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Dancer Steve Gross. See p. 55. Photo: Benjamin Franklin Smith II' Publisher .~i'djtor in Chief iV;A~ociate 4 OUT'YWEEI( February 4, 1990 possible candidate for com-' have to guard against camI- LETTERS missioner. ballzlng our leaders, we also Had Sweeney actually have to hold them account- blown ffle whistle on Myers able. Every group or cause "the moment he learned that has ever succeeded has Tim Sweeney press on the use of quaran- there were serlous...questlons had some mechanism for Pro and Con tine In New York City, Tim about Myers record on holding Its leaders account- 'Your editorial and news Sweeney withdrew his sup- AIDS," as Braff asserts, Myers able. At present we, as gays analysis of January 28 distort port of Dr. Myers as health would not now be health In the age of AIDS, have no Tim Sweeney's role In the commissioner. He joined me commissioner. such mechanism, The peo- selection process for a com- In Issuing a statement that ple running GMHC, who missioner of health In New GMHC could not support Dr, Bravo to you all for calling practically have the power of York City, You fall to present Myers' candidacy, on Tim Sweeney of the life and death In their hands, the basic fact that TIm, and Mayor Dinkins has made GMHC to resign, At the ACT are elected by nobody, GMHC, came out against Dr, his deCision on the health UP meeting where YOl.X.edlto- answerable to nobody and Woodrow Myers' nomination, commissioner and I believe rial was dlscl,lSSed,someone can be recalled or held You Ignore TIm'syears of pas- that we must move on criticized you for "CO'lniballz- occolSltabie by nobody. So sionate commitment to gay together. The gay and les- lng" our leadeis, That's a serl- when someone like Sweeney and lesbian rights and his bian community must coop- ous charge and I've heard It gets called upon to represent current struggle to preserve erate with all communities before, It Is too bad when us all on a search corrmHtee, the coalition that Is the cor- affected by AIDS, We need gay groups get so obsessed and allows Myers to go nerstone of the flght against to develop trust not dMslve- with Inflghtlng and personalI- through, and then says, "I AIDSIn New YorkCity. ness, Tim has done nothing to ty clashes that the overall understand why public Tim, along with the 17 betray o.urtrust. He took on a cause gets obscured and we health people want to qua- women and men on the difficult assignment as a gay ,should all guard against that antlne:'what are we sup- mayor's search committee, man and an AIDS advocate happening, But It's unfair to- posed to do? Sao;, oh flne Mr. volunteered his time and and carried It out to the best accuse Outweek of that mls- Sweeney, keep It up Mr. expertise to evaluate candi- of hisconsiderable abilltles. take-In that case. Sweeney, we don't want to dates for commissioner of The focus of our attention The fact Is that while we be accused of "cannlballz- health, The moment Tim must remain on Dr. learned there were serious Myers-:-he has not yet . additional questions about earned our trust. Dr, Myers Is srONEWAtt RIOrS BY ANDREA NATALIE Dr. Myers' record on AIDS;he the man we must educate advised me of the Issues and vigilantly watch to Involved and I sent a letter make sure all people with that day, January 8, .to the AIDS In New York City are mayor asking him to delay protected from discrimina- any appOintment until after tion and given access to the an Independent review was health care and other ser- conducted. We also asked vices they desperately need. the mayor to Issue a policy Jeffrey Braff, statement recognizing that Executive Director, the New York City Health Gay Men's Health Crisis C;ommlssloner must oppose Manhattan mandatory reporting of names and contact tracing (Editor's note: Mr, Braff's of HlV Infected IndiViduals, assert/on that Sweeney Tim ,realized the contro- Informed him about prob- versy over Dr. Myers could lems wlffl Myers' record "The destroy the coalition he and moment SWeeney learned others had worked years to fflere were serious additional create, We asked leaders of quest/ons," on Jan. 8, Is AIDSorganizations In the gay Incorrect. When OutWeek community and communi- presented Sweeney with a ties of color to meet at long list of allegatfons about GMHC on January 10. Over Myers on Jan. 6, Sweeney the next eight days, Tim responded that, with the struggled tirelessly behind exception of the Clover Leaf the scenes to remain a Nursing Home Issue, he had bridge between all these known about all the other groyps. But on Janudry 18, allegations for quite some when Dr, Myers made Irre- time, Despite ffl/S,he strongly CAVE LES9/ANS sponsible statements to the defended Myers as the best February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 5 tng- you Mr. &Heeney so we'U heal1h commissioner. . FundIng (CAF), which Is a In England, In public life, just keep OU' mouths shut? We value TIm's role In our consOrtium of over 30 of the anyone responsible for half I don't thInk so. We comrm.nlty enormously, and major communIty-based the damage Mr. Sweeney should alwoyS give our 1ead- we hope that he will contfn- AIDS organizations that has done wood have taken ers some room for error, we ue to work with us and for us annuaHy presents an alterna- full responslb81y and depart- . should always reserve judge- and for many years to come. tive budget to the city for ed, voluntarily, the day ment when mistakes are Nan Hunter fu'ldlng AIDSservices. Woodrow Myers was made. But when somebody BIll RubensteIn It woud seem faIrly clear appointed, tucks up this bad, they just ACLU Lesbian and Gay that such contributions will The tact that Mr. 9Neeney have to go. . RIghtsProject be far more crttlcal In meet- Is Clinging to office Is an Ithank God 0Utweek Isn't Ing the challenges ahead, emba'assment. The tact that afrdd to point that out, I'm a As someone who has than satisfying any Immedi- a newspaper had to call tor PVYAand I God bless you all, worked with TImSWeeney for ate urge for symboHc blood- his ouster Is a scandal. The Marvin Myershon several years on the growing lettfng. tact that his contfnued pres- Manhattan problem of homelessness . Peter P.SmIth, President ence Is splitting New York's anorg people M'Q wtth ADS Partnership for the Home- gay c:ornmJnIty Is a tragedy. Few persons In New York, a-d related conditions, Iper- less,lnc. I look forward to the day or..lndeed the nation, have sonally belleve It Is unfair and when our 'gay leaders- rise worked for as many years, cxx.nter~1o cIemc:rd In a cMlIzed society, when to the moral level of British with as'much dedIcation tis resIgIaIIon ftom GMHC. someone causes lrrepaable, politicians. and effectlveness, to protect Sweeney has done as disastrous harm to one's FraserGDI the rights of lesbians and much as any other single cause, one resigns, valll'ltart- Manhattan gay men and people wIth IndIvidual to move the city ly. It matters not a whit how HlV disease as has Tim bu'eaucracy towards facing long one has labored In the I agree that Woodrow SWeeney. Calling for his res- up to the ravages of the past or h~w many good Myers as heal1h commission- ignation or firing Is an unwar- AIDS epidemic. One exam- deeds one can take credit er Is a risky proposition, ranted reaction to the ple should suftlce: SWeeney for. What matters Is responsl- although I think Mayor Dink- . events surrounding the was Instrumental In founding bIIty, and settfng a tone, a-d Ins Is correct In asserting that appointment of Dr. Myers os· the Committee for AIDS a sense of personal honor. the past record does not EYER'( SUMbAYt'DRNlN', "E MAKES us WEAl T~ESE .... VOU'LL GET USE!) To \T! 6 O~EK February4,1990 necessarily predict how the Befrayed- and your Inaccu- port for contact tracing and Frankly, we are sick and guy will do In New York. It rate depiction of Tim quarantine and all the rest. tired of It. We are tired of seems to be In the nature of SWeeney, ThisI find absolutely unbe- being characterized as the public health professionals to In addition to being one lIeveable. The person who enemy, the big bad giant want to keep lists, contact of the founders of the New was responsible for looking with no feelings. We are people and Intervene York AIDSCoalition, an orga- out for gay InterestsKNEWall tired of the "gay press- aggressively. nization working with more this stuff and said Myers was trumpeting our failings and What I don't agree with Is than 200 community based OK anyway? It's a disgrace. shortcomings and never the stridency of the -Par- services and programs So the fact Is, It wasn't a mentioning 'the good and adise Betrayed- editorial. statewide, Tim SWeeney has mistake, He did It on pur- valuable work that we do While the honeymoon with been a leader, an advocate pose, And If he. doesn't every day, sl:lch as deliver- Dlnklns Is over, a declaration and a committed organizer resign or get fired, he can do Ing over 600 free meals of war Is premature. for over a decade. It again, each week In our recre- My Q"lOIysls Is that the gay Colng for Tim'sresignation I don't care how great ation program, or creating folks on the transition team becasue his actlon -disqualI- Tim Sweeney Issupposed to the first educational pro- made a bad coli on this