Hunter, the Black within various communities with and Gay was vo.ted down, ca-facilitatar af the meeting, expressed differing cultural heritages. primarily due to the fact that each the group concensus that taking According to Daisy de Jesus, one of organization had already planned its valuable meeting time away from thase the meeting's co-facilitators and a own activities for the march and had . in attendance to.explain such a camplex member of Las Buenas Amigas, a Latina already rented booths, etc. The Salsa issue to. ane af the few whites in the lesbian group, the call for the meeting Saul Sisters painted out that Women of raam wauld detract from the vital came from GMAD. De Jesus agreed to Calar would spearhead this year's business an hand. Yet similar questians attend because she recognized the parade, and that this had been wan anly were raised by same af the men in the necessity that various groups should at after long negatiatian with the parade roam as to.the privileging af gender aver least coordinate their own panel arganizers. Plans were made to. race or ethnicity in lesbian and gay discussions, workshops and social caardinate befare next year's parade so. discaurse. Again it was Salsa Saul Sisters events so as not to conflict with one that all lesbian and gay Peaple af Calar who. effectively dispelled this misguided another. Even if effective coalition- could march tagether if they so.chaase. and patentially sexist view by building seemed like a far off dream, From here the discussian turned underscaring the effects af lesbian "each group has its own activities and toward the issue af why there are no. invisibility within Third Warld cultures. many of us know each other, but we'd Peaple af Calar on the Center's baard af Daisy de Jesus is encauraged by the

28 OUTTWEEK June 26, 1989 establishment of a permanent "People of Color Bulletin Board" above the water fountain at the Center, but she commented that, "the meeting was not a direct response to the 20th anniversary of Stonewall. It's just that our visibility at the Center needs to increase, so that each of us shows our presence to each other with a stronger voice so that we feel less isolated." I observed that while direct action and protest were all part of the history of the groups at this meeting, they did not shun the less glamorous but essential tasks involved in networking and building coalitions. This so as to mutually empower themselves to fight the double-whammy of being lesbian or gay in this homophobic and racist city....

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If these options do not work, then for mainstream researchers are synthesizing ITRACONAZOLE: more' information about obtaining the chemical, running animal studies and Affordable fluconazole or itraconazole from abroad, negotiating for FDA permission to begin patients can call the PWAHealth Group, "phase I" human trials this year or next, .Fluconazole 212/532-0280. probably hundreds of people are already using herbal extracts. We are hearing Substitute Reprinted by permission from AIDS anecdotal reports of benefits, but this Treatment News, P.O. Box 411256; San information is inherently limited because luconazole is a very good antifungal Francisco, CA94141. of unknown self-selection biases, and which 'is taken by mouth; it is F because different blood tests and effective for cryptococcal meningitis and different labs were used. many other fungal infections. It is San Francisco: The new monitoring study, formally approved in England: but not in the approved May 22 by San Francisco's United States, apparently because of .Hypericin, Ozone Community Research Alliance (CRA; for bureaucratic snafus. Some people have Monitoring Projects background on this community-based obtained personal supplies from research organization, see AIDS England, but the drug is very expensive; Beg'in . Treatment News issue #70, December 1, maintenance doses for cryptococcal 1988), is for people who have not used meningitis can cost as much as AZT,and an Francisco area community hypericin in the last six months, but plan insurance will not pay for fluconazole S groups have begun two small, to start using a standardized herbal because it is not approved. prospective monitoring studies to collect extract. (Standardized extracts are those A'nother drug, itraconazole (brand reliable information about potential which have been chemically tested name Sporanox) may be almost as good AIDS/HIV treatments which have come during their manufacture and adjusted to as fluconazole but much less expensive. into use by patients but are not being contain' a uniform strength of an active Itraconazole is used to treat many . studied in formal clinical trials. ingredient in every batch. Examples of different fungal diseases. It may be less "Monitoring" studies do not give St. John's wort extracts standardized for effective than fluconazole for treatment to anyone; they only collect hypericin content are Yerba Prima cryptococcal meningitis, however, data. Therefore they are much easier to tablets, Psychotonin tincture, and although it is sometimes used for that set up and administer than the large- Hyperforat tincture.) condition. Itraconazole is available in scale, randomized trials favored by large' The study will last four months. Mexico, and it either is or is soon institutions. "Prospective" means that "Baseline" testing (before treatment expected to be available in the UK. We these monitoring studies are designed in begins) includes P24 antigen, T-cell do not have exact price information, but advance, allowing clean, uniform data subsets, CMI,Beta 2 microglobulin, CBC, have heard that treatment with gathering: the same blood tests for ESR, and SMA 25, as well as physical itraconazole (obtained from Mexico) every patient, on the same schedule and examination and medical history. Blood costs about $1.50 to ,$3.00 per day, at the same la'b; uniform· physical tests are given monthly; the last visit depending on the dose. examinations, medical history includes a second physical exam. A total Anyorie considering using interviews, and patient diary forms; and of five monthly visits is required. fluconazole or itraconazole should also an overall study design approved in All tests are paid for by the CRA. At consider the more conventional options. advance by a scientific committee. If this time, the CRAhas enough money to Amphotericin B (AMB),which is readily successful, these studies can serve as enroll 30 patients. More will be enrolled available, is probably at least as effective precedents for rapid, community- if the money can be raised. as fluconazole. Its drawbacks are that it controlled research projects to get Note: Ten patients per month will must be given intravenously, it can cause reliable data for patients and physicians, be enrolled in this observational study. unpleasant side effects, and some as soon as new treatments come into If you are interested in volunteering, call patients cannot tolerate it at all. use. the Community Research Alliance at If AMB cannot be used, a patient. 415/626-2145. If more than ten qualify may be able to qualify for a trial of THE HYPERICIN STUDY for the study, ten will be chosen by a

fluconazole, or for compassionate usen lottery; those riot chosen the first month in which case the drug will probably be We have previously reported on will be considered again in later months. free. Physicians only who want to find hypericin, an antiretroviral found in St. The first ten may be able to start by late out how to enroll their patients should John's wort, a plant long used in herbal June. However, no starting date can be call the developer, Pfiser Inc., at medicine (see AIDS Treatment News guaranteed, and there will probably be 203/441-4112. #63, 74, 75, 77, and 78). While more volunteers than can be accepted.

30 our'YWEEK June 26, 1989 It is very important that people who At this time, the ozone trial is not close cooperation between public enter this study have not used hypericin officially sponsored by any organization, agencies and private, mostly volunteer in the previous six months. Otherwise, it belongs entirely to the people in the organizations, in providing prevention benefits may have already occurred study. When they obtained the ozone education to the general public and before the first physical exam and blood machine, the Community Research services to those who are ill. However, test; and therefore the study would miss Alliance was newly organized and not this model has traditionally not included them and misleadingly underestimate ready to approve and administer a study. any involvement with research. the value of the treatment. But the patients were ready to start, and The ozone and hypericin studies All other treatments (AZT, etc.) are of course they did not want to wait for a suggest a new, additional model for the OK, however, either before or during the study. So the Healing Alternatives years ahead. Small but well conducted study. One of the rules of a monitoring Foundation (the San Francisco buyers' research studies are within the study is that it does not ask people to club) donated $2,500 for initial blood capabilities of grassroots organizations. change the treatments they would be work; without that support at a critical The key test of the success of these using anyway. These must be reported time, the baseline values could not have projects is whether they produce to researchers, of course. been obtained and the study would have information which is credible to front- The Community Research Alliance been lost. The entire trial will cost about line AIDS physicians, and useful to is also looking for volunteers for office $10,000, almost all of it for lab work, as patients and physicians alike in making work, e·tc. If you can -help, call the Mr. Traiman's time is volunteer. Money treatment decisions. Community groups number above. from an anonymous benefactor, from responsive first and foremost to patients' AIDS Treatment News, and from Mr. interest can move much faster than OZONE STUDY Traiman himself has kept the study federal or corporate bureaucracies ever will; if they can generate solid treatment going so far. Ozone is being studied as an information, they will make a major Recently the Berkely Gay Men's AIDS/HIV treatment in Germany, but contributio'n to saving lives and Health Collective offered to assist by aside from a small trial for AIDS-related improving quality of life. housing the ozone monitoring project in diarrhea at the Veterans Administration These small studies, which combine the Berkelely Free Clinic building. Hospital in San Francisco, there are no the work of professionals, activists, and After seven weeks of ozone government or corporate clinical trials in other volunteers, are also relevant to treatment, no dramatic changes have the United States. Recently, however, a public policy in a time of scarce group of ten persons with AIDS or HIV been found. At three weeks, resources. Monitoring studies cost very jointly purchased an ozone machine for lymphocyte counts had improved ·little to run. If they produce useful their own use, and before beginning the substantially for many of the patients; treatment information, they should pay treatment they organized their own other blood work showed no for themselves many times over by monitoring study, with the help of meaningful change. By the seventh reducing the need for hospitalization research nurse Leland Traiman. Mr. week, however, these counts had and other treatment, by keeping people Traiman runs mainstream AIDS clinical returned to close to their baseline values. productively employed instead orill, and trails professionally, and he volunteered At this time there is no' evidence of any by developing very low cost treatment to help coordinate the patients' ozone benefit, or of any harm, from the ozone options (such as hypericin herbal trial. treatment. extracts) which other U.S. research This eight-month study includes the The lack of ealry results does not institutions seldom or never do. same blood tests as the hypericin discourage Mr. Traiman. "There are no protocol described above. (These tests conclusive results so far; it's too early to Reprinted by permiSSIOn of AIDS are becoming a core subset of uniform telLI don't believe or disbelie.ve that Treatment News, P.O. Box 411256, San blood work and data collection forms, to ozone is an effective therapy. I've heard Francisco, CA 94141. T be used in many prospective monitoring some strong positive anecdotal reports, studies.) Laboratory work, medical and I want to learn if there is any history and physical exams were given scientific basis behind them." before treatment started to obtain baseline values; eight additional A NEW MODEL FOR COMMUNITY appointments were scheduled over the RESPONSE? next eight months. The baseline and two other blood drawings have already One of the most successful occurred; the fourth blood draw is responses to the AIDS epidemic so far scheduled for the end of May. has been the "San Francisco model"--

