DavId. Michelangelo. NEWS 12 ~EATURES HERE A CHUB, TIiERE A CHUB 40 John Peebles on Girth & Mirth

KISSING AND TEllING 48 HEAliH Jill Adams on telling Mama

InOur Own Hands (Denenberg) 32 Pollical Science (Harrington) 34

On the Cover. Robert Mapplethorpe~ portrait of larry Desmecit photo- DEPARTMENTS graphed by Charles Seellelberg Outspoken (Editorial) 4 Letters 5 ARTS Stonewall Riots (Natalie) 5 Blurt Out 6 IS JESSE HELMS AN ART CRITIC? 50 Nightmare of the Week ' 6 and expression under siege Sotomayor 8 Bluford 10 Piss]esse, or SiIence=Death by Michael LasseII . 11 Jennifer Camper We Are Americans Too by The Publishing Triangle GLAADTidin~ 30 Is the NEA Good in' Gay Art? by Sarah &hulman The Doctor Is Out (Silwrstein) 36 MS EmJIy's GraOOson b't Hush 1& Momh by Em HenyhaI Obituaries 38 lookOut 44 (fyou Must Know by Eileen Myles Out of My Hands (Ball) 46 Fund ThJs, Muthafucka by Richard E10vich Goosip Watch 47 A Buroiog Issue by Ayofemi Folayan Going Out Calendar (X) 68 With Our Eyes and Mouths and Hands by David Wojnarowicz . Tuning In (X) 70 Parting a Sea of Inkby Tom Kalin Dancing Out (X) 71 "...And where wilIIyou be/When they come- by Beatrix Gates .Cooununity Directory 72 Bar Guide 74 Oassifieds 78 Personals 88 Crossword (BaJans) 106 Electing Deborah Glick

_t's a sad fact of New York poim~ that no open lesbian or gay man has ever been elected to legislative or exOOJtive office in 1either city ~ state govermnent. While gay power is already mani- fest in places like San Francisco, and while even some small rural American towns have elected gay mayors or council members, New York Oty and New York state lag fur behind Thus, it's encouraging that an extremely qualified, able and electable member of our commu- nity is running in the Democratic primary for state Assembly this year. Deborah Glick has a long record of service, to New York. A feminist, an activist and a leader in lesbian and gay pOlitics, Glick , has a pro\>en record as someone who understands the agenda of lesbian and gay New Yorkers, and who can effectively work to implement that agenda in Albany. Currently a deputy director in the city's Department of Housing, Glick was once president of Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats. Her electability is enhanced by the fact that her assembly district-the 61st-encompasses -much of downtown Manhattan, with its large gay, lesbian and progressive population. She has earned an impressive list of endorsers: NAACP President Hazel Dukes, Vtrginia Apuzzo, Vito Russo, Gloria Steinem, Michael Callen, the National Organization for Women and many, many others. OuIWeek is ~d to add its name to that list. But we strongly encourage our reade!S to do more than simply wait to vote for Glick in September. She fuces a grueling fight against a popular Village district leader. As a result, Glick's aunpaign needs active support, volunteers and, ~ of all, money. If you want to see an open, able, effective les- bian at the table in Albany next year, now is the time to act. The Stonewall Democratic Club One ,of the sad spectacles of gay and lesbian politics here ~ the gay political club that did ~ endorse Deborah Glick for state Assembly: the Stonewall DenXx:ratic Oub. This strange institution, claiming a member- ship of 350 but in reality conlprising only a tiny fraction of that number, has never endorsed an openly gay candidate for legislative office. Never. Stonewall's president claims that "just because a candidate is gay doesn't mean We should endorse that person." In a city that has never elected an open gay or lesbian to legislative office, that's an absurd claim for a gay political club to make. The Stonewall Democrats have no real gay agenda and minuscUle community support. They oppose gay candidates and endorse straights, because of personality clashes, jealousies and past petty ~lights; not substantive issues affecting our community's well-being. Theii entire approach is epitomized by "Stonewalling," a mean-spirited column in the New York Native, written under a cowardly pseudonym, that primarily attacks and demeans fellow gays and' working in local politics. , The dub's' members have every right to their opinions. It's just a shame that they include "Stonewall" in their title and mas- querade as organizers for the lesbian and gay community. Until they start working for the election of openly lesbian and gay can- didates, they are no such thing. 4 O~EK' AugustB.1990 Social Science reading theoretlcci works just Re: Cover Story, no. 55 (July wasn't enough for me. 18), "Weird ScIence· No-being a "show me- I am a lesbian, and as far don't tell me· kind of girt, I as I can tell, always was and wanted science. So I Equalnme have frequently Included always will be. I couldn't be seached for a scientist asking Your recent editorial gay and lesbian programs. happier about that. I have the same questions. That's 'Queer Money and Public And among our plans for the also wondered why I didn't how I met Dr. Heino Meyer- Television· (no. 54, July 11) future, Thirteen hopes to turn out straight like my par- Bahlburg. I worked as a :. understates Thlrteen/WNET's broadcast a documentary ents and my sister. Not r9search assistant on the pro- longstanding corrmltment to on the 1990 gay and lesbian because I don't love being ject discussed In Dr. SIlverstein's publlc-affalrs programming, games InVancouver. queer (because I do), but article for a year and a half. hcluc:lng mws that serve the We take very seriouslyour because It Is Interesting to ' Also, as a concerned member gay crd IesbIal COITlIlUlIIy. mandate to serve the myriad me. Enquiring minds, like my of the Queer NaHan I wonted A/Itloug'I we had to md

August B, 1990 OUTTWEEK 5 fliled with copies of letters medical establishment who expressing the same criti- now stood armed and ready cisms Dr. Silverstein raisesthat to "treat" us. I was relieved We hate the had appeared In the profes- to 1Ind out Dr. Silverstein was National Enquirllr. 1I0nailiterature several years discussing research I already We hate their dis- ago. Many of theae letters knew about. Although the tortions. W. hat. were from the Journal of data was not completely their bigotry. W. Homol8xua111y that Dr. Silver- analyzed when I left Meyer- hate their homo- stein previously edited. Dr. Bahlburg's emplOY, It phobia. Meyer-Bahlburg also provid- seemed fairly certain that Laatweek's ed me with reprints of his hormones were not responsi- cover story isa very thorough responses. ble for sexual orientation or vII., mendacious After reading every word I gender behavior, making bit of trip. de- realized that It didn't matter Meyer-Bahlburg's research Signed to p.rpetu- what Dr. Meyer-Bahlburg hardly a danger at this point. ate hysteria and personally would recom- Meyer-Bahlburg ,rrta<{ har- fear. Written by mend once we know more bor homophobic sentiments four (l1raight) men, about se'XUOlorientation and that even he does not this "investigation" gender. He's not that power- acknowledge on any Idnd of purports to reveal ful. Research studies only conscious level. As a scientist the "seamy under- matter when people take of Integrffy, I know he strives side" of women's notice. Who takes notice, to do "value-free" research. (read; "lesbian") what they choose to do with Although I doubt any scien- tannis. We would the research and how we as tist achieves this, the encourage you to r. c ~ a community respond are aU endeavor Is stili noble. I do pick it up and see

Dr. Charles Silverstein's misleading article "Weird SeI- ence" (no. 55, July 18), with Its amateurish illustrations and ridiculous cover tease. belles OuMgek's attempt to become a responsible, national weeldy for our com- munity. Hisarticle Isa hysteri- cal reaction, Implying that "all" biomedical researchers want to find the "cause" of

6 O~EEK August 8, 1990 homosexuality and then pub.cly and In the sclentlftc tlea It most directly affects, Dr, Silverstein responds: In elrrmate It, Far from realtyl press, Slverlteln posits several Thla la no reason not to do fact, I did speak to Dr, S1lvemeln only mentions questions regarding Meyer- research, The problem liesnot Meyer-Bahlburg and ,Iread two curent reeeache!lln his Bcrbrg's beIe1s, but doea'l't only with overzealous mlsln- every piece of published article (where Is the - Rat tell us If he asked Meyer- terpretattona of resUI8 by the research he a.ked me to Pack· mentioned on the Bahlburg directly or why he reaearchers and others, but read, My article noted that cover'?), He la correct that hasn't; after all, Meyer-Bahl- also with the kind of over- his work Is far more IOPhIItf- the East German Doerner bug " ~ here In New York, slmpllftcatlon and sweeping cated than that of Doerner de.eIVe. much criticism for not h East Gerr'narty', generalization which Silver- who openly stated that his his fc;IncI1uI theoretical leaps Research Into areas such stein Indulges In, His article Is 0001 Is the eradication of from rat brain and behavior as sexual orientation will a disservice to OutWeek'a homosexuoUty, The problem re.earch to humane, and always pose ethical and read8lShlp, with Meyer-BahlbufQIs that Doerner " admittedly h0mo- moral dilemmas for society at ~chard Pfeak,M,D, he continues to claim that phobic, However, the second large and for the communl- Manhattan he ./S researchlno the researcher he denounce." Dr, Heino Meyer-Bahlburg,r--;::======~- I , , who makes no such leaps Of faith, I had the occasion to work directly with Meyer- Bahlburg for several years while Iwas at Columbia Un!- verIIty, AI a gay chllc:f1'SYChl- atrIst, I have naturally been qUte Interested In the origins of sexual orientation (the entire continuum) and the separate but related subject of gender Identity. Working with such eminent SCientists as Meyer-Bahlburg and'Dr. Anke Ehrhardt gave me a ftrst-hand opportunity to see how these researchers dealt wtfh ethical Issues arising from their research and Implica- tions of findings from this resecrch~ and we had many discussions about this. Meyer- Bctllburg has shown that he Is sensitive to gay and lesbian concerns and he does not advocate -endocrinological euIhcn:JsIa of homoseXUClI~ as SIlverstein states, Silverstein lumps Meyer- Bahlburg with Doerner as If their me1hocIs, resUIs a'Id c0n- clusions are similar or equal, athol.gh 1hey ae vasHy dffer- ent, Furthermore, SIlverstein confuses reseach on gender IdentHy wtfh that on sexual 0ri- entation as,lf they are one and the sane (perpetuating the myth that all homosexual people wer~ gender-con- tused as children, or that all gender-confused children grow l.p to be homosexual), He shoUd know better. He dso falls to mention that Meyer- Bahlburg has been one of Doerner's most severe crI11cs 267 West 17th Street (cor 8th Ave) New York 212 255.1150

August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK 7 ·abnormal· endocrine orfgln contact Dr. Meyer-Bahlburg tlonal femininity so well- . degenerated Into, an Easter of homosexuality. HIs work to ask hIm If he would like to explained In such an Inslght- Parade? It breaks my heart would be better apprecIat- use my column to respond fuI, wtt1ymanner. when I see something as ed If he openly stated that a to the article. I think Ms. Day Is one of Important as Gay Games so varlatlon of prenatal hor- the best writers I've come trIvIallzedby our coml'l'lU'Vty. -mones Is not an abnormality, Day Doll across (not yet literally) In Vancouver has set the arid that homosexuality In I hope you will publish a your publlcatton. She doesn't tone with their pc:rade, party, adulthood Is not an ab- letter regarding your June 6 know me from Eve, but I am tOll, and clitLlal sttck to the normality, psychologIcally Issue (no. 49) of OutWeek. I writing ~o tell you-·Glve this exclusion of the athletic or otherwise. Justfinished reading 'Out of writer as much work as you venues. There Isn't space to There are more Important Control· by Sl!SIe Day. can.· Her tdlent will be a enumerate the countless Issues than whether or not I As a bisexual female (Is boon to your mag. dropped, changed, and cre- have maligned Dr. Meyer- that what I am?) who StephanIe Lee atively changed venues. For Bahlburg. The fact Is that always, always craved a Bar- Manhattan example, there won't be any bIomedIcal research wl11 bie doll, whose parents hLldle events for women, but probably dIscover the would never sully their pro- Game Shame there wlll be another parade blomftdlcal foundatIon of gressive, liberal household Here It Is, with Gay Games onMondayl sexual orientatIon, perhaps with such unadulterated, III around the corner, and They constantly refer to even that of gender identity. commerdal, antt-lntellectual what dominates the news? their registered body count Meyer-Bahlburg's research trash, ... 1 loved Ms. Day's Warm-upst What color, what as If It were some validation will be an Important part o( ·outtng· of Barbie-loved It material, what logo, who for their world-class athletic those discoveries. Gay pe0- because I'm sure It's true marches with whom, In front event. Try to get anyone up ple need to be ,Informed and because It Is so well-wrlt- of whom, etc. I hear LA has there to talk about liability about bIomedIcal research ten. Now I know why I was so two entirely separate rival Insurance, FILA sancttonlng, because of Its potential use - attracted to Barbie. Though out1lls, and the Parisianshove drug testing, steroid affi- agaInst gay people. I cer- I always suspected this was plumesl Are we that petty, davits, or training faCilities taInly dId not suggest that the real reason, anyway, It Jaded, and stereotyplcal? Is (the wrestlers will have to research should stop. I'll Is gratifying to see tradl- this what Gay Games has cut weight eight days wlth-

8 OUT...-wEEK August 8, 1990 out a workout faCility). this Is are the ones protesting I ask not tor your accep- factual Information was hardly on a par with the against "gay-bashlng-). tance or your love Incorrect and the excessive GoodWill Games, where all Gays who fight back against I ask only for your silence use of profanity was unnec- venues are sanctioned, fhelr attackers and. win. The _ to live roy life essary except when needed drug-tested, and Insured, majority-If not all-of gay the way "I- choose to quote the Incident. where venue dates are set attacks should be by gays In Michele Morrts The Incident happened a year In advance, and self-defense. Manhattan Sunday, April 8, 1990, at where procedures like regis- If Iovn' thlssomeonespeclal about 4:30 am. Myself and tration are designed to Is a crma then for(tle me for More on Park Slope four other women walked accommodate the athlete, lovin' her After reading fhe article Into the New PurIty diner on not the travel agents. and her, In Issue no. 51 (June 20), Sevenfh Avenue In Brooldyn. Certainly budget con- and her, "Vlolen~e, Silence and Les- We were all verbally at- straints are a problem, but It do not condemn me for bians- by Barbara Seyda, I tacked by two of toll" youths does not excuse the fact the way I feel was very displeased. The at a table next to us. They that the athlete and the venue have taken a back I--':;:======:::::::::::::::======:::;~-Ii' seat to a festival mentality. It doesn't cost money to ask for help from experienced people. It doesn't make sense to tamper wlfh venue procedures that have worked tried-and-true for every world-class event since the first Olympics. Perhaps I expect too much from Gay Games, Vancouver, and our leader- ship In general. But maybe next time, someone will talk to the athletes and coach- es, Instead of the fashion moguls and the tourist boards. I Intend to remain their staunchest supporter and fiercest critic for 1994. Gene Darmody You can capitalize on what could become a great Golden Gate Wresftlng Son Francisco growth industry in the 1990's and-make a socially responsible investment at the same time. Bashing Back I feel that the one thing And your dollars can work to create a cleaner we all search for Is love. Who environment and a healthier quality of life. are you to condemn my I love for anofher? Forfree information, call us at 212-269-0110 -homo emotional love or 800-262-6644 or return the coupon below. This Is my reaction to an article In Issue number 53 (July 4) entitled "Bashing In Our Own Back Yard: I am In Please send me a prospectus and more complete infonnation about total agreement with you on global environmental funds. organizing our own elite' NAME corps of fighting ADDRESS and lesbians. Our own Pink CITY STATE ZIP Panthers organized to guad our streets. If we don't pro- TElEPHONE -HOME BUSINESS tect ourselves and look out CHRISTOPHER Sl FINANCIAL, INC for each other, then who will? 80 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 I am also In agreement Member Securities Investor Protection Corporation Member National Association of Securities Dealen that we need to learn to I ~------defend ourselves so fhat we can give. fhe bashers some- fhlng to protest (so that they

August 8, 1990 O~EK 9 made rna'ly vUgar a-d 0"111- woIked to Methodist IHospital article, action has been dways remain oBve forever. goy remarks (dykes, - so I could receive medical taken. The Incident hos not Anonymous eating , etc.) assistance, which wqs poor been "silenced: ThIs 17-yeor- to myself and' the other ald biased. After leaving the old youth has been arrested Barbara Seyda replIes: I women at my table. When hospital I went bock to PlrIty a'ld Iom strongly perusing jus- om so glad you took time to my lover sold to 1hem, "1here cinar to file a repOrt wtth the tice In colJt. I hove learned wrtte. YOUIS Is the story I tried Is no need to get nasty, no police officers, who were, by , that If you are too persistent desperately to get, but was one Is getting nasty with, this time, eating Inside. The In this unfair and neglectful unable to. ,Thank you for you," the vulgar mole sold, next day IcoDed to..see If on system It will be treated as coming forth now to c1atfy _ "Tum 9'0~, you ugly nigger arrest had been mode and a Joke. As your article has the facts. bitch.· At that polrifthe \i/Os'then told that no Infor- 'suggested, we should unite uproar tiad begun. I was mation was token on the to stop this cX>sud goy-bosh- Queers Need lhls? punched In the face by sur- youths. RnoIIy, by sold thQt ' Ing. To lower ouseIves to the Struggling with Internal- prise and feU to 1t;le floor. As they hod Information level of- the heterosexual. Ized hOl'TlOP,hobla? the five of us ron out of the because they Iieeded It for ' who Is Ignorant, Is not the In regard to a letter pub- New Purity diner we were the diner's broken door. I answer. If they oct like anl- Hshed In Issue no. 56 (July 25) Chased by the youths Into the requested the youth to be 1'Tlds, we do not need to fol- which was on the news- street. The mole who hod arrested and he wos. I am low In their f001steps. stands .everywhere on Mon- pU'lchecftne hod broken the now stili going ftyOllgh colJt Our freedom should be day, July 16th, I find myself diner door on the way out, proceedngs to try to receive our blrft1f1ght ood when It Is distressed, again. The letter which mode the diner's pro- compensation and justice, not, positive action needs to was written by a man prietor finely coil the police. In addition to paying unin- be token. We do not need to named ErIc Mortensen. We con1hJed to be physical- sured medical expenses for "get QI.IlS. nor do we need a Why do I get the Impres- ly and verbally abused In,the my severe Injuries, ,"lesbian AI Sharpton" os the sion that like so many other street. When the police cor fractured nose and torn article reads. We need a (too many) Irate queers Mr. come, the officers just asked catIIoge. Martin Luther KIng, Jr., unity, Mortensen did not read, or at the youths to leave us aone. I'm very oogry at this lnci- Intelligence, and above all, least comprehend, the now They del not toke fheIr names dent and all others which each Qther's SlPPOff. S8ence famous "QUEERS READ THIS" or any Information. We occur, but contrary to the does equal death, but we wtn anonymous newsprint? Icon

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10 Oun'"WEEK August 8, 1990 or'v hope that the -Defender left the Company because Dartmouth College-most for Information about events of the Feith· 1ype of posture he could not reconcile him- recently by Mike Lowenthal, later In the year at P.O. Box that Is being evidenced as a self to the homophobia wHhIn Dartmouth's valedctorlan for 7745, FDRStation, New York, -knee-jerk· reaction to this that Company, especially In 1990 nhe Pinking of the NY 10150 (or call: (212) 489- b!1H1antpWllcation wolid be light of the subject matter Green: no. 54, July 11). We 7442). Other alums can ll'la1Ifested just as vehement- (AIDS education through wood Hketo take this oppor- connect with their own ly In somewhat reverse, all Improvisation). Here again tuity to let your readers know GALAs by contacting Net- too commonplace, homo- we have these wonderful that Dartmouth, though long GALA at P.O. Box 5141, phobic situations. streight people taking up our thought of as one of the most Washington, D.C ..20003 ' I must ask myself yet causes. This brings nagging conservative Ivy League col- Matthew C. Garcia again, why so many of my ~ to my mind: What Is leges, has an active and OGALA -homophlllc· friends, like the price that we ae paying growing lesbian and gay Bobra Fyne, have not ass0ci- In return? And what Is the a'urIl/oe association. ated themselves with patent- retun on 0lJ" prevtous Invest- The Dartmouth Gay and ly homosexual endeavors. ments? Also: 'I.Nrr( ae we per- Lesbian Alumnl/ae Associa- Yes, It Is true that there are petuating the notion of tion (OGALA) sponsored probably severa straight indI- constantly s~eklng the two parties during Gay viduals out there who ae on ~va of the shdght com- Pride Weekend. One was our side. Whose world do we munity and checking our- the highly successful post- Iva In, however, crICI just how selves on fhanklng that sane parade all-cbllege recep- far are these few willing to community for stands they tion at the Lesbian and go? Ifeel compelled to men- should aready be taking? Gay Community Services tion anofher very good frtend QuInn Sellars Center which beneflted the of mine, OlIver Schoen. What Manhattan National Network of Gay Mr. Mortensen fciled to men- and Lesbian Alumnl/ae tion Is that both Bobra and Dart Mouthing (NetGALA). Any OutWeek Olver started RealIty 1heaIre In the past month you readers who are alums of Company. Oliver has since have featured articles about Dartmouth can contact us

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August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK 11 News Police Clash Violently With Montreal's Gay Community

PARTY POOPERS Photo: Unda Dawn Hammond Montreal cops arrive to shut down a gay and lesbian party.

byJ08 Clark largely gay and lesbian crowd of sever- reports. Police barred the man from MONTREAI;-Police clashed violent- al hundred, have reportedly been held entering and charged him with assault- ly with gay men and lesbians here last without incident in the past. ing a police officer. Eyewitnesses said week, during a protest of an earlier inci- But at approximately 4:30 am on that the arrested man had blood on dent of alleged police harassment and July 15, officers from the Montreal his face as he was led to a police car violence involving the gay community. Urban Community Police entered the and taken to Station 25, the down- When a large gay and lesbian loft and told the host, Nicholas Jenkiris, town precinct. party was forcibly dispersed by this to shut the party down. Other allegations of brutality cling city's police in the early hours of July Police reportedly shut off the to the police raid, at which seven others 15, the ensuing chain of protests ended music, turned on the lights and ordered were also arrested, with sexual molesta- in violence. the revelers off the premises. Accord- tion, beatings and damage of personal After the party was raided, 50 peo- ing to witnesses, police explained that property among the accusations. ' ple "'W~re reported injured and eight they had seen "strange comings and At approximately 6:00 am the were arrested. At one of the protests goings" in the vicinity of the party and same morning, an impromptu demon- sparked by the incident, another 48 decided to intervene. Later, the police stration of 30 or so people took place people were arrested and 70 more attributed their actions to noise com- outside Station 25. ProtesterS demand- ,were injured, 12 of them seriously ,plaints from neighbors, even though ed the release of the eight people enough to be hospitalized. the loft, on La Gauchetiere Street in arrested in the raid, but police refused, A more, peaceable demonstration downtown Montreal, is located in a and the demonstration broke up short- the previous day drew more than 1,000 commercial neighborhood with few ly thereafter. , demonstrators .. other residences. But that evening at a central inter- The party that spawned all the tur- The partiers had vacated the loft section in Montreal's gay village, more moil was one of a series of monthly and were milling about outside, when than 1,000 people, including members fetes held in private homes throughout one man tried to reenter the loft to of ACf UP/Montreal, showed up in the the city. The parties, which attract a fetch his jacket, according to various pouring rain to stage a peaceful sit-in

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at the corner of Ste.-Catherine and between men and women-were once man requiring 36 hours' hospitalization Amherst streets. According to one again thwarted when Station 25's direc- for injuries to his testicles. All of those organizer, David Shannon, a sit-in was tor, Yvan Goyette, refused the arrested were eventually released. Gay and lesbian rep- 'resentatives later met with the police force's community-relations director, John Dalzell, to press the original three demand~. Dalzell said that the department re- fused to drop all charges connected with the party and demonstrations, stat- ing that they "conformed to regulations and proce- dure.» A spokesperson later clarified the state- ment, saying that only the Crown prosecutor could drop the charges. A seat on the Intereth- nic/lntercultural Relations Committee could be decid- ed only by City Hall, Dalzell told the negotia- NIGHT CLUBBING Ph .Alfred He rth tors. The police depart- oto. PWO ment did, however, launch Cops move in on anti-violence protesters. a formal internal inquiry chosen because "we didn't want pe0- protestors' demands and insisted that into police actions during the protests ple marching in, since the police had the demonstrators follow proper pro- and at the raid but refused to com- proven that they'd pick people off cedure. That's when things turned ment further. from the fringes of the group.» ugly, according to Shannon, who said Meanwhile, tensions continue to Shannon told local print reporters that the police "surrounded the group run high as the gay and lesbian Mon- that the demonstration was held to and started beating the shit out of us.» trealers, uniting under the rubric of show that gays and lesbians "are Shannon said that he saw people "Lesbiennes et gais contre la violence/ breaking out of what is officially recog- jabbed in the abdomen by police Lesbians and Gays Against Violence,» nized as the gay community. We won't truncheons and men kicked in the prepare for a massive demonstration be ghettoized," he reportedly said. groin. According to Paula Sypnowich, against police violence on Sunday, After more than three hours of another protester who attended the July 29. slogans and inchworm motion down raided party earlier in the week, said "These two days of violence,» the Ste.-Catherine Street, police offered to with some exasperation, "The cops new group said in a press release, negotiate an end to the sit-in, some- were as stupid as they were brutal- "were just an indication of the ...homo- . thing Shannon considered "significant, dragging women across the ground by phobia that is rampant in our society. because for the first time in Montreal, the hair." Natives, Blacks, women, the disabled the police didn't simply ask us to move A half-hour after the club-wielding and other cultural groups are regular- on-tbey recognized gays and lesbians riot police moved in, 48 demonstrators ly victimized by this type of unre- as a community.» had been arrested on charges of inter- strained brutality." Protesters also presented three fering with the duty of a peace officer, And an editorial in the Montreal demands to the police: the dropping of refusing to circulate and obStructing a Mtrror asserted, "There seems little all charges against those arrested, an public byway. Some of the arresting question that what aroused the police's official inquiry into police brutality officers wore surgical gloves. Others unprovoked aggression was the fact during the raid and a gay and lesbian failed to sport the plastic name tags that the party-goers were mostly gays .seat on the force's Interethnic/lntercul- required by local law. -. and lesbians.» tural Relations Committee. The demon- After the arrests, an angry group Though no one expects the situa- strators dispersed after several hours. of demonstrators, alongside both local tion to improve dramatically, gay and Approximately 250 protesters and national media, gathered outside lesbian leaders in Montreal are hoping returned for a kiss-in outside Station 25 Station 25, where those arrested were that the next few weeks will not prove on Monday 'afternoon, July 16. The being held. Many of those arrested flS violent as the laSt. demonstrators-almost evenly split allege brutality in custody, with one -ftled.from Toronto

August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK 13 Ne"vs Barney Frank Rebuked by Full House 408 to 18 , by Cliff O'Neill gay man:he said that the "misleading been put forth in this House." WASHINGTON-Brushing aside statements" he_ made in the memo Asked afterward if he thought that two attempts to impose more severe were-intended not to benefit Gobie but Dannemeyer's motion was based on his sanctions, the U.S. House on July 26 rather to conceal his homosexuality. record of anti-gay actions, Frank sug- voted to reprimand openly gay Demo- "Three years ago, I decided that con- cratic Rep. Barney Prank of Mas- cealment did not work," he said. "I sachusetts for actions he once took on wish 1had decided sooner." behalf of a male prostitute. Opening the debate, Republican After four hours of rancorous Rep. William Dannemeyer of California debate and a pointed apology from offered a motion to expel Frank, which Frank, the House voted 408-18 to rep- was eventually defeated on a 390-38 rimand the congressman for having vote,. Frank was joined by Republican brought discredit on the House. Frank Rep. Buz Lukens of Ohio and Demo- was officially charged with fIXing 33 cratic Rep. Gus Savage of Illinois in parking tickets for himself and- male voting "present," the equivalent of prostitute Stephen L. Gobie, and with abstaining, on the motion. Lukens and writing a memo to a parole officer on Savage have both recently been the sub- Gobie's behalf that contained "mislead- ject of ethi~ investigations themselves. ing statements." In the history of the House, expul- Flanked by his Massachusetts sion has only been employed in cases associates and his closest Democratic of treason and in the Abscam corrup- , supporters, Frank sat in the House tion case of former Rep. Ozzie Myers. throughout the day, alternately biting Arguing his case with allegations his nails and speaking to colleagues. made in news accounts in the Wasb- Prior to an unsuccessful vcte on a cen- ington TImes and extolling the merits sure mOOon, Frank took the floor to is&Je of the Judeo-Christian ethic and "moral "an apology and an explanation" for the relativism," Dannemeyer insisted that actions which led to his reprimand. Frank be expelled for, among other Photo: Jim Marks/OutWsek Citing his then-cl?5eted status,as a things, "running a house of OUT AND mLL IN out of his residence." Rep. BanneyFrankofAfassachuseftS "Barney Frank is not on trial here," he declared. "The House of gested that it was, since he has never Representatives is on trial." taken an interest in ethics cases before. In its report, the House Standards "There is something about homo- and Official Conduct Committee, sexuality," quipped Frank, "that sets which recommended the reprimand, Mr. Dannemeyer vibrating." had thrown out the most serious The suggestion that Dannemeyer's charges against Frank, which involved motion was motivated by an anti-gay allegations that Frank knew that Gobie bias was further accentuated when Dan- was running a prostitution service out nemeyer refused to answer Democratic of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment, and Rep. Gary Ackerman of New York, who that the two ~gaged in sexual activity had asked him if he thought that homo- in the House gymnasium. sexuality, per se, should exclude some- Reacting slllµply to Dannemeyer's one from serving in the House. allegations, Democratic, Rep. Julian After the Dannemeyer motion was Dixon of California, the committee disposed of, committee members each chair, lashed out at the anti-gay con- rose to defend the recommendation for gressman, calling his charges "the most a reprimand over the more severe pun- edited, selective garbage that has ever ishment of a censure. The censure

14 O~EK August 8, 1900 motion; sought by House Minority Whip BENEFIT CONCERT Rep. Newt Gingrich of Georgia, was, CALL FOR TAPES defeated on a sharply p3rtisan 287-141 FOR DISABLED WOMEN vote, with mostly Republicans support- The Mid-Atlantic Region of the NLC LOOKOUT ing the motion and virtually all will sponsor a benefit concert. Proceedsfrom this concert will be Lesbian and Gay Democrats opposing it. Frank, Savage used to sponsor 70-1 ()()disabled and Lukens voted "present." women who want to attend the NLC Video Festival '90 A censure, unlike a reprimand, in Atlanta, GA. ih 1991. would strip a congressman of all com- Anlsts and performer. mittee and subcommittee chairman- THE LIFE ships and would require that he stand LATTETA THERESA before the House while his punish- BRUNILDA VEGA ' EDWINA LEE TYLER & ment is read. A PIECE OF THE WORLD "A reprimand is no cakewalk," Moderator declared Democratic Rep. Barbara DOROTHY RANDALL GRAY Boxer of California. "I'm sitting next to fila the man who is going to have to face AARON DAVIS HALL it. It shouldn't be." 138th Street and Convent Avenue .Did§. "Barney Frank stands accused for SEPTEMBER 8, 1990 being stupid," added Democratic Rep. DOnation , Thomas Foglietta of Pennsylvania. "If $20.00 that's grounds for expulsion· from office, For More Information Contact SIX NIGHTS IN OCTOBERI there would be,very few of us left here." Days: G. Patterson (201)750:1809 Republican Rep. Fred Grandy of Evenings: K Hikmah (212) 491-5969 All entries must be mastered on Iowa argued that upping the penalty to & G. Terzi (718) 643-9879 video tape • NO ENTRY FEE. censure would be based solely on Ticket purchase DEADLINE: August 10, 1990 Frank's "lifestyle." TICKETRON For further Info.: LOOKOUT c/o DeTV OSCAR WILDE BOOK STORE "We do not enshrine or enrich the 87 Lafay.n. Street, N_ York, NY 10013 JUDITH'S ROOM BOOK STORE traditional family by' damning those A DIFFERENT LIGHT (212) Nl-12M with lifestyles which differ from our own," he said. "We are here to prose~ cute, not to persecute." • "This man has suffered, and rightly so," bellowed Dixon, culmiru. : the debate. "But we gain nothind by piling on." Adding a dramatic note to the bal- loting, Deputy Minority Whip Rep. Steven Gunderson of wisconsin voted to censure Frank after watching the tally of his colleagues' votes for ten minutes. Immediately afterward, how- ever, he walked over to the Democrat- ic side of the chamber where he sat down next to Frank. For nearly five minutes, Frank was seen in what appeared to be an angry conversation with the Wisconsin bachelor, waving his arms, beating his chest and point- DONALD RUDIKOFF M.D., P.C. ing his finger in Gunderson's face. Immediately after the conversation, WESTSIDE DERMATOLOGY Gunderson changed his vote from Treatment df all skin & scalp conditions "aye" to "nay" on the censure motion. • warts • moles • acne • hair loss After the defeat of the censure • psoriasis & seborrhea • skin cancer motion, the reprimand was approved Collagen treatment of wrinkles on a 408-18 vote, with both the loudest Diagnosis & treatment of all skin conditions associated with ARC, voices for expulsion and Frank's, clos- AIDS, HIV INFECTION & SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES est liberal supporters making up the 140 West 79th Street tiny minority of House members (between Columbus & Amsterdaml opposing the punishment. T 212/496-1400 Daytime & evening hours

