Ihe Emptg Qoset SSUE 141 SEPTEMBENEW YORR 198K STATE'3 JT^S OLDES^T ^GA Y NEWSPAPER , ROCHESTER TO HOST HONDREDS Amitversaiy Dimier Hlghllghte Festivllies
Hie weekend of September 24 and 25 The participants in the NYSLGL an introduction of past officers of the too. have been invited to the Anniversary wsU give gay Rochester che opportunity meeting wiU be arriving in town on GAGV, a presentatio& by An>S- Dinner. to show its truest designer colors to Saturday, and have been invited to Rochester, and a speeA by an officer of If the GAGV. NYSLGL, and RHBS numerous visitors as the city plays host attend the GAGV's Tenth Anniversary the NYSLGL. After the meal, music for events aren't enough, sn unfortuante to three major events. Dinner that night. With a theme of dancing will be provided. Tickets fer che schedtding coincidence finds Dignity^ Flower Oty wiU, fbr the ftrst cime reflecting upon otu- hiscory, and rededi* Tendi Aimiversary Dinner are $12, and Integrity/Rochester celebrating its ever, be the site of the Quarterly cating ourselves to the challenge of the are available only in advance (by 9/16) at Eighth Anniversary Dinner at the Hong Meeting of the New York State Lesbian 80*s, the dinner is expected to draw over the GAGV, 713 Monroe Avenue, Koi^ Restaurant on Saturday, Septem ahd Gay Lobby on Sunday, September 200 people. The celebration wiU begin Adding to the weekend's festive ber 24. 25. Between 50 and 60 delegates wiU wich cocktails (cash bar) at 7 pm at the events is the chaUenge match between There is surely something for every participate in day-long workshops at che Top of the Plaza Restaurant, 1400 the Toronto Historical Bowling Society one on tap for che last weekend in GeVa Theater. The sessions last from 10 Midtown Plaza, and a buffet dinner will and the Rochester Historical Bowling September. As che stmuner draws to a am to 4 pm, and coffee and doughnuts be served at 8 pm. On the menu are Society. Two hundred and fifty Cana» close, gay Rochesterians can welcome wiU be provided. Hiis event is co* such deUghts as roast sirloin of beef, dians have chartered a schooner, and the chaUenges of tomorrow, whether facilitated by the Gay Alliance of the chicken coq au vin, an assorted cheese wiU be sailing across the lake to take on they be poUtical, social, athletic, or Genesee Valley and the Rochester Gay tray, and such essentials as fruited jello. our home team at Marcel's Olympic theological, and share our coznmitments and Lesbian PoUtical Caucus, and com- The program for the evening wiU include Bowl on Saturday, September 24. They, with visitors and each other. miimty members are welcome. Picnic Record Crowd pfcptoe by Jtm GeeJMwrd One of thc highUghts of thc GAGV's others tying Uttle blue strings on into the Genesee River only to retium 10th Anniversary Celebration, thc Gay everyone's wrists. Alongside, the Les covered with muck. Commimity Picnic, drew over 2000 bian and Gay PoUtical Caucus and Dig Two medical problems were compe people this year. The weather cooperated nity/Integrity drummed up support. City tently handled by professionals within giving us a beautiful day to mingle and newspaper handed our free papers and the community. One Sheriff's Deputy be openly friendly. Contrary to rumor, several local poUticians expressed gay presented a positive (and female) pre the Moral Majority did not show up support. sence. chastise us. The picnic provided thc The heat under che fourth pavilion Some time after 3pm, the crowd ideal setting for generating support for was worse than elsewhere; half-clad around the beer truck thicmed and groups Uke Rochester Gay Men's Chor bodies moved to the beat provided by the everyone headed to thc dance paviUon or us. Families and Friends of Gays, and L.A. Saloon and music arranged by the raffle. Half the crowd groaned when the budding Rochester Historical Bowl Steve of Jim's and Hector from Friar's. a blue ticket was drawn and the other ing Society. No one seemed to mind being poumded half groaned when an orange one What else could Julia Rabinowitz and by breeze-tossed piuple, blue, and pink appeared. Craig from Watkins Glen won Mike Siani stand in the middle of the balloons. the trip for two to Provincetown and Ron road at Genesee VaHey Park with Many people were content to spread from the Bachelor Forum won the TV. lambdas prpminently displayed, stop blankets, eat, and drink, others cruised Because the annual picnic draws each car, and bravely ask if the about and ate and drank, and spon people from every facet of our commu occupants were attending thc "gay taneous games of volleybaU and softbaU nity, another record breaking attendance picnic.** Yve Skeet. our editor, enjoyed erupted in the midst of free-flowing is laudable. It was especiaUy upUfting to directing vehicles into orderly rows beer. Many felt at ease tossing a frisbee see such a large and diverse group around trees throughout thc park. with new friends. supporting the gay community of Roch One pavilion hummed with people Some brave souls laimched a canoe ester. See you next year. and food: hots, 900 lbs. of macaroni and potato salads (thanks to the Bachelor Forum), potato chips, and 142 gallons of soda. Begonia from Albany, sponsored by the Lesbian Resource Center, and the ComeU Refuses NAMBLA Member Rochester Gay Men's Chorus provided entertainment in another pavilion. Jackie group which provides community living Nudd, GAGV president-elect, main- ITHACA, N.Y.—The city prosecutor for a select, highly inteUectual coec cained the GAGVs visibility and viability is considering whether to file an action group of. students, voted last month to seUing tee-shirts and buttons next to against a student community program at revoke the admission of Andriette after Cornell University foUowing the decision lengthy discussion of his role in of members of the community to rescind NAMBLA. Andriette had revealed his an offer of admission to a IT-year-old NAMBLA membership months earlier student. The offer was rescinded after during a public speaking class at a the community discovered the studenc, Telluride-sponsored seminar. BiU Andriette, is a member of the Ithaca's human rights statuce pro steering committee of the North Ameri hibits housing discrimination based on can Man-Boy Love Association, a concro- sexual orientation, but makes no provi versial gay-oriented group which favors sion for che filing of cases by aggrieve che repeal of age of consent laws chac parties. Instead, a decision on whether criminalize sexual behavior between to pursue a case of aUeged discrimina adults and youths. tion is left up to the city prosecutor. Members of TeUuride House, a smaU —The Washington Blade
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Page 2 THE EMPTY CLOSET September 1983 '.t I •: .•**•';. ."• ii >^»^:• ; / ;'^i *x : •^: G.A.G.V Letters. We get letters. in pink*'). Bob, and Chudk (wey to undog been abte to contintte his competent straight bars pretty duU. We've got. all '*! know yoo must be a very busy those toilets. OCt). work while being a public gey.' It seems tfae advantages of a workaday wecM plus man...** Aat tfae issue is no kmger whether we our "walk on tfae wild side." We only GAGV Takes A WaUc Busy, yes. Man, no. come out, but how we come out. need arrange our priorities so diat we 1 find a certain delight in receiving I've been thinking about my a^ege It*s far too easy to perpetuate can say what we are widiout denying The GAGV has been invited to indoor/outdoor track. Entrants may corre^Kmdence beginning with *'Dear sorority quite a bit these days. I may not (straigfat<^>erceived) negative stereo- who we are. pdtAdpmte in the GeVa Stagehands' walk, jog,' run, bicyde, roUer-sluite, or Mr. Skeet." No, I'm not into playing miss the white dresses and frat mixers t3rpes. The proposed GAYLA Festival Hiere is no need to shout one's Second Annual Community Walk-Jog^- even skateboard; sponsors wiU be asked butdh. I am into addressing the entire (although the 700-wonum convention planned to feature a drag coiiq>etition, sexuaUty from tfae rooftops (I faave yet to Crae^A-Thon. A percentage of the to guarantee an amount for every lap Rochester gay oommunity. wasn't too bad), but some of that and tfaat is surely the film cUp that would sfaake hands witb a stranger who pledge monies coUected by GAGV completed. Pledge forms are available at I must assume that, when several WASPish South^ ethic stiU apphes to have made it to the six o'dodc news. introduces himself, "Hi, Tm Fred. I'm a wsSkmts wiH be donated to the Gay the GAGV Community Center, 715 readers misinterpret my gender, they do my life. Our alumnae advisors, along Forget that another talented gay per heterosexual who adheres to the mis AOissice. The .. .