June 26, 1989 OUTTWEEK 31

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poison and would never take it. I know This column will be an advocacy TREATMENT many people who had ARC symptoms, tool to disseminate such information and DECISIONS intervened early, got aggressive it will hopefully be helpful to people treatment, continually monitor their making treatment decisions. Talking Dearly beloved, we are gathered status and are' now asymptomatic. about treatments is hard. AIDS here today to get through this thing The overwhelming mediocrity of advocates are not doctors. We are called fife ... In this fife, things are learning as we go, and we will make much harder than in the afterworld. some mistakes along the way. Nothing In this fife, you're on your own. Nothing that is that is written or said about AIDSshould Prince, Let's Go Crazy ever . be accepted uncritically. rtist Brian Damage has been living \Nritten or said Skepticism, constant questioning and with AIDS since before that big A about AIDS relentless challenging of established disease got its little name. His lymph should ever be authorities are the only way to find out glands were massively swollen. His what works. Different combinations will doctors diagnosed lymphoma. They accepted work for different people. The only wanted to operate, irradiate and dose uncritically. person qualified to make the final him up with chemotherapy. He said no, walked out, and treated himself fo~ most reporting on the medical aspects of seven years with herbs, vitamins and a AIDS has contributed heavily to For the first time, . macrobiotic diet. In 1988 he got PCP. America's inadequate response to the He switched from alternative to medical epidemic. Mainstream organs like the there are too many interventions, took pentamidine and New York Times maintain rigid promising agents AZT and survived. Since then, he joined separations between articles about drugs the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power for AIDS (Science Times), the impact of that need to be (ACT UP), marched at the Food and AIDS in New York City Cin the Metro tested instead of Drug Administration, became infected section) and national political too fe\N. with MAl (a debilitating gastrointestinal ramifications of AIDS (main section). and blood infection), and endured two Compartmentalizing these aspeCts more hospitalizations. Again he rejected maintains artificial distinctions, resulting his doctors' plans, this time to install a in journalism which fails to piece decision is the person taking the Hickman catheter in his chest and to together the complicated interplay of treatment. remove his spleen. He's out of the political, economic and scientific Many people who have been living hospital and doing artwork. motives which drive AIDS drug with AIDS for a long time are His story is instructive not because development. Ironically, it is the activists-and I' do mean in the broadest of its particulars. Some people fare financial papers, such as the Wall Street sense of the word: They all question poorly on a macrobiotic diet. Others Journal and Barron's, which provide the authority, constantly seek new treatment eschew AZT. The point is that even at clearest picture of this interplay. Yet information, check their doctors' the outset of the disease, some people their target audience is the investment opinions with other doctors and their made their own treatment decisions. community, prQvided with this own friends, are open about their HIV or That's what this column is all about. information for the purposes of making Knowledge is a tool. In the right money, and not the HIV-infected AIDS status and agitate at every hands, it can be a weapon for self- individuals who must face difficult opportunity for better health care and defense. The government, the media treatment decisions on a daily basis. faster research. and the drug companies haven't given In 1989, for the first time, there are Two weeks ago, at the 5th that weapon to people infected with too many promising agents that need to International Conference on AIDS in HIV,the virus believed by many to cause be tested in people with AIDS or HIV, Montreal, San Francisco epidemiologist AIDS, to empower them to make instead of too few. Existing medical and Thomas Coates reported that people governmental structures are inadequate treatment decisions and to keep involved in AIDS activism fared better themselves alive. There are many ways to test all the new anti-AIDS agents. and lived longer. Activism is the to stay·alive. I know people who have Existing media outlets are inadequate to intervention which treats both people lived with AIDSfor years. Some were in spread new treatment information to the original AZT trial. Some think AZT is peQple who need it. with HIVand the diseased body politic....

June 26, 1989. OUTTWEEK 33. Positive Alternatives by Bob Lederer

his column will appear evexy three the Biological Assessment of Syphilis • For several years before AIDS,the Tweeks offering practical information and Immune Suppression (BASIS) majority of U.S. syphilis cases had been and political analysis of holistic and project, has done exhaustive medical among gay men and IV-drug users, and alternative treatments for AIDS,ARCana research, interviewed and treated the tropical countries of Haiti and 'HIV+. I inten.d to share the facts behind hundreds of People With AIDS (PWAs), Central Africa have historically had high the growing belief that non-toxic, and developed an elaborate theoxy of rates of either syphilis or vexy similar immune-building approaches may the connections between AIDS,.syphilis infections ·called yaws and pinta. prevent these conditions from being a and antibiotics. A variety of doctors, Syphilis is spread in ways much like death sentence. I use "holistic" t6 scientists, activists and PWAs have built AIDS, including through blood include: 1) well-practiced techniques on this work and are now demanding transfusions, hemophiliac blood other than orthodox Western medicine, answers from the medical establishment. products and from mother to baby. such as acupuncture, herbology, Firs.r, a few basic facts, each • For 20 years, doctors in the U.S. and homeopathy and nutritional sup- supported by numerous medical journal Africa have warned of a growing plementation; and 2) changes in living articles: epidemic of undiagnosed advanced practices such as diet, exercise, addiction • Syphilis is caused by a bacteria syphilis cases, due to several factors: treatment, stress reduction and building called a spirochete. Unless fully treated, Many people with syphilis do not show self-esteem. By "alternative" I mean the infection goes through four stages: the primaxy-stage chancres or cold sores Western medical treatments generally primaxy .(sometimes a chancre or cold (therefore their secondary-stage ignored or discouraged by the medical sore at the point of infection); secondaxy symptoms are often misdiagnosed); establishment, such as the typhoid (vague symptoms like rashes, swollen blood tests for antibodies to the syphilis vaccine and pc;nicillin (based on the . lymph nodes, weight loss); latent (no spirochete are increasingly unreliable. theorized AIDS-syphilislink). symptoms, can last up to 15 years); amd In recent years, more people with Besides examining particular tertiaxy (heart problems, blindness and syphiUs are testing' negativ@ either treatments, a recurrent theme will lor mental disorders such as because they are given cheap and include careful analysis of alternative neurosyphilis which is akin to AIDS imprecise tests-especially in U.S. theories of AIDS causes and co-factors dememtia). clinics-or because even the more and the political barriers blocking • Syphilis can cause serious immune reliable tests miss many cases. Also, scientific studies of these theories and of suppression. And evexy known AIDS many of these people's immune systems alternative treatments. I will also look at symptom has been found in secondaxy are compromised so much that they are the negative role played by the American no longer making antibodies. Medical' Association, the pharmaceutical • After the massive introduction of The theory linking industxy and their allies at the Food and penicillin, the "miracle cure," in 1945, Drug Administration, and the National AIDS to syphilis is syphilis cases greatly decreased for Institutes of Health. r' will also speak poorly understood. several years. In the late 1950s, the about activist responses to these issues, recommended penicillin treatment which are currently being developed by became benzathene (an oil-based form). the Alternative and Holistic Treatment or tertiary syphilis-including Since 1986 there has been a rapid rise,in Subcommittee of the AIDS Coalition To pneumocystis pneumonia and Kaposi's U.S.cases, particularly among Black and Unleash Power {ACTUP). sarcoma. (Dr. Kaposi discovered the Latino heterosexuals. Dr. Nicholas Fiumara, former Director of Infectious This week I'd like to focus sarcoma in syphilitics.) Throughout Diseases at the Massa~husetts Health specifically on the role of syphilis and histoxy,. syphilis has been called "The Dept. (one of the foremost syphologists) antibiotic overuse in the onset of AIDS. Great Masquerader" by medical is one of many physicians who have The theory that AIDS is linked to practitioners as it is often misdiagnosed. long argued that the officially- • Studies of gay PWAshave shown a advanced, undiagnosed syphilis has recommended cine-shot dosage level of high percentage have had known generated much controversy, but is still penicillin is far too low and short-term. histories of syphilis; much higher than poorly understood. Some of its The result: many people with syphilis have had gonnorhea, and significantly advocates-uscientists, journalists and have had their symptoms masked by higher than among HIV-negative gay publishers---have weakened their cases dosages that suppress immediate men. Evidence among all AIDS by presenting the issues emotionally or symptoms but do not kill the spirochetes with minimal documentation. But since populations also shows high rates of paving the way for their virulent 1986, Joan McKenna, a Berkeley previous miscellaneous infections and reemergence years later. longterm antibiotic use. physiologist and Research Director of How does all this explain AIDS?

34 OUTTWEEK June 26, 1989 Researcher McKenna and other theorists common passenger virus which emerges many PWAs using the vaccine have argue AIDS may be a combination of from latency (indUCing antibody changed from negative to positive, inadequately treated syphilis, massive, production) after serious immune reflecting the newly-renewed immune longterm use of antibiotics (whether for suppression. , response .. Other doctors have used oral syphilis, other sexually transmitted What does this mean for treatment? or intravenous aqueous penicillin in diseases, or simply strep throats) and, The vaccine for typhOid-the preferred large doses. And holistic healers have for those who use them, street drugs--- treatment for neurosyphilis until used such proven anti-syphilis alf of which have documented 1957-was patented for AIDStreatment in approaches as homeopathy and herbs, immunosuppressive effects. This may .1986 by retired medical technologist Sal each with some success in PWAs,though not explain all AIDS cases, but they Catapano. Catapano has been correctly that work is barely beginning. believe at least a large percentage. And criticized for refusing to publish his I do not claim to have definitive the timing may be explained by scientific pata, but one of the 26 doctors answers, much less "the cure." But the COincidingexplosions since the 1960s of using his vaccine reported (in the March strong evidence generated by these freely-expressed gay male sexuality (and 30, 1989 issue of Medical Tribune) some theorists-whatever their personal the STDs that followed), antibiotic .symptom improvements in 60 of 100 quirks-deserves study and investigation, overuse and street drug use. This may PWAs using it for several months. The not the neglect and scorn of the medical have been aggravated by a virulent theory is that the vaccine "jumpstarts" establishment. strain of syphilis brought back. by U.S. the immune response and enables it to If you have any questions, please troops from tropical Viet Nam. HIV, the begin fighting the syphilis infection. write me in care of this magazine. And theory says, may simply be the most Dramatically, syphilis blood tests of don't miss the valuable forum on AIDS-

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The Story Of Stonewall Strife by James Waller he date we're'given isJune 27, 1969, Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 53 to gather. The mood at first seems to T and, really, that's the date I'd prefer Christopher Street on the north side of have been almost festive; there was a to assign it, since it was my sixteenth Sheridan Square, with the intention of great deal of boisterous repartee birthday. But to be more accurate, at conducting a raid. That, after having between those who'd been let go and about 1:30 on the morning of Saturday, positioned themselves inside the bar and the customers still emerging from the June 28, 1969, there commenced the telephoned the Sixth Precinct for bar, some of whom took the occasion to event that a character in Doric Wilson's assistance, they initiated the raid, whose make campy, dramatic entrances onto play Street Theater claims will destine ostensible purpose was to stop the the sidewalk, and this was accompanied that night to "liveforever in the annals of illegal sale of liquor at the Stonewall, by some innocuous baiting of the police. anals." The event that a Mattachine which, in violation of State Liquor It's now that the reports begin to Society flier, handed out on the street Authority regulations, was operating as grow a little fuzzy. Something ticked the sometime during the following few days, crowd off, rapidly bringing to a violent described as "The Hairpin Drop Heard boil the anger that had been cloaked by Around the World." To wit, the Lucky the riot the bitchy, mocking humor. The police Stonewall...what? The Stonewall Riot? began at a bar manhandled someone, or several Rebellion? The StonewaJI Uprising, called Stonevvall. someones, and the till-then harmless maybe? Well, let's bow to tradition and taunts that had peppered the cops were call it a riot, but let's be careful to Imagine naming suddenly transformed into fighting remember, also, that we're not talking the event.for the words and projectiles. Just who the about anything on the scale of Watts cops roughed up isn't so clear. One 1965, or the bloody festivities that Snake Pit, or, God published account from that week says accompanied the Democratic National forbid, the Sevver. "one guy," another claims it was a Convention in Chicago in 1968, or even, "dyke," yet another that it was "three drag queens and a dyke." Apparently, to bring the matter a little closer to what an unlicensed private club. (Admission the police were having a bit of we in the ensuing years have come to was, by the way, three bucks.) That for unexpected trouble while trying to load look on as our history, the storming of a time things proceeded according to one or several of their intended token City Hall that followed Dan White's custom. (One of the things that's so detainees into a police vehicle (squad conviction of manslaughter (in curious, from the vantage of 1989, is that car or paddy wagon--again, the stories connection with the killing of Harvey there was a definite, time-honored differ). He, or she, or they resisted, or Milk and George Moscone) in San protocol for raiding gay' bars; a protocol Francisco in 1979. The Stonewall Riot, seemed to, and the cops overreacted, to some extent respected by both sides, bringing jeers--"Pigs! Police brutality!"-- the Moment One from which the current and which the Stonewall incident, to the and then coins, and then stones and gay and lesbian liberation movement has surprise of the police and undoubtedly cans. hurtling from the crowd, which by ever after reckoned its birth, was an some of the rioters themselves, now had swelled to several hundred. altogether smaller affair. demolished forever.) The police handling the raid were, But, given this preliminary caution, A paddy wagon arrived outside. as I said, few in number--six or eight what can we say more or less for certain The Stonewall's customers were lined up (the reports differ), including two actually happened that night? That at and, for the most part, were allowed to policewomen--and were incapable of sometime after midnight a small group emerge freely onto the street one-by-one dealing with the situation that was of police officers (all but one in plain after their IDs were examined. A crowd, erupting. So, to protect themselves, they clothes) led by Inspector Seymour Pine composed of patrons who'd already ordered away the paddy wagon (or and Deputy Inspector Charles Smyth of been released and of passers-by, began NYPD's First Division entered the squad car) with instructions to return

