Jupe 7,1984 June 7,1984 DL Gay Leaders Seek Party Harmony Gay Rights Continued from page 1 ■ In the State Assembly races. Demo­ will be excellent gay representation crat Art Agnos, who ran unopposed in on the convention floor. In other election news: Incumbents the 16th District, will be opposed by ^ fH ‘Overall. I think the evening was Sala Burton and Barbara Boxer easily Max Woods while State Assembly f successful,’ said Roselli. ‘We who are Ordinance T ested won Democratic congressional primar­ Speaker Willie Brown easily withstood with Alice feel good that we are the by Ray O’Loughlin ies. Burton will be opposed in the 5th Michael Hodgkiss’ challenge and will only gay club in town with two people validity of the city’s own gay rights f < District by Tom Spinoza, who barely take on Republican Lee Edison, who who are on the executive board who San Francisco, CA. — In what is ordinance but also because it moves squeaked out a 118—vote win over won by a 3 — 1 margin over Donald will be on the convention floor (Roselli being called the first significant test of to a new area of gay rights litigation. Anna Guth. Boxer, who defeated Brian Donaldson. In the 19th District, Robert and O’Connor).’ San Francisco’s gay rights ordinance ‘We’re faced with the problem of Lantz by an 87—13 margin, will take Bacci, a member of Concerned Repub­ Mehring said the election of the Michael Raines is once again in redressing discrimination once the laws Superior Court. Raines is suing the have said it is wrong. How do you on Douglas Binderup, who won a licans for Individual Rights, lost by a delegates ‘reflected the power of the • • * * .* vV 4~ P 10—point decision over Gregory Baka 14—point margin to Robert Silvestri, gay vote.’ He went on to praise city’s War Memorial Performing Arts prove discrimination when people say in the Republican Party’s 6th District who will try to unseat Democratic Roselli’s election as an alternative as Center board of directors whom he they didn’t do it? The Michael Raines primary. an example of the cooperation of labor alleges unlawfully dismissed him from case is the first to set up a proof of "i.ppHliiilill Third District State Senator Milton and gay supporters. his job as managing director in 1980. discrimination that can be presented Thank ¡¡¡r~ . Marks ran unopposed in his Republi­ ‘I think his (Roselli’s) identification While the city maintains that Raines to a jury.’ He also saw the case as There is less acrimony was let go when a better qualified can primary and will be opposed by with labor helped as much as his reminding San Franciscans that discri­ -*-Gay IiiI SB 1 ^ Lia Belli, who captured 70 percent of this year than in 1980 identification with the gay community,’ director was found, Raines claims he mination exists here. the Democratic vote. when the Carter and Mehring said. ‘Labor leaders and gay was fired for being gay. Dunlap cited the Raines case as Kennedy people squab- leaders worked well during this comp- According to his attorney Mary C. significant also to the struggle for Walter Mondale Dunlap, evidence of a pattern of ■ bled... some people just aign and I’m sure that cooperation had Assembly Bill 1, the statewide gay homophobic discrimination will be employment rights bill that Gov. folded their tents up after Craig also believed the Democrats much to do with getting Sal in.’ can get together before the convention Mehring also pointed out that gay introduced at the trial. She said that George Deukmejian vetoed earlier this the conventidn and didn't statements by board members indica­ and the fjdl election. voting power was reflected in the year. ‘Deukmejian alleged in his veto Q>Co show any interest in the 1 actually think there’s less acrimony Democratic Party County Central ted a preoccupation with Raines’ that no discrimination exists against S election. This year this year than in 1980 when the Committee elections. In the 16th gayness and showed a determination gay people,’ she said. ‘This case lets California experts on gay rights case before the New York court. Both by a small margin while soundly Matt Coles, co-attomey in the case, Superior Court Judge William Mul­ issues are pleased with a recent men are directors of the American thumping a proposal which would Dazziing Tenderioin Debut said the Raines case is significant not lins is conducting the new trial. Jury decision of the United States Supreme Association of Personal Privacy, a only because the defendants (the City Gary Hart have rejected seniority pay for fire­ selection began on June 6. The trial is Court not to hear a controversial case small group of experts on sexual fighters. of San Francisco) have challenged the expected to last 4-5 weeks. from Buffalo, New York, concerning issues.The group spent $10,000 to sodomy, but they are not yet prepared help pay for the legal fees in the to declare the decision of the Burger Uplinger case. (Dourt as a victory either. ‘One of- the underlying factors in On May 30, the Court refused by a this case was the fact that Uplinger 5-4 margin to rule on the legality of was arrested for doing something that private sexual acts between consenting was perfectly legal,’ said Hardman. HEY QUEER! adults and sent the case back to the ‘Homosexual activity is legal in New New York Court of Appeals where it York. All Uplinger wanted to do was Every Day in this Country is likelv to die. Justices Harry Black- to take this nice cop home and that is ■ millions of people still live in fear of these words mun, William Brennan, John Paul not a crime in the eyes of the law. If ■ thousands of our people are dying with AIDS Stevens, Lewis Powell and Thurgood the underlying act is legal, now we Marshall ruled not to hear the case. are seeing a crime made out of ■ in employment and housing there is legalized discrimination Chief Justice Warren Burger and ■ in city streets and parks we are beaten by punks and police something that is legal.’ Justices Byron White, William Rehn- Kohom felt one of the reasons the ■ in court-rooms our children are taken away from us quist and Sandra O’Connor were in court refused to hear the case was ■ in the armed forces we are kicked out or thrown in jail the minority on this decision. because of the growing number of The case involved a Buffalo man, ■ at borders and ports our people can be barred from entry Dignity/San Francisco choir rohaarsing at St. Bonitace states which are decriminalizing sodo­ Robert Uplinger, who was arrested my laws. and convicted of soliciting for deviate One Day in San Francisco by Tom Murray Pfisterer, pastor of St. Boniface, purposes to an undercover policeman Hardman agreed with Kohorn. ‘You Ten of thousands of us will march to a rally at the site of the Democratic Primly dressed white-gloved ladies encouraged Dignity members to move on a street in 1981. When the case have to look at all the states which Convention. There, the best spokespeople of the Lesbian and Gay community tilted their heads and smiled with to his church in the city’s Tenderloin reached the New York Court of have decriminalized homosexuality will speak out against the oppression of our people Convention officials surprise as hundreds of gay and district. Appeals, that state’s version of a state and. be encouraged,’ he said. ‘But I estimate the media audience to be between 500 million and 1 billion people. lesbian Catholics nested in the pews, A former member of the Archdioce­ supreme court, the case was ruled in agree with Jay about the Court and its joined hands, and began to sing. A san Social Justice Commission’s Task Uplinger’s favor. Just one year before, decision. The Uplinger case was so tipsy gent attempted an impromptu Force on Gay/Lesbian Issues, Rev. the same court had overturned New clear-cut we even had the New York dialogue with the celebrant, only to be Pfisterer believes his commitment to York’s sodomy law. state attorney general supporting our NATIONAL MARCH AMOR MALDITO, the first feature film from Brazil to deal with lesbianism, will play Friday, surrounded by a host of ‘guardian justice for lesbian and gay people Those two facts rankle Paul Hard­ view. angels’ monitoring his tongue. With comes from the Gospel. ‘To be a June 22 at the Roxie Cinema, as part of the 8th San Francisco International Lesbian and FOR Gay Film Festival. AMOR MALDITO demonstrates the strides being taken In South Ameri­ man, former publisher of California ‘This court isn’t going to be going grace, warmth and style Dignity/San follower of Christ is to be open to all can cinema to deal with the sublect of gay and lesbian Sexuality. Voice, and Jay Kohom, a Los Angeles overboard for gay rights,’ he said. Francisco arrived at last in its new human beings. One of the most LESBIAN/GAY RIGHTS home at St. Boniface Church June 3. characteristic things about Jesus was The lively, innovative liturgical his acceptance of everyone, not judging the reason for the delay in formulating eight CO—sponsors, there is little doubt SUNDAY, lULY 1 5th - SAN FRANCISCO▼ 1984 format prompted an enthusiastic res­ them,’ Pfisterer said. ‘In his acceptance new regulations for bathhouses was a that the measure will pass the full rhe National March endorsers include the Lesbian/Cay Democratic clubs of San Franacisco. ponse from one parishoner, ‘1 have not of those rejected in his day, lepers, move by Supervisor Harry Britt. Britt board, probably by the end of June. the National Cay Task Force, the National Coalition of Black Cays, and the California Chapter attended a service with such energy tax collectors, Samaritans. We find Bathhouse Sex Ban introduced legislation to the d ty ’s Mayor Dianne Feinstein has said she of NOW This historic opportunity to reach hundreds of millions of people will occur in less and enthusiasm since moving here Jesus breaking through all the bar than 60 days Help us speak out for equality not only for yourself—but for the millions who Board of Supervisors an May 14 that supports the move as well. are forced to remain silent from the Phillipines.’ The culture shock riers we humans put up against each Continued from page 1 and political response must be made will remove the police department Although it may be the end of was mutual. Dignity members accus- other.’ Pfisterer added. Although bath owners were unavail­ to combat these unprecedented attacks from any involvement in regulating summer before any new rules are customed to the suburban snugness of ‘We’re proud and excited to be at If You Could able for comment as Sentinel USA against the privacy of the citizens of bathhouses. Instead, the Department imposed on San Francisco’s bathhou­ their former location St. John of God St. Boniface, a parish with a great went to press, the Northern California San Francisco.’ of Public Health would have sole ses and sex clubs (the latter require tell 500 million people about Lesbian/Gay rights for $25, would you do it? Newman Center in the Sunset were history and many important ministries,’ Baths Association, with the support of In a strongly worded prepared authority in the matter, propose and separate legislation), fewer of them D Y«. I cap become a Sponsor for S25 or an Angel for SI00 shocked and initially intimidated by said George LaFaro, CoChair of D i^i- the Independent Gay Health Clubs, statement, the NCBA denounced those enforce its own regulations and hold may be open to see the day. Worried □ Lis\ my name in the official March Program.* the stained-glass vastness of St. ty/San Francisco. ‘We’re looking has previously announced a war chest police inspectors as spying ‘on totally its own hearings on those regulations. bath owners have begun advertizing Boniface; ‘It’s a real church!’ □ Send me a Program and Button. (Add $1 for postage & handling). forward to extending our ministry to of at least $500,000 to fight any such legal,private acts by consenting adults.‘ ‘Since the purpose of regulating the to inform customers ttiat they are in gay people in the Tenderloin and - S.'; Dignity’s membership began looking ban. Bath owners are expected to The group called upon the gay an baths has to do with medical problems,’ fact still open contrary to talk of Name ______Phone ______:______throughout the city.’ take the issue to the courts to halt non—gay community to Resist such said Britt aide Dana van Gorder, ‘it bathhouse closure. But a number have for a larger facility over a year ago. A festival service of welcome will The process became tense and painful enforcement of the new regulations ‘ill-advised tactics’. Accardi added that makes more sense for the Department closed already. The latest to do so Address/C.ify/Zip ______take place on Sunday, June 10, at when they become law. the bathhouses are private clubs of Public Health to regulate them than was the oo-ed Sutro Baths, once known last September when Rev. Anthony 5;30pm at the church, 133 Golden Send checks or money orders to natio nal march for lesbian a n d cay rights McGuire, pastor of Most Holy Redeem­ Sal Aooutli, of the NCBA and owner having the same legal status as an for the police to do it.’ as the most sumptuous iMthhouse in 2301 Market St Suites A. B & C. San Francisco, CA 94114 (415)863-5005 Gate Avenue. This celebration coinci­ of San Jose’s Watergarden, told Sentin­ individual’s private bedroom. The Britt ordinance is scheduled to the nation. The Sutro closed June 3, er Parish in the Castro, recinded an des with Pentecost Sunday, traditional­ •Your name will remain confidential if you do not mark this box Those who wish to remain el USA earlier, in response to reports But their day in court may be along be heard on June 14 by the board’s after a final 3 —day fling taht drew invitation after months of negotiation. ly regarded as the ‘birthday’ of Christ­ .anonymous may send money orders and leave the name above blank Almost immediately Rev. Robert to police inspectors secretly visiting way off. According to a health depart­ Public Protection Gimmittee, chaired 500 celebrants to commemorate a ianity. San Frandaoo bathhouses, that a ‘legal ment spokesperson last week, part of by Supervisor Willie Kennedy. With by—gone era. June 7,1984 June 7,1984 a