-A-Thon wiU take place Monroe Avenue. Come out and support not perceive The Empty Closet as coo with imparting to us the ritual handshake former inight have sung beautiful folk sionary position."), nor need one work at on Sunday, September 18, between 1 che GAGV! woman-oriented. I'U stretch that a bit and recognition sign, cautioned the new songs—that's not what they're looking being "straight appearing." The com and 4 p^i, at tbe St. John Fisher CoUege further and suggest that, from where I sisters that, when we were identified as for. promise Ues in simply saying it and sit, we seme to be a rare commodity Kappa Deltas in the world-at-large, we By the same^ token, there are ndther annotmdng it nor denying it. •IBIBIHIHiaiHIHIHiaiMiaiHIHIBIHI* ^miong gay pubUcations; we direct must uphold the highest standards in frequent personal ads from **straight The comfort of honesty is known to ourselves, equitably, to the concerns of order to represent KD in a positive apjpearing" individuals. In my exper aU of us; it is che root of coining out. both gay men and women. fashion. Doest that rule noc also hold ience, I haven't seen some universal Beyond that, each of us has the CUnton In Syniciise Ifyou disagree, let us know; we are true for a Kappa Delta Dyke? opportunity to make the road a bit "gay appearance," but just a misin Peminist humorist (fumerist) Kate outlets are Spectrum in Syracuse, Kay's your paper. But, please, ic's Ms. Skeec. smoother for the "next generation of We might weU have added "coming formed straight stereotype. Who hasn't Ointon wiU be performing her standup Books in Binghamton, -Smedleys in gays" (isn'c chac something of a para • • • out" to our Ust of "ins" on page 11, not been surprised to find that the most oomedy on September 9, 1983, 8 pm at Ithaca, and Silkwood Bcmks In Rocfaester. doxical phrase?). If I am the loved chUd For a sencence or cwo, I'd like co don just in Rochescer, buc nacionwide. In the flaming queen in high school is now a Grouse Auditorium on che Syracuse For furtfaer informatimi caO: (315) ofmy parents, does telling them I'm gay one of my ocher hacs, and thank aU those wake of John Glines (producer of Torch happUy-married Xerox exec? University campus. Sponsored by the SU 655-3308. alter that love? If I am a competent individuals who allowed themselves to Song Trilogy) and Congressman Gerry WhUe attempcing to present a posi Women's Center, cickecs are $5. Tickec be conscripted into working Security at Studds, have come EC columnist BiA> tive pubUc image we have to be careful employee, does a mention of my this year's picnic. Whether standing in Dardano and yours truly (I guess you not to use denial as a means of confor same-sex lover undermine that compe the hoc sun holding disfunctional walkie- could say chac my parents took it weU; mity and acceptance-seeking. At the tence? I am StiU that duld and stiU diat talkies and directing traffic, or "cruis the next day, my niother embroidered a same time as we tteektto eliminate the employee and, risks included, letting tbe ing '' through the park maintaining lambda piUow for me). The pubhc stereotypes, we run tfae risk of being world know tfaat I am stiU lovaUe and ALLIANCE CORNER safety and legaUty, diese volunteers revelations of Glines and Studds, how swallowed up hy our own public relaticms competent, whUe I happen to be gay gave of their recreational time and ever, did Uttle to elicit support from and ceding tfur unique cidture. WiU opens a thousand dosets. Since July 1,1 have spent a great deal only, and noc che "Gay Plague" or God's consistendy demonstrated a sense of Moral Majority types; just anocfaer artsy Studds now follow a path of cetibacy to One of my bumper stickers reads, of time talking to people about what the curse. Through chis newspaper, we wiU responsibiUty co che casks ac hand (and fairy and a chUd-mdlescing queer, they appease his constituents? "I'm a Kappa Delta..." Alavender one AUiance has accompUshed in our ten provide you with che most currenc, made my job very easy). Much chanks to say. Had Studds chosen a more prc^i- Gay ti good, and wc have nothing to says, "I'm One, Too." I'm not a years. The Ust is long and impressive: accurace information available. Julia (never has such a mtmdane task tious moment for his annouacement be embarassed about and everything to stereotypical sorority girl nor am I a The estabUshment of The Empty Closet, For those of you who have tried the been approached with such competent (sans the page affair)—a re-election be proud of. I, fbr one, love a gocni drag stereotypical gay. I'm just a proud the voice of our community. The Hotline number and not gotten either enchusiasm), Mike, Pece ("see the man victory speech perhjq>s—he would have show, and I fmd the atmosphere of Kappa l^elta Dyke. securing of CETA funds, and taking the our answering machine or a P.F., I fight for them to the chambers of City apologize. We are working on both. Coundl. Establishing a strong Uaison Starting Wednesday, September 14, the within the PoUce Departmem, Captain office wiU also be open from 10 am so 2 LETTERS Urlacher. Providing such services as our pm. You are welcome to caU orecefp by. "* Peer FaciUtators and the Speakers We need volunteers for our Peer The Ust of pleasures could go on and as, Niagara University, St. John's Law, chac I have had with these fouC An Open Lett^* To on... PubUc Prosecucor—10 years. Bar Asso Bureau. Instigating sodal activities such FaciUtator Program, as weU as general candidates that chey wotdd tireat aU as the Picnic and Prom. AU of these have volunteers for many projects. Anyone We're impressed and grateful. ciation: Highly Recommended). Judge people who come before them with Mary C. And BiU HaU Sincerely, Valentino got publicity recently when he been major accompUshments. It would who is interested, please phone or stop dignity. Many of you had a chance to see be easy co si^back on our laurels. But we in at the AUiance. The Board of Directors ordered 24 "Johns" to get VD tests and talk to them when aU four of them Dear Mary and BiU, can't, and anyone who suggests that we If there is one thing I have learned in of the Gay Alliance of reasoning that if the prosricuces had co attended the Gay Picnic in August. The in Rochester don't have to worry is just, my first sixty days in office, it is this: If Undaunccd by che enormicy of the the Genesee VaUey be checked for VD so should che September primary is an important one, plain crazy or an ostrich. we are going to accomplish any of our Mmmdy and Maifc made 900 lbs. of potato safari isr tfae Pkalc. task, you assumed responsibUity for "Johns", he also has made use of please vote in it. organizing the Ninth Aimual Gay Com<- IdeR< '^.i^l lends commimity service sentencing. Today, we face housing and job goals, it wiU be done through legislation, munity Picnic. Wc applaud your efforts Judge John R. Schwartz (McQuaid, SCHOOL BOARD discrimination, and constant attacks both locally and on the state level. The and congratuiatc your success. The Candidates John Carrol, Albany Law, Trial Lawyer— Rachael Hedding has had extensive from the Moral Majority (Remember only way to achieve this is by voters response from che community has been To the Editor: 13 years, Bar Assodation: Recommen dialogue with the lesbian and gay Jerry FalweU? Don*t seU him short). casting ballots. We must foUow the lead communiuty and it is my opinion that she Is drinking a probleni in your life? cremendous, and wiU serve to encourage The enroUed Democrats in the City of ded). I have only had two opportunities The most ominous and deadly threat of other minorities. Register and vote for would be a very good school board actendance at future GAGV events. Rochester wiU have a change to pick four to calk wich Judge Schwartz about that we face in the SO's is AIDS, not only the candidates who speak out on our member. AA can help. Call 232-6720, 24 hours, or come to Gay AA Thank you for assembling such an City Court Judges and four school board lesbian and gay concerns, one opportun the dread disease itself, but the backlash behalf. outstanding volunteer staff. Each contri members in the Sepcember primary ity was at Jay Baker's house at a BiU Karen Grella has had some dialogue it