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On Wednesday, 39-year old Tom Nolan was sworn in as President of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors. Nolan, who revealed that he was gay two months after be­ ing elected to the Board in 1984, is now the Slate's top openly gay official. (Interview page 7)

Is It Enough? Federal AIDS Dollars Up 28% by David M. Lowe President Reagan’s 1988 budget includes 534 million dollars for AIDS research and education. That represents a 28% increase over the 416 million allotted this year. However, local AIDS service providers, AIDS activists and many in Congress believe the funding increase by the administration is not enough. "Such an increase is really not nearly gresswoman Barbara Boxer. "Accor- enough to deal with the scope o f the ding to the recent National Academy of crisis experts say we are fast ap- Sciences report on AIDS the cases we proaching." said the 5th District Con· Continued on page 10 Conservative Fundraiser Dies of AIDS by Corrine Lightweaver John Terrence “ Terry” Dolan, the 36-year-old founder of the National Conservative Political Action Committee died December 28 at his Washington home and was buried December 30 beside his grandmother in Williamstown. Mass. Ill for several years, Dolan withdrew from leadership of NCPAC six months ago. Although most newspapers said Dolan died of congestive heart failure or an unspecified illness, the Washington Post reported that ' Dolan died of AIDS. Continued on page 6 F[ Evaluating Man-Eating Don Does the Maestro 1 9 Comedy 2 1 It Again 2 4

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It rained on his parade . . . Last Saturday gay activist, empress, entertainer and legend Jose Sarria aka the Widow Norton was to be honored with a royal sendofT. Rain forced the cancellation o f a parade and festivities at City H all. For the finale Jose was to depart in a giant hot air balloon into retirement to write his memoirs. In reali­ ty, he would have confronted his fear o f heights, endured a brief flight to Sausalito, then departed for Phoenix, driving a rented truck with his remain­ ing belongings. Thus it has been fo r Jose fo r nearly four decades: Moments of glory with sequins and spotlights followed by the ongoing struggle to survive as an activist. 1 asked Jose recently if he planned to work part-time during his retirement. He replied, “ M y dear, it’s not easy to prepare a resume when you have spent the last forty years earning a living dressed as a woman singing and dancing on top o f tables in bars." When questioned by a reporter about the purpose o f the C ourt he established, Jose responded, “ We raised a lot o f money fo r good causcs in the community by encouraging ordinary· people to transform themselves into unique characters, to become someone exciting and special." Happy writing, Jose. M ONA L E O Les Cages aux Canvas . . . Last week Chronicle columnist Colin M cEnroc lamented the claim that the real face behind Mona Lisa’s smile was artist U'onardo Da Vinci. This im por­ tant art discovery fails to shock gay people. Ii simply reminds us that men dressed as women a long time ago. The points you make are certainly Boys will be girls . . . strong ones, and the compromise you suggest has for a long while been one U C L A psychiatrist Richard Green reports in a new book on the “ Sissy Boy LETTERS we have recognized here. We do men­ Syndrome" and the development o f homosexuality. He traces the growth o f tion in whatever way is appropriate 44 boys who prefer traditionally feminine activities at an early age, concluding the existence of a long-time compa­ that this may reflect an innate tendency toward homosexuality. The study Another View of Chronicle Obit nion in obituaries or other news sinks on its sick biases and neglects to confront the butch, gym-toned image Nicaragua Policy stories. This is equally true of which characterizes many gay men in the last decade. It ignores gay women homosexual or heterosexual relation­ completely. Apparently, M r. Green missed Gay Games II, never heard o f To the Editor: To the Editor: ships. The problem in cither case is Rock Hudson or James Dean, and ignores the fact that many o f us had great Like Tedc Matthews, I recently Re: the Chronicle's obiturary frequently how to establish the spent some time in Nicaragua (a relationships with our fathers. I grew up driving my father’s trucks. What policy and Executive Editor William strength of such a relationship. Such a two week program through Casa happened? German who isn't "bitter or judgment is not always within our Niearaguense do Espanol which in­ unhappy . . . " means to make. Death in a capital clo se t. . . cluded Spanish language instruction, Why the hell should he be? It is unfortunate that the word Terry Dolan liked the Russian River. He had friends in the Bay Area and field trips, and living with a Editorial policies are only changed "p o licy" even entered this discussion. made no effort to hide the fact that he had A ID S from them. Yet Λlewsweek Nicaraguan family). And while I when a newspaper's bank account is We do not like to think in rigid terms reports that Dolan denied being gay. He raised millions o f dollars for conser­ return a "Sandinista," committed adversely affected, and how can that about anything in our news columns. to thai government’s vision o f a new vative causes through his organization, the National Conservative Political happen when the Chronicle and the This attitude will certainly apply to Nicaragua, I feel that Tede's article Action Committee. His death last week spotlights one more mixed up closet Examiner share their profits? the issues you raise. paints an overly idealic vision o f life Sincerely, case who benefitted from the gay rights movement personally while financially This cozy, legal arrangement for gays in Nicaragua. which amounts to a powerful supporting politicians who want to destroy us. Perhaps the fact that his William German Despite the resolution, Nicaragua monopoly allows the Chronicle to Executive Editor brother, Anthony, is Reagan’s chief speech writer prodded our prostrated is in many aspects a socially conser­ leak an interesting homophobia. president to increase funds for A ID S research in 1987. vative country. It’s traditions arc Why, for instance, in their obiturary Tongues in cheeks? Latin and Catholic. There is em­ of Elsa Lanchester (12/27) did the T-Room Trap phasis on a narrow definition of T h i rest room near the St. Francis Yacht Club has been busy o f late. Police Chronicle — but not the Examiner To the editor: family and manliness. officers have arrested 56 men fo r lewd conduct, including two retired army o f­ — see fit to mention in one full The plain clothes cops have en­ While 1 was impressed with the paragraph that her long dead hus- · trapped over 60 men in the toilet by fices, News reports stir up negative feelings about gay people continuing to fervor and advances of feminists in band, Charles Laughton, had the St. Francis Yacht Club. engage in public sex during the AID S epidemic, yet very possibly most o f the Nicaragua, and I believe that many "homosexual tendencies?” He sits on the john with a come- men arrested will deny being gay. Many are married, have no allegiance to gay women exert influence within That's old news, and so is the fact on look and if you show any in­ our community, and simply sneak out for a quick trick when the wife’s not the context of the feminist move­ that in the 1950s the Chronicle terest, he and his waiting partner watching. We accept no responsibility for these people, and shed no tears over ment, there is certainly room for a thought it newsworthy to print the handcuff you and book you at the their behavior. There arc safe, legal alternatives to toilet tricking. ■ national gay rights organization. full names and addresses o f gay men station. There they give you a misde­ And like here, many of the gay were were arrested simply because meanor citation and set a court ap­ men I spoke with felt marginalized. they were drinking in identified gay pearance. Two weeks is not enough time to bars. Watch out for these toilet cops. develop intimate friendships, so the Mr. German says. " It's good to Jay Lemer gay people I mei were often the hear from people." May I suggest most obvious, and not necessarily we ignore Mr. German? the most representative. Many felt Richard T. Thieriot. who publish­ Welcoming JP 11 outside the mainstream of ta n u rra i es the Chronicle, may not be as in­ To the Editor: Nicaraguan life. To claim that there sensitive to the fact that, as your ar­ Yes! Yes! Yes! Pope "W hat’s Her was a consensus in support of the ticle noted, gay men "have brought Face." please do come to San Fran­ PUBLISHERp iir i k m p r cniTnn.EDITOR-IN-CHIEFin .twice i government among gays, or any Robert Michael Golovich down the cost of A ID S " in a city cisco!! Think o f the news coverage Tom Murray other group, would be to ignore the where the Chronicle makes a great we'll get and the fun we’ll have with effects o f our blockage and military deal of money from people whose our peaceful demonstrations (100.000) aggression. Nicaragua is hurting, ADVERTISING MANAGER CONTRIBUTING EDITORS relationships the Chronicle secs fit to or more JP II look-a-likes flooding Jim Stout ’ Ken Cady. Robert Cole. and the repercussions arc disen­ ignore. the streets. Please don’t dis-invite her. John S. James, Arthur Lazere chantment. NEWS EDITOR John I). Dolan What kind of statement can we make And yes. there is discrimination David M. Lowe NEWS STAFF to her that way? I want my chance to in Nicaragua against gay men ad­ Becky Freed.Corinne Lightweaver. tell her face-to-face what I think and I ARTS EDITOR Bob Marshall. Stuart Norman. mitted homosexuals are excluded To the Editor: don’t want to go to Rome to do it! Eric Heilman Dion Sanders. Yvonne Zylan from military service. 1 had a Enclosed is a copy o f a letter / Let us give thanks to JP II for the heated discussion with several received from William German, H0LISTICS EDITOR ARTS WRITERS strength we received in the face of "revolutionaries" who tried to executive editor o f the San Francisco Van Ault Steve Abbott. Don Baird. John Birdsall. homophobia. .Adam Block. Dave Ford. Glen Helfand. justify this to me. Chronicle in response to a letter of Yes. let us also thank Anita ART DIRECTOR Patrick Hoctel. Bill Huck. Robert Julian. Ultimately, I think there is a mine protesting that newspaper's Bryant. Jerry Falwcli. Lyndon Phillip DiLernia Lisa Kernan. Randy Lyman. Mark Mardon. place for gays within the context of obituary policy. My letter was ad­ John J. Powers, Steve Silberman, l.aRouchc. Without them it would the Nicaraguan revolution. . . intel­ dressed to publisher and editor. DESIGNER James Tushinski have taken so much longer to awaken lectually I believe the Sandinista Richard Thieriot. / thought it might Rupert Kinnard the world to the fact that we arc all PHOTOGRAPHERS leadership is enlightened. It’s up to be o f interest to publish it in the PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Thomas Alleman. Rikki Ercoli, gay people to press for a gay rights Sentinel God’s children. Bob Reed Marc Geller. Anne Hamersky agenda. I believe that when the Sincerely. My message to JP II: Great work! blockade is lifted, when contra fun­ Tom Youngblood You may have saved us 100 years ding is withheld, and Nicaraguans more or less in our growth. l*m sure Dear Mr. Youngblood: The San Francisco Sentinel is published weekly by GayFirst. inc. First class postage paid by can concentrate on building their it has done us more good than you I have your good letter to Richard Post Oft ice. San Francisco, California. The entire contents of the Sentinel are copyright 1987 new society, we will see some will ever know. I'm looking forward Thieriot, who is on a trip abroad. I by GayFirst. Inc.. and rruy not be reproduced in any manner, either in whole or in part, without positive things happen in the area of to your visit—don't worry. I’ll love written permission from the Editor. All rights reserved. shall respond as fully as I tan. but I gay rights. you until you learn to love yourself. shall also make certain he sees your Timothy Stirton Jesse taminger 500 HAYES STREET. SAN FRANCISCO. CA 94102 letter when he returns.

2 SanFrancisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 AT THE COURTHOUSE Police Arrest 56 KEN CADY At Marina Green by David M. Lowe Last month 56 men were arrested for lewd behavior or Cleaning the soliciting in the public restroom at the Marina Green located at Yacht Road and Marina Boulevard near the St. Francis Yacht Club. SF Police contend their surveillance of the restroom Toilets was prompted by numerous and continuous complaints filed by citizens with the Harbor Master and by citizens In the past six years I have seen numerous community intelligent enough to know of the risks who stopped police cars to complain of lewd activities in alerts distributed which informed gay men that the police taken. That knowledge is often an insuf­ ficient deterrent. A Catholic priest 1 the area. were making arrests at particular public restrooms. I have went to school with couldn't resist toilet Based on those citizens’ complaints. many other ways to meet people in San also heard many stories of embarrassed arrestees pleading tricking even after twice being arrested. Northern Station officers Bob Brodnik Francisco and go behind closed When his third arrest made headlines for a second chance after being caught engaging in sexual and Mike McDonough were ordered to doors," said Brodnik. “ Many of them MS-career was shattered. patrol the restroom in plain clothes. told me it was easier this way and they activity in these very restrooms. Another Indiana acquaintance, a Between December 8-27 the officers could have sex without having to create very attractive young man, could have spent 33'Λ hours surveying the a relationship.” The political arguments against these decisions was unconstitutionally vague. his pick of sexual partners and in fact restroom during brief morning and arrests have also been made clear to me. Consequently, he declared a new con­ had a lover. His thrill, however, was afternoon raids. During that time two No one wants to see gay men arrested struction. Forbidden would be the solic­ anonymous contact in department store men were arrested for allegedly engag­ “Many of them told because of a homphobic police officer. itation or commission o f conduct in­ bathrooms with men he couldn’t even ing in oral copulation, two others me it was easier this Police revealed this week that 56 men volving the touching of the genitals, see. He told me that he liked the danger allegedly solicited Officer McDonough were arrested at the Marina Green rest­ buttocks, or female breasts, for the pur­ that he might get caught. for sex and the rest were arrested for m y and they could room for a violation o f Penal Code Sec­ pose of sexual arousal, gratification, For many in the “ tearoom trade" allegedly engaging in public masturba­ tion 647(d) — loitering about a public annoyance or offense, by a person who danger is the lure. Yet when it is real­ tion. have sex without toilet for the purpose of engaging in a knows, or should know, of the presence ized, many o f these people suffer severe “ Many o f the people we arrested lewd act or for soliciting such an act. All of persons who may be offended by the emotional distress. Studies have shown were very affluent,’’ Brodnik told the having to create a of these arrests came in December. conduct. Private behavior is not that many “ straight" married men pur­ Sentinel. “ A lot o f them were married relationship. ” Alter all of the warnings about the covered nor is prostitution at issue here. sue restroom sex. This behavior has and have children. A ll of them were danger of anest in public restrooms The activity forbidden is that conducted been going on for centuries. The risk of very cooperative and cordial and many — Brodnik many men still frequent these cruisy in a public place, or open to the public, arrest is not new, nor is it a secret. o f them volunteered information that cubicles. or exposed to the public. Clearly activi­ Even if charges are dropped, the ar­ helped us during the arrests.” A ll 56 men have been ordered to ap­ As a practical matter, these men are ty in a remote area where no one is rest remains a fact. High fees may be in­ Brodnik said he found the duty at the pear at Room 475 o f the Hall o f Justice not likely to face prosecution. The law around is not covered. curred for defense attorneys. Explana­ restroom disheartening and made a between January 22-February 7 to requires the presence of someone who tions may be necessary for family and concerted effort to understand why the answer the charges. At that time they may be offended by the conduct in friends. men were attracted to public restroom will be notified whether their individual order for the D.A. to successfully pros­ For many in the The rest of us find that many public sex. "A s an officer 1 had the respon­ charges have been dropped or whether ecute. In Pryor v. Municipal Court, restrooms have been closed. Doors sibility to respond to the public outcry their case has been chosen for prosecu­ Justice Matthew Tobriner stated: “tearoom trade" have been removed in others, discour­ and issue warrants, but as a human be­ tion. If a case is chosen for prosecution . . the state has little interest in pro­ aging sex but leaving no privacy for ing I wish I could have just referred the individual w ill be booked, hibiting that conduct if there are no per­ danger is the lure. legitimate restroom needs. The gay them to a priest or a counselor for help. photographed, fingerprinted and given sons present who may be offended.” community gets a reputation for a lack “ I told many of them I couldn’t a court dale. That opinion seems to ignore those of sexual discipline, an inability to keep understand why they would participate Brodnik said surveillance o f the who avoid public restrooms because Defense lawyers argue that activity in private activity in private. in public restroom sex when there are so Marina Green restroom will continue* they know they would be offended if restrooms is not covered if the only peo­ At a lime when we seek the support they did enter and encountered mastur­ ple present are the sexual participants. and assistance o f the straight commun­ bation and sodomy. When Don Pryor The gap seems to me to be the fact that ity in fighting a killer disease, a sexually Duke’s Failure was arrested in 1976, he had allegedly restrooms are used by the community in transmitted disease, it seems inapprop­ solicited an act of oral copulation from general. At any time someone may wish riate to condone toilet tricking. The by David M. Lowe an undercover police officer. The pro- to enter. No one, straight or gay, community should send a message that / posed act itself was to occur in private. should be reluctant to use a public rest­ sexual activity in public restrooms is not On Wednesday, during his State-of-the-State Address, I After a jury was unable to decide his room for fear o f confronting mastur­ recessary. Many private options exist. Governor George Deukmejian failed to mention AIDS or case, Pryor appealed to the California bation or other sexual activity. Those who continue this activity propose any programs to deal with the AIDS epidemic. Supreme Court, alleging that Section Those who do get arrested may be hinder the efforts of the gay community 647 was unconstitutional. relieved when they find that prosecution in other areas. They arc responsible for “ It’s obviously no surprise that the Britt further commented: “ The Tobriner, writing for the majority, will not be pursued. At the Marina the risks they take for themselves. I'm Governor is incredibly insensitive and Governor threatens to leave a legacy of ruled that the phrase "lewd or dissolute Green many men of public stature were afraid o f the risks they take for the ma­ short sighted." said SF Supervisor not dealing with the greatest health conduct" as construed by past court among those arrested. Surely they were jority. ■ Harry Britt. “ The guy is out to lunch on this issue." Continued on page 8 Should you take the AIDS Antibody Test? The AIDS Antibody Test is VOLUNTARY, FREE To find out more about shows if you have been and ANONYMOUS. the test, call the S.F. AIDS Foundation infected with the virus You do not reveal your HOTLINE: that can cause AIDS. name or any other If you test positive, you information about 863-AIDS can infect others. yourself. Counseling In Northern California: and referrals are (8 0 0 ) FOR AIDS. The test DOES NOT also available. (TOD: 864-6606) show if you have the disease itself. 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San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 3 GAY ISSUES OF 1987 by Stuart Norman What will be the major issues for the gay community in and district elections will be important. ment. Art is strong on housing issues, “I'd like to see Art The gay community came to power so the Harvey M ilk Club is positive on 1987? The Sentinel asked several prominent gay leaders in Agnos as next under district elections, so we will have Agnos. Art has been good at advancing gay San Francisco for their opinions. Their responses were more clout if we go back to district elec­ issues, rather than Molinari.” very similar, with some notable exceptions. All agreed mayor o f tions.” On domestic partnerships: “ We “ We fought back LaRouche and should hold over to 1988, after Feins­ that the continuing AIDS crisis will take up our political San Francisco. " other damaging legislation— insurance tein has left office.” and emotional resources in the year ahead. Next in line Larry Bush companies redlining policies o f gays. “ I’d like to see district elections done was the upcoming SF mayor’s race to determine who will But LaRouche could be potent in other this year. Both mayoral candidates will states.” support it. The gay/lesbian community succeed Dianne Feinstein. And finally, it seems that “ Now the country has awakened to could get two supervisors elected with titude toward AIDS and provides suffi­ AIDS issues. But will there be efforts to district elections.” district elections will be back before the electorate, now cient funding. W ill the governor end his restrict civil liberties?” “ AIDS will get worse before it gets that Nancy Walker is president of the Board of Super­ isolation on the AIDS issue? What "The Iran-Contragate affair will better. New drugs have exciting pro­ Deukmejian docs on AIDS will make or visors. weaken the New Right.” spects,but you need to learn to do break his second term. Otherwise, I “ The major challenge is to form something about your own health. The Here are their comments: predict an initiative on AIDS funding alliances with minority communities pace is accelerated this year, so we need Dennis Collins, Aide lo Supervisor future o f the gay community. It’s im­ will go to the voters.” whose members have AIDS. Now it’s to promote more funding and offer John Molinari portant that we have a high profile in “ I predict AB-1 (anti-discrimination time to seize the opportunity.” treatment to those who are as yet “ AIDS is certainly the top priority, the district elections and mayoral cam­ bill) will be passed." asymptomatic.” “ If Quentin Kopp pursues having the and it is incumbent on the city to find paign.” “ Insurance companies will be com­ “ In public education we need more Olympics in San Francisco, he will be “We'vegot to vote, housing and care for PWAs, a problem ing down hard |against insuring possi­ accurate, fair information (on gay and called to task by the gay community” that is going to get worse. We’ve got to ble AIDS risks). It will be difficult to AIDS issues). W ill the Board o f Educa­ —referring to the Olympic Committee organize, get go into the straight community to fight them all. The potential situation tion implement these policies? This suit against the Gay Games. outreach to a different segment of the involved and could be disastrous.” AIDS education plan should have hap­ “ I’d like to see Art Agnos as next population." “ We need to recreate the kind of self­ pened years ago.” mayor o f San Francisco. He is an in­ " I t ’s also a political year. We need to sensitize existing empowerment that Mayor Moscone “ There are increasing needs for ser­ formed advocate of the gay keep up the input o f the gay community and Harvey M ilk started. It set the pace vices for PWAs/PWARCs, and we community’s needs. San Francisco is a political structures into city government. We've done a for the nation on gay rights.” good job of making San Francisco of­ need more federal and state money. San city that still needs to dream its —do what we can." ficials aware.” Francisco is hard-pressed to fund these dreams.” needs.” “ There is no end to AIDS. 1987 will Carole Migden “We need to Paul Wotman, Attorney, former can­ be a year we lose people we love. So we recreate the kind of “ W e'vegot to watch didate for Community College Board must put the trivial parts of politics Carol Migden, Director, Operation for repressive “ AIDS—we need to push for ade­ behind us; leaders should dispense with Concern,· exiting CA State Chair LIG self-empowerment quate research and education funding. personal agendas and make the gay Democratic Caucus legislation. ” People are dying . . . ” community more important than “ Everything is dwarfed by the AIDS that Mayor Moscone “ Domestic partner benefits is an im­ themselves.” crisis. Now a second tier o f needs — Leonard Graff portant issue for the gay community to ‘‘1 think the tide is turning against the emerge: prevention is critical, and Harvey Milk push.” right wing. 1 predict Attorney General joblessness caused by AIDS/ARC, started. It set the Leonard Graff, Legal Director, “ The new California Supreme Court Edwin Meese will be out in six psychic trauma from coping (with the National Gay Rights Advocates will produce a less favorable environ­ months.” Meese’s interpretation o f law disease|. San Francisco has done a first- pace for the nation “ This year is not that different |from ment |for gay issues).” allows discrimination toward PWAs. rate job o f support, but there is last year]. There is an increasing need to "The U.S. Supreme Court sodomy diminishing gay clout. Yet what else on gay rights." defend encroachments on civil liberties decision mandates that gays get involv­ “ The top priority is matters but saving our lives?" Rick Pacurar by right wing and religious types. It’s ed in the political process to elect a new “ Politically, it’s an o ff year with the making sure we keep a high level of president and politicians who advocate getting funding for exception o f the mayoral race. Chuck Forester, Aide to Mayor Feins­ awareness about what happens else­ gay rights.” Domestic partners legislation [will be tein where. We've got to watch for “ In the mayor's race it’s important AIDS. ” important], and I have mixed feelings “ Before Congress there is a national repressive legislation.” the candidate support gay/lesbian rights about district elections. Perhaps that Human Civil Rights Bill. This is the first Steven Rascher, Executive Director, and appoint gay and lesbian people to Chuck Morrow should wait until 1988." year there will be hearings |on it). Golden Gate Business Association positions o f responsibility." “ This year there’s a residual of past Senator Kerry o f Massachusetts has “ A re-zoning proposal o f the Plan­ Another important issue is “ revision Chuck Morrow, President, Tavern years' agendas. We’ve got to vote, tried to get hearings for the past six ning Commission before the Board of of immigration laws on legal aliens. Ted Guild . organize, get involved and sensitize ex­ years.” Supervisors will have a major impact Kennedy and Barney Frank of “ The top priority is getting funding isting political structures—do what we “ We need to expand AIDS funding. South o f Market. It should be adopted Massachusetts, will review in committee for AIDS. We must make it loud and can.” There will be a national gay march on in March, 1987. I think it’s negative a bill to get rid o f the gay/lesbian exclu­ clear to Governor Deukmejian and “ The Iran-Contragate and Demo­ Washington in October to protest anti­ because it will limit nighttime entertain­ sion laws.” President Reagan. I f we involve cratic gains in the Senate will help. And gay discrimination and poor AIDS ment businesses and allow no expan­ ourselves more we’ll be heard clearer.” right-wing fundamentalists are looking funding.” sion o r business improvements." “Domestic partner “ We must be aware of increased more like fanatics.” “ California has a very recalcitrant "Small business and the gay com­ anti-gay violence." Community United Rick Pacurar, President, Harvey MOk governor. That AB-1 will pass is still a munity must look closely at discrimina­ benefits is an Against Violence statistics show anti­ Lesbian/Gay Democratic Cub matter o f conjecture.” tion in the workplace. AIDS will in­ gay violence is on the rise due to AIDS "The mayor’s race is of preeminent "In San Francisco, Supervisor Harry crease discriminatory action. We need important issue for fears. importance. The Harvey Milk Club has Britt is considering domestic partners to monitor this closely.” the gay community Tim Wolfred, Director, The AIDS been batting our head against the wall legislation, but the mayor has so far "A nd it's an election year for the Foundation with Feinstein. So I would like to been resistant.” mayor’s race, so gay small businesses to p u sh ." “ AIDS has not slowed down. As i strongly speak in Art Agnos’ behalf. "W e will see the gay community in­ and the community will have a strong case loads grow they will strain existing j An represents an organized coalition volved in a mayoral election. In this impact on the mayoral race.". — Paul Wotman services. Maybe a financial crunch will I for Proposition M (limit on downtown case, both candidates support gay Greg Day, Director, Larkin Street come in San Francisco as in New York development passed in November, rights.” YoHth Center Lany Bush, Aide to Assemblyman Art and Los Angeles. The mayor says there 1986). Supervisor Molinari was against On the Pope’s visit proposed for "This year will turn to city politics. A p»s will be a budget deficit this year.” it. Ultimately the gay community will be September: “ We must make some ef­ The next mayor and district elections “ The issue in California is whether "The mayoral race is a big one. The I split on the issues of ncighlwrhood fort to impress upon him our disagree­ will have a significant impact on the | Governor Deukmejian changes his at- ' issues of domestic partners legislation I preservation and downtown develop­ ment |with his anti-gay position).”