38 OUT~WEEK June 26, 1989 quickly with reinforcements, and then The trouble is that this nutshell raising of the flag at Iwo Jima and like beat a hurried retreat back inside the bar, account doesn't square with our picture images of valorous triumph. The by this time emptied of its clientele. of the thing, whether the images are difficulty is that the facts--"stupid things," They bolted the door, and the siege of drawn from the Paris Commune of 1849 as Ronald Reagan reminded us in a the Stonewall commenced. or, as in one of the exhibits in the' speech last year--concerning what The siege lasted forty-five minutes. Imagining Stonewall show at the Lesbian happened that night display a definite Reading about it, you're struck both by and Gay Community Center, from Mack absence of sandbags, semi-automatic the event's brevity and, oppositely, by Sennett's "Keystone Cops Comedies." weapons, and all such paraphernalia. how long it took for additional police to When people talk about Stonewall, they The facts even show a distressing want arrive and sufficiently disperse the speak of drag queens "leading the of self-consciously political motivation crowd to rescue their comrades inside. charge"--conjuring a bizarre variation on on the part of the rioters. , Those three-quarters of an hour the image of Liberty Leading the Peo!?le. proprieter 'of the even-then-in-operation constituted a very dangerous time, for Trash cans were set afire, apparently, , was quoted in rioters and cops alike, and it's surprising and there was some localized window- 1971 as saying that, when he happened that the confrontation didn't end up smashing. (Vito Russo told me he onto the scene of the already-in-progress being a lot bloodier. The rioters remembers seeing a couple of people disturbance that night, he joined the subjected. the Stonewall's crowd and began chanting "Gay storefront to continuous Power," but that very few of barrage. The plate glass those surrounding him bothered windows were smashed, but to join in. these were backed by plywood Anger'there certainly was, sheets and so it took awhile-- and a good measure of plain old and quite a bit of hammering fed-upness. That summer, young away--for the rioters to gain as it was, had already been access to the inside from that marked by a wave of police direction. Using, among other harassment of bars that, as the things, an upended parking Times would have put it back meter as a battering ram, the then, "ailegedly catered to a rioters managed to break homosexual clientele." And through the door fairly easily. reports have it that one evening Coins, cans a:nd bottles rained several weeks before the through the entryway, and one Stonewall a dozen or more of the cops got his face cutn paddy wagons pulled up to the inspiring Pine to rush outside cruising grounds near the docks and grab the man he'd instantly on West Street and carted people decided was the culprit, off wholesale. Nor did the dragging him inside and harassment end with Stonewall: subjecting him to a brutal once- a few weeks later, an after-hours over; the man, the folksinger SPREADING THE 'NEWS' club called the Snake Pit, on Dave Van Ronk (a fact all the '" with the first Come Out!. 1969. Tenth, was subjected to a vicious Times accounts mention), was IPhoto courtesy Jim Fouratt) raid-(one of those arrested that later charged with assault. night died in police custody). Once the boards covering the window breaking the glass of a little toy store I've been thinking, lately, how fortuitous had been battered open, a hand jutted' next to the bar.) In a hilariously it is that the riot we honor occurred in through, squirting lighter fluid onto the overstated account that appears in a front of a place as felicitously named as floor and following it up with a match, recent issue of Workers' World, the the Stonewall. Consider how much but the resulting blaze was quickly Stonewall Rebellion is portrayed as an more difficult it would be to persuade doused. Improbably, the cops found a organized "pitched battle" in which the city fathers (or ourselves, for that firehose inside the bar and, fitting its hundreds of lesbians and gay men matter) to commemorate' an event taking nozzle through a crack in the door, rampage through the streets of the its name from an establishment called turned it on the crowd, but it produced Village, gleefully tossing Molotov the Snake Pit, or the Tele-Star, or, God only an ineffectual spray and was shut cocktails at the forces of oppression. forbid, the Sewernwhich were the other off after a few of those outside started to And even in Doric Wilson's much more . bars raided that summer. romp in the impromptu fountain. sober and highly ironicnthough no less But, come - to think of it, it's At a point late in the siege the mythologizing--Street Theater, the somewhat peculiar. that we celebrate-- officers, whose barricades were rapidly "revolting fags" (and dykes, and felfow that is, beatify as a symbol of freedom-- crumbling, actually drew their guns, but travelers) who coalesce during the play's the Stonewall Inn. Freedom--despite the by that time more police had arrived and final moments arrange themselves into a not unimportant fact that the Stonewall the mob outside was being broken up. grouping meant, I guess, to evoke the continued on page 74

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lesbians? Especially those of us who and start doing things in the present. A Girlls came of age after gay liberation, during 'Especially lesbians," she says. "Now post-feminism, Girl Bars, AIDS and that feminism is dead, let's get Guide to Reagan? It is a difficult and complex something going that's our very own!' relationship, full of contradictory Everyone nods in approval. Several StonelNall feelings and impressions. Stonewall, in other women gathered around the table many ways, encapsulates a number of share this opinion. Stonewall is Maria Maggenti past tensions between lesbian and gay meaningful as a piece of gay history by men, and yet also holds some sense of and as an example of gay resistance, hen I came out as a le:;bian almost seven years ago, I had W never heard of Stonewall. Not the bar, not the riot, not the time or place or meaning. In fact, I had never given much thought to gay liberation or gay rebellion. To me it was all about girls, love, feminism, anti-potn, getting rid of the white male heterosexual power structure, having a girlfriend. Gay meant boys and lesbian meant girls and that seemed to be all there was to it. Now I cannot imagine not knowing about Stonewall. It has become a part of my queer vocabulary, a kind of landmark on the political arid social landscape of gay and lesbian history; huge, unavoidable and somehow promise for the present and future of but specifically to lesbians it seems the . "distant,' "surreal,· "more about men than about women." One cute girl with We are all sitting in a bar, sipping a red bandana tied around her sleek beers and trading our opinions about blond head says that she relates more Stonewall. We are all under thirty and to Madonna as a symbol of lesbian most of us have been out lesbians for at sexual rebellion than to Stonewall. least five years. I have asked everyone This is the generation of gay 'men a few questions: What do they think of and lesbians playing and working Stonewall? Do they identify with it? Do together where lesbian resistance takes they consider it "their' moment in the form of working together, or history the way that gay men seem to wearing Chanel lipstick and a black do? How does it resonate? leather bra; where marching in Gay The youngest of the women I speak Pride Parades and buying On Our with is not yet twenty years old and Backs is as common as subscribing to . laughs out loud in response to my Off Our Backs once was. But that can't. question. "I wasn't even born yet!" she be all there is to it. hoots. "To me it will never be anything Lesbian resistance certainly hasn't but ancient history.' She goes on to 'say been reduced to a series of fashion inevitable. But exactly what is the that, in fact, she would rather see the statements nor have any of us managed meaning of the Stonewall Rebellion for gay community stop looking to the past to get this far without the struggles of

40 OUTTWEEK June 26, 1989 all 'those who went before us. So, what arrest and court trials. Some of us that, and throughout the next decade are the other possible meanings of cannot understand what it would be when gay liberation and lesbian groups Stonewall to lesbians? What happened like not to fight back. But flourished. As one young woman on thay night that informs the lives and Simultaneously, the thrill of Stonewall is pointed out to me, "even the men actions of contemporary dykes? located in something that most of us thought the root of gay opression was know; that it is always profoundly sexism. Can you imagine how cool that I am told that "a lesbian started it dangerous and miraculous when gays would have been?" all." When the police commenced their and lesbians fight back at all. This is not typical routine of rough arrest during because the rewards of our silence are I have searched my mind for a the raid on the Stonewall Inn that night so great, for we have few rewards to lesbian "equivalent" to Stonewall. What in June 1969, the drag queens waltzed show for that experience. Instead, it is I have found instead is a series of into the vans camping it up and hooting because few lesbians and gay men have anonymous women throughout history and hollering at the boys in blue. A escaped the hovering shadow of who refused to conform to accepted dyke refused to go quietly. She started internalized homophobia. That little standards of female sexual and social to resist and the queens standing squeaky voice that says, ·You don't behavior, and thus parted a deep sea nearby started to throw coins at the deserve to walk down the street safely, for the women who followed them. .police, mocking them and insulting This is a legacy of women who them. Or when the police invaded the If the same thing survived and created themselves against bar, the' drag queens locked the cops great odds so that I could defiantly face inside and started to set the place on happened a.t a my mother and tell her that the real fire and threw coins and bonles at the \Nomen1s bar, \Ne sickness was her homophobia, not my police as they tried to get out and then probably \Nould lesbianism. So that I could turn around people in the neighborhood jOined in with lipstick on my mouth, kiss my and there was a riot and that was· the never have kno\Nn .lover on the subway and believe this is birth. of gay liberation. Trying to find about'it. a radical act. So that I could march out ·what really happened"'ls like trying miles with other lesbians and gay men to examine a small seashell under a you don't deserve to enjoy sex that to show the world that we will always microscope· that is smeared with much, you don't deserve to get the best love ourselves even if the world never Vaseline. You really can't see anyone treatment possible, you don't deserVe to will. aspect very dearly and when you talk live the way you want." These are the things of Stonewall -- to people it is like the tale of Stonewall is thus the ultimate on the one hand, a certain amount of Rashomon; everyone has a different fantasy, that all these people who are privilege, a sense of entitlement granted story. But does it,maner if lesbians were derided and degraded not just in the and earned only because of all those there or not? For most of the women I straight world but in our own dykes and fags who fought in the spoke With, the actual involvement of community also (the ones who "stand streets before us, and on the other lesbians in the fight with the police that out too much," the drag queens and hand, a sense of impatience for the past night was not a significant factor in diesel dykes) would raise up in a blaze and a desire to get\moving in the shaping their opinions. One woman of funky, campy glory to show the present. Not just for the future but for pointed out that if the same thing world that they're mad as hell and NOW. In this respect Stonewall serves happened at a women's bar that night they're not going to take it anymore. as somewhat of a beacon for young gay (as it probably did for many nights And in so doing create a place ·to walk men and lesbians, though not before and after the Stonewall Inn), we where there was none before, a place necessarily in its details but in its certainly wouldn't be making such a big to dance where there was none before, whole, not necessarily in its facts but in deal out of it today. In fact, another a place to scream and shout and rant its mythology: fierce collective rage and woman says, we probably would never and rave and write and organize and defiant self-love in the face of centuries even have known about it. BE. This is the center where the o~ harassment, brutality and Part of the difficulty for this lesbians I spoke with found a sense of indifference. For lesbians, in particular, generation, it seems, has to do with the connection. It is in the fact of fighting whose liberation as lesbians has yet to circumstances under which the back, reSisting, rioting and standing up come, this is not a simple lesson in Stonewall Rebeilion happened. Few of for yourself as a dyke or a fag tfiat is history but rather a complex us can fathom having to live through the real legacy. For at '-he same time intersection with it, a small piece of bar raids though many of us have that there is a kind of distance, .there is which we each take with us everytime engaged in protests that involved an expressed desire to have "been we say, even to ourselves, "I am lesbian police, police harassment and brutality, there" that night, and the night after and proud." ...