has generated. Politicians understand numbers. at St. Luke's Church, Thursda3rs ac 8:30 p.m. buted to a fiin-fiUed, educating, and eleccion. Benet fiind raiser and che second chance with the lesbian and gay community and We have always been confronted by There are voter registration forms at the For gay women only: Mondays ac 8:30p.m. entertaining experience. We commend was when he came co che 1983 Gay 1 think she should remam on tne scbool homophobia; what we face now is worse: AlUance. It will only take you five CFTY COURT JUDGES e^ch voltmteer for working so hard on Picnic. board. unadulterated fear in the npn-gay world minutes to fill one out. Judge Herman J. Walz (Acquinas, the conmiunity* s behalf. Accomey Irene Dymkar (University of that we wiU contaminate them, and panic See you next month. Niagara Universicy, Albany Law, Gen In boch che City Court and School Thank you too for attending to the Chicago, Indiana Law, Assistanc Discrict with&n the gay world. We must educate —^Jackie Nudd eral Praccice of Law—29 years. Bar Board contests, there are five candidates myriad details that tooks months of Actomey—4 years, Private Pracrice—2Vi ourselves and the non-gay public to GAGV President-elect Assodacion: Highly Recommended). and only four vacandes. The Cicy Court leg-work, phone caUs, letters, and years: Bar Assodacion: Not Recommen* realize chat chis is a medical problem Judge Walz emphasizes his parcicipacion candidate I would like to see retired from meetings to work ouc. Sevenceen hun ded). Irene D3nnkar offers us a chance to in the Judicial Process Commission, the the court is Gary E. Smith. The School dred people reaped che benefits of your put a woman on City Court. It could Human Relations Commission, and Board candidace I would Uke to see ilHIHIiaiBIIHIIHIHIBIIHIBIIBilHIBOIHieiiaill (5,y\. Q^ y^ energies. encourage more women and minority che Ainerican CivU Libercies Union, and retired from che school board is John 5. We enjoyed the safe space you lawyers to chaUenge the Bar Assodation as a judge he has made extensive use of Delvecchio. created, the musical talents of Begonia It is my impression from the contacts community service sentencing. The Gay Alliance of and the Gay Men's Chorus, the games, sopete9 ANNIVERSARY the dance music, che food, and che drink. Judge Joseph D. Valentino (Acquin- the Genesee Valley 713 Monroe Avenue Rochester. New York DINNER 14607 716-2448640 244-9030 STAFF The Empty Closet is produced eleven times a year (July-August combined) by the Empty Closet Press for the WANT TO CHANGE EdHor Gay Alliance of Qenesee Valley, Inc.. at 713 Monroe Name September 24, 19S3 Yve Skeet Avenoe, Rochester, New York 14807. sole owner and publisher. Approx. 3,000 copies of eech issue are Address Top of ttte Plaxa Menegine Ediior distributed during the first weak of the month by mail and THE WORLD? Zip Chris Sentoro carrier. 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(Last day to reserve: Sept 16) The spiiHons el seiuemisis end Mieheel Stent Rease contact me. • November Meeting Cindy Wilder ethsr sentrlbiiling wrttsrs are Itieiiv esm end de net nesesserliy reflset I understand that any type of membership entitles me to voting Ken Kildore privileges ofthe General Membership, and that the membership Thursday, Sept. 29, 8 pm BUI Landis me eoNscUve ettfiude ef the Visiting will be the Oey AmaiMe ef Oenesee Velley er the list is confidential, available only to the officers of the AlUance. empty dasetlNess. Enclosed Is payment for my memt>ership. NY State Lesbian/Gay Lobby from NYC ^ Signature A BtNtFir FOR THE GAY ALLIANCE OF THE GENESEE VALLEY September 1983 THE EMPTY CLOSET Page 5 Page^4TH1BBMPTY CLOSET Se^takAei tns - »-*—-'-• . ••*«•* -- • ,t ,-•»» r >%.. *>'^1i,.y%J><. LOCAL NEWS n LOCAL NEWS Rocfaester WeioMnes BadKstieets Bar Owners Xhaiik 'T( -; 1 • - by Stephen Piocht customers. On Sunday, Atigust 14, the Bar* co. Just our luck—chey were widi eadi BackstreetSf iHudi opens in Septem-. tenders' Picaic was hdd at Shelter #1 in other. There were^ however, aeveral Tliere's a new alternative iot gey ber, prointses several surpriat;s. You Dnrand-Baatman Park* Tins evem is younger seleecions w choose from. We Remember Vicki peo|rfe. Backstreets. It's net m New YoA muse be at least 21^yeara sM to enter, sponsored aanoafly by the variotis bar Severd of the people goc into plsfing Qty or ToRMtte or even NorlitA* Virghua and two fenna^of ideftctfieetiett will be owners *o diank cheir employees (and carda, aad Kggy disooeered too late diat ibr diec macter. It's in Rodiester. A aew dieir guescs) fer the many hoars chey pot his cards were reflecdag off hia ^Bn* by T. KUngman required ac tbe tloor. Hie mnsic wiO pliiee far liBglea to nwec* Init e2«a a place mdtKie eveiytns^ irom zodc ano pop to in tliroc^iooc the year. Tikis year's picaic was atteadcd by 1%e Bachelor On a mote coaacrocdve note, it waa Evelyn (Vidd) Russo died on July 11, far ooMffea, You'll be aUe to talk 1M5 TUB EUWTY CLOSBT Pe^e 7 Page6 TUB BMPTY CLOSBT Sepcember 19S3 COMMENTARY long ago, I •o nty they aB happened aepecmeiy * I dMnk eiie PERSONALITY PROFILE Mow. I know fior seemmd evetit was when I. for Ae firsc a loc of 6ns* be cime, told someooe else dne I be me it was a very nu^or step, TUs was. fiar me, a oeiy IS so be drliwrit as a experience, bnt one whii^ only served to tfafricsMl REV. WILLIE WHITE 123 Liberty Pole Way 325-P772 Sundoys Paid for by the Committee to Elect Irene Dymkar. HOUW: 8 pm-2 om 9:00 pm-1:30 pm 242 Soudi Ave.. Rochester. NY 2 for 1 Mixed Drinks (716) 546-6590 •^fTj ;J,..,..,,;W )f * [ } VAV: >.v ^M'v t::;i:.-• r \\nt., •? Page 8 THE BMPTT CIOSBT Septenber »«3 1*"5'' 't •:•-'»' *• *' '•.*' !'! :'-:;•••» - ..-(,..M-.^T I'n. Sepmmbert99S UIB BMnTT CLOSKS Bifp 9' - Rocheter CoirHnues To Serve DAW^S STORY by Sue Cow^, RN/MSN victim. The renudning funds are in cmr refotred to health profeasicmab and a screening dinic wiQ be diere to aaawer operating budget), and 3. Media Repre medical referral uriU be offered. Written c]uestions abcmt local ooncems. Through dedicated volumeer efibrts, sentation with several major newspaper in^btmatioci is available . at the Gay AIDS-ROCHBSTER is participating DMM Ci^pidDo Dbciu^ fiifects On His life AIDS-ROCHESTER has estabUshed ex articles, a 5-part series on Channel 10 AlUaace and can be c»btained without ia a Health Fair cm Septmu^er 23-24 at PARXn getscmiethiAg... I osed to be angry with ceUent oommndity contact within the gay ^News, and several in-depth radio shows. charge. Any peraon with symptcmis Lcmg Ridge MaU ia Ckeece. Voiuateers iM^ipen to me, and he says, 'I dcm't and those in Rochester? ccmimunity and with local health care AIDS-ROCHBSTBR is also very con suggestive of AIDS is encouraged to aad heeldi professioaals witt prcyvide by Stephen Picchi know'... UsuaOy you ask the cfoctor. I the Lord. I never prayed later cm. Once I Tbey talk abcmt the cierdicta and the fadUties soch as the American Red cerned about edocacion of the greater comact AIDS-ROCHBSTBR through die informaticm to the commimity abcmt try to go over my life. I've beea basicaUy realized I was eav I dicmght there was no bag laches aad the Bowery bums, but Cross and Strong Memorial Hospital. Rochester cxmununity. We have worked peer obunselors so diat support sjrstems AIDS. We feel that it is very inqiorcant to if you're in a monogamous relation- widi nwtmgamous lovers most of my reascm for my going m church at aU everybody lives aad lets tive... Bvery- We have grown frcmi an ad hoc very dosely with the local blood donaticm can be provided. echicate tvith the fatts. ahljp ere you safe from AIDS? Ufe... because die church dichi't recognme bocfy is accepted... There was thia bag I cka't thii^ so. That brings up a I have a tatoo cm my left shoulder. gays... My illness has macfo me realise lady... she was half-crazy. Scmiettmes committee to a structured board of center to help devle^ their press relea FUTURE AonvmEs GOALS OF AIDS-ROCHBSTBR directors. We are presendy working with ses and poUcy on blood cfonations from whote other subject. Look at the news- There was a 'black' (leader) party at a what Christ is aU abcmt... I know where she was Mary aad scmietimea the was A Community Forum cm AIDS wiU • Health educatioa of the gay ccmi our anomey to incorporate as a not-for- high risk groups. An informaticmal card, piqpers... How cfo you think I feel iriiea bar in New York City. My fover had I am going... I know Tm going to Lcmise. She used to beg.