Rights Advocates have done,’ remark­ Women should be lawyers without ed Morgan. They represent a lot of being like men. You have to realize low-income people and don’t just focus that when you have a position in NOT on fancy cases. The Lesbian Rights society, your attitudes change. People’s Project had too little resources and a attitudes are shaped by the situation WEARING specific grant for lesbian mother in which they live. There is no Chaitos R. Roberts, Jr. ANYTHING! custody cases in the beginning to deal incentive in this society to work for with other types of cases, but now poor people because you don’t make Meet Mary Morgan money or win cases very often. You EXTENDED they have expanded and are handling cases like employment discrimina­ could start out in Legal Services, then WEAR by Nikki James Judge Mary Morgan is an example tion.’ A Real Investment To LENSES of today’s woman. Morgan, 38, spent ‘1 like the diversity of the gay nine years as a lawyer and has been community and see it as a healty sign. on the Municipal Court bench for the Different backrounds of people car, Cut That Tax Bite past two and a half years. A New produce different needs. There are DESIGNERS Orleans native, she attended Smith times of factional back biting, but it’s 1 hope in the past two weeks you Depreciation is measured by the College, graduated from New York not all bad. The gay community can have started looking at properties and taxpayer’s cost or other basis for the University law school in 1972 and pull together when necessary, and 1 have set a goal of looking at certain, property and must be spread over the moved to California the same year. think there is .a tremendous amount of number of properties in a set length of anticipated life of the property. Only OPTICS ‘I wasn’t happy with graduate school concern over issues like AB-1.’ time. If you will write this goal down, the portion of the real estate having a and saw law as a vehicle for social Morgan became a judge by submit­ you are more apt to do it. limited period of life is depreciable; change,’ said Morgan. ‘I am not ting an application to the Governor’s Real estate property is classified land being indestructible, is generally 431-4890 involved in politics because of the office. They sent it to the state bar into four catagories by the IRS. It is not depreciable. Improvements (build­ judicial canon of ethics which states and evaluated and investigated her held either for personal residence, for ings, businesses) placed on the land that judges cannot contribute to parti­ backround and qualfications, then investment, for use in business, or for are depreciable because they do not san politics.’ Morgan and the othir Governor Brown appointed her. ‘I sale. The major difference in these is enjoy a perpetual life. For example, if ‘gay judge’ on the Municipal Court, would not have been interested in with respect to tax deductions that you depreciate a $100,000 building Herb Donaldson were both up for re- applying for a judgeship if Governor can be claimed. Property held as a using straight line depreciation over a election this year but had no opposi­ Municipal Court Judge Mary Morgan. Brown had not been interested in ten year period, it earns you $7,000 hustlers on Polk Street or transvestites, appointing someone from the lesbian go to a middle-level, comfortable personal residence can be used to tion. They still decided to collect claim the statutory deductions of per year in tax savings. Realistically, p o u ß i . signatures at Hibernia Beach ‘so that lewd conduct in Golden Gate Park, and gay community,’ said Morgan. situation, or you could opt for a job that allows you to make a comfortable interest, taxes, and casulty losses. your property may double in value people would know we were running and domestic violence between gay ‘Herb Donaldson and I probably got over the next ten years. Still for tax men and gay women. Morgan was a living and have time for free work. Therefore, in the beginning almost all and had a strong constituency and appointed not only because we were the monthly payments of your resid­ purposes, it was treated as if you lost base of support from the gay commun­ lawyer in private practice before qualified but also because of our sexual ‘I plan to be a judge for at least another six years. I like my job ence can be deducted from vour income money. Depreciation is an artificial ity becoming a judge and dealt mostly orientation. I was willing to acknowled­ ta:i return. For example, if you are loss. You actually didn’t lose anything • Most of the cases that Morgan with civil cases such as lesbian mother ge the fact of being a lesbian.’ although I do get bored occasionally. I’m always seeing different kinds of earning $25,000 a year, don’t own a at all, but the 1RS treats it as such. hears are criminal - prostitution, drunk custody cases. Morgan has this advice for woman business or real estate property, are Moreover, this is just for structure. driving, street fighting, petty theft, ‘I’m impressed with the work that considering a legal career: ‘Law is still people and problems and that makes Depreciation can also be used for the Lesbian Rights Project and Equal a very male-dominated profession. it challenging.’ working for someone else, you know vandalism, male prostitutes who are that around half your earnings are the carpets, stove, refrigerator; any­ removed before you even get a check. thing that is detachable falls into the about two hours. It took us almost and hot and cold plunges. ■ .And weeks later, much nearer the four hours to get in thirty minutes of Property acquired for investment purposes should be heart of the empire, we found in sightseeing at the two locales. Sparing bought for the tax benefits they reap as opposed to the AFf^ROABL^ C-orroK F^TOth Pompeii the ruins of three large you the details, Liverpool's busses bathhouses for this city of 20,000 make the MUNI seem as efficient as cash flow, at least initially. people. the Swiss Federal Railways. CUSI:usHion We returned to San Francisco just 1 2 2 2 Foaom St.. Son Fionclico. C A 9 4 1 0 3 in time to hear that Mayor Feinstein Well hung:lf vou are visitimr Eurone personal property catagory and can 861-3182 this year, be forewarned. It is the year Combining this with the effects, of MON -SA T 10-« B0tw*0n $th A 9 th had sent undercover police into our inflation, even if you get a raise, it be deducted at an accelerated rate of bathhouses to learn what several of of the scaffold, ana 1 aon t mean the recovery. Returning to our example kind used to execute criminals. From usually puts you into a higher tax Traveler’s Notes her own aides could easily have told bracket with only a few .tdditional above, this property with $10,000 her. Had we ever been away? the Thames to the Tiber, dozens of worth of personal property earns a I'm Back! A long-planned trip to which still remain for tourists to gaze the finest buildings are festooned with dollars anyway. Interest oavments on a home mortgage reduce this ta:, $5,000 first-year deduction. These Kurope happened to coincide with this at. provided rest and recuperation for maintenance platforms. deductions combined earn the owner Gay and Lesbian Catholics legionnaires unused to the cold climate Twenty years ago today: Lured The Parliament clock tower in bite. If you pay $1,000 a month in newsp;ii)er s change in ownership. 1 mortgage payments, at the end of the $12,000 worth of tax deductions. If our friends and families. t)-.pe nu absence from the last two of the north. by publicity of guided tours by bus London housing Big Ben is wrapped the property owner (salary $25,000) After-long disuse, the baths at Bath and on foot about the Beatles, we in polyethylene for sandblasting and year you will have around $11,500 to l•"ue•^ has not been misinterpreted. take off your income tax return. also owned his own home at $100,000 Scuiinci I '.S.A. is looking great and became popular- again in the 17th visited Liverpool, home of the Fab cleaning. It looks like a large bandaged and owned the above $100,000 proper­ I' headed in a promising editorial Four. Yes. we’d heard it was a pretty thumb. In Rome, the column of Marcus Combine this with $1500 expenses on century, and the town became a taxes and insurance and you will be ty whose payments are supported oiiection. 1 have been associated with grungy — or grotty — town, but it Aurelius is similarly obscured. From through the rents collected, he or she ims nauer foi- seven of its ten years, fashionable resort. Hotels and hospitals seemed worth a pilgrimage for two York Minster in the north of England able to deduct $13.000 from your piped in the 110-degree water to their $25,000 salary and pay taxes on would owe little or no taxes to the IRS V /San Francisco and 1 am proud to be part of the new devoted fans. to St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, this year. However, in reality, they digrJï eaiii. 1 wish my new editor and own buildings. Those facilities remain-' In fact, Liverpool taught us a lot parts of every great ecclesiastical $12,000 income at a lower rate of ed in use right up to a few years ago. taxation. Moreover, you will have would have acquired an asset that will publisher well about the Beatles in one long Thursday building are in repair. appreciate in value. But the baths are now closed until morning; for example, why they left The most bizarre instance is Rome’s acquired something that will increase Since 1973. an active community of worship, late 1985. Pipes are being drilled into in value over the years as you enjoy You can still make a lot of money in service, and just plain fun. If it's nut une thing...On a vacation, as soon as they could, and why they Piazza Campidoglio, the magnificent real estate without quitting your job. m e wants to leave behind the cares, deeper waters of the spring. Why? never returned. The guided tours, we square Michaelangelo designed as a it. Your own home should be your Sunday Eucharist is at 5:30 P.M, , St. Boniface Because of an outbreak of meningitis, first real estate purchase. All you need is to invest a little time concerns, and controversies of one’s learned, are only available on week­ setting for the classical bronze statue and effort. When you are serious Church, 133 Golden Gate Ave. (Near Civic Center hometown. Sometimes, however there possibly caused by an ameba. ends, a detail never mentioned in the of Marcus Aurelius. The statue isn’t Property acquired for investment purposes should be bought for the tax enough to commit your goals to paper Bart Muni Station.) are constant reminders. A few days after our visit to Bath, American publicity the city’s tourist there: only a flat wodden cutout. It is and to read them tegularly, you Interpreted for the hearing impaired. Please call .As we departed, the bathhouse friends in the north of England drove bureau has generated. like a finelyworked diamond ring benefits they reap as opposed to the cash flow, at least initially. This tax energize your commitment and turn us for more information on Scripture study, raps, iirouhaha was in full swing. One of us along the ruins of Hadrian’s Wall. We decided then to restrict our visit without the diamond. your daydreams into reality. retreats, and other social events. our first stops in England was...Bath. .At each fort along this Second Century to areas mentioned in Beatles songs: savings is in the form of depreciation. The Romans founded this town at the northern border of the Roman Empire, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. Gay life: We didn’t see much of the -.ite of the only hot mineral springs in we found ruins of large bathhouses — The l(x:al information office told us gay life abroad. We had intended to P.O. Box 5127, San Francisco, CA 94101-5127 584-1714. Britain. The Roman baths, ruins of locker rooms, hot rooms, warm rooms. this could be acomplished by bus m stay in a gay hotel during our week in London, but the one recommended by our travel agent was gutted by a mysterious fire the week before we arrived. We stayed one night in another, but its walls were so thin that you could hear everything going on in the next room. With so little privacy, it did not make much sense to pay twice as