one, fies him from any further be, I think he's a menace, I grams to reinforce safer sex and by the time the facts Involvement- Is deplorable. hope he leaves quletiy, behavior, or hiring a perma- blew up In everyone's face, Your editorial blindly Ignores Marc Rosenthal nent, full-time lobbyist to Dlnldnshad to go ctlead with the work Tim has done In the Manhattan represent the entire HIV Myers unlessMyers voluntarlly legislative halls of New York community In Washington. pulled himself out of consld- . CIty, Albany and Washington. We have been silent long We are tired of fanatics who eratlon, which he obviously You fall to menllon how many enough. feel that they have to mis- did not do. 1ImesTim has reached out to It seems that each new represent the faefs and I agree with Tim SWeeney bJd bridges acrossthe waters Issue of OutWeek contains yet hoard credit for accom- that there are some last of a tubUent corrmunIIy, another condemnation of plishments that are the resort circumstances where I hope Tim Sweeney Gay Men's Health. Crisis, . result of careful coalltlon- Individuals with HIV Infection remains a strong leader who whether It be In a column building and cooperation, who lack the appropriate continues to fight theleglsla- wrltten by an embittered for- We are tired of the self-rlgh- sense of responsibility to tlve battles for funding, civil mer colleague or a letter from teousness and Institutional- restrain themselves may liberties and access to quali- one of the self-styled -bad Ized hysteria that foster have to be restrained by ty health care, We couldn't guys: the acfMsts who are so shoot -from-the-hlp criticism society. I think the most rea- win wlfhout him. ultta-chlc at the moment, and lightning-quick judg- sonable way to go about SusanStamler, Usually, the staff here at ments. the -quarantine- Issue Is to C-oordlnator GMHC just rolltheir eyes, try to GMHC Is certainly far talk about appropriate pro- New YorkAIDSCoalition laugh off the otten vicious from perfect, No one Is cedures and safeguards to Manhattan and unfounded attacks with- more aware of that fact ensure that this draconian out getting too enraged or than GMHC staff. But GMHC Intervention Is only used as a In all the brouhaha about feeling too hurt, and get Is only one part of a very last resort atter proPer coun- Tim Sweeney making a mis- back to work In our dally bot- large picture. To suggest seling and monitoring have take, one fact doesn't seem tie against HN Illness, that one man, and by a gra- failed, which has been the to be geffing across. People But when those attacks tuitous extension, the agen- approach In New York keep saying that Tim's mis- come from the editor of cy he works for, Is responsible As a Lambda board take was that he didn't do what purports to be -New for the lack of leadership member, I worked with Tim his homework, that he didn't York's Lesbian and Gay and cooperation In manag- Sweeney for several years find out about Woody Myers' News Magazine- then we Ing the city's HIV crisis Is so when he was executive record of lies and homopho- feel compelled to respond, SimplistiC as to be criminal. director. I think your com- bia until It was too late. Some And although the edltorlal of You have failed to serve the ments about him were too even say Tim should be for- January 28 calls for the resig- communHy you claim to rep- extreme. Tim has undoubted- given because everybody nation (or, more correctly, resent, For this reason, we ly leaned some lessonsfrom makes mistakes like that, and humiliation) of Tim Sweeney, call upon you, (Rotello) to this experience, and I'm sure you don't shoot down some- It Is obvious who the real tar- resign Immediately, If you Tom Stodclad and Male Wil- body's whole career get Is: once again, GMHC. refuse to do so, we call upon son have also learned from It. because Of.one little mistake. It Isa matter of public record the publisher of O~k to OufWeek should be critical But all of this Is based on that GMHC never endorsed fire you. and outspoken, but criticism a wrong premise, The fact of Woody Myers and, In fact, Many of us held out high should be tempered with the matter Is that Sweeney came out against his hopes for this magazine. But, pragmatism and human DID do his homework. He DID appointment on January like the tcblold you sought to understaldlng. know about Myers' record 18th, Nevertheress, you succeed, OutWeek has Arthur S.Leonard' . .all along. He admits It, found It self-serving to use become arrogant. divisive Manhattan The fact of the matter Is Tim Sweeney as an excuse ard InslJa', At least'It took the that he recommended to ,lndl.)lge In the currently Nat/v~ ~veral years to slide I an writing to respond to Myers DESPITEthe fact that fashionable sport of GMHC down that far; yqu've. your editorial -Paradise he knew about Myers' sup- bashing. accomplished It Ina matter of February 4, 1990 OUT~EEK 7 mon1hs. Tal 8 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 fatal lapse In the Myers affair. times the best are called It has always seemed to upon to make the greatest me that the established gay sacrifice. Hasn't It always leaders have lagged behind been so? the sentiments of the people George Galey they supposedly lead. From Manhattan the days of the Mattachlne Society, which I remember It was with great dismay well, and then throughout that I read your editorial the 60s, 70s and 80s, our which called for the resigna- movement has had a tion of TImSweeney. strooge weakness, CIs lead- In the heat of this contro- ers have always, with a few versy, It Is Important that we glorious exceptions, become not lose sight of Mr, enamored with power and Sweeney's long standing prlvelege. They have otten commitment and leadership seemed willing to consign the In promoting fair and effec- true sentiments of the com- tive AIDSpolicies which safe- munity of aware gays to the guard the Interestsand rights trashbln of 'radcallsm" while of all those affected by this appropriating for themselves epidemic, He has served as the respectable titles and an effective adVocate at the perogatIves of assimilation. local, state and federal levels This drama has been and has lobbied successfully played out over and over for AIDSfl..ndng. In addltton, again, I would wish, In the he wa. Instrumental In the for- wasteland of AIDS, that It mulation of New York State's would stop, and that gay landmark confldentlallty law TIM SWEENEY Photo: lee Snider/Photo Images leaders would truly get In In 1988. Mr.SWeeneyhas also touch with those they sup- worked ardently to build The most glaring case In they're very concerned posedly lead. But Mr. coalitions of organizations point Is your recent editorial about what the community Sweeney's comments In representing the diverse calling for the resignation of thinks. Outweek, and tonight on the communities affected by GMHC's Deputy Executive 1hey should have thought 90s TV shoW, demonstrate AlD$ In order to build bridges Director, Tim SWeeney, of that a long time ago. once again what a gulf and create a united lobby. To call for Mr. SWeeney's The heads of GMHC exists between those who We hope that he will contin- resignation seems-ultlmate- make huge Incomes. They supposedly lead, and those ue In his leadership role and Iy- the more unforgivable should eam It. . who simply suffer. remain as Deputy Executive act; It Is.alsothe worst sort of SWeeney Is a traitor who I I'm too old to Judge. I'll Director of GMHC; of sensationalist editorializ- saw on Out In The 90's. I leave that to the brash As you stated, Mr. Dinkins Ing, The decision has been can't believe that he Is sup- young people who put out made his final decision to made and we are best posed to represent us. He Outweek Magazine, whl~h appoint Dr. Myers as health served by working together should go work for the by the way, could benefit commissioner, Ultimately, we to ensure that Mr, Myers lis" Republicans. They need from the Input of people my must look to the mayor to tens to us and to our con- him more than we do. age. But I must agree that ensu'e that the AIDS policies cerns, and that he acts with I'm.not an Insider. I just their critique Is In line with the and philosophies he promot- those concerns In mind, We live here, analysis I have often ed during his campaign are are not at all served by dM- Name Withheld observed, If you want to be upheld and supported by his slonlsm-on which, like The Brooklyn a leader, then lead. In the appointee. The greatest New York Native, OufWeek case of a minority stlll terribly challenge we now face Is to seems to thrive. As an employee of the oppressed, It's hard to be too rebuild, trust and strengthen David Craig Austin Gay Men's Health CrIsIs who radical, too angry, It's easy alliances In order to move Ass't, Dlr.of Education has worked with :Tlm to crave respectability, and forward In our common GMHC Sweeney for a year and a to betray your people In a struggle to 'Overcome AIDS, half, I feel I must respond to useless and counterproduc- Mlguellna Maldonado If It's really flue 1tlat GMHC the editorial published In ~ tive attempt at compromise. Executive Director asked other groups tq write let- your magazlne yesterday. I apologize to Mr. Hispanic AIDSForum ters In ~pport of 11m SWeeney, Who are you really after