August B, 1990 O~WEEK 15 News Bush's Supreme Court What we've lost and what we may get

by Arthur S. Leonard and not provocative. tion and personal privacy. WASHINGTON-Justice William J. Of more significance is Souter's The court stated that laws which Brennan, Jr., whose retirement from the 1987 advisory opinion signed jointly by Supreme Court on July 20 gave Presi- Souter and three other members of the dent George Bush his first opportunity to court, holding that the state could ban News Analysis appoint a Supreme Court Justice, was gays from being foster or adoptive par- probably one of the best friends the les- ents. The New Hampshire Legislature discriminate against gay people do not bian and gay community has ever had had that year become engulfed in the merit any heightened scrutiny under 'on the nation's top court. By contrast, hysteria about gays as foster parents, equal-protection theory, so that the u.s. Circuit Judge David H. Souter, Bush's nominee for Brennan's seat, participated in one of the most homo- phobic state court decisions of the 1980s: an advisory opinion by the New Hampshire Supreme Court to the State Legislature approving a bill to ban gays from being foster or adoptive parents. A 50-year-old bachelor, Souter is a former Rhodes Scholar and magna cum laude Harvard Law School gradu- ate and served as Attorney General of New Hampshire before his appoint- ment by Republican Gov. John Sununu (now chief of the White!House staff) to the state Supreme Court. Bush appoint- ed Souter to the First Circuit Court of Appeals earlier'this year; but he had barely settled into his new chambers when the call came f<;>rthe Supreme Court appointment. A computer search of New Hamp- A LOOK BACKWARD. A LDOK FORWARD Photo: T. l.litt/ OutWeek shire Supreme Court decisions during Demos like this abortion-rights protest last year are Souter's seven-year tenµre showed only likely to, continue under a court with Bush appointees. two directly presentlrtg lesbian or gay issues. In State v. Lewis (1987), Souter which resulted from a sensationalistic law need only be tested as to its ratio- wrote an opinion for the cowt upholding article in the Boston Globe concerning nality. The court went on to state ,that a murder conviction in which the victim the foster placement of two young boys providing "appropriate role models" was agar man. The defendant argued with a gay male couple in Boston. When for children was a legitimate govern- that his conviction should be set aside some legislators expressed doubts about mental purpose, and that since there because the trial judge refused to order the constitutionality of an anti-gay bill, it was a "reasonable possibility of envi- the state to hire an expert to create a post- was referred to the state Supreme Court ronmental influences, we believe that mortem "psychiatric profile" of the victim. for an advisory opinion, as provided for the Legislature can rationally act on The defendant hoped to use such a pro- in the New Hampshire Constitution. the child's developing sexual identity." file to make a "homasexua1 panic" type of The court heard arguments that an In essence, the court held that the defense. SoUter gave this objection short outright ban on all gays as foster or speculative "risk" that some children shrift, noting that· the defendanfs own adoptive parents, without regard to raised by gay foster or adoptive par- statements to an informant bore out the individual qualifications, would violate ents might tum out to be gay was real conclusion that the victim's homosexual equal protection and due process of enough so that all gays should be cate- advance had been peaceful, noncoercive the law, as well as the rights of associa- gorically banned from serving in such

16 O~EK August 8,1990 capacities. However, the court stated adoption case, commented, "He may be Hum also said that Souter is "not that another portion of the proposed the best we could get from Bush's list." a homophobe," describing Souter's law, which sought to ban gays from Hum emphasized that the court's relationships with the small number of working in or running day-care cen- opinion not only struck down the openly gay attorneys in the state as ters, was not rational, since the court restrictions on gays operating day-care "cordial and respectful." He also said doubted that the brief exposure in centers but also drew a parallel to the that Souter is known as being very such settings would fall within the issue of gays as schoolteachers, indi- reserved, very respectful of established "role model" theory. cating that the state's "role model" the- precedent and not inclined to make The New Hampshire court's ory for excluding gays would be grand legal prounouncements-rather approach to constitutional analysis in invalid in either setting. Considering the opposite of the conservative the case relies heavily on the then the hysteria surrounding the issue at activists on the Supreme Court such as recently decided Hardwick case, in that time, Hum felt that the opinion Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice which the Supreme Court held that the was restrained and narrowly fo- Wuliam Rehnquist. constitutional right of privacy does not cused, and attributed this largely to Justice William S. Brennan was extend to consensual sex between Souter's participation. S.. SUPREME COURT on pa.e 21 two adults of the same sex in private. The New Hampshire decision gives a COMING THIS broad reading to Hardwick, extending it beyond the privacy sphere to affect SEPTEMBER, its ruling on equal protection, due pro- ~ cess and association rights. A COMPLETE SOURCE In effect, the court holds that gay TO THE CITY ... people are not entitled to be treated as ..... 11 individuals by the government but may be subjected to categorical negative treatment, because their right to Real Estate engage! in gay sex is not constitutional- ly protected. The court also ruled that ..... the New Hampshire Constitution pro- vided no greater protection on these points than the U.S. Constitution. Although Souter was not identified as the individual author of the opinion, it was jointly signed by four judges as co-authors. One member of the court dissented, in a strong opinion chal- lenging the factual basis for the majori- ty's ruling. Souter's views are not known on other hot constitutional issues of the moment, including abortion and birth control, free speech and obscenity, and affumative action. In one 1986 decision, Smith v. Cote, he wrote a brief concur- ring opinion touching upon the abortion issue but expressing no view as to the validity of Roe v. Wade or the constitu- tional right to abortion. His decisions HE give a general impression of careful, dispassionate scholarship, with a pro- government tilt in criminal prosecutions. ~NHATTAN New Hampshire gay-rights activists, however, have reacted rather positively to the Souter nomination. LIVING . Professor Marcus Hum of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, a board member of the New Hampshire Citi- GUlbE zens Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Rights and co-author of the gay com- munity's brief in the foster care and

August 8, 1990 O~EK 17 Youth and AIDS Key Topic at·Gay Health Confab

byJlmMllb partic:ularly vexing problem for gay to diagnose HIV infection in women until WASHINGTON-"Over the last six people "because we tend to experi- much too late. years, we've seen the 'degaying' of ence our adolescence" not during our Also participating in the Confer- AIDS," said Bill Scott, president of the teenage years but later "as adults." ence were approxialately 200 members Nation~l Lesbian and Gay Health She saw, in this attention to youth, of the National Association of Lesbian Foundation, which held its 12th Nation- a sign that the al Lesbian and Gay Health Conference community had in Washington, D.C., from July 18 to outgrown its own 22. "We are now on the other tide, delayed adoles- refOCUSingon taking care of lesbians cence. "We've mo- "* . and gays." ved from an inter- The Conference was a reminder of est tnainly in • ~ I" the key role gay health professionals ourselves to an ,.; have played in' the gay movement, like interest in the spearheading the 1973 efforts to get world outside, to "homosexuality" removed from the making things hap- American Psychological Association's list pen and to nurtur- " of mental illnesses. It was also a ing others," she reminder of the way in which the gay said, adding that community's health and political agen- AIDS has forced das have converged as a result of the gays to think ahead AIDS crisis, with Democratic Rep. Gerry to the future and to Studds of Massachusetts addressing the , empower the next opening plenary session, and the heads generation. of the National Gay and Lesbian Task The issue of Force and the Human Rights Cam- AIDS among in- paign F\1nd, along with officials from carcerated popula- gay Latino. and Black organizations, tions was, described joining with gay AIDS officials to as especially acute, discuss the key public-policy issues, since "all of govem- AN APPLE A DAY... Photo: Jim MaIb/llIM:'sek facing the community. ment wants to NLGHPS Bill Scott opening the conference plensry session. The Conference also served as a ignore the prob- reminder of the way AIDS has ironi- lem," Scott explained. The same and Gay Alcoholism Professionals, cally'strengthened and brought new avoidance of difficult realities is behind which held a ·conference within a public prominence to the gay move- the "massive denial on the part of the les- conference." In addition to proViding ment; as over 25 exhibitors displayed bian community and the medical profes- information and opportunity for, gay glossy, annual reports and promoted sion" <;>fthe risk: of AIDSamong women. health professionals to network, the local.national safe-sex campaigns. Calling the issue a "sleeping giant," Scott Conference is the largest single source According to Scott and former noted that women primary-care physi- of funds for the NLGHF. The Founda- NLGHF President Caitlin Ryan; the cians tend to be gynecologists, whose tion;with an office in Washington, chief topics' at this year's conference focus on reproductive organs leads them D.C., and a budget of $300,000, lob- were youth; women and incarcerated to ignore other evidence of HIV infec- bies the govemtnent on gay-related populations. Ryan commented that this tion, while the federal government's defi- health iSSUes,publishes the 425-page yeats preseptations on youth "reflect- nition of, AIDS, which has, from the Sourcebook on Lesbian/Gay Healtb ed a level of maturity" that she' had not beginning of the epidemic, focused on Care and has recently begun awarding seen at previous conferences. Youth- opportunistic infections in middle-class medical school scholarships to lesbians related issues, she said, have been a gay males, also encourages doctors to mn and gay men.

18 O~EK August 8, 1990 There was also much discussion of the u.s. government's immigration ban on persons with HIV infection. Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan granted the international participants in the Conference a special exemption from the ban because it was co-sponsored by George Washing- The ton University. But George Washington University official Winfield Scott, who BACKROOM is also a member of the NLGHF board, America's Largest Gay/Lesbian Computer Information Service said that "while we approve of the CALL US WITH YOUR COMPUTER I end, we are unhappy with the means," namely, ignoring the Conference's les- (718) 849-1614 (modem) bian and gay sponsorship in favor of its mainstream sponsor. Also striking a grim note was AIDS Commission member Larry Kessler, head of the Boston AIDS Action Com- mittee, who reported that the Comffiis- sion's recent hearing had discovered that the problems with "our collapsing health system [are] much worse than ii-II: l'I_I:J~SlJI'I:<:I-II:5i we imagined." The board of directors put off for helping you meetthe sex three weeks a decision on the organ- ization's most controversial issue. challenges of the 90's NLGHF had scheduled its 1990 Confer- ence for New Orleans, but that selec- tion came under fire as a result of I' NI:\\' YCltK I C:HIC:,\GC II.OS ,\NGI:I.I!S I recent Louisiana legislators' efforts to .....------' restrict abortion rights. According to NLGHF President Scott, the board SPEED UP YOUR SUMMER! wanted to coordinate its response with the National Organization for Women; he said that if the meeting is held in New Orleans, the Conference would schedule a day in Baton Rouge, the for Louisiana state capital, to protest the abortion vote. the In other business, Jim Graham of Washington, D.C.'s Whitman- Walker Clinic was selected NLGHF price president for 1991, with Joyce Hunter of New York's Harvey Milk of School and Mel Pohl of the Minneso- ta-based Pride Institute selected as vice presidents. T for all new advertisers .' now through September 10th OUTWEEK ADVERTISING (212) 337-1200 display and classified, fncludes special issues

August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK News Braff to Leave Top Post at-GMHC

by Andrew MiII,r step into this role and do NEW YORK-Jeffrey Braff, the everything," she said. gregarious executive director of the "Maybe that was realistic Gay Men's Health Crisis who was hired at one time, when the just eight months ago, will be leaving agency was smaller, but the agency AugUst 3. not anymore." And although his announced And the hiring pro- departure' has engendered much spec- cess may very well be a ulation as to the circumstances sur- lengthy one. After Richard rounding it, GMHC's board of directors Dunne, its former execu- maintains that it "regretfully accepted" tive director, resigned, his resignation. GMHC spent a year and In a tersely worded letter to the tens of thousands of dol- board, Braff, who was previously an lars on the search to exOOJtivewith, Bell Canada for 18 years, replace him. Tomchin said wrote that he was "returning to Toronto that she planned once for personal and family reasons." again to enliSt the services Braffs lover and children live in "' of a head hunter as well Canada, and he commuted often as to conduct a more tra- between New York, Ottawa and Toronto. ditional search in the gay Joy Tomchin, the board's president, and AIDScommunities. told OutWeek that this was "an especial- Others considered ly unfortunate time for this to happen," for the job in the past noting that the caseload of the world's were Rodger McFarlane, largest AIDS-service organization has executive director of recendy taken a dramatic upswing. Broadway Cares, a phi- In a carefully worded statement lanthropiC AIDS organiza- issued Tuesday, July 24, Tomchin said tion, and a former execu- that "Jeffs compassion, warmth and tive director of GMHC, activism on behalf of people with AIDS, GMHC YOU LATER Photo: Ben Thombeny/OutWeek and Cynthia Dames, the the gay and lesbian community and Jeff Brsff executive director of the GMHC has been an inspiration for us all. appointment of Dr. Woodrow Myers as Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health, Jeff served briefly, but with distinction." the city's health commissioner last winter. Mental Retardation and Alcoholism' Braff's brief tenure is perhaps Sweeney will once again act as Agencies, who also lobbies on behalf most distinguished by the activist fla- executive director until a new one is of various health agencies at the state vor he quickly brought to an agency hired, according to a spokesperson. and city level. that many perceived as stodgy and Braff also has a reputation for People who knew Braff through bureaucratic. He was arrested in front being accessible and down-to-earth their involvement in a support group of the White House with dozens of and often appeared at the office in, for the executive directors of the city's other AIDS-service group directors in blue jeans and a flannel shirt. After gay and AIDS organizations were December, and vigorously supported work, Braff could frequently be found clearly upset over Braffs imminent 'the ACf UP-led protest at St. Patrick's , relaxing with friends and acquain- departure. "I am a big fan of his," said Cathedral last year when many other tances at various gay bars in Chelsea Matt Foreman, the head of the Gay gay and lesbian leaders shied away and on Christopher Street. and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. "He from the demonstration. Board members declined to spOOl- brought a breath of fresh air to GMHC, He also gUided the agency through late on jUst who they would be consid- and he is incredibly gay-positive." the public-relations crisis that ensued ering to fill the job. But Tomchin did say , Ronald Johnson, who holds the when Tim Sweeney, GMHC's deputy that the job itself would be evolving. top post at die Minority Task Force on director, supported the unpopular "Before, we expected someone to SN BRAFFon peg. 21

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~by-4-inch stickers appeared proclaim- UP and United Company, a street- Queer. ing, "Fight Homophobia: Queer Nation theater group, to the more establish- meets every Wednesday, 7:30, at the ment-oriented Greater Boston Lesbian Women's Building." On July 18, roughly and Gay Political Alliance to Men of All N_tion goes 300 people showed up for the meeting, Colors Together to the gay-funding at which it agreed to focus on/the boy- source, the Grass Roots Gay Rights national cotts of Miller beer and Marlboro Fund, and a publicity group, the Infor- NEW YORK~ince its founding in cigarettes already underway in San mation Project. The Alliance recently New York City more than three years Francisco, and a "Nights Out" queer~vis- paid for a series of fliers asking: "Anti- ago, the idea of ACf UP has spread like ibility-campaign in straight bars. Gay Violence and Homophobia on the wildfire throughout the country, logging A women's caucus formed and rise: Where is the queer nation?" with a chapters in cities from coast to coast. planned to meet for dinner before the large Q through the announcement,. , Now, Queer Nation, the lesbian next meeting. The group took immedi- The interest in Boston, where and gay direct-action group which ate action that very night by marching "Queer Nation" has been the commu- fights invisipility and homophobia and to, and "taking back," nearby Dolores nity buzzword. for weeks, "started at Jormed in New York City just four Park, the site of recent gay-bashings. New York's Pride Parade [where we] months ago, is cropping up in four Those calling for the formation of saw an .id~ that was working in New other cities across the country. a Queer Nation in Boston represent the York," said Michael Cronin, one of the In the second week of July, on the broadest range of the city's gay and les- group's organizers. sidewalks of San Francisco's Castro, bian organizers-from the radical ACf In Philadelphia, ACf UP member ilA(~~:r~'nrilil!Jl,~"1"ti-f&fo~~)\!iVj£io. , .+'.. ~:~:;',J~'~i'

22 O~WEEK August 8, 1990 Michael Marisco explained that although Approximately 150 members of "there've been; rumors circulating" about What will ACT UP/Long Island and Queer the fonnation of a new group, ACf UP Nation, a New York-based gay and members "are thinking of starting one as the neigh- lesbian activist group, marched on an affinity group within ACf UP because Marino's Nassau County home Suhday, so many of us are in ACf UP." July 22. The activists accused Marino Similarly, in the small city of bors think? of being responsible for the recent· Providence, R.I., a dozen members of MORE OUTTAKES ON PAGE 25 the local ACf UP chapter and Rhode MUITONTOWN, N.Y.-Over one Island Lesbian and Gay Alliance hundred gay and AIDS activists took defeat, in the Republican-controlled activists met on Sunday, July 15. the fight against anti-gay violence to state Senate, of' an anti-bias bill Organizer Padric Meagher, a member the doorstep of Republican state sponsored by Governor Mario Cuomo. of both ACT UP and the Alliance, Senate Majority Leader Ralph , The activists, escorted by about described the impetus for the group Marino, a longtime opponent of that 20 members of the Nassau County as stemming from "a new militancy piece of legislation. police force, marched from downtown promoted at Pride" and from "emo- tions running high." Indeed, evidence for the impetus behind such a group is everywhere. Rhode Island's statewide gay-rights bill was recently defeated, and there have been a series of gay-bashings outside a new DISTINCTIVE gay bar, the Blaze. At the recent AIDS Walk for Life post-walk picniC on June 3, anti-gay radio talk-show host and gubernato- :¢ =DECO.. rial candidate, Steve White, showed up with supporters, unplugged the Lux u r y Apartments generator for the microphone and reportedly spit on participants before police escorted him away. Cool Buildings ... The Rhode Island group, which remains nameless as members ... Hot Location debate the label "queer," held its first action on Sunday, July 22. A dozen people picketed, and one • Very large apartments woman was arrested, at a demon- stration outside a Newport restau- featuring Hardwood Floors, rant, which targeted the restaurant owner, a state representative who voted and spoke out against the gay New Kitchens, Security, civil-rights bill. A group in London, England, has Deco Baths, High Ceilings also formed, calling itself Outraged. Organizer Keith Alcorn attended the • All Sizes...the Best of the original Queer Nation meetings in New York, in April, and returned home with many of the group's ideas Beach and philosophies. "This new wave, combined with ACf UP, is really going to give us a lot of power," said Alan Klein of Queer :",{:, Nation/New York. Regarding the [), .'. diverse shapes of Queer Nation, Klein ; :' ..., offered, "It really is something that will grow in a grass-roots manner and, like VINTAGE ACf UP, will have local flavors...but the issues acrOSSthe country are similar." PROPERTIES -Carrie Wofford/Boston and Rachel Pepper/San Francisco 1520 Euclid Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 (305) 534-1424

August 8, 1990 OUT~EK 23 Waldorf-Astoria during the demon- dared a similar act against a racial or i{fj111 Washed Up stration against President George Bush religious minority." , NEW YORK-A shopping bag earlier in the evening. Foreman noted that 7 percent of his '~~.:filledwith water was dropped from a "This is just another example of group's caseload this year involves ',r third-floor window at the 7th Precinct how violence against gay people is still complaintsof police misconductor abuse.. ; on a group of gay activists below. considered acceptable," commented Following the incident, which is 17i, The group of about 25 went to the Matt Foreman, executive director of the under investigation, inspector John : ",ednd bund"", July 24 to "" .. the Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project. Tunoney apologized to the group. "No police employee would have . -Andrew MiIlerI>'" , release of those arrested at the "'!;

...} 24 OUTTWEEK August 8, 1990 REAL eSTA TE, INC, Syosset, Long Island, to Marino's home LICENSED neAL ESTATE MOKm in nearby Muttontown, an enclave ---SOB HOWARD described by one demonstrator as occupied by "rich Republicans." The FIRE ISLAND PINES noisy marchers carried signs vilifying Rentals/Sol~s the senator and calling on him to pass Financing the bias bill. One sign read, "Being a queer is not a choice, being an 212 . 925 . 3030 /516 . 597 . 9400 is," Another read, "Marino-Bigot." The march route, approximately one mile long, went past the homes of Marino's neighbors and the woodcrest golf club. The curious who came out of their homes or off the links were reward- ed with a flier explaining the causes and the demands of the march. Those who chose to stay inside or were not at home AyozyCafe received a "Silence - Death" sticker on Featuring Homemade their mailbox and a flier inside it. Natural Food At Marino's home, the actiyists were prevented from crossing onto the Senator's property by a line of Fresh Baked Desserts mounted police. When the group Coffees and Cappucinos .... attempted a die-in on the edge of Marino's driveway, they were The Freshest of threatened with arrest. A legal picket 97 St. Marks PI., N.V.C. followed for roughly a half-hour. 212674-9302 Vegetables, Fish, Pasta, The demonstration ended with a Outdoor Garden Herbs, and Spices vow from Queer Nation member Steve Quester, who said, "In the name of James Zappalorti, Julio Rivera and I . ;-,,~ •••• Yusuf Hawkins, we will hound every ..' state senator who voted against this • bill." All three men were murdered in ~-viting! .' bias attacks in Staten Island, Queens • and , respectively. The group • • marched back to Syosset. • • Cuomo's bias bill makes it a crime • • to assault or intimidate an individual • • on the basis of that person's race, • • creed, color, national origin, sex, • • disability, age or sexual orientation. • • The bill allows sentences for this crime that run consecutively with any other • You are inn-vited to experience our style of • Charming, Newly 'Renovated small-hotel hospitality, Where strangers • Brownstone Conveniently sentence. The bill was defeated by the • become friends and friends become closer, Senate last month after the • Located in Chelsea state House. ' -Duncan Osborne • • ·AII Rooms Have • • Washing Facilites • • ·Share Bath • $84 • .Continental Breakfast Band gets • SINGLE DOUBLE • Included -Single $65 -Double $80 - Studio $99 • Includes continental breakfast. Single or • . ALL TAXES INCLUDED violent at double occupancy. Add 9'7% tax, Subject to • • availability, Advance reservations suggested , -Weekly Rates Upon Request • For reservations, call 1-800-842-3450 • AIDS fund- • • Advance Reservations Suggested! • CHANDLER• INN 212-243-9669 r81ser Inn Town Bed & Breakfast BOSTON-A benefit rap concert for 26 Ch.ndler •• BUkill Bos'on, MA 02116 (617) 482-3450 Colonial House Inn CHllS[A3IUW nnd $1 NYC-IUUII a gay health center ended in bizarre B· O·S· T·O·N

August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK 25 violence, last week when one of the ' Scott issued a public apology member rose to offer the proposal on performers allegedly hurled anti-gay in an interview with the Boston Herald Dannemeyer's behalf. slurs and attacked the owner and an and is attempting to contact Dennis Dannemeyer's anti-gay education employee in the bar hosting the benefit. Moreau to send him a letter of apology rider is modeled after a similar Senate Boston gay-bar owner Dennis with an offer from Snap to do a benefit amendment to the bill, sponsored by Moreau and his employee Keven Riley at Buddies "for the fight against AIDS," Republican Sen. Gordon Humphrey of were allegedly beaten by the lead according to Joi Huckaby, a spokes- New Hampshire. vocalist for"snap, a rap group that boasts person for Dick Scott. "We want every- Though the Senate has for two the current top-ten hit song, "The one to know that we don't condone years overwhelmingly approved the Power." what happened," said Huckaby. Humphrey amendment, the House The incide-nt occurred directly -Carrie Wofford version of the bill has never included following a benefit for the Fenway the measure, and the anti-gay educa- Community Health Center, a gay- tion rider has twice been killed in community health-care center, early in House/Senate conference. the morning on Friday, July 19. Nixon pre- Gay and lesbian act./vists are now In response, two top-hit radio attempting to avoid a third Senate stations here, WXKS and WILD, have elllpts anti- defeat on the Humphrey amendment. stopped playing the group's hit song as --C1i1'f O'Neill well as the -rest of their music. And the gay add-ons 75-member New England Disc Jockey Association has approved a ban on the song as well. to House GMHC Meanwhile, openly gay Boston City Councilor David Scondras has AIDS bill makes OIUe called on Massachusetts Attorney WASHINGTON-The U.S. House General Jim Shannon to investigate the of Representatives on July 19 approved North's skin case. a 1991 spending bill which Includes The alleged assault by lead vocalist fundlog for the nation's fight against "Turbo" Harris occulTed at 2:10 am, after AIDS, successfully avoiding an anti-gay crawl the band had glveo their ten-minute amendment from Republican Sen. NEW YORK-ln a dire<:t-mall fund- performance and had had a couple of William Dannemeyer of California. raising letter for his Freedom Alliance, drinks, according to the bar's general The bill, which funds for the com- the man who diverted federal funds for manager John Segien. Harris, who claims Ing year the entire operation of the the contra rebels In Nicaragua aiticlzed that several bar patrons came on to him, Department, of Labor, the Department President George Bush's new plans to reportedly demanded to see a manager of Health and Human Services and the raise taxes and recommended a few and then allegedly began to strangle Department of Education, also budget cur. of his own. Moreau and ·vlolently ahake him," Includes all federal dollars for the "Some of the Items funded with accorc:llng to i report flied by bartender Food and Drug Administration and the your !IX dollars should make your skin and witness, Bill Darby. Darby reports National Institutes of Health. aawl," Oliver L. North wrote In a four- that Harris yelled at Moreau, "Do I look The measure carries $1.7 billion page plea for money for his right-wing like a fucking to you, huh?" In appropriations to fight AIDS "grass-roots anti-tax campaign." When -Riley, a barback at Buddies, throush the Public Health Service and' "The government recently gave approached, Harris aUegeclly dropped another $2.9 billion In reserve funds $600,000 to the Gay Men's Health Moreau, yelled "I should kick your for a list of health Initiatives still awalt- Crisis center (slel to produce a comic ass,'- and according to several reports, InS final authorization. book depicting In explicit detail a as Riley backed away, Harris "drop- Prior to the' House's consideration sexual encounter between two kicked" Riley in the upper chest and of the Labor-HHS appropriations bill, homosexuals," the letter explained. ' throat ,~rea, knocking Riley back ten Dannemeyer had circulated a congres- He also trotted out National feet. Harris-who denies he kicked sional letter expressing his Intention to Endowment for the Arts funding of Riley-':then reportedly went toward offer an amendment to the bill seeking artists Robert Mapplethorpe and Riley, but was intercepted by Buddies to ban federal public-education funds Andres Serrano. security guard David NelSQn. from being used for programs that "With the government funding filth , Both Moreau and Riley are "promote or encourage" homosexuali- like this, it's an outrage that new taxes pursuing legal action. ty, or that describe it as "normal," "nat- are even being considered,· he opined. At press time, gay and lesbian ural" or "healthy." - "Actually, we haven't had any activists were negotiating with Win When the bill came to the floor, federal funding for two years," Carisa Wiiford and Dick Scott of Dick Scott though, Dannemeyer was out of town Cunningham, a GMHC spokesperson, Enterprises, the band's manager, which on a visit to Yorba Linda, Calif., to cel- responded tersely. "And the money we is seeking an end to the boycott of Snap. ebrate the opening of the Richard M. did have was for a research project." The band records for Arista records. Nixon library, and no other House -Andrew Miller