ADULT BOOKSTORE much as we would at a neighboring « MOVE ARCADE hotel just for the privilege of sleeping (lÆ C . in a double bed. There are gay hotels and budget hotels in London, but the ALWAYS OPEN two catagories do not overlap. FORMAL WEAR 673-0626 We checked out a gay pub. Harpoon Louie’s, that, save for the accents and the beer brands, could as well have been on Polk Street as on Earl’s Court CHECK : CALVIN KLEIN/ADOLFO. PIERRE CARDIN COMPLETE SELECTION OF Road. It was pleasant enough but . WAITERS ,/MUSICIANS ATTIRE Leather and Rubber Goods hardly different. LARGEST ACCESSORY SELECTION DISCOUNT PRCED; In Rome, we saw posters for a big OUT THE dance partly scheduled for the night after our departure. It would have BIS POLK SAN FRANCISCO been interesting to check out,,but we PERSONALS would have had to cancel our visit to 1211 SUTTER STREET SAN FRANCISCO 94109 Florence. We chose David over disco. they have sat in the sun with their them most intimidates them most. shirts on or declined invitations to go They conclude that gay and non­ gay media create images of male Body, Soul, and Nautilus youthfulness and virility which, though continued from page U sexually stimulating, nonetheless cre­ by Tom Murray the majority of whom have never ates unreasonable expectations of what with Charles Roberts place, as I believed the ads which talked candidly with another gay man is normal. They conclude with enthusi­ suggest that everyone there is a hunk. on how he feels about his body. astic certainty that our body image, Last month we had a visitor at th^Sentinel USA office. He arrived distant and I was relieved to discover that this ‘It’s a hot summer day,’ I will say, our feelings of adequacy, are all to withdrawn one morning as we were unpacking. He had been a friend of Charles ordinary body of mine was in the ‘and we’ve just arrived at the beach in often dictated by how others feel Roberts for the past six years and needed help. Something was obviously company of other equally ordinary the company of other gay men. 1 want about our bodies rather than how we troubling him. Charles brought him home, fed him and arranged for him to see a bodies, but then 1 happened past two all of you would strip off your feel about our weight, height, skin doctor. men who were sitting together reading shirts immediately to go sit in the and hair color, measurements, comple­ Several days later, a nurse telephoned from the Intensive Care Unit at the local gay newspaper. One of them, right hand comer at the front of the xion, etc. The goal, we decide together, Presbyterian Hospital stating that Charles’ friend had been admitted, diagnosed who was reading my column, looked room. I want those of you who would is to focus on how we feel about our as having pneumocyctis, was on a respirator and calling for Charles. In the days at the picture, looked at me. poked his wait to take off your shirt until you bodies, to be realistic about our since the Sentinel USA office has been an informal headquarters for his family Sutro Bath Finale friend and said something. What I spotted people in less good shape expectations and to learn to work with who sought moral support and assistance in managing his business. His young imagined hearing was ‘He doesn’t than you to go sit in the left hand and love what we have. nephew has been completing a coloring book as a writer types out a news story have a body!’ 1 was crushed, embarras­ corner of the back of the room. In the It is a worthy goal. My problem is nearby. sed and upset. Had they just said center of the room, I want those of you that I don’t know what I have to work This week Charles announced that as Publisher of Sentinel USA he wanted to what I most feared would be articulated who would keep your shirt on all day.’ with. I have never reached my limits write an article recommending that all the bathhouses and sex clubs be closed. 1 by someone, somewhere? I sought the Group Number Two is always the Brian McNaught served as the gay and because 1 have always feared the fastest route possible back to the largest, with Group Number One and lesbian liason to Boston s Mayor Kevin strongly disagreed and asked him to sleep on it. Then we agreed to each present White. His syndicated column began in process, the initiation into virility, the our position, a pro and a con about the bathhouse issue. Rather than an editorial locker room and the safety of my Group Number Three generally draw 1975 and has been published as a collection test of endurance, the risk of failure. statement. Sentinel USA would create a forum, attempt a dialogue where the clothes. ing equal numbers. And regardless of ol essays under the same title. For years I have focussed my and issue could be explored further. To my surprise, 1 have found in my the age group, the observations made home with someone for fear of expos­ other’s attention on my face and my The nurse telephoned again, stating that the respirator was being removed, a travels that most gay men feel similarly and the conclusions drawn by the men ing their love handles. They also talk mind. But now I want to know what tracheotomy performed and the family summoned. There is no forum; all of our sad, similarly angry and similarly are very much the same. The men about the number of drinks it takes to my potential is and limits are. I want plans ground to a halt. intimidated. When I get the opportun­ observe how relieved they are to relax them in the bar so that by the to go to my grave feeling that at one Editors, preachers, and politicians can use their platform to propose, even to Body, Soul, and Nautilus ity to do workshops with gay men at know that other gay men feel the time they let go of their feelings of point in my life, at least, I really liked colleges or conferences, I focus a lot of same way about their bodies and they promise simplistic solutions to complex problems. Possibly that happens because as we attempted to lift our legs over inadequacy, they’re drunk, they talk my body, I conquered my fear of the public looks to and pressures its leaders for inspiration and for answers. After My friend John and I just signed up our time together on body image. It is express shock that many in the room about how they live for the nod of failure, I was the first to take off my for a year’s membership at the local our heads in a backwards somersault. an exciting, threatening and liberating don’t feel better than they do. They ouf last edition, one of my friends remarked, ‘Your editorials need more teeth.’ 1 ‘Come on, guys, lift those legs acceptance from someone better look­ shirt at the beach. replied, ‘But Kevin, first I want to know what I am sinking my teeth into.’ gym. At 36 years old, I have never time for almost all of the participants. recall with humor the various times ing and of how that which attracts “^1984 by Brian McNaught had the body I wanted or, I suspect, higher,’ commanded the handsome, Editorship, ordination, and election bring no magical vision. They do, however, friendly, well-built, no-wedding-ring- present an opportunitv to see the broader picture, to clarifv the issues, to anyone else did either. John is 45 and articulate the question and to suggest direction from a ne\\ vantage point. wants to flatten his stomach. We both on-the-finger instructor. ‘Oh, Bob,’ I offered, ‘this is John’s Leadership without compassion is impotent. The leaders I most respect decided it was again the time to invest were considered necessary to improve table sugar and syrups. Complex throughout history have been people I identified with on some fundamental level in our self-image. very favorite one.’ performance and increase muscle mass carbohydrates, which are also known of my humanity. From what we hear, our small-town The humor seems to make it easier The extra protein supplements that as starches, include foods such as gym attracts many Mr. America types. for me to walk into that environment. many people consume will not increase pasta, cereals, vegetables and potatoes. We wouldn’t know this for sure For most of our lives, the thought of muscle mass but may actually increase Simple carbohydrates cause a higher IVe fed that safe sexual practices must be self instituted: because we make it a point to show up entering into a gymnasium and into your body’s fat stores. We know that degree of insulin stimulation and are and that this behavior is a reflection of how we feel about at 9:00am when the place is empty. In the sacristy of straight male machismo, muscle mas can be increased only by generally less filling than the complex ourselves and each other. that way, no one will see at what level the locker room, has struck terror into appropriate exercise and that muscular types according to Dr. Haas. 1 set the Nautilus weights. the hearts of many gay men. I found, activity does not increase the body’s What does all this mean to you as There is something very serious during my first week at the gym, that need for protein beyond that consumed you jog your mile or ski cross country Editors, preachers, and politicians ultimately are called upon to live their if I laughed a lot, I didn’t have to in a normal balanced diet. Proteins for the day? humanity responsibly, with integrity and compassion. They act as catalysts, and something very comical about mv trips to the gym. I find a lot of humor admit how intimidated I felt by what We Are What We Eat are essential for building and repairing In order for muscles to work, they calling forth that same integrity, compassion and responsibility from those they in reflecting on the first week of was expected of me nor how frightened tissues and for providing enzymes must convert protein, fat, and carbohy­ serve ^ workouts. Being the type of person, I was of failing. Focusing on the I was browsing in the bookstore the noodles. If you can cut through the necesary for metabolic pathways to drate into an energy source. This As we all grapple with the AIDS reality, it is crucial to acknowledge that the for instance, who would vacuum his comical aspect also distracted me from other day among the current best schmaltz and do not tire of reading function. energy source is called glycogen. pain, the responsibility and consequences belong to everyone. In no way can the house before the cleaning service the painfully serious side of this issue: sellers and came across the book Eat Martina Navratilova’s name on thirteen Dr. Haas places little importance Glycogen is stored in the muscle cells gay community be ‘blamed’ for this situation. In no way will closing the arrived, 1 did my share of emergency My sadness and anger that I have To Win the Sports Nutrition Bible by pages, it is quite an informative book, with regard to the use of protein and and in the liver ready to be utilized bathhouses and sex clubs eradicate it — no more than closing the public sit-ups and push-ups at home before I spent so much of my life fighting the Dr. Robert Haas. I noticed quite a few providing some sound nutritional fat as energy sources. Complex carbo­ when you call upon your muscles to swimming pools prevented the spread of polio thirty years ago. felt