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lately. Most of my indulgent friends will and stood in the aisles crying "We love Did Judy tolerate a passing reference to Judy you, Judy~' across the footlights of the Garland but if I start to get that look in Palace Theater. Everyone over thirty Cause my eye and begin to wax ecstatic, they seems to have a personal Judy Garland will say, as quietly as possible, "Dead, story, but they've stopped telling it in StonelNall? you know." public. It's a dead giveaway that the Yes. I know. Judy Garland has been storyteller is a certain kind of queer. dead for twenty years. Yet when I went Listening to Judy Garland in 1989 is a by Vito Russo to London a few years ago, the only two decidedly private affair. Even for a things I wanted to see were the British militant Garland freak like myself, the

he death of Judy Garland in London in the summer of 1969 T coincided with the in Greenwich Village. It was also the year in which Mart Crowley's The Boy's in the Band was brought to the big screen, making it the first Hollywood film in which all but one character was gay. These two events symbolically hammered the final nail into the coffin of gay self-hatred, as well as the pre- liberation world of star worship on a grand scale. Garland was buried on a Sunday, the evening of the riots, out of Frank Cambell's chapel on Madison Avenue, which had remained open through the night so the more than 20,000 people waiting in line could view the body. There was, as noted in the Village Voiceat the time, a full moon that night. And the gay world was never quite the same again. For many gay men, Garland had embodied the good, the bad and the ugly in life up to that point. If you were an unmarried young man in his late twenties or early thirties, 'TONIGHT, NOBODY GOES TO THE MEN'S ROOM ALONF' Gsrlsnd in her prime. and you adored Judy Garland, you were queer. Museum and the little mews house on old stigma gives pause. A friend told me Star worship isn't what it used to be. Cadogan Lane where Judy Garland lived that when the BBC screened A Star Is Oh sure, there's a minor legion, of .cher and died. I still haven't seen the British Born recently, he hesitated to move his freaks out there and a Diana Ross claque Museum. TV set out onto his terrace as he usually or two, but the days when obsessive . Despite the legend that gay men have does for fear that the neighbors, hearing queens prayed to a statue of Ethel a special affinity for the music and career Judy's voice, would sense that he is gay. Merman at night seem to be gone for of Judy Garland, I find that most of my There's a good reason for all the good. I doubt if young gay men even gay male friends shudder at the mention paranoia engendered by Garland-mania. know who Judy Garland was, let alone of her name. The cult worship of In a 1968 article by William Goldman in understand the cult worship she Garland by gay men has become an old Esquire called "Judy Floats," the writer engendered in two generations of embarrassment to the new gay informs his readers that the most oft queens. community, a' relic of the dark ages quoted comment made by straight men I find myself saying "PoorJudy" a lot when fey young men wrung their hands in the lobby of the Palace Theater on

42 OUT~WEEK June 26, 1989 CRt\JN~OW

Garland's opening night in 1967 was, appearances. There was once a piece wanted. When she was broke she still "Tonight, nobody goes to the men's written about her entitled "The Et.:geof ordered a limousine because all she room alone!" When Garland died, her Peril" in which the writer said that knew was how to be a star. daughter, Liza Minnelli, in a moment of Garland, in performance, always walked People tend to forget that for many mirth amidst her grief, cracked that the the thin line between triumph and terror. years, Garland was at the very top of her flags were probably flying at half mast Her audiences--and I've witnessed this-- profession: rich, talented, famous and on Fire Island. She was right. One of were never sure whether she'd soar or happy. She got everything she ever those flags was mine and I lowered it fall into the abyss. One wanted to wanted and had a wonderful time myself. protect her because she was so fragile, enjoying it. She told a story about how, In his book The Other Side of the and to be protected by her because she at a Hollywood party in the Fifties, Rainbqw, singer Mel Torme quotes a was so strong. She was someone who'd Marilyn Monroe followed her from room television producer saying that "Judy experienced hell yet continued to sing to room and finally said, "I don't want to Garland is queen of the fags." When I get too far away from you. I'm scared of interviewed Peter Allen for TheAdvocate Liza Minnelli all this" Garland replied, "We're all in 1976, he said he'd first heard' cracked that the scared, dear." Garland's Carnegie Hall album at a There's no such thing as friend's house in Australia. "I couldn't flags \Nere commonplace genius. It's not an easy believe how those queens were carrying probably flying at ride to live a life on the edge but what on," said Allen. "I told them, 'Listen--allI you get in exchange is an extraordinary can hear on this album is applause." half mast on Fire life. Short perhaps, but special. I don't Even Garland herself was at a loss to Island. She \Nas think Garland would have exchanged explain all the attention lavished upon her short but brilliant life for a long, her by gay men. "I don't understand it," right. uneventful one. Furthermore, her talent she .once complained to Peter Allen. "I'll wouldn't have been as exciting had she ring for someone to do my hair and all I about bluebirds and happiness. Nobody been ordinary. She sang in a meaningful get is his problems with his lover in the could be happy like Judy Garland, but way about something because she knew most intimate personal detail. Why me?" beneath the quick wit and hesitant about something. You don't listen to her Why her, indeed? Well, for one thing, laughter there was something hideous music as background. She commanded when you ask people what fascinated reflected in those large, coal black eyes. attention. Listen to "Stormy Weather" them most about Judy Garland they A lot of people know about life, but on sometime and you'll see what I mean. usually use the word vulnerable. It was Judy Garland it showed. I'm not sure people know what it means tremendously appealing, especially to Was it wrong to enjoy this ghastly yet any longer to watch a performer walk gay people, that such an obviously brilliant show? Of course not. Firstly, it onto a stage stone cold and suddenly be strong woman could be so naked in her was more than just pathos. Garland was absolutely brilliant. When Garland sang public emotions. Davis and Crawford the greatest popular singer of her "If Love Were All" or "By Myself,'i her and Stanwyck were tough cookies from generation. When she was good whole life was on that stage. Somehow, the outset of their careers. Garland had vocally, there was nobody who could when gay men shout for Patti LaBelle r;r grown up onscreen from childhood and touch her. Ane when she was bad she Diana Ross, it's not the same thing. in some ways she was more America's was better 'than most good singers. What they're cheering is a production sweetheart than Shirley Temple. When, Quief consistency may be a virtue in a company which has manufactured a in the late Forties and early Fifties, she bank teller but in an entertainer it isn't certain sound. Nothing is left to chance. began to crack, she did so publicly and enough or there would be cults Garland had the guts to take a chance on this little girl everyone loved so much surrounding Linda Rondstat. Secondly, dropping dead in front of ten thousand was suddenly attempting suicide with she wanted it the way it was or it would people. the jagged edge of a broken bottle. have been different. People are always Is this a particularly gay response to Garland was an iron butterfly who whining about what a miserable lifeJudy Garland? Perhaps. Gays take chances exhibited qualities often attributed to Garland had and how she suffered at the all the time in ways straights never do. gays. She was seemingly childlike and hands of the studio system, the record We have traditionally been forced to pUl weak yet tough enough to have promoters, the producers, her husbands on one face for the world and another in withstood several lifetimes of misery and and her fans, hangers on and phonies. private. It took a certain amount of grief. Furthermore, she allowed it to We all make deals with ourselves, show in her screen acting and concert however, and Garland lived the life she continued on page 56

June 26, 1989 OUT~WEEK 43 im Fouratt was one of the original window, not at the cop but threw it at which they proposed a candlelight members of the Gay Liberation the building. march and that we tt,Jrnthe other cheek J Front. He was present at the People started rocking the police and show what really nice gay people Stonewall Rebellion car, and that's when the additional police we were. I remember that I got up and arrived, and I remember thinking, "Oh said, "No way, there's no going back. Q. Tell me where you were the my God, there's a riot going on here." We're not nice people." night of Stonewall? I went to the phone booth and I Later that night there were about A I remember coming home and called every sort of 'left radical' that I thirty five people who went to a meeting hearing all this noise in the street and knew. If"two black people' had had an at the Alternative U. In that room the going over to the Stonewall. As I said to argument, there would have been a Gay Liberation Front was founded. That you before, the Stonewall was not a support contingent of white radicals, was made up of men and women, place that I frequented. It really was an hundreds of them would show up to people of color, drag queens. and awful, sleazy, Mafia-run, unlicensed, preppie boys. The similarities after-hours drug drop and chicken between ACT UP and the Gay palace for sleazy men and the low- Liberation Front in the way that it life of the gay community. Let's be formed and what its goals were are real here, ' was around the amazing. And then the next two corner, that's where the nice boys nights we just went roving a'round the went. streets. So it's significant: when Q. Did people block traffic? something happens in history it A. People blocked traffic. They never happens where you expect it took the streets. It was very to happen. All of those organized exhilirating. They were going by the crime places had worked out deals bars, telling people to come out of the with the police. Something screwed bars. It was the first time that gay men up. Someone didn't get paid off, or and gay women had really felt a sense whatever. of empowerment. For people that had Anyway, when I got over there, been politically active in the left, and there were a bunch of people there had been a lot of closeted gay Dutside, a bunch of drag queens and people active in the left, they didn't street people. Certainly not the kind have to put anyone else's revolution, of people we have over there now anyone else's cause above their own . .on a hot summer night. There was That process is very liberating and one cop car and two cops at the very energizing and very exhilirating time. There were people inside the and that's what was happening. club yelling and taunting, a lot of Q. Were there a lot of lesbians verbal taunts that gay people and involved in the riot? queens are very good at. They don't A., Yes. An interesting side really fight with their fists, they fight factor: among the original forty with their tongues. There was a lot of people that started the Gay Liberation taunting and baiting of the cops. Front, the women who were .involved They' had pulled out this for the first year or so, a high woman, this bull dyke, put her in the percentage were ex-Catholics who car, and someone started rocking the had been in seminaries or nunneries, support these two people having an police car from the other side. They had and men who had left the church argument. But I couldn't get a Single called for more cops to come but they because they were gay. It was a friend, comrade, to. take seriously what hadn't arrived yet. So somehow she phenomenal thing. The men .were a was going on on Christopher Street, opened the door on the other side of the majority, but there was a very strong because it was homosexuals. It was car and got out, much to the joy and contingent of women. queers. applause of those on the street. It GLF and gay liberation came in The second night there was a invigorated the people. She strutted 1969 after the women's movement had meeting called by the around like the bull dyke she was and started. The whole issue of sexism and at St.John's Church on Waverly Place, in picked up a rock and threw it at the male chauvanism and patriarchy were