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A full 83 percent of those 233 West 83rd St .• New York. N.Y. IOO~'I who had tested HIV-negative said that (212) 799·8574 they prefer men with the same HIV- antibody status for sex and romance. Among those never tested, 74 per- cent prefer men who are HlV-negative. Among the survey respondents testing HIV-posltlve, however, only 32 percent Indicated a preference for a partner who Is also HIV-posltive. Researchers said that men testing positive for HlV antibodies who prefer men with the same status expressed Su~e 704 concerns about Infecting an HlV-nega- 200 West 57th Street tlve partner and about such a man's New York, New Yori<10019 Inability to "relate or empathize emo- (212) 333-2650 tionally with an Infected person." On that note, researchers also Office Hours by Appointment Only found that between 12 percent and 15 percent of men testing HIV-nega- Benefit Concert for tlve and those who have never tested Disabled Women prefer that their friends be HIV-nega- NLC benefit concert. Proceeds will be tive as well. used to ,ponlor di.abled women for the UCSF researcher Colleen Hoff, who NLC in Atlanta in 1991. , presented the survey results during the Performera: The Life/Latteta Theresil Sixth International Conference on AIDS, Brunilda VegalEdwinil Lee Tyler & A Piece of die World ' said that one Qf the most troubling aspects of the findings is that "HIV- Moderator: Dorothy Randall GrilY seropositive individuals are much less Place: Aaron Davis Hall (138 St./ConYalt Ave.) likely t~ be selected by seronegative Date: September 8, 1990 [individuals] at a time when emotional Dolllltlon: $20.00 support and companionship are needed Into:Day 201/750-1809 Eve718/643-9879 most." -Rex Wocla1er/Chicago ... TIckets: TickctroniOscar Wtlde Bookstore! 'Judith's Room Bookstorc/A Different Light August 8, 1990 our-'WEEK 'lJ' SUPREME.COURT from PlII8n as well as privacy doctrines. basiS of sex was constitutionally appointed by President Dwight Eisen- Even before HardWick, however, suspect and thus almost never justifi- hower in 1956. A graduate of Harvard Justice Brennan went on record con- able. This view never gained a majority Law School, he worked as a labor cerning the hottest gay legal issue of the Court. lawyer (representing managemenO in a brewing'in the federal courts: whether In recent years, Brennan showed New Jersey firm until becoming a state sexual orientation as a, basis for no signs of an intention to retire, but a court judge. He was a member of the unequal treatment is constitutionally mild stroke suffered on a vacation trip New Jersey Supreme Court at the time "suspect" under the Fifth and 14th in early July prompted his unexpected of his appointment to the U.S. Amendments. In 1985, dissenting from announcement. Brennan's was a crucial Supreme Court., Nothing in his prior the Court's refusal to review a case vote in the few liberal decisions of late, record indicated-what a staunch liberal involving the dismissal of ,Marjorie and he was widely considered the most he would become on the Court. Rowland, a bisexual junior-high-school influential member of the Court's liberal 'But early in his judicial career, guidance counselor, solely on the basis wing. If Souter is confirmed and votes Brennan endorsed the enlightened of her sexual Orientation, Brennan sug- along the lines of such Reagan views on homosexuality which became gested that such action should be sub- appointees as Anthony Kennedy and a hallmark of his approach to lesbian ject to strict judicial review: Antonin Scalia, the Court is likely to and gay issues. In Bouttllter v. Immi- [Dliscrimination against change course sharply on a wide range gration Serotce (1967), when the Court homosexuals or bisexuals based of issues, including abortion, affirmative upheld provisions of the Im-mgration solely on their sexual preference action, free speech and worker rights. 'and Naturalization Law excluding les- raises significant constitutional -ftledfrom New York bian and gay people from the United questions under both prongs of our States as "sexual psychopaths," Bren- settled equal-protection analysis. BRAff from PlII8 20 nan dissented, expressly adopting the First, homosexuals consti- lower court dissenting opinion by Sec- tute a significant and insular AIDS, said: "I'm saddened, and I regret ond Circuit Judge Leonard P. Mqore, minority of this country's popula- his departure very much. I've enjoyed which disputed the labeling of all tion. Because of the immediate working with [Braff], and I thought he homosexuals as "psychopaths" and and severe opprobrium often was having a positive impact on GMHC." argued that Congress could not reason- manifested against homosexuals And while many at GMHC were ably have meant to exclude as many as once so identified publicly, mem- reportedly surprised by Braffs abrupt 37 percent of all male applicants for bers of this group are particularly announcement, others in the AIDS admission to the (relying powerless to pursue their rights community were decidedly not. on Kinsey's fmding that 37 percent of openly in the political arena .... One former board member who adult males have had at least one Second, discrimination based knows Braff said that the charismatic homosexual experience). on sexual preference has been Canadian had repeatedly wrangled In 1976, the Supreme Court was found by many courts to infringe with his board over his role at the asked in Doe v. Commonwealth s Attor- various fundamental constitutional agency, adding, "GMHC needed some- ney of Richmond, Vtrglntq, to review a rights, such as the rights to privacy one managing the bUSiness, and Jeff decision upholding Virginia's sodomy or freedom of expression .... was not living up to staff and volun- law against constitutional challenge. Finally, even if adverse state teer expectations." The Court affirmed the lower court action based on homosexual con- But the same source reported that decision, without holding arguments or duct were held valid under appli- Braff was more or less well liked by receiving briefs. Brennan dissented cation of traditional equal-protec- the board. "If the board asked for his from the Court's treatment of the case, tion principles, such approval resignation, it must have been one along with Justices Thurgood Marshall would not answer the question, very painful board meeting," he said. and John Paul Stevens: Interestingly, the posed here, whether the mere Other sources dose to the board great dissenter of the HardWick case, nondisruptive expression of homo- and to Braff confirmed that the honey- Just,ice Harry Blackmun, did not dissent sexual preference can pass muster moon between Braff and his bo'ard in the Virginia case. even under a minimal rationality had been brief, and that there had In 'subsequent cases concerning standard as the basis for discharge been general dissatisfaction with his the constitutional right of privacy, Jus- from public employment. management style. tice Brennan went out of his way to Brennan is a staunch advocate· of Braff himself made no reference note that the Court's Virginia ruling freedom of choice on abortion, respect either to the board or to the senior '. had not settled the question of for constitutional rights of criminal management at GMHC in his letter of whether homosexual sodomy was cov- defendants, strict separation of church ' reSignation. ered by the right of privacy. Justice and state and wide tolerance for "I wish to express my deep and Brennan johled Justice Blackmun's dis- freedom of speech and political dis- sincere affection and gratitude to the sent in HardWick and also joined Jus- sent. He authored an important plurali- staff, volunteers and clients of GMHC tice Stevens' much broader dissenting ty opinion in Frontier v. Richardson for the support they have given me in opinion, arguing that the Georgia (1973), holding for four members of my time here. You have all become sodomy law violated equal protection the Court that discrimination on the part of me, and I am a better person

28 OUTTWEEK August 8, 1990 for having had the opportunity to serve GMHC's board this month, told Out- people and is poised to hire 11 more. It people with HN and AIDS here in Week: "Whether he was fired or fills six floors of the seven-story building New York," he wrote. Braff did not resigned is a minor point. I can't make it occupies on West 20th Street in Olelsea return OutWeek:S phone calls. that distinction. The fact that he's no and acts as advocate, service provider But at least one person has some longer with the organization is a reflec- and social outlet for thousands of clients criticism for the board of GMHC itself. tion of some kind of mutual decision. with AIDSand mY infection. T Playwright Larry Kramer, one of That speaks for itself. We have to look GMHC's founders and one of its most to the future.~ vocal critics since he left the organiza- Watters said that he was involved tion several years ago, told OutWeek with Braff's/hiring but has been less "It's not that Jeff is or is not any good. active on thf board in recent months. , The board refuses to decide what kind Board resident Tomchin declined of organization GMHC is supposed to to commFnt on Braffs departure be. No executive director has ever beyond hf formal press statement but been given any parameters. How can admitted ,that the growing size and visi- you please a board that doesn't know bility of Iher agency may have turned what it wants?" the pos;uon of executive director into And Kramer, who spoke support- an un~ble job. ively of Braff, thinks that the AIDS "I think the last two EDs had a organization's board may have difficul- hard ime controlling the place. And ty replacing him. "Since the day of its we had expectations of [Braff] that founding, GMHC boards have always were hard to fill," Tomchin said. been out of touch with reality and cer- "Tim and Jeff both had charisma," tainly out of touch with the communi- she added, referring to the months ty," he added. "No one will touch this between Dunne's departure and Braffs job with a barge pole." hiring that ltm Sweeney served as the When asked about the circum- , AIDS organization's chief. "Maybe we stances surrounding Braffs abrupt need someone to stay home and man- departure, Sam Watters, ,an art dealer age programs." NOW! and gallery owner who resigned from GMHC currently employees 135 ~ FLY· N • STAY FLORIDA TWO ROUND TRIP AIRFARES $892~"_ .. ~,., ... ~ ...... lIh .. I,... & $992~"_.... I,W.,QwoB.Qb~lAY~IICNIGHTS ON THE BEACH $119~~" FT. LAUDERDALE ,'*M>tn

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August 8, 1990 O~EK 29 TIDINGST Dave Pallone; Martina Navratilova By Karin Schwartz

refreshing alternative to themselves, thus exhibiting sports Illustrated has come the normal quotient of along, and it has some good human strengths and weak- A things to say about gays. The nesses. Much to our cha- new sports daily, the National, ran a grin, they are too real, too wonderful article in June about Dave much like the rest of us. Pallone, a Major League umpire who When one comes forward to was ftrst forced out of the closet and say so with pain and then forced out of his career. Pallone pride, we should listen." has written a new book called Behind These two articles to- the Mask about his experiences as an gether are a strong state- umpire leading a double life. ment against closets and Pallone is quoted in the article: the homophobic environ- "There's no question my inner strife, ment that makes closets my double life, had a lot to do with my possible. More than that, ,volatile temper. Somebody can't live these articles represent hon- the life that I lived and not have it eat est attempts to bridge the dif- him up inside." This quotation is high- ferences between human be- lighted and provides the article with its ings and to find the common, most Significant statement: Double lives unifying threads of human

wreak psychologiCal havoc on the peo- experience. Usually, people % ,,>. ,', '.' ... , ple who are forced to live them. are so threatened by homo- ,iSo'fsoil!'dlm9thatyou ucatchn:... ·t that the t t i, ",·.heX "" i', Several days aft~r this article ap- sexua 11y Y wan 0 I...".~"''''.•,..,.,m" '''M '"v , '.' -- %" peared, the National published an opin- avoid identifying with homosexuals at cally, she opined that Navratilova is "a ion by another writer, Michael Good- all costs. How refreshing to fine this great player, but I'd like to see some- II'. courageous, honest perspec- one at the top whom the younger play- tive in a sports magazine. ers can look up to." She added, "It is To express your ,-jew- very sad for children to be exposed to point, write: Prank Deford, [homosexuality]." Editor in Chief, The National, Without naming names, Court also 15 w. 52nd St., New York, NY claimed that some players had been 10019.Or call (212) 767-7000. led into homosexuality by other, senior Speaking of gay and players, and that Navratilova was prob- lesbian sports ftgures, tennis ably lured into a lesbian lifestyle during great Martina Navratilova her influential early years on the pro tour. was recently slammed by Court's statements reveal astound- former tennis great Margaret ing ignorance about sexuality. Research Court for being a lesbian. has demonstrated unequivocally that win, about- a 1V interview with Pallone. According to the Associated Press, homosexuality isn't something that you Goodwin's response was enthusi- Court, a wihner of 25 Grand Slam titles, "catch," like a disease, or are "pressured astically supportive: "Pallone reminds including three at Wunbledon, stated in into," like a be~vior. In fact, sexual ori- us that people who populate our ftelds radio and 1V interviews that Navratilo- entation is set very early in life-way be- of dreams are ordinary mortals. They va's admitted homosexuality is a bad fore one is capable of picking up a tennis strive to conform while needing to be example for younger players. Specifi- racquet and going onto a tennis court.

30 OUTTWEEK August 8, 1990 Equally troubling is how Court's homophobia prevents her from recog- nizing Martina's heroism. If winning nine Wimbledons doesn't qualify one as a role model for aspiring tennis players, then what does? The fact that Martina is an openly lesbian public fig- ure in a society hostile to lesbians only In augments her heroic stature. In addition to ignorance and bigotry, The Court may be suffering from an acute case of sour grapes---she only won three Wimbledons, after all, in an era when 90s women tennis players could win only a fraction of the money they win now. We don't have Margaret Court's address, but we do have Navratilova's. Television That Matters We suggest that you write to her and To The Lesbian and Gay give her some encouragement. Ask her Community. to speak out and condemn the maligni- ty of Court's statements. Write to her in care of International Management Group, 1 Erieview Plaza, Suite 1300, Cleveland, OH 44114. Or call (216)522-1200 .. 1~(JLAAD:rldirias, is ,a"prQgr~~ of,.Jhe" IIi ai Ii ..';anelfltAg !O:;;;'<·%,.A:f$;{.*-~L}f'"illWit, . .,~!'lf(jrm,~~q~.,~~~~'1 sf In thfs'week's cblumn, or: about GLAAD, call (21'2) 966-1700. ~.·«i .: $.1

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August 8, 1990 OUrYWEEK 31 In ()u r ()\\' n Hands A Monthly Column About Women's Health Toward a Lesbian ~ealthAgenda By Risa Denenberg

was not alone in my disappoint- versity's AIDS Clinical Trial Unit bians about AIDS," lesbians from Cali- ment in the 12th National Lesbian (ACIU), Many considered the selection fornia, Texas and New York all gave and Gay Health Conference and of government representatives, rather anecdotal iIiformation about lesbians Eighth National AIDS Forum, which than experts from the lesbian and gay with AIDS, including cases of woman- Itook place in Washington, D.C., community, homophobic and insulting. to-woman transmission. But this sort of from July 18 through 22. I participated The conference program raised critical information exchange was not, in and .overheard many discussions many questions for lesbians. What are the standard fare of the workshop nor, among the lesbians present regarding lesbian health issues? In fact, what de- certainly, of the conference. ' the deficits of the program and oOr Beyond the issue of HIV, lesbian ghettoization within the conference. health concerns were not, in general, Latina, Black and Asian lesbians voiced well defmed or well addressed. While anger at underrepresentation. The con- topics of interest were scheduled for cerns of lesbians over the age of 50 the Pre-Conference Lesbian Institute were barely addressed. Workshops (chronic fatigue, sexuality, cancer, anti- were designed,. it appeared, for an une- lesbian violence), this program was ducated audience, which many found separate from the conferen<;e itself and insulting and wasteful. As many as 75 required an additional fee above the percent of the lesbian attendees were regular confereQce fee. working within AIDS-related organiza- When the International AIDS Con- tions, yet our knowledge, expertise, ference refuses us lifesaving informa- commitment and drive seemed wholly tion, undermines our activism and de- ,unacknowledged. Not surprisingly, the values Qur lesbian identities, at least we concept that lesbians are at risk for are not surprised. But when an annual HIV was not a program theme.' Instead, conference on lesbian and gay health lesbians care for PWAs, care about does these things, it feels like a betray- PWAs, experience AIDS burnout and al. Still, it is fair to ask: Is the problem argue privately' about woman-to- in a conference, or is it a reflection of woman transmission. our community? A plenary sessioq on women and Why do local programs and na- AIDS was well attended and had two tional conferences on lesbian health is- excellent speakers: Dazon Dixon, di- sues fall so short of the mark? rector of Sisterlove Women's AIDS Pro- Lesbians are women: young, old, Illustration by Kris Kovick ject in Atlanta and the National Black Latina, Black, Haitian, Puerto Rican, Women's Health Project; and Joan ftnes lesbian health? Our lesbian com- Jewish, Asian, white, Italian. We are Gibbs, staff attorney for the Center for munity is diverse, but where are the mothers, health workers, sex workers, , Constitutional Rights in New York City. collective and varied experiences of IVDUs, poor, unemployed, profession- But the plenary neglected to provide Black, Latina, Asian and other lesbians al, homeless, knowledgeable, multiply direct'medical information, information being discussed? Why aren't we talking oppressed. Lesbians take care of par- regarding lesbians and AIDS, or a les- about effective AIDS education for cul- ents, raise children, shoot drugs, share bian perspective on AIDS work or turally diverse lesbian communities? . needles, sleep with men, have families, AIDS activism. Where, in this conference, were the get cancer, go through Meanwhile, women's issues were lesbian sex workers, the lesbian IVDUs, menopause, get raped, write novels left out altogether in the AIDS medical- the' lesbians with HIV? I feel certain and die from AIDS six times faster than update plenary session the following that an HIV-po~itive lesbian would men. Lesbians get sick, go without day, which led several attendees to take have felt unsafe coming out at this con- health insurance, visit the emergency the stage and prOvide the missiQg infor- ference. room for health care, refuse--out of mation ourselves. Further, the sched- If women are, as we know, invisi- fear-basic services like Pap smears. uled speakers included the former ble, undiagnosed and uncared for in this Why do we feel that there are no health commissioner of Washington, epidemiC, consider how much more in- lesbian health issues? Is it our internal- D.C., Dr. Reed Tuckson, and Richard visible and uncared for are lesbians with ized homophobia? Are we too busy Shulopp from George Washington Uni- AIDS. In one workshop, "Educating Les- taking care of everyone else to consider

32 O~EEK August B, 1990 our own needs? Are we living In too Call to ACTion much fear of physical and psycholQgi~ BleQk or whll, t•• •• InCi link lOP" cal violence? Are we too afraid to chal- Blaek wAloId whll. lett,rlng end puff pink triangle or While w/bold black lelterlng and pull pink triangle, lenge the status quo? Are we just Igno- Ouallty Onell8 Power 50 Shirts rant? Why are we divided Instead of united as a community of lesbians around our cQmmon concerns? In fact, many of us are ignorant: Since almost no research exists, we have no Idea how many lesbians have breast cancer, AIDS, endometriosis, ovarian cancer or chronic fatigue syn- drome. We suspect that lesbians under- Add 12,00 ShIPPIng.nd h.ndllng. Sind chICk 01' monty ord.r 10: CA Allid''''1 add 0.75% S.,.. TQ Soap BoM Sal,. go more gynecological surgery than SEE PAGE 79 10010N,HlVtnhur'l Or heterosexual women, but we can't Or call: (213)6SC·27G2 W .. I Hollywoocl, CA iOOS activists,people with to admit us into the system-and now, mittee in March of this year. AIDS, representatives from diverse c0m- after a year-long struggle, they have. AIDS activist groups and others munity groups and even a community- 34 O~EEK August 8, 1990 based AIDS clinician, wUl have voting vmage PlaywrIghts Productions' presents membership on all the ACfG's research DiaGnosis: HIV + o Sappho. 0 Wilde! committees, including two members on • comedY re'f\Ie with mlllk: the all-powerful ExOOJtiveConunittee. There is no cure for HIV, But there are treatment Redesigning tbe system. In 1991 opti~ns. The AIDSIHIV. Treatment D!rectory, • 'pubhshed by the Amencan Foundation for AIDS the entire ACTG system WIll be ~e- Research (AmFAR), is a guide to the full range of vamped, as the five-year cooperative approved and experimental treatments, Aone-year agreements between NIAID and the 49 subscription to the Directory (4 issues) is only academic sites are up for renewal. Divi- $30.00. To subscribe, or to make a contribution, sion of AIDS Director Hoth has send your check to AmFAR. DUPLEX; promised that ACf UP and other activist ~"American Foundation for AIDSResearch 61 Christopher St. will ha . t· t th ede· 6\(lt 1515 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 Reservations: 255·5438 groups ve mpu moe r Slgn. Peoplewith HIV dillOst who cannot oHOId a'paid WblCripffon moy AUGUST 1, 8, 15 8PM A confllct-of-Intere st policy. obtain 0 complimentary copy by co/ling the NolionolAIDS $8 covec tWO drink minimum NIAID is not going to wait for NIH to Informoffon Cltoringhaustot I·SOO·458·S23I. put forth new guidelines regulating D." i'-•.u.'-. D.t f._ conflicts of Interest among investigators receiving both federal and corporate funds. It is going to implement its own rules calling for full disclosure of all Dr. Charles Franchino

corporate equity holdings and consul- I tancles held by NIAID-sponsored inves- 30 Fifth Avenue tigators. This is in line with ACf UP's demands in May. New York, New York 10011 Involvement at local AIDS Clin- Ical Trials Units (ACIV) sites. Each 212.673.4331 local ACIU site will be required to es- tablish a Community Advisory Panel, to assist with tria1 design, enrollment and office hours by appointment dissemination of results. openness to new trial designs. The ACfG Statistical Working Group, led by chief NIAID biostatistician, Susan Ellenberg, spent its July m~ting flesh- ing out the implications of i\Cf UP's 1990 Treatment Agenda, including the design of a quick screening program for testing new anti-IllY drugs against each other in under three months, before de- FREE Consultation with a Male or Female Physician, ciding which ones should go on to larg- Board Certified Surgeons, Internists, Gastroenterologis~s. er, longer comparative tria1s. Recognition of tbe need to o We successfully treat all rectal problems - hemorrhoids study more new treatments. NIAID fissures, warts - in our modern offices. Evening and Director Fauci said repeatedly that ei- Saturday appointments available. ther the ACfG must devise an initiative to conduct small pilot studies of new oInsurance plans accepted. treatments (such as the 99 that ACf UP o Laser benefits: No Pain! No Bleeding! Fast return to listed in its Treatment Agenda at the normal activities. No hospital stay. San Francisco AIDS conference), or NIAID will have to begin a separate ini- tiative to do so. LASER MEDICAL ASSOCIATES Recognition of tbe need to stu- JEFFREY E. LAVIGNE M.D. dy drugs used tn tbe community. FELLOW INTERNATIONAL COLI.;EGE OF SURGEONS Another unmet need recognized by UPTOWN GRANDCENTRAL DOWNTOWN ,Fauci is a program to qUickly test drugs 7E. 68th Street 60 E. 42nd S-ireetSuite 901 67 Broad Street which catch on in the community, either BAYSIDE WOODSIDE SCARSDALE GREATNECK inside or outside the ACfG. This might 23-91 BELL BLVD. 53-1932ndAVa 697 CENTRAL Ava 833 NORTHERN BLVD. spare thousands of PWAs the expense and disappointment of wasting money, CallFree: 1-800-MD-TUSCH time and hope on useless substances New York City: (212) 517 -2850 such as AL-721, oral dextran sulfate or SN Polhicil Sclinci onpalll 11 August 8, 1990 O~EK 35 By Charles Stlverstein the temples. I've just never felt like my phone number of someone in the same old self again. Am I just making group with whom you can talk. If so, Dear Doc, myself crazy? I worry about things- call that person-he'll make your intro- , I am a GWM but inexperienced. I terrifying things-like AIDS, cancer, duction to the group easier. Though am 5'11" and weigh about 240 lbs. At YO, death. I can't trust doctors any- you didn't include an address, I can tell about th~ time last year, I was making morel I don't know where to turn, and by the postmark that you live In New use of a flashlight as a dildo-it wasn't I hope and pray that you can help me. Jersey. Perhaps that's why you're hav- the first time I had done so. When I I've only had one sexual experl- ing trouble finding a physician, who can came, I felt a brief, sharp pain in my ence---a brief attempt at oral sex on an accept your gayness. You need a com- chest. About ten minutes later I began older hetero man almost 12 years ago. plete physical examination by a compe- to feel dizzy and nauseous, as though I The only person I know who died tent gay physician. Please write to me at had to vomit (but I didn't). I did have from AIDSwas a platonic friend. I lived OutWeek with your name and address, diarrhea and felt weak, as though I was with him for three months or so about and I'll send you short list of a some going to pass out. So I went to the r'>' ""'. <' emergency room. - ,--'- There, I was told by the on-duty My doctor freaked when I told him that I was doctor that I had an "infection" and should see my personal physician gay, and so I don't believe I got th·e best of care. Monday morning. This very vague di- agnosis was no comfort. When I went ten years ago. He died almost two and competent gay physicians in New York. to see my own doctor a week or so a half years ago. I think that I've told Let them guide you about your health. later, I was suffering from a severe loss you everything. Then plan a day's outing to New of appetite as well as a nervous sort of Please Help York City. Start at the Pleasure Chest, involuntary body jumps, fever, sharp 156 Seventh Ave. South. You can bur a head pains and a sort of "squishy" Dear please Help, dildo there, but be sure that you get one sound in my right ear-as though there I want you to do a number of with balls or some object at the end of it was water in it. I also had pains in my things. First, throw aw.ay that flashlight that will prevent you from inserting the abdomen, especially gas pains Just be- you've been using as a dildo. Get rid of it dildo too far into your rectum. After fore going to the bathroom. today. I don't even want you to have it you've bought the dildo, take a walk over My- doctor frea~ed when I told around the house. If you need a flash- to A Different Light, a gay bookstore at him,that I was gay, and so I don't be- light, buy a new one--but you are not to 548 Hudson St. Browse through their lieve I got the bestef care. He said that use it as a dUdo. That is very dangerous books, and pick up one or two to read at my infec~ion $eerlJed to be clearing up and could lead to serious bodily hann. home. If you like gay porn, Gay Treasures and,'~ m~h .of it waS anxiety. I was Get Ii copy of the New York-New is right next-door at 546 Hudson St. Your ,"'ever a byp.oqhondrjac, but I must Jersey Gayel/ow Pages. Send $4.50 to final' stop on your day'li outing Is the Gay admit- '~t I did set, ~lf worked up GayeUow Pages, P.O. Box 292, Village and Lesbian Community Center at 208 w. about all 'of this. -, St3tiQn',''New York, NY 10014. It con· 13th St. Pick up their calendar of events. P.S.I should poin~ '(Jut that there was tait')3~inl?rmation about gay and lesbian The object of aU of these sugges. bloOd on the toilet paper a day or two .or$~nl~110os and actlvltlell. This will tlons is to help you in two ways: to take after thlt dildo Inclqent, but ,there tx; ,a Wiry Important resource for you tn care of yourself physically and to find -didn't seem to be any In the stool. The 'Nel\'.}ersey. Of you want the National friends and companionship In the gay third doctor I visited was far more car· G#J.jJfllo'wPases, send $10 to the same world. If you also need psycholoslcal ins but ,only found gallstones and a address. They -both come In a plain help, but you can't afford a private ,sinus Infection. _ brown wrapper, first-class mail.) When therapist, call the Institute for Human It's a year later n<;lw.I finally save your copy arrives, find the say organi- Identity at (212)799-8574. It's New York up on all the doctors last July. But I zations that are near your house and CIty's only nonprofit counseling center stlll get brief, sharp pains In my make a promise to yourself that you '11 for say people. They have a staff of head-mostly above the ears and In attend a meeting. Sometimes there's the caring professionals who understand 36 OUT~EEK August 8, 1990 the emotional needs of gay people. Give them a call.T

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(more recently) oral alpha interferon. More empbasts on opportunistic l1ffecttons. This year, for the flJ'St time, the ACfG plans to open tria1s for all five major opportunistic infection groups: PCP, CMY, toxoplasmosis, fungal infections and MAl. Trials are slated as well to im- prove treatments for the most common HIV-reiated canrers, Kaposi's sarcoma and the various lymphomas. More empbasls on women and HN. More resources will be given to the Obstetrical and Gynecological Subcom- mittee of the Pediatric Committee, enabling it to expand its focus from preg- nant women to all women with HIV. In a way, the new openness at the ACfG amounts to calling the community's bluff. We said that we wanted input and access: What will we do now that we have it? As a start, we must become more conversant with the real problems at 141 University Ave. Suite 1 • San Diego CA 92103-3007· FAX # 1-619-293-7255 local research sites. We cannot focus all our attention on the center and the hier- archy and ignore the realities of re- search work. It is time to get our hands He makes me SMILE! dirty, learning about the complex reali- ,;e, .$<""", ties of AIDS research in the diverse set- tings where it is conducted. We must not abandon our criticism of the systemic flaws which continue to afflict the ACfG. Research priorities are not yet in balance. There are no options for people who are still asymptomatic but for whom AZf has worn out its use- fulness. Too few anti-HIV alternatives to AZT-like drugs are being studied. The ddI protocols are going too slowly and use unrealistic entry criteria. Oppor- tunistic-infection studies are not imple- mented enthusiastically. The expertise of the pharmacologists, neurologists, re- search nurses and data managers is, all too often, ignored by the ACfG hierar- chy. A few investigators are waging a DEMETRIOS SENGOS, DDS last-ditch effort to kill parallel track in its infancy. These and other problems re- JACK ROSENBERG, DDS main, but at least we will be able to & AsSOCIATES bring our concerns and our demands di- Preventative & Cosmetic Dentistry rectly to those responsible. 475 FIFTH AVENUE (212)779-2414 None, of this could have happened By AppOintment without the efforts of thousands of pe0- ple with AIDS over the last ten years Amex- Visa-Master-Card-Insurance and those of the hundreds of activists Iri,,'";-,:"'; .. ,.. ·--;"'-'1' who stormed the NIH on May 21.T August 8, 1990 OUTYWEEK 37 Obituaries

Raul A. Companioni Penn's first openly gay dorm resident own treatments and argue at any dissent. adviser. While at Harvard, he was active He fought, armed with knowledge, and Raul A. Companioni, an active sup- in organizing the gay business students. porter of many gay and lesbian organiza- After establishing himself in New York, tions, died on Friday, June 29, 1990. He he supported many lesbian and gay was 34 years old and lived in Chelsea. organizations. He served on the board Raul was born in Havana, Cuba, and of the Fund for Human Dignity and was grew up in Tampa, Fla., where his family a very active volunteer and supporter of continues to live. He had been actively FAIRPAC,the gay and lesbian political action committee. -Raul also served on the Board of the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, an estab- lished national organization which pro- motes sexual health and sexuality educa- tion. In 1982, it was suggested that their board could use an openly gay Hispanic male under 30 and with a background in business. Raul fit the bill and was their treasurer from 1983to 1987. While in high school and college, Raul performed in musical theater pro- ductions at his schools and even danced in a student variety show at the Harvard Business School. He was an avid theater- goer and, upon seeing Les MtserabJes, was struck by the analogy to the AIDS crisis. He saw the revolutionaries as ACT was as fierce an opponent as contempo- UP members. Able to maneuver the rary research would allow. walks of Fire Island Pines in his Valenti- David was· an early and passionate no heeis, he was a perfect blend of mas- advocate of gay rights, which he fought culine good looks and camp sensibility. for on the board of GLAADand as co- He was always up for dancing, whether chair of its media committee. His out- at the Saint or at a tea dance in the rage at the government's response to the involved with many aspects of the gay Pines. He was not shy and was qUickly AIDS .epidemic led him to become a and lesbian community since moving to off-with-the-shirt to cool his Chelsea member of ACT UP, in which he partici- New York in 1980. Gym-toned torso. pated vociferously and with which he Raul' s involvement with sports con- Raul's mother, Olga, and his aunt, demonstrated religiously. His own bout tinued throughout his life. As a boy, he Hilda Rodrequez, both of Tampa, were with the disease led him to the PWA competed in swimming throughout grade with him daily in the last two months of Coalition, where he shared his vast school and high school. He competed in his life at St. Vincent's Hospital. His knowledge, fortitude and compassion the Gay Games I and II and was $Ched- mother marched in the Gay Pride Parade with those not as well armed for the bat- uled to compete in Doth swimming and the Sunday before his death. And at a tle as he was. He pursued these causes tennis in Gay Games III, to be held in family memorial service on July 1, she until he was too weak to continue, but Vancouver, British Columbia, this August. told those family and friends present that he remained argumentatively aware of He had been a promoter and fund-raiser she would continue both his and our their activities until the end. for the Gay Games and Team New York. struggle. Raul is also survived by his David had been a theatrical agent He swam with the· New York Aquatic brother George, of Tampa. with Don Buchwald and Associates until A Memorial Service will be held Homosexuals and played tennis with the his diagnosis, at which time he left his Metropolitan Tennis Group. on Tuesday, July 31, at 6 pm at the Jud- position as head of the theatrical depart- Raul was a trusted fmancial adviser son Memorial Church, West 4th and ment to devote his energies exclUSively and broker for hundreds of clients Thompson streets. to AIDSactivism and gay rights. through Christopher Street Financial. He Raul requested that contributions David's family loved and support- had pursued his interest in business since in his memory be made to AmFAR,the ed him throughout his life and in college, graduating from the Universityof American Foundation for AIDS Re- his battles. His brother, Vince, took Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1978 search, 1515 Broadway, or the Lambda him in and devotedly cared for him' and receiving a Masters in Business Legal Defense and Education Fund, from the day of his diagnosis until his ' Administration from Harvard in 1980. '666 Broadway. -Bill Stackhouse death. His family, his many friends, his After moving to New York, he worked in lovers, his co-workers and his fellow advertising and retail salesmanagement advocates celebrated a memorial in his before joining Christopher Street Financial. David Liebhart honor on July 6, at the Frank E. Campbell Raul began his voluntary involve- David Liebhart died on July 5, 1990, funeral home. ment in gay and lesbian causes as a from complications related to AIDS, David Liebhart was a healthy, sophomore in college. In that year, he which he had battled for one and happy gay man. His family and the vast was a gay peer counselor at Penn and a half years. He was 39 years old. At his array of his devoted friends testify to the was active in the student organization death, his doctor remarked that David warmth, intelligence and honest faith he Gays at Penn. As a junior, he became came to his office prepared to dictate his brought into their lives. They did not 38 OU~WEEK August 8, 1990 need his death to realize how much they life, he visited the new cherished him. Archives at Cornell University and began donating the materials he had BENEFIT collected, which included rare editions CONCERT Robert A. Roth of foreign materials. FOR Robert A. Roth, a prominent mem- I first met Bob in 1978, when I ber of the gay legal community and a started the New York Law Group (which DISABLED WOMEN longtime political activist, died on Mon- later became the Bar Association for day, July 9, from the combined effects Human Rights.) Bob was a frequent par- The Mid-Atlantic Region of AIDS and Hodgkins disease. Bob was ticipant in Law Group activities and 40 and had been ill for several years. helped to build the membership by of the NLC willsponsor a Bob began his gay activism while encouraging his wide circle of movement benefit concert. an undergraduate at Cornell University friends to join. He provided crucial en- in the 196Os. Reacting to news reports couragement and advice in the early Proceeds from this concert about the formation of a gay student years of building the Law Group. In 1979, will be used to sponsor 70- organization at Columbia University, Bob Bob helped to launch the Cornell Gay 100 disabled women who co-founded the Student Homophile and Lesbian Alumni Association by dig- League at Cornell, which was the ging into his voluminous files to compile want to attend the NLC in nation's second lesbian and gay 'student an enormous list of openly lesbian and Atlanta, GA. in 1991. organization. He became a familiar agita- gay people who had attended Cornell tor on the Ithaca campus, leading picket- during his Ithaca years. He also provided ing at bars, handing out fliers, organizing legal assistance in the organization of Artists and Performers gay dances and leading "zaps· at donni- New York Physicians for Human Rights. Bob continued to practice law part- tories and in classes. He continued his THE LIFE gay community activism while a law stu- time out of his apartment while he dent at Fordham, from which he valiandy battled his illnesses during the LATTETA THERESA received his degree in 1975. 1980s: first Hodgkins disease and then BRUNILDA VEGA AIDS. He took an active role in dealing Bob established a gay-community EDWINA LEE TYLER & law practice in Manhattan at a time with his diseases, devising his own dietary when there were few openly gay attor- approach to AIDS during those periods A PIECE OF THE neys and was a frequent participant in when chemotherapy for Hodgkins dis- WORLD community events. He had an active law ease precluded taking AIDS drugs. practice covering a wide range of issues, Bob Roth was more than just a list of including anti-gay harassment by law accomplishments and interests. He was Moderator enforcement officials and censorship of a vibrant, witty man who delighted in intellectual challenges. He loved to de- gay publications. In one of his important DOROTHY RANDALL GRAY cases, he represented Bruce Voeller, vise intricate, neat legal arguments to get then of the National Gay Task Force, in out of difficult situations, and he loved to a challenge to postal officials' confisca- tell stories about the early years of gay Place tion of gay-movement magazines mailed organizing at Cornell and in New York. to the Task Force from Europe. In He will be missed by his wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Ithaca, New AARON DAVIS HALL another, he litigated an important case 138th Street and Convent Avenue establishing the principle that a gay cou- York City and around the world. ple should be considered a family for -Arthur S. Leonard purposes of the Single-family occupancy Date clause in a residential lease. His lan- Donald Sherin \' guage facility and overseas contacts also SEPTEMBER 8, 1~90 generated interesting international legal Don Sherin, resident of Greenwich work, unusual for a solo practitioner. Village and owner of the st.ore "Qay Bob also had a passion for collect- Treasures,· passed away Saturday, June Donation ing things. While at Cornell, he took out 30. After a two-and-a-half-year struggle, subscriptions to all the gay publications he succumbed to cellular cancer. that then existed, building a small library Don was a character that only he $20.00 collection for the gay student organiza- could have created. We, his employees, tion. The collection was unfortunately will miss him. lost during subsequent relocations of the -Mike Coca, Mike Delre, Vick For More Information organization'S offices. His natural fluency Hill, Ken Hundley, Clay Johnson, Contact with languages led him to collect Ben Lewis, Mike Newark, Mike obscure European gay journals and to Thomas and Stan Topliff Days: G. Patterson (201) 75().1809 establish 'COntacts with gay-rights move- Evenings: K. Hikmah (212) 491·5969 ' ments in Europe and an active in-volve- ,& G. Terzi (718) 643-9879 ment with the International Lesbian and Obituary Policy Gay Association. His apartment was a OutWeek accepts and publishes virtual gay-movement archive, and he obituaries from our readers free of Ticket Purchase compulSively classified and indexed all charge. Submissions should be in his acquisitions. writing and may be accompanied bya TICKETAON In New York, in addition to starting photograph. OutWeek reserves the right OSCAR WILDE BOOK STORE his own collections of gay-rights materi- to edit obituaries. Please mail to: JUDITH'S ROOM BOOK STORE als, Bob volunteered to help catalog the OutWeekMagazine large collections which had been built 159W. 25th St, Seventh Roor A DIFFERENT LIGHT up by the Mattachine Society's New NewYorlc, NY 10001. York branch. During the last year of his August 8, 1990 OUT-.wEEK 39 40 OUT~EEK Augusta,1990 In a world obsessively , prejudiced againstlat, - , the Girth " Mirth Club gives chubby men and their "chasers" / Il I--U.. · a ...... 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By John W. Peebles