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4 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 The Lesbian Rights Project is a legal The Lesbian Rights Project is now advocacy group which serves the les­ designing a new brochure about the Women’s Issues bian and gay community. The group legal issues surrounding AIDS, such as provides legal advice and counseling in visitation and custody rights o f parents addition to work in the courts on pro- with AIDS. by Rebecca D. Freed gay legislation.· Achtenberg, who is an editor o f the Achtenberg «identified three major legal journal Sexual Orientation and The pressing issues which lesbians must confront in 1987 Human Rights Commission will be issues the Lesbian Rights Project will be the Law, said that a new chapter on the are the same ones which all oppressed minorities struggle working to reduce job discrimination in working on this year: adoption and legal rights o f homosexual minors was 1987 by pursuing a city affirmative ac­ foster parenting by lesbian and gay recently released. The Lesbian Rights against always — problems caused by living in a male- tion program for women in the trades, families, AIDS and child custody, and Project plans to work towards a coali­ dominated, heterosexist, racist and economically unjust commission staff member Eileen Gillis the legal and psychosocial problems oi tion o f gays in the legal, medical and society. Some of the struggle is specific to lesbians and the said. The HRC gay and lesbian com­ lesbian and gay youth. social service communities to coor­ munity liaison unit will continue to There are two cases going to trial this dinate an agenda for lesbian and gay larger gay community, whose struggle has been made more work for gays’ civil rights, including fair spring which will afTect lesbians and youth, who are typically disenfranchised difficult as a result of the demands made upon it by the housing and employment practices, gays as potential adoptive or foster as a result o f their age and lack o f infor­ devastation of AIDS. continue its outreach to women. The parents, Achtenberg said. One case mation. Right now there exists no for­ unit will be putting out a new flier, part contests the right of a non-biological mal program for them, Achtenberg o f the outreach program designed by a parent to adopt a child, as a second said. The Lesbian Rights Project wants The larger goal for 1987 is to be ing for short-term solutions to im­ commission intern, Gillis said. parent rather than as a married step­ to examine the legal community’s "free, full human beings,” according to mediate problems such as discrimina­ A city domestic partnership or­ parent. Both cases challenge the responsibility to gay and lesbian youth, Jackie Winnow, director o f the tion in the workplace and stress-related dinance, which would extend benefits to homophobia of the court system, she said. Women’s Cancer Resource Center. illnesses. the lovers of city employees, is also on Achtenberg said. There is legal prece­ The Lesbian Rights Project plans to Lesbian women want a future that in­ Homophobia is the major factor con­ the HRC agenda in 1987, Gillis said. dent for lesbian/gay second-parent use its 10-year anniversary celebration cludes acceptance and recognition by tributing to most of the problems facing Maintaining an adequate level of adoption in Oregon and Alaska. in June to attract interest for its services mainstream society. While holding on the lesbian community. Issues such as funding o f social services for women Although it is impossible to predict the to the community, Achentenberg said. to the vision o f a society in which les­ anti-gay violence and alcoholism de­ will continue to be a problem in the outcome o f a trial, Achtenberg said she· “ I think what unites us (as lesbians) bians are visible — where lesbian mand immediate action, but would be coming year. Both Gillis and Lesbian is optimistic about winning the case. is our common interest — our primary history is preserved and valued — much less pervasive in an accepting Rights Project Director Roberta “ I ’m hoping that the child’s best in­ affectional relationships.. . . I think where strong lesbian role models are society. Achtenberg said that non-AIDS social terest will prevail. It’s obvious that the we will see some organizing around that available to women who are just coming The Lesbian Gay Community service organizatons need more money child is bonded to the other (gay) in the future.” Gillis said. ■ out — San Francisco women are look­ Liaison Unit o f the San Francisco and media exposure. parent.”

The protesters state that the Tavern money and support to such Bay. Area Guild and ihc Bay Area Reporter have events as the Gay Games II and the closed out their accounts with Empire. Summer Celebration. We have, Does Big E But this reporter has determined that moreover, budgeted significantly in­ the reasons were not because of this creased amounts to help make similar protest. A Tavem Guild representative events possible in 1987. said they began pulling out their ac­ For the sake o f community well­ count shortly after the takeover because being, we have contributed generously, Serve The Gay some members were stockholders who as well, to the Coming Home Hospice lost money when Atlas failed. And Program and to AIDS research. We B.A.R. publisher, Bob Ross, said, support the San Francisco AIDS Foun- "W e pulled our accounts months uuJv»n through their canister contribu­ before the protest because it’s no longer tion program and food drive in con­ Community? a gay bank.” junction with the GGBA.” Collection Empire VP, Bud Sydenstricker canisters and Food Bank collection homophobia, any loss to the gay com­ released a letter to customers explaining boxes for the AIDS Foundation are still by Stuart Norman munity can be perceived as a threat, Big E’s support for the gay community present in Big E’s lobbies. On Wednesday, CMJ met with Sy­ The protest by Citizens for Medical Justice (CMJ) and that the protesters are seeking an shortly after the protest began. He outlet for their frustrations—wanting to staled that " . . . Big E, a member of denstricker but failed to gain his sup­ continues outside the Castro branch of Empire of be able to strike out at something or the Golden Gate Business Association, port for their efforts to change the cor­ America Savings and Loan. The protest over Empire’s someone. has made sizable contributions o f both porate policy. ■ corporate policy which denies distribution of periodicals, including local gay newspapers, in the lobbies of their branches has drawn mixed reactions from Empire employees and customers. ThitSentinel has received a number days notice and assistance in finding o f calls supporting CMJ’s protest other jobs. Big E will still hire gay against Empire’s corporate policy and employees who are qualified. But some would like to see the local branches of the employees are worried that the receive an exception to the rule. protest will hurt their relationship with However, it appears a number of others corporate headquarters. disagree. Empire Vice President Bud Some gay businessmen whose ac­ Sydenstricker said: “ The protesters are counts are with Empire are very upset using you guys (the gay press]. It about the protest. They feel that Empire distresses me to see a little band o f peo­ has been very open to the gay com­ ple getting this kind o f coverage. It munity. seems like such a waste. This crowd has One gay businessman who wishes to little credibility.” remain anonymous, and who has kept Mark Fulham, assistant VP and his account with Empire since the Castro branch manager says, “ The takeover, is very pleased with Big E’s protesters fail to realize that we have not services. He feels little has changed, ex­ banned all literature, but only cept that the institution has more periodicals. It’s national policy. We’re money to loan than Atlas, and much of willing to distribute AIDS literature, it goes to a gay clientele. but first it must be submitted to cor­ He is upset with the protestors’ posi­ porate Marketing Department |for their tion and lack of knowledge about Big approval). E’s policy. He fears their employees “ It seems that the protesters are could be hurt if this controversy grows upset that they can’t get the gay papers and the San Francisco branches appear here anymore,” commented Fulham. troublesome to corporate headquarters. Empire o f America bought out Atlas They could even close the local branch­ Savings and Loan last July, in order te v es or sell them off to another financial gain a toehold in California. Atlas was institution, especially now that Empire the first gay financial institution in the has other branches in Los Angeles and nation and failed because some large is established in California. loans made outside the community, in This businessman thinks that Empire Santa Rosa and LA, defaulted. Empire bought a small savings and loan in is no longer a gay S&L, but is still serv­ receivership, so our community should ing the gay community well. Apparent­ hold no grudge against them, especially ly, there has been no discrimination. since they haven’t demonstrated In off-the-record conversations with homophobic policies. He believes the Big E employees, this reporter has responsibility for the demise of Atlas found that they are happy with the new lies squarely on the officers who made institution. Since the takeover of Atlas the bad loans. He speculated whether there have been raises, promotions, bet­ there might be some disgruntled Atlas ter working hours and'benefits and job stockholders somehow involved in the stability. Some employees were let go protest. when the accounting departments were He also believes that in this time of consolidated, but they were given 90 AIDS and increased right wing Domestic Partners gay population, threatens to remain an men have had.” But is Mayor Feinstein tantly, since Britt expects a tough battle Will We Have to Wait For A New Mayor? issue this time around, too. Specifically, interested in taking the cue o f the gay with big private industries, he feels it is the Mayor objected to the registration community and “ reassessing" the necessary to have as much data as section of the legislation, the part that value o f traditional relationship pat­ possible showing the potential national by Yvonne Zylan would establish a kind of official list of terns? It doesn’t seem very likely. Britt impact o f the legislation. It is difficult, Supervisor Harry Britt says it’s time to “ start the pro­ relationships for partners who could not compares her willingness to accept this he says, to ask nationwide companies to or would not marry, yet needed the legislation with her willingness to accept set a precedent in their policies “ just to cess” of drafting and passing legislation that would legitimacy of their partnerships estab­ comparable worth, an issue with simil­ satisfy the San Francisco Board of legitimize gay and other non-traditional relationships in lished to allow them to receive arly extensive philosophical impact. Supervisors." And Britt believes that San Francisco, and hopefully end a good deal of institu­ economic benefits accorded only to Therefore, the proponents of passage o f the bill here would almost "m arried" couples. According to domestic partners legislation are faced certainly lead to pressure for similar tionalized homophobic discrimination. Harry Britt, Feinstein felt that the legis­ with the options of waiting for Feinstein legislation in other major cities. Several years ago, Britt introduced a The author o f the first domestic part­ lation “ appeared to be making some to step down in January, to be replaced Despite formidable resistance from bill designed to recognize domestic ners legislation, Matthew Coles, will sort o f moral judgment about the validi­ by someone who would quite likely be some industries, the mayor, and certain partnerships between gay and other again be working closely with Britt, but ty of non-traditional relationships” and more inclined to discuss the issue, or of religious leaders, Supervisor Harry non-married couples, but despite strong there will also be input from the poten­ she was particularly concerned about toning down the bill itself, possibly Britt is cautiously optomistic about the city-wide support for the measure and tially affected industries, such as in­ the implications for the heterosexual eliminating the registration clause en­ chances o f passing domestic partners the requisite Board approval, the legis­ surance providers. Britt says that the population. tirely. Britt would rather wait. “ The legislation in this city. He is not making lation was vetoed by Mayor Dianne AIDS epidemic has brought about a Britt says that if the legislation had difference between Dianne signing any promises, but he feds he has waited Feinstein and effectively killed for the better working relationship between city been limited to only gay couples, “ we something in September or October, until a suitable climate has arrived to re­ time being. Many gay activists believed oficials and the insurance industry, and could have been in a significantly better and having the new mayor deal with it introduce his most highly prioritized then that we would have to wait for a that he believes that “ they understand political position. We can’t do that in January is not enough o f a difference bill. The private sector is searching for new mayor before the legislation would that the cost o f the epidemic has to be because we have an anti-discrimination ,tojustify a major watering-down o f the ways to address AIDS-induced health be reintroduced. But Britt, the primary spread around.” To that end, Britt and law in this city, and I would not be in legislation." In any case, the process of care issues, the mayor is leaving, and. sponsor o f the bill, believes that this Coles will be asking the industry how favor o f doing that anyway.” Accord­ drafting the legislation itself has hardly although Britt admits that it was initial­ time he may be able to work with the domestic partners legislation may be ing to the Supervisor, it is an old case of begun yet, so there is no reason to ly difficult to find “ politically organized Mayor, and, if not, he will wait until workable and beneficial to health care people being “ willing to do something speculate on which mayor might be straight singles" he has found a number next January brings Feinstein’s suc­ concerns. for us as long as it doesn’t affect what faced with it. Britt says he wants the bill o f straight people, especially women, cessor. Ironically, says Britt, it is the Mayor Feinstein, as well, may be they consider ‘real’ relationships." In to be introduced soon, but that he who are resentful enough of the over­ presence o f the AIDS health crisis that more responsive to the legislation in the short, gay “ marriages” are seemingly wants to “ do it right” and will not rush valuation o f officially sanctioned rela­ is opening up the necessary avenues of context o f the health crisis. “ I know less threatening than straight “ partner­ anything. tionships to want to do something dialogue. that Dianne legitimately does respond ships.” A significant obstacle to drafting the about it. He says there is a lot o f "not The new legislation has yet to be humanely to the AIDS epidemic," Britt It is precisely this pan o f the legis­ legislation is the lack o f a database (the very glamorous work to do” in assem­ drafted, and Britt says his first move says, “ and I ’m hopeful that we can per­ lation that Britt is most committed to, results of similar legislation passed in bling a task force, and drafting the par­ will be to simply let his colleagues know suade her that this (legislation) is a part though. “ The reason I ’m so committed another city) from which to draw ticulars o f the legislation, and doing that such a bill is in the works. He will o f that response.” But the major reason to domestic partners legislation is that evidence of the workability and benefits some political maneuvering, but that he make that announcement at next Mon­ Feinstein did not support the bill the it’s not just fighting for our rights, and of such a bill. Berkeley has had a is ready to begin that work at next Mon­ day’s Board meeting. He says he first time, what she sees as its endorse­ it’s not just ending discrimination, it's domestic partners law for over a year, day’s meeting o f the Board of Super­ doesn’t want to rush what he knows will ment o f non-traditional relationships reassessing a cultural pattern based on but Berkeley and San Francisco are visors. ■ be a difficult and complicated process. for the straight population as well as the the experiences that lesbian and gay hardly comparable cities. More impor­