Sweeney, who I hear Is a they should go to heH: here? I think you should be marvelous person," If my To be a gay man In New I'm a client of GMHC. They after the truth In your own remarks offend. But I do York City In 1990 Is to see, never ask me-what I think; reporting. Perhaps you think he should accept wtth palnfli clarity, that there They don't care, But when It should also look at the entire responslbllty and step aside, Is no longer and such thing comes to this guy who let city's population with Its at least temporarlly. Some- as 'the gay community," Myers In, all of a sudden myrlad health problems and February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 9 People such as bad with the good, You have Men's Health Crisis. If we Tim do not come broken as much new ground vaporize every one of our along very often In pointing this out as you leaders who makes a mis- and we need to let It have In bringing real profes- take there will be none left. be known that we sionalism to gay Journalism, While I am critical of support him as a Again, my congratulations, some of Dr. Myers' former leader even If there P.Caswell policies as commissioner of Is disagreement with Brooklyn health In Indiana, I also know some of his positions, that Dr, Myers showed I'm certain that Used to be that the Integrity when he resigned Tim SWeeney will not Native cornered the market from Reagan's atrocious stand silent for one on vicious personal attacks commission on AIDS. In moment If Dr. and distorted commentary short, Myers Is a mixed bag. Woodrow Myers, Jr, In our community. But you But who Is better than Tim attempts to do any- assumed their position, and Sweeney to see that Dr. thing that wO.uld In their stature, when you Myers gets whatever addi- any way Jeopardize squatted on Tim SWeeney In tional education and prod- the HIV/AIDS and/or last week's editorial. ding he needs to be an gay community of Why are you ready to effective and just commis- New YorkCity, serve as judge, jury and exe- sioner of heaHh In New York. you might see that conclla- Robert M.T,Dlarlo, cutioner of Tim's reputation James Harrison,PhD tlon, coalition-building and President before you've printed all the Manhattqn ··compromlse· are necessary Positive Action of relevant facts? In order to create a better N.Y, Like Chuck Ortleb or Just In case you hadn't heaHh care system, of which Manhattan Leonard Goldstein, you're so noticed, THERATSAREWIN- HIV Is a major, but not the full of anger and hate that NING, BIG TIMEIThank you only, Issue facing all of us, Congratulations for your you'd rather .call for a public for, at least, having the guts gay and straight. brilliant coverage of the shunning or burning than to call the exterminators. . Have you just arrived In Woody Myers case. In being present your readers with all Rodger Pettyjohn, New York City? There are recognized as a force In the the facts. RN,PWA COU"rltess batItes that we have competitive world of big city There are many heroes won In the fight against this journalism by the likes of The In our community, but the I work for a not for profit epidemic that might have New York Times, Newsday one I admire most Is Tim organization that deals with been lost were It not due to and the VII/age Voice, you Sweeney, It's my percep- AIDS. Rumors spread around (TIm's) abilities, Undoubtedly have elevated gay and les- tion that, under Tim's lead- here yesterday 1hat our drec- 1here will be countless more In bian Journalism In our ctty to erShip, GMHC has become tor had received a call from the fuIu'e and he wIU be need- a height It had never before our most effective force In GMHC asking (telling?) us to ed to fight them. Youae qlite attained. This gives a new state and city budget write a letter to OutWeek In Ignorant If you think anyone dignity not only to gay news- negotiations for AIDS fund- support of Tim Sweeney, here at· GMHC will take your papers, but to gays and les- Ing. Under Tim's direction, whose resignation you called col for his resIgnaflon seriously, bians In general. GMHC has killed dozens of for In your latest editorial. I David Hodgson But your most singular bad bills that WOUld've didn't believe that GMHC, GMHC achievement In this matter Is stripped PWA's and HIV- which funds our group, would .your .extaror,dlnary call for positive people of their stoop to make such a call. I am opposed to the the resignation of the deputy few legal protections and Now, however, I hear th6t unfortunate appointment of director of~GMH<1' By this their basic human rights, at last night's ACT UP meet- Dr. Woodrow Myers, Jr, as act you have Intfoduced Our community deserves Ing Jeffery Braff, the GMHC Health Commissioner of the Into our community a con- a paper we can trust. You director, confirmed that they City of New York, I strongly cept that until now It had can be that paper-but only did Indeed make such calls. feel that he Is a most Inap- entirely lacked, by which I If you hold yourselves to a I don't realy know what our propriate choice. mean accountability. higher standard than you ctecIa' v.I do, Ido know, how- I have known Tim Every group has to have did last week, You could find fMX, what 11m ctx>utGMOC for SWeeney since 1985. Imme- a means of holding Its lead- no better way to demon- ~ thef"rB.les by rnc:kng diately It became apparent ers accountable. ThisIs even strate your commitment to such a reqJeSt. 1hat Tim was an IndMduol of more Important when, as In that higher standard than by It really says It all about unusual Integrity, brilliance, our case, we never have the apologizing to Tim SWeeney. the siege mentality at GMHC awareness and strength, Slightest Input Into who will David Relscher that they couldn't simply let Human rights, Including gay become our .Ieaders In the GMHC the chips fall where they rights, especially as they first place. may, and let people express related to the AIDSepidemic Those who accept the It was with sadness that I their own opinions about were of paramount Impor- glory, responsibility, power read OufWeek's editorial what Sweeney did vis 'a vis tance to Tim personally and and, In the case of GMHC, calling for the resignation of Myers, It's obvious that they professionally. the big salaries, must take the Tim Sweeney from Gay have no confidence that 10 OUTTWEEK February4, 1990 anyone would come to Iu the "notorious· health betrayal, However, I am cot')- We support Outweek In Sweeney's defense on their commissioner, Dr. Myers, so vInced that It Is most IlTf>Ortcnt calling for the resignation of own. Instead, GMHC has to aptty noted, It Is not he who to channel Oll' ~er Insuch a Tim Sweeney as a deputy use their Immense power should be the "enemy". The way as to cflatl1e public poll- director of GMHC and In and flnanclallnfluence to fry enemy Is the HlV virus and Col, rather then pu-eIy as ego- calling GMHC's board to flre to Inttmldate others Into sup- the pain, anguish and dev- gratifying "venting· (even him If he does not resign. . porting their resident idiots. astatton It Is causing. though that can be healthy Richard S, Haymes, OutWeek, you didn't go Nor should there be a call from ttme to ttme). Christopher Hennelly, Elliot far enough In asking for for a sacrtftdallanb to soothe If he doesn't redeem him- Gilbert, Jim DavIs, Brad Lamm, Uncle Tim's resignation. You the Ireand frusIratton of those self, we can focus on "get- Michelle Vanvoorhles, K. shoUd have asked for Jeffrey who woUd have preferred a ting· Dinkins for this In 1993, Green, Stephen N, Rosenbush, Braff to step down as well. health commissioner less when he Isup for reelectton, Robin Haueter, Jamie Leo, By the way, I loved the tainted but the sometimes C, Parisi Michael Perelman, Walter Kevin Kite Interview. That absurd and damaging reall- Manhattan Armstrong, TrishMaslk, Marlo whole Issue was brilliant. ttes of the politics of AIDS In delaTorrlente, Bill Cullen, Keep It up. We've been wait- the heath care sectOr. I have just flnlshed reading Adam Brooks,Anthony Noble, Ing for you a long,long ttme. Was the support for the yOlX edltortal on the appolnt- Scott Wold, Deborah Gavtto, Mike Lochevsky recommendation of Dr. ment of Dr, Woodrow Myers Marvin Shulman, Jeffrey Manhattan Myers Ill-placed? Possibly.. as New York City's Malth Aronoff, Jeffrey Engel, John PossIbly. Must we be vigilant commissioner and your Inter- Crates, Sandor Katz, Joe B. You should be ashamed In our oversight of the actions . view with Tim Sweeney titled Franco, F.P.Bulanouchas, R,D, of yourselvesl The twisted and directives of the new "The Gay Man Who First Goldsworthy, VIctor Mendola, editorial of January 28, "Par- corrmlssloner? Of course. Backed Myers,· Patrice 1. Nolan, Cynthia C. adlse Betrayed,· which Should Tim Swe~ney I was very disappointed Acosta, James Wagner, SlMo demands the reslgnatton of resign? No. ShoUd the board that you made this Issue. Lanaro, Jon David Nalley, TIm Sweeney because of his of GMHC demand his reslg- Into a very unwarranted Craig PaUll,Chris Relds,Ndy role In the Myers affair, has nation? IshoUd hope not. personal qttack on Tim Hlckes,Kevin O'Connor, Henry relegated your magazine to For If we l~ TIm's ability Sweeney .. I did not expect Yeager, Robert W.Ge1so, Barry the sane jOU'nOlIst\clitter box and expertise, we will truly