44 OUTTWEEK June 26, 1989 very critical issues for women. Radical be straight all night and get drunk with leadership role. But the first tilne I went women and lesbians and the lesbians someone and then finally get them into that room it brought tears to my who were attracted to gay liberation home, after pretending that's not what eyes, to see that many young gay men came out of the women's movement you wanted to do, have sex with them and lesbians who were not going to go where they suffered from homophobia. and then maybe see them the next day back into the closet. Who were going to Betty Freidan was really homophobic. In and never talk about it. celebrate their humanity and their the women's liberation movement there So what happened after Stonewall sexuality in spite of the fact that people were a lot of dykes but they were was a celebration of one's sexuality were being told that gay is death. And supposed to be quiet, because, you which came out of the whole sexual that, to me, goes directly back to that know, God forbid that the men should revolution that was happening with moment that was not thought out, that ever think that the women's movement heterosexuals. In many ways gay men was not planned, that just happened was about lesbianism. had already been putting into practice in spontaneously. 'Y So there was a lot of struggle in the secretive ways a lot of the things that Gay Liberation Front for the first ten heterosexuals were trying to do with months around sexism. You had a lot of breaking down monogamy, the right to white men who were being radicalized say yes, the right to say no. ~ because of their experiences but had no So I would have a different point of MEXICAN history about struggling for other issues, view than you would in 1974. At that et RESTAURANT and they didn't want to deal with racism, point I think we had lost the battle that 883 FIRST AVENUE. NEW YORK e,TY. N.Y. they didn't want to deal with sexism. people in the Gay Liberation Front were TELEPHONES. 935·3749 42'·1212 They just wanted to deal with a single' fighting. We had gotten bought off. They .issue agenda. . had figured out that if you keep them in Q. When I came here in 1974 and a constant state of sexual arousal they Dog Gr?Oming walked down Christopher Street the will not make any trouble. Turfs were Arthur A MacDonald scene was incredibly liberating, given to us. The Mafia were still running

especially sexually. What do you think the bars but they now had gay Complete ConIne Solon ServiCes would have happened if that one lesbian entrepreneurs who were working with Provd0d In You< Harre

hadn't thrown that one stone and the Mafia. They gave us the trucks. By Appoin'men' (212) 627-7782 Stonewall hadn't happened. What would Q. To.me as a kid then the whole have happened to the movement? point of gay liberation had nothing to do A. I think at that historical time with sexism, racism, imperialism or something someplace was going to capitalism. It only had to do with the fact New York happen. You had the whole breadth of that we could now fuck as·much as we the 60s that happened, which was about wanted whenever we wanted as long as self-liberation. we stayed within a few square blocks of Q. But the 60s had gone on for the West Village. That was liberation. years and gay people hadn't come out, A. Yes, but that's not what and the 60s were about to end. Only two happened at Stonewall. Stonewall was years later the whole 60s thing was over. the lower life of the gay community, the Did we just make it in under the wire? ones that no respectable gay person A. But I'm telling you, whether it would identify with: drag queens, fifteen happened at Stonewall or not, it would year old hustlers, drug addicts. And it Charming, Newly Renovated have happened someplace. We were was almost classic in the sense that the Brownstone Conveniently coming to consciousness that our lumpen among us became the heros. located in Chelsea struggle was as important as all the other That really was the cutting edge. :t was struggles we were supporting. So it • All Rooms 'Have the drag queens who became Washing Facilities would have happened someplace. empowered, it was the teenage hustler • Share Bath Q. What was it like before who maybe didn't fight back for the right • Continental Breakfast Stonewall? reasons but who created that moment in Included A. There were some bars. There history from which there is no going • Single $50· • Double $65 • Suite $80 were still rituals of romance. To get laid back. ALL TAXES INCLUDED you had to go to a bar and pretend you Anita Bryant certainly proved that • Weekly Rates Upon Request weren't gay. There were two or three point, and AIDS has proved that poiht Advance Reservations Suggested! gay bars for men in the Village and also. There'S no way people can go back maybe one for women, all run by the to what it was like before, regardless of COLONIAL HOUSE Mafia, except for Julius'. There were no what the social conditions are. You'd INN sex bars. And what you would do is, you have to wipe everyone out. CHELSEA would go to Julius' in your Brooks I have to tell you Gabriel, I go to 318 West 22nd St., N.Y.C. 10011 Brothers sweater and you'd pretend to ACT UP and I don't try to play a 212·243-9669

June 26, 1989 OUTTWEEK 45 ------~ LOOKTOUT!

•.0' 0 ivine madness, having taken over the window of the very festive Einstein's on • 7th Street in the East Village, will soon sweep the toy industry---and children may never be the same! A Parisian manufacturer is marketing Divine dolls in France, complete with wigs and four fabulous outfits. But so far the company's keeping hush-hush because West German competitors are trying to rush out their own version. Vet, our curiosity simply cannot be calmed. Will they be targeted to boys or girls? What kind of genitalia will they have? Are the breasts built in? Will she have a mate? When will they hit the states? Stay tuned. Photo: T.L. Litt -Michelangelo Signorile

46 OUT'YWEEK June 26, 1989 LOOKTOUT!

Photo: T.L. Litt

lane Mosley may well be the only office of the drug company Burroughs . B person since Josephine Baker to Wellcome, protesting the price of AZT. A traverse that dreadful abyss between the week later he took ~p not less than a full . politically correct and the socially page in People, vogueing his lanky body decadent. With a party agenda as well onstage at Suzanne Bartsch's Love Ball. as a party agenda, he's a curious cross Currently steaming in two new GMHC between 60s rebels Abbie and Edie safe sex porn videos, Mosely was last (Hoffman and Sedgwick). A member of seen in person onstage at the Montreal ACT UP and a model who's seen the AIDS Conference protesting fashionably inside of many a Paris couture house, in red suede thigh-high boots, black Mosley meanders about town these days spandex biker shorts, gray suit jacket with his head completely shaved except sans shirt and pink sunglasses. "Fashion for a triangular patch of hair dyed pink. is an important aspect of my AIDS activist Last month his photo--depicting him work because I use it as an asset to being carted away in chains by police-- reach young gay communities--which appeared in newspapers across the comprise much of the fashion world--and country after he and three other activists to bring attention to people of color," drilled and bolted themselves inside an -Michelangelo Signorile

June 26, 1989 OUTTWEEK 47 ~ UT OF OM'V HANDS I~Y nRAIlLEY nALL Dear Brad, consideration. I think, however, that Also, if I went and did this, would I get I think I did a terrible thing. I've been in you would do better to reject the idea back in time for volleyball tryouts? a relationship with Mark for a long time,' that you have done "a terrible thing." BAFFLED longer than I've ever been involved with From the standpoint of eternity (which Dear BAFFLED: another person. These past several is, after all, the only standpoint) "good" It's only natural at your age to have so months have been the most important in and "bad" and "terrible" and "fabulous" many questions. First, I think you my life, and God knows, I'm not getting are merely value judgements that we should understand that France is an any younger, as Mark often reminds me. impose on a possibly ineluctable course important part of a brand new economic But I'm afraid I'm on the verge of ruining of events.' For example, directing order and, as such, ought not to be e~erything. There's this other guy--really Phaedre in the style of Noel Coward disturbed for the time being. (The an acquaintance--and it wasn't supposed coiJld be considered a "terrible thing" People's Republic of China is another to mean anything and, honestly, it isn't but obviously, for peculiar reasons, matter altogether, but it sounds as much of anything: some drinks, a few some people have thought it a though these voices you hear are quite scattered dinners, an extra ticket to a worthwhile venture. Think about this specific,) At any rate, notwithstanding truly novel production of Phaedre (as a question, too: Just how much younger some absolutely marvelous trans-Atlantic Jazz Age comedy!). You must under- does Mark think he's getting, anyway? flight bargains right now, the buying stand that Mark's new job involves a power of the American dollar has been great deal of travel and I'm left alone so Dear Brad, severely weakened in Europe so you much of the time. I guess my question is I'm a fourteen-year-old woman with this should probably go ahead and take that that if events are preor11ained,cim we be problem that's kind of embarraSSing. I summer job and save up some money held accountable for our actions? just got braces and a couple of weeks before making such an important WONDERING ago at lunchtime I heard these voices decision. In the meantime, it must be telling me to go save France. I thought difficult to keep a secret like this (I know Dear WONDERING: somebody was playing a trick but it's I couldn't!) Perhaps you should discuss That would serve as a useful opening happened a few more times since. I it with your parents or, if you don't feel gambit should you find yourself in a really planned to work at Dairy Queen .comfortable talking to them, with your confrontational situation with Mark, and in the summer but this thing has me clergy or favorite teacher. Good luck on might even buy some valuable time if he pretty confused. Where exactly is your finals! T will only allow himself to give it due France? Is it in some kind of trouble?

Liz finally decided to comment on the "suggestions of a lesbian relationship" much talked-about relationship between because it "could be a major turn-on for Madonna and Sandra Bernhard. She many male fans." characterized their "public be- havior"-referring to their homoerotic bits So picture it. Madonna calls Sandra onstage-as "weird" and "exhibitionist." I on the telephone: completely understand when she says thiS, for Liz acts and looks highly Madonna: Hi, I think we should respectable in public. Recently, in fact, I make believe we're lesbians? saw her exit a limousine with her good Sandra: Wow,great ideal friend, the :jrchaeologist Iris Love, and Madonna.' Yeah, I mean, I need more both looked oh-so-elegant in beaded press. gowns (though usually you'll find her Sandra.' I know what you mean. You By Michelangelo Signorlle looking suave and debonair in a have no visibility, Madonna. tuxedo). Madonna.' You're right. But don't you I woke up one morning in early June Liz went on to quote Sandra talking think it might hurt our careers by and, as usual, opened the wonderful, .about Madonna in People. "The way we intimating that we are part of one of the witty pages of The New York Daily News act together is a political statement. It's most oppressed groups in American seeking scandal, dish and deceit to to say to the world, 'Get past the SOCiety?A hated, despised, shunned brighten my day. I turned to Liz Smith, judgements. Accept people for what people who most Americans think are whose photo at the top of the page they are. The rain forest is dying. What mentally ill? remarkably gets younger every day (this do you care more about, the rain forest Sandra: Oh, what an alarmist. has nothing to do with the plastic or our sexuality?'" But then Liz goes on Besides, real dykes don't ever tell. Any surgeon she so graciously plugged gossip columnist can tellyou that much. to specul,ate that Sandra and Madonna T . recently, I;:ompletewith his Los Angeles must be "kidding" and are making address and zip code).

48 OUTTwEEK June 26, 1989 FILM T. by Karl Soehnlein

The New Festival subversive in its message, Maedchen in Stigliano's Fun Down There (1988) is a Uniform (1931) is an empowering sweet depiction of a small town boy's At the beginning of Lauren Postma's portrait of a girls-school uprising, as sexual exploration in New York City. documentary, Derekjarman: You Know students rally to the defense of a Strong on specific detail, Fun captures What I Mean, the British filmmaker classmate who has publidy declared her with hilarity both upstate family life and mourns the lost tradition of the Hearth-- .crush on a female teacher. Sergio the downtown gay scene. Ulrike the place in each home where stories Toldeo's Vera (1986) takes off where Ottinger's johanna d'Arc of Mongolia were told and traditions passed on Maedchen ends, exploring the life-long (1989) starts out with the promise of a· through generations. For the past two scars left by institutional regimentation. lesbian adventure story but doesn't weeks, a hearth of sorts has emerged for Tales of gay and lesbian deliver. Contrasting the grotesqueries of New York's gay and lesbian Western Civilization with the nobel co.mmunity in the form of The savagery of a Mongol Princess and International Festival of Lesbian her tribe, johanna is an endless and Gay Film. To the credit of study of the Other. organizers John Lewis and Susan Perhaps the greatest treat of Horowitz, the festival has been the festival has been the chance to diverse in scope, with over 70 see the complete work of Derek offerings and a highly visible Jarman, a group of features, shorts women's presence. Though not and music videos marked by visual without its omissions--most brilliance and homoerotic notably a lack of work by non- western, non-white filmmakers-- inventiveness. the festival scores in its attention This retrospective reveals the to artists working' in an director as a poetic, .playful and experimental form. politically committed artist. The Inviting audiences to Angelic Conversation (1984) is a "Celebrate a Love Affair with the stunning celluloid canvas. Two Movies," this event has been, young men--in a series of isolated, thankfully, more than that. yearning sequences--come Whether by providing a look at together, twisting and contorting early campy excess, as in Charles as if releasing a lifetime of Bryant's Salome (1923); or .unfulfilled desire. , Their union through the intricate climaxes in what may be the documentation of sexual history, perfect screen kiss--one of the as in Stuart Marshall's most hypnotic and passionate monumental Desire (1989), the images I've ever seen. festival schedule is a strong As fierce as The Angelic' argument for cinema as a crucial Conversation is gentle, The Last of means of reclaiming a heritage England (1987) is a portrait of a for gay men and lesbians. Much world both benign and terrifying, can be' learned, even in the most an unflinchingly brutal trip unexpected places. The Days oj through Thatcher'S decaying Greek Gods program--a collection THE PERFECT SCREEN KISS Jannan's country. The· film's final image of f " h' ['1" f The Angelic Conversation (1985) o pre-P9rn P YSlque 1 ms rom a bride cutting herself free of her the 40s, 50s and 60s--is an companionship are also found in binding wedding gown, and performing innocent, giddy artifact. These films abundance. Le jupon Rouge (1987)--a a wildly liberating dance along the reveal the powerful need for erotic sad; sexy story of love and sisterhood--is Thames, leaves hope for the future--an expression in an era of intolerance. an emotionally wrenching journey individual act of breaking the bonds of Repression is a repeated theme across the fragile boundaries of oppression. Like the festival itself, among the narrative offerings. The friendship. A less successful look at oldest film shown, Different from the Jarman's work is a welcome assertion of same-sex affection, the Danish Friends Others (1919), portrays the devastating gay identity, and a testament to film as a Forever (1986) is sugar-coated teenage effects of homphobia on one man, and medium at the center of gay and lesbian sexuality, presented with all the insight pleads for greater ·tolerance. More expression. T of an ABC Afterschool SpeciaL Roger