Jobn w: Peebles is a current member oJ-Glrtb & Mlrtb and was formerly on tbe group:s board of directors. He also sewed for two years as tbe, edttor of tbe group's newsletter, The Fat Apple Review . .. All tIIustrators for tbis feature are,also members of Girtb & Mlrtb. , I 111111

August 8,1990 OUTYWEEK 41 Give me a man wbo fills out bts jeans, Unfortunately, there is still a great deal of prejudice Btg-butted, barreJ-bellted, wbo defnU'1y leans within the gay community against the heavyweight,an ani- Toward zofttg. He's befty, tnfacf, be's cbubby. tude that reflects the acceptance by gays of one more dilr Tbts ts the man who'll be my bubby! gusting prejudice of straight society as a whole-one of the , -from Tbe Fat Apple Review last "acceptable"prej~dicesleft in modem society.Licenseis given by the medii and by society to sneer at, to publicly ridiculeand to humiliateanybody who is overweight(which I n April 21, 1990, 192 men showed up for is approximately60 percent of the U.s. population, according (!)"leather night" at the Lesbian and Gay to MetropolitanLife).. Community Services Center in Admitting ,one's own attraction to an overweight New York. Although this may seem like a person practicallylabels one as some sort of small crowd for Saturday night at the loony. A couple of seasons ago, an Spike, this group was an example of a episode of Destgntng Women ad- growing phenomenon nationwi,de. dressed this fact. Clarlene, the Jean This particular leather night was Smartcharacter,fallsin love with a one of the monthly parties (with real dreamboat of a man. He is various themes) thrown by the handsome, neat, smart, witty, Girth & Mirth Club of New perfectly dressed, gentlemanly YorkInc. -, and, to top it all off, rich!The You might surmise--hy its ' sole reason for Charlene's name-who the group is for, reluctanceto let herself devel- and what it's all about: chubby op a relationship with this gay men. The girth part is self- man is that he is fat-not that explanatory. Clubs have taken she is turned off or repulsed by the appreciation of love handles _ it herself,but that she is worried Into a whole new dimension.The about what her friends would "mirth" comes from the factthatthey think. It is impossiblefor a man to too thought that the quip about the be as perfect as Mason, the Walter number of cattle that gave their lives to Olkewicz character, but Charlene lets clothethis bunch was funny. this one "flaw" almost ruin the relation- Girth& Mirth is not new; in fact,the New ship. The fact that Charleneis taller than aver- York club celebrated its tenth anniversary in 1988, age and a bit overweight herself, has bleached sponsoring a nationalconventionfor the manychub clubs that blonde hair and prattles nonsensicallyabout absolutelynoth- have proliferatedover the last decade. Al 12, New ing in an initatingwhine seems not to matter at all. York'sis not the first. The San Franciscoclub Why this almost perfect man would want pioneered the movement in 1976when this very imperfect woman is only a the "slim is in" fad was ~t its peak, convenience of the plot. Since making it difficult for the heavy Destgntng Women pretends to gay man to find acceptance in attack all things bigoted and the bars and baths of that era. : misguided,everything works In the intervening years" out just fine.Allin all, it is a clubshave;sprung up in lit- nice try, and the fat jokes erallyevery comer of the are kept to a minimum United States: from and are immediately Seattle to Miami to San apologized for, but ,Diegoto Boston.Almost Destgntng Women still every large city has had illustrates the deep- a fling at a big man's seated prejudice em- club,' with varying braced by society and degrees of success. In spoon-fed by the 1986,an umbrella'orga- media. It is very notice- ,nization was formed able that in subsequent called the, Affiliated episodes Mason disap- Bigmen's Clubs (ABC) to pears (moved to Tokyo!), give support and adVice to thereby freeing Charlenefor new clubs and to create a cen- a more acceptablerelationship f tral informationresource and set with,and finally marriage, to a up a fund to purchase national stalwart,han9s0meAir Forcepilot. advertisingto channel interestto local Until the Rubenesque becomes clubs. ABCnow has a combined member- fashionable again, there's really not ship of more than 1,200. much G&Mcan do about it. What the clubs

42 OUT~EEK August 8, 1990 can and are doing is providing a place and significantly higher for nonmembers) and an atmosphere where chubby men can includes an open bar with unlimited feel free of a judgmental society, beer, wine and soda. Tables (most including gay society. It is also, of which, by the way, were damn it, a place where they donated to the Center by can g

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nthewake, of my triumphant lun- to report to the 51st floor. Puzzled, I wall but decided that I was mis~en. cheon last week in the executive turned to collect my crullers just in time Around lunchtime I took my key dining room of the OutWeek build- to see the entire box disappear into and went off in search of the wash- ing, I vowed to express my grati- the mouse hole. room. In my wandering I discovered tude by turning in this week's Edelweiss grimly greeted me at that I was apparently the only occu- I the 51st-floor elevator bank and pant on the floor. Certain that I saw a "Dining Out!" review of that new Episcopalian restaurant on the Upper briskly led me to a spacious win- figure at the fur end of one of the end- East Side-the Vespiary-well ahead dowedoffice on the south side of the less corridors, I called out, but there of deadlipe. In fact, I vowed to en- building. I was amazed (and delight- was no reply, and my voice echoed off courage all of the other contributing ed) to see all of my possessions neatly the walls. When I got closer I realized writers to do the same as an act of displayed around the room, though that I'd, been shouting to a bronze good faith in this apparent new era of they looked a little shabby beside the sculpture of the editorial board. I never cooperation between management new accessories: a pen-and-pencil set, was able to locate the washroom, dis- and talent. Invigorated by this resolve, leather-bound "in/out" boxes and a creetly hidden, I presume, behind the I got up with the birds yesterday telephone, with a flash, mute and redi- oak paneling, so I took the elevator morning (despite the lingering half-life al features. Edelweiss said nothing to down to the commissary. Strangely of my Restoril capsules), showered explain this relocation. She merely enough, none of the other writers and shaved in record time, while "The pressed a key to the washroom in my wished to speak to me. I sat down at a Flight of the Bumblebee" played on hand and briskly marched off. (She table where the book reviewers were the clock radio, and hurried off to the always seems so unhappy, no doubt disparaging DaVid Leavitt, as usual, office (affectionately dubbed "the salt as a result of something tragic in her but they all got up and moved else- mines" by one of my fellow colum- past. I just wish that I could get her to where. I saw Violet and waved her nists with a wicked gift for the tum of open up.) The change was so disori- over, but she carried her tray right past phrase). I bounded into my cubicle, enting that I abandoned any idea of me. This happened not a few times, only to fmd that the space had been working on my review and spent and I ftnally left, feeling every eye bor- stripped bare. I was so stunned that I much of the morning staring out the ing through me. dropped the box of French crullers I'd window. Eventually, I decided to call Back on the 51st floor, I hammer- brought to share with everyon~. The the fashion writer, Violet, who sat in ed out my piece on the Vespiary, Royal manual typewriter (for which I'd the cubicle next to mine, to see if she'd which took a little longer than usual to ,. bargained long and hard), the framed heard any news at her end, but then I finish because I kept looking over my 5-by-7 print of Picasso's Guernfca, the remembered that there are no tele- shoulder at that portrait, trying to souvenir scorpion-in-lucite paper- phones on the mezzanine level. In- catch it blinking again. I dropped the weight from Prairie Dog Town in stead I called my friend Alvin. While' review in my "out" box and made one Newton, Kansas--all was gone. As I we discussed my getting together with more futile hunt for the washroom stood amidst the desolation, a contain- him and Earl sometime next week for before going on home. I feel as er· shot out from the pneumatic tube my monthly screening of Wetherby, I though something odd has taken beside my denuded desk. Inside the thought that I noticed that the eyes place, but I can't quite put my fmger container was a memo from Edelweiss, blinked on the large portrait of on it. Naturally, I intend to bring the our personnel liaison, instructing me Kendall Morrison hanging on the west matter up at tomorrow night's meeting of the Contributing Writers' Grievance Committee in the Stars and Garters Room of the Community Center (All are welcome to attend') if that pro- posal by the Names Committee doesn't eat up the entire agenda as it did last time last time. Meanwhile, it's almost time, once again, for my annual Summer Fudge Competition, so you should start looking through your recipe books. Details to follow .... 46 OU~WEEK AugustS, 1990 know? TIIESE PEOPLE ARE VILE, DIS- Sometimes. GUSTING MONSTERS. Ertegun, you think Then th~e are the rest of the times, that you can grab your fancy wife, Mica, of course. Take Us magazine ...PLEASE! and run off to all your parties and throw This honible rag, which can't seem to find your name and your money around as an any market (people simply refuse to read AIDS benefactor and therefore feel vindi- it), just got around to doing a story cated? You think that you can mask your- on-you guessed it--outing (snore ...). self with all of that, don't you? And because it is such a pillar of ethical Well ... fine. But you see, Mr. journalism, U5 decided to get an objective, Ertegun, you really can't get away. As outside expert to Comment on outing: Liz the old adage goes, "You can run, but Smith. Yes, as hard as it may be to believe, you can't hide." Yes, at some media these idiots actually quote Liz throughout by Michelangelo Signorile event, some music industry soiree, some the piece as she rips me and my ideology fancy charity do, I will fmd you. And to shreds,Bur 1HEY NEVER ONCE TELL when I do I will graphically show you , YOU 1HAT SHE fI4S BEEN MY BIGGEST ave you seen this suddenly gar- just how sick you make me. As you TARGET. I'm not kiddingl Us blatantly gantuan list of things you're , swig on your cocktail, I will calmly stick attempts to let the reader think that Liz supposed to boycott these days? my fingers down my throat, and then I Smith is some impartial, heterosexual H will vomit all over that tired tuxedo and observer. They don't tell you that I have OK, I can live without the Cheez Wa, the Shake 'n' Bake and the Open Pit all over Mica's gown and all over your attacked this woman for building up Barbeque Sauce. But please, not that gor- ugly face, YOU PffiCE OF SHIT. homophobes, for helping doseted celebri- geous, hip, sexy underw~. Just because (BurpO ties perpetuate their lies, for writing virtu- they're made by a greedy, good-for-noth- ally nothing hard-hitting about the AIDS ing doset case? • crisis. They don't tell you that I have writ- Welcome to the '9Os: a decade whim ten whole columns about this woman and started off with gay-bashing at an all-time Why would her evil anti~, and that I have called her high while, simultaneously, twisted new Jann Wenner everything from a monster to a' murderer. pop groups emerged, telling kids to beat TIIEY DON'T TELL YOU THAT TIME up fags and dykes. dabble in AFfER TIME I HAVE OUTED IlZ SMI1H But one such group, Audio Two, AS 1HE LESBIAN1HAT SHE IS! may be on its way out. Their sick rap dubious And this was a piece about outing record is already sliding down the chat1s and the ethics of it ETHICS! while the demented duo grasps at straws jo~rnalism? Well, I'll tell you about ethics. I have in vain attempts at getting some press. it from my sources that Liz Smith wasn't Meanwhile, Atlantic Records, which dis- • even in this artide originally. (Indeed, Liz tributed them, has changed its tune. Glad Igot that up. has refused to speak to most publications Weeks ago, as I lividly screamed on the And speaking of bile, Andrew Dice about the issue, perhaps because if she telephone, company officials defended Clay seems to be stewing in his own these does, she must ul~tely answer to her Audio Two by belching up the old "free- days. Funny how things can change. Dice own homosexuality-something, I dom of speech" bullshit (as if the compa- Clay's Ford Fairlane film is probably the assume, she does not want to do.) But, ny is obligated to give eooryone, no matter year's biggest box-office and critical disas- I'm told, Liz spoke to Us because its pub- . what their point of view, access--let's see ter. His second film-in what was original- lisher, Jann Wenner (also publisher of if they'll sign the leader of the Ku Klux ly a three-picture deal with 20th Centwy Rolling Stone), who is a dear friend of Klan to their label). But now Atlantic Fox-has been killed. And the third film is hers, asked her to speak up on the issue. board chair Ahmet Ertegun (who was on the rocks. The public backlash against Perhaps she was assured that her own rightfully embarrassed by the whole affair, him has been phenomenal. And it is all so personal life would not be ~ since he is a major AIDS contributor) and overwhelming that the poor, little, mamo unethical as that may sound. Atlantic president Doug MolTis are saying bigot aied two weeks ago on The Arsenio Why, you may ask, would Wenner that they are defmitely appalled by the Hall Show. As tbe New York Times' John J. dabble in such dubious journalism? group, that they hadn't read the lyri~ on O'Connor put it: "Popular entertainment Well, that answer lies in the fact that Mr. the record previously, and that if they had, does, after all, have a revulsion threshold. Weruier is very much a part of the Liz ,they wouldn't have allowed such a vio- Andrew Dice Clay should know. He Smith/Barry Diller/David Geffen crowd, lence-inciting record on their label. Bur stepped over it and ~ now desperately try- and, like them, he too has a public and WHY WEREN'T THESE TWO FREAKS ing to salvage his career as a stand-up a private life. SAYING 1HAT WHEN 1HE RECORD WAS comic .... And his possible professional Yes, you could say that "W" in my fil- CLIMBING UP THE CHARTS LAST demise is being effected not through cen- ing cabinet is a very hot read But as I've MONni? Because there was money to be sorship but widespread exposure. Even his run out of space, I guess for now a cat's made'on the group back then. And what's most rabid fans are beginning to cringe." got my tongue. a few bludgeoned queers compared to a You see, sometimes justice does Meow, meow, meow ... couple of million dollars' profit, you prevail. ...HISS!

August 8, 1990 OUTYWEEK 47 able to catch a glirilpse of the lit- Once we were inside the theater, tie brunette fastened securely to my blood pressure found its way back • her side. When it finally occurred to normal, allowing for some circula- • to me who the hell "the little tion in my legs. Le freak out was under brunette" was, I froze. "Oh my control,' and to insure this further, I I~~mg god, that's Angel! ,There's my smoked a good old-fashioned doobie Angelf I gasped. in the powder rooF.. I think that I I was still sitting, thank god, i{' pissed off the atten

48 OtJT.wEEK August 8, 1990 though I spared her of no one-she out of the will, and that they hated me. future-grandchildren. In their rage, got all the laundry, darks and whites. It was a lot to swallow. they accused me of having no self-es- Ooooh man, it felt good to get it The whole ordeal was pretty of- teem, having a fear of professional out. Ain't nothin' like a good healthy fensive. A lot of insensitive things were men, having a mother fixation, having dump. Frankly, I was damn sick of her said, all sorts of blaming and tons of penis envy, an Oedipus complex, an continuous inquisitions and machina- denial. All of a sudden, I wasn't the overactive libido, a high testosterone tions. All the time, planning my same person anymore. My parents level, no willpower, no strength, no life ...men, marriage, babies. How fan- were treating me like some kind- of de- consideration for their feelings: deviant, tastically b-o-r-i-n-g! Why should I generate criminal. They were angry degenerate, deceptive and perverse. pretend for them? Let my parents that I had told them: They didn't need I knew then that it was time to navigate my life with their road map? to know, they could easily have died sever the umbilical cord. My own par- No chance! without knowing. Yeah, sure! Two ents no longer had a purpose in my life! So now, Mom knows everything years down the road, I bring my date, For months, every time we spoke, their and, ironically, begged me not to tell Betty Butch, to a family wedding, we words were filled with venomous my father. Get that! .. anger. I was so lost in Her begging mel "No ,_I my world that this only served as an addition- problem: Ma, damn; iOhl my carpet-munching daughterl good Idea!" She ~,_" • al burden that I could thought that he'd do without. Communi- blame her (baSically cation became so because she raised us), strained that it was to and it would damage all our benefits to dis- her marriage. She was continue any attempts seriously crushed but at a relationship. I had confessed that it wasn't never thought that it my fault. She felt sorry would come to this. for me but felt worse How could they be so for herself. cold as to desert me in That night she my time of need? How curled up into a tight could they? little fetal ball, quiver- It was obvious ing and nauseated at that there was nothing the thought of our more I could do. My bodies touching in the only hope was time ... course, of the night. Last night, after Neither of us slept very many months of minI- well. The next day? mal communication Forget about it-a with my parents, my woman possessed. She mother called me. couldn't even look into Much to my surprise, my eyes. I remember her spirits were some- her uttering "what a what upbeat. She waste." I don't think that she was ad- pull up on a Harley, and nobody no- wanted to tell me about this game she· miring my figure. It seemed to me that tices. Beautiful. and my father were playing: "Can you she was entering her nasty phase. Do you want to know what my think of ten things worse than having a It took about two weeks before parents were most concerned about? gay daughter?" She was happy to re- Pop became privy to the news. Obvi- "What people are going to think." port that they'd each thought of ten ously Mom could mourn alone no What the extended family and their cir- and had a good laugh. At me? Wltb longer. Suddenly Dad became religious: cle of shit-eating, elitist friends would me? Who gives a shit? As long as "God, help me! My baby's a !" think if they found _out that their they're laughing, I count my blessings. That was it. What a disaster-like a daughter was a carpet-muncher. They Whatever that means. ~ thunderbolt crashing down upon my couldn't give a rat's ass about how I beautiful world. I was cut out of every- was coming to terms with homosexual- thing. Money, love, compassion, sup- ity! (I'm angry now!) Their only concern port, understanding ...money. Perhaps I was how my "deviance" would mar Liz lit Sydney should have kept my mouth shut? their reputation at the country club! My sister was ever so kind to keep How is it that what I do in the sack are on me informed as to the P's stages of has any impact on the lives of other coping. 'In retrospect, I wish that she people? I would really like to know! vacation. had screened some of the information. My parents were very angry that I I didn't have to know that I was cut shattered their dreams for the

August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK 49 Art

Gay and lesbian art, censorship and the NEA

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50 Oun1rVVEEK AugustS,1990 It Is se/f-evtdent to most people that the government Is under no obUgatton to finance art-regardless of merl~s1mply because that art represents a particular poUttcal, soctal or sexual vtewpotnt. Tbls stmple fact bas apparently eluded vocal 'arts' supporters and pundtts across the nation, who have dtvtned an act of censorshtp In the rejection of the four grants. Tbus the NEA's decision has raised the usual cries of alarm, and the usual sugges- tions that tbe dark nlgbt offascism Is about to descend on the Untted States-tbat Is,if tt bad not already done so. -The Wall Street Journal

hat is patently self-evident, at this late stage of the game, is that media coverage and analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts reauthorization debacle has, with a few notable exceptions, been nothing short of reactive and reactionary. Putting aside the plain fact that Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Karen Finley and John Fleck were not "rejected"-the peer-review panel, which presumably ,Wdeserves a measure of respect, had endorsed all four, only to have their judgments overturned by forces at the National Council on the Arts-few commentators have brought to light the by-now traceable pathway of infringements on free expression in this country, particularly in gay and lesbian art and culture. It was not so long ago that the Reagan administration's Meese Commission used slippery definitions of ·obscenity" to launch attacks on gay magazines and erotic material. The Meese era metamorphosed into Helms' moral hegemony, the battle continuing into galleries-New York's Artists Space during the Witnesses show and Washington D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery and Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center during Robert Mapplethorpe's show-and private homes-photographer Jock Sturges' studio in San Francisco--in an obvious effort to root out and expose undesirable images and representations. Clearly this is not the end of the line-such assaults are bound to continue. As Congress sets about deciding the NEA's fate, we must seize every opportunity to clarify for ourselves the most expedient agenda for combat- ing this insidious campaign. In the gay and lesbian community, strong disagreement continues as to whether the NEA is worth saving-you will see that and a great deal more in the writings that follow-but less disparity exists about what is presently, and gravely, at stake. -Sarah Pettit

Piss Jesse, or dingaling dickhead from the tired Old South Your ass is in a sling, boy, ' and Congress has no balls, and it's going to the highest bidder, Silence = Death so Art's not allowed to have any so bend over and say by Michael Lassell either. Ain't that right, Ahhhhhh'm a Yankee Doodle and that feels just dandy! For Andres Serrano and Corcoran Gallery? Robert Mapplethorpe Dear Santa: I am accustomed to speak my opinion Uh-oh say can you see What Iwant for Christmas is unreservedly; this bas occasioned me why the legislature loves war so much? a stake through the heart of some misfortune, but I do not therefore 'Cause it blows the familyjewels off the Senior Senator from North carolina, cease to speak as I think. Language is so many brave men and true, preferably a stake given us to express ideas-be who fetter leaving Midwestern vaginas empty smeared with the scared shit it is a bigot and a tymnt. for the poking, probing fingers of the House of Reprehensibles. -Percy Bysshe Shelley of the Bible Belt's elected elite. h-Oh, Jesse loves the smell of cunt juice on his conscience. Uh-oh beautiful facetious skies... , pee-pees are a " no-no! America is a dung hill; our UThe Senior Senator from Don't touch that dial! politicians are maggots. North Carolina told me so. We'll be right back with more So squashing Jesse Helms like a boll weevil Jesse Helms is going down on history- doo-doos and don'ts from wouldn't be like real killing In h~tory, I mean, of course-as a capitalist Hill. at all. Real killing would be

August 8, 1990 O~WEEK 51 t, l what tobacco does. L.L.Bean-don't let the ner in which gay and lesbian people big one get away unscathed. communicate. Oppressed and ignored Uh-oh, by the mass culture, we have few the FBI says Uh-oh, movies, little music and only 'small- threats are a I'm stepping on toes, kale theater and magazines to call our no-nol-«nd they should know, but that's a own. In any numbers, all we have they've made enou~ of 'em- no-nol--my tango teacher that's ours are the things that come so nolxxty should off told me so. cheap--performance art, plays, some Jesse Helms. Art's s'posed'ta be visual art, books. JeSse Helms would It would be wrong. polite. That's only rob us of even these. It would be fun to watch, though. right. Veryfar But the words we speak, the art We could all march out right. Do not go gentle we make-for ourselves, for the overall to the National Cemetery into that. Fight! American culture-is absolutely central and write obscene graffiti on his to the modem psyche, whether Helms tombstone with the blood of and his lunatic rightists want to admit it Central Americans Jesse has decided Michael Lasseilis the author of Poems for or not. We represent the best of the must go, must go, and spend the\lftemoon Lost and Un-Lost Boys. A second volume arts today. Period. As Fran Lebowitz fuckity-fuck-fuck-fucking on hisl of bls poetry, Decade Dance (from which has suggested, if all lesbian and gay chilly, chilly grave, "PissJesse" Is extracted), will be published artists went· on strike for a day, using the -flag to wipe cum by Ah'son Publlcattons In September. American culture would be left with off our Old Glory holes nothing but Wheel of Fortune. (since that's all the Stars 'n' Bars is Audre Lorde is Black, a lesbian, good for anymore--don'f ask me to SIand up the winner of the Publishing Triangle's for the Sca,..Mangled Banne~ flag We Are Americana Too 1990 Bill Whitehead Award for contri- you can't bum to make a point isn't by The Publishing Triangle butions to gay and lesbian culture and worth burning). Steering Committee one of the most important writers of any kind at work today. Native Jealous Jesse has a wicked case of American poet Chrystos declares that pussy passion, and a peeker the size she is "not the 'Voice' of Native of a hummingbird's bill, and Sbianand gay writing is under women"; her self-dedared purpose is what pisses him off sincerely is that bsiege. You are under siege too. "to make it as clear and as ines- his wife won't fist him up to her elbow, From performance art to prose to capable as possible, what the actual, 'cause she's got Christ with a boner poetry, the very words we use to com- material conditions of our lives are." tattoed on her forearm; and she don't municate among ourselves, and create Minnie Bruce Pratt has won the want Him covered with rectal muck our cultures, are threatened. The attack Lamont Award, the most prestigious Oesse , to be sure, and empties his by Jesse Helms on gay and lesbian artists prize in America for a second book of enema bag directly into the platform affects us all. We face the imminent evis- poems; her explorations of lesbian of the Reptilian Party). _ ceration of our right to read, our right to sexuality, motherhood, custody, life write, our right to earn a living and our and love, make her integral to how Columbia the scum of the ocean... right to free expression as Americans. both men and women should think After he finished savaging Robert about themselves. Uh-oh, Mapplethorpe, Jesse Helms wrote, on These writers and those like them I haven't March 6, 1990, to the comptroller gener- create not just our views of homoeroti- offended anyone, al of the United States and asked for "an cism but what homosexuality is and have I? objective investigation" into "question- should be. I haven't made anyone able NEA activities." ('I'ypically and infu- Writers give us voice. We all have uncomfortable? riatingly, Helms began his letter by voices; we are all, in this sense, writers. That would be a caterwauling shame. saying, "I urge that great care be taken Will we then be silenced? Now An offensive poem could to assure that your women associates that these grants have been challenged, bring down the u.S. Constitution not be exposed to the [enclosed] materi- will any openly lesbian or gay writer faster than a racist Republican- al.") Helms pounced on the usual sus-' ever receive an NEA grant again? not naming any names, mind you, so pects--artist and AIDS activist David The battle over the NEA is not just take your pick (it's easy), Wojnarowicz, the San Francisco Lesbian about whether faggots and dykes can get 'and Gay Film Festival, the Witnesses: government money. The agenda r:i Sen. Pollution s~ in the Senate, Against Our Vantshlng art shOw-but Helms and his pals is bigger than that proliferates in the inaction of the he also demanded an investigation into The NEAwar is just the first step; Helms' ,House, prospers- in, writing fellowships given to lesbian goal is to freeze us out of America. tax incentives for the rich writers Audre Lorde, Chrystos and Helms forgets that gay and lesbian proposed by the White House on Minnie Bruce Pratt. people are Americans too. Aren't our fIShingtrips dressed by Now that he's attacking writers, numbers greater than those of Helms Helms is doing battle with every man- and his velvet painting-appreciating