this type of reporting from Schwartz, Carl Sigmon, Kathy occupied by the New York have hurt our afforts to stem. OutWeek; as I do expect It Otter, RussellE, PrItchard, lau- NatIve. Welcome, ladles O"ld the awfIj ttde oftHs epidemic. from another so-called rie Weeks, Rand Snyder,John genttemen, to the arena of Ed Butler community paper. . Reynolds, Bob Camyre, Jef- divisiveness, scapegoatlng AssistantAdministrator After reading your Inter- frey Grlglak, Jere Starnes, and conspirattonal theor1zIngl AIDSPrograms view I find It hard to believe .John Arakel, Robert Olmo, I am employed·at GMHC The VIllage Nursing Home that It Is a full unedited version Rick Mount, Mart< F. Sundre, and wort< with Mr. Sweeney . of what actually was said. Vincent Boucher, Michael dally, He Isthe most selfless, '. My "moderate· recom- Calling for his reslgnatton . Eisenhower,Steven N~roth, level-headed and Informed mendatlons? Focus our or that he should be "dlsqual- Tom Gladwell, Evan Cohen, person I have ever had the efforts on replacing Tim lfIed from any further Involve- Ronald F, Vlgglanl, G'dall good f()rtune to associate Sweeney at GMHC and as ment· Is Inappropriate, Braverman, Jean Elizabeth with. Throughout the Myers one of our representatives to Mayor Dinkins Is the person Glass, Richard Granger, Jef- episode, Mr. Sweeney kept the administration, Keep up who should be held account- fery Wise, Wayne Shideler, the ~st lnteresfs of the AIDS the pressure on Dinkins and able for thisappointment. David Lopez, Timothy C, community as a whole-o Myers to ensure that Dinkins' While your attack on Mr, Prairie, Steven Gradman, community of coalitions campaign promises on the Sweeney may "make rlvet- James A. Baggett, David M, among gay m~n and les- Issuesof testing, tracing and Ing reading· I'm sure It also Gross, John Stumpf.Sharon blans, African Americans, quarantine are honored. sellspapers. McCluskey, Gilbert Marttnez, Latinos, drug users and even Most Importantly, engage James A. Fielding RIchard Jackman, Barbara F. heterosexuals-foremost, with Myers and Dinkins so Manhattan Hughes, When OutWeek was that Myers will deal proac- launched I had high hopes tlvely and forcefully with that New Yort<'slesbian and constructive solutiOns to the gay commll'llty would at last AlDS/HIV health care crisis In have a reasoned voice, NewYort February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 11 News Anti-Gay Bias Charged in Staten Island Murder Albany. That legislation would enhance penalties against those con- victed of bias crimes, and includes sexual orientation in its protections. Both Mayor David Dinkins and Governor Mario Cuomo issued state- ments on the killing. Dinkins' state- ment said, in part, "We all become victims when one of us is killed because of the color of their skin, reli- gious beliefs, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation. I again urge the State Legislature to pass" the bias crimes bill. Cuomo said, "The tragic death of James Zappalorti is another r:eminder of New York's need to speak out against bias-related crimes. It is inex~ plicable that New York State lacks even basic criminal sanctions for vio- lations of human rights." Statements condemning the vio- lence were also issued by Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman, Manhattan Bor- ough President Ruth Messinger, Staten Island Borough President Guy Moli- nari, Bronx Borough President Fer- nando Ferrer, City Council President .•.•...~.-, .~ .•.. THE -GAY HOWARD BEACH-?-Munl" susp,ct Micha,' TaylDI Andrew Stein and Cardinal John O'Connor, who said that people "who by Gabrial Rotallo the motive for the murder was the perpetuate violence in any form' NEW YORK-Politicians and gay belief that the victim was gay. Taylor against homosexual persons ... are and lesbian community leaders "basically said that because Zappalorti doing violence against Christ himself." expressed outrage last week over a was homosexual, he got what he The cardinal continued, "Any- murder in Staten Island that police are deserved," a police source told the Post. one who does such a thing thinking calling an anti-gay bias crime, Gay leaders and politicans were it is justified by church thinking James Zappalorti, 44, a disabled quick to react. A demonstration has about homosexual beh~vior is gross- Vietnam veteran and life-long resident tentatively been planned by a diverse ly ignorant of what the church actu- of the Charleston section of Staten group of gay organizations for next ally teaches," Island, was brutally stabbed to death' week on Staten Island. Neither Ferrer's nor Molinari's Monday night on a beach he fre- The publicity generated by the statements referred directly to the quented near the Arthur Kill. Police murder, which has received major gay-related bias motive purported have arrested Michael Taylor, 20, of play in the city's dailies, is drawing by police. Staten Island, and charged him with attention to the epideffiic of anti-gay second degree murder in the case. violence sweeping the country in the Victim Taunted Another suspect, Philip Sarlo, 26, is wake of AIDS. Aq:ording to police, the incictent still being sought. The murder has also refocused began on Monday night as Zappalorti, According the oNew Yom Post, Tay- attention on the anti-bias legislation a quiet man who lived with his elder- lor has indicated in a confession that currently under consideration in SH MURDERon pel' 53 12 OUTTWEEK February 4. 1990 News Gay Man Appointed NYC Mental Health Chief by David Kirby "If that was NEW YORK-During the uproar his plan, it won't and controversy that surrounded the work, We do not Jan, 19 appointment of Dr. Woodrow see this as fixing A. Myers, Jr, as the city's new health the problem creat- commissioner, another important ed by the Myers event was nearly buried in the politi- appointment," ACf cal fallout: Mayor David Dinkins that UP spokesman same day appointed a gay Black man Alan Beck told to be commissioner of mental health. Out Week, "This As AIDS activists cried foul over will in no way stop· Myers' record in Indiana and Dinkins us from pressuring scrambled to defend his appointee, Dinkins and Myers Dr. Billy E, Jones was introduced to to institute rational the press as the new Commissioner of and sane AIDS Mental Health, Mental Retardation and policies," Alcoholism Services, But Beck said Jones is the first openly gay per- he felt "cautious son to be appointed to a commission- optimism" from the MAKING HISTORY-Dr. qilly E. Jones Photo: David Kirby er-level job in New York City history, appointment noting that "it's a step' director before taking office on Feb. 1. The Jones announcement was made back in the right direction after the "Dr, Myers and I were both cho- on a Friday afternoon rife witp mayor trampled allover us with Myers." sen independently, and ou.r appoint- rumors that Dinkins was about to City hall aides interviewed by ments were announced separately," appoint Myers. By the time the mayor autWeek denied any attempt to gloss Jones said, "there was no connection." introduced Myers to the press--later over the Myers controversy by Jones said he was aware of that evening-the world had all but appointing a gay man the same day. "many' questions" surrounding Dr. forgotten Dr, Jones. "Both men had to be cleared by Myers, but added that people "have It wasn't until the next day, in a the city's Conflict of Interest Board, so little choice but to give him a chance. New York Times article, that the public they could each take on a second After all, he is the health. commission- learned of Dr. Jones' sexual orienta- source of income," explained one er. He and I will have to work togeth- tion. No other news source reported Dinkins staffer. "The review process er as a team," that Jones is gay, nor was this infor- for both of them was completed at the mation included in the city hall press same time, As soon as they were Goals for the Next Four Years release on his appointment. cleared, we Ipade the announcement." Turning toward his goals as News that the city now had a gay Aides said Dr. Jones' homosexu- commissioner, Jones said he was commissioner trickled slowly into the ality was not publicized as a matter of looking forward to promoting mental lesbian and gay community. Many policy. "We don't announce if some- health in the lesbian and gay commu- people were pleased, and somewhat one is straight or Jewish or Asian, It nity, and to sensitizing city mental reassured by Dinkins' action, but oth- doesn't matter as long as they are health workers toward the special ers were far more skeptical about the good," commented one, needs of the community. mayor's motive, Dr. Jones is not oblivious to the "I want to help people u.rstand speculations on his appointment- .. that being gay is not a mental health Trying to Deflect Criticism? and its timing-but doesn;t feel he. problem, although there are gays who Several AIDS activists thought was "used" by the mayor to placate' suffer from mental illness," Jones said, Dinkins had scheduled' the two angry AIDS activists. "I want to help people :understand appointments to coincide in the hope The lively, energetic Jones, 51, that, if they are against gays and les- that a gay appointment would deflect was interviewed in his office at the