Democrats to conservative vs. liberal term president of Concerned Republi­ Fundraiser Dies agendas." cans for Individual Freedom. Dolan had been Perhaps the only issue about which "Terry was not at all, I would say, While L. Brent Boze III, the new ex­ Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he differed with the most conservatives involved politically with the gay com­ known to capitalize ecutive director of NCPAC, and Dr. Dolan began his political career at the was homosexuality. munity,” says Armstrong. “ At a Cesar A. Caceres, Dolan's physician age of 9 when working on the I960 Nix­ “ If we conservatives believe the distance, he had offered some advice to on hatred and fear for the last three yean, denied the AIDS on campaign and was active in Young government has no right to regulate our myself and others. . . on tactics to of homosexuals in reports, San Francisco attorney Duke Americans for Freedom at Georgetown economic life, then it certainly has no take or contacts that we could make. I Armstrong confirmed that he had been University. He founded the NCPAC in right to regulate our private life, except would say that at a distance he was order to advance his advised several months ago o f Dolan’s 1975 with fellow conservatives Charles to the point where we do harm to each friendly, but it was at a distance. He did Black and Roger J. Stone. other," said Dolan. not want to be associated with the gay political agenda. “ 1 had been told — I would guess Dolan opposed big government and In a Ί9 8 2 interview with the Ad­ rigjits movement." around two months ago — that he was abortion, and supported school prayer. vocate, Dolan created a stir among con­ In fact, though benefiting froni the technique o f raising money through suffering from AIDS, but that it was be­ A strong critic o f liberal Republicans, servatives by stating that "sexual freedoms hard-won by the gay rights direct mail solicitations and spending it ing kept quiet,” Armstrong revealed. Dolan was credited by Conservative preference is irrelevant to political phil­ movement, Dolan had been known to on independent campaigns on behalf of “ I certainly did not say anything, Digest publisher William Kennedy with osophy." But his frank interview with captialize on hatred and fear of selected campaigns after elections laws because I knew if I told a press person it/ "shifting the emphasis of American (he Advocate was a rare event, accor­ homosexuals in order to advance his limited PAC donations to individual would be on the front page of th£ politics away from Republican vs. ding to Duke Armstrong, a former two- political agenda. In one fund-raising candidates. paper." [ letter issued by Dolan's NCPAC, the Former White House political direc­ Armstrong says he believes that t h i group warned that "o u r nation’s moral tor Edward J. Rollins said Dolan and “ / had been told that he was suffering from AIDS diagnosis was kept quiet “ for fiber is being weakened by the growing NCPAC were as important as the family reasons.” AIDS, but that it was being kept quiet, I homosexual movement and the fan­ Republican Party’s own political ap­ “ I think that's unfortunate. I feel no atical ERA pushers (many o f whom paratus in helping the GOP win control compunction in that regard,” says certainly did not say anything, because I publicly brag they are lesbians).” of the Senate in 1980 for the first time in Armstrong. “ I think it should be knew if I told a press person it would be on Although Dolan apologized for the 28 years. Indeed, many critics of brought out, because maybe it will help comments, it is clear that the apology NCPAC and Dolan have questioned to see that a cure is found and that the the front page of the paper. ” did not run too deep. The millions of just that distinction. seriousness of the epidemic is brought dollars he raised for conservative can­ In 1976 and 1980, NCPAC paid for home.” — Duke Armstrong didates went directly to many o f the direct mail campaigns using the “ per­ political figures who have been most ac­ sonal letterhead” of Jesse Helms and tive· in attacking gays and lesbians, and Ronald Reagan and bearing their sig­ women’s rights. When asked in 1984 natures. NCPAC spent $9.8 million on what could be done to make Reagan’s Reagan’s re-election campaign and “How can strangers be the closest candidacy for re-election more 5289,995 directly against Democratic palatable to conservatives, Dolan sug­ challenger Walter Mondale. friends after four hours?” gested that Maureen Reagan be In June 1986, a federal court ruled “ muzzled." that the NCPAC illegally funded op­ That's what it can be like at a Stop AIDS meeting. . . a place to share your hopes and “ Have you ever been to a Republican position to Daniel Patrick Moynihan fears, or just listen. And that's.why you’ll find me along with 200 other volunteers asking meeting?” Dolan asked in the Ad­ when he ran for re-election to the Senate vocate interview. “ Ugliest women in you to attend a meeting. Look for us on Castro and Polk, and in other parts of the city." from New York in 1983. Although American. No, no, that's not true. The restricted to a limit o f 55,000, NCPAC — Bill Chastain second ugliest women in America. The spent well over $50,000 against Senator ugliest are at the Democratic conven­ Moynihan, then opposed by former tions.” Congressman Bruce Capato. Armstrong characterized Dolan as Dolan’s brother, Anthony, is Presi­ “ a very creative and smart man.” Ac­ dent Reagan’s chief speech writer. His cording to NCPAC political director sister, Maiselle, is a former member of ST© P Sandy Sholte, Dolan pioneered the the Reagan White House staff. ■ PROJECT Public School AIDS Education

State Senator Gary Hart (D-Santa Barbara) has introduced legislation that would require all California public school students The Stop AIDS Project It’s about to particpate in an AIDS education program. is funded In pu t by the San Francisco Dept, change. of Public Health and And isn’t it The measure would pay for an students in grades 7 through 12. Parents the California Dept, educational film about AIDS that would be allowed to keep their children of Health Service». about time? would be distributed to schools in time from seeing the tapes. for the 1987-88 school year. If Hart’s bill becomes law California Under Han's bill, schools would be would be the first state to require AIDS required to show AIDS prevention education in public schools. videotapes at least once a year to

6 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 every other county in California except San Francisco. There was no consistent program o f any kind at all. We formed an AIDS task force to deal with the questions o f an alternative test site for HIV anti-bodies, AIDS ser­ vices and education. I think we’ve done a great job o f addressing those issues. First, we had to have our people recognize that AIDS was not just a San Francisco problem, that it was also happening here. It’s harder to do because most of the people in the coun­ ty don’t know anybody with AIDS. I think we achieved that. Concerning AIDS services, we had a gentleman who owns a series o f con­ valescent facilities who came to us and ofTcr one o f his facilities that was already licensed for use in our AIDS services program. So unlike the Coming Home Hospice in the City, we don’t have to clear any hurdles. By the end of the month, maybe before, we'll be ready for operation. The reason it's viewed as a model program is because it’s a privately owned, for-profit situation. We will take people who have their own private insurance and can pay and we will have Medi-Cal beds as well. Along with that we have started a buddies program similar to the Shanti Project. The San Mateo model is that all of the organizations will work in partner­ ship oul of one facility, instead of all of MAflCGElLER the various organizations working none of us had that when we grew up. 1 We just- felt there was no particular separately. It works in SF, but I don’t think it's reassuring for them to have reason to raise the issue. We felt that if I believe it would work here. positive role models. did 1 would become forever the gay can­ We can't operate the same way you California’s A number o f people who have never didate who believes in other issues. can in SF. We don’t have a Sentinel to openly dealt with their sexuality have There would be some people who could get the word out, and we can’t post come out to me since my election. It never see past the fact that 1 was gay. signs on telephone poles and be effective Highest-Ranking pleases me that 1 can provide that kind We also believed it wouldn’t have because there's no central gathering of support to people who have never, made that big o f a difference anyway. place. ever felt comfortable taking about being The percentage of lesbian/gay voters I think our accomplishments are very gay with anyone else. would have ofTset the conservative important because a number of other Openly Gay A number of general country voters who would have voted against places can use our model. San Fran­ employees have also been pleased and me just because I am gay. We felt it cisco’s AIDS programs are great, but heartened by the whole thing. 1 think would have been just as much a strength there is only one San Francisco; there Elected Official my being a Supervisor has been well as a weakness, but again we decided not are a number of San Mateo counties all received by the community. to raise the issue. across the country that can benefit from Why did you wait until after the elec­ Do you think it will be a major issue our efforts. Two months after being elected to represent the 4th tion lo reveal that you were gay? when you ran for re-election in 1988? WhaT effect has you being on ibe District on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, The approach we took during the It clearly won’t be a surpise to Board of Supervisors had in advancing year I campaigned was that we were anybody. It’s a pretty sophisticated and the AIDS programs? Tom Nolan revealed he was gay. willing at any point to answer any ques­ well educated community that has been I know this county and I truly believe Since then he has been instrumental in establishing tions anybody would ask either publicly exposed to gay issues. We’ve gotten they the people would have done a pro­ or privately. I was absolutely sure it calls and letters all day long today con­ gram eventually. However, we’ve done the San Mateo County AIDS Task Forfe and develop­ would come out in the campaign. I just gratulating me on being swom in as it sooner and possibly better because a ing a model program for dealing with AIDS patients couldn’t believe it wouldn’t. Everybody President o f the Board of Supervisors. gay man was sitting on the Board of that live in the county. involved with the campaign knew, all At the swearing in this morning we had Supervisors. the newspapers knew, but nobody ever Republicans, Democrats, liberals and I was told when I began to raise the Before coming to California in 1979, Nolan, a native asked. It never came up at a candidates’ of upstate New York, was a Roman Catholic forum or anything. My opponent in the seminarian, a Virginia social worker and served on the general election never brought it up, The important thing is for some high school there was never a hit piece, nobody ever Washington staff of the late Senator Phillip A. Hart of pressed the issue. The only thing my op­ kid who knows he's gay or is thinking about Michigan. ponent did was talk a lot about being a coming out can now have a sense that it's Prior to seeking a seat on the San Mateo Board of family man with a wife and kids. Why did you finally choose to let officially okay. I have the top position in Supervisors, Nolan lived in San Francisco and was people know you were gay? employed by the San Mateo County Development Following the election the Bay Area San Mateo County. Reporter (B.A.R.) wanted to do a story Association as its General Manager and I said okay. Randy Shultz .of the When Nolan “ came out” a few politicians predicted Chronicle picked up the report and conservatives, business, labor and issue it wouldn’t be good for me the revelation would seriously damage his political future then at that point television and farmers that make up a marvelous politically, and that may be true, we everybody else did the story. A close cross-section of people we’ve managed won’t know until the election. in the largely conservative county. That question will friend of mine said if you’re going to to keep together. I believe they will sus­ If I’m going to be here and just sit ultimately be decided by voters in 1988. “ come out” you might as well do it as tain our efforts. back and do nothing becuase it's not However, on Wednesday, by a vote of his fellow spectacularly as possible, so we did. Do you think lesbians and gay men can good for me politically, then there's no What was it Bke immediately after all feel comfortable living in San Mateo point in holding office. Supervisors, Nolan was elected and inaugurated Presi­ the press coverage? County? You're viewed as addressing issues of dent of the San Mateo Board of Supervisors—a position At first it was a very difficult ex­ I think they do fed comfortable. concern lo all people in the County as that makes him California’s highest-ranking openly gay perience because I tend to be a very There are a very large number that are opposed lo just gay issues. private, personal person. Even the here for the same reason as everybody I couldn’t possibly be a full time gay elected official. positive reaction was difficult to handle else—the climate is better than San Supervisor, there’s just not enough to i^cause it was so very personal. Francisco. A lot of them enjoy having do. However, we’ve had a non­ Interview by David M. Low However, the response was overwhelm­ their own yard. We do. discrimination clause for some time, ingly positive. There were letters, I don't think anybody would be even before San Francisco. How does it feel lo be California's lop terrible tragedy of AIDS. telegrams and messages from all kinds harassed because they’re gay. It’s clear­ The way the suburbs work is people openly gay elected official? I think we ccnild all use some good o f people who were supportive. There ly not 18th and Castro where people of don’t really like to talk about unplea­ sant things. It’s better to try and ac­ I hope the people in San Francisco news and I think this is a bit of good were also some very nasty ones. A cou­ the same sex can walk down the street and the state of California are pleased news. I hope people see it that way. ple o f newspapers kept running stories holding hands. I think people socialize complish goals of the gay community about this. However, I don’t want to Wbal kind of effect do you think hav­ night after night, especially letters to the in different ways than they do in the quietly. They saw the non-discri­ overplay my new position. It’s a symbol ing an openly gay man on the Board of editor saying this is disgusting, immoral City. They spend more time in people’s mination issue coming through the political activity in SF and just did it. If and a symbol can more or less power­ Supervisors has on lesbians and gay and you should resign. Finally, after homes than in bars. I see an issue that needs addressing, the ful. The closer you are to this the more men who live in San Mateo County? about a month we went to 'the How do you feel about the fact that Board usually goes along just because it probably means to you. 1 think it gives them a new sense o f newspapers and said enough is enough, San Mateo County is viewed as a I’ve identified something they may have I hope it makes people feel a little bet­ pride. The important thing is for some nobody is saying anything new. We model program for dealing with the not really been aware of. ter. We’ve experienced a lot o f negative, high school kid who knows he’s gay or understand there is a hard-core group AIDS epidemic? There have been a number of things terrible stuff Li the last year with the is thinking about coming out can now o f people against us, but that's it. It’s right on the top of my list of I ’ve been able to accomplish by just challenge from I aRouche, the Justice have a sense that it’s officially okay. I Was il part of your campaign strategy things I’m most proud of. Two years Department rulings, the Supreme Court have the top position in San Mateo to wait untl after the election to come ago when I was elected this county was having a place at the table. ruling on sodomy and o f course, the County. That’s kind o f a nice thing. oul? doing nothing, very similar to virtually

.San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 7 1987 Parade Britt Says ‘No’ to Logo 1996 Olympics On Tuesday, Supervisor Harry Britt introduced legisla­ by David M. Lowe tion to the SF Board of Supervisors proposing to remove The 1987 Lesbian/Gay Freedom Day Parade and the city from any efforts to bring the 19% Olympics to Celebration Committee has chosen the logo that will ap­ San Francisco. pear on shirts, buttons, banners, MUNI advertising and San Francisco has been invited to submit a bid to bring other promotional material used to promote the event. the 1996 Summer Games to the city, and a multi-county effort to assemble that bid is underway. This year’s logo, designed by John symbolism o f the pink triangle inverted Tomlinson, Ph.D. of Tomlinson & to represent a “ V " for victory. PROUD/STRONG UNITED Britt opposes SF even considering rulings restricting the use of Associates, was selected from 18 entries “ The gay community has recently bidding on the 19% Olympics until “ Olympics” by Gay Games. The case submitted to the Committee in gone through a lot o f stress, not only for work o f special distinction by Her Olympics organizers allow the Gay will be heard this spring. December. with the current AIDS crisis but also in Majesty Queen Elizabeth in 1968. Games use o f the name “ Olympics” Britt said: “ Since the Olympics Tomlinson, who submitted two terms of dealing with attitudes of indoc­ Tomlinson’s C alifornia Design and end their harassment o f Gay Committees have not tried to stop designs, said, “ I ’m overjoyed that one trination like those o f Lyndon Awards include the California Ait Games founder, Dr. Tom Waddell. events like the Dog, Rat, Crab Cook­ o f our designs was chosen. Now I’m in­ LaRouche. We came out o f the Directors’ Award, California "Best in SF has hosted Gay Games in 1982 ing, Armenian and special Olympics, terested in seeing how it will be used. LaRouche struggle winning. I wanted to the West,” C a b li^a r Awards in 1983 and 1986 with support from the city their efforts to stop the Gay Olympics I ’m looking forward to working with have the ‘V ’ represent victory in that and 1984, The Mead Paper Awards in financially and as a matter o f policy. are clearly bigoted. The Olympic spirit the Committee on application o f the stniggle and encourage us to continue 1985 and the American Association of The international event was first design­ and San Francisco spirit do not allow us design on the buttons, shirts and pro­ to seek other victories. The heart in the Political Consultants 1982 Media ed to be named Gay Olympics, until the to participate in this kind o f senseless motional material for the Parade.” design speaks for itself,” said Tomlin­ Award. International Olympics Committee and discrimination. San Francisco should Tomlinson’s design incorporates the son. Tomlinson has also recently been the United States Olympics Committees not be welcoming their bigotry to British bom Tomlinson was educated selected by the SF AIDS Foundation to sued to prohibit use o f the word “ Olym­ town.” at the Royal College o f A n in London handle desip of materials for a Spring pics.” Additionally, the Olympics Britt’s legislation has been sent to the where he received his B.A., M .A ., and campaign to include M UNI bus posters Committees have sued Dr. Tom Wad­ city’s Culture and Recreation Commit­ Ph.D. degrees in Graphic Design. He and newspaper advertising. Tomlinson dell. tee for consideration. The committee also headed the design department at & Associates has also been selected as San Francisco Arts and Athletics, will take testimony on the measure Norwich School o f Art in Norwich, Design Consultant to the SF Gay Men’s organizers o f Gay Games, has suc­ Thursday, February 5, unless a special - England where he taught design before Chorus. They also designed a number cessfully petitioned the United States session o f the committee is called later traveling to this country. He was o f posters for the Theatre Rhinoceros Supreme Court to review lower court this month. presented with the RCA Silver Medal and the covers of The Gay Book. ■ Sage Britt’s resolution is as follows: Duke’s Failure AIDS programs, but I ’m not. I am Chinese Continued from peg* 3 dismayed," said Martin. "He con­ DECLARING THE POLICY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY TO crisis the state has ever seen. He’s not tinues to keep his head-in-the-sand ap­ DECLINE PARTICIPATION IN ANY EFFORTS TO SECURE THE dealing with reality. I find that wrong proach, which makes it incumbent Cuisine 1996 OLYMPICS UNTIL THE INTERNATIONAL AND UNITED and offensive." upon the rest o f us to keep the issue ★ " I ’m disappointed, but not surprised STATES OLYMPICS COMMITTEES ALLOW THE USE OF THE 406 Hayes Street alive. The Governor likes to talk about in view o f his past history,” said issues he can do something about. NAME OLYMPICS BY THE GAY GAMES (at Gough) Assemblyman Art Agnos (D-SF). "His AIDS is an issue he doesn't want to WHEREAS, San Francisco has hosted the International Gay Games in 626-3838 silence will be broken by the legislature touch. At least State Senator John 1982 and 1986; and * in the coming session. We will do our D oolittle recognizes there's an WHEREAS, Gay Games are planned for the summer of 1990; and best to educate this Governor.” A lso . . . The Blue Muse epidemic. We don’t agree with how he WHEREAS, The City and County have provided support for the Gay Rand Martin, the gay community's wants to deal with it, but at least he is Restaurant and Bar Games; and lobbyist in Sacramento, found it ironic saying something,” contended Martin. 409 Gough at Hayes WHEREAS, The International Olympics Committee (I.O.C.) and the that President Reagan is beginning to “ The Governor should take the lead 6 2 6 -7 5 0 5 come around on the AIDS issue but if for no other reason than out of a sense United States Organizing Committee (U.S.O.C.) have unreasonably pro­ 1101 Valencia Street that the Governor has yet to realize its o f recognition that AIDS is a major hibited naming those Games the Gay Olympics; and 6 4 7 -7 4 9 7 importance. " I ’d like to say I ’m sur­ state health problem," asserted Robert WHEREAS, The I.O.C. and U.S.O.C. have sued the Gay Games and prised that he didn’t mention AIDS or Forsyth, press secretary for State Senate Dr. Tom Waddell, its principal organizer over this issue; and President David Roberti. “ If he can’t WHEREAS, The Olympic spirit and the spirit of the City of San Fran­ or won’t, then it will be up to the cisco are inclusive of all groups of people and do not cater to such The AIDS Home Care legislature to provide the necessary bigotry; and leadership." WHEREAS, The City of San Francisco has been invited to submit a Forsyth thinks the administration has bid for the 19% Summer Olympics; and and Hospice Program.... largely ignored the AIDS epidemic and WHEREAS, Regional efforts are being made to assemble a bid for the addresses the issue only when forced to do so by the legislature. “ We found it 19% Olympics; Now, Therefore, be it unfortunate that Deukmejian didn’t RESOLVED, That it shall be the policy of the City and County of San address an issue that is reaching Francisco to decline participation in any efforts to secure the 19% Olym­ epidemic health proportions pics until and unless the International Olympics Committee and the statewide," said Forsyth. United States Olympics Committee authorize the use of the title Gay Speculation among Democratic Olympics by the organizers of the Gay Games for all future events; and be legislators as to one of the reasons the it Governor failed to mention AIDS pro­ FURTHER RESOLVED, That it shall be the policy of the City and grams in his speech is that his for­ County of San Francisco to decline participation in any efforts to secure thcoming budget proposals to address the 19% Olympics until and unless the International Olympics Committee the epidemic will be woefully inade­ and the United States Olympics Committee drop all litigation surrounding quate. ■ this issue against the Gay Games and Dr. Waddell. ■ No discrimination ....is looking for California-certified home health aides here. to care for people with AIDS in their own There s a myth going around that AIDS is a white, gay man’s disease. homes. Per diem work; benefits included. 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8 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 the Sacramento Community Center, and it looked as if every stretch limo in SENSITIVE LEGAL SERVICES Duke Northern California was parked on J street. “ I wish the animal rights people had showed up to protest tonight,” said one Barry Schneider • Probate and Wills Inauguration o f the demonstrators from Lambda A T T O R N E Y • Personal Injury Center. “ Have you ever seen so much 400 Montgomery Street • Crtminal Offenses white mink in your life?” Suite 505 • Family Law Rand Martin, Sacramento represent­ San Francisco • General Civil Matters Protest ative of the Lobby for Individual Free­ (415)781-6500 dom and Equality (LIFE), says his job during the next four years is to educate the Governor. “ What we need to do with the AIDS A Failure CONPREHENSIVE WORLDWIDE TRAVEL discrimination issue is to take a lot of SERVICES WHICH COMPLEMENT YOUR by Bob Marshall those cases we’re seeing in San Fran­ cisco and Los Angeles, the numbers LIFESTYLE . . .AND YOUR BUDGET Monday definitely belonged to George Deukmejian. A that are piling up, and show the admin­ week of cloudy skies over the State Capitol gave way to sun­ istration that this is happening to real people,” says Martin. "When you read shine just in time for Deukmejian’s inauguration for his se­ some of the newspaper accounts that THE NAVIGATOR cond term as Governor, and the Citizens for Medical Justice have been written, whether you’re (CMJ) were stranded in Sacramento traffic. AIDS-sensitivgor gay-sensitive, it’s just the inhumanity of treating somebody like that that really gets to you. It’s that 2047 Market M nci Eighteen members o f CMJ had made That left Rev. Jeny Sloan and two sort o f thing that has to be the trip to Sacramento to protest Deuk- other representatives of Sacramento’s demonstrated to the (Deukmejian) ad­ mejian’s vetos o f AIDS education and Lambda Community Center as the les­ ministration.” anti-discrimination legislation, but their bian and gay community’s sole visible Although the Governor’s budget for efforts were wasted when the inaugura­ presence at the inauguration festivities. the coming fiscal year is expected to in­ tion ceremonies ran ahead o f schedule. “ I wasn’t expecting a lot o f people clude substantial increases for AIDS “ We arrived about 15 minutes late, from Sacramento today because most funding and research, he failed to men­ and they started about 15 minutes ear­ people have to make a living,” said tion the AIDS crisis in his inaugural ad­ ly ," said CMJ’s Jean-Jacques Zenger. Sloan, as he handed out a hastily- dress. Issues like the plight o f the FREE O “ By the time we arrived, everything was prepared flyer to a group of elderly homeless, the elderly, education, women climbing off a chartered bus. highways and toxic waste are apparent­ AIDS HEALTH ASSESSMENT ly more important in Deukmejian’s “It seems that it’s always the people who mind. "No matter how healthy you feel, you need to Even if the protest at the inaugura­ take care of yourself and those with whom you are sick with AIDS who manage to show up tion didn’t go as planned, CMJ leader Keith Griffith thinks his group may still care enough about to be sexual." for demonstrations." gain something from their trip to the capitol. m Complete physical — Griffith “ It seems that it’s always the people ■ Complete blood testing Zenger said that he spent five hours Sloan’s group had instead concen­ who are sick with AIDS who manage to this weekend making signs for the plan­ trated their efforts on the governor’s show up for demonstrations,” said (HTLV3 optional) ned demonstration. CMJ had hoped for Entertainment Gala the night before. Griffith. “ So many healthy people said a larger turnout, but, said Zenger, “ so Ten people showed up to pass out flyers they couldn’t miss a day o f work to go There is not a more comprehensive testing many people are sick (with AIDS), or to Sacramento, maybe now they’ll to the well-heeled Republicans who paid anywhere in San Francisco. Free. Call afternoons have lovers who are ill, that it was hard as much as $130 to participate in the realize that we need more to find people who had the energy to go evening's festivities. A half-dozen bodies—healthy bodies—to fight the 431-1714. We’re the Haight Ashbury Free Medical to Sacramento.” searchlights were stationed in front of battles ahead.” ■ Clinic. We’re here to help. Call. THE RAWHIDE Π THE BIGGEST AND BEST COUNTRY AND WESTERN DANCE BAR IN SAN FRANCISCO