-One night I was be held cm Wechiesday, September 14, at munity abcnit AIDS and other sexuaUy- profit organisation. We are interested in available at focal gay businesses and the Ae new^Mipers say that they relate moved to L.A. There were 7000 guys that heaven or whatever plaae is a good walking diere. and it waa a summer 7 pm, at the New Life Ccmimunity transmitted illnesses, hiring an Executive Director to faciUtate GAGV, was developed by AIDS-ROCH AIDS to 'fiatiag'. and ^hey go into that night. Ihey had exhibitfons going plane. I have that feeliag. It*s acmiethiag night, and she had takcm this sheet aad Ccmter. The Center is located at the • Heahh information to the ocmimu- our long-term goals of increased com ESTER to inform the local ccmimtmity detaO deicribiag it, and my dad sits cm aU over the place. The line to get in that I'm sure of. I'm ciyiag of AIDS, but draped it arcmad herself like a gowa. comer of Mcmroe Ave. and Rosedale St. nity-at-large that is aocnirate and ncm- mtmity educaticm and supporton ongoing diat the donation policy was changed aad reads the newspaper. How do I look went for I dcm't know how tnany city I've been saved... Frcmi a distance as^ you were walking The forum is co-sponsored by AIDS- judgmental, research. We have been acrtive with until an efiective screening test is mt my dad? First of all I never fisted in blocks^ I was dressed in leather. I had IVere you as religious before this or toward her she looked like she had a ROCHESTER and the MetropoUtan several short-term goals: 1. Education of developed. We also participated in a • Media representation to provide a my Me. This is put in the newspaper! My my cap on... I reaUy looked hot... do you think this has tnade you ntore white gown on. Community Churc:h. Information wiU be the gay community with monthly articles joint television show with the Red Cross continued positive image, siater-sn-law said it made her sick when There was a guy doing tatoos. I was aware? Her hair was dirty, but it was fixed back, presented through a slide presentation in The Empty Closet, 2. Fundraising in addition to several newspaper articles. • Fundraising to su|»port the efforts she was reading it. She couldn't even reaUy high and sitting there with my cap I always felt I was a good Chrisdan in and she had macfo a corsage out c»f cfoad and talk by Dr. WiUiam Valenti £rcmi the of AIDS-ROCHESTER, fiaish the article. Yet my fanuly looks at on, and I got as close as 1 could. 1 was through IcKal efforts with the involve Requests for information about AIDS the sense of being a good, genercms, leaves and cigarettes. She was cm the Strong Metnorial Hospital Infectious • Support of relevant on-going re me, and they understand, but I'm sure reaUy interested in this tatoo guy. I ment of gay businesses (two events can be provided by traincnl peer coun loving person. I've always been able to comer of 72nd Street and Amsterdam, Disease Unit. Although the AIDS Screen search, scmiewhere in the bac:k of my sister-in- always wanted a tatoo aU of my life. raised over $3,000. We cfonatcrd $1800 to selors that staff the Gay AUiance office put myself in somebody else's shoes. I and she sang. It was the most beautiful ing CUnic is no longer avaUable through • Patient Rights advocacy of AIDS law's mind she's wcmciering if I ever cUd (This was a month before I got sick). He the Infectious Disease Unit at Strong, (244-8640) Monday-Friday, 7:30-9:30 could always feel hurt for somebody song. After that, I always knew when she Strong, support for educational efforts patients to ensure quaUty care, and that—even though I've told her I never was tatooing a heart on this guy. He $100 to the Gay Men's Health Crisis in pm. If the request involves specific else. Death always brings you closer to was going to be there during the week. New York, and $120 to a local AIDS wiU continue. Sue CoweU, nurse practi • Medical care and referrals to health did. finished it. He was reaUy spaced out, but Christ.. . She had captivated this whole audience. medical concerns, the caU wiU be tioner and staff member from the workers who are informed and caring. fVhat would you like done to help I was spaced out, too, and he pointed at Are you lonely? They realized that this was a human people tvith AIDS? me and said, 'You, I want to put a tatoo Oh, yes, very much so. I guess that's being and a perscm... National AIDS Vigil Planned There has to be a place where people on your shcmlcfor.* I went up there... why I go to the bars. The physical Where do you get this sense of peace They shave you, and they cut you with a The National AIDS VigU Commission * Urge the crreation of an inde can get help... StockpUe the money to contact... 1 think the thing that I miss that hangs around you ? hire a fidl or part time empfoyee to caU straight razor. This guy came up from the most... when I used to sleep with I wish I ccmld take everything that's (2335 18th Street N.W., Washington, pendent federal advisory ccmnnission on the audience. I dcm't know where he D.C. 20009) has issued a Statement of AIDS to oversee research and funding; AIDS UPDATE on AIDS patients locaUy... The hard my lover, I used to sleep 'spoon fashin', in my head and aU that's in my heart and part is dealing emotionaUy with men who came from or who he was, and he said, and I'd put one arm under his pillow and soul and plant it in everybcxly's heart, Purpose for the October 8 CandleUght * Demand incrreased federal funding 'You're pretty high. Do you know what Vigil, and has announced a partial Ust of for AIDS-related research and health ROCHESTER—An organization oi NEW YORK Cmr—The newly- need the suppc»rt. Sex is a no-no—the my other arm around him. 1 miss that soul and mind God knows every one moral issues involved... People can you're doing to yotirself? You're going to members of the Commission. care; visiting nurses in Monroe County has formed Federation of AIDS-Related Or the most. Someone to get up with in the of us by our names... He knows me. accept you as being gay, but they dcm't have this thing for the rest of your life.. . The multi-faceted purpose of the * Press for a ccnnprehensive pa begun to draw i^ poUcies for dealing ganizations (F.A.R.O.) has unciertaken a morning. I used to call him 'Uttle bird'; That's important to me; He knows want to know the details. I feel like a They just cut you. Do you know they jtist Vigil is to: tient' s biU of rights and a federal with AIDS patients. There have been national Lobbying Project and the estab I'd say, 'Come on Utde bird, here's ycmr everything that's happening to me. leper. Even within my own gay com cut you?' I said, 'Let it go. I want it coffee.' Scmieone who you'd go out and That's where my peace is at. God knows * Remember thc»se who have died statement on patient confidentiality. nine reported cases of AIDS in the Ushment of a Resource/Information Pr<»- munity. done.' He put his arm around me, and he buy something for.. . me. He's not scmie ncmchalant person from AIDS and to support chose who are Commissioners of the Washington, Rochester area, incluciing two fataUties ject. F.A.K.O.'s goal is to coordinate the said to the tatoo artist and all these I walked into cme of the loc:al gay bars who casuaUy looks cfown with a smkk cm fighting for their Uves; DC event include Sen. Ted Keimedy., and one case possibly connacted IcKaUy. AIDS activities of member organixations guys—'This is my man, and I cfon't want What message tvould you like to and I played Pac-Man. I felt like a leave people? his face. He knows every second... * Recognize the struggle of persons Sen. LoweU Weicker, Sen. Ted Weiss, * . * * into a single voice. Over 100 groups are a tatoo on him.' I never saw the guy in criminal. My shoulders started to curl. I How do you feel about the men tvho wich AIDS in fighting against aU fortns of BeUa Abzug, Rev. Troy Perry, Dr. Max expected to join the effort. my whole life! I said, 'Shut up.' That's a questicm that encompasses NEW YORK CITY—Secretary of didn't feel ccmifortable, but you want to so much. I have thought, tried and advertise in magaxines artd newspapers cUscrimination based cm their health Siegel (President, Ainerican Psycho- * * * 1 don't know how many times that Health and Human Services Margaret hear music. Yew want to be out. You tvho know they have AIDS, but they stiU status; fogicai Association), Virginia Apuzzo, neecUe went into other guys there before prayed for the one message that I can Heckler annotmced that President Rea