ready to walk into the gym for the fear that 1 am not fully a man. other people picking up this book, so 1 advice for all types of people whether hydrates such as cereals, pasta, and work for you. The length of time that Our starting point — and our uniting point — must be a common humanity that first time. It makes me sad and angry that at decided to look at the inside cover and athletic or not. There is even a chapter raw vegetables make up a large part one can sustain physical work of high transcends political bias, cultural stereotypes and irrational fear. They abound in .As a result of recently quitting so many moments in my life I have see what all the interest was. This on peak sexual performance. of his peak performance diet. He uses intensity depends in part on the content the gay community as well as among the non—gay community. If the current smoking, I was terribly constipated been afraid of being discovered as a book claims to show you how to ‘de­ Let us talk a little on the subject of the Kreb cycle as an example of how of muscle glycogen. It has been crisis seves any purpose, it might be well to confront us with the reality of our and, subsequently, loaded with gas fraud; afraid of being a major disappo­ age’ your blood and how to heal sports nutrition and human performance. For carbohydrates benefit us. This cycle demonstrated that inclusion of carbohy­ humanity, our mortality, our need to be bonded with our sisters and brothers. during our initial visits. Seeing how intment to my father and mother, my related injuries through diet. Wow! the past five years, sports nutrition is a bi(x:hemical pathway by which all drates in the diet increase the utiliza­ We at Sentinel USA mourn the loss of those we love in the ongoing ugliness of the first three or four machines stretch older brother and older sister, my Did 1 miss somethig in my medical has emerged as a subspeciality within food that we eat is turned into energy tion of blood glucose, storage of muscle AIDS. We feel that safe sexual practices must be self instituted, and that this, your legs up and apart, I kept giving younger brother and younger sister, textbooks! Spaghetti cures a sprained the field of nutrition. Although nutri­ to be used by the body cells as energy and liver glycogen which ultimately behavior is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves and each other John and the instructor plenty of my grandfather and grandmother, my ankle!! I will admit that I was a bit tion is a component of physical perfor­ requirements are dictated. We do know improves endurance. Conversely, a .As t'lay I’ride Week approaches, we must remembi-r that whih’ we discuss and breathing rooni. 'You all g" ahead.' 1 childhood friends who picked me to skeptical, but I was willing to be re­ mance, the exact contribution is not that the cycle works most effectively lowcarbohydrate diet such as that sometimes disagree about specifics, we nonetheless remain united and committed encouraged, ‘i want to pace myself.’ be on their team, my gym instructor, educated by Dr. Haas and decided to known. We do not know whether when there is plenty of carbohydrate found in fad reducing programs would to the goodness of our love and our sexuality as gay and lesbian people Other humor was found on the floor my girlfriends, my fraternity brothers, read the book. superadequate nutrition will lead to available. If there is not enough lead to a depletion of carbohydrates in my readers, and now, by God, even to an increase in performance above that carbohydrate around, fats taken in by muscles and liver making it very other gay men. Eat To Win is aimed primarily at obtained with adequate performance. the body will not be burned efficiently difficult for an individual to endure As I go to select the Nautilus weight the athlete, whether weekend or A nutritionally adequate diet is one and instead will produce toxic by any strenuous degree of physical I will lift, it makes me sad and angry fulltime, and its goal is to improve that provides the body with sufficient products called ketone bodies which activity. NOW For Gay—Lesbian Rights to think of how many upset stomachs performance, reduce aging by advocat­ nutrients and energy to meet its can be detrimental to cells. Extensive research is now underway I have had fearing that I would strike metabolic needs. The average U.S. Dr. Haas makes a point to tell us continued from [>ane I about a bank executive,’ said Jackie ‘It is a commitment of our resources ing a lowfat, complex carbohydra­ on this issue. We should soon be able symbolic of the interest NOW is out at bat, drop the fly ball, cry in te diet. A majority of the 267 pages is household consumes 14% of food the difference between simple and to assess the body’s ability to react to Winnow, the Lesbian/Gay Liasion to the passage of such legislation and front of other boys when I hurt myself, energy as protein, 43% as fat, and showing toward AB1721. Sources with the SFHRC. ‘The fellow was dedicated to Dr. Haas’ own recipes complex carbohydrates. The simple nutritional therapy in combination with the ultimate protection of the rights of get into a fist fight, cross my legs or from dietetic coq—au —vin to noodle 42% as carbohydrate. carbohydrates are usually the things close to NOW have indicated that with the bank for 13 or 17 years, 1 all lesbian and gay Americans,’ said other medical modalities in fighting look at my nails in an ’unmanly' pudding made with no yolk, eggless In the past large amounts of protein we use to sweeten drinks such as disease. NOW will be going all out to make the can’t remember. He went to some Goldsmith. manner. In other words, the fear of Garden State the second state in the party and decided this was the time to This isn’t the first time NOW has failing each new test. nation (Wisconsin is the other) to come out. Shortly afterwards, he lost worked hard for gays and lesbians in As I slip into my gym clothes now, his job. It was easy for us to prove he protect gay men and lesbians from New Jersey. In the past, the organiza­ it makes me sad and angry to think of discrimination, especially in the after- was discriminated against. He was tion has worked against bils which awarded a $30,000 settlement. how many times and how many ways Men, It’s Plain and Simple. math of Deukmejiafi’s crushing veto would have recriminalized homosexual I have kept my body covered because Our community’s in crisis— and you can make a difference of ABl. ‘But there is an addendum to that,’ behavior as well as a lesbian child I didn’t think it measured up to what I ■We’re all at risk for AIDS. ‘Each day we are reminded of the Winnow added. ‘Since his bank had a custody case. The organization is ‘should’ look like — my arms were too contract with the city, the SFHRC had discrimination faced by lesbian and combining its clout with other organiza­ skinny, my muscles too small, my Stay healthy by storting your AIDS Prevention Plan nov/! gay men in our society,’ said Judy the power to investigate and to enforce tions such as the Lambda Legal Counseling for people with AIDS and their loved ones. the law.’ chest too flat. It is a sad thought to Goldsmith, the national NOW Preside­ Defense and Education Fund, the know that you have hated your body. ‘hi: Aiiv,; Healtn i’r/iet": k ,. i I'.iid lu' 'Unoir nt. ‘Every day 20 million Americans Deukmejian knows about these American Federation of Teachers, and One year commitment, eight hours a week cases because the Human Rights Yet, because of that sense of inadequ­ • 1:. i.viduc:. ; '.■.‘nsulliil::. live with the harsh reality that they the New Jersey Organization for the acy I loved winter and bulky sweaters; could lose their jobs regardless of job Commission sent him 87 documented Women’s Plan of Action with hopes of Our next training will be held • ! ■ :; iIO(litl, A:.:,'i;.i'll*'■ l.:.i .ul .! yt .a a:<''li cases of discrimination against lesbian 1 would decline invitations to go to the performance if their sexual orientation passage. beach or the country club; I would r,;-iL r.sK I'.I a id ;- and gay men. And. lobbyists were Similarly, organization is the key becomes known.’ shower before or after the other July 20.21.22 / 27.28,29 That is the kind of talk that makes trying to influence the governor just word in San Francisco as gay rights 558-9644 • lr/i!v;dualv,ed AIDS Piovent!. >ri Plotiiiing George Deukmejian feel a mite uncom­ as much as Sen. H.L. Richardson (R- advocates prepare for their next round campers, dorm residents, or monks. Perhaps the saddest and angriest I for application .'.'o!'i

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women violence and extortion, often ards, was both closelyknit and political­ but not always involving police. Gay ly active. bars are periodically raided and must Oikabeta members were very friendly bribe police in order to operate. (On to us as American lesbians. They see the other hand, the Lambda headquar­ their struggle for women’s and gay ters has been left alone; the police liberation as an international one. One know of its political activités and woman had recently attended a femin­ connection with the P.R.T. and want ist conference in Peru, attended by to avoid provoking a big protest.) over 600 women from many Latin Mexico: A Lesbian Perspective On August 19, police in Mexico City American countries including Chile, arbirtarily detained gay men in the Columbia, Mexico, Argentina, Urugu­ Sizzling Summer Season by Ann Menasch? and Manuel Alvarez Reyes of Lambda at streets, holding them until they had ay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Durínda Coursey the Lambda coffeehouse and headqu^- paid a bribe. Lambda’s response was Brazil and Puerto Rico. The theme community rodeo with the Rodeo ters at Baja California 71, Mexico to help organize a demonstration in was ‘Patriarchy in Latin America’ and Association advertising in the River’s (The following article is based on there were workshops on sexuality, informaton obtained during a visit to City. He granted us an interview and coalition with other groups. gay newspaper. Mexico in August of 1983. The authors shared copies of the Lambda news­ feminist theory, and many other topics. The Mine, the River’s first video paper Nuevo Ambientei^^'M Environ­ Antigay represión in Guadalajara There are presently no lesbian bars bar is being opened by the owners of an hen leshian frm inisis. residents nl in Mexico City. Lesbians meet through San Francisco, who hold somewhat ment) and some Gay Freedom Day has been even more severe. On July the Rainbow Cattle Company and is posters. 23, 250 lesbians and gays were the political and social activities located at the time sign on River Road differing political points of view. Ann sponsored by both organizations, or Menasche is a Trotskyist, a member of arrested at the point of a machine gun where the Old Silverado once operated. Lambda has an active membership while peacefully attending a social by sheer luck! There are a few gay The interior has been remodeled com­ Socialist Action, a sympathizing group men’s bars, some exclusively upper of the Fourth International. Durinda of 40 and a periphery of 100, 40% of function. The prisoners were kept pletely and the Mine is expected to be Coursey is unaffiliated with any group its ranks and leadership being women. totally incommunicado tor as long as class, others exclusively working dass. one of the River’s hot spots! but has strong leftist sympathies. Both Most members of Lambda are social­ three days and were required to pay Only one of these bars, a working Good news about transportation to authors feel that little has been written ists, actively support worker’s strug large fines to win their release. class bar, admits women at all. This is the River...there will be a daily shuttle to date either in the gay or in the left gles in Mexico and other countries Lesbians and gays in Guadalajara a grim place, overwhelmingly male, service to the Russian River which have been organized since 1981 in mafia run, with no dancing permitted. press on the Mexican gay movement and are in solaridity with the révolu will run three times per day from San IT IS FATHER'S DAY. YOU KNOW! from a lesbian perspective, or on tions in Nicaragua and El Salvador Grupo Orguillo Homosexual de Libera­ (We were told that samesex dandng Francisco. lesbians in Mexico, and wanted to help Many are sympathizers of the P.R.T tion! Gay Pride Group for Liberation). is actually illegal in Mexico). We