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AIDS gressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), ministration’s proposal as a symbolic Chairman o f the Subcommittee on step in the right direction. “ The pro­ Budget Health and Environment to propose posal will have no significant impact, further actions to combat the disease,” it’s in defiance o f what the medical Continued from page 1 said Burton. community has called for in the fight now know about are just the tip of the SF’s top health offidal Dr. David against AID S,” said Boneberg. "The iceberg. A massive effort is the only way Werdeger said, “ I was pleased to see Reagan budget proposal is a puny, to stop this trend.” the increase in funds on the research pitiful gesture that continues the ad­ AIDS & ARC Yesterday, Boxer announced she was side, but I'm not satisfied with the ministration’s policy of murderous prepared to seek an unprecedented in­ amount allocated for preventative neglect.” crease in federal funding for AIDS education. It’s insufficient. We could The $534 million for the Department SWITCHBOARD research and public education that is use the administration’s proposal to o f Health and Human Services in­ dramatically more than the administra­ spend 120 million on education nation­ cludes: $121 million for prevention by The AIDS & ARC Switchboard is staffed tion’s proposal. “ We are looking at a wide for the state o f California alone." education; $185 million for research, tentative figure approaching 700 million Werdeger also voiced concerns about and $228 million for development of by men and women with AIDS & ARC. dollars for both AIDS research and cuts in other areas o f the budget. “ The treatments and vaccines, an HHS We created it to serve the needs of education," Boxer told the Sentinel. administration’s proposal to reduce spokesman said. people with AIDS & ARC and their “ That 700 million is a reasonable tran­ benefits for Medi-cal and Medicare as By agency: sition step towards the recommended well as cuts in housing programs means • $344 million goes to the National friends, family and lovers. goal of the National Academy of we will have more AIDS homeless and Institute o f Health, a leading research Sciences which is that 2 billion dollars will work against us in the overall batde center that does its own studies and also Please call us if you are— be spent on AIDS by the federal against AIDS.” awards grants to other srientists. • in need of advice government in the year 1990.’ ’ Boxer “ It’s an important increase, but not •$112 million to the Centers for said she could not finalize her proposed enough money for preventative educa­ Disease Control in Atlanta. • looking for information budget figures until she receives and tion efforts to be effective,” said Holly • $54 million to the Alcohol, Drug • confused and anxious studies the details of the Reagan pro­ Smith, spokeswoman for the AIDS Abuse and Mental Health Administra­ • depressed - posal. Foundation. “ Espedally when we tion. California’s 6th District Con­ know for a fact that the way to stop the • $16 million to the Food and Drug We want to help. gresswoman, Sala Burton, has also spread of AIDS is through education. Administration. committed to seeking additional fund­ The administration says AIDS is the • $7 million to the Health Resources ing beyond the administration’s pro­ number one public health enemy, but and Services Administration, which has posal. “ I ’m gratified about the increase it’s not being funded or treated that set up demonstration projects on pro­ proposed by the administration, but it way.” viding better services to AIDS patients. dwarfs the needs of AIDS patients that Smith believes we need a fundamen­ • $1 million to the Office o f the Assis­ receive direct benefits and services," tal philosophical change in attitudes at tant Secretary for Health. 861-7309 said Burton. “ I will be working closely the White House. “ Reagan needs to A separate $98 million request for the Staffed Monday through Friday, 1:00 - 4:00 PM with the Committee on Budget and the dedare war on AIDS which he has not Veterans Administration and Depart­ Committee on Appropriation to recom­ done," Smith said. ment of Defense covers testing for AIDS (Leave a message at all other times) mend more funding for AIDS research Paul Boneberg at Mobilization exposure and counseling and care for and education. I will also contact Con­ Against AIDS doesn’t even view the ad­ veterans with AIDS. ·

10 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 upon goals and reach them. It is pro­ I to “ We Can Do Anything," “ We Are Slowly, those responsible for bably because there is more of a joining J Beautiful and Everyone Loves Us,” perpetuating the outcast status of gay INNER SPACE in consciousness on inner levels, a and “ Nothing Can Stop Us Now.” people will come to realize they are larger consensus saying that the time for Naturally, we’ll need to have lots of col­ harming people who have made ______VAN R. AULT unfoldment is now. Metaphysical stu­ or, costumes, music, dancing and valuable contributions to the society at dents will be in the forefront in this ac­ drama to express these more affirmative large. The loss o f so many creative, in­ tivity, leaving the more "traditional” attitudes, but that has never been a telligent people through AIDS will leave Psychic Predictions people wondering what happened. The problem for us. *87 .will see more painful voids, eventually to be felt by latter will begin incorporating the ideas psychological strength coming from the even the most insensitive. The gay com­ o f the former, but slowly and surrep­ gay community. munity needs to do everything possible for 1987 titiously. On The Frontline to strengthen its mental resistance to Progressive spiritual groups—circles, suggestions o f guilt, and encourage orders, study groups, covens and the Of The AIDS War those sending these ideas at us to realize and Beyond like—will find their ranks increasing, if The AIDS epidemic, to no one’s sur­ they are ultimately only impoverishing that is their desire. The concept o f lov­ prise, w ill continue to spread themselves. ing the self, which has always been an throughout the population. There will One of the greatest dangers to those Confrontations and Growth important theme, will resonate on a pro­ be no cure found in 1987, but in 1989, at high risk is their own beliefs that they found scale in 1987. Self-love will be mainstream medicine will be closer to are failures, unloved and unlovable. Opportunities Abound seen as the central support for all creating a system of blocks to inhibit, The only failure is the unwillingness to spiritual work. The effect o f this ensnare, and potentially, destroy the Ieam from the past and move on. Self­ widespread realization can only be virus. (That doesn’t mean they will ac­ esteem and self-love will neutralize positive. The ripples will move in all complish this, but they will be substan­ those negative beliefs. elcome, 1987! We have a new year, and new directions! tially closer.) These advances in time W Points of opportunities to grow, stretch and transform Simultaneously, religious groups will revolutionize medicine’s way of who have perpetuated the illusion of a working with cancer, leukemia, and a Resistance ourselves and the world we live in. To support us in using punishing, vengeful^dtily, claiming ex­ host of other, less lethal diseases. In proceeding into larger, more these opportunities, I have attempted to psychically view clusive ownership of truth, and who More important than this, however, rewarding experiences in 1987, each some of the probable changes we’ll be encountering in this have used such concepts to manipulate is the advancing understanding of the person may find it helpful to ask, others, will lose some influence. Their immune system through holistic health “ What have I been putting o ff looking time. The sixth sense, which I like to call “ the starlight vi­ judgemental proclamations will re­ sion,” enables one to comprehend the patterns of life energy bound upon them unpleasantly. Some which move, like waves, in certain directions. By tuning in to o f this will be behind the scenes, especially in financial matters. The gay community will be confronting its these waves, one can discern where they are most likely to More people will withdraw their sup­ identity as victim and it will be easier to move. This information can empower us to ride those waves port from guilt tripping religious institu­ tions, taking a permanent vacation turn our energies into more satiating more gracefully, or, if we choose, divert them to another from the guilt trip. It will be easier for destination. And we will be required to make more carefully those ensnared in the old belief systems directions than martyrdom. delineated choices than ever in 1987: this is a year of con­ to extricate themselves. Many times, this process will take the form of the frontation, in which re-evaluation will be the order of the simple recognition, “ How absurd! This practitioners. Their research, network­ at in mysdf? What kind of work on day, and through which we’ll be able to set a more desireable just doesn’t work for me, so it can’t be ing, and experience with people with mysdf have I been resisting?” Such course for ourselves individually and collectively. true.” AIDS will result in more people restor­ resistance is a crystallization o f fear, Though there w ill always be ing their damaged immune systems. which says, “ I ’m scared to stretch.” There will be some rough moments, One o f the realizations this recon­ demagogues screaming condemnation, You can expect to see an increase in the Confronting this resistance will open as always, for confronting situations as sideration will bring is the understan­ the difference between the life-affirming number of AIDS survivors, particularly new doors of empowerment. they are takes substantial stamina. Out ding o f how abusive our culture really path and the path of guilt and social in 1988, and these will be people The next question to ask is, " I f I of these confrontations—taking place is: on a widespread level, it is con­ control will be more marked than ever. employing holistic healing methods. weren’t so afraid to change this, what on many fronts—will be new flowering sidered acceptable to abuse oneself, The biggest surprise in the field of would I do?” Call the imagination into for those who have laid the ground­ one’s talents and skills, to inflict abuse Beyond Gay healing will be the union between the play to show where the path of true work. on others, the society at large, and the Martyrdom holistic practitioners and the traditional desire leads. Any steps, however slight, environment, and to be abused by Preparation for ‘87 In the spirit o f social re-evaluation, western doctors, beginning at the last of taken upon this path will reap benefits. others. The support systems that upheld as discussed above, the gay community How does one prepare for a year of the ‘80s. It will be a shotgun marriage at the old consciousness of abuse are will be confronting its identity,as victims In Conclusion confrontation? The best way I know is first, but will expand into a friendly, beginning to crumble at the deepest more definitively in 1987. As we honor There is no “ set” outcome for 1987. to take 100 percent responsibility for workable relationship when both sides levels, where thought and beliefs rise in­ our pain, embrace it, and release it, it We all have the power to transform our who we are and where we are now. realize they can Ieam from the other, to reality. This will bring forth broader will be easier to turn our energies into and that together, they can support the lives, individually, and to join our lives Before we tackle ‘87’s challenges, let's into communities that reflect creative, challenges to government corruption more satisfying directions than mar- planet’s healing process more effective­ finish with ‘86, taking the time to sur­ honest, rewarding choices. I f we live in render blame, to heal guilt and ly than alone. It will be essential for those organiza­ a society that is destructive, it is because grievance, to let go o f old grudges, and we have made it that way. If we want a tions and individuals working intensive­ build up our7 own impeccability, You can expect to see an increase in the culture that is life enhancing, and ly with the epidemic to schedule times of whatever that might take. Cleaning up truthful, then we must be truthful. The rest, regeneration, and celebration of our act clears ihe ground o f awareness number of AIDS survivors, particularly in truthfulness must be first towards accomplishments. These times should so that a new beginning is truly ourselves, and the confrontive nature of 1988, and these will be people employing not be infrequent, but regular. Every possible. that is essentially healing. In short, person on the front line needs to be able There is no reason for any of us to be whatever we want to experience, we holistic healing methods. to unwind. In particular, the healers satisfied with sadness, comforted by must first become. and health care providers need to look complacence, or mesmerized by the 1987 is a year of substantia] confron­ after themselves and each other. It melodrama of the world’s negativity. tation for all o f us. The power it affords and misuse of power, as well as to other tyrhood. Consciousness work has made won’t serve them to allow their life’s By taking full responsibility, we sidestep us is to make new choices, to examine institutions that sell out the true well be­ this possible, and outwardly, it will energy to be drained by the work. To such traps, and are able to embrace the what works and what doesn’t, and set ing of the public. manifest as people thinking, “ This is so those clamoring thoughts of, “ I ’ve got moment and the power it holds. Cer­ our course accordingly. For those who *87 is a calling to task, a time of boring, let’s do something else!” to do more, there isn’t enough time!” tainly, the world rants and raves and so choose, it can be a year of flowering. potential purging of individual and col­ As the gay community is so ex­ give yourself a reality check: be still, rages as much, or more, than it ever Happy New Year! ■ lective pain. It will be upsetting for quisitely creative, it’s possible that a relax, meditate, breathe'. And get help has. How we choose to react to the many. Yet, after the confrontations and number o f delightful avenues will be when you need it. chaos is up to us. It may be easier to Van Ault is a psychic consultant and the anger and grief have flared, genuine chosen to shift attention beyond mar- Eventually it will be known that the stand on neutral ground by simply hypnotherapist, and is available for repair work can begin. Gone will be the tyrhood. Though the theme songs from honoring theynegativity we see as our acceptance o f disenfranchisement and private or group readings. For infor­ illusory euphoria o f the early Reagan last year were “ I W ill Survive,” and teacher, which uimonstraies to us that guilt projection is as much a risk factor in mation or appointments, call administration and the “ stick your “ Help!,” this year the tune can change choices made bring certain results. contracting AIDS as anything else. 864-1362. head in the sand’ ’ response by the public to serious problems. Reconsiderations I f you haven’t noticed how quickly In 1987, our culture will be undergo­ what’s going around is coming back ing, at the deeper levels o f thought, a around, a la the law of karma, then ★ DEFEND YOUR BODY NATURALLY ★ time o f reconsideration. We will be tak­ look again. Everything is speeding up, ing a hard look at society’s downward as if we have entered a kind of time UNIVERSITY BREAKTHROUGH spiral, at the institutions and ideas that warp. Consequences o f one’s actions RESEARCH REVEALS: are cracking apart, and at the rigid, un­ will be magnified now. 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San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 11 anger, leaving them feding confident festivals in Europe and Canada, says coming writer’s block and how tn hr«*al· powerful, and vital. Class For Gay the class will be open to all kinds of into publication.” Anger Course The dass is structured to be suppor­ writing — journals, criticism, poetry Abbott has taught writing in various Starts Jan. 21 Writers Begins tive and fun and is led by an experi­ and fiction. Beginning and advanced universities and recently taught a gay Monday, Jan. 19 enced therapist. Deadline for registra­ students are welcome. writing workshop for the James White “ Making Friends with Anger” is a tion is January 14 and the first class Poetry Flash editor and Sentinel “ Writing’s a path to sdf-discovery,” School in Minneapolis. Class size will seven week class designed for men and meets Wednesday January 21. reviewer Steve Abbott will teach a gay Abbott says. “ You can make it a spirit­ be limited to ten on a first come, first women who want to fed. more comfor­ For more information, contact Scott writer workshop starting Monday ual practice or just do it for fun. We’ll serve basis. Cost will be $5 per month table feding and expressing anger. Eaton, M A , 821-4788. night, Jan. 19th, at 8 p.m. Abbott, who look at the work o f some famous writers or $15 per class. For further informa­ Through supportive processes, par­ has published four books and par­ but the emphasis will be on what those tion contact Steve Abbott, 545 Ashbury ticipants will learn a number o f specific ticipated in international poetry in the class write. I'll give tips on over­ #1, SF 94117 or call 626-5224. and practical skills for dealing with Personal Myth­ making Course Offered scon M c le n n a n Sean Drake will offer a six week course JOE IMMERMAN Creating Your Own Personal Myth on I combine Shiatsu and Swedish techniques to give a certified massage therapist Tuesday Juanuary 20,1987. The course thoroughly relaxing and therapeutic massage. You will not be painfully jabbed, but gradually led to a My aim — reduce stress and bring about sell will meet in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. more relaxed state, where you can easily let go of a awareness Registration will be limited to 10 par- great deal of tension. A powerful. yet sensitive touch will help alleviate tidpants. the tensions and discomforts of every day A CARING TOUCH THAT IS BOTH FIRM A GENTLE. 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Shiatsu and Polarity massage combined with who are in the process of termination Hypnosis helps you direct your own ener­ stress management techniques and auric must be first of all given a position of readings A graduate SF School ol Massage gy so that the stretch is accomplished. If dignity, a position of reverence. Remem­ you're ready to move, let yourself have this 1978. I am currently working wilh people with powerfully effective support now. I am a catastrophic diseases and clients concerned ber, those who are in the process of leav­ certified hynpotheraplst with a decade's with their general well-being S35 for 80 mm ing this awareness will be moving into a experience In psychic work. 864-1362 Castro Call 626-0877 greater awareness. It is a progressive step, a graduation, the reward of the endeavors o f the physical. 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amount of virus in the bloodstream microbes such as herpes simplex, check by an adequate immune sys­ may be so minimal that one cannot herpes zoster (shingles), cytomegalo­ tem. These include pneumocystis, MEDICAL FRONT culture it from the blood. However, one virus (CMV), Candida (thrush in the cryptococcus, toxoplasma, mycobac­ ______JAMES CAMPBELL MD must assume that the blood and semen mouth), seasonal viruses, and various teria similar to tuberculosis, Crypto­ (or vaginal fluid) from such individuals common bacteria such as sporidia, persistent herpes, and exten­ is potentially infectious. staphylococci. These infections may sive Candida (especially in the esoph­ Most persons in HIV II and HIV HI occur in people who have not been agus). CMV infections may be gener­ groups have a normal or nearly nor­ exposed to H IV , but usually are not alized, involving the lung, intestine, The Spectrum of and retina. These infections will be mal number o f T-helper lymphocytes so severe unless there is some other in the blood. Thus, they handle most reason for compromise of the immune discussed in subsequent articles. infections as an uninfected person system. Fever, diarrhea, and skin HIV IV: Neurological disease— AIDS Virus does. However, most will have an in­ problems are common and often Since HIV resides in brain and nerve creased number of suppressor T lymph­ disabling. H IV may become reac­ tissue, neurological problems are ocytes which presumably play a role in tivated and cause some o f the symp­ common, even without the full-blown Infection keeping HIV in a latent state. Thus the toms. These problems are collectively picture of AIDS. Symptoms may in­ ratio of helper-to-suppressor T lympho­ termed AIDS-Related Condition clude memory loss, personality cytes is usually less than 1, (ARC). Some o f these individuals will changes, fatigue, poor coordination, It is estimated that 35,000 persons in the San Francisco whereas in an uninfected individual it undergo further depletion o f T-helper inability to concentrate, and weak­ area and 2,000,000 nationwide may have been infected with is usually greater than 1 unless another lymphocytes; if they fall below 200, ness. These conditions will also be the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency infection is present. Persons in state II risk of AIDS-defined opportunistic discussed in a subsequent article. or III of HIV infection may progress to infection exists. Fortunately some in­ Co-factors — Numerous co-factors Syndrome (AIDS), recently renamed “ Human Immuno­ stage IV: however, many remain in dividuals with ARC may improve and have been shown to stress the immune deficiency Virus” or “ HIV.” Probably as many as 15,000 stages II or III for years (or hopefully San Franciscans were infected before mid-1981, at which decades). The Centers of Disease Control have HIV IV: Symptomatic HIV infec­ time the first observations on a new sexually-transmitted tion — This includes several proposed a new classification for disease were published in the medical literature. As of subgroups including AIDS Related HIV infection which can be summarized in January, 1987, less than ten percent of all those infected Condition (ARC), AIDS opportunis­ tic infections, AIDS related tumors, stages. have developed AIDS, a disease whose definition is based on and neurological diseases related to the presence of certain infections or tumors found only in HIV. revert to stage HIV II or HIV III for I system causing reactivation o f the HIV IV: ARC: Autoimmune dis­ immune deficient persons, i.e., pneumocystis pneumonia, extended periods. j dormant HIV infection or other latent ease— Many individuals in this group HIV IV: Kaposi's sarcoma — In viruses. They may also activate fac­ cryptococcal meningitis, Kaposi’s sarcoma, to name a few. have what is termed autoimmune dis­ some cases, abnormal lymph chan­ tors which may suppress the immune Some experts estimate that an individual has a 35% chance ease, that is, they are making anti­ nels may proliferate in lymph nodes, system's normal combat equipment. bodies which are directed against their skin, or internal organs. The resulting Such co-factors include exposure to of developing AIDS within eight years after onset of infec­ own cells. This implies more disor­ growth is known as Kaposi’s sar­ other foreign cells .(even those not in­ tion. ganization than deficiency o f the im­ coma. A significant number o f these fected with H IV), sexually transmit­ mune system. Since genetic material of individuals may have adequate ted and certain other infectious What is happening in the majority infected cells, thus keeping them in a HIV is incorporated into a small frac­ numbers o f T-helper cells and thus re­ diseases, lack of sleep, excessive sun o f HIV-infected individuals who are dormant state tucked away in lymph tion o f the T-helper lymphocytes, the main seemingly healthy and free of exposure, inadequate nutrition, to­ remaining healthy? The Centers for nodes but not circulating in the blood immune system sees these cells as for­ opportunistic infections for several bacco, nitrites, certain recreational Disease Control (CDC) have recently unless some stress to the immune sys­ eign and will make antibodies to years. drugs, excessive alcohol, and pro­ proposed a new classification for HIV tem reactivates them. destroy them, thus killing some of HIV IV: Lymphoma — Lymphom­ longed emotional stress to name a infection which can be summarized in HIV 11: Asymptomatic seropositive them. Unfortunately these anti-lym­ as are tumors o f the cells o f the im­ few. It has been shown in animals stages as described below. (Positive AIDS antibody test and phocyte antibodies may also react with mune system involving lymph glands that semen is immunosuppressive, HIV I: Primary HIV Infection— is healthy) — uninfected T-helper lymphocytes, thus and also the brain. These also occur and thus deposition o f semen into the with most viral diseases, symptoms HIV III: Persistent generalized destroying the healthy portion o f the im­ in persons not infected with H IV, but rectum (where access to the blood will occur within one to four weeks of lymph node enlargement — Persons in mune system. For unknown reasons when found in the presence of HIV or stream is likely) may be a co-factor exposure. The most common symp­ these two groups have antibody to the partially damaged immune system the HIV antibody, are defined as even with no virus present. Avoidance tom is fever which may occur in almost AIDS. o f these co-factors may play a major all infected persons. Other features of HIV IV: AIDS Opportunistic infec­ role in keeping an HIV-positive per­ recent infection may include transient Numerous co-factors have been shown to tions — In these individuals, marked son on the healthy end o f this broad or permanent lymph'node enlargement, depletion o f T-helper lymphocytes oc­ spectrum o f disease. ■ rash, aching muscles or joints, diar­ stress the immune system causing curs, allowing overgrowth o f certain © B A P H R , 1986 A ll Rights Reserved rhea, and more rarely, meningitis (an microbes which are normally held in infection o f the linings o f the brain). reactivation of the dormant HIV infection HIV can be cultured (grown in the or other latent viruses. laboratory) from blood within the sec­ Conference Kilhefner, Rev. Issan Dorsey, Dr. ond week o f exposure. The T-helper Explores Gay Paula Gunn Allen, Rev. Jane Adams lymphocytp is the primary cell infected. HIV but are in seemingly good health. may make antibodies against nerve Spiritual Traditions Spahr. Edwin Steinbrecher, and Rev. This is the(cell which directs most o f the The only difference is that those in sheaths (coverings of nerves) causing • Chari Davidson, Shri Raman, and activities o f the immune system. Only a stage H IV III have lymph nodes grea­ painful neuritis or weakness, against “ Bringing Forth (he Hidden Tradi­ Julian Spalding. There will be two panel small fraction of T-helper cells are in­ ter in size than one centimeter (and 1/3 platelets (blood clotting cells) causing tion” is the theme of the Second An­ discussions: “ Gay S pirituality— fected, probably fewer than one in ten o f an inch) in at least two sites ex­ bleeding, against red blood cells caus­ nual Conference on Gay Spirituality, to Separation versus Integration,” and thousand. Usually within the first two cluding the groin. The most common ing anemia, and against numerous be held January 24-25. The Conference "Androgyny: the Goal of Spiritual months o f infection, at least two major site is the armpits followed by the back other types o f cells. is sponsored by the Tayu Center, and W ork?" Workshops will include immunological events occur which de­ o f the neck. In both these groups, HIV HIV IV: ARC: "Minor" infec­ will be held at Berkeley’s Shared Vi­ Grahn's "Psychic Sexual Visions" to fend the infected person against spread can be found in the genetic material in tions — Persons in stage HIV IV sions Center. Advance registration is Stcinbrecher’s "Sexual Encounter with o f the infection: (1) production of an­ certain cells in the lymph nodes, but usually have fewer than 400 T-helper S55, and $60 at the door. For tickets, the Archetypes," and Spalding’s "U n ­ tibody (a protein in the blood) to HIV, the virus is held in check by H IV an­ lymphocytes per cubic millimeter (the write to: COGS. P.O. Box 11554, San­ conditional Love and True Intimacy.’’ and (2) recruitment o f suppressor T- tibody, suppressor T cells, and other normal is 400 or more). This lack ta Rosa, CA 95406, (707) 887-2490. Lastly, a benefit concert will include a lymphocytes. The latter may form a factors, thus minimizing progression of o f helper cells impairs their immune Speakers at this year’s conference in­ reading by noted poet James Broughton mantle or shield about the HIV- disease. In some individuals, the defenses against certain common clude Judy Grahn, James Gilman, Don and a performance by the Alea Trio. ■ Turn it in. Him it around. Recycle your aluminum, newspapers and glass.