52 OUT'YWEEK August 8, 1990 philistines? We are at least 25 million in bomosexuaUty and not to be pun- two senators and your representatives, number, and we pay taxes. tsbed for betng queer. And talking demanding that Congress reauthorize It's time to remind Congress that about homosexuality means talking a free and fair NEA. we are Americans too. about homoeroticism; we are not gay Most of all, we ask that you join Because we are Americans too, and lesbian if we can't write about us in yelling, screaming, protesting- denytng grants to gay and lesbtan gay and lesbian love. and writing. writers and arttsts ts taxatton wUb- Because we are Americans too, tbe But what if we lose this battle? out representatton. If gay taxpayers moment you censor us, you censor What if the NEA is reauthorized only pay for North Carolina tobacco subsi- every American. with language that would censor les- dies, then North Carolina can help The Publishing Triangle is a bian and gay aitists? pay for our art. We pay for the group of people, mostly gay and les- The steering committee of the police, we pay for bombs, we sup- bian, who are actively engaged in , Publishing Triangle believes this: If the port landscape artists in North , some kind of lesbian and gay publish- NEA will censor our art, then the NEA must be abolished. An endowment that excludes the work of openly lesbian and gay people will be- come an active instru- ment to debase, abuse, disenfranchise and marginalize our words and our lives. Better no NEA at all than an NEA that relegates us to cul- tural servitude, allow- ing us only to perform for those in power, making polite culture. Better no NEA than an art police that legit- imizes our oppression. '{/-~~U:'~~~< Better no NEA at all ...... ~ , :. __ ' _ - t: _ . ." " than one that stifles our ~~.,-, '"','~""""-' ,,\, ~ many voices. '~'1'\. .;y' ,f• l' ;.:, ' The Publisbtng Tri- Lb: ~, angle Steering Com- mittee' ts: Mlcbael Eciouard Manet, Olympia (1883). Wh.n Manet .xhlbited Olympia at the 1885 Denneny, co-cbatr, St. Salon In Pari., audience. w.... 80 horrified at the audacity of caeting the Martin ~ Press; Micbele figure a. a proetItute that one member of the pre ••• uggeetecl that .uch a Karlsberg, co-cbatr, picture might lIetlr up a ... volt. II Another critic wrote. "7he crowd gath.,.. Amethyst Press; Malaga ·round Mon.leur Man.t'. highly .plced Olympia a. it would round a body at Baldi, ltterary agent; a morg.... Art that has .unk .0 low I. not worthy of our ce ... u.... ·Speak not Christopber Bram, au- of them, only gaze and pa•• on,' say. Virgil to Dante a. they make their way thor, In Memory of An- across on. of the circl •• of h.lI. "' gel dare; Susan Chas- tn, Visibilities maga- Carolina; as artists and as people, we ing. We've sent a letter to our nation- zine; Carole DeSanti, free-lance edttor; demand our fair share. wide membership, asking them to do Trent Duffy, free-lance editor; Rase Fen- Because we are Americans too, we what we ask of you now: to write nell, Lambda Book Reportj David Groff, bave a rtgbt to free expresston. your senators and your congressional Crown publtshersj Robin Hardy, Government has no business freezing representatives, d,emanding that the Cloverdale Press; Stan Leventha~ autbor, us out-which is exactly what the NEA NEA remain free, and" that arts and Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square; content restrictions would do. If writ- writing grants be made by experts in Ben McCormick, Walker Publishers; Fe- ers don't have the time to write that the field, without content restrictions lice Ptcano, autbor and publisber, Gay grants, can provide, then they will be that ultimately endanger everybody's Presses of New Y~ Jane Toxe/~ Lambda able to write less. And we will be less free expression. We also suggest that Book Report. For furtber information of a people. you call 1-900-226-ARTS; for $4.50 about tbe Publishing Triangle, write: 248 Because we are Americans too, (billed to your telephone) an action- W. 17 St., Suite 605, New York, NY we have a rigbt to talk about our alert mailgram will be sent to your 10011; orcall: (212) 645-8910. August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK 53 art-game. Of course, recognition hugely diverse community that it can- ·I. the NEA Good for doesn't always equal betrayal, but I not represent. At the same time, ,think that it is important not to blindly racism, class bias and the emphasis on 'Gay Art? accept someone as our representative trendy, marketable genres Oike detec- by Sarah Schulman simply because she or he has been tive novels and stand-up monologues) selected by a gov- ernment agency, (Thanks to the artists, critics, funders publishing company :mq members of the, community who or corporate-funded took time out to discuss these issues art venue. with me in preparation for this article.) Up until about five years ago, les- bian artists were almost completely e government is using homo- excluded from the phobia again as an instrument of reward system. In ,I social control. We need to focus fact, some of the gay on homophobia and not on "saving the mericurrently in- NEA. it Of course, museums and boards volved in the NEA of directors find it easier to articulate scandal participated "Save the NEA" than to engage in fight- in that exclusion. ing the oppression of gay people. This Lesbians were not euphemism might even make the fight reviewed in main- more palatable, but when the crisis stream publications, over the NEA is resolved one way or were not presented another, no political impact will have in prominent art been made On our behalf. venues and almost At. the same time, the organized arts never received fund- community has a lot of soul-searching to ing for explicitly les- do about its own history of exclusion. bian projects. As a Before Helms, many other biases existed result, the work in the funding and presentation of art- remained invisible, work. Historically, the reward system in and many women the arts has been reServed primarily for were unable to white people from the middle and upper develop their talents, classes whose work fits the aesthetic while others could, agenda of aiti~ and arts administrators. and their work Yet the majority of artists previously thrived. This is still admitted to the reward system never the case, with the spoke up about the institutionalized dis- small exception of crimination until it affected us. the 30 or so out les- obviousiy, it is not acceptable for artists bian artists, across all who ate gay (or whose work has explicit genres, who have sexual content) to be excluded from fed- access to the new ~ral funding. Nor is it acceptable for tokenism. However, After Fra Bartolomeo, Saint s.bastlan IV"" an rewards to be demanded by one group before funding, Angel. (copy of 1514 original). When this plc- at the expense of another. work was supported ture was displayed at San Marco, ."the iriaN For any minority artist, part of by the audience and found out by confessional that women had being admitted to the reward system determined by the sinned in looking at it, beca .... of the comely is that while the benefits are great for lives, needs and and lascivious realism with which Fra the individual, the price for the com- experiences of the Bartolomeo had endowed it.n The painting was , munity is tokenism. I know this first- community. consequently moved to Ih.- Churdl's chapter hand, having personally benefited, Now, through house (where it would only be ..... by men) from the "exception" distortion the new tokenism, a because I fit the criteria for tokenism. few political and and ultimately sold to the king of France. It is important to remember that peo- apolitical sensibili- ple get rewards, like grants, gigs and ties are permitted to be contained with- keep other voices from the ,public reviews, not necessarily beCause they in the dominant culture. Individuals are arena. When the frustrated community are the "most deserving" but also even easier than political movements pressures the token to be more because of things like personal con- to contain. As a result, a single style is accountable to its needs for expres- nections and how well they play the declared to be representative of a sion, she often declares herself

54 Our.wEEK August 8. 1990 "independent," puts down the commu- of the unfundable," I got really angry. Miss Emily's Grandson nity as "p.c.," or "narrow," and disen- Doesn't she know that 99 percent of the gages herself for her own artistic and artists in this country already live in the Won't Hush His Mouth career development. In the end, the world of the unfundable? And that this by Essex Hemphill permitted aesthetics encourage new invisibility is due, in part, to the role artists to work in precisely the same played by aiti~ like her? I certainly think styles so that they, too, can be rewarded. that these artists should receive the grant e last time I saw my grandmother In this manner, much of the develop- money that they were rewarded, but I do was in the summer of 1986, in ment of lesbian arts are taken out of the object to a kind of fetishizcd egomania IColumbia, S.C. I spent two cher- hands of the audience and given instead that depoliticizes the events. We are living ished weeks with her. Columbia is the to a sma1l group of aiti~ and adminis- in a city of 90,000 homeless people. No American ancestfal home of my moth- trators. This year, the NEA panel that rec- one is getting the services and funding er's family. To make this journey price- ommended the artists whose grants were that they need. I wish that these artists less, I brought along my niece, Shakira, later rescinded was composed of six arts could see themselves in relation to their who was seven at the time, and my administrators and one artist. own, society and place the NEA event in nephew, Aaron, who was then two. It Media reporting on the NEA a broader political context. ' was their first time flying in a jet, but the scandal further distorts the picture. A While we must support lesbian last time they would see their great Vii/age Voice cover story by critic and gay arts, we must also refuse the grandmother alive. A year later, at the Cindy Carr entitled "The War on Art" distortion of calling "censorship" of the aage of 86, she died. fQcused only on the exclusion of rewarded while ignoring the thousands To all of her friends, neighbors and artists whose work she had previously who are systematically excluded from church sisters, she was "Miss Fmily," but supported. Although I deeply respect support because they don't fit the pro- to our family she was always "Mother," and admire the work of Karen Finley, me for privilege. Every out gay artist "Grandmother" or "Nana," names that are there are entire communities of artists loses grants, gigs and opportunities for us synonymous with faith, love and who have been systematically silenced. and faces bias and limitations through- selflessness. They too deserve C. Carr's attention, out her or his career for being gay. During the summer of 1986, I was even if they don't meet her aesthetic This needs to be addressed politically working on bringing forth my second agenda. Attaching the "censored" with a recognition of how homophobia chapbook of poetry, Conditions. I was label to artists whose NEA experience works on all levels, not only in the getting editorial assistance from Joseph is bringing in publicity and audiences case of the most visible. Beam, and I would pay for the printing far beyond what they might have nat- Obviously artists want recogni- with money I received from the NEA. urally achieved takes the underdog tion. I apply for grants, and I like get- After my two previous applications to the position away from everyone who ting approval. But the NEA scandal is NEA literature Program had been reject- really is. It accepts the distortion that giving us all an opportunity to rethink ed, my third application was approved the art world is the world. When the values we've created as well as the and funded for fiscal year 1986. ,Karen Finley stands up at a national ones we've been handed. At the same I first applied to the NEA Literature press conference and says, U A year time that we won't lie down for a Program in 1983. The poems submitted ago I was in a country of freedom of homophobic, anti-sex NEA, neither with my application were largely Black- expression; now I'm not," there is a can we roll over for elitist exclusion- oriented and did not deal with my sexu- refusal or ignorance about the history ism in our community. The fact is that ality. My application was' rejected. (But it of this country in which most people there is a huge backlash going on should have been.) My second applica- have been systematically denied against the gay visibility generated by tion was submitted in 1984 with nonpo~it- expression. I fmd a disturbing subtext AIDS. This includes increased street ical poetry that bordered on being to some of these arguments that white violence, restrictive immigration and Hallmark greeting-card sentiments. The artists "deserve" to retain our race and continued negligence in the face of the application was rejected. For my third class privileges even though we're AIDS crisis. In response, a variety of application, submitted in 1985, I thought: gay. Artists could, instead, use this grass-roots, community-based move- "Fuck it. I'll send what I want to send, attention on funding as an opportuni-' ments like ACf UP and Queer Nation not what I think they want to read" lhat ty to discuss a real democratization of are ariSing. Despite the historically application contained poems from the the reward system, as well as the pas- apolitical stasis in wbich many artists Conditions manuscript, poems that spoke sive complicity with the state that has have festered, we can still rise to the directly about my homosexual and dominated North American arts. occasion and participate as activists in African American experiences. The appli- The Vt/JageVoiceran photos of the these movements, working in commu- cation was approved for funding. four artists whose grants were rescinded nity to end the oppression of gay and My first self-published chapbook, over the caption "Defunded," even lesbian people, instead of working to Earth Life, released in 1985, was funded though they receive more funding, exp0- maintain an exclusive, tokenizing NEA. entirely with my own savings. My sure and institutional support than 99 8Iandmother had never read Earth Life, percent of the artists in this country. Sarah Schulman has authored jour and to my knowledge, she had never Wheri Cindy Carr said, in a second arti- novels, the most recently publisbed been told by my family that I am gay. I de, that she "may now be forced to con- being People in Trouble (E.P.Dutton). never told her because the family felt it ceive of a new demimonde---e. bohemia best that she not know this, though at

August S, 1990 OUT.wEEK 55 times I felt compelled to tell her, espe- to sit with her. Earth Life and her reading people to be outspoken in America. cially .during the two weeks we were glasses were resting in her lap. She was Perhaps Grandmother knew that last together. Before departing from rocking, gently, her eyes focused straight down the line, I would be defen9ing my Washington, D.C., I promised to hold ahead above the tops of the blossoming right to speak artisticallyto the social, cul- my silence regarding my sexuality. My rose bushes growing around the porch. I tural and political issues of my time. mother later told me, "Your grandmoth- thought that she was focusing on the red Maybe she knew that in the full of 1987 er always kept you in prayer," and I rose petals or the sweet fruit on the fig the D.C. Commission for the Arts would always felt like telling Mother, "I think tree just across the yard. I carefully ven- attempt to censor a performance that I it's because she knew I am gay." tured to break the momentary silence and my artistic collaborator, musician During that two week visit, the enveloping us. "Grandmother," I hesitant- Wayson Jones, would present as part of bond between Grandmother and I ly began, "it looks as though you read the city's annual arts awards program. We strengthened itself on pure love. It was Earth Life while I was at the barber?" were invited by the arts commission to the same love that helped to heal me "Yes, I did," she replied, and she perform on the program, but we were when I was born prematurely with a continued to rock. After a pause, she not expecting them to attempt to censor heart murmur. It was the same love that said, "1hese are very good poetm, &sex, our work, an attempt that was launched disciplined me when I spent my sum- but they're a bit disturbing." Another around the word "corruption" because mers with her as a youngster. And it was moment of silence enveloped us. "You the arts commission feared, ironically, the same love that summoned me to know I'm so proud of all my grands," she that the word would tnsult Mayor Marion Columb~ with two great-grands in tow. continued, "all of you are doing so well." Barry. The pOem, "FamilyJewels," which Grandmother told me that my cook- She then looked me directly in the eye contains the word "corruption," is about ing reminded her of Essex, my late and smiled just a little slyly before asking, the difficulty Black residents of the city grandfather. For a number of years he "Essex, do the authorities know what face getting a cab to stop and take us to had owned a small restaurant in you're writing about?' our destinations. "Corruption" is used in Columbia which was off-limits to my Perched on the edge of tension as I the poem only as a passing reference to mother and her siblings because the had been, I was completely unprewu-ed define the political context in which the restaurant attracted a crowd that was a bit for her question. I threw my head back taxicab humiliations occur. risque for Grandmother's tastes. My and laughed deeply, and Grandmother The director of the arts commission, a motho:- and her siblings were supposed joined me. When we regained our sobri- Black woman named Barbara Nicholson, to go to the restaurant only for the pur- ety, I realized that her question was very called me the aftemoon of the program to pose of delivering the peach cobblers serious, and that our laughter had suggest that I siJbstitute another word for and apple pies Grandmother baked at helped us both to mask the implications. "corruption" or substitute another poem home. But my mother tells me that she "I guess they know what I'm writing for "Family Jewels"~r don't show up, and her siblings would often sneak by about, Grandmother, but I can't really be excuses would be made for us, and we the restaurant after school to visit with concemed with the authorities." would still be paid our performance fee. I Grandaddy. He would serve them lemon- "Some of this is very disturbing," she falsely agreed to substitute the poem ade or soda pop and send them on their said, "and I just want you to be careful. I knowing that once Wayson and I were on way so that they would not incur don't want you getting hurt out here." stage, we would do exactly as we had Grandmother's wrath for being too tardy "But Grandmother, isn't it important intended and read "Family Jewels." The getting home from school. to tell the truth?" ' audience gave us thunderous applause, Although I promised my family I "Yes,it is a/ways important to tell the and I gave the audience the "tea" concern- would not reveal· my sexuality to truth, but truth means different things to ing the censorship attempt by a commis- Grandmother, I took a copy of Earth Life different people. Some people can't han- sion supposedly designed to support and to give to her. On an early aftemoon, a dle the truth, &sex. I just want you to be encourage artisticdevelopment. week after arriving- in Columbia, while careful. I will always love you, and I will Perhaps Grandmother knew that Grandmother sat rocking on the front always be so proud of you and all of my WPfW-FM, a nonprofit progressive radio porch, and while my niece and nephew grands. Each one of you is special to me. station based in Washington, D.C., and a settled into their aftemoon nap, I pulled It would break my heart to see any harm member of the Pacifica broadcast net- out the copy of Earth Life knowing the happen to anyone of you." work, would edit poetry that Wayson and moment to give it to her had come. I "I'll always love you, too," I said, I had presented on their "1he Poet and considered it to be an innocent gift, then I leaned over and kissed her on the the Poem" program in 1988. It was one though subconsciously I realized that she cheek and hugged her. thing to edit out the language in my work would learn more from it than I would Of the many things that I remem- that the::FCC deems offensive, but it was ' ever be able to tell her in.this life. ber about Grandmother, her question, another thing to finally hear the broadcast , On that particular afternoon, I was "Do the authorities know what you're and to realize that not just the "seven dirty going to the barber to get my hair cut. I writing about?" and her cautioning me words" but "ideas" and "concepts" were gave Grandmother Earth Life before I left. to be careful are the words that come also edited without our permission. 1 didn't think that she would read it back to me ringing with all the inten- Maybe Grandmother knew that the immediately,.but she did, during' the hour sity and conviction of her love and editor of a Black literary journal based in I was away. When I returned, she was concern. She could formulate such a the United StateSwould call me last April still on the porch rocking. She compli- question only because she had wit- and tell me that I should stop making mented my haircut as I pulled up a chair nessed how dangerous it is for Black public criticisms about the work of

56 OUT~EEK AUQust 8, 1990 Robert Mapplethorpe regarding images within American society would be would demand that artists not trouble the of Black males. Even though the editor attacked by men, like Jesse Helms, who waters or worry the "party" line. The use said that he agreed with my point of consider progressive artistic expression to of intimidation and the threat of abolish- view, he didn't feel that the climate was be "harmful" and "obscene." But these ing the NEA will fail to silence the artistic appropriate for my statements and same men (and women) find no obsceni- expression these social-chaos demons warned that Sen. Jesse Helms and com- ty in the cutting and dismantling of social find obscene. As Alfred Hitchcock once pany could use my commentary to con- services and programs. They see no said at the end of one of his 1V pro; tinue attacking the NEA. The editor in , obscenity in the excessive amounts of grams, "It's amazing what you see when question is a closeted homosexual who money spent on the military. They see no you don't have a gun." But what we see went on to say that because his journal harm or obscenity in the government's is only amazing if we fotget that a stone receives funding from the NEA, he might deliberately slow response to the AIDS dropped Goliath to' his knees. not be able to print my work in future is- crisis. And they apparently see no sues. I told him that he should Check the obscenity in th~ fact that each American Essex HempbaJ is tbe editor of tbe fortb- source of his funding addictions and c0n- family will have to pay an average of coming antbology, Brother to Brother: sider striving for self-sufficiency. If he's $5,000 in additional taxes to counteract New Writings by Black Gay Men. running scared because of Jesse Helms, the nation's savings and loan scandal. my comments about Mapplethor- pe's images of Black males and the homoeroticism in my work, then the NEA could make him jump through other hoops in or- der to keep his funding. He made me realize that there is nothing more detestable than, a cowardly, closeted faggot. I hold no regrets about the break -in our friendship. In this same climate of cen- sorship, it should also be noted ' that the gay author, Edmund White, feels that it was "so insult- ing" of me to comment aitica1ly about the objectification of Black males in the work c:i Robert Map- plethorpe. White's comments were made in a San Francisco ~'11~' gay' newspaper. The questions f "'-' • ' , .. <;__ .,.~" • ..,...... ,...,...."'vv '-~.;~'-'~'-:;;;-'''' .#:--t~;~ raised by his, condemnation of After Zoen And .... Couple Embracing .. raving. flNt half of my remarks include, Who bas 1_ century). Rig"" Zoen Andrea. Couple EmlHwc/ng. ceneorecI the rigbt to crlltque popular cul- ... ravI ... A...... uIt of varloue papal dec..... and moral cOcIM. hun- ture? ObViously, White doesn't ... of 18th-cenlury ..... vI.. platH were ceneorecI. mutilated or think that Black gay men have ...... IMMIII hand of. man WM made to appear It ...... such a right, particularly when .elf the critique concerns the "sacred on than .... Ide..... woman'. boclce. cows" of gay culture. Yes, Grandmother, by now, I believe, Maybe Grandmother knew that I the authorities know that I'm a Black fag- If You Must Know would write" American Wedding" under got who won't hush his mouth. I use lit- by Eileen Myles the auspices of the NEA grant I received in erature, performance art and other 1986. Yes, it is totally appropriate to cele-- disciplines to affirm not only my African t'sdifficultto be honest about this. I brate gay desire and to affirm gay love with American heritage but my gay identity as am a lesbian artist, that's not the diffi- federalliloney. "American Wedding," well. I use all that you and the family Icult part--being a lesbian isn't really which closes the CondtNons collection, taught me about truth, integrity and a choice and maybe being an artist isn't, begins: "In America/ I place iny ringlon you courage. I am only one voice among either. It's so grand, this concept we have cock/where it belongs." It seemed totally many seeking a just American society, about artists-it's like going to appropriate then (and more so now) that I seeking racial, economic and gender heav~d everyone wants to be one would not only buy myself the time to write equality and an end to govemment-sanc- because then, what, your life will have that poem, but that I would also subvert the tioned domestic terrorism. meaning, or you'll be visible, possibly sanctity of the h~al wedding cere- What is at risk is the freedom to put rich and famous--real sainthood. I was a rrony fur the affirmation of gay love. forth ideas that can uplift American soci- child artist before I was a full-grown les- Grandmother must have known that ety and bring it from under the boot of bian artist and censorship seemed to little by little the freedom of expression men (and women) like Helms, who come with the territory. If you did a August 8, 1990 OUTTWEEK 57 religious painting,. you could win a prize "seriously" or considers them a real almost censored. Remember radical In the art f.llr. By hlgh school I did car- reflection of who's making important art chic?), and the whole thing will be ren- toons and was blackmailed (censored) , today-'cause who knows that? dered innocuous somehow, as soon as out Of publishing one that mocked my It's been fushionable to write about the government can figure it out. Who English teacher who Ihad given "the fin- sex for a while now. There's a real pres- to pay and how to pay them. It's so mid- ger" to one day in class behind his back sure to make sexual work if you want to dle-class. Meanwhile women are losing when he made some joke that suggested be "avant-garde." Now I read in papers the right to control their bodies state by I was butch. People went ooh, and he that thanks to Jesse Helms et al., there is state. If every one of us who ever got found out what I had done and said, okay an avant-garde again, there Is a bohemia. pregnant-let us not forget the procre- Myles I wOn't send you to the principal's Now that pisses me off. It's elevating the ative contributions of lesbians and gay office if' you don't publish that cartoon. So status of a government grant-giving agen- men-went and had those babies, there I didn't. I was ~ disqualified from the cy to something it's never been, and it's would be a lot less art and/or a lot dif- school talent show for writing a song that also saying that if Jesse says black, we ferent art. How much did abortion upon laughed at our school uniform. There's say white, and white is great art. It's request fuel the gay-rights movement? a1ways someone who doesn't want you to handing way too much power over to The whole NEA furor is a red flag say something. And you have to decide our oppressors. I don't want to spend my waved in our faces so everyone can how much it's worth it to you to say it. life as a working artist giving the finger to stomp and shout and get distracted Oike And will they pay you for saying it? my English teacher behind his back or to the flag-burning issue) from the govern- , Over the years, I've often picked up his face.' I don't want to write songs ment's dirtier deeds. Like abortion, like

DIego Rivera, detail of Detroit. Man and Machi". (1932) prepar8d for Detroit Institute of Arts. Outraged citizen. charged the museum director with seiling out lie wall. to "an outside, half. breed Mexican BOlehevlet." Then, In 1934, when the owners of Rockefeller Center discovered a portrait head of lenin In Rlvera'e Man at the Crossroads 0'Life, the arll.t was ordered to halt woirk on the comml •• loned mural. Deeplte promise. by the Rockefellers that the work ... 11 not be deetroyedi nor In any way mutilated," and offers to move the mural safely, the wall and Ita oHendlng Image. were pulverized Into duet.

the.list of who won NEA grants or New laughing at the school unifonn. I'm out of the savings and loan thing. Didn't Oliver York FQundation for the Arts grants and school. I can take my big lesbian sensibil- North just get off? thought that some of these people ity and it all over the universe writ- There's got to be some new way of should be paid to not make art. The ing about anything and everything. I'm looking at art-making in our society. quality Control has always seemed pretty the new universal. We can't let censor- There can't be a new bohemia because wildcat. Often the mediocre are reward- ship or fashion or government funding or the ideals dated. There's no place slow '. ed; and you send in your box top each career fear or journalists define our role and separate to go now. There's no place deadline hoping this year your friend as artists and direct our content cheap and quiet. (Maybe not in New will be a judge and you'll get a grant. Frankly, the furor about the NEA York. Lucky me, who came here when Yoµ know, so you'll be able to get out of bores me. The art world Is not a pretty oblivion was possible, so I had time to the thousands of dollars of debts 'yOu've place. The censored artists will make learn how to write.) Forget the avant- accrued over the years. Nobody in my statements and get big publicity (People garde. The media· Is too quick. It takes memory has ever taken these grants are lining up to say that they too were the new idea and makes it the old idea in

58 OUTTWEEK August 8, 1990 millions of homes in several seconds. of the work, aJlhough he's the one mak- of the four solo performance grants must Once you can fax the future it's the past. Ing all the speeches-tellIng us what to be seen in the context of the govern- "The world" won't be ready for gay art do wtth our bodies, teJJtngus that we ment's continued indifference and inac- for some time. They'll be wanting us to can't represent our lIves. tion in the AIDS crisis. The government be "bad" or recognizable; they'll be wan~ -Gregg Bordowitz should be paying for safer-sex education. ing us to do a gay version of what they The government should be paying for mow. Some of us will be lucky enough AIDS prevention programs (condoms, to get funded off and on along the way. I hat is the issue here? John clean bleach and needle exchange). The' hope the government throws me a bone. Frohnmayer, chair of the government should be paying for gay art But it won't make me love America. NEA, denied funding to four along the lines of affirmative action. Didn't I grow up here? Isn't it clearer Wsolo theater artists whose Many straight-identified people in the arts every day what the lies of our culture are work was unanimously recommended community have taken a "wait and see" all about? I think that the "patriarchy" is for funding by a peer review. The NEA attitude toward censorship. They may exploding from the inside. is mandated to distribute funds based on consider writing a letter in support of I've heard people say that if we artistic merit as determined through a freedom of expression, but they don't don't get funded by the NEA, it sends a peer-review panel, just as a committee want to be too confrontational. They signal to the corporations not to fund of scientists determines funding for don't see that they have a personal stake us. What then? Wlll we stop making art research science. The "political realities" in the censorship of Hughes and Fmley, when the corporations stop funding us? and "political climate" cited by the NEA Mapplethorpe and Wojnarowicz. Their Did we become artists to become or chair in denying the four grants have no methods of denial-"My work isn't like stay middle-class? To be government place in this process. In attempting to that," "They were asking for it," "1bey're employees? Personally, I wanted to get appease the homophobic and misogy- just looking for attention," "This will help off the wheel. I didn't want to be like nist agenda of Jesse Helms and their careers"--is reminiscent of the dom- my parents (frustrated working-class) or Company, Frohnmayer has failed in his inant attitudes that continue to surround my friends' parents (smug middle- responsibility to protect the integrity of the AIDS crisis. As long as it is affecting cla5$). I thought "art" was someplace the peer-review process from considera- only homosexuals, drug addicts, Haitians, else to go. It's not. It's something to do tions other than artistic merit. poor women and people of color-"that while the world ends. If this is lesbian An earlier attempt at national arts groupo_AIDS isn't news fit to ,print for heaven (no air conditioning and a funding, the WPA, was destroyed in the the white heterosexual community. The cheap word-processor), so be it. late '40s by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who right people aren't dying yet. claimed that it was riddled with com- Straight and gay artists and arts Eileen Myles ts a poet who perfonns and munists and other subversives. Savaged organizations must openly challenge the writes plays and articles about the arts. by a wolf pack of fundamentalist lead- restrictive language attached to funding ers, conservative members of Congress contracts. Though it sounds legal (and and sensationalistic columnists, the intimidating), this obscene abridgment NEA is likely to face a similar fate. With of the First Amendment wouldn't hold Fund This, it will go national tours of art exhibi- up in a court of law and is not consis- Muthafucka tions, performance artists and dance tent with the charter upon which the NEA was founded. The far Right con- by Richard Elovich troupes whose production costs cannot be covered by the state and municipal tends that if you get money from the funds available to the small organiza- American government, you have to The Integrity of our society ts at stake. tions in which the work is presented. accept restrictions on your freedom of The InstttUlions comprlstng our govern- By defunding Hughes, Finley, expression. If you receive funding from . ment have rellnqutshed all social Fleck and Miller, the NEA itself has a government founded on the principle responstbtlity. It's true. Poor people already begun the process of restricting of free speech, you cannot be required have been forced to take responstbtlity audiences and deciding who may see through a contract to forfeit that privi- for poverty. People of color have been what, and where. Today's scapegoats lege. That is what an "inalienable right" forced to take all responstbtllty for lIb- are gays, lesbians and women who means. eration around race reJattons. Women, deal explicitly with their own sexuality Some in the gay community and lesbians and gay men have been forced and speak out against _a society that the arts community have questioned to take responstbtllty for sexual libera- tolerates violence against them. the integrity or "quality" of the four tar- tion. Lesbians and gay men are the Defunding effectively restricts all but geted artists' work. That's just as perni- only people In the country addresstng the most commercial artists to their cious as Frohnmayer using politiCS or Issues of sexual tdenNty and sexual ori- own cities (read: their own ghettos). sexual orientation as criteria. One entation. In short, all the oppressed The issue here?" Homophobia- artist's potshots at Holly Hughes in last groups In the Untied States have been though hardly anybody's Willing to say week's Newsday appeared to be the forced to take responstbtlity for all the so. In the list of restrictions now attached product of a mind consumed with Intellectual and sptritual work thts to NEA funding contracts, the word career ambitions, functioning from a countty needs to do to grow and sur- "homoerotic" leaps out. No other group privileged position of not having to vtve as a naUon. I don 't see the straIght has been so blatantly targeted. The anti,- worry about public funding. I could go whtte,man wtth money doIng hts share gay and anti-sex bias in the overturning on and on about Hilton Kramer and