CELEBRATE DADDVS WEEKEND redress that. At the time of our visit. Lambda and noticed a surprisingly large number of During the last election. Lambda Oikabeta members were doing all soldiers in uniform at this bar. JUNE 15,16, & 17 fielded lesbian and gay candidates of they could to assist their sisters and The situation for lesbians and gays FEATURING When we arrived in Mexico City on their own choosing under the P,R.T. brothers in Guadalajara. in Mexico City is quite good compared Participant ai last yeai s Russian Rivei August 15, two lesbians from San ticket, and supported the P.R.T. rodeo LEATHER NIGHT P'rancisco, we had not a clue on how candidate for President, Rosario de ______AT ^ lo locate lesbians and gays, or the gay Ibarra. Rosario, a feminist, is one of The River is off to its biggest rights groups that we had heard the most well-known woman in Mexico summer ever, after a very busy winter existed there. All we had was the and a leader of the National Front season. With the hot weather arriving address of the P.R.T. (Partido Revoluc- Against Repression, which defends in April this year, very few people PAUL PARKER ci«)nario de Trabajadores political prisoners, the disappeared waited for Memorial Day to start PREMIERING "OeSIRE” SATURDAY, JUNE 16 tionary Workers Party Mexican and political exiles. coming to the Russian River. Years AND section of the Fourth International.) Alvarez told us that gays in Mexico ago ‘The Season’ was marked by the KAREN DRUCKER From a gay P.R.T. member, we wouldn’t support capitalist parties Memorial Day Weekend, but now obtained the address of Lambda, a because they were responsible for 5* those who wait that long miss a couple AT FIFES SUNDAY. JUNE 17 AT 3PM mixed gay rights group that the P.R.T. repression against gays. of months of great weather, fine dining, COMING UP.... had helped to organize in 1978, and Last Gay Freedom Day, 4,000 and great entertainment! Oh yes...the JULY 4TH WEEK presently the largest gay organization marched in Mexico City in a political summer season doesn’t end with Labor JUNE29-JULYS demonstration to protest gay oppres­ in Mexico. Lambda is housed in the Day either! The hot weather, entertain­ CELEBRATE FIFES 6TH BlllTHDAY FO R DAYS! sion. Their slogan was ‘Socialism former P.R.T headquarters, which ment and action continues through FOR INFORMATION TELEPHONE (707) 869-065Ó Lambda shares with Oikabeta, an without Sexism.’ October and then people flock here"for PO. 80X45-S, GUERNEVILLE. CAUFORNIA 95446 autonomous lesbian organization. A key issue among lesbians and the beautiful fall weather, specials The following evening we met gays in Mexico is antigay and anti- offered at the resorts and restaurants and holiday fun. Only one resort closes" r ' in the winter and the others offer all I kinds of extras for the romantically The Fitness The women dressed and acted m the informal, inclined such as wine tastings. I androgynous fashion characteristic of lesbian feminists Coming up will be Lawanda Page I Experts in the states. We felt totally comfortable and at home (Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son) with these women. at the Woods June 11 and ‘Daddy’s I Weekend’ at Drums with Paul Parker Another Rodeo Cowpoke I y M C on June 16th. Samantha Samuals will The 1984 Mr. Russian River, Ron I Smn Francisco CmntrmI Thursday night is womenK)nly nig'ht to the rest of Mexico. Though repres­ follow the June Party st the Wwids Dykstra, has been busy since winning 2 2 0 QoUmn Gate Avmnum at Baja California 71, attended by sion is still severe, lesbians and gays June 15-17 as the entertainer for I Central his title with photo sessions and Smn FrmneimeOiCA 04Í02 lesbians from Lambda and Oikabeta, are organized and fighting back. In Cabaret Monday June 18th. Barbara preparations to promote the River. I I ’ One O'OC* horn Ovic Centei Baa & Muni Metto and others not affiliated with either most of the rest of Mexico with the McNair will appear the following He'll be mtire than another pretty I group. The night we attended, August exception of Guadalajara, there is no .Monday nights at Woods’ Cabaret. face. His plans include a monthly 17, about 50 lesbians were there organized gay movement, and lesbians Other entertainers at the River feature article in This Month On The I Get In Shape For Summer! watching American films. After the and gays are extremely isolated. include Vincent Marlotti at Little River, interviews in a number of I films were over, a heated discussion Lesbians, of course, are the most Bavaria on Friday and Saturday national gay magazines, and will host invisible, often even to themselves. I 25% off TOTAL price of annual Membership. ensued during which some of the nights. Mr. Marlotti is a renowned a summer of upcoming events. women criticized the sexist and violent Many of them, especially those who pianist and has played at concert halls For more information on the River, I nature of these films. It reminded us are poor and uneducated, or those all over the world including the write to the Russian River Gay I of the type of discussion that we’d had living away from the major cities, still Kennedy Center in Washington; Bob Business Ass

Come to Poppa, Come to Poppa Do Musical director Choreographer The playwright who names his work ‘Bad Drama’ is either rash or precariously SCOTT SINGER EDWARD BLAIR confident. The current production. Theatre Rhino’s season-closer, fortunately Jazz Tap Ensemble Men Dancing does «of live up to its title. That didn’t let me off. On the sunny day it opened, I Tue thru Sat, 8 pm was envisioning a one-word affirmative acquiescence to its title followed by a long Sun, 4 & 7 pm snooze at the beach. While ‘Bad Drama’ isn’t as profound an experience as its subject matter promises, it is a solid example of the resonance Gay theater can $15 & $10 have. by Steve Savage by Mark Woodworth Just as new rnothers love to discuss their new babies, gay men love to make GILL THEATER Some people may think of dance as Centerspace Dance Foundation pre­ Fulton at Cole Streets sents Men Dancing III on June 7, 8, parent talk. Their mothers, in venom or in love, are of prime concern. Fathers are the silent whitehot, fissionable energy a quieter, more mysterious subject. ‘Bad Drama’ dramatizes a father/son story, careening around behind an invisible and 9 at 8:30 pm, and Sunday, June the long-overdo confrontation between Mathew and his son Collin. Though they Tickets at box ofïice or BASS. 893-BASS soundproof shield. 10 at 4:00 pm and 8:30*pm. Center- maintain a civil social relationship, something has caused Collin to deeply resent But listen to the collective breath space is located at 2840 Mariposa his father, creating a distance between them other than Collin’s sexual preference. and surge forward of a line of Greek Street in Project Artaud (between When that subject finally comes to light, there is some explosive drama to be folk dancers ..the crisply chattering 17th and 18th and Florida and Alaba­ dealt with before the pair can be reconciled. ma Streets). For reservations and THE POLISH AND WIT OF A HITCHCOCK FILM heels of an impassioned Flamenco The father/son reunion takes-place in a partially constructed theatre which MIXED WITH EROTICISM AND HUMOR. .irtist...the tiny wooden thuds of toe information, call Centerspace at 861- Mathew is outfitting in a former bam on his property. The theatre seems to 5059. A superbly photographed occult melodrama about the shoes as ballerinas flurry into position symbolize the outward falseness of their relationship, for they are politely playing death lanlasies of a gay writer and how they come true the gentle ‘whump' as a magnificent Centerspace was founded in 1975 by Christopher Beck and a group of roles for each other. But Collin, despite his resentment, loves his father, and STYLISH AND EFFECTIVE “ male virtuoso touches down after a although it is painful, has returned home to provoke the scene which may allow Vito flusso The Advocate series of air turns...the evocative music friends as a place to nurture creative him to drop his mask and bridge the distance between them. Mathew seems made by the snap and whirl of work, especially in the areas of dance uncomprehending, innocent. Is he playing a role? Is he the villain Collin WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, YOU MUST USTEN costumes ..the brush of a modern and movement arts. At the same time, . perceives? A tale of intrigue and betrayal unfolds as the fight between father and dancer's bare foot along a wooden he founded Christopher Beck and son becomes the first drama to be played in Mathew’s theatre. The conflict’s Dance Company/Theater. The follow­ flooi. resolution is more realistically open-ended than the traditional happy ending of [5 Perhaps all dancers try to turn ing interview was conducted shortly theatre lore, but optimistic and heartwarming, nonetheless. before Christopher left for New York 11 L l th [if á i l iiuisic into ‘frozen architecture.' but is Belief in the initially recognizable father/son relationship is s^bmewhat undercut there a dance form that makes more to dance with Phoebe Neville. by the author’s setting. There is really no reason why Mathew would build a audible and more delicious music than Ü tap dancing? The proviso, of course, Sentinel USA: What is Men Danc­ StMUUNC is that the tapping be well done, not ing III? JEROENKRABBÉ/RENÉESOUTENDUK inerelv a series of tired routines done Christopher Beck; Men Dancing is o,i«cn>.PAULVBWOeVEN/ROBHOUWER«.oiH.c.i. sjXLTraNfc h\ .inialeiii' \uth pasted ni Mihles our annual fund-raiser, which is intend­ wnH THOM H O flW U DOll 01 VMS GilllT 01 JOHC HANS VUIWUN SCMENnAV •« GEMMO SOHIMAN BASE0 ON THE NOVEl Insert: Jett Friedman $ AXONOMETRIC CUTAWAY B» GEMMO BEVE OIMCTOA 01 PMOIDGMMHY JAN 01 BONI MUSIC BY 101« 0l««E« A fBESENTAIlON 01 AOB HOUWEB S EIIM COMPAGNIE Tiiere i- •hat Kind ■ >| i.ip dancing, .and Patrick Morgan s FLIGHT ACE. ed to raise money to keep Centerspace then there is the stylish, irrepressible, the studio/theater open and function­ EXCLUSIVE SF ENGAGEMENT NOW! creative kind done by the Jazz Tap ing. The program is all men - the VYed-Sat-Sun 2:30. 4:45. 7:15. 9:30 Daily 7:15. 9:30 Ensemble, which recently gave four dancers are men, the choreographers CLUY B A R G A I N m a t i n e e s %2 SO performances at Herbst Theatre under are men. This year the program Fillmore at Clay/346T 123 WED SAT SUN t i l ? )0 the auspices of San Francisco Perform­ consists of all contemporary work, ances. JTE has been touring the dance and,gives.the.audience a chance to ho; sp Its o| l-.niopr .md Sl.de-- and see a wide range of contemporary ap­ happily touches down now and then proaches to dance. I’m very excited m its home base of California. by the program and I’m sorry I won’t JTE is composed of three fine jazz bf able tn see it because I'll he aw a\ niusicians, Jeffrey Colella, Jerry Kalaf, S; Who is performing? and Eric von Essen, who also write or C.B.: It’s a real kind of dance arrange some of the numbers; and sampler. John LeFan and Jim Tyler dancers Lynn Dally, Fred Strickler, are performing. They were original and Linda SohlDonnell. Picture the members of the Mangrove Perform­ dancers; Strickler looks like an impish ance Collective. John and Jim are member of the British foreign service currently associated with Mixed Bag who clearly could tap out the Magna Productions. John’s backround is in Carta m Morse code. Dally has the both theater and dance. Jim Tyler’s engaging spontaneity of a painter or backround includes several years of actress who is creating even as she performing with Erick Hawkins Dance speaks, never lulling you into a sense Company in New York. Also on the of complacency. SohlDonnell radiates program is Craig Landry, whose work the theatrical smarts of a singer in a was selected to be shown at the Arts Sondheim show plus the bouncy, Olympics in Los Angeles, in connection unflappable charms of a gypsy. with the Olympic Games this >uiiiiiiei. The three pull together so much as so people will have a chance to see a company that they have seduced what his work is like. He’s a very then nuisiciaii' into doing handsl.ip exciting and dynamic performer who body jive and a little hoofing at the • combines vocal work with movement, start and end of the show, adding a Craig Landry s WILLIE. which draws on his training as a friendly, icebreaking touch. \ few speech pathologist as well as his lighthearted remarks now and then, gymnastic and dance backround Then