June 26, 1989 OUT'YWEEK 49 THEATER by Terry Helbing

Out of the Closet & Into the Seats: fine style, with his tour deforce one-man staged readings at the Community If.Pride Week Gay and Lesbian Theater rendering of Dickens' A Tale of Two Center meant to encourage new work by R~undup Cities and the late-night ensemble gay and lesbian playwrights, Village production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. . Playwrights moves uptown with their ay Pride Week is like Gay Vampire Lesbians of Sodbm first fully staged production, a series of G Christmas Week: there's so much (Provincetown Playhouse, 133 seven playlets, all taking place at a gay to do, you can't imagine how you're Macdougal Street, 477-5048). If you and lesbian resort. .going to get it all .accomplished. A~ if simply can't wait for Charles Busch's Soul Survivor (Sanford Meisner there weren't enough screenings, latest and funniest offering, the anti-Nazi Theater, 164 Eleventh Ave., 869-3530). memorials, discussions and social events parody, The Lady in Question, to open Anthony Bruno's play caused quite a vying for your attention, there's plenty of at the Orpheum Theater next month, sensation when it first premiered in Los gay and lesbian theater to choose from. you might go back and see once again Angeles, and the play became bicoastal Here's a sele.ction of the dozen or so how all Busch's silliness got started. a few months ago, thanks to the Glines. offerings playing on this week of weeks: I Could Go On Lip-Synching! A sort of gay (or perhaps gayer) Blithe A Tale of Two Cities and Salome (Theater Off Park, 224 Waverly Place, Spirit, the play mixes muscles with (Charles Ludlam Theater, One Sheridan 279-4200). John Epperson is just dee- meaning, and now with Jack Wrangler in Square,691-2271). Imagine the situation voon as Lypsinka, taking the art of lip- the cast, no doubt the emphasis is on the Everett Quinton faced when his synching to unimaginably dizzy and former. longtime lover and colleague Charles witty heights. You've seen those lips in Arrivederci Papa (Actors Playhouse, Ludlam died. Not only did he have to the opening credits of Saturday Night 100 Seventh Ave. S., 691-6226). This cope with his personal grief and loss, Live, and now's as good a time as any to play achieved a reverse-commute of but people looked to him to continue catch the rest of him.. . sorts, originating at Cherry Grove and the grand tradition of the Ridiculous Summer Affairs (Ernie Martin then coming into New York to the Theatrical Company. After a couple of Theater 311 West 43rd Street, 718/499- Trocadero a couple of months back. false starts, he's done just that, and in 0497). After several years of doing Combining drag queens and funerals, and still managing to be funny, the comedy features Fire Island's Bella, cable lV's Razor Sharp, MCAABowling's Thorn Hansen and is directed by· Sal Piro, known to many as the head of The Rocky Horror Picture Show fan club. judas and Mexico (Bouwerie Lane Theater, 330 Bowery, 353-1965). That prolific playwright, Robert Patrick, frequently has several plays running in New York at once, but this month, his Best of Untold Decades closed just in time for the Dramatic Risks company to revive the play, judas, in modern dress and with the author playing Pontius Pilate. The finicky Clive Barnes opined that this is "a play to see," and if you do, stick around for the late show, Mark G. Waren's Mexico, an 80s version of the "on the road" theme. WOW Festival (WOW, 59 East 4th Street, 460-8067). The women at WOW turn out theater at a staggeringly rapid rate--sometimes a new show every three GIRLS JUST WANT TO BE FRIENDS weeks!--and they've outdone themselves Neomi Ttchmen end Kete Fleming in Minus One. for Pride Week, with a collection of (Photo: Dona Ann McAdams) readings and dance/theater/performance pieces on

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50 OUTTWEEK June 26, 1989 , POP by Patrick Rogers

evivals are the hallmarks of popular everyone got the joke: a sample of R culture; witness the current thrills of critics have called the song everything billiard halls, platform shoes, celebrities from "controversial" to "stUpitl." Perhaps making comebacks and Madonna's that's because to many, folk is by lingering patchouli oil. There's hardly a definition mirthless, and 'a lampoon of 50s pose or 60s icon yet to be fetishized in three-part harmony is in our own day, and rare is the vintage a somewhat original notion of humor. style that leaps to the present with much Self-styled "average, all-American of its politics, potency or soul intact Jewish lesbian folksinger" Phranc (born No so folk music. After stalling out Susie Gottlieb) goes a step further in in the mid-70s, when its only practitioner exploiting the inherent unfunniness of seemed to be Joan Baez, the classic folk. "I Enjoy Being a Girl" (Island combination of voice and acoustic guitar Records) is her second album and a has reemerged on the charts. To be classicnperhaps the first classic--of sure, some of its current chic is lesbian camp on vinyl. The cover is a nostalgia-based. Nevertheless, PHOLJ(SINGER PHRANC flawless pastiche of a Ricky Nelson contemporary folk, which is dominated Perhaps the first lesbian camp classic on publicity still, featuring Phranc, her by women and their aspirations, is vinyl. trademark flat-top fiercely backlit and a (Photo: Rocky Schenckl proving itself a worthy vessel for the tumpler of milk in hand. Inside, she politics of the 80s. surface, rising up to join the melody at glorifies Martina Navratilova, complete It was Tracy Chapman who tantalizing intervals. with a neat summary of all the places the reintroduced the word "revolution" into As usual, the Austin imprimatur Czech pro has lived and the women the lexicon of pop and garnered a means lack of pretension and openness she's loved. As a comic, Phranc herself's handful of Grammies. A dozen folk acts- to a variety of influences. The two- and a pro. -all women--have followed. Several are three-part harmonies are sisterlike in the Phranc's serious side is less manner of the Roches, less Sturm und slick of image and mellow to the ear accessible, partly because of the alto (Celtic stylist Enya, dark and bluesy Drang than the Indigo G;rls and inspired deadpan that makes her funny songs Tinita Tikaram, rocker Melissa Etheridge by the sweeter side of country. Steel and New Orleans-based Lucinda guitars lend occasional sentiment, there sound mightily self-righteous when Williams) but if it's music with a message are a few· metal riffs and some delivering a lyric like: "Bloodbath in the you're into, turn your attention to Two keyboards. For the most part, though, land of Zola Budd/Murder in the land of Two Nice Girls, with their folk guitars Nice Girls and Phranc. the Kruggerand." Far more convincing is Bands often use the space on the' and colorful harmonies, remain heirs to "Take Off Your Swastika," in which back of their albums to thank their a great American rural tradition. moms. Two Nice Girls (actually, three Lest the cynical listener be Phranc, to whom patterns of dress are of women: Kathy Korniloff, Laurie unimpressed by music that strives more than passing importance, takes a Freelove and Gretchen Phillips) give openly to be beautiful, Two Nice Girls swipe at the recklessness of Nazi chic. credit to the entire population of their have included a few lyrical surprises. "Wearing swastikas was very town. "Thank you, Austin, for being Nice girls can be nasty. The record's popular with punks," Phranc ·says. such a beautiful town. Stay as sweet as hanky-tonk finale, "I Spent My Last "Because I was Jewish, it really disturbed you are," says the band, who do indeed $10.00 (On Birth Control & Beer)," for me, so I wrote the song and performed it owe a debt to their Texas home. What example, comically catalogues the on acoustic guitar so the audience could other town holds an annual "SweetJane" "deficiencies" of sapphic love. hear the words." She lashes out with Competition, a battle of local bands c:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lQ., pounding guitar, her voice ragged and playing covers of the Lou Reed classic in For there're certain thrills that edged with vulnerability, and takes her a fight for radio airtime? lesbian love leave with the haunting coda: "Fascism The winning entry, Two Nice Girls' Simply cannot supply isn't anarchy/And if it were you in those version, opens their eponymous debut ovens you wouldn't think it was so Like paying for abortions album (Rough Trade). It's a sinuous cooL" intertwining of the classic "Sweet Jane" From sperm gone awry. Able both to horrify and amuse, and Joan Armatrading's "Love and .c:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::lc:::l Phranc has a musical gift ideally suited "It's a humorous song," says Affection" in which Lou's love song to our times. 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June 26, 1989 OUTTWEEK 51 'OPERA by George Heymont

" CURRENT EVENTS heavily amplified for my tastes, I found SEARCHING FOR A VACCINE Dresher's score (which uses a variety of ne of the most frequent criticisms keyboards and tape processors) most O leveled at the operatic art form is While in Philadelphia, I attended a appealing. Unlike many other that it rarely has anything to do with the performance of Power Failure at the composers, Dresher gives firm support world we now live in. For the American Music Theater Festival. This to the dramatic situation and allows each generation that grew up watching MTV new "electronic thriller," with music by character to develop fully in musical Paul Dresher and libretto by Rinde and rock concerts in which fast action, theater terms. lasers, strobes and fog machines Eckert, concerns a corporate Tenor John Duykers gave a dominate the visuals, a traditional opera millionaire's efforts to find a remedy for wonderfully selfish and hedonistic production can seem frighteningly his family's strangely fatal blood disease. constipated. To make matters worse, the When, after 20 years of research, a performance as the crippled CEO of politics of Cinderella's love life and Don miraculous genetic compound capable Delta Chemical, while, as the security Jose's fatal attraction to a gypsy slut (not of curing ALLdisease is developed, the guard, Rinde Eckert offered audiences a to mention the burning question of who audience learns that Charles (th~ deliciously slimy example of blue collar gets to marry some rich widow in order rpillionaire CEO) has no intentions of . revenge in the corporate environment. to protect the financial health of releasing the cure to the world. Instead, Ste.phanie Friedman (Ruth) and Sara Petrovania) hold pathetically little he plans to us~ it on himself and ransom GanzOudith) lent strong support as the relevance to the issues confronting it off to those Similarlyafflicted wealthy two women in Charles' life. .Superbly people (mostly white, corporate males) people in a world dominated by drugs, directed by Tom O'Horgan and disease and terrorism. • who can afford it. stunningly designed by Michael Olich, Put simply: If new audiences are to Just as he begins to receive the Power Failure is a ,work which should be attracted to opera, they must be given curative treatment, a power failure be seen by anyone whose life has been a message which interests them. And occurs during which the inner thoughts touched by the insidious politics behind that message must be delivered with of .the people trapped in the funding AIDSresearch and treatment. If music to which they can relate. "The pharmaceutical laboratory--Charles; his primary music of America nowadays is nurse, Judith; a female scientist; and a you're the slightest bit interested in new rock 'n' roll. Not everyone listens 'to it, security guard with a murky past (played music theaternor in finding a cure for but everyone hears it (even if you go by Merle Townsend)--become known to AIDS--make sure you get to experience into a restaurant, what's playing on the audience. Although it was too Paul Dresher'S Power Failure.... Musak is rock 'n' roll). If you're going to work in the land that created music theater for the people who live there, you 'either have to speak their language or else you'll fail to connect with them," explains Ben Krywosz, Opera Ainerica's first project director for the Opera Into The Eighties And Beyond program. "Curiously enough, the operatic establishment does not speak the language that mOst people in America do. As a result, there's something which is not quite connecting to people on a core level. And that something has a lot to do with having a different cultural point of view." • One recent production crossed the threshold into contemporary culture with stunning success. It dealt with issues that concern contemporary society, and had a sound which could be embraced by contemporary society. AIDS'MEETS OPERA Most importantly, it attracted young Friedman (Ieh), Duykers and Ganz ;;1 Power Failure. audiences. (Photo: Michael Llewellyn)