MONTREAL—Local cab companies, want to be around pec^le. You want to hustle for a living? * Increase awareness about AIDS in Midge Costanza, Ed Asner, and Judy me, or how many times that same neecUe leave people... I ask the Lord to show gan wiU ask Congress for $40 million to which employ about 800 Haitian taxi belcmg and you want to be a part, but the pubUc an private sectors; Golcbmith (President, NOW). went into other guys after me... I didn't me the message... People stoop to levels in thcnr Uves. I fund AIDS research noKt year, twice drivers, say that many of their customers diere's nothing to belcmg to and there's * Demcmstrate to Congress and the The Commission can be reached at bother to investigate that. I dicfo't bother What tvould you tell people in thegay cfon't know why. That's what I'm aa3ring what the administration previously re wiU not ride in cabs with Haitian drivers. nothing to be a part of.:. Most of the President the deep naticmal concern (202)463-8561. to go and sec if there were any other community ? to you. I know that I'm going to heaven. quested. Heckler appeared with New « • • newspaper articles cfon't help you. .. about this health crisis; guys who got tat(x>s that night who got What I would like to say, not only to AU is very clear to me. I'U never go to York Mayor Edward Koch at Cabrini The other day on TV, there were two the gay population, is this. . . You don't bed with someone again. Never. Not V 1 Medic:al Center where they shook hands WASHINGTON, D.C—An Air Force AIDS. I told the doctors, but I cfon't know serviceman, who claims to have contrac doctcnrs. One docrtor said that if you have it they've investigated it. . . need to feel that everything you do is a unless I live and it's proven that I can with an AIDS victim and said that she AIDS, and you go out knowing you have sin. but man has lost respect for his have sex without giving someone else hoped their example would make people ted AIDS during a tour of duty in the \/;\i c^ Hx(:rii\(r' Philippines, is chaUenging the Air AIDS, and you have sex with someone, Anywayr this guy said to mc, 'If fellow man in aU areas—straight, gay or AIDS. I like to cruise. I go into a bar, and "cast aside the emotional reaction" that and that person contracts AIDS, then you're going to get it, then I'm goipg to whatever.. ..-i -think that AIDS—the I lead guys on. They'U cruise back. I've has ledmany to shun AIDS victims. Force's decision to cUscharge him with out medical benefits on the groimds that ycm are a mtirderer. If that person goes stay up here with you whUe you get it.* reason the Lord has permitted this leamed not to be proud. AU of my Ufe I • • * He stayed there... Don't let anybody his illness amounts to misconduct. out and has sex with other people and iUness to come about—is that he's trying was a very proud man... they get AIDS, then you have murdered ever tell you that tatoos don't hurt. They WASHINGTON, DC—'It seems * * • to tell us something. Back during Is there anything else you tvould like that Secretary Heckler told her press many people. That's a pretty heavy thing cfo. When I finished, this guy took me to Stonewall was when gay life ftnaUy to say? DENVER—Harry Pena was reporting office that, *AIDS is the number one to deal with! There are some guys who'd a doorway where there was some air started opening up wicfo. It's been a AIDS is like getting old a lot faster. a burglary to Patrohnan Kevin Boyd on . priority of the Department of Health and say 'diat's the chance you take.' You coining in. He wanted to go up to the sexual celebration ever since. Something You can't dance or tnove quickly. People Human Services,'but she forgot to tell August 22 when Boyd panicked, began ccmld walk into a bar and have sex with dance floor. I was dancing with niin, and has got to bring people bac:k. The shoidd -walk into bars as a meeting place her budget office and the Appropriations yeUing, then ran when he leamed he was scmieone .who doesn't even know they I lost him in the crowd. It sounds straights have herpes. Scmiething has to socialize and talk to people—not just Committee." Steve Endean, Executive talking with an AIDS victim. '*Yes, I left have AIDS. I fook at my doctor—he's impossible, but it happened, and I never got to put things bac:k into perspective, to talk to the sexuaUy attractive peo Director of the Gay Rights National in a htirry," Boyd agreed. Taking a gay—and I ask him if I should have sex. saw him again. I know that he woulcfo't whether it's AIDS or whatever... This is ple .. . If there's typhoid in the water, I'U Lobby, testifying before the Subcommit report about Pena's missing S400 ring He says, 'I can't answer that. It hasn't have gone through aU of the titSiible he a.gay disease Ss it stands now. get a shot, but with AIDS there are no tee on Intergovernmental Relaticms and "wasn't worth dying over," Boyd said. been proven that it's transmitted went through and then walk off the What about the hemophiliacs, the shots. We have to be careful. AIDS is Human Resources. thrcmgh sex. We cfon't even know if dance floor when my back was turned. Haitians end the IV Drug users ? changing gays. We can teach the Hours: Sunday 12-S ycm're in an infectious stage at this He touched me for that time. .. scraights from this. Those guys in an Tues. ik Wed- 12-6 What affec:ts one person in this world point. We dfon't know if it's a virus that How have you come to grips tvith the affects everyone. There was an interview open relaticmship shcmld think twice Thur. Sc Fri. 12-9 infects ycmr body for a short time. We do fact that you're going to die? on TV the other night, and the man said, when they go out because of what they Saturday 10 5 kncnr'diat your bfood is dangerous... I beUeve that Gcxl cares. I was 'They got just what they cfoserved. I'm may bring home.. . AIDS is an instru CIcxsed Monday There's nothing different in your sperm materialistic. I cUdn't allow him in.. . It sick and tired of seeing those guys ment to help. Everything is difBcult for than there is in anyone else's. There's may sotmd a Utde nuts when I say I'm walking around holding each other...' us in our socriety. We must take the bad 473-8110 nothing different in your saUva than in chosen, but it doesn't mean that I'm This disease is contagfous in how it situation and turn it around.., There is anyone else's. AU we know is that you hc^y. Anyone can be chosen... I used to affects ev JL-.:;',"5BJ5-""' •—»» lapiiiii I wimwi ' i'( ~r . • • * ••^Mir • ••u.v-%«o..-.1 '"•'.ri. •iimwwwiiuiajii •'^•i^tw^u Pa«e 10 THE BMPTY CLOSBT September 1983 '-'.M , / ..-w.-- *^.M:, f I'si-*.-i *H7 Ol -.v.;'! A DISTURBED PEACE September 1983 THB BMPTY CLOSBT Page 11 aikl I b^aa oor friend- migjht build a circle of mai^ire aad ocmpfoofdays, he had several thousand wacduag fer tfae next year and a half, oftiieG^ and Lesbiaa leccers, teltgiaia end phone celb wtncfa he cmiiiwnrt m be iathefeUori979., aboot "wasted years*', limiced options IO-«o-one f*"AgMi and rcmiplimented of dm What's In And Out widi 100,000 odbers and wnreaacmabie poUic cxpoctarioaa* in CeatTM Asaetissmm gay day of iny Ufe, I In the four years we have beea 'Listen to dus cme,*' he said em^ oocapeken cfofender of dm CInimd Scaces tl lends, I have watched Gerry grow foom over die phone die ms^ of cfae cDosriine- WiB he cflauhwi to be an a man wfao paced nervously at a gay re. "It's from a straigfac coupfo in incelligenc, hard wockiag and effecciye Hew Yo^... This ooe is fifom a gay ll giclMUf or wdl he spend his cime aad h Gay Rocliester - "I htmse party eo a man who aaacmooed his deaire to pfow tfaitmi^ aa aimy of therapist mOr^on... This one is from energy uoveiiag axoond the couaiiy Stodds?" I asked. repeetcra a few days alter his cenaure in a *»*^g*»* woman cm the Cape... Mkea sidedmw oddity to give speeches In And Out Lists are definitely in! As major naticmal publications surveyed die trends In on vdmt it means to be g«f ? The answer several U.S. cities, The Empty dasst staff was hard at work trymg to find oat what's Scndds?