August 8, 1990 O~EK 59 ~ Helen Frankenthaler, but I am more The title of the book refers to the tem- or have "homoerotic" themes in their troubled by o,ur own infighting, wh~re perature at which the spontaneous work. I am concerned about the nar- we self-righteousfy call into question combustion of paper occurs. In this row focus of the response from the gay each other's motives' or dedication, science-fiction scenario, books-all and lesbian community to this issue. building up our individual stature or books--«re destroyed by the govern- As a Black lesbian and as a les- political correctness at the expense of ment-a horrifying concept. In the bian with disabilities, I am very aware others, rather than working together 16th and 17th centuries, many women of the issues of oppression that func- to confront the real enemies. Why are were burned alive as punishment for tion within our community to divide we debating in arts pages whether being witches, a definition applied at us. Racism is a reality. Ableism is a these four artists possess enough artis- that time to almost any outspoken, reality. Sexism is a reality. However, I tic quality? Why are we debating in heretical woman. have observed within the community a gay newspapers whether they are gay While Jesse Helms and the right- phenomenon that frightens me. Two enough to deserve our support? The wing conservatives that he represents specific examples: struggle against those who wish to see have not succeeded in completely At the Outwrite '90 National les- us back in the closet, or at least con- eliminating ideas that they find threat- bian and Gay Writers Conference in tained in a ghetto, demands a deeper, ening, it is clear that there is a siege on San Francisco, Essex Hemphill deliv- more loving commitment to an inclu- against expression of ideas supportive ered a moving keynote speech about , sive community than the immediately of lesbian, gay and feminist cultures. the isolation he feels as a Black gay gratifying sensation of putting each Ironically, in a recent panel on this man. During his remarks, he men- other aown. We need to direct our topic, performance artlstHolly Hughes tioned the racism he observes in the outrage at Jesse Helms and anyone was discussing the question of censor- work of Robert Mapplethorpe, one of else who is complicitous with his ship-calling herself a "communist du the artists targeted in the current at- agenda-members of Congress, the jour" (in reference to the McCarthy tacks on the NEA. There were several preSident, Christian fundamentalists, era). Someone from the audience responses to Hemphill's speech, criti- the NEA chair, as well as anyone in asked, "But is it really censorship--like cizing him for expressing anything oth- the freedom-of-expression, ~nti-cen- they have in Iran or China? After all, er than total support for Mapplethorpe. sorship movement who is reluctant to you're not dead for expu::ssing these In the "PoliCing Our Desire: Censorship speak up for us, reluctant to name the ideas!" We do not have to wait until all and Lesbian and Gay Writing" panel at specificity of out oppression, afraid of the books are burned, literally or figu- the same conference, I expressed my turning off middle America by ratively, to see this as a major crisis concern that. the call to end all censor- embracing our overt queerness. demanding a powerful response from ship would be interpreted in such a The defunding of these artists can- the gay and lesbian community. way as to silence my criticism as an not be isolated from our ongoing strug- Attacks by right-wing fanatics have oppressed person of the oppressive gle against homophobia. This is a been a part of my personal conscious- behavior, particularly racism, which I struggle for our visibility. We have a ness for nearly ten years. In Southern experience within the lesbian and gay right as individuals, in our own California, where I live, evangelicals community. When I expressed my con- idiosyncratic manner, to represent our- back in 1980 effectively removed a cern that racist violence can lead to selves. The gay and l~bian community course from the Women's Studies De- death, a woman in the audience re- knows from our experience in the partment curriculum and closed the sponded, ·You're not dead yet." AIDS crisis that lobbying politicians is University Women's Center at Califor- These examples illustrate what I not enough. We cannot afford to wait. nia State University at Long Beach for think is an important distinction that Jesse Helms and Company must be frankly discussing lesbianism and needs to be made between strategy confronted-loudly, rudely, queerly. women's health issues, including con- and principles. I believe with all my traception and abortion. IMRU, a gay heart that censorship is immoral. Ricbard Elovtcb is an individual tbe- and lesbian radio program on the local However, I have a specific definition ater artist wbo bas been recommended Pacifica KPFK-FMstation, aired Robert of the word "censorship." I use that for funding by tbe NEA. He is a gay Chesley's play jerker in 1986 and has word to define legal and external man and an AIDS activist and bas been involved ever since in costly legal sanctions imposed by the government called for all artists and arts organtza- and licensing struggles with the Federal (or its representatives, such as the FCC tiOns awarded NEA funding to openly Communications Commission. and the NEA) in an effort to limit or use a portion of tbetr NEA monies to There are many people who can obliterate the expression of certain support artists and arts organizations write about the constitutional issues ideas--« definition that takes as given targeted.by tbe NEA. involved in the current brouhaha over the power to punish or control the the NEA. The perspective I bring to behavior of another. this, in addition to the longeVity of my When I speak out vehemently to ,A Burning Issue involvement with these issues, is that protect my right to criticize the oppreS- . ,by Ayofemi Folayan of a Black lesbian with disabilities. As a sive elements in the work of a particu- lesbian, I am well aware of the homo- lar artist, I do not have the power to phobia that is the explicit geneSis of withhold money from or arrest that remember reading the Ray these attacks on the artists involved, artist. I am empowered by speaking IBradbury classic, Fabrenbeit 451. most of whom are gay men or lesbians out against the oppression and hope to 60 O~EEK August 8, 1990 impact on the artist's consciousness so egy may be to actively work to build Recently, four grants Were that future work will not reflect the coalitions with them. This means an rescinded by Frohnmayer, grants same oppressive ideas. To think other- active commitment to anti-racism awarded by a peer-review panel to wise uses logic analogous to arguments work and anti-ableism work so that two gay men and two women, one a regarding "reverse discrimination" in the coalition process does not perpet- lesbian. The straight woman, in perfor- the workplace: While I, as a Black per- uate patterns of oppression. Strong mances and writings, puts reality dn son, may have opportunities as a result coalitions working together can move the table in terms of the treatment of of affirmative action that individually more effectively against the power women in America. The excuse for affect another white person, the social brokers who would love to see us yanking the, grants was, in construct in our culture places power fighting among ourselves for the Frohnmayer's own words, "political in the hands of white people, not crumbs instead of creating enough realities," which, in this case, refers to Black people. bread for all to eat. the fact that all four artists deal with In attempting to silence valid criti- sexuality in their work. Certain cult cism in the name of unity around this Ayofemi Folayan Is a writer, performer , religions and extreme right-wing politi- censorship issue, I think that gay and and activist who lives in Los Angeles. cians and groups have made sure that lesbian artists have missed an oppor- Her «Llberatton Logic" column can be the human body is still a taboo subject tunity to develop real unity by read regularly in OutWeek. in 1990. (Never mind the fact that we addressing the dimensions of diversi- were all forced to endure the media ty. There is not one gay and lesbian culture, although by default white gay men are assumed to represent the gay and lesbian community. The reality is that the lesbian community is invisible because of sexism, people of color within the gay and lesbian community are invisible because of racism, and people with disabilities are invisible because of ableism. An ostrich-with- its-head-in-the-sand approach will not effectively change that reality. Rather, it seems important to recognize that a balance can be struck between a denial of these divisive issues and a falling prey to the kind of infighting that saps energy needed to confront the external threat. I believe that bal- ance comes from an analysis of the larger problem of oppression in the United States. Not so long ago, it was acceptable ~ ~ to call someone a "nigger," to specify "white only" in job advertising and to ~ educate Black people in separate and ~------~------~"~ inferior schools. With the legal protec- Robert Mapplethorpe at an exhibition of hi. work in 1978. tions of the '60s (including the Civil Among the photograph. mounted in the background i. hi. Rights Act and the Voting Rights highly Inflammatory Se"-Portra/t. Act-both in jeopardy today) white people know that there are penalties spectacle surrounding the polyps in 's colon.) When it for overt discrimination. There are no With Our Eyes and such legal protections nationally for gay comes to our own bodies and our own men and lesbians, although there has Hands and Mouths needs, the social mirror contained in the mass media has no reflection. been some local and state legislation to by D~vid Wojnarowicz gUarantee our civil, rights. This makes Public works have never been so the gay and lesbian community vulner- important and necessary as they are able to attacks from all homophobic ohn Frohnmayer, head of the today. For each grant rescinded in the sectors of the society, whether or not NEA, is doing it to us again. name of politics and homophobia, they are Christian fundamentalists. That should hardly be surpris- p~blic works can be made in response J and in anticipation. If they want to Rather than silencing the voices ing to anyone who has follo"{ed of those within the gay and lesbian Frohnmayer's various pronouncements make our bodies and minds invisible, community who are speaking out and interviews: The guy talks out of 20 let's create more spontaneous public against their oppression, a wiser strat- sides of his mouth at once. works and glue them on the walls and

August 8, 1990 OUT'YWEEK 61 streets of Washington and the rest of battlefield. Just as activism ranges from homeless people with HIV and AIDS. , the continent. If the Gran Fury pOster street protests to service provision, Again, the circumstances of each of is stricken from the, transit system in' what we might call "oppositional" these events-ranging from the rage of Chicago, let's put up 20 different media also, means distinct things across a repressed gay Italian Catholic to the posters on those same buses and , divergent communities and eras. peculiarities of my phobic hometown trains. Those among us who can put together radio and TV transmission devices should do, so and break into the airwaves with safer-sex informa- tion, telephone numbers and addresses where people can find access to organizations. We have all the tools of the corporate world at our dispos- ai-Fax and Xerox machines, auto- matic 35mm and video cameras. We can construct a wall of reality in the form of words, sounds and images that can transcend the state- and insti- tution-sponsored ignorance in which most people live. We have mirrors, we have cameras, we have typewrit- ers and we have ourselves and our lovers and friends--we can document our bodies and minds and their func- tions and diversities. With our eyes and hands and mouths we can fight and transform.

Davtd WOjnarowtcz is an artist livtng in New York City.

Parting a Sea of Ink by TomKalin-

ea of ink has been spilled on both sides of the proverbial A fence regarding the impact of censorship at tQis specific historical moment. I find it a particularly daunt- ing ~k to spill more in an attempt to clearly state the issues, much less gen- eralize about strategies of resistance. To speak of censorship in the arts-- without first situating it within an elab- orate series of permissions and with- holdings which threatens to control ~very movement of our collective and individual bodies-would be a danger- ous omission. Censorship proceeds .lessica Tanzer, & Aphra (1989). Tanzer's photographs from inside our lives and is imposed have appeared in On Our Backs, the perennially from the outside as well: a process controversial lesbian sex magazine. which mirrors both the complex forma- tion of our identities and single deci- Most of.my firsthand experience of of Chicago--are specific, not reducible sive 'acts, (such as the NEA's recent censorship has been through Gran to a formula of repression. Retaliation denial of grants to Holly Hughes, Fury,inc1uding the current situation in against censorship must similarly make Karen Finley, Tim Miller and John Chicago involving Kissing Doesn't Kill, itself flexible, strategic and contingent Fleck). Censorship has meant, and will the Venice Biennale or, more recently, a to the situation. The political and continue to mean, different things at project at Petrosino Park critical of the bureaucratic deployment of arts censor- different times in relation to a shifting Dinkins administration's handling of ship will remain an effective smoke

62 August 8, 1990 screen for fuckpigs from hell like not only "thefamily" but also its narra- passed on. He established access for Helms if we fail to reflect the compli- tive: ((Grow up, get married, all people as the keystone of his pro- cated interweaving of class, race, gen- bave cbildren, repeat." gressive legislative legacy by making it der and sexuality in our direct-action -Mandy Merck, "A Case of AIDS" impossible for allocated federal funds politics. Censorship is about, among (from Ecstatic Antibodies) to be used to maintain the color bar. other things, access. This battle is being One of the lessons from this-besides, fought on a wider variety of fronts than _ It is politically vital for gay people The price of admission to the club is , many of us imagine. to organize and defend our rigbt to our slaughter-is the classic, "One of you Reclaiming sex in my work helps oum sexualities, but we should be clear is OK, but just don't open the whole resist mythologies such as "family" or that a radical perspective does not place up to 'them.'" Lesbians and gays that great, big white "general popula- mean defending a gay ethnicity (the are too visible in 1990, and creating tion." It also gives me back my body- equivalent of a national or racial iden- access for "them" and to "them" is a way of refusing to be separated from tity). Freedom for gay people will not what Helms is fighting so hard. my skin even while I live inside it. come simply wben we bave better factl- This is all the same battle, only Like most people I know, my relation- ities, freedom to marry or inherit prop- with supposedly different targets mov- ship to my own body-as both physi- ertYi it will develop as rigid cultural ing in and out of focus. One day a cal self and political battlefield-has categories are broken down. It is a printer destroys the plates of a book been profoundly and perhaps irre- paradox tbat the only way for this to on male masturbation published by versibly impacted on by the epidemic bappen is througb using tbese cate- Down There Press; the next day three of HIV infection-not only by the gories, organizing within tbem and lesbian NEA recipients are identified physical aspects but also by the tissue bursting tbeir bonds. in Helms' hate-mail campaign, fol- of texts and images which have consti- -Gay Left Collective, London, lowed by the arrest of Luther tuted the epidemic. Each battle over 1978 (from Pink Triangles) Campbell of 2 Live Crew for perform- censorship is a testament to how ing sexually explicit lyrics in Miami. deeply branded we are by the world This is tbe crime of wbich I accuse Jesse Helms wants to make it impossi- of images and the signs of social coer- my country and my countrymen, and ble for allocated federal funds to be cion. Sen. Helms' amendments make it for wbich neither I nor time nor bistory used to support, recognize, offer clearer than ever that the mere repre- will ever forgive them, that they bave exposure to or sustain gay and lesbian sentation of our sexualities is a form of destroyed and are destroying bundreds art. He also aims to give censorship opposition. of thousands of lives and do not know legitimacy by making us the pariah. I offer the following quotations in it and do not want to know it. Times sure have twisted. an attempt to recognize our bodies as --:James Baldwin, TheFire Next Time The trendsetting censorship mod- the ultimate site of control, a location el, the Helms Amendment, now hangs in which the construction of identity like a guillotine's shadow across both meets the surveillance of the physical. Tom Kalin is a video maker based in the integrity of the current NEA fund- (Or maybe just to spill more ink and New York City. He also works witb tbe ing procedure and the free speech of complicate the debate.) AIDS-activist art collective Gran FUry. gays, lesbians and all people whose voice challenges the bigotry of the It should be noted that {in the early hate-mongering Right. The Helms 19th century] ((thecrime against "...And where will/you Amendment requires this year's indi- nature" was not confined to buggery be/When they come?"· vidual grant recipients to sign a loyal- between men but covered a range of ty oath promising that "none of the sexual acts which included most forms by Beatrix Gates funds authorized to be appropriated of nonreproductive sexual behavior. for the National Endowment for the The list was broad enough to include Arts ...[will] be used to promote, dis- heterosexual buggery, oral sex, bestiali- e all' know that Jesse seminate or produce materials which, ty and, in some circumstances, the use Helms is trying to destroy in the judgment of the NEA...may be of contraception. Wthe NEA, but do we know considered obscene, including, but -Stuart Marshall, "Picturing who created it, what it does or why it not limited to, depictions of sado- Deviancy" (from Ecstatic Antibodies) is so important? Adam Clayton Powell, masochism, homoeroticism, the sexu- Jr., drafted the original legislation cre- al exploitation of children or individu- We need a politics of representa- ating the NEA almost 25 years ago. als engaged in sex acts and which, tion that can expose the real conse- Alcoholism and a suspiciously long- taken as a whole, do not have liter- quences of familial ideology and its lingering case implicating him in a ary, artistiC, political or scientifiC val- impoverished vision of what it means to bribery scam eventually brought ue." Take it seriously. be a woman or a man, a parent or a Powell down, but not without the Gay and lesbian art expresses child ... protest and support of his Harlem who we are and how we live and pro- -Simon Watney, Taking Liberties constituents and the complicity of the vides visions of identity and cotnllluni- Senate's well-orchestrated racism. ty that not only surpass the white pa- For homosexuality, as Judith Powell knew the power of art and- triarchy but also represent a strong, Williamson has obseroed, can threaten culture as survival tools and gifts to be multiracial, mutlilingual pride. I want

August 8, 1990 OUT~EK 63 to focus on the incalculable contribu- publishing founder June Arnold's the gay and lesbian small-press pub- tion& of the small presses as well as book, Stster Gin (Daughters). ' lishers who are still out there breaking the threat posed to their publishing of NEA funding for small-press pub- their butts. lesbian and gay writing, made by the lishing has not always been a given, As a lesbian poet and small-press current c~llenge to the NEA. First off, and I don't mean to imply that all publisher at Granite Press (1973-1989), I want to thank the early small presses books have been funded, but that the I am keenly aware of the role of NEA for their contribution to the witnessing NEA has become a real force in sup- funding in assisting the cost of produc- of our lives through titles such as Thts porting small-press publishing. For tion, distribution and promotion of p0- Bridge called My Back, edited by Glo- small presses to meet operating etry books. I also know that poetry sur- rioi Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga expenses and pay production, distribu- vives in book form by the slimmest (Persephone), The Faggots and Their tion and promotional costs for the means and even with funding is pub- Friends Between Revolutions by Larry books-never mind salaries-while lished by the small presses at consider- Mitchell (Calamus Books), Witchcraft publishing challenging material of able risk. To talk about publishing poet- and The Gay Counterculture by quality, remains extremely difficult ry is to talk about censorship in the Arthur Evans (Fag Rag Books) and without funding. I urge you to support most tragic sense. The truth is that this country has no commitment to the truth demanded by poetry, yet gay and les-

) . / bian poets have been some of the most formative voices of our movement- Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde come immediately to mind, but many other voices offer a rich fabric of awareness: Dorothy Allison, Mark Ameen, James Baldwin, Cheryl Oarke-the list covers IlfE three generations of inspiration. How have these poets been essential to you? Many have reached out of their poems as teachers and mentors supporting the next poem. These poets have pub- "A IiIm of eruaonlinary lished with small presses, some of their • ,teademess. ••• 1wIys btanfclt, it devcIopl own creation, and include presses such CObSiclerable 1U!IS.a- as Fairybooks, Diana Press, Calmus Oar,..,... Hawaiiaa scenery and baDdsotltc Books, Crossing, Firebrand, Kitchen "Youmustseetbis men..,.MEN IN LOVE Table: Women of Color Press, Granite mOYi..... 1t cIIanged , ls(armorufreclltlg my lite and opened than

64 OUT~EEK August 8, 1990 Men & Films 11:30 pm August.5 Tony Davis and his beautiful bed. Clips from "Carnival Tails," "Brotherly Love," "Pumping Up."

Be My Guest 10:00 pm AUGUSTe

Sybil Bruncheon hosts a panel gam~ MORE FUN AT THE W'; show with s~rprise gu~s~s. GRACE JONES CONCERT

C.,.br,111II'fh,.ar. ' Comln," 'lDokllllXllu"ns'.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.' InAu,ustl - job printer. Every book sale counts. , libraries and schools is paramount in series, never mind the space in what , I do believe, stubbornly, that once educating people about lesbian and may be the latest defunct theater. In heard, poetry can do pretty well. I gay life. A book like Home Girls or fact, imagine a situation in which the know that I sold 5,000 of Grace Paley's Thts Bridge Called My Back, two best- printer objects to the material (as hap- Leaning Forwarci and more than 1,500 sellers kept in print by Kitchen Table: pened most recently with AIDS Demo- of Joan Larkin's A Long Sound and was Women of Color Press, have made Grapbies), delaying the release date, told by a larger publisher, who does immeasurable contributions to the and the book is produced, but with "some" poetry, that they never expect- increased visibility of lesbians and no publicity, due to lack of funds, ed to sell over a thousand copies of women of color in many communities. and with no public readings, since poetry, tops. Then again~ the shorter Without the NEA, you will not be none could be booked. No reviews the shelf life of a book and the faster reading your favorites, never mind are published for this Imagined, the profit, the better for the big boys. anyone new, and you can forget poet- quickly-becoming-Imaginary book, Small presses have an interest in both ry altogether. Funding is also given to because none of the surviving publi- keeping a book in print and encourag- support reading series, which, in turn, cations now include gay and lesbian ing readers to shop from their backlist are able to pay writers a fee. Without art due to the fact that their funding of books in print. Selling books in funding, there won't be any reading would be jeopardized. How would you know about such a book? And if there was no .budget for a promotion- al flier or catalog, how would the A -Provocative New Look at book .be ordered? If there were no grants to progressive distributors, who would distribute the gay and lesbian Sexuarlfy and the Church titles nationally to get the attention they deserve? How would the gay, lesbian and women's bookstores sur- vive this? With no books? This is the live dang~r I am talk- LIVING IN SIN? ing about, and access is the key. The slow dismemberment of the small- A Bishop Rethinks press book , as well as the eligi- Human Sexuality bility of gay and lesbian writers to receive funding for their work, are the John Shelby Spong threats that I want you all to know • Should the church receive about. Even if we are still writing, who will publish us if the small presses are homosexuals into its fellow- no longer functioning? What we need ship and support responsible, now is to continue NEA funding with committed gay and lesbian no restrictions--in order just to keep couples? the small presses alive and keep our • Should the widowed be books out there. Get ahold of Pat Parker's poem allowed to form intimate "Where Will You Be." Read it. Then do relationships without whatever you do best in your name. remarryi ng? Out loud. • Should congregations ·Pat Parker, "Where Will You Be," , publicly and liturgically witness and affirm divorces? Movement in Black, Diana Press, 1978 (reprinted by Firebrand, 1989); also in In his most controversial book ever, 8 ishop Spong calls for a new Lesbian Poetry, eds. Elly Bulkln and moral vision to empower the church with a more inclusive Joan Larkin, Persephone, 1981, and teaching about equal, loving, nonexploitative human relation- Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our TIme, ships..Addressing the conc:erns of real people in real situations, eds. Carl Mores and Joan Larkin, St. he writes with candor, courage, and compassion. Martin's Press, 1989.... Paperback, $9.95 Available at your local bookstore. Beatrlx Gates ts a poet (Naming the Also available·from HarperCoilins Canada Ltd. Waves, Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time) who pu.bltshed poetry books by women from 1973-1989 as Granite ... HarperSanFrancisco Press. She lives in Brooklyn. - A Division of HarperCollinsP.blishers

66 OUT.wEEK August 8, 1990

prepared, by Rick X

for eddltlon.llnformatlon, cell

Th. G.y It L.ablan Swltohbo.rd of N.w York d.lly, noon to midnight, AN EVENTS CALENDAR 212-777-1800

SaId c:Ueoar IteIu toa CENTER NA110NAL MUSEUM OF LES- Involvlnll .n actor-w.lt.r, phone-lIx (btwn 7/8 Sta), Park Slop., Brooklyn; IUc:k X, GoIJII Oat BIAN &. GAY HISTORY ",.'._'e••• _ u•• rs, gupple lawy.r., lIym hunks, a 7:30 pm; rsvp 71.... 7578 "". lie NrC"" a,.,.,. c-./- stripper-hustler, many oth.r.; with Bcm790 ~ ...,MfIr, .",.. fiI'It presented D.Yld 1.lrd, St.". U••••••• r, Cy WOMEN ABOUT '.I1...... lc I..... New York, NY 10108 at City H.lrs Tweed Gallery in 11118,ashow Orfl.ld, T,L R.llly, Leall. Ro •• rta, P.rIr; rsvp 874-2104 of IKI photos portraying NYC'. g.y/lelblan Rlcunl Sklpp.r, 1111WI.. anl; at the Items IIlUIIt be receiftcl by history, pr.- and post-Stonew.lI; at the Courtyard PI.yhou •• ,39 Grove St; SIS; CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT Mooday CO be lDcluded Inthe Col- C.nter, 201 W 13 St, 3rdFloor; d.lly, 4-6 WED-FRI at 8 pm, SAT at 6 &. 9 pm, SUN TORAH 1IsINI l'Ay E...... preceding pm, 620-7310 (thru JULY31) at 7 pm; 869-3530 (thru SEPT 2) Sol.mn Fast D.y; 57 Blthune St (near knriDa week'.I8Iae. West St. insld. the Westbeth Complex); ABC NO RIO pr.s.nts H..... r Wood- RIVERSIDE CHURCH SOCIAL JUS11CE 8 pm; 929-9488 hry'. 0.,." ••• ", S,.." .. " "those MINISTRY n. AID. Awe,.. ... 0/1- ADVANCE g.th.r.d will welther avoyag. through ,1." Gall S. Goodman'. photo., TENTH PRECINCT offe ... AIxIII-.y Pollee the collectively uncon.clous mind. of cloll-up, of pan.l. from tha Name. TUESDAY' JULY 31 ..... Iallll CI...... AUG 7 - OCT ", with Am.ric .... ls th.r •• water con.plracy? Project quilt; Riv .... lde Church, Rlver- BRONX AIDS SErr;:CES, INC. VoIIIII8r 'classlI meeting at 230 W 20 St; Tues- Is the Gr.at Flood upon us, or Isthat just .id. Dr. at 120 St (#1/19 to 11I1(8way); 1i'e1l1.. far Te. AIDS Ed...... '"- days, 7-9 pm; topics cov.red will be first the ceiling leaking again? I. there • d.ily, 9 am - 9 pm; free (Editor'. Idea: .Ion five of five .... Ion.; 1 Fordham

aid, •• If d.fens., social .clence, I.gal fem.l. or.cle hidden In a .uburban Follow thl. with the b.autiful vl.w C Plaza, Suite 800; 10 am - noon; 295-51105 conc.m. regarding arreSlland inteMln- t •• n'. clos.t? Or are we all terribly from the B.II Tower.) tiona; register Tue.day thru Saturday, 3- deluded?"; 156 Rivlngton St, w.st of JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH ...... 11 pm, with Officer Buonocore, 741-821~ Clinton (F train to Essex St); WED-FRI at PROVINCETOWN'S GIFFORD HOUSE II"SerYIce for Rail A. ea.,- ,34- furthar info from Kevin Creedon, 5IIi-8538 8:30 pm; $5; 254-3697 (thru AUGUST 2) HOTEL pr ••• nts K.rry A•• IO.'. n. y •• r-old stockbrok.r .nd m.naglng WI/". 1,1,1t, a one-man play with dir.ctor of Christoph.r Str.et Financlat SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS HOME FOR CONTEMPORARY THEATRE music bas.d on the life .nd works of one of the organlz .... of the Internation- Allllust 23-28 Provincie*,_ Fllld Trip, AND ART (with PEGGY HILL Oscar Wild.; 9-11 Carv.r Str .. t, al G.y Gamea, .nd • man.g.r of T•• m four days of biking, hiking, hOI18&ack rid- ROSENKRANZ) op.ns Joe Plntalro'. Provincetown, MA; $10; WED-SAT at 7 New York; served on ·the board. of Fund Ing, whal. watching, fishing, sunning, Ralt of th• ."" .... dlr.cted by Sal Tra- pm (also on JULY 2 &. 3, and SEPT 2; 7 For Human Dignity, FAIRPAC, SIECUS; night lif., dining, shopping, swimming, pani; "the pl.y focuses on a group pm); 50lIl487-6400 (thru SEPT 15) 55 Washington Squ.re South, 8 pm windsurfing, musaum, lighthous., danc- therapy session of people with AIDS after a Ing, boating and "hanging out with lOISof m.mber of the group cfNl$. 12young people UViNG THEATRE prunents ErIc I.... COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE gay folks"; 71111965-7578 (rsvp for SAL's facing death unita, and In an explosion of I.y'. S.""•• R.,.,•• , direct.d by S-I .. 011 DDI, the .xperimental AIDS hot. Is were due JULY 6; rsvp for SAl's anger, humor and compassion, act out Judith Malina; 272 E 3 Sf; $10 gen.ral/$- drug; pr •• entatlons by Investigator., activities are being accapted NOW) againsttheir desIruction"; 44 Walkar $1;$12; 7 students .nd •• nlofl/pay-what-you- doctor., Bri.tol-My.r. Squibb TUES-SUN, 8 pm; 431-7434(lhru AUG 4) can on W.d and Thurs; WED-SUN, 8 researche ...; update on trial resulll and DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY TELEVI- pm; 979-0604,0601 (op.n run) expand.d accelS programa; .t the SION Call for Tepe. for LookOllt La- PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS presents Center, 208 W 13 Sf; 7:30 pm; fre.; by ",." .IHIS., W". FallNI W, for six Willie. Fla.'s F./tIftO/."", the last PRODUCERS' CLUB pr.s.nts Ed Cac.1- rsvp only to Ken Fomataro, 481-1miO nights In October; "by qu.ar. or for part of • trilogy (starting with In IIU" En".tHI, KlltIWI Yo., N... , qu •• rs or_ about, queer. or all of tha Trousers) in which M.rvin confronts SIIrrlng Joe Plchatla; a play .bout AIDS, LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS abov."; all vld.o-mastered modes OK, AIDS; with HNtIIer MacRae, CIIlp ZIeII, • gay m.n whose problems are measured OF BROOKLYN faldnlHr for nriOi' no film to video; no .ntryfe., .mall hon- St.ph.a 10Ilard •• , Mlc ••• 1 Rlp,rt, In IVo;r du pols, and his .upport group; call1lldates, with dlll.rts; 285 C. rIton oraria; Lookout, c/o DClV, 87 ,",fayette Da •• y G.r.rd, Faith PrlDc., JII.t 3!i8 W 44 St; $10; TIIU-SUN at 8 pm, also Ave, Fort Gr •• ne, Brooklyn; 7:30 pm; St, NYC 10013; 941-1298 (entries Mertz; 416 W 42 Sf; $22-$24; TUE-FRI at SAT .t 2 pm; extr. show W.dn .. day, $15; 71111499-6891, 71111!16S-8482 acc.pted thru AUG 10) 8 pm, SAT at3 &. 8 pm, SUN at3 &. 7 pm; June 13,8 pm; 279-42IXI (open run) 279-4200 (thru AUG 12) AD HOC ARTIS"[S' GROUP Dille ••• NA110NAL GAY &: I£SBIAN TASK FORCE MEN IN LOVE, •• " NIIt N .. ", MardiOl: A 1 .. 1It for (3rd Annu.1) Nov ..... r ""2 e,.."., RIVERWEST THEATER pr.sents RoHlt Set in Maul, a young man. coming to the newly form.d direct-.ctlon group CUll,. Conf8reac., for gay- &: I.sbian IIIIII's ...... QdIra about a basebal play- t.rms aftar losing his lover to AIDS; that will r.spond to the battl. for the organizing and skill building; at Hofiday Inn arwho is0UIIld by a ntWSpllper; 1!1i Bank $I; BI •• k.r Str.et Cin.m., 144 BI •• k.r National Endowm.nt for the Arts; f.a- Metrodome, Minn.apolis-St. Paul, MN, $12; for delalls csl2G6l!i9 (thru AUG 121 Str.et, 674-2560; Carn.gle Scr •• nlng tured are R•• o, SLAN (Jo •• Zor., "where the men are good looking, the Room, 887 S.venth Avenue, 757-2131 ElliottSIll" .Id Ted ~al, Ric."'" wom'.n are strong, and gay and lesbian LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES COMMIT- For •••• , Ew.rtt Oll.to ••• d til. civil right& are above average"; 42 work- TEE, DISTRICT 37 MUNICIPAL EMPLOY- Longtime Compnion, a feature film fol- Rldlc.loll Thlllrlcel c.p.ay; m.ny shops Include discussions of gay/l8lblan EES LI•• la •• Gey Prld. Ex.I.ldo., lowing the live. of .Ight gay m.n In others; at M. K., 204 Fifth Av. (25/26 marriag.10r notl, In the syatem/ln the showing the history of union interaction New York during the AIDS crl.i.; SUI; .howtim. 8 pm; $10 at the door; Slre8lS, ero.rglng sexual strategies among with advocacy of lesbian/gay rlgllls, the Chel .. a Cin.mas, 23 St btwn 7th/Bth Info 9119-0788 gay m.n, I.sbian .exuality, outing, hat. impact of AIDS, domestic partn.r bene- Av •• , 691-4744; Cam.gle H.II Cln.ma, crimes, and gay/lesbian, poli- fits, anti-bias crim. I.gislation, homo- 7th Av. at 57 St. 285-2520 (Editor'. nOlI: LONG ISlAND GAY MEN'S GROUP .. tics; more; vidllOS, brochur. swapping, phobia; in the Lobby, DC 37 You can call NtIW York Magazin.'s m- WeeIdy DIIC ...... : IMNI'''., welcome reception Kate ClI_. in con- Headquarters, 125 Barclay Sf; DAILY, 8 FILM, with area cod. 212 or 201, for (Getting dciWn and dirty.); meets In Gar- c.n, dancing; $1201 •• b.for. SEPT am - 6 pm Ithru AUG 30) specific tim.lnfonnation.) de" City, U; 8 pm; Info 51111694-2407 ' 141$150after; info from NGLTF, 1517 U Sf. THE MONSTER prll.nts Ms. S.erry'. .NW; Wash DC 20000 (reg~r by OCT31) THE GLINES presents Joltn Gil ... ' D... T,."., with Myra (th. minx from ",." of Ma,,"''', directed by Charl.s MONDAY JULY 30 the Sphinx), Cryst.1 Allen la charm Catan.s., "a c.lebration of the d.light- SLOPE ACTIVI11~S FOR LESBIANS DIll- .ch0ltr. delightl, SyIvi. (sv.lte, stylish LIVELY ARTS ful div.rsity of gay lif. in NYC h.re and •• r at Coate Oil Sol, "splurg •• 11ttI. on and scandalous), and. m.1e stripp.r; (Also see the daily listings for now" with s.ven actors playing 25 some super Spanish cul.lne and 80 Grov. St at Sheridan Squ.re; .how ,how(ing)s of one or two days.) charact.rs in a seri.s of vign.ttes romantic atmosph.r."; 306 7th Av.- at 9:31 pm; no cover charg.; 924-3556