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1 JANUARY Λ JANUARY 9 FRIDAY X S m MONDAY

Van A ult’s Visionplay circle meets to probe inner Myth, Dream and Desire: Relationships be­ space through deep trance visualization. 8 pm, tween Primitivism and Surrealism's the topic of 513 Valencia, Room 2, SF. $5-15, sliding scale. a lecture by Evan Maurer, Ph.D., director o f the Info: 864-1362. University o f Michigan Museum o f Art. 7:30 pm, Green Room, second floor, War Memorial Head Theatre, a performance by David Mahler, Building, 401 Van Ness, SF. Info: 863-8800, ext composer, offers the amazing illusionistic Head, 218. which is synthetic, but looks like your own head! 8 pm, 1246 Folsom Street, SF, $3-5. Info: 626-5416. Λ O JANUARY X W TUESDAY SF Symphony performs Mozart’s Symphony No. 38, and other works. Ivan Fischer conducts SF Performances present violinist Arnold this all Mozart program. Sheri Greenwald, Steinbardt and pianist Lincoln Mayorga in soprano, is featured vocalist. 8:30 pm, Davies recital. The program’s theme is “ Turn of the Hall, SF. Info: 431-5400. Century Celebration” , which includes music by Dvorak, Grieg, Bartok, Beach and Kreislcr. 8 Peggy Lee, in rare live concert appearance, plays pm, Herbst Theatre, SF. $18 & $14. Info: the Marines Memorial Theatre, in SF. 7:30 and 392-4400. 10 pm. A ll seats $25. Info: 771-6900.

Nicholais Dance Theatre plays Memorial 4 C JANUARY Auditorium at Stanford. 8 pm. $12.50 - 16.50. Chanticleer, San Francisco’s world-recognized a capella ensemble, presents a concert X W THURSDAY Info: 723-4317. o f new m usic on Saturday, Jan. 10 at 8 p .m ., Hert>st Theatre, Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street. Highlights from the program include the premiere of Roger Artists for Community Life hold their monthly Nixon’s five songs from Chaucer’s Canturbury Tales; Ben Johnston’s “Visions and meeting, for those creating' positive energy ■f Λ JANUARY Spells," a spoken and sung piece based on American Indian and Eskimo writings; through the arts during the AIDS spidemic. Par­ X W SATURDAY ticipate in producing the ongoing Ans and Lyle Davidson’s “Along the Edge,” a textured exploration of a journey of a Workshops for People with AIDS, the February soul. Call City Box Office (392-4400), BASS or STBS for tickets and info. “ Poetry & Well Being” Reading Fundraiser, and A reception for artist Leonard Riley takes place the June " A r t & Well Being” multi-arts exhibi­ at the Walt Whitman Bookshop. The artist’s tion and events. 7:30 pm. Info: 652-4526. lithographs will hang there until the end of Veronica Tyler performs arias by Handel, dozen others will be on hand to raise funds for January. 1-3 pm, 2319 Market Street, SF. Mozart, Weber, and songs by Schubert and the first production, Beyond Detroit. 7-11 pm, Bob Seger and Silver Bullet Band play the Rodrigo. 7:30 pm, Masonic Auditorium, SF. In­ Baybrick Inn, 1193 Folsom, SF, $5-15. Info: Oakland Coliseum at 8 pm. $15 reserved. Special Gay and Lesbian PC User Group holds their first fo: 444-8575. 821-3954, guests are the Georgia Satellites. Info: meeting. 2-4 pm, Women’s Center, 3543-18th 762-BASS. Street, 2nd floor dining hall, SF. Info: 334-9761. L A ’s Hans Naughty Diamond rocks at the Terry and Jo Harvey Allen perform at Theater Stone. 8 pm, 412 Broadway, SF. Info: 391-8282. Artaud. 8:30 pm, $7-12. Info: 621-7797. Beach Blanket Babylon Goes Around The Rare Area, George Coate’s dramatic perfor­ $6.50-8.00. World reopens tonight. 8 pm, Gub Fugazi, 678 mance work, plays the Herbst Theatre through The Floating Light Bulb, Woody Allen’s Green Street, SF. Info: 421-4222. January 24. Info: 392-4400. autobiographical play, runs at the American Conservatory Theatre, Geary and Mason Streets June Millington and the Unified Theory play the The Residents hold their 13th Anniversary Show, 4 4 JANUARY at 8 pm. Info: 673-6440. Last Day Saloon, 406 Clement at 5th. Shows 8 featuring Snakefinger and Penn & Teller. War­ X X SUNDAY and 10:30 pm. Info: 387-6343. field Theatre, SF. 8 pm, $15, reserved. Info: Don Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra per­ 762-BASS. A host o f Bay Area entertainers will perform a forms at the Great American Music Hall. 8 pm, Pat Wilder’s R&B Jam gets down at the benefit on behalf of Mouth of the Wolf, SF’s $10, 859 O ’Farrell, SF. Info: 885-0750. Baybrick Inn. 9 pm, 1190 Folsom, SF. Info: Full Moon Psychic Fair happens from 1-7 pm, at newset feminist production company. Helen 552-1121. 13 Columbu^ SF. Info: 771-1695. Schumacher (Mona Rogers), Ellen Sebastien, The Stone presents two bands, Nighlfood and Paddy Morrisey (Rap Master Ronnie), Greg Dreamspeak, 8 pm, $5.50-6.50. 412 Broadway, Closing nightFor Dreamgiris, playing at the Or- Proops and Mike McShane o f Faultline, and a SF. Info: 391-8282. pheum Theatre, SF. Info: 474-3800.

him/her over to your side, but it’s just one excuse even though the styles are slightly dated. Go on after another. You may have to live under a tem­ a binge o f self-indulgence. Frame your beautiful porary arrangement until the end of the month body in colors which suit your ambitions — red, because you’ re lover cannot make any further gold, violet. Bonuses on your paycheck are commitments right now. Hang loose. guaranteed, and if you shop wisely, you can ______ROBEBT COLE even afford to do something new with your hair. VIRGO. THE PIG (Aug 23 - Sep 22): Your Stylin’ ! recuperation process is nearly complete. You January 9 — 15, 1987 should receive a medal for your valor. This week CAPRICORN, THE W HALE (Dec 22 -Jan 19): pull yourself up out of that puddle of tsars and After all these years, you deserve to let a little of pity. You’ve been through enough emotional the Elvis out in you this week. It’s your turn to You know who I’m talking about! If you have THIS WEEK’S ALM ANAC: Elvis Presley’s trauma to last for years. Let your work take con­ shake your booty, do the shing-a-ling, and birthday (8th) is celebrated with Mars entering laid all the facts on the table, and there’s still no trol o f your consciousness and give your co­ generally make a fool o f yourself. Nobody can Aries; four planets in fire signs will definitely ig­ response, proceed with your original plans. On workers the good news that you’re back on the job. hold you back now that you’re all grown up. nite creative urges antisocial actions. One of the the other hand, if you have sensed a secret refusal What a relief! Right? Right! For your 1987 Birthday Horo­ great astrological anamoiies o f all time is also from him, take your time. Haste makes waste. scope, send two questions, your birth brought to our attention this week: Richard Nix­ LIBRA. THE LEOPARD (Sep 23 - Oct 22): You date/time/place, and $5 to Robert Cole, P.O. on and Joan Baez share the same birthday (9th); GEMINI. THE WOLF (May 21 - Jun 20): The can be secretive and you can be private, but this Box 884561, San Francisco, CA 94188. and they both keep trying to make come-backs. whole sex trip has got you shredded at the edges. week don’t be sneaky. There’s a big change ahead Mercury’s superior conjunction with the Sun You can’t seem to make up your mind, but you in your family; any underhanded backstabbing AQUARIUS. TH E EAG LE (Jan 20 -Feb 18): (12th) signals rapid trading in the market and know that your body is driven by intense passions would put your comfortable lifestyle in severe Everybody in town is wondering how you will heavy traffic on the freeways. The Moon will which are all but out of control. Be everybody’s jeopardy. It’s all right to tell snoops it’s none of continue to maintain your cool in the midst of transit through Taurus and Gemini headed for a lover this week. Avoid jealous competition first, their business, but once you misrepresent the such incredible pressures. You learned long ago Full Moon in Cancer next Wednesday. Time to and sexual preferences second. Be willing to test truth, you’ll never be able to redress the problem. that endurance is the key to success; sooner or turn the compost^ every combination. Gossip lives on lies. later it all blows over and you end up in control as planned. If close associates fall by the ARIES, THE SHEEP (Mar 21 - Apr 19): CANCER, THE CRAB (Jun 21 - Jul 22): Slices SCORPIO. THE SCORPION (Oct 23 -Nov 21): wayside, don’t turn back now. Your only help You’ve recently received word that you’re o ff the o f reality penetrate your social amnesia this You’ll start to feel the pinch o f that other per­ will come from the gods. hook for a couple of months, so now what are week. You’ve been in shock ever since last sum­ son’s presence in your life this week. For a you going to do? Excitement ripples through mer; no other humans on earth could stand the while, the newness was thrilling, but now you see PISCES, THE SHARK (Feb 19 - Mar 20): Big every nerve in your body, and you are ready to go pressures you’re survived. But now you’re star­ how much you have to give up in order to keep ideas are meant to inspire and excite, but they wild. But you must obey your doctors orders. ting to recognize the faces again. A truly him/her happy. How do you deal with a new kid can’t pay the bills. Step back from your dreams You’ve simply got to stop thinking that the end of beautiful old friend has his/her hand out to you. in the family? One thing’s for sure, the gesture long enough this week to meet immediate re­ the world is near, and start believing in your W ill you take it? And what about the new ad­ of understanding is worth a thousand words of sponsibilities. There are signs that a rich woman ultimate survival. mirer too? advice. Be cool. will approach you with an offer you can’t, refuse. The idea is great, but don’t commit TAURUS, THE OX (Apr 20 - May 20): Some LEO. THE SNAKE (Jul 23 - Aug 22): Your true SAGITTARIUS, THE HORSE (Nov 22 -Dec yourself until fully paid. She will make your day of the biggest decisions in your life are pending, love seems just slightly out o f reach this week. 21): Now’s the best time o f the year to shop for and good deal of your future. Caution advised. and only one man has the key to the solution. You’ve done everything you possibly can to win a new set o f clothes. The bargains can’t be beat

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\ J l f the dead could sing, how would they sound? Coming the world, premiered Masque at the litany in, the word for p\aguc(pesti/en- [/from neither time nor place, mind nor body, their Osweg shipyards in Linz, Austria, in :a) is even more charged. As the organ June of 1986. Amidst smoke and fire, crescendos amid a cacophony o f rat­ discourse would truly liquid-ate language. Critics would she sang tottering from a 150 foot high tlesnake sounds, how Galas rasps out babble, dogs howl, mothers hurry their children into scaffolding. She believes in art as these lines is nothing short o f hair- bomb shelters at the first note. Poets have sought this sacrifice, that a performance is nothing raising. language itself drops away and if it doesn't take risks. what you experience, on a raw nerve realm and a few (Dante, Rilke) have aHimes touched it To put it bluntly. The Divine Pun­ level, is the gut-wrenching spirits that but no one has so drastically ripped away the veil ishment is neither pretty nor safe. Levit­ live beneath language — pure, primor­ icus chillingly evokes the first communi­ separating life from death as Diamanda Galas. She dial affliction, judgment, defiance. Dif­ ty response to plague — to condemn i ficult listening if you’re alone at night, doesn’t sing to or of the dead; rather she allows them to and scapegoat the victims: it's a sound that haunts you for days. sing to us through her. Maybe that’s why the London gay And the priest shall look upon the Saint o f the Pit, the second album, art mag, Square Peg, has called her the world’s most in­ plague moves from the external community’s for a rising, and fo r a w ah. and for i viewpoint to the sufferer’s inner state of timidating performer. a hnght spot. mind. As we’re raised to this second ar­ chetypal octave, that o f purging grief, a The first lime I heard Diamanda London), and this was her first inter­ And the priest shall shut up he that spiritual transformation takes place. In Galas was in 1983. Already a cull figure view with an American gay publication. hath the plague. pain this intense, even anger boikaway. for her Litanies o f Satan (Y Records), "1 realize I may be misunderstood He shall earn them forth to a place " I J Trci/ieme Rcvicnt." a fluttering she was appearing ai the New Perfor­ but there is so much cowardice around unclean. organ solo. Is followed by "Deliver mance Gallery with a new work, “ Wild this subject.” she continued. “ I had to He shall separate them in their M e." a vibrato solo of Middle bastem Women With Steak Knives." No be honest. I have sat with friends dying undeaness. waitings so anguished that I was moved amount of hype could have prepared of AIDS in St. Luke’s Hospital in New This is the law o f the plague: to tears. Diamanda's cries are like ar­ me for that moment. My skin recoiled York City and I stayed a month with To teach when it is dean and when it | rows tipped in fire. Side one’s final sec­ into a mass of goosebumps like a re­ my brother when he was in the hospital is unclean. tion. sung in French, is Baudelaire's treating army. This wasn’t an. This in San Diego. He was such a hero. He poem "Self-Tormcnter" that begins: wasn’t "an act." This was honest-to- kept working on his an to the end. But Next the victim cries out with psalms god sorcery. For the next hour I feared our family was actually told by the hos­ 59, 22, and 88: “ Why hast Thou for- | No rage, no rancor: I shall heal to look right or left or even to shut my pital staff to stay away from him lest we saken me?" (the cry echoed by Christ you eyes. I stared straight ahead at Diaman- be contaminated." later), “ Deliver me from my enemies, j as butchers fell an ox. da’s face, disembodied by a white pin- Her face contorts with pain and an­ oh my God," and finally, the harrow- I as Moses smote the rock in spot, and at the liny flame of light danc­ ger as she spits out the word. Diamanda ing refrain: “ Shalt Thou show wonders | Horeb— ing below on her red scquined dress. tells other horror stories her sick friends to the dead?" / shall make i ou weep. But the real shocker is the conclu­ Never had I had such an experience, experienced. She tells o f walking out on and ends: not even on drugs — not until last a l.ondon record producer who made a sion..1Son L'Anticliristo. a text written j / am the vampire at my own veins, night, that is, when I listened to the first homophobic joke about AIDS. But by (ialas herself. One after another, all one o f the great lost horde two albums of Diamanda's magnificent nothing she says is. or could be. as pow­ the gay community's fearful terms of I doomed for the rest o f time, and mass trilogy. The Masque o f the Red erful as her plague mass itself. A major approbation are embraced by the suf- i beyond, Death (Mute Records, London). advance in her work to date, it draws on fcrer and hurled back into the faces o f ! 'to laugh — hut smile no more' Let’s not mince words. This is a mass the whole history o f archetypal the judges: for people with AIDS. Like all of her responses to plague from Leviticus to / uni the scourge. Side two. dedicated to Diamanda's work it's highly charged, highly con­ Defoe to Camus. / am the Huh Tool. brother. Philip-Dimitri (ialas. hints o f troversial. “ Many people warned me to The first segment. The Divine I am the shit o f God. a still higher archetypal response — the stay away from this subject or to tone it Punishment, refers to Old Testament nobility of accepting one's destiny even / am the ugn. down." she confided to me at Cafe Pi· texts. Galas, who has performed with in the pit of suffering. Beginning with a / am the plague. caro. Offstage she is warm and friend­ the New York Philharmonic at the Lin­ more traditional operatic rendering of / am the Antichrist. ly. She was visiting her family for the coln Center and at countless other Nerval’s poem "Artemis.” it concludes holidays (she currently lives in prestigious New Music festivals around In Italian, the language (ialas sings this Continued on page 27