bians, then they have a problem." some of the anger in the community Bronx's Lincoln Medical Center, where Jones said he will improve cur- over the selection of Myers, he will continue to work as medical S•• MENTAL HEALTH on p.ga 52 February 4, 1990 OUT..wEEK 13 News NJ Mandates Name Lists for HIV Positives ty number ...of a person who has or is suspected of having AIDS or HIV infection" to the New Jersey Public Health Council. According to the New Jersey Department of Health, there are 50,000 to 70,000 people infected with the virus in that state. On learning of the amendments, a group of AIDS activists met privately with Senator Lipman, who assured them that she would withdraw her name as sponsor, essentially killing the measure. But a few weeks later the bill was passed with her support. Lipman could not be reached for comment But on Jan, 12 she told the Star Ledger, a New Jersey daily newspaper, "This bill will allow the department of health to receive relevant information on the horrible virus while maintaining the privacy of the patient." RESIST THE Ust-ACT UP gOBS to Trenton Photo: T.L.Litt Diane Palladino, coordinator of the New Jersey Women and AIDS byR. Sugden But amendments to the bill in the Network, has reservations about con- TRENTON, New Jersey-A state state assembly weakened the punitive stitutional rights and the new law. senate bill that started out protecting measures for breach of confidentiality, "When [the lawl says 'suspected,' the confidentiality of HIV antibody and inserted language that made it what are we talking about? A gay man blood test results was turned into leg- mandatory for all persons to report or woman who goes to a doctor for a islation requiring the reporting of "the name, address and Social Securi- SII NJ USTS on palll 52 names of people who test positive. The bill was signed into law by out- going Governor Tom Keane. AlabamaHIV A small demonstration Jan. 22 by ACf UP/NJ, which protested the new measure at a joint session of the legis- lature where newly-installed Gover- Prison Quarantine nor James Florio was speaking resulted in one arrest. The bill was passed by the New by Rex Wockner prison setting," an apparent reference Jersey State Senate in late December, MONTGOMERY, Alabama-In a to either male rape or the possibility of and signed into law as one of Gover- national test case, a federal judge here HIV transmission via blood-to-blood nor Keane's last official acts. ruled Jan. 9 that the state's quarantine of contact during fights. State Senator Wynona Lipman HIV-antibodypositive prisoners does not Judy Greenspan, AIDS information (D-Essex County) originally intro- violate their 'constitutionalrights. coordinator for the American Civil Ub- duced the bill to insure penalties for U.S. District Senior Judge Robert erties Union National Prison Project, improper disclosure of the confiden- E. Varner justified his ruling by arguing charged that Varner displayed an obvi- tial lists kept by state health authori- that "homosexual activities and per- ous bias against both prisoner and gays ties of people with AIDS or sonal violences as yet appear to be an throughout the trial, and "just didn't AIDS-related complex, inescapable part of life in the volatile hear any of the evidence we presented. 14 our'YWEEK February 4. 1990 , "The whole trial was just one month, They told her she had two unlikely scenario after another," she years to live." . "11"'- said. "They discredited prisoners by "At first we had to wear yellow \JI" -viting! asking them if they had been masks, gloves and plastic on our involved in homosexual relationships, legs," said a third woman. "After It was abusive to have to sit in that we'd make a call, they'd wipe the courtroom. I felt so badly for the phone with alcohol." II prisoners, " The ten women prisoners said CHANDLER INN Alabama quarantines its 130 male they were denied access to all prison HN-positive prisoners at Limestone programs, including those that would Correctional Facility near the town of qualify them for early release, They TIlE CHANDLER INN has adopted Capshaw. A much smaller number of ,1 f,lVmite EUr February 4, 1990 OU~EEK 15 News COpS Nab School Teachers in Gay Sex Sting by He" Wackner statute. The next day, an assistant of which talked dirty and another HOLLAND, Michigan-Ottawa manager at Signature Rentals was who distributed a commercially pro- County sheriff's deputies-in a com- charged with distributing a sexually duced tape that [police] considered plicated sting operation utilizing a gay explicit videotape to a minor. dirty." informant, shirtless police officers, a Representatives of MOHR and MOHR's Swanson said that "to teenaged decoy and a list of local the American Civil Liberties Union the best of my knowledge no sexual homosexuals-have arrested four have denounced the sheriffs depart- activity ever took place at the party." school employees and two other men ment operation as "gay-bashing," "The sheriff's are trying to cause near the city of Holland, charging five "entrapment" and "a witch hunt." people to believe that there is some of them under the state's "gross inde- Swanson has further charged that big situation involving gay school cency" statute, police who ·attended the party set up teachers and minors," Swanson con- According to sources, the opera- the arrests by taking off some of their tinued. "[VanDenbelt] tried to orches- tion began several months ago when clothes and misrepresenting the 17- trate the maximum amount of .a gay man, Tim VanDenbelt, plea-bar- year-old youth as an 18-year-old. violations-getting people to do gained a sex-offense case in exchange Ironically, the age of consent in things with cameras and recorders, for a promise to help police find gay Michigan is 16, and Swanson says he making numerous phone calls to men who might be' having sex with has "no idea" why authorities have make sure the evening would come minors. flied charges relating to "a minor." off the way the sheriffs wanted it to. Among many other activites, Van- James Catchick, a lawyer repre- "It's reprehensible that police find Denbelt reportedly provided police senting one of the arrested men, has themselves doing sting operations in with a list of local gays and helped also charged that police are sensation- people's private bedrooms where no arrange a Jan. 10 party at the horne of alizing the events surrounding the sex even happened," Swanson said, Garry Miller and Stanley Van Kolken. arrests. Ken Snapp, general manager of Miller works for the, Ottawa Area "What it ended up with," Signature Rentals, agreed that "the Community Education Consortium Catchick told The Grand Raptds Press, whole thing was a setup .. The police and Van Kolken is a reading teacher "is two couples invited to a party, one S88 TEACHERS on p8118 52 in the Grand Haven Public Schools. According to Jeff Swanson, Exec- utive Director of the Michigan Organi- zation for Human Rights [MOHR], Lambda Targets VanDen belt, undercover sheriffs deputies and a 17-year-old boy attended the party and "orchestrated" the evening in such a way that Miller, NJ Rest Stop Van Kolken and two other men were eventually charged, variously, with by Hex Wackner According to Lambda, at least 5-W "attempting to procure an act of gross New York's Lambda Legal men were arrested for "lewdness" at indecency, soliciting to commit an act Defense and Education Fund is fed the Vince Lombardi Rest Stop of gross indecency, exhibiting a sexu- up with a New Jersey State Police between Feb. 1988 and Oct. 1989, ally explicit' performance and furnish- operation that has entrapped 540 men and the operation-56 officers ing alcohol to a minor." in a toilet on the New Jersey Turn- strong--continuestoday, Two additional men who were pike, and on Jan, 24 the law firm "The overwhelming majority of not at the party have also been arrest- declared war on the "racket." these arrests followed a disturbing ed as part of the undercover opera- In an unusually lengthy press pattern," Lambda said. "Plainclothes. tion, Ottawa County Sheriff's Lt. Lee release, Lambda detailed the police state troopers, usually working in Posma said a teacher at West Ottawa "abuses" at the rest stop toilet and pairs, spent hours standing at l;Irinals, High School was taken into custody announced that it had filed a approaching men and engaging in at the school two days earlier and "friend-of-the-court" brief in support flirtatious behavior, charged under the gross indecency of two of the victims. "The troopers routinely pretend- 16 OUT~WEEK February 4, 1990 ed to masturbate, soliciting physical and sexual contact with men at the urinals and in stalls through winks, leers, stares and smiles, At the least indication of reciprocal interest, the troopers made an arrest, flouting standard New Jersey requirements of procedural fairness. One trooper alone scored nearly 100 arrests," helping you meet the s.ex Lambda charged. David Morris, spokesman for the challenges of the 90's New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition has further charged that the police "use young, plainclothes police offi- cers in tight jeans ...who often expose themselves hard," "They use hunks-what I called in my [legal] brief 'young and osten- Sibly handsome troopers,'" Wolfson said. "It