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CABARET by John Wasser

ummer's arrival used to signify a BroadwaY. If you're Steve McGraw, you with McNight singing and acting every Sdropoff in nightclub activity. book Showing Off into your cabaret part including the Mayor of Customers would head out of town for space once known as Palsson's. The' Munchkinland, defies even MGM's extended vacations, sending performers show, a paean to the Manhattan imagination. The patter is witty, the into abandoned music vaults searching lifestyle, has the wittiest lyrics this side pacing superb. Cabaret doesn't come for new material for the autumn of Sondheim and two versatile female much better than this. "f" resurgence. performers, VeaI:1ne Cox and Donna Luckily for us, the tides have Murphy. Douglas Bernstein co-wrote turned. New York now entertains the show and has also decided to place tourists year round, and I for one could himself in front of the spotlight. not be happier. Here are 'some excellent Steve McGraw also houses the cabaret choices to see. Monday night Equity Fights AIDS The Ballroom offers the comedic cabaret series. The ten dollar cover duo of Montieth and Rand. Last seen here in 1979, John Montieth and I I Suzanne Rand present a wide range of comedic pieces ending in a hilarious Shakespearian takeoff. There's loads of new material and you only have till the 24th. Next week, Ira Siffand his Grand Scena Opera drop in for an extended engagement. Domestic divas, make thy reservations! Every Friday and Saturday night at eight, the venerable Duplex presents Funny Gay Men. These .:.:;:::::::.:::::::::::::::::::::.:.:::::::::::;. 'thirtysomething' guys--Jaffe Cohen, Bob Smith and Danny McWilliams--offer various comedic views of gay life. While the act lacks a clear focus, there are numerous laughs to be had. In Catholic school, McWilliams had to choose a saint, so he chose Eva Marie. I I On coming out: 'At the dinner table, I asked my dad to please pass the THE 'L' WORD IS LAUGHTER vegetables to the homosexual.' Funny Conic KIlt. Clinton (Photo: Marion Roth) Gay Men has been extended through the end of July. benefits the Equity Fights AIDS group Kathy And : Parallel Lives (West and there is no minimum. On June Side Arts Theater) began its incarnation 26th, Gale ('We'H Sing in the Sunshine') at Don't Tell Mama and has made the Garnett is featured. Alan Rich and funny theatrical transition with ease. Well- lady Marilyn Sokol are two upcoming paced and extremely insightful, their series performers. off-beat humor covers such topics and I must admit that nothing prepared characters as two Brooklyn 'Working me for Sharon M~Night'sshow at Eighty Girls' watching West Side Story for the Eights. Beginning her set with 'I'm Just zillionth time. ("Gina ya know. I love a Girl From Little Rock," McNight takes . She sings real good.' Her the audience into her palms and never friend: 'Yeah, but it sounds like a ripoff lets go. She infuses every song with her of Romeo and Juliet) And to an aunt own lyrical style. Her voice soars on discovering her favorite nephew's Roy Orbison's 'Crying' and immediately : 'Well, if I could get turns poignant for "Another Suitcase in used to the microwave oven ...• Another Hall," a rarely performed song How do YOll follow Forbidden from Evita. The Wizard of Oz medley,

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(near West), 9 pm - 1 am; $6 GAYANDLESBIANALLIANCE Pier, benefits the Center, 4-10:30 benefit GMHC, The Works at 428 advance/$8 door; 929-9498 AGAINSTDEFAMATIONStonewall pm; fireworks display at 10:30 pm; Columbus Ave (81 St), The Break at 20 Stamp Cancellation; at which $7 advance/$10 at the pier (in and 232 8th Ave (22 St); bars close at 4 GAYFRIENDSANDNEIGHBORSand Keith Haring commemorative out privileges, beer $2); 691-1774 am LAMBDAINDEPENDENT postcards and cachet covers with DEMOCRATSGay Day '89 'Dance in first-ever US Postal Service IDENTITYHOUSEOpen House for .Brooklyn, at Camp Friendship, 8 St cancellation to openly refer to all women and men in the off 6th Avenue in Park Slope; 9 pm· lesbian and gay community; all mail community to come and socialize to-2 am; $8; F train to 7th Ave; 718- to anywhere in the world can be after the march; at 544 Ave/ Arns 894-3791 canceled at the US Postal Service (btwn 14 & 15 Sts) J U N FE 2 6 Mobile Van unit in Sheridan Square; DOWNSTAIRSATTROCADERO lOam to 5 pm PARTICULARPRODUCTIONSLesbian uughing All the Way, with Cabaret, at the Women's FREDERICKTlMM presents a Staged comedians Danny McWilliams, Lisa HERITAGEOFPRIDEj\larshal Coffeehouse, the Center, 208 W 13 Reading of his New Love, a new Kron, Jane Stroll, Rick Burd, Tom Training before the parade; YMCA, St, 4 pm (after the March); $10; info comedy by the award-Winning Babbit·on piano; benefits the 5 W 63 St off Central Park West; 718/643-3284 . playwrig'lt, about David and Leslie's Center; 368 Bleecker St (near 10:45; orientation for independent struggle to get boyfriends; at the Christopher); 10 pm; $8 + 2-drink and group Marshals from 'out of NE1WORKOFGAYANDLESBIAN Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $2; 620: min.; 242-0636 town ALUMNI/AEASSOCIATIONS 7310 (also June 27) (NETGALA)Post-March Reception SAPATONAPRODUCTIONSpresents METROPOLITANCOMMUNITY for members of all GALAs(gay and THECLOSETCASESHOWFifth Minus One, a play by Harriet CHURCHPride Day Services at the lesbian alumnilae associations) and Anniversary Show, politics and Malinowitz and directed by Sara southwest corner of Central Park, their friends; at M'leCenter, 208 W 13 safe erotica on Manhattan Cable's Cytron; about lesbian friendship; before the paraCle; 11 am; 242-1212 St; 5-7 pm; $3;860-9758 Channel C (16); midnight plays Fridays and Saturdays through June 24, also Thursday June 22, LEATHER-S/MCONTINGENT DIGNITY/BROOKLYN12th Sunday June 18; 13 Street Theater, Formation for the Pride March Anniversary Celebration, at 5.0W 13 St (btwn 5th & 6th Aves); includes Gay Male S/M Activists, Church of the Gethsemane, 8th FI/ES'Ar Ie pm; $10; ISrvtnS 675-6677 Hot Ash, , Avenue at 10th Street, Brooklyn; J U N E 2 7 Eulenspiegel Society, The New York 6:30 pm; free SAINTATLARGEHeritage of Pride Eagle, The Spike, and out of town groups; gathering at 62 St and METROPOLITANCOMMUNITY "Rainbow Party~" in the lower MENOFALLCOLORSTOGETHERBoat level of Grand Central Station; 10 Central Park West, 1l.30 am; CHURCHPride Day Services at 135 ride around Manhattan, with music, motorcycle clubs must register with West 4 St (at 6th Ave); after the pm, $35 advance/$45 qoor; tickets dancing and 'cash bar; an alcohol- 307-7171, info 675-8541 Heritage ofPride,,691-1774 parade; 7 pm; 242-1212 free space on upper deck; dinner available for $12; leaves 42nd St Pier GEORGESARDIand KENCHARLES WOMENABOUTGay Pride Brunch SHESCAPEhosts Offlcial\Women's on the Hudson, 7:30 pm sharp, Gay Pride Television Special: & March, no-smoking brunch at 10 Tea Dance at the Palladitlm, with returns 10:30 pm; $20; 245-6366 "Remembering," with memories am, Upper West Side, $3; then join special guest performer; 126 E 14 St; of Wayland Flowers and Madame, Women About at the Parade at 64 St 4-10 pm; $8 before 6 pm/$lO after; PEOPLEWITHAIDSCOALITION Brandy Alexander, Casey Donovan, & CPW, 1l:30 am stay all night for HOP Liberation Forum: uwrence LeShan, clinical Roben La Tourneaux, Lord Byron, Day Ball (10 pm below), (wpmen- psychologist and author of Cancer Johnny Savoy, Billy Blackwell, Ed HERITAGEOFPRIDE20th Annual preferred before 10) \ as a Turning POint, discusses his Murphy; on Manhattan Cable'S Lesbian and'Gay Pride March, \ work; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; Channel C, 10:30 pm celebrating the 20th anniversary of WNET-TV/13"Whoever Says the 7:30 pm; free; 532-0290 Stonewall, gathers at Columbus Truth Shall Die," 10.00 pm \ Circle at 11 am, kicks off down 5th HETRICK-MARTININSTITUTEand Avenue at 12:30 pm sharp, turns PALLADIUMand HERITAGEOFPRIDE HERITAGEOFPRIDEBenefit right at Washington Square Arch, liberation Day Ball at Palladium Reading of Doric Wilson's Street goes down Waverly, then (follows the women's Tea Dance); Theater, the acclaimed play about 2' 5 Christopher, dispersing on Hudson music by Michael Fierman; 10 pm to - J U N E the Stonewall Riots; call HOP for 10 am Monday morning; 126 E 14 info, 691-1774 PWACOALITIONand HERITAGEOF St; $7 advance/$lO door; tix 3.tHOP PRIDEGreat Balloon Release, office, 57 W 16 ST, 2nd FI, M-F, FREDERICKTIMMpresents a Staged during the parade, 2:30 pm, noon to 5 pm; or at HOP table WBAI99.5 FMCoverage of the Reading. of his New Love, a new accompanied by a moment of Saturdays, Sundays at Stonewall 20 march and events; comedy by the award-winning silence Christopher/Hudson from 1-6 pm; 9amt07pm playwright, about David and Leslie's free to all Marshals who helped with struggle to get boyfriends; at the MARSNEEDSMEN T Dance, club the March; 691-1774 Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $2; 620-' opens 3 pm, today only; see the MARANATHAGay/Lesbian Pride 7310 ... 89 Breakfast, at Riverside Church, fireworks over the Hudson from the HERITAGEOFPRIDEFireworks 9th Floor Tower Lounge, 9 am sharp roof at 10:30; 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THEATERcontinued from page 50 women in horror movies, striptease artists, the roots of rural America, etc. Call for details. . Little Women: The Tragedy (Interart Theater, 549 West 52nd Street, 246-1050)' Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver and Deborah Margolin, collectively known as Split Britches, were involved with WOW from the beginning, and as a company, they're known for shows like Dress Suits to Hire and Patience and Sarah. They've adapted another classic here, which features "additional text" by Louisa May Alcott. Minus One (13th Street Theater, 50 West 13th St., 675-6677). Still other WOW women are involved in Harriet Malinowitz's play' about lesbian friendship .. The sho:w's press release gets a little heavy'with jargon, talking about the "normativeness" of the characters, and indicating that the play deals with ALL-MALE MINI THEATER "love and loss, commitment a'nd (lower level) dependency, intimacy ~nd autonomy, Mon.-Sat.: 11am-11pm I Sun.: 10am-7pm addiction' and codependence." But despite this and the superficial similarity to the late Jane Chambers' well known Ann Street play, Last Summer at Blue-fish Cove-- Adult Entertainment Center both concern a lesbian dying' of a brain ~tAnn Street (btwn. Broadway & Nassau St.) tumor--this show is terrific! This is its last New York City I (212) 267-9760 weekend, but hopefully there'll be a Mon.-Fri.: 7am-11pm I Sat.: 10am-11pm future life for the work. Sun.: 1Dam-7pm Ruffian on the Stair (Prometheus Theatre, 239 East 5th St., 477-8689). Playwright Joe Orton is rapidly becoming a gay icon, and in recent years, it's been possible to see virtually all of his small but substantial body of work performed in New York. This Pinteresque play is one of his earliest efforts, but still demonstrates his great command of language. As if all of these weren't enough, you only have a few more days to see that Triple Crown winner (Outer Critic's Circle, Drama Desk and Tony awards), the delightful P!l.uline Collins, in Shirley Valentine before she returns to England. You could even see Rita McKenzie's one- LARGE SELECTION OF ALL-MALE woman tribute, Call Me Ethel, and we VIDEOS I MAGAZINES I SCREENING BOOTHS don't think she means Mertz, at Jewish Repertory Theatre. So what are you NOVELTIES I•PERIODICALS• •I TOVS I ETC. waiting for? .Pick out a couple of these that sound the most intriguing to you and VIDEO RENTALS• I •MEMBERSHIP• PLANS make some reservations! "" TOWN VIIKO MLf5, N:. 21 Ann Street (btwn. Broadway & Nassau St.) New V!'rk City I (212) 267-9760 Mon.-Fri.: 7am-11pm I Sat.: 10am-11pm Sun.: 10am-7pm