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"Aw {jp v e n though this is a phooey!" Yves replies. "How collection of comics. I can't help can they tell we're gay?" seeing significance in it. (Writers A number of these comics ring have a way of doing that.) For so true and make their points so anyone just coming out. reading succinctly that they are models these strips provides an introduc­ of effective communication— so tion to a variety of gay ex­ much said with so few words. periences. The very fact this The phenomenon of going out to book exists has to make the bars has never been more someone new to his sexuality successfully portrayed than in feel less alone. For us more Howard Cruise's "Billy Goes seasoned veterans, though, Out." By splitting each frame into reading Meatmen provides a two parts— one for what's ac­ chance to reflect on how far tually happening as Billy embarks we’ve come. From the jackoff on another frustrating evening of cartoons of the late forties to the lAfin J o w , Gay Sunshine Press has Granted, it's not all great car­ that "Crisco— when smeared in­ cruising, tricking, and looking for incredibly stereotyped depiction released a trade paperback an­ tooning— but there is certainly to certain places on his love and one for Billy’s thoughts of gay men in Joe Johnston's thology of gay male comics entitl­ something for everyone. Several body— completely cancels out and associations— Cruise turns "Miss Thing" to the contem­ ed Meatmen (G.S. Press. strips in MeatmenijT\r\g together Meatman's super-powers." You a night at the bars into a wise, porary, ironic comments of "Pop­ $10.95). For those of you who my memories of J'onn J'onzz get the picture. Then there's funny, and poignant statement pers" and "Watch O ut"— we still haven't experienced the and Aquaman with my teenage "Max Puma. Space Hero" about the ways we unwittingly can see how our attitudes about (drawn with elegance by Brad sheer fun of gay comics, this lust for porno fantasies. If only avoid intimacy. ourselves have changed. new collection is an invitation you Batman had acted like this. Take, Parker). Max is in love (spiritually There's a healthy dose of just Forget about all that if you cannot turn down. The devoted for instance. Dom Orejudo's and physically) with his space plain porno as well. Tom of want to—Meatmen is fun! Sure reader of Gay Comix will notice "Meatman." This incredibly well- ship, which happens to look just Finland is represented by an ex­ there’s social commentary and like a vintage Mustang. Sean's that Meatman reprises some drawn strip concerns a mild- tended Wild West fantasy in poignancy and all that, but there favorites like "Billy Goes Out." mannered bath house towel at­ hilarious "Come Wars" parodies which the characters' penises are also plenty of laughs and George Lucas' films with less "Dirty Old Lovers.” "Leonard tendant. Rod Reamer, who, when get larger in each successive hours of great entertainment. As and Larry," and "The Elves and evil threatens, transforms himself than outstanding artwork but with frame. Construction workers are for me, I dug out some of my old a sense of humor and exag­ the Leathermaker." but more im­ into Meatman— complete with the subject of Bill Ward's comics and took a nostalgic look portantly. the book reprints lesser mask. cape, boots, and a leotard gerated sexuality that makes it "D rum " and teenagers in heat at the Manhunter from Mars. known as well as golden oldie cut so low that his enormous an enjoyable diversion. figure prominently in Nico's After reading (and re-reading and comics' including hysterical penis hangs out. Every super photorealistic pieces. These re-reading) Meatmen, it's a lot parodies of super hero comic hero must have his Achilles Heel strips don't really convey easier to imagine J'onn's strong strips. and Meatman is no exception. Ο,j f s not all spaceships, anything except highly exag­ arms around me and the insis­ When the evil Dr. Nitrate gets his superheroes and sex. though. gerated sexual encounters. tent thrust of his stiff green hands on our hero, we discover Dialogue is only used to add "dir­ cock. ■

San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 17 SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 10:00 AM Hungeryears — In Kim Novak Highlights PAGODA PALACE PAGODA PALACE a Rich Land (Hungerjahre — 11:00 AM · 1 PM Seminar. 11:00 AM Screening of Ver­ In Einem Reichen Land). ‘Women in Film’ : "The Director's Craft” Panel: tigo (USA. 1958. color) (1979, color. 114 minutes) j Agnieszka Holland (Angry directed by Alfred Hitchcock, directed by Jutta Bruckner. Festival, Jan. 15-18 \ Harvest and A Woman starring Kim Novak and Alone); Joan Churchill (Lily James Stewart. (120 12:00 PM Tomlin); Lynne Littman minutes). Redupers (Eine Alleseitig A Tribute lo Kim Novak, an Evening The complete schedule is as follows: (Testamant); Karin Brandauer Reduzierte Persoenlichkeit). ( with Agnieszka Holland, a German (Blessings of the Earth); 1:15 PM 1977/78. B&W, 100 minutes) film rcsirospective, and premieres of in­ P ro g ram JoAnne Akalaitis (Dead End Screening of Dark of the directed by Helke Sanders. ternational films directed by women Schedule Kids). Moderator. Emily Night (New Zealand. 1984, highlight "O n Screen: A Celebration of Laskin, Director of National color) directed by Gaylene 2:00 PM Women in Film,” a four day festival Please Note: All screenings Educational Programs. Preston. (88 minutes). "Women Directors in Ger­ sponsored by Northern California will lake place at the Pagoda American Film Institute. man Cinema — An Over­ Women in Film & Television and Cali­ Palace, 1741 Powell (at Col­ view" A lecture by Anne fornia First Bank, January 15-18, 1987 3:00 PM umbus), San Francisco, Screening of Loyalties Friedberg, Professor of Film in San Francisco’s North Beach. 1:15 PM unless otherwise noted. (Canada, 1986, color) Studies. UC Irvine. Festival directors, Karen Larsen, Screening of Sacrificed (Ching Chun Ji, directed by Anne Wheeler Judith Lit, and Linda Wadlcy, agree Youth THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 (98 minutes) with short 3:30 PM that "the third On Screen festival offers Peoples Republic of China. 8:00 PM. “Neo-Video" Open­ Augusta (Canada, color. 17 Straight Through the Heart the strongest and most diversified pro­ 1985, color), directed by ing Night Party W olfgang’s, Zhang Nuanxin (90 minutes). minutes) directed by Anne (Mitten Ins Herz). (1983. col­ gram yet.” Thursday night, “ On 901 Columbus Avenue. In M andarin w ith English sub­ Wheeler. or. 97 minutes) directed by Screen" opens with a party at Wolf­ 474-2995. Doris Dorrie. gang's featuring comedienne Dcbi titles. With short, Wf)it§ (USA, 1986, color) Durst, World Beat music by Zulu Passage 5:30 PM FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 Screening of Dead End Kids 6:00 PM Spear, and the latesi in music and an directed by Ruby Yang. PAGODA PALACE (USA, 1986. color) directed Peppermint Peace (Pepper­ videos. Friday evening features an ap­ 1741 POWELL. 421-2797. by JoAnne Akalaitis (87 mint Frieden). (1983. color. pearance by director Agnieszka 3:15 PM 7:00 PM. Screening of A minutes) with short, Spirit to 100 minutes) directed by Holland with her film A Woman i Screening of Anne Trister Woman Alone (Kobieta Spirit (USA, 1986. color) Marianne S.W. Rosenbaum. Atone. Saturday's highlight is the first ' (Canada, 1986. color) Samotna — Poland. 1981, directed by Mirra Bank. (30 in-person Tribute to Kim Novak in­ : directed by Lea Pool. In color) Directed by Agnieszka French with English subtitles, 8:00 PM cluding dim clips, an on-stage inter­ minuteS). Holland. In Polish with i (115 minutes). Blessings of the Earth (Erd- view, and a screening of Picnic. Sun­ English subtitles. (110 segen). (1986, color. 110 day, a retrospective o f German films 8:00 PM minutes). Screening of Lily Tomlin minutes) directed by Karin directed by women is presented at the 8:00 PM (USA, 1986. color) directed Brandauer. In German Only. Goethe Institute with an appearance by "In-Person Tribute to Kim 8:45 - 9:15 PM by Joan Churchill and Karin Brandauer will attend Austrian director Karin Brandauer. Novak" with film clips, on­ Question and Answer session stage interview by Mary Lou screeing. The festival closes Sunday night with Nicholas Broomfield (90 w ith Ms. Holland. ! Manalli, and a question and Joan Churchill's film. Lily Tomlin. minutes). ! answer period with audience. All German Retrospective (See attached schedule). 9:30 PM films are in German with Northern California Women in Him SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 Screening of Laputa (W. Ger­ English subtitles except & Television is a nonprofit organization 10:15 PM GOETHE INSTITUTE 530 many, 1986. color) Directed BUSH STREET o f professional women dedicated to the ; Screening of Picnic (USA, Blessings of the Earth. by Helma Sanders-Brahms. advancement o f women in the film and | 1956. color) directed by 391-0370 In French with English sub­ television industries. California First | Joshua Logan, starring Kim "Retrospective of German titles. (90 minutes). Bank, one of the state's largest banks, Novak and William Holden. Film s" has sponsored “ On Screen" since its | (113 minutes). first year. Show Them Your Best Side

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18 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 LASSICS BILL HUCK c I» How Good is Blomstedt? T he honeymoom is over. It lasted nearly two years — rather long as honeymoons go. It was a joyous, con­ vivial time, a time for extravagant declarations. In the press we got them from every quarter. A Martian reading the San Francisco daily newspapers would have thought a god had became conductor of the San Francisco Sym­ phony, but it was after all only a human like other humans, named Herbert Blomstedt. As we move from the honeymoon to where he is going. But Blomstedt’s prin­ the marriage, it is an appropriate time cipal weakness is that only rarely can he to step back and try to look all around let go o f all his knowledge and luxuriate V this man, judge his strengths and his in the music he is a part of. Sometimes weaknesses. In our infatuation we ex­ when attending concerts at Davies Hall, San Francisco Symphony maeslro Herbert Blomstedl. alted Blomstedt beyond even his con­ I have felt that the ecstasy o f the ap­ siderable abilities. Unless there is a little plause around me had more to do with lowering o f expectations, we are all in what the audience saw the conductor do hear. trusted, suggested that once everything punch. Bruckner’s religious tempera­ for a big disappointment. than what they heard from the or­ Blomstedt’s strengths are many. The settled down, Blomstedt was storming ment is quite congenial to Blomstedt Blomstedt’s principal strength is ex­ chestra. Because Blomstedt always magic that he and Claudio Arrau con­ heaven with the symphony. When the and the challenge o f keeping the actly the reverse o f his predecessor’s knows the scores thoroughly, he puts on jured up out of Beethoven’s most in­ conductor returns in February, he is in­ momentum o f Bruckner’s music going and that is why so many let their en­ very accomplished visual interpreta­ ward looking piano concerto (No. 4) troducing the Nielsen Sixth, a conduc­ through all o f its starts and stops dearly thusiasm leap so high. Now in his late tions o f them, but sometimes what we resulted foremost from Arrau’s incom­ tor dedicated to Neilsen and a few of the brings out the best in our conductor. fifties, Blomstedt knows the standard all heard was so cold and calculating parable refinement, but the security of other tum-of-the-century-masters can Among the concerts scheduled for repertory thoroughly. De Waart moved that I was amazed anyone could ap­ Blomstedt’s accompaniment opened dish up quite a bit of excitement. Blomstedt’s pre-tour concerts this year from his middle thirties to his early for­ plaud. After all, no one goes to the the pianist’s deepest insights. A conduc- The strongest set of concerts is an evening featuring Bruckner’s Sixth ties while he was the San Francisco symphony to watch the show. preceeded by Bartok’s Third Piano Symphony’s Music Director, and he The music that actually first drew this Concerto. The Sixth is the most in­ spent most of his time here learning reflection was Blomstedt’s account of Blomstedt's principal weakness is that only timate of Bruckner’s mature works and what Blomstedt already knows. Stravinsky’s luscious Firebird Suite. Bartok’s last piano concerto is his Furthermore, de Waart often let his Cut down though it is in the 1919 ver­ rarely can he let go of all his knowledge and farewell to the world, written as a pre­ own problems with security and self­ sion used, this suite could hardly be sent for his much-younger wife. They esteem interfere with his concentration more romantic with its plaintive folk luxuriate in the music he is a part of. make an interesting pair that ought to and his study. A classic example of this melodies, its lush harmonies and appeal to Blomstedt. proceedure happened when de Waart gorgeous orchestral effects. Yet in Within the range of Blomstedt’s was entrusted with his first Ring for the Blomstedt’s hands, the inidescent col­ tor who can inspire Arrau to his best is Blomstedt has given us were his first sensibility, the man is undoubtedly a San Francisco Opera. De Waart’s sense ors faded, the harmonies lost their in­ worth keeping. subscription series in the Fall of 1985. master. In his upcoming concert, the [hat his own career was blossoming viting allure, and the melodies were Personally, I would have liked to Climaxing that set were performances conductor has chosen some work close facilitated his preparation for the almost apologized for. As the orchestra have heard the Nielsen Fourth after the of Bruckner’s Fourth so finely judged to the center o f his interests. It is with Siegfried performances, and that opera launched into the Berceuse — the Symphony had taken it on tour. The and so seamlessly patched together (no hope and expectation that I await them remained his finest tour de force. But by music’s most beguiling moment — the before-tour concerts were a shade ten­ small feat in this work!) that the totality — hope and open ears. ■ the time that de Waart was preparing nostalgic bassoon phrase set no magical tative and the reviews, if they are to be delivered an overwhelming cumulative Goiterdammerung his career oppor­ mood, the whispering tremolos o f the tunities were drying up suddenly and he violins floated but not above a Kubla was without the peace o f mind neces­ Khan scene. Even the soulful horn sary^) the student. This unrest told melody, meant to deliver us from evil, mo?t glaringly in Die Walkurie and fell back into notes on the page. Gotterdammerung with their inappro­ Not all the musical knowledge in the priate tempi and their lack o f forward world can redeem a pedestrian imagina­ propulsion. In these, de Waart con­ tion. 1 am not suggesting here that ducted like he did not know what was Blomstedt has such a restricted fancy, going to happen next and therefore did but I want to emphasize the different not know how to prepare for the real factors that make up musical greatness, climaxes. and I want to urge people to trust their Herbert 'Blomstedt always knows ears and not their eyes about what they

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San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 19 plot and bizarre goings-on, as they are » OOKS so unexpected and rich . The characters’names may change frequent­ GLEN HELFAND ly, but rather than becoming confitsing, like in many a Russian novel, this book The Exquisite Corpse reads like a fabulous rollercoaster. The Exquisite Corpse is a perfect balance o f sanity, madness and a com­ Reading on mand o f the English language. It also has a very gay sensibility, but it is not a ‘ ‘gay novel.” Unlike the majority of the Wild Side current gay fiction, this book doesn’t present sexuality as an issue. Many of the characters are gay, but they seem so A lfred Chester’s novel, The Exquisite Corpse, is one odd that they go beyond a sexual orien­ of the wildest literary experiences I’ve had in tation. Chester’s theme is the loss and possi­ months. It’s a delectable excursion into the deep, dark, ble recapture o f one’s identity. At the lonely recesses of the human psyche that’s not for the beginning of the book he almost im­ squeamish. It’s a novel filled with shifting identities, sex­ mediately makes this clear—“ And then with a burst o f ferocious anger, he ual perversion, decaying families, homoeroticism, infertili­ grabbed the mirror out of the bassinet ty, and melodrama. To read Exquisite Corpse is and flung his fierce chin against it. He something like reading a William Burroughs book jj)fused bellowed through the empty house: ‘Why? Why must I suffer your with helium. Chester’s images are alternately perverse, destiny?’ ” Chester smashes that mirror shocking and buoyant. Surprisingly, this most contem­ into a number of dazzling pieces. Each broken fragment releds his beautifully porary of novels happens to have been written 20 years perverse vision in a different way. ago. The author achieves this by blending a number of narratives within the book. In a current literary climate where results from the passing o f a piece of Characters melt in and out o f each marketing seems just as important as paper from one person to the next. other. Their names change with their the writing itself, authors must shuffle Each author writes something, folds the situations. The characters all suggest their identities into a marketable voice if page and passes it along. Chester each other to the reader. In their con­ they wish to sell books. Set against this doesn't literally employ this technique, sistency o f theme, the characters are backdrop. Alfred Chester’s writing as the book is obviously the work o f one essentially the same—broken, confused bristles with originality. But that still voice, but his narrative does reflect a individuals, the sum of their confusion doesn’t make it sell. very surreal character. Also, there is a being the corpse. The Exquisite Corpse probably sold childlike innocence in The Exquisite Chester’s universe is one of discarded only a handful of books in its original Corpse. The author in the introduc­ individuals. There are characters whose 1967 publication and will, most likely, tion, suggests that the book be read as dreams never materialize, and whose do the same in its current paperback one would read a work of children’s Unlike the majority of current gay fiction, self-images are almost completely reprint. It is one of those truly original, literature—without preconceived no­ obscured. Baby Poorpoor makes a this book doesn 't present sexuality as an well-written books, that seems doomed tions. Trying to analyze this novel will frenzied dash through the streets of to an undeserved obscurity because of greatly diminish its pleasures. For­ Manhattan when he realizes the world issue. Many of the characters are gay, but its unconventional themes. tunately, the book is easy to enjoy, as doesn’t return the love he gives. T.S. The novel’s title comes from a sur­ Chester’s seemingly carefree narrative is they seem so odd that they go beyond Ferguson imagines all the rush-hour realist writing game. Exquisite Corpse so inviting. 1 was more than willing to subway riders are in love with him and is structured as a composition that be swept along with his abrupt shifts in a sexual orientation. disappoints each of them with a killing smile. Mary Poorpoor is a helpless woman who inexplicably has a child, dresses up in the cast-off ballgowns of ment as his sex slave. James lies on the which is then stolen by fairies and the rich. bed in a pink bra and yellow panties Ultra-Brite and is forced to insert a variety o f ob­ replaced by an imposter. Emily, her The book’s most effective scenarios Home Care Services social worker, hides dollar bills under are those in which the characters reach jects into his ass while he waits for his her large breasts and forces Mary to out to others to relieve.their confusion. master. Never leaving the room,i he " Where Quality Comes First" search for them. John Anthony Under a pier, Baby Poorpoor searches loses all sense o f himself and cannot do becomes a Franciscan monk after his for an identity among used condoms anything until he is told who he is. Carpets Steam Cleaned failed career as a gigolo and a case of and jock straps. He is given one by John Meanwhile, John Doe divides his time New Carpet Sales · Carpet Stretching unrequited love. Later, isolated in his Doe, who renames him James Madison between his suburban family and fiis Continued on p e g · 25 Floor Refinishing · Carpet Repair attic bedroom, he carves masks and and installs him in a tenement apart­