doesn't often get to the point of the officers displaying erec- tions, but when it does, I imagine TAKE there's a certain titillation and possi- ble sexual gratification that some [straight cops) get 'Out of the domina- tion and pursuit this operation is based on. You don't have to be gay THIS to have a boot-licking fantasy." State Police Superintendent Col. Clinton Pagano has said that the assignment to patrol the rest area is very unpopular among troopers, but SIMPLE at a Jan. 11 pubiic meeting, 'Sgt, Joseph Brennan said many troopers choose to work the rest stop to rack up overtime. Wolfson tagged the operation "a AIDS lucrative racket for the locality and a game for the troopers." He said 532 of the 540 men have been found guilty and fmed $805 each, "raking in" more than $200,000 for the local township. TEST: Criticism of police tactics in the operation comes on the heels of 01 want a fighting chance charges that New Jersey troopers have harassed Black motorists by randomly o 1don't pulling over and frisking those driving expensive cars. . Lambda also charged that the rest If you want a fighting chance, here's some good news: stop blitz follows similar "abusive New treatments are available to improve your chances of fighting AIDS. raids" in cruisy public parks and But the key to effective treatment is to start even before symptoms appear. porno bookstores. That's why you should take a test to see if you have the HIV (AIDS) virus. Lambda's friend-of-the-court brief For more information on testing;call your doctor or call us at 718-485-8111. was co-filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, the Anti-Violence Project of the New Jer- sey Lesbian and Gay Coalition and the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project .... New York City Department of Health February 4. 1990 Our.wEEK 17 44_ .. _0 ..... " Out Takes istration, spoke at a press confer- .debate over Myers' appointment Woody ence at the Gay and Lesbian Com- raged on, fueled in part by an Out- munity Center. Van Slyke,. who was Week editorial published that day Myers: A flown into town by AeT UP, carne which called for the resignation of close to tears as he described his Tim Sweeney, Deputy Executive week in experience after someone anony- Director of the Gay Men's Health Cri- mously "denounced"' him to the sis, whose support for Myers was cru- • health department as a "recalcitrant cial to the reconunendation made by review carrier" of HN. the mayoral search team on which NEW YORK - Mayor David Indiana policy does not permit Sweeney sat. Dinkins' appointment of Indiana those reported to learn the name of On Tuesday, when Myers Health Commissioner Dr, Woodrow their accuser, appeared at a conference on the poli- Myers to the top post at this city "My concern is for the people of tics of AIDS at Montefiore Medical health department sparked protests New York of any sexual orientation or Center in East Harlem, he was greeted last Friday at city hall and again in group, because Dr. Myers may violate by a small group of pickets outside the Times Square on Saturday night, their civil rights: He violated mine," building. and a league of AIDSactivists where ten people were arrested, Van' Slyke stated, adding, "Do away inside asking for his ideas on AIDS- Just hours prior to that demon- with Gestapo tactics." related issues. stration, Louis Van Slyke, one of Monday, on the floor of ACf UP In an attempt to calm the squall two people threatened with quaran- and at the offices of gay and AIDS which erupted after revelations were tine in Indiana by the Myers admin- orga~zations throughout the city, the made by this magazine about Myers' ACT UP in Times SquBIB Photo: Ben Thornberry 18 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 support of quarantine, name report- ing, contact tracing and about his &n contentious relationship with Indi- ana's gay and lesbian community, Buddies 'n'PalsM~'n' Partners Myers told the audience, "I am con- The #1 Gay Dating Service for the 90' s cerned that we can all remain clear on who the enemies have to be in Buddi •• 1n'Pal.1n'Partners was established in 1986. this epidemic." Our. goal is to help you meet someone compatible, both He added, "The enemy is HIV, socially and sexually, as a friend or a lover. not the people who are trying to defeat the virus." CALL FOR FREEAPPLICATION But Myers also got his first one-<>n- one dose of New York-style AIDS 1-800-344-PALS (24 Hours) activism, when he dodged giving a spe- I' , cific answer to a policy question asked I by ACf UP member Steve Quester, say- ing only that he would need time to properly develop his agenda. "How much time, Dr, Myers?" METAMORPHOSIS Quester shouted. "People are dying now." a slice of black gay life Later that day at city hall, Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch met with the heads of all of the city's AIDS service organi- zations in a closed-door session, And on Wednesday, an article in the New York Post printed mayoral press secretary Albert Scardino's con- firmation that Dinkins has, in fact, threatened to fire Myers if he attempts to implement an HN-related quaran- tine program here like the one he managed in Indiana .. Meanwhile, the February edi- tion of Indiana's gay newspaper, New Works News, went to bed early in the week with the headline, "Myers should have been fired. Homophobic state health commis- sioner going to NYC," The paper also printed a box entitled "12 reasons Hoosier gays don't want Myers back," which accused the embattled doctor of An original play by ERIC BOOTH "mealy-mou~ed hypocrisy." Directed by KAREN Myers is scheduled to return. to SMITH * New York to take charge of the health * Michael Thomas-Newton (Stage Mgr.) department in early April. PERFORMING AT: . While some in the gay and AIDS communities are digging in THE PRODUCERS CLUB their heels, most who opposed the 358 W. 44th Strea • New York (Bet. 8th & 9th Ave.) * appointment of Myers have begun to speak of healing the huge rift FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JANUARY 26h & 27th, 8:00 pm SUNDAY, JANUARY 28th, 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm that has erupted among the many THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1,2, & 10,8:00 pm communities affected by.AIDS, and to look towards setting a unified * AIDS agenda for the health depart- TICKETS $10.00 ($12.00 at ,the door) ment prior to Myers'arrival. * * * -Andrew Miller For more information and reservations-(212)893-9852 February 4, 1990 OUT~EEK 19 Out Takes handle the cases more harshly than is resolution did not explicity take note St. Patrick's customary in civil disobedience arrests. of the life and death motivations of - Robert V.Wolf the protesters. While the council has III go to the right to question tactics, w.e must always recognize and respect motives of integrity,and must also observe the court Friend to delicate separation between the NEW YORK-The defendants in courts and legislative bodies.· the ACf UP demonstration that dis- the end Because the bill was passed by a rupted church services at St. Patrick's voice vote, there is no record of who Cathedral on Dec. 10 are in the early NEW YORK-Members of the else was present at the time. _.stages of preparing their defense, an New York City Council were so out- -Andrew Miller attorney for the group said last week. raged by ACf UP's demonstration at Forty-one people arrested on mis- St. Patrick's Cathedral Dec. 10 that the demeanors have so far been arraigned legislative body best known for its on charges ranging from resisting legislative torpor speeded through an Gay journal- arrest to criminal trespass, but have unqualified condemnation of the dis- not yet decided whether they will ruption of the church service Dec, 19. ists, straight attempt to plea bargain a settlement or "The zealousness with which proceed to a trial, according to Jill some demonstrators carried out their Harris, an ACf UP attorney. freedom of speech mterfered with the newspapers Most of those arraigned were rights of others practicing their reli- arrested inside the cathedral. gion," said the bill's sponsor, Council NEW YORK-The nationwide Harris said that the District Attor- Majority' Leader, Peter Vallone CD- American Society of Newspaper Edi- ney's Office had hinted that some Queens), in a prepared statement. . tors has instigated a major survey of form of community service might be He added that he was "pleased lesbian and gay journalists employed required in a negotiated settlement ·to ~at the Manhattan District Attorney's in daily newspapers, . the cases, The maximum possible office plans to prosecute those arrest- At the behest of the society's penalty for a misdemeanor conviction ed in the cathedral to the fullest president, the survey contacted 210 is six months in jail and a $500 fme. extent possible for disrupting religious people who agreed to answer ques- Harris also said about half of the services', which would be a Class A tions concerning issues affecting les- defendants planned to represent misdemeanor punishable by up to bians and gay men who are full-time themselves in court. March 1 is the one year in jail." professions in the field. next .court date for those fadng mis- The cases have not yet come to Leroy Aarons, Senior Vice Presi- demeanor charges. About 70 more trial. At the time of his statement, dent of News at the Oakland Tribune people charged with violations, a less- which was backed up by Council- and one of the few openly gay editors er charge, are scheduled to appear in members June Eisland CD-Bronx), at the daily, was assigned the job of court for arraignment on Feb. 7. Jerome O'Donovan CD-Staten Island), overseeing the project. "I feel very Last Monday, some of the 41 Noach Dear CD-Brooklyn), Walter strongly that [being lesbian or gayl is defendants held a private discussion McCaffrey CD-Queens) and Wendell an important factor in the newsroom,· during an ACf UP meeting, but were Foster CD-Bronx), the defendants had says Aarons, "It's a silent minority that "unable to reach' a conclusion as to not yet been arraigned. doesn't fmd expression in our news- how to' proceed," according to Ann The council's resolution was tout- papers and offices.