and a musical jam session with spoons. there is Joah Lowe, who is working in v^;ishl)oard b.is> . and h.iniiomc.i .d>o the Bay Area teaching movement help break down the sometimes forbid­ after teaching and dancing many years ding theatrical fourth wall. in England. He is a veteran of the two But for all their wiles, one should previous Men Dancing shows in both not think the Jazz Tap Ensemble of which he had dances that were Mona Mandrake sings ot love and longing in all tongues and guises, in a rare string ol people are folksy. On the contrary, very well received. He got wonderful appearances at the Valencia Rose Photo: Daniel Nicoletta they are highly sophisticated artists reviews and they were wonderful in their choice of music, costume dances, so it is very exciting to see theatre as opposed to a carpentry shop, photo labe, or pizza parlor except th ^ an designs and changes, program building what new work he’s going to be fmpty theatre is so theatrical. Props, costumes and menacingly blinding and pacing and most importantly in turning up with. Also on the program spotlights figure heavily almost always with a forced hand. Domestic bad dramas collecting, choreographing, and perfor is Dean Loumbas, who dances with are generally played out in kitchens, bedrooms, or in front of football on ming their dances. JTE does not deal the Gary Palmer Dance Gimpany and televisions in dens. Not many families have a theatre in the backyard, and despite in your basic shuffleofftoBuffalo buck- will be premiering a duet for Gary the heightened moments allowed, there is too much excess and unreality infused andwing. Rather, it involves images and himself. Also Patrick Morgan, in the tight little family drama by tRe stretched allusions of the IfKale for the of the flying feet and rippling rhythms who dances in iny company, has play’s good. . . . , • u u of reputedly great tappers like Foster danced with Tandy Beal. And Jeff More confusion is caused by the subplot of Louis, Collin s lover. Louis as een Johnson, Eddie Brown, and Charles Friedman, a member of the Oberlin brought home to meet the ‘in-laws' and act as Collin’s buffer. It seems he was once 'Honi' Giles (to whom thev oav tribute, Dance Collective is an exciting perfor­ an actor, and in some confused and confusing monologues, he flails about in the and with whom they'v e worked i. while mer in his own right. debris of dreams discarded long before the current action. Somehmes, he is simultaneously building new routines S; Are all of the pieces new works? wholly irrelevant; then again, in his ramdom upset, he leads Collin back to on firm backrounds in modern dance C.B.: Yes, so far as I know, with one Mathew by pointing out that Mathew never turned or flinched from his son s and jazz. Lucas Moving s SIX SHORT DANCES. exception, and that’s a very exciting accusations. Mathew wanted, or needed, to be judged by Collin, knowing that Some of the things they do: a exception because it’s a work by Lucas reconciliation can occur only when recriminations are past. Past t e gimmic ry o ^ continued on page l.'{ continued on page 13 continued on page 12 June 7,1984

S; You mean it’s a public space? C.B.: Not really. It’s intended as an C.B.: Yes. It’s available for rehearsals expresión of contemporary men’s SUBSCRIBE!! and for performances tor rent that is comtemporary work in creative dance. m B M nm less than at any comparable facility. I’m not particularly interested in events We have risers and chairs, full theatri­ which are specfically gay. What inter­ $25 for 1 year! cal lighting, a sound system, and a ests me about being gay is that it Enclosed is check or money order for $ 0 wonderful dance floor. And in addition gives us, those of us who think about Men Dancing to making the space available to the it and feel it consciously, an outsider’s Name community at as low a price as is perspective-the same perspective Address of the matter, which is the creative - feasible, we supply back-up technical that is shared by any other group that its theatrical setting, after the breast-beating and venomous fight, beside the conlintu'd from pugc W -Zlp- which is to move me to new ways of services to renters. And we also have has been oppressed for whatever City____ .State- history peculiar only to this family, ‘Bad Drama' has at its core something that Hoving, who is one of the true every gay man will recognize. In the last scenes, we are acquainted with the thinking, feeling, seeing, perceiving, series in which, like Men Dancing, we reason, whether for age, for gender, Vlsa/Mastercharge # survivors of modem dance. He’s been of experiencing the life we are all produce local performers so that they for race, for national origin, or for anguish of a father who cannot comprehend his own child at the same time we are at it for over fifty years. Lucas is a Expiration Date------soothed by the son’s attaining a wisdom he could not have had as a child. ‘I never struggling, if we’re at all sensitive or have no need to worry about technici­ religion. It is also the perspective prisoner of modem dance and has intelligent, to make sense of, because ans or publicity or equipment. We which artists share, that of the outside Signature------knew what I wanted from my father,’ says Louis. ‘It never occurred to me that 1 performed for many years in the Lucas had any choice.’ Children take unquestioningly, unendingly from their parents. It we have none of the old rules or also have an Open Stage series, at - the ones who are forced by something Hoving Company with Doris Humiph- standards to hold to that functioned in is a wise son who learns that something can, must be given back. least twice a year, in spring and in inside to explore new ways of thinking 500 HayM San Francisco, Califomia 94102 j rey, and other companies in Europe. our culture for most people until the fall, where experimental artists can and feeling and seeing and are striving Russell Dado excels as Mathew, playing with the sympathetic tones of a male He ‘retired’ to the Bay Area a couple mid-twentieth century. Gertrude Berg. If this man did wrong, it must have been innocently. His hurt and show their work without having to to communicate that to the audience, of years ago and keeps his hand ip S.‘ Are these things what Centersp- worry about publicity or a lighting the public, the world. In that sense, I bewilderment are as clear as his love for his son. This skewers the question of his with occasional teaching and some ace is all about? guilt but I embraced Dado’s Mathew as Every Poppa. Keno Rider is Collin, good person or how to get a whole program think something like Men DAncingIII occasional choreography. He has creat­ C.B.: In a way, yes. Some friends together because the programs are is of incredible relevance and interest at holding his hostility in, allowing only his edgers edge^ to show before letting ' ed these six short dances done by five and I started Centerspace nine years loose entirely. Louis is played by Harvey Sacks, a fellow so Bristol Creme shared. because it is people who are trying to men. It’s a delightful piece and in a ago. Our vision was of a place to S; So you feel that Centerspace has use this artist-outsider perspective to handsome, all dimples and twinkly eyes, that his overworked expressions elicited concert of all Lucas Hoving’s work not disapproval, but a schmekkle in fun. The trio plays well together, hard work nurture the creative, this thrust toward an important community function? explore new ways of being in the that Ceaiterspace presented this spring, the new that I have been talking and dedication to the script obvious in all three. C.B.: Yes. This facility has been world, which is something that we as the Chronicle reviewer specifically about, and to nurture that specifically vital to the community for nearly ten gay people are also exploring-new The theatre set has allowed designer Robert D. Cook to handsomely open up in terms of movement and allied Rhino’s interior to its full breadth. ‘Bad Drama’ itself doesn’t soar quite as wide, years now. And our Men Dancing ways of living in the world. theater arts. I think that movement, of shows are a chance for the wider perhaps because director Robert W. Pitman hasn’t given the heights of its all the art forms, is the most exciting S: Does this apply to Centerspace conflicts the expansive breadth of the set. The key confrontation, a central community not only to see some of the because it’s the most raw. There’s best new men’s dancing in the Bay as well? portion of Act Two, doesn’t seem to have been shaped at all. The pitting of son nothing really that intervenes between C.B.: Yes. I think (interspace is Catering, 108 Ethel Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941,415-383-0195 against father is weakened by distant and random movement during what should Area but also to help support the the source and the expression-there’s ongoing existence and development révélant for the same reason. Center- have been a close, personal fight. Pitman has brought an easy naturalness to the no instrument, there’s no equipment, space and a thousand other such places quieter scenes, conquering the cold, broad space to achieve intimate moments. of the Centerspace studio/theater. just the body of the dancer. It’s also, I a all over the world exist to nurture that Ultimately though. Pitman has not justified the author’s use of an empty theatre S.‘ Is Men Dancing III gay perform­ think, probably the oldest of the art ance? kind of exploration of ourselves. by rising to its pre-ordained demands, and ‘Bad Drama’ suffers from it, lacking forms (although nobody knows for the full impact I suspect it would have. The result is a quiet exploration of the sure, of course) because rhythmic allegiances of blood, the tangled alliances with our parents we cannot (and should movement is an aspect of all life. not) want to escape. ‘Bad Drama’ runs at Theatre Rhino through July 7; 861- Before there were people, there were 5079. rhythmic movements by our prehuman ancestors. What I think probably happened is that we became conscious, FLIGHTS OF FANTASY little by little. The difference between movement and dance for me is that USTEN AND INDULGE IN dance is intended movement that is SENSUAUTY...WITH STYLE organized in some way. Not only is it EROTIC— RECORDED FANTASY the oldest of the art forms, in my opinion, but it is also the most NEW. UNIQUE CO N CEPT PEPPINO’S success^I at going the’^deepist in BUSY SIGNAL-NO CALL BACKS both the doer and Ae perceiver. And NO CREDIT CARDS Italian Restaurant that’s because it goes so readily to the SO SAFE-SO CONVENIENT-SO PRIVATE preverbal, preconscious realm from SO LOW IN COST which it emerged. S; So you feel that this is what Sidewalk Terrace (»arden Room Centerspace embodies? ' ' i All pastas are home-made C.B.: Yes. Centerspace was started as a home for truly creative, truly Home-made bread collaborative work that comes from a Fine wines requested that this piece be done on deep inner source and is expressive in 976-SÓLÓ Cappucino Fspresso the Men Dancing series. the deepest and widest senses of the ONL Y S2 (PLUS TOLLS. IF APPLICABLE) ON YÒUR PHONE BILL! S; Are you performing or choreogra­ word. It’s been very important to me WAnNING! M e n i liw pnhibia minon. MEN ONLY! Exclusive Dishes at FFPPINO’S: phing yourself? all along, even as I’ve worked on my ’unocchi alia Romano' C.B.: No. I just did a season of my own work, that Centerspace be a own work, and I’m going to be in New home for other work that has this kind r ‘Combination ior tw<» — Seven Flavors York performing as a guest artist with of perspective. We’ve produced con­ (finocchi al pesto, cannelloni, lasaf^na Phoebe Neville. But I think Men certs bv various peoole. both local and tortellini with meat sauce, manicotti Dancing in is an exceptionally exciting from New York-for instance, we produced Phoebe Neville from New crespelle, iettuccini Alfredo) program because people will get a chance to see the whole gamut of York and we produced Lucas Hoving Open fntm A.\l. I)ail> different styles of contemporary dance recently. We’ve also tried to develop

i ’ I I by men in the Bay Area. Centerspace studio/theater as a com­ S.- What is it that you most admire munity for low-cost, but fully- 1247 Polk Street 776-8550 a'A in contemporary dance? polished performances, making it C.B.: I think what I like best is available to the dance community and when people go straight for the heart the theater and music communities.