*' he order to oee die •roarical **La Cage Avx "Keep them*" I said. "Ti^ die best comiag and going in our own oomnumhy. Mstiy laborious nights were a^)ent in the bars and "Gerry Scodds coedd FbOes". A voraciooa reader, Gerry has and crarry diem wich you. Ycm're going to is fliaqpie: His gilc to us all is his talenc, whith, to cmr groat pleosore, comes ia numerous torrid aftemcxms spem at the beach to bring you an accurate accountiog of local Secretacy of State of cxmanmeo the concents of nioec popular need tben when it gets rougher." fashions and fads so that you can make sure that you are truly in. •dent. He's and classic gay books and has borrowed It did get rougjier. Gerr3r*s voice was gj^ packaging. firom tho Cape. He's several fircmi my sb^ m fond to his low and sudd a few dmys later when he Whifo Gerry Studds wOl aoc be abfo IN OUT m be with aQ crf^ us in porsoa, as we aad He's a Uberal Democrat .75-year-old moAer so that die might called. The lecters oontiniBed to be CeMmHy Gay Arm Wrestflng Diana Boss eoacerts Republic:aa better understand die sem Ae loves. positiye but the press was having a field he would like, he ncmothdess needs MeAa hype e£ AIDS GMng blood at the Red Qress The n^it before die Ediics Commit cfoy. Columnist afiter cohmmist, editorial conacaac readaders diat we support him ^eeveless shirts l^eevod sfafaits '"Oh,** 1 said, stdl more excited abcmt tee released its findings, Gerry caUed to alter editorial seemed m be preaching and are proud of him. Ycm caa be sure he Hair scoMiig lotioa Teaais headbeeiis going to the Watergate than I was about warn me aad to sA my assistance in abcmt ediics, the innocence of youdi, the wiQ hear fircmi dmse who cfo not support Feadatae prenooas te gay Fiwaieini ptansaas te g/sy mm •aecting Gczry Stodds. "Is he gay?" notifying his cydier fiiends. impropriety of relaticmshqis wfaich abose him, bodi ia letters to his office aad ia Voter registnitlon IbmasertiMtmsiHy "Is he ga^?" he gasped. '*You dcm't power. They dmse nc»t to menticm diat financial contribotMms to his next eppo- Ate rsniHtfanhig "How are yoo bedding up?" I asked. Leng Uaad loed Tens ask that. Pleooe dcm*t even brii^ it up. I "What scares me the most is hc»w the Ediics Ccmunittee, after ^lending a nent. The Far Right, as you might Scrowdnvcts assimie, wiU be veiy generous to anyone Pmaai Ahee Haors Nade cfon*t know far sure that he's gay, but good I feel," he said, and prcMceeded m miUicm dollars ahd a year of ruthless Dykelarins scrutiny into every aspect of Gerry's who chooses to chaUenge Gerry for his Fi^Hi^s don't ask inm." read to me the statemcmt he wcmld Tep ef tfae Vlaaa ef Gerry Scodds was for more in^es- dramaticaUy make to die Hcmse and the perscmal tife, faded to identify Gerry's seat in the House. sive than the Watergate. Within five nation the next cfoy; the statement which relationship with a 17-year-old as "an Aldmugh Gerry has not macfo a final •M'Hff** • of meeting the taU and lean, bolcUy and proucUy affirmed his being abuse of power." They said it merely decisicm abcmt seeking re-electioa, my oonsiscentiy witty but perceptibly un- represcmted the potenti4d ior an abuse of mcmey is cm his wiUingness to cfo so. I ccmifortabfo Ccmgressman, he told me he "Thafs why you're high, my power. hope yours wiU be too. In die next six was gay. That night we had dinner firiend," I said. "You're finaUy firee." His mcxkls have gcme up and down nmnths, he wiU ezamiae a varfoty of LETTERS together aad the foUowing day met for "But how wiU aU this affect the gay since the censure. He's angry and hurt, factors to determiae if he should seek to hmch. I dcm't know specificaUy what ccmimunity," he askc^d. "WiU they be reUeved and happy, excited and hopeful, be the first openly-gay peracm to be iEempegsf Gerry fcmad interesting about me, but ashamed or wiU they be prcmd?" Gerry's cauricms and self-conscious, but most of deleted to the U.S. Hcmse of Repre- Again, thanks to all of you for your gay men who would enjoy being with us. emotional st^Tport, you all are wcmder The Empty Ooset is proud to welcome cartoonist Guy^T. Vanhom to its staff Taproot besides tliorcmghly enjoying his com concern about the gay and lesbian aU, he's determined. He's cfotermined to seatatives. Oae of tlmse factcms wiU be will be a monthly feature. pany, my maternal instincts prcmipted community had been repeatecUy articu- rebuUd the confidence of those coOstt- mOney. His potitical analysts insist he Musical knowledge is helpful, but more ful! Watch fbr tts in December when we toe to take a perscmal interest in the foted throughcmt the year of the investi- tuents who may dcmbt him; he's dc^ter- may need at least a miUicm dealers. Gay important is the desire to sing, and the present our Christmas Concert! nurturing of diis man's gay identity aad gaticm. ^ mined to maintain his effectiveness in mem and lesbians reaQy need to begin willingness to derive pleasure &om Gratefully, singing. coofifon. "Scmie of them are going to be upset Congress; he's detennined to be a man organizing now fbr vdiat cme conserva Nick Williams Gerry Studds was not the first pubUc about the circumstances of your coming fbr whcmi the cmtire gay and lesbian rive coiumntst referred to as the most All organizaticms bave growing pains Musical Director-RGMC as they begin, financial problems being a rutter of wild wimnrin & the florida keys figure ^^ic»se path crossed mitie and in out," I repUed, "but the vast majority of community can be proud. densely watched electicm in 1984, next to Is a new & different kind of quarterly by him I saw aU of the same fright and them are going to be as prcmd as they I suggested, and Gerry agrees, that the presidency. the main source of firustration. My special thanks to all those ^rim have & for women, sliding scale subscriptions: confiisicm I have seen in those priests, can be. You watch." he wiU make us most prcmd by being an Lesbians and gay men who wish to helped in this area. Our growth and $6, $10, $12/yr. sample issue $1.50 bishops and ocher poUticians who also effective Congressman who happens to indicate their st^>pon for Gerry Studcb' It cUcfo't take Icmg bc^fore his fears progress have been accelerated greatly chattered like chUdren with nervous re-election are enocmraged to sead their HaMe p^o. box 1380 were aUayed. Within hcnirs of his be gay. None of us need to have him be bcK;ause of you. excitement about thier emerging gay speech, hundreds of telegrams had an effective gay man who hs^>pens to be ccmtributiosn to "Studcfo for Ccmgress," big pine key, fl 33043 identity. AU of them are torn by their poured into his office fiom not only gay a Congressman. He has consistently 38 Rosa's Lane, Scituate, MA 02066. need to be understood, supported and men and lesbians frcmi across the been an outspc^en advocate of the Gay No cme in 1984 shcmld have to ask encouraged by scmieone who can answer country, but also from his constituents, Rights BiU. His coUeagues and consti "Who's Gerry Stodds?" their basic c|uestions'abcmt Immosexu- gay and straight, who told him how tuents expect him to continue in that ality, the gay ocmmiunity and how they prcmd they were of his ccmrage. Afier a regard. What they wiU be carefidly Copyright 1983 by Brian McNaught R & B Productions presents... '*^.XZj~ :^^i Allen ^veet CLmts> **Mr. Upstate T^ew YorlC Pageant 1984'* THE Place for Women in Rochester CO-SPONORS DMCO Wed.. 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Box 10543, odier. has dedded that she is truly gay, but The contrived setting and plot mani I TaBahasaee, Fkmda, 32303,19S3, S7.50. But puahing through the too weQ that Diana may noc be. She rudely ferces pulation aside, Curious Wine is definite Press Folds BOSTON, MA.—Rep. Gerry Studds SAN FRANCISCO, CA.—San Fran Again • •« Reviewed byGlonaRkfaarda ^ mamcured plot are the harsh details it Diibia to pass the test of time—a mdndi ly woffdv reading. Pbcress descnbes (D-MA.) feels his revelarion to Congress cisco's PoUce Department has named PLACERVILLE, CA.—Remember sexual confiision, insecurity, the ftifh- of silence betweea diem when Aey interesttoi^y dM way women love each WATERTOWN, MA.