· Northrop, one of those arrested. ed as unanimous. And that led Manhat- Recruiting gays who are profes- A spokeswoman for the DA's office tan Borough President Ruth Messinger, sionals in the survey questionnaire said on Jan. 19 that a prosecutor had who at the time of the vote still sat on field, Aarons compiled 100 questions been assigned 'to the cases only recent- the council, to issue a statement dis~ that asks about newsroom attitudes ly, and that no substantive progress had tan<:ingherself from the council's posi- towards lesbians and gay men, health been made toward their resOlution. tion, which she termed "ill-considered.". insurance and AIDS, degree of being But some observers believe that "I was not present in the chamber "out" to other workers and editors because the demonstration garnered for the vote, but if I had been there, I and coverage of issues relating to les- so much publicity, most of it negative, would have objected to this bill." bians and gay men, and was denounced by public figures Calling the resolution inappropri- The report for the survey will be from the city council [see next storyl to ate for attempting to influence cases presented at the annual convention of the Vice President of the United States, which are still pending in the courts, the' society in Washington, D.C. in the DA's office will be pressured to Messinger continued, "The council April, -R. Sugden 20 OUTYWEEK February 4, 1990 Dress Upl Call 477..,5288 for Info AlbanyAIDS Pwforrnance Space J22'. Ten'" Anniversary 8eneIft Fe.. J-4, J990 eviction $35 for O/Hnlng Night ALBANY-A Presbyterian minis- $20 0 show F.b. 2-" ter with AIDS, after accusing his land- $80 for Dr." Up/ Poss lord of discrimination in a complaint (S•• oil the shows) filed with the state, was served with a Performers Include notice of eviction last week. Eric Bogosian, Reno, The Rev. Daniel Ritchie of the Hapl Phace, DANCENOISE, United Church of Christ on Jan. 20 Spalding Gray, Mimi Goese, was given three days to vacate his Carmellta Troplcana, apartment in papers served by the Ethyl Eichelberger, & more'" Albany city marshall. Early last week, Ritchie's attorney was scrambling to obtain a stay of the eviction order. An Albany City Court judge stayed the eviction order last Tuesday, and a hearing to discuss the merits of eviction NeT VE was scheduled for the following day, The minister, who supervises church programs for people with AIDS and the homeless, complained to the Albany Human Rights Division and the state's AIDS Discrimination Unit last year that his building's man- ager had his car towed and destroyed his garden in two separate acts of harassment. According to Ritchie, the manager had singled him out for harassment because he is gay and has AIDS, The manager could not be reached for comment. . The landlord's attorney, Richard J. Herman, described the case as a "simple landlord-tenant dispute," The IT MAY BE FREEZING AT HOME ... U) eviction centers on Ritchie's refusal to pay $86.50, withheld from his rent in .,.BUT IT'S HOT IN MIAMI BEACH, f- response to the towing and damage FULLY RENOVATED APARTMENTS." to the garden. The small sum, Ritchie Z said, underscored the fact his landlord ..,IN THE ART DECO DISTRICT is motivated by discrimination. LJ..J Ritchie's attorney, Guido Loyola, PERFECT FULL TIME RESIDENCES". said that he planned to argue in Albany County Court that the eviction should ...OR THE BESTIN AFFORDABLE SECOND HOMES, ~ be stayed pending a determination on Ritchie's disaimination complaint. f- The dispute has been covered in Albany newspapers and was the topic ~ of a local television show, Ritchie said. 1520 Euclid Avenue Friends had been camped out at Ritchie's apartment for more than a Miami Beach, « week, keeping an eye out for the city marshall. "I'm wiped out and feeling FL 33139 a.. exhausted and nauseous and rotten," .Ritchie, who was diagnosed in Jan- - « uary, said. "I could jUst curl up and VINTAGE die right now, but I'm not going to." PROPERTIES (305) 534-1424 Even before his landlord trou- February 4, 1990 O~EK 21 Out Takes bles, Ritchie said he was outspoken "I'm delighted to be working and lesbians when it apparently on the issue of AIDS discrimination. with Elizabeth Holtzman," Elam told responded to pressure from funda- "I decided to be vocal about it so stuff autWeek "I want our office to reflect mentalist Christians by pulling its like this doesn't continue," he said. and respect the diversity of our city." commercials from the ABC television -Robert V. Wolf Before joining Holtzman's program thirtysomething. staff, Elam was legislative aide to In November, an episode of the Holtzm.an Council member Miriam Friedlan- . program showed two gay men in der, where she drafted legislation bed together who had apparently and established the council com- just had sex. nam.es mittee on women, Elam also served The American Family Association, as deputy campaign manager and based here, complained about TOYS lesbian to field director for Holtzman's R US' sponsorship of the episode and comptroller campaign. AFA members subsequently received Elam, a 1988 recipient of the form letters from company vice presi- top post Susan B, Anthony Award for grass- dent of advertising and marketing roo.ts leadership from the New York Ernest Speranza. The letters read: NEW YORK - Elizabeth Holtz- chapter of the National Organization "Needless to say, we were very man, the newly-elected city comp- for Women, has also served as the disappointed with the content of the troller, has appointed Pamela Elam to chair of NOWs Lesbian Rights Com- epis0de in question. We have can- / celled our remaining commercials on the program thirtysomething and are in the process of reviewing all our 1V sponsorships to determine if they are in keeping with our strict guide- lines and standards." On Jan. 23, TOYS R US President Robert Nakasone said that TOYSR US has "nothing against gay and lesbian people, To the contrary," he explained, "we are against adult situa- tional progranuning for our commer- cials, We have done similar pulling of commercials on other programs that are heterosexual or gay. We've pulled commercials off the Fox network for content that we thought bordered on poor taste," Nakasone denied that the deci- J sion to stop advertising on thirty- something was connected to the letter PBm EIBm (left) with ElizBbeth HoltzmBn from AFA members, saying the serve as director of her office of com- mittee from 1986 to 1987. episode in question violated the cor- munity relations, a senior post in the She sat on the board of Gay and poration's own standards. comptroller's office. Lesbian Independent Democrats from "It would be a total overstate- "I'm proud that Pam is joining 1987 to 1989. - Mark Chesnut ment and an over-dramatization to my staff," Holtzman said in a press say that [the AFAl made us change statement. "She has long been this," he said. active in issues of concern to the Steve Miller, media committee lesbain, gay and women's commu- Toys aren't chair at New York's Gay and Lesbian nities, and to all the people of New Alliance Against Defamation, called York City," us Nakasone's comments "mish-mash Elam will be responsible for double-speak jibberish. ensuring community access to the TIJPELO, Mississippi-The presi- "TOYS R. US advertised onthir- comptroller, and for communicating dent and vice-chairman of the TOYS tysomething before, but this adult situ- with the various communities R US retail chain said Jan. 23 that the ation was the adult situation that throughout the city. corporation meant no offense to gays caused them to pull their ads," Miller 22 OUT"-WEEK February 4, 1990 ~ said. "What the gay couple did on Rights, RFSL. naUsts have informally discussed a the show was absolutely tame com- Meanwhile, other Swedish possible campaign to funnel hard cur- pared to what straight couples do. activists are working to bring gays and rency to the Estonians. The gay couple did not even kiss lesbians from the nearby Soviet repub- The emergence of a gay group in whereas straights have been shown in lic of Estonia to ILGA's 12th World the USSRfollows the evolution of for- estatic lovemaking. Conference July 1-7 in Stockholm. mal'gay organizations in the past two "It is obviously a homophobic According to Dodo Parikas, a years in the East bloc nations