Jazz Tap Ensemble riintinucd irinn pugr It) berg’s music. It starts out like a Sam club 9 ^ ^ . .'•' L Fridays whimsical duet, with slides and scrapes Spade number, with a man in a in arcs that sound and look like those raincoat, hands immobilized in pockets, iM .-L,'- \ 6 P . M . - Harvey Sacks (lop) and Keno Rider in Bad Drama of an iceskater; velvet passages that and nonetheless conveying drama and 427 PRESIDIO AVENUE 931-5896 emotion (aided by Nancy Seruto’s dori 2 A .M . s * J ^ Strickler performs sitting on a stool, Don’t Miss These alternating with blistering ones stand­ lighting design). An ensuing duet for ing up; the women in a tapless duet, the women has them developing It would be wrong to think of Mona Mandrake as a female impersonator or a all swivelhips, rubberknees, slinky- cadences, pauses, power, even the PIANO BAR ENTERTAINMENT drag queen, even though Mona happens to be a man. Mona .Mandrake is a stylist shoulders, as Strickler sneaks on and stealth of speech, all through the WITH DAVID’S house of song, a self-created dream of emotion, music and illusion. Mona makes her first off; Daily’s solo in ‘Spoon River’ that movement and the footwork. It is a David C. Schuyler, proprietor appearance in several years at Valencia Rose at midnight. June 15,16,22,23. 29, traces a filigree of notes as intricate as formidable accomplishment by these 30, plus 8pm on June 17 and July 1. The program includes Gershwin. F'iaf. Weill, a piece of Peruvian silver jewelry; a ministers of tap. BOB SANDNER tangoes by Carlos Gardel and words by Claude Duvall. $6. deliriously virtuosic homage to ‘Honi! Listening to Fred Strickler effortless­ HAPPY HOUR Coles as a finale. ly line up and then mow down domino- Jae Ross sings at Fanny s on Mondays, June 11,18 and 25: 8:30pni. For all the variety of the evening rows of 32nd notes and triplets in a Friday andiSaturday from 9:30 P.M. 5 to 7 P.M., Seven days a week (though more than a dozen ensemble piece done to music of Gottschalk, I Bob Stuart Murphy and a company of male dancers present ‘Reflex.’ a numbers, solos, duets, and musical wondered if the ultimate compliment FREE PARKING — BARCLAY SQUARE LOT BAR OPEN 11 A.M. to 2 A.M. dance/theatre event, June 8 • 16. Info: 626-6255. interludes), one of the most theatrically one could pay a tap tfoupe might be: ‘1 (Calif. Street between Lyon & Presidio) 488 Hayes (Between Gough and Octavia) inventive was the longish ‘Blues Suite’ heard a great new tap troupe last $1.00 DRINKS . . . 4 to 7 P.M. DAILY 863-8829 And finally, ‘La Cage aux Folles’ is here. I suspect I’ll have a lot to say about choreographed by Lynn Dally to night - they sounded a bit like Jazz this inevitable meeting of Broadway bigtime and San Francisco babylonia. Next Jeffrey Colella’s and Tom Dannen Tap Ensemble. time! W::;? l i i i i jlSiiiiiijijijiS W: 'Siegfried' Triumphs In S.F. Opera Two Very Different Male Fantasies by Bill Huck by William Neville The audience cheered. The critics a web around a metal crucifix, a raved. The musicians congratulated Two Hour Spree In bouquet of red roses from which a gun themselves. Wagner's Siefifried has The Temple Of Doom seems suddenly to protrude, two men kissing passionately in a crypt), and been a grand success for the San An idealistic friend was wondering Francisco Opera and its summer Ring. in the chilling and eventually almost recently why Stephen Spielberg, transfixing power of the drama. The The endangered production, rescued so greatly gifted at bringing people by the Sells and BankAmerica Founda­ Fourth Man reminded me at moments together in film like E.T. and Close of Polanski (especially Repulsion), at tions. has become one of the Opera’s Encounters of the Third Kind, on a most talked about thumohs in years. other times of Hitchcock and De Palma. This third ijart of the four—part cycle plane of love and understanding, would But Verhoeven goes further tahn these stoop to the callow commercialism of three titans of the macabre in exploring proves that despite the agonizing debt such extended Saturday-afternoon facing them, the S.F. Opera can still the tortuous inter-connections among serials as his enormous 1981 success religion, desire, violence, and death. show us why they are considered the Raiders of the Lost Ark and its current, crown of San Francisco’s musical estab­ Beyond that, he even indicates that ‘prequel,’ Indiana Jones and the Temple the compulsion to ‘freeze’ another lishment. of Doom. By now, word of mouth has spread person forever on film may bear some Well, stooping he may certainly be, relation to murderous inclination. the tale of the achievements of the but Spielberg is still bringing people cast and the conductor. From the title together — in a shared experience of role down to the offstage forest bird, Darkness Enlightened fun, fear, and amazement, tapping The manager of the Ghirardelli there was hardly a weak link in the primitive response mechanisms with whole ensemble. Rene Kollo, Siegfried, Cinema has very politely explained to the most highly-developed technologi­ me the reason for the sudden change deserves the loudest applause, for his cal skills the cinema can muster. At part is the longest and the most from dark to light in the middle of the 9:45 showing on a recent Sunday Strange Invaders when I saw it there a difficult. He managed not only to sing morning I expected with some dread his music, but to act the agile, boyish few weeks ago. It seems that the to be, conspicuously, one of the few Paul Verhovan't THE FOURTH MAN now playing al the Clay Theatre. theatre used the better halfs of two of hero. Thomas Stewart as Wanderer people over high school age in sight. deserves the deepest love. The great the prints submitted to them, and the To my surprise, children and adoles­ of living men before they are lowered dreams and nightmares of murder, of print from which they tok the first heldenbaritone's voice is now a bit cents constituted less than half of the with agonizing slowness into pits of tattered at the edges, but the Wander­ death, of blood and disfigurement, of reels of film was darker than that audience; and we (putative) adults flaming lava, this is a netherworld to eyeballs oozing from peepholes and from which they took the later portions er s music lies well for Stewart. His laughed, gasped, and cheered almost haunt your nightmares. (It is also one ability to articulate the melodies as plunging to the floor, of his own of Ae movie. Now, at last, I know that as loudly as the juveniles. Indiana that may well win Oscars, as Raidns castration (and worse) by the scissors it is not always the theatre’s, fault well as to invest them with a conversa­ did, for the art directors, editors, and tional style was awesome. Jones is much more fun than any serial of an amorous hairdresser who p^dles when the screen is dark and the action I can remember from my childhood, sound engineers involved.) Still, it is products with the name ‘Delilah.’ The difficult or even impossible to follow: Helga Dernesch invested the small not just because of its feature-length not necessarily the floggings, fryings, central character is an impoverished in some cases, the film was shot in low role (4-Frda with a majesty usually of its high level of technological and other assorted violations that writer who is alcoholic, CAtholic, and light, and that’s just the way it looks; accomplishment but because, with pepper this section of the movie that reserved for title parts. There is a de Waart rose to an achievement lands, Norway & 'Nibelungland, ' homosexual (a heavy load for anyone in others (later in the movie’s run), the diffeience, Rudolf Bing once remarked, story as the process of decay. Although consistent inventiveness, each thrill will be particularly alarming to children to carry!). His visit to a university print has become dark through repeat­ previously unheard in his work which were merged mythically with I think Lehnhoff is wrong to see in the audience. The potentially more between a singer, no matter how on the Ring. tops the one that came before. Seeing town to give a lecture sets in motion a ed showings. Also, carried away by Siegfrieds capital. Xanten, on the seasonal progression in the Ring as it's like going on a two—hour spree in upsetting element is, I think, the fact harrowing journey into horror and g«M)d. and an artist. Ms. Dernesch is But the element in this success that Rhine. Far away over the sea, there the negative tone of my own remarks an artist. Helmut Pampuch barked moving from Rheingold as spring, to the world’s most advanced amusement that our champion Harrison Ford is despair, as his fevered imaginings in the last issue, I shamefully neglected 1 want to discuss in detail is the was a disguised Iceland with ‘Isenstein’ Walküre as summer, Sie^ried as changed for a few terrible moments - most of his way through Mime, but he production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. With park- - the sort of mindless, sensation­ take on a hideously literal reality. The to mention the great big, beautiful for its capital. There is nothing autumn, and Götterdämmerung as seeking pleasure 1 thought that 1 had however unwillingly by blood he is film builds gradu^Iy, but with relent­ acted brilliantly. Cheryl Parrish was a Siegfried the totality of Lehnhoff’s Mediterrean about the original Nibelun­ new screen that was recently installed light and lovely forest bird. In the winter, I now understand his point in long ago outgrown. forced to drink - - into one of the bad less power, to a shattering, horrific at the Ghirardelli. Unavoidable dark­ conception of the Ring has become genlied. doing so. Lehnhoff is centering the guys. grueling role of Brulnnhilde, Eva clear. I complained much last year Humor (wit may be too Mankiewicz- climax that left me nearly frozen in ness aside, this screen along with the Martv.n brought down the house. cycle on Wotan, who is in the spring ian a word) and terror, or the ability to 'The rest of the time. Ford is his my seat. It is beautifully done through­ general attractiveness of the theatre of the Greek influence seen in Rhein- As with all mythological stories, Though the top of her voice has not gold and Walku re. of his glory in Rheingold, and who by evoke it, are probably the film’s two usual affable self, the personification out, in the acting (particularly the itself and the exceptional pleasantness Wagner overlaid his modem concerns Siegfried must face the decline of his of devil-may-care, with a crooked grin the ilarity and purity it showed in Wagner in the /?i«g imagined Nordic major qualities. The former predomin­ bravura performance by JerdenJKpjht of its staff, makes me look forward to Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten four onto this traditional material. Yet there fortunes. Lehnhoff has postponed ates in the first hour or so of the that is halfway between a smile and a be in the leading role), in the s tru n g viewing many more movies there - - if gods, who reflected the weather and was nothing southern about those revealing the image of nature’s anta­ sneer, a face that needs shaving and a years ago. it has grown in size and landscape of their native Germany. action, the latter in the movie’s second seductive imagery (a spider spinning they’ll just let me back inside! taken on a burnished luster. This concerns for they centered gonism to man until his third opera, half, but the threads of laughter and big muscular body that hints vaguely The geography of the 12th century on the Industrial Revolution’s manhan­ but he has achieved potency with his of an oncoming paunch. Here, how­ singer should prove a regal and poem from which Wagner took his fearful excitement are intertwined commanding Go tterdd merung\ir\x n dling of nature. Industrialiam is a image because of its delay. throughout. Early on, there is a mad ever, he gets to sweat and leer as story extends from the Danube on the The reason for creating the sunlit shadows of flames flicker on his huffing nhilde on her return next summer. south to the