68 OUTTWEEK August 8, 1990 for HIV Positives and friends; at Rutgers 212 W 83 St; $4; rsvp 201/481-0440 Metro Are. I.fon .. tlol Mlltl'g, Church, 236 W 73 St (off B'way); 9 pm - MICHAEL FESCO presents BackfD "'e tonight and every second Thursday, to WEDNESDAY, AUG. 1 midnig~ free; info 721-1346 (Editor's note: Fu"'re at 20/20, Sunday Tea Dances, build the April 24-28, 1991 Conference WOMEN ABOUT C•• pl.g .t W.tcll Body Positive holds socials every first and with tonight's OJ Mlc .... 1 Jorlt.; free in Atlanta; all lesbians invited; in the Hili Campground. Are Island, thru Sat- third Friday. including AUG 3, AUG 17) Bloody Marys & Mimosas from 6-8 pm; Center's SAGE Room, 208 W 13 St; 8-8 urday, AUG 4; rsvp 201/433-1974 buffet at 7:30 pm; 20 W 20 St; doors pm (info: 212/491-5965; SASE to NLC, COLUMBIA LESBIAN. BISEXUAl., GAY open 6 pm; 727-8841 Box 1999. Decatur. GA 30031) SHESCAPE AIrIIr-* "e", for ..... COAUTION First Frld.y Danc •• in Earl .. PriwIe Eyea, 12 W 21 St (btwn 5tIv'6Ih Hall. Columbia U.• 116 St & Bway ('1/#9 SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS' Aves); 5-10 pm (you may stay on for train); 10 pm - 2 am; photo ID to drink; MONDAY, AUG. 6 Bleck IIWIIlte PollICk .Id Dlsclllliol YMVA Night at 10); $5 before 7/f1 after- 854-3574,854-1488 SAL ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Movia Night; wear black and/or white and wards; info ~79, club 2lXr7T12 (Edi- ' Night at PI.z. TIIa.ter IIFull Moon bring black and/or white food; discus- tor's note: Door proceeds tonight from 5-7 Eweai.. SInJII, at Ratbush & 7th Aves, Parle sion topic will be 'Arst Moves'; in Parle pm will go to the eoa.unity HIIIIth Pro- SATURDAY, AUG. 4 Slope. BkIyn; 7:3Hsh; rsvp 71&'96&-7578 Slope; 7:30 pm; rsvp 711!{965-7578 ject A different gay/leSbian group ben,&- GAY GAMES III in Vancouver. British fits each W8ek throughout the summer.) Columbia (through AUG 11) OUT IN THE '90S CABLE SHOW, news, information. opinion and interviews for FRIDAY, AUG. 10 SLOPE ACllVITIES FOR LESBIANS Pool SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Fire the lesbian/gay community; premi.res WOMEN ABOUT C•• pl.g .t W.tcll fig'" .. BlVWIIstDtla BIIII.rds with free Iliad Buch Dey (postponed from last on SO C.bla's Cheln.1 56.9-10 pm Hill Campground. Are Island; thru Sun- pool and ping pong, and non-players week); from 7 am; rsvp rsvp 718/965-7578 (tonight and fNery Monday) day. AUG 12; rsvp 201/481-0440 can come to socialize; at 7th Ave/FIat- bush Ave, Parle Slope, Bklyn; 7 pm; rsvp WOMEN ABOUT Be.ch Trip to Fire COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE 7111(965-7578 IsI.ld; rsvp 201/481-0440 TUESDAY AUG. 7 HIV+ Group to discuss recent treatment WOMEN ENTRJPRENEURS IN BUSI- info, research and treatment options, QUEER NATION Meeting at the Center, SAGE goes to Fire Island, with bus from NESS Discussion Circle: Women~ Fear current and planned clinical trials; HIV+ 208 W 13 St; 7:30 pm; 463-7208(alternate the Center to the ferry, lunch at the of Money; with n'etworking and -the only please; 7 pm; for location call Ken yYed., also AUG 15 &29) Monster, a day on/by the beach; leaves Business Clinic-; at the Center, 208 W Fornataro,481-1050 from 208 W 13 St at 9:30 am. returns 13 St; 6:30-8 pm; $5; info 718/499-6984 SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS about 7 pm; $40; rsvp 741-2247 (checks (Editor's note: WEB meets tonight and SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS DrI.ks .. Ad .... 'a classly joint. but no to SAGE Fire Island Trip, 208 W 13 St. every first Tuesday. except in October.) goes to MIlts VI. Chicago; 7:30 pm; rsvp dress code'; nouvelle cuiSine. not NYC 1(011) 718/965-7578 cheap; meet upstairs, 501 11th St (off GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS HIV He.lth 7th Ave), Park Slope, Bklyn; 8:30 pm; ARTS PROJECT OF CHERRY GROVE Art Selliaars: Benefits Infonnation .nd SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS 01.- rsvp 7111(965-7578 Show .nd S.I. at the Community Le,allss .. s, tonight and every 1st ing at Cafe .1 Dente, upscale Italian, House. Cherry Grove. Fire Island; mem- Tuesday; 129 W 20 St. BenefItS on the 4429th St (at 7th Ave). Park Slope, EAGLE BAR Movie Night Jolla Waters' bers receive champagne preview from 3rd Floor, Lega/on Lower Level C; 7 pm; Bklyn; 7:30 pm; rsvp 718/965-7578 Hair Spray; 142 11th Ave (at 21 St); 11 noon to 2 pm (no guests); show open to free; 807-6655. roo 645-7470 pm; 691-6451 the public from 2-5 pm and from 7-10 pm; info 21V~7563 (also tomorrow) COALITION FOR LESBIAN AND GAY THE PYRAMID presents Lind. Slmp- RIGHTS Monthly Meeting at the Center, SATURDAY, AUG. 11 SOlI'S CII.nnel &9: Gay Jeoperdy (back FIRE ISLAND BUDDIES Support .ad 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 627-1398 WOMEN ABOUT by popular demand), America's'l gay Soci.1 Group for HIV+ Men, WomeR II Overnite Canoe Trip. from Dingman's quiz show; 101 Ave A (6/7 Sts); 1 am Friends, tonight and every Saturday in Ferry, PA to Sheffield Beach, 20-28 show; $5; 426-1590 August; Fire Island Pines Community WEDNESDAY, AUG. 8 miles; experienced canoeing/camping House; 7:30 pm SH ESCAPE Altl8rwotlc "arty for """'IHI preferred; about $45 PIUSmeals .t Private Eyes. 12 W 21 St (btwn Deep Sa. Ashlng at Belmar, NJ THURSDAY, AUG. 2 SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Car- 5thIBth Aves); 5-10 pm (you may stay on Women About info/rsvp 201/481-0440 AlliANCE OF QUEER ARCHITECTS lai- roll G.... s D.y: walking tour or bike for Dallas's Club Bad at 10); $5 before d.1 Soclll IIMeatIq for gay, lesbian, ride at 1 pm; lunch at Helen's Italian 7/f1aftelWards; info 645-6479. club 206- SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS bisexual architects; at Cave Canem. 24 restaurant at 3 pm. 396 Court St. Bldyn; 7772 (Editor's note: Door proceeds Tennis at the Parade Grounds. 8 a, 1st Ave (at lstSt); 8 pm; info 393-9318. rsvp 7181965-7578 tonight from5-7 pm will go to the Let- rsvp 7181965-7578 ',_ 222-8784 bi.1I Herstory Arcblves. A different SPECTRUM presents Coriaa. singing gay/1esbian' group benefits each week SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Loving You Like Crazy and Give Me throughout the summer.) Aeld Trip to SoHo, M.nhllttll: FRIDAY AUG. 3 Back My Heart 802 64th Street. Brook- Brunch .. Jerry's, 101 Prince St (btwn OPEN CIRC~ fIIll-Mooa CeI.bretlOll of Iyn (N Train to 8th Ave stop, Bay Ridge); SAGE Womell's Summer S.nset Cruise Mercer & Greene), 11 am tile God/dess in the Center Garden, 208 718/238-8213 .nd O.nce on the Circle Line; OJ Gini W.lklng Tour, meet in front of Jerry's at W 13 St; 7-7:30 pm sharp (arrive early, DeSantis. food and drink sold or BYO, 12:30 pm bring percussion instr:uments); 620-7310 THE CHERRY GROVE ICE PALACE Bena- 'wheelchair accessible; board 6:30-7 pm G.llery Hopping, meet in front of the (for info, SASE to OC, Box 4538. Sunny- fit for ACT UP with Jimm, Sum- at Circle Line Pier 83 at 42 St/Hudson New Museum, 583 B'way at 2 pm; OR side, NY 11104-4538) merville: Midsummer Ni,hts Dream; River. return by 10 pm; $12; 741-2247 Clothes Shopping. meet in front of the 2121989-1114 (SAGE Cruise reservations due JULY 31) New Museum, 583 B'way at 2 pm SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Dining .t Eleph ... IICude, 183 Prince Video Night Hitchcock Fest 'at the GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS Men Meet- St (btwn Sullivan/Thompson SIs), 4 pm Clubhouse'; bring 1V snacks & drinks; 7 in, Men Workshop, at the Center, 208 Movie .. the Angellk., 18 W Houston' pm; rsvp 711!{965-7578 SUNDAY AUG. 5 W 13 St; 7-!1".30 pm; free. no pre-registra-, at 6:30 pm (6 films to choose from) ARTS PROJEct OF CHERRY GROVE Art tion required; 807-6655, TOO 645-7470 Drinks IISnlCks .. Fe_lIi's, 94 Prince MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY Show II1II Sale, l1:30am - 4 pm, see AlXl4 St. at 8:30 pm ,and GAY FATHERS FORUM Joint Party SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS O.nclng at Lim.lIght Ch.pel, 49 W 20 It tile Center, "dancing. munching and SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS BoWling Nig/Jt at Kenmore Lanes. 2228 St; 10 pm (Shescap8 party, not in SoHo) fun"; 208 W 13 St; 7 pm; MACT 222-9794 Sund.y Br.ach .t T.rti.e. a French Church Ave (near Flatbush Ave); 7:30 SAL info & rsvp. 7181965-7578 bistro; 426-A 7th Ave (14/15 Sts), Parle pm; rsvp 711!{965-7578 GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT Slope. Bklyn; 11:30 am; MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY Fon.: B,....,ityad S.nIDillflnl- SoftIJall aad Picnic la Prospect Park; EAGLE BAR Movie N9Jt: r.""and c.Jr. Beech Outing to His Parle; meet at upstairs 'Y.with members of sfNerallocal bisex- meet at Garfield & PP West; 2 pm; 142111hAve (at21 Stl; 11 pm; 691-8451 pla1form at IRT n train at 14 ~ Ave at , ual sociaVsupport groups; atthe Center, SAL info and rsvp, 718/965~578 10 am; or meet at Green Bus. upstairs from 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 620-7310 Aatbush AvelBldyn Colege (last! stop on 2 WOMEN ABOUT visits the Children'S THURSDAY, AUG. 9 train. at 11 am; going to Bay 1, far left, in BODY POSITIVE Friday Night Soci.l. Museum, with many hands-on exhibits; NATIONAL LESBIAN CONFERENCE front of senior citizens' home; 222-9794

August 8. 1990 OUTTWEEK 69 SAGE B•• d ".rty Soclll with live music, dancing, food, refreshments, 'good frieRds and great company'; at Tuning In: A TV/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers the G'ay Synagogue, 57 Bethune St (at West St. in the Westbeth Complel!l; 1-5 Information must be received by Monday to be included in the following pm; advance: $6 members/$8 non- weel(s issue. Send items to Rick X. Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108. nmembers, at the door: $8 membersl$10 non-members; 741-2247 AlE (AI1s&E'mBr1a~!HiFifthIw, IOhF\NYC 111117;lIil-tiQ hotel; oscars went to David Niven, Wendy Hiller; with CCTV (Rick X. Box 790, NYC 10108) Rita Hayworth, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr; CH 5 (2:00) GBS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peaston; 1787th 3:15 AM WABC- TV Piths of Glory(l957): a Young Stanley CENTER SPORTS sees Macs VI. CuM; $14 Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 111011;243-1570) Kubric~'s powerful indictment of war; CH 7 (2:10) CenlarmembeNS19non-members;fm.7J10 GCN (Gay C~ble Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square TH URSD AV AUGUST 2 East. Suite 1217; 477-4220) M., RRE ISlAND BUDDIES s..port'" SocIal GMitC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20 7:00 AM WCBS-TV This Moming. the Emmy nominations Grou, for HIV+ Men, Women • Friends, St. NYC 10011; 807-7517) and William Shatner; CH 2 (2:00) tonight and every Saturday in August; Fire RB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions, Box:Di, NYC 10021;_29731 7:00 AM WNBC- TV Tod,y. the Emmy nominations and bull- Island Pines Community House; 7:30pm WASC-TV (7 Uncoln Square, NYC 10023; 4fJfrTTm fighting; also health care for the uninsured; CH 4 (2:00) WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707) 10:00 AM WABC-TV Sally Jessy: prostitution; CH 7 (1:00) weaS-TV (524 W ~ St. NYC 10019; 91So4321) 1:00 PM WBAI-FM This Way Our; the int'I gay/lubian mag- SUNDAY AUG. 12 WNBC-TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444) azine; 99.5 FM (:30) SLOPE ACTIVI~ES FOR LESBIANS WNET-TV (356 W 58 Sf, NYC 10019; 560-3000) 1:30 PM WBAI-FM AnAftemoon Outing. local news and Hor .... ck Riding at Jamaica Bay, AV lUI v 30 infonnation about the gay/lesbian community;99.5FM (:30) beginners or intermediates, wear jeans MOND M.,'" .. • 2:311 PM WBAI-FM AIDS: Paths to Self-Empowerment & and sneakera; 10 am 2:30 PM WBAI-FM NEA and the Arts: a two-hour panel dis- Living. Bob Lederer and Jim Fouratt discuss alternative .IoIIes BNCII trip; 10 am cussion focusing on current censorship and restrictions treatments, self-empowennent, politics; with Interviews Brunch It Ralntre.'., 142 Prospect on the funding of the arts; 99.5 FM (2:00) of health practitioners, PWAs, activists; 99.5 FM (1:00) ,9:00 PM WNET-TV Edward R. Murrow: This Reporte" the 7:00 PM GBS Way Outl: Mark Chesnut and Michelle Van- Park West (af9th St), Bklyn; 12:30 pm first of two parts, exploring his life and legacy in Amer- Voorhlu host a lesbian and gay entertainment shoW; , ArtIst'. Day I. Prospect Plrk; 2 pm ican journalism; recollections by Sevareid, Brinkley, tonight Michael T. sings 'Sweet Transvestite' from SAL info & rsvp, 71111965-7578 Friendly, Hewitt, Cronkite; comments by Rather, Jen- Rocky Horror. comedy from Sara Cytron, Jocelyn Taylor nings, Walters, Brokaw, Sawyer; radio and TV clips; presents the video I Objectfrom the House of Color PvClAB.fm:o~Bil:frtlflr1iAleldllll CH 13 (1:00) (repeats at 4:00 AM) video collective; Rich Volo, producer, 254-7685; Manhat- Sunday Tea Dances. with tDnigh(s OJ BoIJbj 10:00 PM GCN 8e My Guest Grace Jones at ACT UP's Pal- tan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) iiiat 1iC•• ~&Mrosasfnrn68~ ladium benefit, She-H,wfrom Channel 69 at Pyramid; 9:30 PM GMHC Living With AIDS. health and politics; Man- 1lfIta:7".II~cbrs~6~7Dat Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) /. hattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) .10:00PM WNET-TV Ta/flS From the Hollywood Hills: Golden 10:30 PM GCN Gay U.5A: news and entertainment from und, adapted by William Hanley from Faulkner, about around the countJy; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) MONDAY, AUG. 13 the ruin of a businflSsman rocked by tabloid scandal, (For Paragon Cable, see SATURDAy) SLOPE ACTIVITIES FOR LESBIANS Ice involving sexual misconduct of his daughter; CH 13 11:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin "Byrd presents gay Creal! Social at The Clubhouse, (1:00) (repeats at 5:00 AM) male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) Prospect Park; bring ice cream & top- 11:30 PM Tomorrow/Tonight Livet. entertainment; Manhat- 11::311PM GMHC Living With AIDS. health and politics; pings to share; 8 pm; rsvp 71&1965-7578 tan and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00) Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) midnight CClV The Closet C,se Show. Kloset Klips; also, WOMEN ABOUT Phllhlrmonlc In the Grace Jones slaps go-go boy butt at ACT UP's Palladi- FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 um benefit; Manhattan Cable, CH C/16 (:30) 2:311 PM WBAI-FM Rompiendo el Silencio: todos los Park; info/rsvp 874-2104 1:00 AM G,y Tv. gay male porn; Paragon Cable, CH J/23 (:30) viernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temas y noticias para la AV IUIV 31 comunidadlatinagayylesbiana;99.5FM(:15) TUESD M., ... ' ... 7:30 PM The Gay Dating Game Show. Manhattan Cable, CH TUESDAY AUG. 14 10:00 PM WNBC-TV Sex, Buys & Advertising, an NBC news J/'l3 (:30) GAY MEN'S H~TH CRISIS HIV H.alth special with Deborah Norville, examining the forces of 10:30 PM WNET-TV Radio Bikini (1987): an Oscar nominee, s-tlnar: In .. ranee Information, tonight Madison Avenue; interviews with Pepsi hawker Michael this documentary exposes the politics and hubris and fNery 2nd Tuesay; 129 W 2O.St. 3rd J. Fox. ad exec Phil Dusenberry, 80 (Nike's 'Bo Knows') behind the Navy's 1946 A-bomb tests, for which the Floor; 7 pm; free; 807-6655, TOD 645-7470 Jackson; a look at ads aimed at kids; CH 4 (1:00) Bikini Atoll ruidents were relocated while their island 10:00 PM WNET-TV Police Chiefs, a look at LA's Daryl was being pennanently poisoned; CH 13 (1:00) LESBIANS & GAY MEN OF NEW Gatas, Minneapolis's Anthony Bouza, and NYC's Lee 11:00 PM Gay7Y.malepomocIps;ManhallanCable.CHJI'l3~ BRUNSWICK S.'er Sex Short., the Brown (when he was in Houston); with scenes of busts, 1:00 AM RB PROD Robin 8yrd Show: male and female strip- more explicit,videos from GMHC; at raids, citizens' meetings; CH 13 (1:00) (repeats at 5 AM) pers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) Friends Meeting House, 109 Nichols 11:00 PM GBS Out in theMs: community news, discussion, Ave, New -Brunswick, NJ; 8 pm; interviews;tDni9htAnti-~oIencespeCia/focusingonmed"I8SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 coverage, victims' reactions, government and criminal jus- 10:00 AM WNET-TV Finng Une: The Opposition Cuomo, 201/247-0515 to ticesystam response; ManhallarVParagon Cable,CH C/16(1:111) with Republican candidate Pierre Rinfret and Conserva- tive candidate Herbert London; CH 13 (:30) WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 6:30PM GCN GayU.SA:newsandentertainmentfrom 9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in the Machinff. women in pop, around the countJy; Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) (For with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30) Manhattan Cable, see THURSDAy) 4:00 PM WABC-TV Oprah Winfrey. guilt over unsettled dif- 11:00 PM RB PROD The &rly Byrd: Robin Byrd presents ferences with a deceased loved-one; CH 7 (1:00) male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) 4:00 PM WBAI-FM Loony Tunes: A Youth Radio Production; 'sex. drama, comedy ...and sex. ..including masturbation SUNDAY, AUGUST 5 etiquetta, when notto - and more, or less; listeners 5:00 PM WNET-TV Kodo: HealtbNt Drummef$ uf J,p,n, a I- phone in the fate of youth worldwide by providing end- unique group of young musicians and dancers; CH 13 (1:00) ingsto unfinished stories'; 99.5 FM (:30) 7:30 PM WBAI-FM The Gay Show. news and infonnation , 9:00 PM WNET-TV The M,n Who Beat the Blacklist: Bill about the lesbian/gay community; fNery other Sunday,' Moyers iRtarviews John Henry Faulk, who died in April, a alternating with OutLooks; 99.5 FM (1:00) radio commentator who sued AWARE (a red-baiting 11:51 PM WNET-TV Independent Focus: a collection of short media 'watchdog' group) for libel and won (with financial films beginning at 11:00 pm; of special interestto Out- help from Edward R Murrow, sile MONDAY); CH 13 (1:00) Wflflk readers may be Harriet Hirshorn and Mary Patier- 10:00 PM WNET-TV Vincent V,n Gogh: An Explosion of no's Sodom by the Se" which 'uses Coney Island as a Colour; his paintings and his words, on the l00th annver- point of departure for an exploration of the immigration sary of his death; CH 13 (1:00) (repeats at 5:00 AM) experience, focusing on the hopu and failed dreams of mldnillht RB PROD The Robin Byrd Show. male and female those who left their native lands til start a new life in strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J/'l3 (1:00) America'; CH 13 (:17) 3:00 AM WNYW-TV (Fox) Separ,te T,bles (1958): Terence 11:30 PM GCN Men & Films: male erotica, interviews with Rattigan play about lonely, unhappy guests in an English adult filmstars; Manhattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30)

70 OUT~EEK August 8, 1990 Grand Cantril (closed Mon & Tues, 2-4-1 drinks Thursday) 210 Merrick Monday Road, Rockville Centre, LI; 516/538-4800 ' Private Eyes (FJiarc Berkley's Kool Komradsw/ Razor Sharp & strippers; M'gic Touch (ethnic mix: Anglo/Latin/Asian) 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson students, professionals; $5) 12 W 21 St. club 200-m2 Heights, Queens; 718/429-8605 Tuesday Mo,n~r (W,~ Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557 , *Love M.chinelLarry Tee & Lahoma Van Zandt. young & exotic crowd) SpeCtrum (closed Mon-Tue, WED free, THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI mit 860 Bway, at 17 St; 254-4005 strip, SAT record stars, SUN variety show & free 9-10 pm; Coors "Roxy (Men on Wheels, gay roller skating; starts 8 pm) 515 W 18 St;645-5156 served) 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridg e, Bklyn; 7181238-8213 Wednesday JiiLt2tJ tiZ5S 2biH U *Better Days (primarilY gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (11{9 Aves); 245-8925 Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, lesbians and non· esaay gay women; $7) 12 W 21 St. btwn 5th/6th Aves; 200-m2 Hatfield's 126-1'1iQueens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484 *Pyramid (Linda's Channel 69 party, OJ & live lesbian/gay shows; East Grand Cantral (women's night, also open Wed·Sun) 210 Merrick Road, Village crowd; $5) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6/7 Streets; 420-1590 Rockville Centre, LI; 516/538-4800 ' Ouiekl (mellow non-gay guys, low· key gays, their women friends; gets gayer later) 6 Hubert St; 925-2442 _ Wednesday Bedrock 121 Woodfielil Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry Exc.libur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) comer 10th/Jefferson behind football La., Aoral Pk, LI; 5161354-9641 Stutz (2-4-1 drinks, also open daily) 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains; stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161 Priv.te Eyes (Shescape AftefWork Party, 5-10 pm; $5 before 7 pm, $7 914/761-3100 . Thursday , after) 12 W 21 St; info 645-6479, club 206-m2 *Cop.cab.n. (last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next is Thursday Bedrock 121 Woollfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 August 30; iffy door) 10 E 60 St. at Fifth Ave; 755-6010 Excalibur ($1 drinks, also open Tues·Sun, women WED) comer 10th/Jef- Pyramid (Jenny's Girl Bar, 8 pm - 2 am) 101Avenue A (btwn 6{1 SIs);$5;475-3i38 ferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161 Friday Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women Bedrock 111 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 on TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 7181261-8484 Clit Club (Jocelyn & Julie's alternate Fridays, neXt is August 10; go-go Ouiekl (Chip Duckett's Thursdays) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 blocks girls, lesbo erotic videos; 8 pm; $5)432 W 14 St; G-1114, below Canal); 925-2442 Hatfield's 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718/261-8484 Friday Millennium (Ladies' Nig/r41770 NY Ave (Rte 110),Huntington, U; 51f1t'351-1402 Cohmbialfanc81 (1st Friday of every month, including summer, next is Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside; info 71&'846-7131, club 71&'899-0031 August 3) 116th St & Bway; 854-3574 days Saturday Octagon (Patrick's Friday Night Jam Se$sion, primarily gay men of color; Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 free muchies; opens 11 pm) 555 W 33 St; 947-0400 Chapel at Umelight (Shescape party, Chapel garden entrance; opens 9 Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St, pm; $8)49 W 20 St at 6th Ave; 645-6479 btwn 5th/6th Aves; 200-m2 Silver Uning 175 Cherry Lane, Aoral Park, LI; 5161354-9641 "Quickl (Panty Gircf/es; TVs, gays, straights) 6 Hubert St (on Hudson, 5 Stan 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, U; 516/242-3857 blocks below Canal); 925-2442 Sunday Saturday Bedrock 121 Ih'oodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 516/486-9516 Barefoot Boogie1smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn &'10 SIs); 832-6759 Bourbon Street (Leslie & Michelle's Tsa Oancs, 5-10 pm, $5) Tuckahoe 419419 N. Highway, Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001 Lane, by the HsssStation, Southampton, LI; 516/283-8801 -M.rs (Keoki's Drop Lounge, floor varies; small eclectic crowd: TVs, Cave eanem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 241stAve at 1st St; 529-9665 Asians, hi·tech music fans) 13 St & West Side Hwy; 691-6262 Love Shack (Jill Reiter'S Booby Trap, alternative music, $3) at New Us- Private Eyes (YMVA Night, students, professionals, men) 12 W 21 St, mar, 411st Avenue at 2nd St; 777-9477 ' btwn 5th/6th Aves; 206-7772 Every Night (or almost) "Roxy (gayS/TVs/club kids/some non-gay; mix depends on party) 515 W Ouchell II'(small dance floor; Coors served) Sheridan Sq. & 7th Ave 18 St (btwn 10111 Aves); 645-5156 South; 242-1408 Sound Factory (mostly gay; serious House/Club dancing, no alcohol, Spectrum (closed Mon & Tues; good gay/lesbian mix, see Every Night, opens 11 pm) 530 W 27 St (10th/11th Aves); 643-0728 above, for details) 802 64th St. Bklyn.; 718/238-8213 2OIZO (Hybrid Crswparty for men & women, 10 pm, $10) 20 W 20 St; 727-8841 Editor's tiDs for tourists: Sunday A (*) denotes a clu6 that attracts TVs. *Better Days Tprimarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925 The NYC club scene is volatile, especially in summer. Call first. The Building (Club Bad's Ths Msn's Room, students, professionals, men; Clubs generally open at 10pm, close at 4 am, unless otherwise noted. Admis- go-go boys & 6O-ft. ceiling) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890 sions range from $5to $15. Invites offer discounts, and are sometines -Mars (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Men)Westside Hwy and 13th St; 691- required. 6262 ,Some clubs, especially Copacabana, but also Roxy, Quickl, Mars, Love *Pyramid (Junior's Tea Dance 6-9 pm, Gay Cabarstat midnight; $5)101 , Machine, and the Building have been known to let people in random· Avenue A, btwn 6/7 Streets; 420-1590 Iy or selectively, rather than have a simple line at the door. Discrimi· "Roxy (Rollerskate Tea Dance 7-11 pm; A Groovy Kind of Love party at nation on the basis of race, gender and orientation is illegal. 11; students, club kids, hunks, men) 515 W 18 St; 645-5156 Selectivity based on attire, attractiveness and attitude is not Looking 2OIZO (Michael Fesco's Tea Dance, opens 6 pm; $6; free Mimosas & BMs perky, exotic or rich helps. Coming very early can be helpful, too. from 6-8"buffet at 7:30)20W 20 St; 727-8841 Mixed parties usually get gayer as the night wears on. Every Night (or almost) Special one·time parties are listed in the day·by·day calendar. . . 419 (nightlY Gay Houss Party, opens 6 pm) 419 ~. Highway (Rte 27), Clubs that serve Coors will be noted but not excluded from these listings. Southampton, LI; 516/283-5001 Send openings, closings, corrections and dish to Rick X, Box 790, NYC 10108.

August B, 1990 OUTYWEEK 71 A.c.a.C. BAR ASSOClAnON FOR BODYPOSmvE DIGNITY NEW YORl( GUB AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COON- HUMAN RIGHTS If you or your lover has tested lesbian and gay Catholics and Gay and lesbian Independent TV SOCIAL SERVICES.EDUCA- law(ers Referral SlII1Iice for the HIV+. we offer support groups. friends AIDS Ministry. Spiritual Broadcasters invites you to tune nON08UDDIESoCOUNSElINGoS Lasbian and Gay CommunitY Full seminars. public forums.rafBranca Development. The Ca1heclral Pro- into OUTlOOKS on WBAI-NY. UPPORT GROUPS Range of legal Services (212) 6- library. rafarrals. social ac1iviti~ ject. Wonship Services & Social- 995 fM every o1her S .... day. 7:30- VvlunlMr OppaiWniti .. 4873 Free Walk-in legal Clinic. and up-to-date national monthly. Sun. Eves. 7:3Opm-St John's 8:30pm and join us lIVery other (718) 896-25OO(voice) TU8Sday 8-8 pmlesbian & Gay "THE BODY POSITIVF I$Wyaar~ Episcopal Church 218 West 11th TU8Sday at 7:30pm to become a (718) 896-2S85(TDD) Community Centro Ground Roor _ (212)721-1346- Street OWav~2179 member of GUB. No experience :m;Broa6.vay. Slita 3B, NY.10023 needed. 505 Eighth Avenue. ACT UP (AIDS eoalition to BIDS (BISEXUAl DOMINANCE EDGE Educlition in a Dinbled 19th floor. (212) 749-0405. Unl ... h Power) a SUBMISSION GROUP) BROOKLYN'S LESBIAN AND Gay Envil'llm*lt aA Hudson SIreet, SIi1B G4 NYC Shal'll St'M experienc88 and fan- GAY POU11CAl CLUB For the phyaically cisabled Lesbian GAY a WBIAN HEALTH 10014(212)999 -1114 tDsias VIIiIh 0Ihers in a positiva. non- UUMBDAINDEPENDENT and GayConwnll1~ (212) !eH9Z1 CONCERNS A diVersa. non-partisan group of judgemental atmosphere. First DEMOCRATS P.O. Box 3I!i Village Station. New An office of the NYC Dept of ildMdual$ Lritad il anger and corn- Sunday of the month. 4;45pm at the UD. andor8as and works fur canci- YDI1c,NY10014 • Health. provides Iinkag81 mitted to diract lU:tion to end the COl1l1111lityCentsr 2111W. 13 Street; da1Bs illocal. SIBIB and nafonaI aac- betwn NYC Health & Human .AIDS crisis. Gen. meetings Mon. NYC . This groUp is pert d the NGw tions. lobbies for legislation. and RMME SUPPORT GROUP Svcs. and the lesbian & Gay 'rights ~ il The GnIat HaJJ. Cqoper YorkAraa 8isaxual Ne1work. conciJcts camuiyOllraBch1lntu!tt For lesbians who self identify as community. focusing in All Union. on Cooper Squara be1lMlen &traatfaisandflllllli1gs onspac:ial~ Femme. For info and meeting health concerns; reaource Ivitor and St Marks Placea BlSEXUALINFOIIMATION a ics. Jcin us. 338 Ninth St, Slita 1:ti times call Usa at (212) 829-9817. information for health services COIW4SB.I\IG SERVICE. INC. I!nJddoANYII215 (718) 985-8482 No men pleasa. consumers and providers. 125 AIDS RESOURCE CENTER A profossionaly steffed. non-profit Worth Street. Box 87. New (ARC) organization for bisexuals. their CIRCLE OF MORE UGIfT FRONT RUNNERS York. NY 10013. For info call Supportive housing for homeless fammes and per1ners. facing pro!>- Spiritual support and s/)aring in a A running club for lesbian and (212) 586-4995. PWAs (Bailey House and apart- lems of a psyehological or medical gay/lesbian affirmative group. gay athletes of all abUities. Fun ments). Non-judgem8l1lll1 pa&toral kind. We also Wof1( with those in West-Paf1( Presby!srian Illurch ll!i Runs of 1-3 mrles held every Sat GAY MAl£ SIM ACTMSTS care for FWAs and kMId ones. Vd- doubt about their S8lCIJality.Conti- West861hStreatWad:worshipser- at lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Dedicated to safe and rasponsi- lI1I88r opportIrities. (212) 481-1270, dentiality is proIBc18d by law; For \lice 8:30 pm, program 73l. Malllha Centl'lll Paf1( and every Tues. at ble S1M since 1981. Open meet- 24 West3llh St, NYC 1Con infonnation phone: (212) 459-4784 (212)304-4373Dlarfe (212)831-711& 7pm in Prospect Park. For infor- ings w/programs on S/M mation: call (212) 724-!J700. \echniques. lifestyle issues. ALOEClAPIJ\I-NY BISEXUAL PRIDE political and social concerns. (A,ien L.,bien, of the E.. t COMMUNITY HEAlTH DISCUSSION GROUP PROJECT THE FUND FOR HUMAN Also special events. speakers ~Alian Pacific t..bian Ntt- Topical discussions on issues of DIGNITY bureau. workshops. demos. -tI-Naw Yark) We ara a poI"rti- D WISt 13IhShot. M'C. NaN 'bit intBrest to the commurity in a con- 10011Rr Appci1rnenIs and klbm&- National Gay and lasbian Crisis affinity groups. newsletter. cal. social and supportive natwof1( genial atmosp/1era. followed by an .... (212)675-35!i9(T1YMiceJ'RMD- line -AIDS 800'---I-80~SOS- more. GMSMA -Dept. O. 498A of Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning , informal dinner at a friendly local ING CARING.lBISITM AND IIJN 'GAYS Educational Resource Can- Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC meatings on the 1st Sunday and restaurant Every Sunday. 3:QO. COST IEAlTH CARE SBMCES TO ter; Poeitive Images Madia Center; 10014.(212) 727-91118. social evenIB on the last Friday of com- illnesses. Monthly tl'llatment and group formed in Westchester development of the lesbian Westchester counties. AIDS ing events. (212)459-4784 rasearch group fur HIV+incividuals. County. Va rious a ctivities are and Gay Community. GMAD is education. client services. cri- Traatment and research newslatIBr, planned for the coming months. inclusive of African. African- sis intervention. support groups. BIPAC (BISEXUAL POU11CAl folUms and public saminans. Call Please call 914-376-0727 for American. Caribbean and His- clSe managem~nt. buddy and ACTION COMMmEE) Alice Speans or Ken Fomataro at mora info~ panic/latino men of color. hospital visitor program. Political action on issues d impor- (212)481-1I&lfur i1fo and maiilg iat. Meetings ara held. weekly. on 214 Central /Jw. Wlita Plains. NY GAY FA11IER'S FORUM Fridays. For more information. llm1(914) lBH8JI tance to the BisexuaVLesbiarv'Gay cormuity. MonIfojy I1l881il9'poduck CONGREGAnON BETH A support organization for gay call 718-802-0162. 838 Broadway. Newburgh. NY' SIMCHAT father's. their l0V8rs. and othens 12250 (914) 562-lmi held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of the rnar1h at members hOO18S.Call TORAH in child-nurturing situations. GAY MEN'S HEAL11I CRISIS AlDSlill8 (914) 993-0607 NYABNfurthisrnar1h'ls Iocaticn NYs Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Monthly meetings include a HOTUNE ((212) 469-4794 Services Friday at 8:30pm 57 potluck supper. support groups FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER ASIANS & FRENDS- NEW YORK B81hune Street For info. can: (2121 on varied specialized topics. SEX AND HIV-RELATED HEAl.11I A not-for-,profit organization BISEXUAL YOUTH 929-9498. speakers. and socializing.Maet- SERVICES. AND FOR INFORMA- which promotes friendships with Informal social & support group ings: lat Friday each month.7pm. TION ON ONE-TIME. WAlK-IN Asian/Pacific, Islander. Asian- for Bisexual kidslyouth. Monthly CONGREGATION at The Center. 208 W. 13th St.. AIDS COUNSElING SEJMCES2IZ. American. and non-Asian gay meeting/potluck lunch held B'NAI Wast of 7th Ave. Contribution: $8. 1U7~741DTDD (Far" men through social. cultural. edu- 1:00pm on fourth Sunday of the JESHURUN Bring a main courae for 4 people Haering Impairad)Mon.-Fri. 1031 cational. and service activities month at members homes. Call Monthly Spritual Gatherings and (or pay a $5 food charge.) For am to 9 p.m Sat 121D toam and p'rograms. Call our Hotline: NY ABN for this month·s location. free caterad festive lunchaons for information call: 212-97&-7541 or , . 212-374-5084. or write tei: P.O. Box This group is part of the New al/ People With AIDS. their lovers 212-288-3238 GIRTH a MIR11I 6628. NY 10163-6023. NY. Yof1(Area Bisexual Notwork. and families. Program includes CWB OF NEW YORK music and discussion led by our GlAAD Gay" IMbien Alli..- Social club for heavy. chubby ATR (AIDS TREATMENT Rabbis. Can (212) "Ml-71Dl Ageilllto.flmlMn gay men & their admirer •. REGISTRY, INC.) BWS-BRONX lESBIANS UNITED IN SISTERHOOD IIIlmrick~ M'C 10013 (212)_ Monthly socials at the 'Cen- . Pubishes a bHnonthly Directoty d 1700 GAAD canbats hornoJixlbia il ter'. weekly bar nights Thurs- clinical trials of experimental Social. political and support nat- DIGNITY working group for women and thoir BIG APPLE tho meda and aIswhJre by pra11Ot- days at the ·Chelsea Transfer'. AlDSlHlVtraatmenIB in NYtNJ. and ing llisibiity of the lesbian and gay monthly Fat Apple Review. bi- has educational materials/semi- friends. Regular sociallMlnIB and A community of Lesbian and monthly FA.R. penpals. nsrs for trial participants. ATR also meetings on the first and third m- Gay Catholics. Activities include carmrityand.:t~~ response to a· bigOOy. Do 'PI For more information cali advocates for improwmenIB in the days of ewry month. At The Com- Uturgies and socials every Sat. trial aystam. p.o. Box:lli2:l4. NY. NY munity Center, 2m W 13S1reet. from 8:00 pm. at the Center. 208 W. 13 haw:JIrrna a monIh tt i!ItIuno- Ernie at 914-899-n35 or write: 101HIl02. (212) 288-4198. Publica- fl:3).8pn. For more info call Lisa at Straat, NYC.Call pma1.blfla ItJWl Phone TIU8ICa1 G&M/NY. Dept O. P.O. Box 10. lions fraeldonation raquestad. (212)829$17. (212) 818-1309. (212)8.1JOOIofilftxmation. Pelham. NY 10803.