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20 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9. 1987 ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ A Modest, Nearly Perfect Musical Comedy A lthough the term “ musical comedy” is often used rather loosely, usually referring to a film (or play) that tries to make us laugh and has a few numbers thrown in for good measure, Frank O i’s Little Shop of Horrors happily marks one.of-tfiose rare occasions where both mesh in an almost seamless blend. Director Qz (memorable as the classics. The opening “ Downtown" American Embassy official in An (“ where depression’s just the status American Werewolf in London) has quo” ) contains some o f the best made good on his promise to include choreography (Pat Garrett) since nothing that overwhelms “ what is Michael Jackson’s “ Thriller” video. basically the story o f a boy, a girl, and The footwork may not be as electrify­ a man-eating plant.” Little Shop is a ing, but the staging is chillingly effec­ Skid Row foundling Seymour Krdbora (Rick Moranis) chats up Audrey II, a man- relatively small-scale (if expensively tive. (The sets here and elsewhere eating plant and star of Little Shop o f Horrors. mounted) production, no lavish pro­ enhance the numbers because the duction values to speak of—hundreds designers have worked hard to create a I look like Donna Reed” ), evokes a 60’s casting. Because this is the story o f a on the other hand, they have to trans­ o f extras descending staircases, “ super realistic" effect that constantly vision o f suburban America that, boy, a girl, and a man-eating plant, the cend those stereotypes to create vivid etc.—but what’s here is beautifully underscores the sad circumstances of thanks to the costumes and sets, could actors have to allow their characters to and original characters. The reason I realized. By remaining faithful to the the main players. The street scenes, be appreciated by both David Lynch be stereotypes to a certain extent, but, Cor tlnued on page 22 spirit of the play (which was in turn replete with bums, trash, and crumbling and Pee Wee Herman. The other based on the Corman cult classic) and storefronts, as well as the interiors numbers don’t disappoint, either; the not lurmgLittle Shop into a movie ex­ (Seymour’s bedroom!], reflect a grim, lyrics are uniformly excellent—fimny travaganza, Oz has fashioned a modest, but practically perfect film. Confronted by a storyline bordering on the What Oz has accomplished is no sim­ ple task; fortunately, he possesses the precious and veering between camp and talent to make it look easy. Confronted (Oakland) by a storyline bordering on the precious com, Oz avoided all these pitfalls and veering between camp and com, Oz and came up with a picture that's Sunday Worship avoided all these pitfalls and came up & Communion with a picture that’s fresh and genuine. fresh and genuine. The musical numbers are so well- 10 am integrated into the plot that they emerge Hopperesque vision that is frankly and appealing—plus there’s a funky St. Paul's Is a member of naturally from the characters and their allegorical. While balanced by the zany Greek chorus (a Martha Reeves and the Lutheran’s Concerned (the problems. You never get the feeling that plot twists and the music, the superbly Lutheran Gay/Lesbian Caucus) Vandellas-type group—Crystal, Chif­ and Is the meeting site for the you’re watching a sister to one o f those crafted sets are always a reminder of the fon, and Ronette — they’re much 50’s MGM musicals where you wanted East Bay Chapter of Parents & dark reality lurking behind the too physical for the Supremes) that Friends of Gays and Lesbians. 10 cringe whenever Kathryn Grayson or zaniness.) supplies a running commentary on the ALL ARE WELCOME Howard Ked burst “ spontaneously” Audrey’s (Ellen Greene) hymn to action. Their outfits improve as Audrey into song. the "good life,” “ Somewhere That’s II starts raking in the cash. SL Paul’s Lutheran Church Two o f Little Shop's numbers are Green” (“ I cook like Betty Crocker and Crucial to the film ’s success is the 1658 Excelsior Avenue (one block off MacArthur Blvd.) Oakland, California Continued from previous page Then thcn'sMirage. The name takes letters as well as his translation of (415) 530-6333 ISkateboarding/ is today’s response to its inspiration from a hotel on Dynasty, Laure, a French proto-punk who died the artificially safe world that is a neighborhood bar on 22nd St., and in the 30’s. Camille Roy has a brilliant modern society. Human beings, the evaporating character of contem­ story which merges texts on gay male especially young ones, thrive on risk. porary life. The last issue lauded the pom and high theory. Here’s a snipit: GEORGE COATES PERFORMANCE WORKS No matter what adults do to make that brilliant but obscure gay poet John We go to Mitchell Bros, to see Fannie's world safe and boring, you are going to Weiners. The current cover shows snap­ act. Fannie is her stage name which / find a way to make it more dangerous shots o f the editors with Santa Barbara ought to use here. Fanny Fatale. A and exciting . . . Skateboarding is a soap stars and the following text bush o f yellow hair in the shadowy response to the banality of modern life. tapelooped in grey: warm room; the men all have flash­ And Tom J. writes: Dodie and Kevin went to Los Angeles lights. We do too, but I feel obliged not Shred events are always goofy since fo r their honeymoon where they stayed to use mine. Her beautiful legs give me we’re so disorganized. They always at a luxury hotel right near the airport. swelling feeling o f contentment . .. start late and you never know who is For entertainment they attended the Se­ When she comes to us she lays in my gonna show up. I f you want the Boy cond Anniversary Celebration o f the girlfriend’s lap, grabs her breast then Scouts, join the Boy Scouts. You won Ί Santa Barbara Fan Club where they rolls onto me. I ’m a fool like the men. find control freaks or power-tripping had their photograph taken with all the She whispers do you like this place, / say yeah / like the temperature. I'll say. And Vampire fans will love Whereas above-ground mags are slick and how Dodie Bellamy updates Mina Harker’s letters to Dr. Van Helsing: cold, obscure mags long for the awkward in­ Let’s name names: Jennifer Beats as timacy of a first sexual encounter. the Bride o f Frankenstein. You remember her—Miss Flashdance the movie where only her face was real the attitude-skaters who tell you what to soap stars. 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San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 21 HEATRE τ RANDY LYMAN No Boundaries in No Theater’s ‘Dust Bowl’ I f you’ve been following my column for a while, you may recall that last January I reviewed a piece entitled Last Resort by the Massachusetts group No Theater. Last Resort was an extraordinary piece, crossing the long bridge between drama and conceptual art, intricately pat­ terned and meticulously crafted. Now No Theater is back in San Fran­ RF: In most plays, the actors all look^ cisco with a new piect, Dust Bowl, per­ the same size because they’re essentially forming through this weekend in its first the same distance from the audience. public appearance. I write “ public ap­ What we try to do is work with perspec­ pearance” instead of “ world premiere” tive and scale, so we’ll have one actor Franck Bafidli, Sheena See, Jane Karakula from No Theatre's Dust Bowl. because Dust Bowl, like many of No up dose on a high platform, and Theater’s works, is a work-in-progress, another back in the distance, where and the first they have ever developed they will appear very different sizes. teresting the longer we work on it. needs to adhere to some reasonable that much of our audience comes back "on the road.” A typical No Thealer Like depth perception. I think that RL: How do you work on a piece? representation o f reality, and most to see the same work develop. There are project remains in the repertory for creates a powerful impression. RF: Since we don’t start with a conven­ plays tend to spell things out. But the certain paintings, for example, that I ’ve yean, always evolving. tional script, we don’t work toward mind is capable of making intricate, ob­ seen that I hope to see again and again, So I felt it would be inappropriate to Dust Bowl has nothing that creating defined dramatic characters. tuse jumps. We try to capitalize on that, because I continue to leam and ex­ “ review” Dust Bowl in the conven­ resembles a conventional plot. A Dust Bowl began as an incredibly and let the audience work out our plays perience something new each time. tional manner. Instead, I’ve jotted Midwestern woman (played by fragmented text, not even dialogue, for themsdves. Thealer is normally such a transient down my impressions o f the piece, Faudree, a man) and a young boy from which we created a series of * * * thing. I like the idea o f art that is sus­ along with some elucidating comments (played by Sheena See, a woman), tak­ sketches, like a painter. We get certain Seeing Dust Bowl at this early stage tainedovertime. ■ by Artistic Director Roy Faudree, ing refuge in the morgue from a feelings from audiences as we work, and feds much like discovering a local Dost Bowl by N o Theater, through whom I spoke with after the perfor­ rainstorm, run into a similarly shdter- these reactions hdp shape the piece. unknown band in a dub; ten years laier mance. seeking ex-model (Jane Karakula) and RL: So your works take on a very non­ they’re topping the charts. January llth at the Zephyr Theatre, 25 her boyfriend, a sax-playing mercenary linear quality. * * * Van Ness at Market. 861-6895. The setting is striking: black marbled sailor (Franck Battdli). The first half RF: Right. Most people fed that a play RF: I think the greatest compliment is floors, pillars and steps mounting a low moves along placidly enough, until an platform that cuts across the stage. argument between Jane and Franck Yellow drapes languish at the wings and unleashes a maelstrom. Sheena, who seem less like a part o f Little Shop and tion (the plant is never really “ bad" un­ til the climax), while literally making over a window in the back wall that we’ve learned has been raised by dogs, Continued from page 21 more like one o f his skits. His man­ stares out over South Van Ness. A low, launches into a morbid gospel sermon, Fc nerisms are so similar and by now so mincemeat out o f the humans who cross black and gold-detailed crypt lies mid­ and Roy goes into a religious epileptic almost didn’t see this film was because I familiar that each time I watch him I get its path. After all, all it wants to do is stage left, and a raised marbled plat­ fit. Things finally settle down, and Roy, was put off by the list o f players, which, the feding that all o f his routines have eat. form abuts the front o f the audience. It Sheena and Franck regale the audience except for Ellen Greene and Vincent run together into one schtick. However, Audrey H’s big number, where it is a morgue, as we soon leam, and a tin with humorously gruesome tales of thrir Gardenia, reads like the alumni roster he redeems himsdf in the “ I ’m a Den­ breaks out o f its pot and its offshoots bucket catching regular drips of water infanthoods (Franck: “ My vision never from Saturday Night Live andSC7y: tist” number (“ Shut op! Open. *ip! form a do-wop, back-up chorus for the indicates it is raining outside. developed properly because I was lock­ Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, John Can­ Here I come!” ). When Oz gives us the lead plant, is a miracle o f animatronics. The setting was clearly intended for a ed in a closet my first year-and-a-half. dy, James Belushi, Christopher Guest, mouth’s eye view, so to speak, o f the The plant’s movements are incredibly much smaller space than the 250-seat Mothballs still bring tears to my eyes. ” ) and Bill Murray. approaching Martin, the results are lifelike (no doubt credit is due the hun­ Zephyr Theatre, and consequently the By this time, Roy and Sheena have However, while Rick Moranis as hilarious—although you’ll probably dreds o f technical people listed in the production loses some o f its focus. reverted to their proper genders. Seymour Krdbom turns manother in a cancel any upcoming appointments credits and the animatronics staff), and However, the depth o f the stage and all It’s all very strange, and the dis­ line of nerd performances, the truth is with your dentist. the close-ups reveal the lip syncliing to that implied space in the wings serves as jointed text polarizes around two that no one is half as good a nerd as he The bit parts are inspired and hdp to be letter perfect—all crurial if Audrey II a kind of negative space that infuses diametric characters: the Model, who is. Moranis manages to make Seymour flesh out the movie. Bfll Murray scores is going to work as the film’s center­ what is seen with a heightened impor­ defines herself by her haute couture sympathetic and endearing, and he as the masochistic patient (the role Jack piece, which it most assuredly does. tance. I was a little disappointed that wardrobe; and the Boy, who fashions handles a song surprisingly well (not a Nicholson played in the I960 Roger It should be noted that viewers expec­ the performers used only the central clothing from “ roadkill” he finds by great voice, but he can put it across). Corman original) who falls head over ting to see a filmed version of the play and front portions o f the set instead of the side o f the interstate highway. The character the movie either makes heels for D.D.S. Scrivello’s may well be upset by the movie’s con- exploiting its full depth. While there is much consistency in it or breaks it on is Audrey, and Ellen “ treatment.” Martin’s disgust at Mur­ dusion. On the stage, Audrey II gobbl­ * * * the imagery and metaphors,Dust Bowl Greene, who played her for two years ray’s all-too-obvious pleasure (his ed up Seymour and Audrey, which gave RL: One’s immediate impression is that lacks the multi-layered complexity and on Broadway and in London, is a simulated orgasm—fingers pulling a very different meaning to Audrey’s the setting looks realistic, but afteT a overlapping rhythms o f Last Resort. dazzler. Audrey, in her The-Girl- Martin doser—is genius) humorously reprise o f "Somewhere That’s Green” while it seems, not really surreal, but The segues are often rough, and the per­ Can't-Help-It wardrobe and with her illustrates the sadist cheated out o f his as the play’s finale. Oz sort o f covers sharpened, selective. And the extreme formances lack the clarity and character Jayne/Marilyn send-up voice, has to be enjoyment. John Candy, who livens up himsdf by making the last shot a close- depth o f the stage space is very different depth that might have made this an bdievable or the film falters. Ellen any film he’s in, does likewise here as up o f what looks like Audrey III in from most settings, which are basically engaging as well as interesting work. Greene works magic with this part. Weird Wink Wilkinson, the announcer Seymour and Audrey’s Better Homes laid out flat before the audience. Even with her breasts pushed up under for WSKID—Skidrow Radio, where and Gardens garden, but some will * * * RL: You keep your works in repertory her chin, you never think that she's less Seymour goes to talk about his surely fed cheated by what appears to RF: A lot o f our images come from for several years. Why is that? than innocent. Her brilliant reading of discovery. The cheap special effects be a standardized “ happy ending.” paintings, and we try to create a sense of RF: It takes that long to build the piece the lyrics in “ Somewhere That’s Candy uses to fool his listeners show This new ending is a bit pat, although perspective, like in a painting. and add layers of complexity. It Green” steers that song clear of kitsch him at his comic best as the master of still viable. From what I saw, the au­ RL: In what way? becomes more intricate as well as in- because what she’s saying/singing is so flimflam. dience’s positive response to Seymour obviously heartfelt and sincere that it’s Of course, the real star of the picture, and Audrey’s “ victory” surmounted touching and silly (the lookalike kids in around which the actors are so many what felt like a copout, and worry over front of the television!) all at the same satellites, is Audrey II, the plant that audience response was probably what time. And behind the little-girl squeaks grows from an innocuous bud to a one- led to the change—right or wrong—in is a voice that can shake a theatre (and ton, twelve-and-a-half-foot monster. the first place. does during “ Suddenly Seymour” ). Audrey H’s creator and designer, Lyle In the avalanche o f Christmas In the supporting roles, Vincent (Dream Child) Conway, employed for­ releases, Frank Oz’s Little Shop o f Gardenia is properly apoplectic as Mr. ty puppeteers to work the plant’s lips Horrors stands out as a small, though Mushnik. His untimely end is a and went to Motown to get the great not minor, gem—proof, indeed, o f the gruesome delight. As Orin Scrivello, the Levi Stubbs (The Four Tops) to be the cliche that “ bigger is not necessarily sadistic, nitrous-oxide addicted dentist, hip, seductive, and decidedly better.” The light Little Shop casts is Steve Martin is—well—Steve Martin. malevolent voice of the man-eater. The shot through with good cheer, and yes, Although he Aar garnered considerable result is a monster that, like King Kong, Virginia—dare I say it?—it’s even praise for this role, Martin’s scenes elicits our understanding and admira­ uplifting. ■

SF Rep Lands presented in 1980 starring Richard angle badges—under the Nazi regime, Local Premiere Gere. Bent will preview February as well as its ultimatdy hopeful message of ‘Bent' 11-15, and run February 17-March 15, o f courage. playing Tuesday through Sunday nights l ickets for Bent ($11-515) are San Francisco Repertory Theatre has at the San Francisco Repertory currently on sale at BASS outlets, and announced it will present the Northern Theatre, 19th & Collingwood Streets. through the STBS ticket office in Union California premiere o f Bent, the ac­ Written by Martin Sherman, Bent Square. Further information: (415) claimed drama portraying homosexual was critically acdaimed for its vivid 864-3305. ■ Persecution in Nazi Germany which depiction of the brutal reality o f life for took New York by storm when it was homosexuals—branded with pink tri­ 22 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 with a couple o f fag jokes and went on to deliver a host o f racial and ROBERT JULIAN ethnic slurs disguised as humor. NOW OPEN! Luckily for Zadora, Alan Thicke’s mounted above the Davies’ stage and personality and a fifteen minute inter­ Breakfast · Lunch · Omner Pia Zadora: operated by remote control. They not mission helped neutralize the damage. WE SERVE THE FINEST only focused in different configura­ Thicke’s charm also allowed him to tions, but changed colors to suit the get away with an act that was less Mixing Monotony mood o f the song. The acoustics of than sensational. He opened by sing­ MEXICAN Davies were used to their full advan­ ing “ Old Time Rock N ’ Roll” and tage, with the sound engineer making “ Pink Cadillac” with no particular FOOD and Kitsch sure the orchestra never overpowered distinction and then moved on to a the vocalist. And on the floor, stage forgettable medley of theme songs he IN THE HAYES VALLEY right, a technician crouched behind had written for TV game shows. C h AMPA:G r'. ia Zadora has clearly established herself as a the speakers for the show’s duration. When he got to “ Only the Good Die P SUNDAY BRUNCH magna cum laude graduate of the school of ar­ His only job was to adjust the slack in Young," 1 felt his act was beginning 11 ΛΜ Dll 3 PM tistic hard knocks. Despite the backing of her multi­ Zadora’s microphone cord as she to border on prophecy, but it was a moved back and forth across the little number called “ Hockey Sock millionaire husband, Meshulam Riklis, Zadora’s film, stage. Regrettably, effort plus Rock" that sent me screaming to the CRYSTAL concert, and recording attempts have met with the kind premeditation does not equal ex­ lobby for a Vodka tonic. Nobody is cellence. that charming. [RESTAURANT of reception usually reserved for Nazi storm troopers at Whatever deficiencies Pia Zadora At the end of the evening there was the Jewish Community Center: Only recently has she may possess, she was nothing short of no encore; no groundswell o f HAYES & LAGUNA begun to receive jo o d notices for her concert ap­ steUarwhen compared to her opening “ brava’s” delayed the audience’s exit a c tllb u rin g the early part o f the for the parking lot. Zadora’s final pearances. Judging from the less than capacity crowd at evening she almost lost the house song, delivered as her own self- Davies Symphony Hall last week, word has not yet because o f “ comedian” Joey Villa. assessment, was “ I Am What I A m .” trickled down to the public. Villa, allegedly one o f Frank Sinatra’s When you’re asking S20 a seat, it’s favorite comics, warmed up the crowd not quite that simple. ■ Zadora arrived with two opening arts, a 42-piece orchestra, decent ar­ rangements, and state-of-the-art lighting, but no amount o f help could disguise the basic monotony o f her RESTAURANT & BAR performance. In black satin pumps and a blaze o f gray sequins, she took Fresh Seafood the stage and launched into “ For Once In My Life.” By the time she ' Sizzling Steak finished, it was abundantly clear that the lady does have a voice. But A \ Dente Pasta Zadora went on to belt her way •k through "H ow About You,” “ Come Jusl a feu.' slrps from lltr Opera House Rain or Come Shine,” and “ A ll of 409 Gough St. at Hayes Me" with a disturbingly similar 626-7505 presentation. She always started slow, * worked her way up to a big crescen­ For an rzolic dinner please try our do, and then belted out the final lyric. Sage Chinese Cuisine Sometimes it worked and sometimes 406 Hayes St. at Gough it didn’t. 626-3838 Zadora has the kind o f solid, * powerful voice that would be perfect Also . . . The Blue Muse in a Broadway show. Her clarity and 1 1 0 1 Valencia Street · 647-7497 range may even allow her to trans­ cend her status as a punch line for every joke in Hollywood. But there is nothing unique about her voice that distinguishes her from dozens o f other female vocalists. More importantly, when she tackles a song like “ The ^lan That Got Away,” she could be /talking about her hairdresser who just I quit the business. She conveys the ^-sense o f the lyrics but misses the sen­ sibility. Time and experience may bring more emotional depth, but it's conspicuously absent now. There were even a few times during the evening when she attempted things that bordered on kitsch. W ith a blue feather boa around her shoulders, she strutted across the stage, vamping her way through “ The Lady is a Tramp.” Under normal circumstan­ ces this would simply be trite, but with Zadora seven months pregnant, it bordered on the bizarre. And just > before singing “ Pennies from Heaven,” she innocently told the audience “ This is what I wish for all . of you.” As the wife o f one o f the Mommie.” So much for creating a wealthiest men in America, only her mood. genuine naivete kept her from qualify­ Between numbers, Zadora giggled ing for an Imelda Marcos award. and talked to the audience about her γ · Gay ^ Nothing, however, surpassed her career, her family, and the joy of • Rendez-vous incredible segue between the two motherhood. No matter what you • Introductions might think o f her work, she comes torch classics "The Man That Got i · Personals , Away” and “ The Party’s Over.” across as a genuinely nice person with