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most of her husbands who saw dollar signs when they gazed into her eyes. REBELLION continued from page 43 Gay men saw something else and if the courage just to be gay before 1969. It's attraction was fatal, it was also mutual. significant that Judy Garland was buried In a film called Save The Tiger, Jack on the night that the Stonewall Riots gave Lemmon plays a man approaching birth to the modern gay liberation middle age who cannot quite cope with movement. It was an ironic symbol of the modern world. He picks up a young the end of the old gay subculture which hippie woman hitchhiking and they have existed only in shadow and the a contentious conversation. She finally beginning of a new militancy. I've had a asks him, "What is it that you want, foot in both worlds ever since, constantly anyway?" He answers, 'fJ want to be at trying to balance the old and the new. the Cotton Club in Harlem listening to. To me, disco wasn't music; it was noise. Billie Holliday sing "Fine and Mellow." I I love Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. I feel like that. I don't understand bar.ely tolerate Liza Minnelli who will entertainment in the Eighties when any never be the man her mother was. I ~Io slime bucket can be called a star. The not tolerate Madonna. I like the fact that world has changed and I am in favor of Judy Garland was, in a sense, adopt~d by most of those changes. I fought for gay men 'as their own. She was an them. But as one age discards the things internationaHy famous singer whose of another, the· culture shock becomes talent spoke to everyone. But not' tough to live with. We need to keep equally, it would seem. It was certain familiar friends and comforting convenient in the 60s to advance the idea rituals to warm us in a world grown cold that Judy Garland's gay cult following and impersonal. I'm keeping Judy was parasitic. In People magazine, comk Garland to remind myself of a time when Paul Lynde said, "Gay people killed Judy stars really shone. When I say "Poor Garland." The fact is that Judy Garland Judy," it's really myself I'm feeling sorry was exploited during her lifetime by a for. ... series of heterosexual men including

70 oUrYWEEK June 26, 1989 the NYPD is now unembarrassed to no one, and was merely helping. other 1988. But Police Commissioner Ben have open lesbians and gay men in the police "maintain order' by moving ACf Ward recently told a group of gay and department, the precise significance of UP back. The liaison says she simply lesbian activists that queerbashing is her appointment remains unclear. asked ACf UP·members to move, then 'not the 'kind of crime for which we're OUtWeek reporters saw Ferro, wearing withdrew from the scene when g

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It's no news to anyone that operated (as were most illegal Michael Scherker, who is at work on twenty years later--even in an era when establishments of the time) and that the a book on the riots and who has so far lip-synching drag queen shows are building's fabric was so far below code interviewed dozens of people who took experiencing an inexplicable that entering the joint was only some part in them, admits that it's only renaissance--the gay "community" still infinitesimally safer than descending into hindsight that allows us to see historical exhibits mixed feelings concerning those e. West Virginia coal mine. In fact, some necessity in the Stonewall's happening of its elements who seem, by their very of the outcry raised during the week when it did, or in the fact that something existence, to work against the so-called following the riot was directed against significant--rather than nothing at all-- political wisdom that says that we shall the Stonewall itself. An interesting came of it. It's his impression that those triumph by proving to nice, ordinary leaflet issued by an organization called who were there, who threw bricks, people how nice and ordinary we are the Youth Movement decried camped it up in full view of the general too. There are kits of us who think that the "hell-hole atmosphere of places public, set fires, and who brazenly risked our sufferings ought to be modeled on typified by the Stonewall." getting their. teeth knocked out by a those of the Boy in the Bubble and Which brings me, in a roundabout policeman's nightstick, had fOl\the most defmitely not on the rantings and ravings way, to the subject of what hqppened on part very little in the way of a political of some self-consciously ersatz, cranky, the nights following the riot. Yes, the agenda going through their heads when not-at-all-nice Camille of the Streets. anger evidenced at the Stonewall on they were deciding to act so untidily. In But, dear reader, I'm not being as Friday night was inchoate, largely fact, he emphasizes that those who did tendentious as I might seem: I must unpoliticized. What was so mind- have political agendas ready at hand admit that, had I been there on that boggling was that it dared show itself at reacted to the riots, as· a group, in a historic night, I personally would have alL And it's really astonishing how decidedly mixed way. The phrase hightailed it away as soon as the cops let extremely quickly that amorphous quoted above from that Homophile me go. Worse, I have to confess that the combination of excitement and rage Youth Movement leaflet shouldn't be event that I, to~, am eager to took on a definite, and highly read as a criticism merely of the commemorate was the creation of a politicized, . form. From Saturday oppressive conditions that institutions bunch of people most of whom I guess I through Tuesday nights Christopher like the Stonewall helped enforce. In wouldn't really like to hang out with. Street provided the mise-en-scene for a the minds of some, places like the Which gives me a feeling I'll loosely small-scale revolution that was to lead, Stonewall Inn were "hell-holes" because describe as sort of creepy. in fairly short order, to a sizeable of the riff-raffthey tended to attract. The But putting that guilty personal note revolution in consciousness. unwholesomeness of the environment aside, let me spend the last few How sizeable? Many who were they provided was mirrored by the sentences giving a rapid precis of what there (or thereabouts), whether they seaminess of the clientele.. In the minds went on dul'in'g the nights following the took part in the riots or not, credit the of some, this riot--which'was after all the initial outburst. The Tactical Police events of that week with having handiwork of drag queens, diesel dykes, Force was moved en masse out of what radicalized them, or with having first hippified queers and sundry others was its more usual beat on the Lower planted the idea in their minds that among society's marginalia--was quite as East Side to the disorders that, being gay might have a political likely to bring on a police backlash as to incomprehensibly it must have seemed, imperative attached. Such gay rights inspire anything positive. continued to rage in the West Village.' organizations as did exist took A bartender I know who worked on Some accounts impose an -individual advantage of the unrest, hurriedly Christopher Street at the time and who quality on each successive night of the publishing fliers to advertise the cause, happened onto the scene of the uprising: Saturday was carnival-like, on soapboxing, and signing up members. disturbance that first night just as things Sunday things got much more Within a year after Stonewall, three were being broken apart by the Tactical confrontational, and so on. But Scherker organizations that were to mold gay and Police Force, remembers that some years says that the interviews he's conducted lesbian political consciousness later he was marching with so far make it seem a bit blurrier: the throughout the early 70s--the Gay acquaintances in some gay liberation excitement that accompanied the riots-- Liberation Front, the Gay Activists demonstration or other when a certain coupled with the time that's passed--has Alliance, and Radicalesbians--had sprung very famous black street queen sashayed tended to erase memory's neater into existence, hammering together past their little group. My bartender's distinctions. Neither was the resistance platforms and staging actions that went companions reacted to the epiphany she that was. so vigorously evidencing itself far beyond what we might refer to as the presented with· laughter and expressions "organized" except in the most "constructive engagement" tactics of the of revulsion. He was infuriated: "Don't ephemeral, organic sense: bands of Mattachine Society and the Daughters of you know who that is?"he chided them, continued on page 76

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This year a whole new aspect of the games will begin with the inclusion of DRIVE BEGINS FOR cultural events in the program. Film, dance, painting, musical bands and choruses, and cuisine will rival athletics GAY GAM~ESIII for attention, .making the games a genuine internatfonal festival for gay and his week's Lesbian and Gay Pride even the Dog Olympics. Since that lesbian culture. It's expected that as T March will contain a new sight: A unfortunate ruling, the event has been many people will take part in the large contingent 'of athletes marching called the Gay Games. cultural events as in the athletic events, under the banner of Team New York. Anyone can apply to participate in making this year's games almost Jwiee Their walk down Fifth Avenue heralds the games as an individual, but many the size of the previous one. the start of a much longer journey; one cities field teams. This year "This is something that celebrates the that will bring them and thousands like the New York effort is being organized health and well-being of our entire." them from nations around the world to by 'a group called Team New York, community," said Tom Cracovia, Vancouver; British Columbia, on August which will coordinate publicity, treasurer of Team NY, which is 4, 1990. There, the largest lesbian-gay uniforms and transportation, and will considering making a bid for New York international event in history will unfold: . serve as a 'general clearing house for to host the games in 1994, the twenty- The Gay Games. athletes from our area. There are no fifth anniversary of Stonew'1lll.He noted Formerly known as th~ Gay tryouts for Team NY, which expects to that there exist hardly any groups to Olympics, the Gay Games are in their send 400 people to the games, up from address discrimination and persecution third olympiad. Begun in 1982 in San 188 in 1986. Among the local groups on a worldwide level. "This is going to Fransisco, they originally attracted 1,300 contributing to the Team NY effort are grow," he said, "The global gay and participants. Four years later more than MCAA(volleyball, softball and bowling), lesbian community' has been looking for 3,000 people participated, and for the MTA (tennis), Knights Wrestling, something to bring us. all together." 1990 games, organizers expect over Women's Soccer, Women's Softball, Obviously, that something has been 6,000 athletes from 35 nations to take NYAH (swimming), and a new group, found in the form of the Gay Games. part, thus rivalling the straight Olympics Gay Women's Athletic Club. Applications Anyone wanting more information on in size and complexity. for participation will be accepted from how to participate 'can contact Tom This huge event was the vision of one July 1, 1989 to May 31, 1990, and are Cracovia at 212-732-3612.... man. Tom Waddell was a member of the open to everyone. American team at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, placing fifth in the decathlon. Waddell had a philosophy based on breaking down stereotypes, an ideal he practiced in his own. life, moving from athletics to medicine, and rnarrying a lesbian with whom' he fathered a child. He disliked the exclusivity of the straight Olympics, and founded the Gay Olympics as a way of letting all athletes, regardless of previous experience or abi·lity, join in the excitement of the games. Waddell died of AIDS in 1987, but his vision has grown into one of the lesbian and gay community's greatest accomplishments: a bridge across nations. After the first Gay Olympics, a lawsuit was filed by the US Olympic Committee to prevent the use of the word Olympic in the gay games' title. This was upheld by the Supreme Court, despite the continued use of the word by such GAYS GO GLOBAL - SWIMMERS AT GAY GAMES /lIN 1986. groups as the Special Olympics and

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