-^Persephone that he is a homosexud 'was a Uberating MetropoUtan Community Church minis John Briggs? He's the former California Curtoia Wirts is a love story classie ut teniagly natural fivtxveneas of same-sex return to dieir homes in different dties« odier, aad die way no love ts immnae to Press, a lesbian-feminist pubUshing experience and has made him a more ter James Sandmire as its first openly state senator whose crusates against every way but one; Ae two people ^iriio lovers, and, espedaUy, bdievable and The mondi of waiting is as su^cnsefal personal insecisiities, doubts, and bad house fonned in 1976, has gone out of complete person. Studds, who stiU gay chaplain. Sandmire wiU minister to queers and for tougher death pendties jCaD ia love hi^ipen to be women. Set at wdl-done erode passages. As Diana, fbr die reader as tt is ibr Diana, nd the business due to financid problems. hadn't dedded whether to seek re aU members of the poUce department brought him fame. The Briggs hiitiative, Lake Tahoe in winter, tbe novel opens on wbo ia just recovering Crom a kmg affair Pat McGloin and Gloria Greenfield, election next faU, said that a 1973 and sdd he would welcome an invitation which wodd have made it illegd for gays a group of women, all seemingiy widt a man, fe^ herself urgendy IBIHIHtaiViaiBiaiBUBWIVIBiailBIBIS the co-founders of Persephone, said the relationship with a mde page was CO have a didogtie with a Christian groi^y or lesbians to teach in pubUc schools or straii^t, wbo have retreated to a cabin attrnctcd to Lane, she becomes, reaUs' fledgling firm made a consdous dedsion ' 'incredibly stupid*' and ' 'irresponsi- of San Frandsco poUce officers, "Cops for anyone to portray homosexudity in a ior the weekend. Tbe protagonist, X>iana ticaBy enou^^, confosed. She abrupdy Nights in Aruba by Andrew HoUeran; to operate in accordance with lesbian- , bie." During recent House hearings, he for Christ." positiveUght in schools, was defeated by Holland, proceeds to faitt in love widi intetiupu her first sexual encounter widi waiiam Morrow aad Co.; $12.95. ality aad the reader is left feding not at feminist ideds rather than foUow pub said he didn't intend to appear defiant or —GayLife; Out Front a massive statewide coaUtion effort in Lane Chrisrianson, a beautiful 32-year- Lane. The nen day at a gangling casino, aU mterested in tfae events that trtti^yire lishing industry standards, which would arrogant. He was simply trying not to Reviewed by BiU Landis 1978. bid lawyer with no flaws. Since they are she allows hersdf to be picked up by . difotsghout die book. likely have brought finandd hedth to appear like he was apologizing for being oonveniendy ass^;ned to share an attic fiormer (nine years ago) aH-Ainerican ^dio Andrews HoUeran's second novel. Paul's life is presented in blocks of the firm. gay. he said. Briggs was recently charged with a bedroom (because no other woman bdieves her when she tells him her Nights In Arubd, fiiUows its protagonist, time diat remain unconnected. Certain Among che fifteen books Persephone "I, Uke most fearfiil. lonely, closeted misdemeanor in a rifle-shooting inddent ilrants to dimb a ladder every night) with name is "Joyce Carol Oates." Confused Paul, &om his childhood in the Carib pen(»ds, e^qiedaUy his realisation and has pubUshed have been Audre Lorde's gay people have been functioning on a at his home, according to the Sacra a pam^amic view of the ni|^t sky. Lane and panic-stricken, Diana ends up in his bean, through a tour of duty in Germany acceptance of his homosexuaUty, are weU-received novel, Zami, A New Spel very smaU number of the available Gay Bike Tour mento Bee. Apparently a process server and Diana have little difficulty becoming hotel room. with the U.S. Army (a Germany, of never discussed. ling of My Name and This Bridge Called cylinders as a human being for almost aU went to Brigg's home to serve him with a summons arising fiom a disputed plumb intimate, first intellectually through the After an appalling few hours with the course, where everyone is gay), and The course this novd fellows is the My Back, Writings by Radical Women of of my life. For the first time in my Ufe, I Planned For China ing biU. Briggs fired a shot in die poetry of Bmily Dickinson, later sexually. fiormer all-Ainerican, Diana submits to leaves him at its conclusion a middle- stereotypical succession of bars, baths, tZolor, an anthology ecUted by Cherrie am a more complete person." direcrion of Chuck Putney, the server, her attraction to Lane. And the best aged, disiUusioned gay man Uving in and promiscuity plotted out in so much Moraga and Gloria Anzddua. —the tveekly news At times Curiotts Wine seems irri- after arguing about Pumey's right to go sections of thc novel begin. Forrest New York City. of the fiction churned out since gay men Greenfield noted chat dthough book tatingly heat in its setting and women. onto his property to deUver the legd Lake Tahoe is almost too idyllic in its writes convincingly and unshyly about Thc opening chapters ofthis book are were "liberated." Paul, along with his sdes were high, the firm experienced On Oct. 1, 1983, che world's firsc papers. winter loveliness; Forrest describes in the physical intimacy possible between imbued wich sensual descriptions of the feUow boarders on the shelves of our losses of $22,000 in each of the pasc two White's Parole dl*gay bicycle tour wiU depart for The district attorney dedded thac che detail the blue crisp £rostiness of its two women who love each other, who parched yet lush tropical island of bookstores' Gay Fiction section, seems years. She said the mdn cause of these Mainland China. Among the Ust of offense was or^y a misdemeanor, even days, thc wine-filled, firelit warmth of imabashedly admire and respond phy Aruba. Paul's tormented relationship destined for nothing but an untimely losses were Persephone's policy of May Not Be Delayed enchusiascic cydiscs are gay people of all chotigfa ic codd have warranted a state che evenings. As Lane is described with sically to one another. In bedrooms, in with his alcoholic mother and bland, death fiom AIDS. One can't help but awarding roydties to authors twice the ages, professions, and levels of cyding prison cerm, because Briggs wasn'c her long, svelte body, glistening blond showers, over untouched glasses of wine luiinvolved father is examined extensive envy the lesbian world its vibranc amount offered by other pubUshers. SACRAMENTO. CA.—According to ability. reaUy crying to shoot Pucney. hair, and ethical purity, who wouldn't in a restaurant, libecated fiom the ly, as is his repressed anger at being characters available for the reader; —The Washington Blade an Assodated Press dispatch. Cali —Gay Community News fall in love with her? And Diana, as the contrivances ofthe first half of the novel, raised in this remote oasis. Nimierous characters whose trials and tribulations fornia's governor may not delay the "Anyone in reasonably good shape other women agree during a brutal, Diana and Lane become real characters secondary characters dart in and out of one can sink one's literary teeth into; release of a prisoner with a fixed with a spirit of adventure can make the irrational, and very believable encounter —likeable, problematic, sincere, and these pages but, as with Paul and his and wait patiently for the gay male sentence, such as Milk/Moscone mur journey," said Peter Greene, owner of group session, is kind, generous, and sexual. family, they are never given susbstance. character who lingers in the reader's Two Women derer Dan White. China Bike Tours. voluptuous. It's too good to be true; as in Even passionate, mutually-consen Hollcran's descriptive prose is beautiful memory long afier the novel is returned A formd opinion was released by th Greene has been operating bicycle Personal Best, the two best-looking sual love offers its own set of problems. but the people he sketches lack person- to the shelf. Not A Couple? Attorney Generd, John Van de Kamp, tours to Mainland China for three years. and was prompted by White's case, This is the first time he has advertised Cranston ••••••••••laiiBiaii • •••••••••••••I LOS ANGELES, CA.—Two women dthough his name was not mentioned in for an exdusively gay trip. Tlie re the opinion. sponses for the October tour, Greene Peter Allen: **Bettveen the Moon and who is responsible for the text, is an old S'^^iiniine r Sounds have sued a Los Angeles restaurant for ^points Lesbian Whife was convicted of manslaughter says, have been tremendous. New York City" by David Smith and fiiend of Allen's who has also done refiising to seat them in a private booth in November, 1982 and was sentenced to "Gay people fiom aU over the Neal Peters, Delilah Communications publicity work for him, and the book is in ordinarily reserved for courting couples. seven years in jail for what many regard country and as far away as England have Ltd., 118 E. 25 Street. New York, NY a sense a continuation of that relation In their dvil suit. Zandra Rolon and as the premeditated murders of Mayor been signing up for this historic trip," SAN FRANCISCO, CA.