northern lands ruled by product of Northern European culture cnmic scramble fur a vi;il nf urgeiitlv partly because, before they could attain Greek setting in the early operas now cheeks, going suddenly from ‘devilish’ Especially on the opening night, Edo Siegfried. These included the Nether­ needed antidote and an enormous a level of comfort equal to the greatest also becomes clear; so that Lehnhoff diamond lost amid chunks of ice during to diabolical, and he has never been civilization of antiquity, the Northern can show the ruins of them in Siegfried. a free-for-all on a nightclub floor. more fun to watch. But what a shock Europeans needed to protect them­ Nothing in Western culture expresses Later, the occupants of a plummeting for a child: it is like having Daddy selves against the ravages of winter. more completely the transience of airplane that is devoid of both pilot metamorphose into a monster! This need for a barrier between human glory than Greek and Roman and parachutes bail out on a rubber The female lead is not so felicitously themselves and nature is the motiva­ ruins. Lehnhoff’s Act III, scene i set raft, landing miraculously but not quite conceived or cast as in Raiders which tion that drives Wotan to Valhalla. portrays nature’s revenge on man’s safely in the midst of raging rapids. A had the spunky Karen Allen, Indy’s sense of self-importance. This is the woman - and this is emblematic of the match in almost every measure. Indi­ No one enjoyed the fruits of civiliza­ scene of Wotan’s frustrating and final script’s regrettably retrogressive con­ ana Jones has instead an actress named tion more than Wagner, who pampered encounter with Erda, who symbolizes cept of the female as a fingernail- Kate Capshaw, who resembles Kathy himself in the extreme. But partly nature in the Ring. The goddess is conscious ‘sissy’ - is confronted succes­ Lee Crosby as a shopworn chorine because the composer liked being on now completely alienated from him sively by a bat, a giant spider, an and who screams and whines through­ the receiving end of Germany’s new and indifferent to his problems. No alligator and one or two other forms of out, squealingly, like Carroll Baker. affluence through industrialism, he pleading by him can stop her abandon­ frightening jungle fauna, and reduced She IS a cartoon of ‘femininity’ and deeply understood the problems impli­ ment of him. This scene is also where to helpless, screaming hysteria. Then, when Ford wraps his whip around her ed. Wagner did not have a solution to Siegfried breaks the spear that repre­ thinking a snake encircling her neck at the end, the action is distasteful in a the industrial rape of nature; he had sents Wotan’s political power. Lehn­ is merely the trunk of a playful way that the more extreme violence only a dramatic image of it. hoff is right to see it as the turning pachyderm, she grabs and tosses it that preceded it was not. Lehnhoff in placing the gods of the point in the tetralogy. It is a powerful pettishly aside,. causing the hem early Ring operas in the trappings of and beautiful scene. leap, most uncharacteristcally. in Castration (and worse) classical Greece was adding his own Dresing the forest of Act II in fear. Just before the film turns darker, Violence of an altogether different interpretative layer onto Wagner’s tale. autumn colors is a clever way of sort prevails in the Dutch director Lehnhoff is telling the Ring story as an elaborate banquet of live snakes, making an ironic comment on Sieg­ scorpions, eyeball soup and chilled Paul Verhoeven’s The Fourth Man. the development of western culture, fried’s triumphs. Not even the hero at monkey brains served en skull is now playing at the Clay. Here the in which the Greek gods represent the his most resplendent can forestall the presented for the protagonist’s delecta­ violent events are at first interior, same stage of polytheistic naivete as process of nature s turn toward winter. occurring in an obsessed man’s day­ do Freia, Fricka, Donner and Froh in .Man —in —nature is always in need of tion. Predictably, and not too amusing­ Rheingold. So long as we had only the sheltering himself against the inevi­ ly, the heroine faints. first two installments of Lehnhoffs table indifference of his surroundings It is the latter half of the film, a Ring, it l(M)ked as though the director This summer’s Siegfried is that descent into the underground ‘temple’ Ken Kikuo was ignoring the sinister side of nature. special thing in the world of opera; a where abducted children are enslaved If V alhalla is open-air Greek temple, beautiful production splendidly sung. and made to dig for diamonds and lost Isobe the motivation for building it, the Nikolaus Lehnhoff here rewards the magpeal stones, that has provoked a need to keep the sun off the heads of confidence Sari Francisco Opera so good deal of discussion and even the worshippers, inevitably involves willingly gave him after his tremend contniversy. With its hellish orange — Phone( Joe less of a rape of nature than the ous success with Salome. But he could red lighting, the clanking of chains industrialism Wagner feared. not have achieved what he did without and ominous Orff-ian chanting on the (TIME IS RUNNING OUT) However, now we see in Siegfried nearly overpowering soundtrack, and I A hero's kiss from Siegfried (Rene Kollo) awakens Bruennhilde (Eva Marion) from her a great Siegfried. Rene Kollo earned magic steep in the San Francisco Opera s current production of Wagners SIEGFRIED that Lehnhoff is mapping out this the last bow. the ripping of hearts from the chests a

CAROUSEL PRODUCTIONS/PETER TRIPP PRESENTS the FULL-LENGTH SHOW with LIVE MUSIC "Tl^uly funny... an entertaining revisit with a black artist we shouldn't forget." SF CHMOMCLE WHOOPI GOLDBERG as “A cross between Lily Tomlin and Gay Day In East Bay Richard Pryor. . . ” ncw vork times Lesbian and Gay Democratic Club MOMS MABLEY by Jon Sugar “Goldberg is truly g re a t... an I’ve been involved with East Bay National March co-chair; Wilson Riles, evocation of [Moms'] spirit, her Gay Day since 1976. I was the first Jr., Oakland City Council member. generosity and her rich sardonic just atw rock act ever along with Blackberri Mayoral candidate, 1985; Gus New­ humor." s.f. examiner . . . . mrtawrt’ and Steve Grossman. I organized the port, the best mayor Berkeley ever event, made sure the sound equipment had, pro-gay rights who rides in San got there, niade fliers for it, and co Francisco’s parade every year (S.F.’s dir.c(t.Jbv ELLEN THRU JUNE 30 ONLY! .chaired the Entertainment Committee. own mayor Dianne Feinstein usually SEBASTIAN T h u rs-S jl Hpm, Sdt H & 10pm Sh Sl.^ I like the party but get bored when declines). .ÜI..J b, WHOOPI Advance Tickelsal BASS. STBS, Box i^Itice someone gets emotional. However, The Party: Celebration is absolutely OOLDBERO VICTORIA THEATRE somehow the lesbian and gay men get free. Things are always better when 2 *N»I Iblh Slrivl nr M ismuh & BART. ST and ELLEN it together like brothers and sisters, they’re free, aren’t they? A kind of B.1V tlllK V : B

Part of the happy throng at last year's East Bay Gay Day - Anyone with microphone feels like ity that Berkeley has it ALL OVER DECIDED TO OrO Buy they have a lot of power. Hopefully, S.F.! To wit, the performers are: Kitty E»y UJHICH TO the speakers will practice the art of Tsui, lesbian woman poet; John Powers, >0 brevity and spare us from guilt and representing the (iay F^ietry Circle, GrET a l l B U n ^ H AMD THEN shame. Fortunately, the following folks also known as Velvet (^lisle, featured riA )o LO ve. >0 he \je/^turb^ .J are on our sxAtLupine Loughborough, on the David Lamble Talk Show DOW)fO TO A E>IU U/\Ji0AJ East Bay Aids Resources Organization (KGO) and KPFA’s Fruit Punch; Barry co-chair; Kerry Woodward, Human Warren, jazz singer; Larry Smith, t?PO(^itOCr 0000t> D5PART/^£/or- Rights Campaign Fund co-chair; Ann East Bay cabaret act...very entertain­ Chandler, Berkeley City Commission­ ing, a great singer!; Gwen Avery, er; Marge Gibson, Oakland City Coun­ Olivia recording artist, who has been cil, who carried the Oakland Gay singing the blues for years. She’s got U/HV JU^T LOOK HERE - THl^ r.. 6 0 T T DO 'A/r Rights Ordinance and got it passed, the coolest hair-do in town, to boot. I cuKREfor ^x pim tio a / V/ANT aOThijt ßÜTCH rOR. and is a candidate for Alameda County joined her on stage last year and the PATB IV/OT .TILL A T L f A S T Supervisor; Paul Bone berg. Stonewall harmonies were hotter than Miami Th a t B m R E during riot season. y U E X T UEEIC\ ~ LIKE yOCrURT A &UTCH B u y AT A How to get there: David Kelsey says I j m WAA)T PAIR 8 DO YOU WAA)T THBF) that the only good thing about the East Bay is that you can go up into the 5>0/0E WEIOHB ?W>W PiNk OR tAVS/YDAR? Oakland hills, look over the water, TO 6BT (OAfLy 00/u'r i/u r B B fo and get a good view of San Francisco. 6 / ^ For those who really need this informa­ TOO mCM-THB COLORS tion, this is how you might find the place: by car, get off the Ashby exit in Berkeley, stay on Ashby until you get ^ I . OPEN 24 HOURS I to Telegraph Avenue, make a left on 3991 17th Street Telegraph, go down to the Park A at Market and CastroX N’Shop on Derby, and listen for the , N ^ * San Francisco * ^ ~ noise! By BART, get off at the Berkeley station and ask anyone where Ho Chi Minh Park is. By bus, AC THE PHOTOCiRAPHS Transit ‘F’ bus to Berkeley from the Trans Bay Terminal. Hitchhiking is OF BRUCE WEBER fun. too. in c\ limitcil cJiiion The location is HoChi Minh Park/Wil- lard Park. For further information, NOW OPEN by t w e l v e TKtEi» call Bob Kegeles (co-chair. East Bay YOOR PAADOAi S/F Lesbian Gay Celebration)at 547—0802; ... BUT I D 0 ^ )'T WHAft» NER PROBl^W^ X BED HöVV ui\j-CoO L ------u ------or Barbara di Jeannene at ,548 — 9229 MAATT R(yA)UI/0er lDON0THh\JE A M- All this happens on June 17, 1984 >0CK6 THATRUA/ IF WEI6HT PROBLEn- from noon to 6:00PM at Ho Chi Minh 1 Ro/y IS) TH£n YOO TAKE THAT •3®# % V’*TRIANGLE Park in Berkeley. Bisexual and gay musicians, singers, ALL I U/AAJT, 1^ B A C K 9 form erly comics wanting to perform can call

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I 'm especially interested from New York, San Francisco,through and ‘The Fog Calling Contest.’ Steve. 474-1431 evenings/week- in loving friendship and compan­ June. ends. 0 2 ionship. as well as hot fun. Please •RELATIVITY IN THE EIGHT­ Ï call me at 585-4335 after 8;30 FRIDAY, JUNE 15 GWM 36, Financial executive, A M. and before 11 P.M., and IES, black and white portraits by romantic, loving, sensual, sexual, leave a message on my tape if I m Ann Merideth, at the Bay Brick Inn, •A ZAPPA AFFAIR, with the Berke­ sometimes humorous, caring and not home. Thank you. 0 2 whose religion and basic values 1190 Folsom St., through July 10th. ley Symphony, Frank Zappa, Tandy aqua-marine eyes and a heart desire is ongoing physical intimacy are important: looking to share his times loving his best friend/lo- TALK is CHEAPI Musician.Fiery •SUBJECKTIVE FOTOGRAFIE, Beal, Joan Lazarus, and others. Zeller- longing for another's. 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Targeted for strikignly to The Sentinel Box 501 0 2 new one acts by Fred Kennamer, at Gallery, 31.53 17th St. Friday and handsome or super-cute clean return yours with mine and a slim, passive Latino. 18-30. espec­ phone number so we can meet if ially Chicano Write with Ph # to the Blake Street Hawkeyes, 2019 shaven tall young boyish straight GAY MOUSTACHE CONTEST HOMME DU JEUR Saturday at 8pm. Call 863—9834. there is mutual interest Try it- Mark, 495 Ellis #1696. S.F. CA looking bright white mate in twen­ Healthy, horny, playful, clean­ Goodlooking W/M 35. 5 10 150 Black St., Berkeley. 8pm. Also Satur •THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING what can you lose, and what we 94102 I ve got lots of deep loving ties, like myself. For rapid deploy­ shaven GWM. 29, avowed mous­ lbs. curly hair, moustache seeks day at 8 and 10:15pm. $5. 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