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San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 23 OCK PREVIEWS DON BAIRD

Thrill of the Pull must in order to enjoy this band. Fun­ My friend Sparky tells me that Thrill of ny, someone told me the same thing the Pull are not only his favorite band about The Greatful Dead. Hmmmmm, to see for free at Nightbreak, but that he maybe The Residents are really The would even pay to see them. With his Greatful Dead. Ever seen them in the glowing review and the Psychedelic same room together? Expect a fun and Furs-like cut that 1 heard on KUSF by theatrical event with costumes, props, this local four-piece, it’s fair to assume effects and a lot o f dialated pupils. that an evening of compelling rock and Comedy team Penn and Teller provide roll may be at hand. Nightbreak’s laughs and fellow Ralph Records artist remarkably low admission price makes Snakefinger warms up. (The Warfield, it hard to say no. (Nightbreak, 1 /9 ,11 1/10,8 pm, S15) pm. $3)

Christian Death Lita Ford, Isn’t it a scream that this band was bill­ Leather Panteez ed in the Datebook as "Christian and Sticky Fingers D -th ” ! This deletion ranks right up there with “ B—hole Surfers." Chris­ Lita Ford is an ex-member o f the first Not exactly pretty: Wiseblood play the I-Beam, Monday, Jan. 12. tian Death is a mysterious band who all-girl American punk/metal band, specialize in gloomy, disturbing, The Runaways. They weren’t around Who’s Don Bajema anyway? traordinaire, brings her new incarna­ hallucinogenic, atmospheric, violent, Pray For Rain for very long, producing only one (Wolfgang’s, I / l l , 7-10 pm, 57/58) tion, 88 Magic, to open the show. Ms. religious, corpse-grinding, industrial, and 88 Magic Fendlie’s keyboards have graced many memorable song, "Cherry Bomb” go-home-and-paint-your-room-black- (who could forget the line, “ Hello Dad, Fust BAM , then th(Sentinel, and now groups including Specimen, Deborah t hen -sacri fice-you r-neigh bor’s-kitty- hello Mom, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch- Wiseblood the Chronicle's Datebook (January 4 Iyall, Voices and even the San Frair- type music. Like Throbbing Gristle, cheny bomb!” ). Alter The Runaways This band features Clint Ruin (aka issue) have traced the interesting ascent dsco Ballet. Her well-respected abilities Psychic TV and Chris and Cosey, disbanded, guitarist Joan Jett went on Scraping Foetus O ff The Whed, good from obscurity to notoriety of local and Pray For Rain’ s intelligent pop Christian Death has a strong cult to record several hit records and recent­ friend o f Lydia Lunch) and Roli band Pray For Rain. Their live show is make this the best double bill o f the following and probably puts on a far ly made her acting debut with Michael Mossiman, ex-Swans. With two 12-inch clean, dear, exuberant and not to be week. (Nine, 1/15,10:30,57) ■ more fascinating show than their many J. Fox in an upcoming rock-oriented singles to their credit, “ Motorslug” and missed. Gere Feneflie, keyboardist ex­ spooky and indulgent records allude to. film featuring the music o f Bruce Spr­ "Scumbo” (soon to be distributed (The Farm, 1/10,9 pm, $7.50 at BASS, ingsteen. The last time I saw another ex­ domestically by Realitivity), Wiseblood 59 at door) member, Cherie Curie, she was spitting hits the road. Roli Mossiman has work­ up blood in the L.A. teenage saga!/#/? ed with Matt Johnson o f The The and a Foxes with Jodie Foster. As far as 1 new group, The Young Gods. Sound- know, Lha has stuck with music, Lydia Lunch, wise, I don’t know what to expect from garnering a small heavy metal following Henry Rollins this configuration. I saw Foetus last and, believe it or not, a few positive year and it was one guy in leather reviews. The support acts are from L.A. and Don Bajema screaming, “ I can do any goddamn and they win the prize for stupid, stupid Oh look, here comes Lydia and Henry thing I want,” to a recorded track names. (The Stone, 1/9, 9 pm, to spofl our fun with more of that per­ amidst a fog machine haze. The Swans S7.50/58.50) formance art/spoken word bullshit. are a ground-swelling noise band. What Why don’t they just play at Nine in a is Wiseblood? Come out on Monday room with A rt Motd, letting people in and find out. 0-Beam, 1/12,10:30 pm, one by one to be verbally and physically 56/57) The Residents, abused by both of than au>jace?,l Jike^ tn -S’ ••'ita r-f ^ -«Βϋ Snakeflnger, Black Flag but hate Henry Rollins’ spoken word schlock. Lydia Lunch did Love Club Penn and Teller some interesting work with Sonic and Nova Mob This show marks the end of the Resi­ Youth, recorded a remake of the Nancy Love Club is a four-piece local band dent’s 17-nation tour and their 13th an­ Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood 60’s hit “ Some with keyboards, synthesized drums, niversary as the band whM io face. I’ve Velvet Morning" with Roland S. guitar, a bit o f saxaphone, and best of purchased and tried to like several of Howard (ex-Birthday Party), and in all, an exciting female vocalist with their records and experienced forced her most recent film project, she per­ great strength and range. She soars Residents exposure through an old forms fellatio on some lucky chap. through styles and likenesses with con­ friend (and the biggest Zappa fan on Perhaps Henry and Lydia should just fidence and an aggressive but elegant earth) who insisted that LSD was a throw a healthy fuck right on stage. stage persona. The band behind her seems to improve with each show. Nova Mob recently opened for Shriekback at DV8. For this show the Mob will in­ IF YOU'RE MAN ENOUGH.... troduce their new drummer, Paul Elias, replacing their drum machine. Both bands boast an electronic danceabiliiy and frenetic motion onstage, which can be viewed from two different levels at Band with no face: The Residents (and this fine venue. (DNA, 1/14,9 pm. 57) Snakefinger) play the Warfield, Saturday, Jan. 10.

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24 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 Naked Inspiration S omebody said once that all art is actually plagiarism. Like other art media, in pop music it is the victims of that plagiarism who are known as my inspirations, while it’s those who do the thieving who are called trend­ setters . It’s a necessary process however dirty it sometimes gets. The trick is to go one better than those you chose to call your inspirations. The Naked Into know a lot about in­ lusion that this band has twice the spiration. This San Francisco modem number o f members, or at least twice rock quartet manage, at various points, the arsenal. to leap through a collection o f styles It was obvious The Naked Into did that range from Echo and the Bun- not, like so many other pop groups, nymen to REM to Human League. form their band first and then leam to Their trick is in the synthesis o f these play later. However, nor was there any various modem styles into an original o f the art school pretense that’s and, frankly, refreshing pop style of sometimes a by-product o f musicians their own which they offered to a pack­ who are classically talented and more The Naked Into: A band that's ripe for the future. ed house last week at Nightbreak on bent on trendsetting than entertaining. Haight Street. Never mind creating. Couple all this with his casual actually gone one beuer than their in­ crime pays in the pop music world? Finely tuned and confident after the Though it's Todd Stadtman's delivery and boyish good looks and it spirations, they have pleasantly suc­ Who knows—go ask Duran Duran. In rigors o f a trip to the studio to produce refreshing vocals that without doubt de­ would be safe to say say that with, or ceeded in mastering all o f them with a the meantime, go see The Naked their first album, Here Comes the mand center o f attention here. Stadt- without The Naked Into, Stadtman is style that may, in turn, get them ripped Into. ■ World (Infrasonic Records), it was im­ man’s voice has a soulful honesty that going places. o ff someday. mediately apparent that these young can best be described as sounding like While The Naked Into may not have So docs all this really mean that musicians are ripe for a future in no Morrissey’s of The Smiths without that

Isobd) to the New York Post's Dr. should be commended for reissuing this . . . it would be safe to say that with, or Continued from page 20 Franzblau. These letters are both amazing work-. Perhaps it will bring touching and hilarious. Alfred Chester some o f the recognition without The Naked Into, Stadtman is going tenement apartment. His double life is The book is filled with disarming im­ he so rightly deserves. His work stands reflected in both places. ages. To write of them would rob them firmly between that o f Burroughs and places. Melodrama is an integral part of o f their impact (though I can't help but Genet. Chester succumbed to his own what makes this book so enjoyable. The mention the sexy Jesus who wears a demons before he had written a large uncertain terms. singer’s whining angst. Like his tragic tale o f Ismael, the strapping jockstrap while nailed to the cross). body of work, but The Exquisite Versatility is probably the band’s associates, Stadtman effortlessly Puerto Rican, and Tommy, the fallen Chester’s command is seductive. Like Corpse, alone, is the novel of a career. most important asset. With only a bass switched vocal styles and was equally high-society glamour-boy, is Genet, he creates a slimy underworld Not to be missed. ■ and lead guitar, drums and vocals, adept at competing with a raunch, wall- melodrama o f the highest form. It that glistens. But Chester’s world is far they’re able to master everything from of-guitar sound as he was at producing resembles a gay version of True Confes­ more varied—he can turn any sleazy The Exquisite Corpse by Alfred the ^lue-eyed funk of ‘ ‘Dark’’ to the the immediate intimacy of the more sions. Chester infuses this with a great urban comer into a place o f desperate Chester (54.95, Carroll & Graf) This hea\)Kduty, punk guitar assault of quiet, introspective "Innocence” — deal o f wit when he reveals the par­ wonder. I related to this book far more book is often mis-shelved in the "Teeth.” The result is a new surprise probably the best of the evening’s offer­ ticulars o f the situation through than I care to admit. mystery section, look fo r it there. with every (well written) song and the il- ings. Ismael’s disguised letters (he writes as Carroll & Graf, the book’s publisher,

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San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 ' 25 ESS TALK L DAVE FORD f k I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if I ■ go astray.” Prince sang that, and I now know how he felt. I recently dreamt a doozy myself: 1 was on a tropical island, surrounded by athletic and energetic eighteen-year-old boys; they were tan and loud, and smil­ ed a lot. We played football and volleyball together, and body-surfed the perfect rolling waves, sometimes with nine or more of us on a single swell. The food was sump­ tuous, the weather balmy, the days endless and the nights seductive. close poses.. . with semi-nude women. Then I went astray. I opened my Thay also sent a tiresome gee-whiz eyes: Rain sluiced down my win- reported named Joyce Wadler (her dowpane, wind howled—and I had a previous beat was the stock exchange) column due. to cover Musto and Details magazine's It’s good to be back. Stephen Saban, to whom the headline Gee, Cute writers referred, natch, as the "Duke" “ They called me Duchess, but 1 would of New York. Un ragazzo da Venezia. maacgeller rather have been queen o f New York,” Wadler’s an ass. She writes, “ Musto Village Voice nightlife columnist shows up half the time wearing a dress. Michael Musto groused on the phone Is he gay, you wonder? This is an ex­ for three weeks after that, confirming over New York, posing me in the middle Gee, Cute Ass last week. “ They” are the spackle- tremely rude question and, more im­ facts—because she couldn’t read her of a street as Puerto Rican kids were It’s also nice work writing about men’s brains at GQ, the "straight” fashion portant, would render simplistic notes! I would have strangled her, if bing let out o f school.” asses—it’s work I get as often as I can. magazine. Remember when the rag behavior that in the light of downtown she’d had a neck." Wadler’s just the kind of journalist, But if I wanted to do it for the featured perfect men in great swimsuits is practically metaphorical: why Musto The photo, showing a miserable- actually, that I admire: She trades any “ straight” GQ, I’d have to be a and in close poses? That was before wears a dress.” Whatever that means. looking Musto in the fabled hoop skirt journalistic flair for a silly wide-eyed woman—or have a suspicious sounding they went “ straight,” and, in the “ She never came out and asked if I and posed on a bicycle, is also a fluke. slant on the "Duke and Duchess," pseudonym. January issue, put blank-brained Huey was gay," Michael said on the phone. “ I was miserable!” Michael cried. never addresses the gay issue—and gets In “ Bottoms Up: One Woman’s I-ewis on the cover—and featured “ And she was a pain. I took her out for “ The photographer didn’t know what paid a couple o f grand for her troubles. Assessment o f Men’s Buns," a person perfect men in great swimsuits and in weeks, then she kept me on the phone he was doing either—he dragged me all It’s nice work if you can get it. named Pofly Hursl writes in a tone so familiar I’ll forgive readers for thinking they read it here first: “ Even if you’re politically correct from here to Sunday, Can a $30 Computer Matching Service Help You Find Happiness? how can you keep from looking when something so fine is walking or jogging or—my favorite—riding a bicycle in Many ComQuest™ members think it can. Here's what some of them have written to us: tight jeans right there in front o f your eyes?” I can’t, so I don’t, especially if the bicyclist is wearing lycra. I see "Some months ago I subscribed to the ComQuest service. "Just wanted to write and let you know how happy I am nothing wrong, in fact, with following a I found the service to be excellent and have subsequently met with your service. Your computer is a whiz. 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26 San Francisco Sentinel · January 9, 1987 she did a concert tour o f mental institu­ Bowery, NYC 10012.) Dlamanda Galas tions in the mid-70’s. “ The Minimalist could fail to list it as one o f the top Continued from page 15 Hailed by The Village Voice as “ the performance art scene couldn’t under­ albums o f 19861 fail to understand. In­ most extraordinary, extreme and hon­ with the stunning Corbiere poem Cris stand what I was doing," she ways, deed, it may be one of the most extraor­ est vocal performer alive," Diamanda D ’Aveugle (Blind Man’s Cry). Cris "So when a friend in the Living Theater dinary musical works o f the decade. But Galas continues to explore new ter­ begins with a sustained bat-like shriek­ suggested the mental institution tour I o f two things I’m certain. Masque o f ritory. Masque o f the Red Death is the ing. Gradually, an overlapping hetero- thought, why not? In those days I ’d the Red Death sings, shrieks and rasps first major musical work on the growing out in defense o f the gay community glossia o f voices overwhelms thcDeus stand with my back to the audience, AIDS epidemic. It explodes the usual like no other work before. And if fate misericors of the chorus: first, the cack­ sometimes silently for up to 10 mintues, neat categories separating opera and should have it that I die o f AIDS, this is ling rasp o f a crone; next, a breathy until whatever was in me would start to rock, high art and low, far more radi­ the music I would want played at my childlike voice o f innocence; the mum­ come out.” cally than Nina Hagen or Philip Glass funeral. ■ bled murmurings, screechings, arias Galas has since worked with such in Liquid Days. How any music critic (both near and far), squeaks and blith- leading European avant garde com­ erings, growls and moans, unearthly posers as PierTe Boulez, Vinko Globo- whispers like air squeezed out o f a bal­ kas and Iannis Xenakis as well as per­ loon. I f the monsters populating the hell formed in punk clubs like Club Lingerie ESS TALK Stud in Blue o f Heiroriymus Bosch could speak, this in LA or other clubs like the I-Beam, L I wish six dollars would save the Stud, is how they’d sound. And finally, when Club Nine and the Danceteria in NYC. Continued from page 26 which street word says may either nail you think you can take no more, a Perhaps no other singer has appeared at under the band o f his Jockey shorts? A shut its doors for good or move to a new pause, and then the final text: such a wide range of venues. Hall of Fame moment in cinema.) location. Pardon fo r praying hard 1 asked if she’s studied or consciously In the off-target Mosquito Coast (a See, the lease is up for renegotiation Lord, \ f il is fate uses magical incantations in her work. movie made by white people for while at the bar’s 12th and Folsom location. My eyes two burning holy-water fonts “ It’s not conscious . . . It’s not people), River plays the son of AJIie Sources allege that landlord Alexis has The devil has put his fingers inside Witchcraft or anything like that though Fox (Harrison Ford), a maniacal in­ booted the tariff, because she really Pardon fo r crying loud for some reason people often think it is. ventor. Never mind the movie’s un­ wants to open a new bar there. At the Lord against fate I was approached by someone from the fulfilled promises, nor the ingratiatingly same time, sources say the bar’s owners Pan African Congress after a concert in condescending w riting, nor the are quacking about moving the whole I hear the northwind Germany and asked to tour Africa. sometimes uninspired acting—the flick shebang, and dragging the excellent Which bugles like a hom This man related what I do to a form of has Phoenix and Ford, thereby raising crew with ’em. It is the hunting call fo r the kill o f Witchcraft practiced in Africa." the heat quotient exponentially. " I think Alexis was just pissed she the dead Is Galas ever afraid o f being taken Whereas Ford is, as usual, bristling didn’t get invited to the 20th anniver­ / bay enough on my own over by spirits, energies or whatever it is with energy and bulging with biceps, sary party,” a source close to the club / hear the northwind that channels through her? Phoenix is sensitive and sweet. A light said recently. / hear the horn’s knell "N o , not at all. I ’d only be scared if sprout o f hair dusts his underarms (a Okay: enough of this Nat Enq jour­ When 1 played this album for a friend, my voice needed to do something it Diamanda Galas: Probably (he fact not lost on the wardrobe staff, who nalism—we’ll get the dirt soon’s possi­ neither of us could speak for ten min­ couldn’t do. That’s why I started study­ world’s most intimidating outfitted him in rolled up Τ-shirts), ble. For now, suffice this: it’s a stupid utes after it ended. ing bel canto with Frank Kelly in San performer. which means, o f course, that he’s move, since the bar rakes in the dollars I ask Galas how Masque o f the Red Diego seven years ago.” (The risk Ga­ already started jacking off. hand over fist, and provides all sorts of Death will end. las alludes to is that she sometimes o f their last album cover. “ Everyone I We haven’t a clue as to the size and wayward and genial spirits with a home “ I work intuitively, not intellectual­ pushes her voice so far that one mis­ know totally backs them," I reply. Dia- shape of his pee-pee, however, though they can call home. Why fuck up a ly, so I ’m really not sure yet," she says take, one momentary loss o f discipline manda says Moral Majority types the movie director tantalizes the keen­ good thing? modestly. “ I ’m influenced by Artaud’s and control, might hemorrhage her forced the cancellation o f several of her eyed observer more than Readers? Do you know anything Theater o f Cruelty, but by cruelty I vocal chords and end her career.) own concerts because of her Litanies o f once—especially when Phoenix, dress­ about this? don’t mean sadism. I mean rigor, hon­ “ When I can svngNorma, which I can’t Satan, soon to be re-released. ed only in Jockey shorts, swings from a (PS— I haven’t seen it yet, but one of esty, forcing yourself to see what you yet, I can probably handle anything,” (Galas, along with Husker Du, vine over an idyllic pond while in the my spies tells me the new gay mag Solo really don’t want to see. I don’t think she concludes with a laugh. William Burroughs, Laurie Anderson, background children chatter and birds has a fine interview with Stud owner I ’ve arrived at Bataille’s “ joy in des­ Then Galas has a question for me. Keith Haring, Philip Glass, Meredith twitter. Jim Fleckenstein. Maybe it has some pair” yet though it may be there in She’s staying with her friend Jello Monk, Allen Ginsberg and others, are As if that isn't enough, River’s hair answers.) ■ glimmers. I ’ll just have to wait till I get Biafra and wonders what San Fran­ donating the royalites from their Gior- looks fabulous, becoming increasingly Please send contributions to: Dave to Berlin. Then I’ll just let what hap­ ciscans fed about the expensive court no albums to a special AIDS Treatment punk as the film advances. Ford, c/o Less Talk, The SF Sentinel, pens happen.’’ battle he and the Dead Kennedy’s are Project. 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