—San Fran IODIC, 1983, 160 pp.. $10.95. ship and thac work. It's gushy but savvy, Deborah Johnson dlege chac employees George Moscone and gay Supervisor says Greene. "Most of chem are noc dsco lesbian activist Jo Kuney joined tfae and I can't imagine a Pater Allen fan not of the Papa Choux Restauranc cold chem Reviewed by James Hulbert Harvey Milk. He is eUgible for parole on hard-core cydiscs. They just think rhis is staff of Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CaUf.) in wanting to own it. Where else wiU you che curtained booths could not be January 4, 1984. Many dtizens* groups, a fantastic way to see China, a country July at the senator's Northern CaUfomia find out that it was Allen who first occupied by cwo members of the same David Smith and Neal Peters, the as well as the San Frandsco Board of that has been closed to courism for many field representative. Because of the advised Richard Gere (in 1971 yet) "to _ sex. authors of Ann-Margret: A Photo Extra Supervisors, have urged that he not be years." demands of hew job, Kuney is resigning get rid of the hippie gear and to start m Attorney Gloria AUred, representing vaganza and Memoir (1981), have pro released at thac time. "China gives us che besc chey have to her post as vice-president of the AUce B. duced a tribute co Peter Allen that is wearing tight jeans and T-shirts'*: Or g_ the women, says she hopes to give Papa Gov. George Deukmejian's assistant offer in any given place. In some of the Toklas Memorid Detcu>cratic Clidi, similar in its approach but of consider that the song "Simon" from the 1980 Choux its "just desserts." press secretary, Kevin Brett, said that more remote places, it's a red adventure S.F.'s largest gay poliricd club. The ably greater interest, owing to every album Bi-Coti&tal was written in 1968 to _ Restaurant manager Wdter Kulwic- Deukmejian had requested the opinion into a completely different culture and city's gay press reported that with her thing that already sets Peter Allen apart. be simg by MirmeUi (thus originally • sky says che booths are reserved for ' 'on an informationd basis.'' Brett standard of Uving. There is so much joy appoincment Kuney may now be the Allen is not merely a gay cult figure like girl-loses-boy and not boy-loses-boy)? OM romantic diners, adding, "If you can'c cautioned againsc reading a potencid for in these curious people and that is what highest-placed openly lesbian scaff per Better Midler or Judy Garland (or And how many of the wedding pictures H seac people the way you want, you might action into Deukmejian's request. one remembers most." son in government. Arm-Mar gret herselO but rather a have you ever had a look at? aa as weU close the place." —Gay Comntunity Netvs —Out Front —The Advocate performer and songwriter who knows the The book touches on Allen's sexuality H —Montrose Voice; Out Front gay experience from the inside and deals only very cautiously. In fact, the frankest ^ with it in his work more directly than any moments are in the quotations fiom | miAmQs^ other performer in or near ihc mains Allen's own lecters and lyrics. It also is ^ Begonia. tream of American popular music. In a not yet the artistic biography that its •{ Picnic '83 was a whopping time this career! It made that last Saturday in July to raise appropriate questions, asking sensirive to che people wich which we typical Allen song the choice of pronouns subject already merits. It does not study ^ year and the Uve music helped make it as a Saturday I wiU remember for a long, PROFILE whether standards apply for a commu communicate. and nouns leaves open the gender of the the make-up of individual albums as B long time. I was late for the opening nity and for an individud. Then, as the third year of the MCC in lover or one-night stand addressed or fun as it was. First up that afiemoon was coatlaaed treat page 6 such, and its biographical reading of ^ band, but so was everybody else, if denomination, but a Church in and of Considering the many aspects of Rochester begins. Reverend WiUie referred to (the one exception, a line in lyrics is at times superfidal. as in the cae H Begonia, a three^ece female rock band th at' s any indication. But after the itself which can be placed next to, not MCC and WilUe's ministry, the bottom White looks ferward to continuing his "Everything Old Is New Again," is of the title cut from / Could Have Been A ^ fiom the Upstate area. They played a Gay Alliance, and knew thac in this sense opener (memorable enough for me to line, according to WilUe. is not to exploit work in the MCC. to spreading his altered in the direction of ambiguity or Sailor. Smith seems to concur with the H highly funky kind of blues-based rock his work would not be as chaUenging as below, other existent Churches. The forget their name) had finished their set, people. One incUcation of MCC's efforts ministry to those around him. He sees as pansexuahty between the 1974 studio that was easily danceable and not at aU in Rdeigh. Yet, Willie was not surprised MCC, he believes, is not out to make or interpretation quoted fiom Peter Reilly JJ to fulfUl this objective is its use of his persond chaUenge to enable people version and the 1977 live album), but overelectrified(i.e. no S3rnths). But quite and the Armatrading fans began to take MCC was not already in Rochescer. He break the city, but to meet people's of Sterio Retnew, who praises the cut H inclusive language—language which to do far more than he, as minister, cotdd many references to gay and bisexual frankly, by the end ot their set 1 was a bir their seats, the atmosphere reaUy be felc he codd provide pastord leadership, spiritud needs not always mec by other along with the rest of the album but ^ does noc distinguish men from women, ever do, and to do it better. situations will be clear to sophisticated confuses persona and lyricist so that the H bored. They did soUd covers and decent came charged. There were some Arma as in Rdeigh. to bring together those reUgious groups. Willie sees chis in che originals as I had heard that weekend trading concert vets there whose tho members of the conmiunity whose needs fact that members of MCC can say they but considers aU people at once. To be listeners, gay or not. song's indictment of a flight from ^ sensitive to our languaae is to be sexuaUty into a safe heterosexual mar- H fiom exdted bar-goers who had seen roughly exdted mood was jazzing up the may noc have been met by established are gay and Christian with ain authority Some of the infbrmation contained in them at Rosie's. Although they didn't virgins, Uke myself, for the experience. gay organizations. not matched in members of groups Smith and Peter's book (Garland's riage and Ufestyle is completely read ^ quite live up to my expectations, they After a relatively short wait, the WilUe encountered fewer problems which don't readily accept gay sexuaUty discovery of tbe Austrahan Allen in 1964 over, and Smith relates the song only to B were qtiite good and I hope to see them opening synth line to her hit of the '82 than he was prepared for, and acknow and expression of it, in Hong Kong, his shortlived marriage Allen's occasional need for a week at his M around more, perfecting their cr afi. music season, "Walk Under Ladders." ledged the help ofthe GAGV tn assisting Willie commented dso on the minor to Liza Minelli, his spectacular successes beachhouse out of the limeUght. B There is a definite potential there that began to f^y, and up came the curtain. him in finding a place for meeting and in ity of MCC as taking on the form of j^ at Reno Sweeney and the Radio City The novice is best advised to ap- a cO needs to be developed. From that moment on, my body was in a promoting the MCC. On the third outreach, meeting ph3rsical and spiritud TARA ^ Music Hall, die songs irom "1 Honestly proach AUen's work directly, dther in ^ fit of constant motion fer the next ninety Sunday of August 1981, the first service needs of the communtty at large. He Love You" and''Don't Cry Out Lotid" to his stage extravaga-isas or in any of the H ^mrtely thers^er, the Gay Men's or so minutes. 1 don't think I had ever of the MOC of Greater Rochester was feels that spedd emphasis shodd be "I Go to Rio" and ''Bicoastal." the seven albums now available. 1 recom- ' Chorus set up and began their set of tunes irom aU genres arranged for a moved so much in a short period oi time held in the church at 243 Rosedde placed on Christian E • • . * • • •,• • MM>a'1lVM* ISSUE 141 SEPTEMBER 1983 NEW YORK STATE'S OLDEST GAY NEWSPAPER FREE WATCH O R I T BAGKSTREE7S OUT IN THE SUN >: = -*• 'Jb.' LBH-afeajy.^ -t-ii-^^ L