v..., I \ .. ,L..C" •.... ~"I ...... HW (IIMIII! flllIOMiC!n AlOJ LUBIAN. GAY MOCA NYC GAY 11D11AN UPPal MANHATTAN Uti"") COMMUNITY IEIIVlm (Mtn " C!!lor AlDI p"'"miO" ANTI·VlOLENCE PROJECT TAlK FORCE ON W.ekly Info, ,nd ,~pport group CENTEII P/'8I"'III.) CounMling, ,dveOicy, and Infor· AIDS for trqtrnenta for AlDS wI1li:h do 20!1 Wast 13t!1 Street Kew York, Provid .... fer IIX and AIDS m,tio" for .ulVivort" of Inti-gay Education, Hotline, Supportive not compromiae ~. immune ..,... NY 10011 (m)8;l0-7310 e.m· eduo,tion information to glY and .nti·l .. bi.n violenc', "xu,1 Ca .. M.nlglmfnt and Volun- tam furth.r, including altemative I1pm everydlY. A pl.o. for oom- and bi .. xu.1 M,n of Color; .... ault. domaatic violenoe, and teer Recruitinent and Referral. Ind holil1ic Ipproachl!l. munity org.ni~ng Ind nllWOrlcing, coordln.t" a network of pe.,.. other IYP" of viclimizltion. All 212-870-3352 Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13th St. aocial"rVicl!I, ciultul1ll PlQVrtl!1a, .upport groupa for g.y .nd .. Me .. f". and confidtnli.I.24 (212)874-HOPI;. and 'oci,1 evenla aponaored by biaaxu.1 Men of Color In ,1111 hour hedin. (21~)80NI187 WHAMI (Wo""n't ",elth the Center and mQre than 150 borough. of N.w York City. AI!IiC!n Moblll-.tion) HERrrAGE OF PRIDE, INC. community organizalion .. 303 Ninth AVI!, New York, NY PEQPI.E wmt AIDS A dlreot·.ction group commit- Orglnizert of New York'i LII- 10001 or c,1I (212)239017". CCIAUTION ted to dem.nding, aeourlng biln and GlY Pride evente: the U:SBIAN AND GAY WOR (212)~~ and defending abaolute repro- Mlrch, the Rally and the Dance N£TWORK NAnONAI. GAY AND LESBIAN (212)Ii32-D568MondlY thru Friday ductiv'e fr .. dom a"d quality on the Pier. Call (212) 691-1774 /In organizalion of Leabl.nl .nd TASKFORCE ll11nH1prn Meal progl1l111, III!pport he.l~ o,re for .11 women. We for m .. ting .chedule or more GaY' wIlo are Ictiva in their libor i. the nalional gra .. root. politi· groupl, aduca1!onaland rafe""I .... - meet every Wed. at 8:30 pm at Informltion. 208 Weat 13th lIlicn wortcing on cIomeItic pi""'" c.1 orglnlzalion for l8IbI.", Ind vI_forPWA' .. nd f'WI\ro' .. 105, E 22nd St., 4th Floor. Strtet, NY, NY 10011. ehip benelita and AlDS iatu ... For gay mIn. Membl"hip i. (212)713-5988. mora i1forma1ion c.II21$lH11111. S3CWear. laau .. oriented projeeta PEOPL.E WITH A1DI Mailing Iddr .. l: WHAMI, P.O. HETRICK-MARTIN INSTfTUTE addr ... violence, .odomy l.wI, HEAl.TH OROUP Box 733, NYC 10009 for IlIbI.n and gay youth. COUll- WBIAN AND GAY RIGIfTS AIDS, gay righta ordinlno .. , Undergl"Ollld buyaI'. olub inporli1g flUng, drop-in center (M·F, 3- PROJECT flmni8l, media, etc, through lob- nat..."....ppl'CMld medicl1iona .nd WOMEN'S AI.TERNATIVE 8pm), rap group., Harvey Milk of the Amerioen Civil Uberti" bying, .duollion, organizing and nutritional aupplemenlll. 31 Walt High School, AlDS and ... fer lax Union KNOW YOUR IIIOHTI/ diract action. NGLTF 1517 U 2I!Ih St. 4f1 Roor (212)~ COMMUNnv CJ:NrER (WACC), infonnltion, refe""II, profeaaional WE'RE EXPMDIIIO 'RIM Strut NW, Wllhington, DC A non· profit, L"blan commu- eduo.tion. (212)833-8820 (voica) (212)844-9800, ext 545 20000. (202)332-8483. PRORSSIONALS IN nity center .. rving Queena, (212)833-8828 TTY for deaf RLMIVIDEO N.... u .nd Suffolk counti ... U:SBIANS AND GAYS OF NEW YORK ADVERnSING 338 Clnll Street, 8th Roor, NYC Thura night weekly diaou .. ion HISPANIC UNITED OAYS. RATIUSH AND COMMUNI CAnONS 10013212-845-3361 grpa. 8:30pm, for other activi- LESBIANS Brooldyn·. IOcial organization for NETWORK tiea pl ... , contlot u. at (516) Educational "rvioes, politioal both gay men and leabiana. P.o. NYACN II tha oorrmunity'alarg811 SAGE: 483-2060. Iction, counnling and loclal Box 106, Midwood Stalion Brook· gay and leabian prof ... ion.1 (Senior Action In • 0., Ictivfti .. ln Splniah and Engliah Iyn, NY 11230'(718)86&-9437 group, welcoming ,II in corrmuni- Environment) by and for the Latino L"bi.n c.tion_and their frlenda. Social Service Agency. providing and Gay Community. General U:SBIAN HERSTORY Monthly meetings, 3rd Wed care, aClivi1i8l, & educalional..,.· meetingl 8:00 pm 4th Thurlday ARCHIVES 8:30pm .t the Community Cenlllr. vicaa for gay & leabian l8I'Iior citi- of. every month at 208 West P.O. BoX 1258New York, New Mambers' newsletter, job hotline, zenl. Allo lerves over 160 13th Street Call (212) 691·4181 York 10118212/874·7232Since annual directory. Phone (212)517- homabou1d aaniora & older fIWA'. or write H.U.G.L., P.O. Box 226 , 1974, the Archivaa h .. inspired, 0380 for more info. Menlion OUl- .208 West 13th St NYC 10011, Canal Street Station, New Ihaped and reflected Leabian Week for one free nawalettar. (212) 741-2247 York, NY 10019. live~ everywhere. Call to arrange a visit or to volunteer N.V. WOMEN'S SETHIAN GAYS, DENTITY HOUSE for Thursday worknighte. SOFTBALL GUILD WBIANS AND BISEXUAl.S Now in our 20th yaar, we provide For experienced, serioua Soft· For all of UI intllreatad in reaching peer couneeling, therapy refar- LONG ISLAND ACT·UP ball Playar., Coach81 and oUlto each other in exuberance to rala and groups for the laabian, P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Park, NY Managers. We play mod/faat lpontaneoUlly explore and expand gay and biaexual community. 11040Support us for change on pitch weekend. in Manhattan upon 1118Satt-/Jane Roberts 'Phi- Can ua at (212)243-8181. Visit ua Long Island. (518)33&-4811Z(516)1J11· and Queanl. Try-out. begin loiophy" 88 it realtes to our liv8l, at 544 6th Ave.,' between 14th- 5238 NI88Iu (518)9'l.lHilOO Sufloik Feb. 11 thru April- or until fillad. (212)255-1379 Janet pBl1OIlally, l18Xually and politically. 15111Streets, Manhattan. l.SM Cell f,J (212) 1179-5104 NINTH STREET CENTER INSnTUTE FOR HUMAN is a .upport and information Since 1973, a community dedi· IDENTITY group for lasbians and blaexual IUNDANCE cated to demonstrating that a Sliding scale feas • Insurance women intere.ted in fantllY, OUTDOOR ADVENTURE homoaexual Iife8tyle i. a ratio- accapted. Gay & Lesbian Psy- role-playing, bindlge, di.ci- SOCIEtY nal, desirable choice for indi- ch01l1er.py (212)799-9432 pline, SIM, fetishes, alternate A non-profit club offering Outdoor gender indentities, c08tume. viduals dissatisfied with the aClivi1iI!l for every season includ- reward. of conventional living. LAMBDA U:GAl DEFENSE and 80 forth. Member.hip ia ing hiking, biking, akiing, water Psychologically - focu18ed rap AND EDUCAnON RJND available only to women 18 aClivi1i8l.nd other outdoor ac;tM- years and older. Actual experi- group., Tuee., Sat, 8 to 10 pm. Ii"for1he GayAMbian Oommlllity. Preoedant-aetting litigation pear counaelling available. 319 nationwide for leabians, gay anca ia not required but gen· For infonnation or complimentlry uine intarest and an open mind E. 9 Street, New York, NY 10003, N8WI!etter caU1212) !i8H726. men and people with AIDS. for info call (212)228-5153. Membership ($35 and up) inc. are. For information plea .. newsletter snd invitations to write: P.O. Box 993, Murray Hill THI; Ill/THEA!;H NORTH AMERICAN ItW4/IJOY apeclal evantl. Volunteer night Stalion, New York, NY 10156 USING LOVE ASSIlClAnON (NAMlll.A) COMMUrw. em ThurldlV', Intake calls; 2- Dadic.ted to "xu,1 fr,edom HEAUNG 4pm Mon Ihru Fri (212)995-8565 MEN OF ALL COLORS (TOUCH) TOGETHER NY and upeclally interoted In gay intMrgpnerlllon.1 r,I,- Comm~nity wlUn1!ll1l prwiding I LAVA (LESBIANS AIIOUT lit, multl·raoi,1 group of gay men Iion.hlpa. Monthly B~Ir.lln wllkly buffet tupper lor the VISUAl. AliT) Igsinst raciam. Meatlng, every Brooklyn AIDS ggmmunily, TOUCH and resul,r ohoptQr mutlns. Call for alldea for la,bian Arlilta' Friday night 01 7:45 al the LIf· milta' Monday IYII, 5pm to biln and Gay Community Sir- on the fir,t S.lurday of uch Exhibillon, (hy t\ LQlbi.n Com- month, Yllrly mlmbmhlp I, 0:30pm- It downtown Brooklyn munity Clnter, NYC, For more vloll Cvntlr,~OfI W. 1~1h Strut. '20; write NAMDLA. PO Box Frl.nd, MutinQ Hou" 1110 Informl1lon, Hnd SA3E 10 : Miri· For mort Inlo, 0111: (2121245· Sohlrm,rhorn St. nPar DOlrum 03&0 or (2121 222·em, 174, Midtown Sutlon, New .m Foug.r., 118 Fort Gretn. York, NY 100lO Qr 0,11 (212) Plm~ Umlttd trlllIport!llion JIlIIY '1m; Brooklyn, NY 11217, 807·8571 for Inlorm.!lon, be arrlnUld, Info: 17181 _mo, METROPOLITAN TENNII TOUCH WtiOQlTlH oonllibuUon. of THE LUBIAN AND GAY BIG GROUPIMl'GI fundi, fvgd gnQ wlunllM!rw. Our aoo m.mbtr I"bl.n and glY NORTHEIIN LlGHTI APPLE COR" ALTERNATIVES Olt your Inltrumant Oul of th, tlnnl. olub InoludH pl.Y''' from Improving Qu.llt~ 01 Lilt lor ULlTEII COUNTY 010.. 1 Ind aom. pllY with u., boulnnlng to tournlment IIVII, Peopl, with AIDSIHIV, GAYAND LIllIAN S>/mphonio, Merqhlng, JIZZ, Dlx- Monthly t.nnl. plrtlll, Winter THE AIDS MASTERY WORK· AWANCE I.h~~/ Rook, Flute Enllmblll Indoor l.. guI, Come pl.y wllh uII For Inform.tfon: MfG, Suit • SHOP: Exploring thl po"lblll· Min ftm Ind tint Mondtyof ugh • nd woodwind., 123 W .. t 44th tI.. of • powerful tnd artttfvI month It 7:30 p,m. II u" Unillriln St, Suite 12L Nlw York, NY K03, 488-A HudlOn St., N.w York, NY 10025. (718) 852-8502, lif. In tho f.oo of AIDS, C.II Churoh on Sawijl Raid In KlngltOn, 10038 (2121 e&902822. (212) 255-8554 For klfonnaUon, cal (9141828-:1203. August 8, 1990 OU~WEEK 73 CHELSEA D.T.'sFat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041 WESTSIDE ,Duchess II, 70 GroveSt17thAve.),242-1408lWomen) Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave.114th St.), 675-0385 Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155 Dugout, 185 Christopher St., 242-9113 lformerly The Break. 232 8th Ave.122nd St.), 627-0072. Cat's, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559 , I , the Ramrod) Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. Ibet. 16th & 17th). Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788 92~7183 Eighty Eights, 228 W lOSt., 924-0088 Gents, 360 W 42 St.I9th Ave), 967-0659 Eagle's Nest, 142 11th Ave 121st St.), 691-8451 J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292 Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152 Private Eyes, 12. W. 21 st St. Ibet. 5th & 6th), Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 92~9672 Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503 206-7770 Keller's, 384 West St.lat Christopher), 243-1907 Trix, 246 W. 48 St.lbet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 664-8331 Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., 121st St.), unlisted. KelJy'sVillage West, 46 BedfordSt.,m9322 The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81 st), Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688 The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. 19th Ave), 799-7365 4594299- Temporarily Closed WEST VILLAGE Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St.l7th Ave), 243-9323 EASTSIDE The Annex Ito Cellblock 28),673 Hudson Stlbet The Monster, 80 Grove St.l7th Ave.). 924-3558 13th & r4thl. 627-114[}- Temporarily Closed Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534 New Jimmy's, 53 Christopher, 463-0950 Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236 Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944 Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243-9204 Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684 G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752 Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830. Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144-Hopes to Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714 reopen by August 1 Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340. NY Confidential, 306 E49 St, 308-8390 Ty's, 114 Christopher,741-9641. The Cubbyhole; 438 Hudson IMorton St), Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., ~55-9465 243-9079 INow for Men) Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807 Crazy Nanny 5, 21 7th Ave;,ue'South, 366-6312 255-8787 IWomen) .::, South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376 Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710 The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649 S40-0UTT Twenty-Nine Palms, 129 Lexington Ave., 68&:8299 EAST VILLAGE

III The Bar, 68 2nd Ave.lat 4th St.), 674-9714 Z Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959 ...- The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590 >- Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave Oth St.), m-9232 a:I- BROOKLYN (718) After Five Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139 2 Spectrum, 802 64th St.lat 8th Ave), 745-9611 ... Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580 C QUEENS {718) III Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills, a: 236-0300 III Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 261-8484 Z Hideaway, 87-36"ParsonsBlvd., Jamaica, 657-4585 I." ¢ 95 per minute, $2.00 for the first love Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 42~8670 74 OUTTWEEK August 8,1990 Magic Touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts,429-8605 STATEN ISLAND

Sandcastle,86 Mills Ave., 17181447-9365 WESTCHESTER (!!!)"-- __

Playroom, 590 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, ~6900 Stutz. 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains, 761-3100 LONG ISLAND-NASSAU (516)

Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead, 486-9516 Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave., Farmingdale, 694-6906 Grand Central, 210 Merrick Rd, Rockville Centre, 536-4800 Pal.m{s, 24Sl JeMalemf:we., Na1h BelInue, ~gJ)1 SitverUnirg. 175Cl"eny tare, New Iiy'de ParX,l54-0041 Station House Pub, 3547 Merrick Rd, Seaford, 785-9808

LONG ISLAND~UFFOLK (516)

419,419 North Highway jRt. 271, Southampton, 283-5001 Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-2865 Cherry's, Bayview Walk, Cherry Grove, R, 597-6820 Club Swamp Disco/Annex Restaurant, Montauk Hwy, Wainscott, 537-3332 Ice Palace, Cherry Grove Beach Club, FI, 597-6600 Kiss, 161 Fannardie Dr., lake Ronkonkoma, 467-9273 I Club 608,608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-9580 Millennium, 1770 NY Ave, Huntington, 351-1402 Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857 Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smitht(Mlll,864-141 0 NEW JERSEY (201) I Charlie's West, 536 Main St., E. Orange, 678-5002 Feather's, 77 Kinderkamack Rd., River Edge, 342-6410 ~ Friendly's Bar, 6310 Park Ave., West New York, 854-9895 Excalibur, 10th & Jefferson, Hoboken, NJ, 795-1161 Nite Lite, 509 22nd St., Union City, 863-9515 Vibrations, 165 Cedar Lane, Teaneck, 836-5518 Yacht Club, 366 Berkshire Valley Rd., Jefferson, 697-9780

August 8,1990 oUTTWEEK 75 1-·····-· ACCIIITIIG ACCOUNTING CHEAP MANHATTAN APT BUDDY DIKMAN, CPA Share a lBR in Hell'S Kitchen. $285/ . BARBARA U, CPA Mo - you gat your own rm. Elevator, YEAR-ROUND'TAX PLANNING AND APARTMENT CLEANING close to subways, split utilities, PREPARATION By a professional. pleesant non-smoker roomete, no PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING 2 years experience II e pets please, gay mall preferred. 588-3000 - housekeeping supervisor. Ask for my special rate. CENTRAL PARK SOUTH Have your home cleaned by a Lux apt overlooking Central Park. responsible, own bedroom, free utilities, adjacent AlllllCflflTI reliable, mature individual. to Plaza hotel, subway downstairs - KmENS: FREE TO GOOD HOMEII Contact Bill at 691-0369 O.K. for couple. Available 8/1190.Rent Call ASAP for adorable kittens $850. "Call Chris- 212-644-0018 Ilk for Reggie 212-831-4695 A CLEANER CLEANING WITH A MIDWEST FLAIR DONE BY A GUY WITH BRIGHT RED HAIR WEEKLY AND BIWEEKLY LEGIT ONLY ARTBUY/Ifll AII'fRIIG RATES$40.00 AND UP CALL PAUL KEITH HARING 941-0603 Specialist IfRIIGfl LARGEST SELECTION Buy-Sell- Trade-'Locate Wllrhol, Wesselman, AmNt~N ACTORS CASTLE CARE By Villllga C.C. Inc. Uchtenstein, Crash, Hockney, Need an answering service? Kostabi and others Daniel Acosta Call ON BOARD Gay owned, reliable. Office open Monday through Friday ARTSOURCE,Inc. 212.255.6680 FAX 382-3535 212.255.6680 One Month Free With This Ad Cleaners available 7 days. 212-475-2955 APARTMEIT SHARE "·ROOM FOR RENT*" Your own unfurnished bedroom in SOLID CAREER quiet large west village duplex with , , two non-smoking sober gay men. Available Aug. 6 OPPORTUNITY $500/month (212)645-8573 SPECTACULAR W. VILLAGE APT.I in Greenwich Village Brnstn. 2 !lay GO·OD SALARY PLUS men seeks easy going roomate(sj to occupy top floor duplex. Apt is laid LIBERAL COMMISION out like 2 sep. apts. Top floor includes: Bedroom, LR, closets, own STRUCTURE bathroom & small room for office. Share kitchen with DN/, microwave, WID, etc. Access to: IBM PL w/ laser OUTWEEK MAGAZINE SEEKS printer & Macintosh, Xarox. & fax basement storage. Asking $1000 a BRIGHT, DEDICATED INDIVIDUAL month plul 1/3 of utilities. Mu$t lea TO ,JOIN ITS ADVERTISING AND to believe I Call Patrick (212) 366-9079 MARKETING DEPARTMENT. XPERIENCE PREFERRED. ATTIRIEYS EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. ANTHONY SANTONI AliORNEY AT LAW REAL ESTATE; REPLY IN. CONFIDENCE TO COOP/CONDOCLOSINGS BANK- MAn-HEW DAVIS, OUTWEEK RUPTCY; INCORPORATIONS;WILLS 37 E.28THSTREETSUITE 700 NYC MAGAZINE, 1"8 WEST 28TH (212)-447-0636 ,TREET,7TH FLOOR. NEW YORK, . NEW YORK 10001 (212) 337 ..1200

76 OU~EEK August 8,1990

CDIDIS/CDDPS ICDITRACTDRS fllAICIAl CO-OPS/CONDOS • ij' I' j , Helping FINANCIAl. COUNIElJNQ{ Our Community itAT t~.L~.~M CRISIS IIANA8EIEIf1" Buy and Sell Real Estate Concerned about your cull flow, life Since 1980 end health Il18urence, credit menege- ment, employee beneflta, Income tax, Andrew Weiser (212) 721-4480 ACEConlr.ctor • Crew e.tate and peraoncare planning, pre- The Corcoran Group Alljeh _II., Ie". death 11fe.11I8UI'IIIlCe aettlementa? We're CI~.bf·l~"'I."'~k. experienced In HIV cIIae_ oounMHng. Lafht ...... Ap._ .... CaR for free ooneutt.IIon & r- ..umate. CDITRACTDRS (Z1IIm.JW MidtownNYC. (212) 697·2580 ARTHUR LOVEJOY FIIIIDI"~'''''''CIaIIr" lew YtrII LICENSED ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Repai~ and New Installations. Commercial and Residential. Cou~eous, Professional Service. IIElECTROlYSIS ' Available Eves. and Weekends. flTIISS (718) 782-4735 AFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSIS PERSONAL TRAINER Permanent Hair Removal . Strength, Endurance, Aexibility, New Airflow Technique with LB. And/Or Sport Specific ~ Probe Training '. COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION JULIE (212) 734-7511 , PROFESSIONALLYOPERATED ~ I' GREENWICH VILLAGE Construction Com QUIET, PRIVATE OFFICE What if you could eat omp!et. Renovation se!:;'Y Kenneth Hay 226 West 4th Street whatever you want, '~""IyLIc",,"IIIId""ured New York, NY 10014 Lower Level, By ie~f whenever you want ~ and still keep your _Hable EATING FreeElfil!lalel-.terences Appointment Only. natural shape? (212)988-1395 (212)799.9779 (212) 727-1850 AWARENESS Call Ross Jacobs " __ ,, Certified Electrologist TRAINING (212)9~' Member I.G.P.E. u ~ .r" ,_WEST COAST I fOR SAll ANTIOUE PIPE ORGAN \11 C. 1875-8Rank tracker, one manual EXECUTIVE and pedal. Restored to mint condi- tion. Ideal for loft apt or island house. The ultimate in refinement and elegance. 29,300- Call Paul or NEEDED' Keith 518-272-6741 rJJ IMMEDIATELV! fRII SIRVICIS PlACE YOUR FREEPERSONALAD to reach 1000's of men every week on 540-0UTI. To place your free personal ad call 212-32HI022or 516- SOLID COMMISION 597-9027. STRUCTURE GRDHPS EXPERIENCE AND BROOKLYN HEIGHTS LESBIANS? We know there are more of us. Let's REFERENCES REQUIRED. gather for socializing & support. Send a note with ideas, needs, convenient times to meet, and a contact number...Let's get this CALL GRANT.LUKENBILL togetherl '(212) 337·1200 Write c/o Outweek Box 2815

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Good kisser a times, I'm GBM, 18, ready to be loved, I mentalpleasure, EXT 1018 with all of Ihe above looking for H, EXT 1036 enjoy the movies,dinner at home. ADS ARE aggressive,ffectionate and anractive top EXT 1048 LET'S PLAY DOCTOR, call for appt. wo can handle Ihis package, rUHmHtu BUTCH BGM, 23, 160, 6'1· botlom Open your legs while the MD examines EXT 1055 needs big and tall tops for hot action and SEEKSFRIEND/LOVERWM,25 yrs, 6'2· your private parts, EXT 1051 FREE good times, Age, race unimportant. 183 Ibs, gdlkg, very romanli<:, honest. I SEEKS ACTOR/SINGER GWM, Prof" EXT 1045 want relationship & gd times, friendship. FF TOP 48 wants a man willing 10 spread FOR HELP COMPOSING YOUR 40's Seeks young, aggressive attrac-tive Call EXT 1049 can be fisted and raped with dildoes, AD CAll actor/singer 21 to 30, for dinners, theatre, CUTE AND SHY GWM, 26, 1651bs, 6' EXT 1032 CUSTOMER SERVICE fun, safe sex, etc, Call EXT 1022 brlbr dance( from midwest sks cute in- CHROME SCULPTURE desperately shape man 25-40 for romantic friendship seeking Mark E, from W, Village days, GERMAN AMERICAN redlbl HIV·, WM, 1-800-747-7440 GWM 23. 5'10", BLlBL, 155 Ibs, seeks and iIlottimes!! EXT 1046 Come get it soon! Pal & Ralph protestant, 32, Manhatman 5'8" w/car cleancut GWM 21-27 relationship EXT 1047 seeks soulmates with day job for fun + IF YOU ARE GWM 21-30 and want to oriented, Enjoy biking and racquetball. GBM, HUNG & HANDSOME, 37, 5'7·, summer travel. This is not a sex ad. meel a safe and very generous GWM 35, EXT 1064 155 Ibs, stache, hairy, heallhy, centered, MARRIAGEABLE CHUBBY GWM prof., EXT 1039 5'8·, 150 Ibs, call EXT 1002 cultured, committed, versatile top. 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EXT 1038 Ibs, varied interests- seeks similiar who ;s seeking young GM"s for serious times 34, brlbl seeks young clean passionale evenings and laughle" EXT 1010 nol ·inIO· anything, Just a joy of life, 18-24 slra~ht acting young A+, bottom prefer slightly over-weighl guy but LETS STRIP STUD. HOI Italian 2, sks EXT 1006 EXT 1062 not necessary, EXT 1035 THREE WAY??? Two cleancut guys 20's olher muscular & wikl boysockstraps, ass and 30's seek cute bonom for sate lun. worShip, EXT 1031 GWM I"M TALL, thin slightly musc, I'm GM, 45, REFUSES 10 give up believing VAN GOGH LOOKALIKE. GWM 34, Westchester-NYC'& Conn we~ome, looking for a man, leens-23, goodloo~ng, that there is another like-minded gay man hung, lop, bald, shaved balls, seeks EXT 1011 MARRIED BIWM 31.155 sks wkdy AM inexperienced, Replys from South NJ who is willing 10stand by me, EXT 1043 smooth/shaved bottom any race for tryst w/endowed tops al your place, Un· please, EXT 1033 greek lusVklve safe times, EXT 1003 HOT WILD & HORNY-5'l1', 1551bs very cut &lor hairy a realturn-on, EXT 1012 anractive Italian banom-I'm easy to like, • ALL INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL. AVAILABLE THROUGH TOUCH passionate with a flair, and I have a good HISPANIC LOVER SOUGHT by safe sex attitude. It you're an aliraClive GWM, 5'9·, 140 Ibs, 30, TONE PHONE ONLY • TELEPHONE RATE IS 99~ PER MINUTE ($1.99 THE FIRST) experienced top & know the difference athletic, You: in-shape to 32yrs. want fun • YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED BY MAIL, WHEN YOUR AD WILL APPEAR between fun and serious, call me, cause I klng- term relationship, EXT 1013 AND HOW TO RETRIEVE YOUR RESPONSES just wanna have fun, EXT 1023

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