of pul1ing of ads," Miller charged, "and journalist at the Swedish gay newspa- Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hun- we intend to pressure all such adver- per Reporter, his Estonian gay and le~ gary, Poland and Yugoslavia. tisers to adopt guidelines that do not bian acquaintances want to come to .' All five nations sent representa- discriminate against gay content or the gathering but, due to the political tives to last year's ILGA conference characters. " upheaval in the Soviet' Baltic in Vienna, leaving. only Albania, GLAAD assistant director Karin r<:publics, have no way to acquire the Bulgaria and Romania lacking con- Schwartz added that "whatever necessary hard currency. tact with the international gay/les- TOYS R US' motivation for pulling Swedish and American gay jour- bian movement. -Rex Wockner the ads, it had the effect of playing into the AFA's campaign against the program, The company's failure to disassociate itself from the homo- phobic views of the AFA,"she said, "has enabled the group to claim that corporate America will not support positive depiction of gays and les- bians on television," In a letter, GLAAD has asked TOYS R US to formally state that it does not avoid gay-themed 1V shows and urged the corporation to give money to one of the social service agencies assisting gay youth. -Rex Wockiler First gay group In• USSR Moscow-The Soviet Union's first gay group has come into existence. "Friends in Moscow" has sent a letter to the International Lesbian & Gay Association informing ILGA that they now have 20' members and are meet- ing on a regular basis. According to ILGA information secretariat David Murphy, "they asked for irif'ormation on ILGA and what we II" were doing and that sort of thing. There was a return address in the A Serious Gym for Men. RuSsian. alphabet and I sent them a sample ILGA bulletin and information on our July conference in Stockholm." CHELSEA The group did not provide a tele- phone number and has not yet responded to ILGA's mailing. Murphy is based at the Swedish GYM· Federation for Gay and Lesbian 267West17th Street (cor 8th Ave) New York 212 255.1150 February 4, 1990 O~EK 23 News III was shaking so badly I couldn't sign a check to get more booze. " Lesbians, Alcoholism and Recovery drinking and little eating-Helen finally ACOA~related five-and-a-half day inten- took a look at the frightening physical sive in-patient rehab for c 24 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 aro motiv.lted by the overnll national trend towards self-help, self-improvement and health consciousness. Cocaine and crack have more quickly JXOPeIled young peo- pie towards that "bot- tom "-the state re- covering addicts say they had to hit before arrogance and denial gave way to willing- ness to surrender and change. In the wake of AIDS, more les- bians and gay men pay attention to warn- ings that alcohol and drugs suppress the immune system and that their disinhibiting effects can lead to carelessness in the sexuaI arena A signif- icant segment of our community says it is fighting ror its life and rights in a different, powerful, if more internalized, way. The numbers, the extent of the problem, have al- ways been fuzzy. In this society, much alcoholism is hidden. So is most homosex- uality. Most authori- ties in the addiction fi~ say there can be no thoroughly reli- able study of the les- bian and gay al- coholic .. Nev'erthe- 1I11ustration by Kris Kovick less, the conclusions of Lillene Fifield's 1975 As women, lesbians already face dis- but, the truth is, chemicals isolate us study are the most often cited; An estimated empowering sexism. As lesbians, we are even more. The real person inside, who one-third of our community is chemically often an invisible, forgotten minority. Alcc- wants to be recognized and touched, dependent, compared to one-tenth of the hoi and drugs feed off heterosexism and becomes rigidly shielded behind booze U.S. population. Another rare study, also internalized homophobia. They compound and drugs. from the 70s, concluded that lesbians are the effects of society's hatred Chemical dependency is fueled by chemically dependent in greater numbers For many lesbians, as for many gay '. damaged self-esteem. "Most of the alec- than gay men or heterosexuals. Nothing men, the bars offer places to meet others .' holics I've dealt with have been sexually about our sexual identity per se makes us like ourselves for friendship, for sexual abused as children," says psychotherapist more prone to dysfunction than other play, or perhaps to scout out a potential Deborah Feller who specializes in treating ·Americans. But consider the additional steady partner. Alcohol can· ease nervous- incest and addictive .illness in her private pressures of homophobia, of lives lived in ness and lower defenses. It creates the practice. (She is also program director at shame, secrecy and estrangement from our illusion that we are connecting with the Paul J. Cooper Alcoholism Treatment fumilies and from society at large. other people. Very seductive, indeed, Center in Brooklyn.) Feller expanded her February 4, 1990 OUT~EEK 25 a program for lengthy ers, dragging others into detox, if neces-"I periods, returning if and sary,' or perhaps joining a protest move- when a crisis forces them ment." to reconsider how little Feller's last point is significant in control they have over light of criticisms that the Twelve Step their lives. programs have depoliticized many les- "In order to recover, bians and gay men at a crucial time you must surrender, must when our political movement needs accept that you have a more active support. An article in OUt- problem that is unman- look, the national lesbian and gay quar- ageable, and turn that terly ("Getting to Serenity," Summer problem over to some- 1988) suggests that the programs attract thing larger than yourself," lesbians and gay men who will take on Feller explains. the term "addict" because they are des- In the Twelve Step perate for the warm embrace of accep- programs, that "some- tance. The writer, Ellen Hennan, argues thing" is usually called that the programs distract these lesbians "Higher Power," loosely and gays from society's faults, and the understood as "God" and Steps aggravate their tendency to self- widely interpreted by blame, all in the context of an anti-plea- each. recovering individu- sure society caught up in the New al. Some women prefer to Puritanism of "Just Say No.". Hennan, a think and say "Goddess." nonmember who sat in on meetings for Some people think of the her research, writes that "the programs group itself as a force for sometimes have the look and feel of greater wisdom and modem day cults." unconditional love. For Herman continues, "They describe -IN ORDER TO RECOVER YOU MUST SURRENDER- others, Higher Power themselves in universal terms, pride LtlsbiBnpsychOthllnlpistDllborahFellllrPhoto: Bill Bytsura ("HP") is something themselves on excluding no one, suggest abstract, or perhaps, harks their 'fellowships' are supportive without practice to serve incest survivors when she I back directly to the traditional concepts being critical, and claim to offer a philos- realized the close relationship between the of the religion of their background, ophy of spiritual enlightenment without two problems. As a lesbian, she is particu- There's no one required Twelve Step religious trappings." StilI, Hennan wraps larIy dedicated to working with lesbian and concept of Higher Power and each mem- up her mostly negative analysis by con- gay clients. ber's relationship to Higher Power is cluding that progressive movements may "A lot of lesbians have internalized individually worked out and directed. not have taken enough care to offer safe- homophobia and are uncomfortable with Members who at first balked at the spiri- ty and personal liberation to their work- their identity," Feller says. "'They drink to tual nature of the programs often say that ers, and they may need to learn from the feel better. Some repress their feelings once they realized that no one was going success of the Twelve Step programs. entirely, even get married So, later in life, to tell them what to believe, they went She writes, "Changing the structure of when they get sober, a lot of these les- on to find a Higher Power in their own political power is not as possible, certain- bians come out Suddenly, there are those way. ly not as meaningful, when changing feelings, and they have to deal with them." The backbone of the gathering is ourselves is absent from the agenda." Feller regularly directs her clients to honesty-with oneself, with one's Higher When confronted with the Hennan the Twelve Step programs. "I've worked Power, with other people. In meetings, article or similar criticisms, Twelve Step in the field of addiction for over 13 years, members openly share with others, who program members in general-and politi- and I could not have had the success I've listen without passing judgment, their cally aware lesbians and gay men in par- had without the .Twelve Step programs. most troubling, shattering experiences, ticular-have often responded that the They work 24 hours a day, sev.en days a their well-hidden weaknesses and their programs give them more self-respect week, helping a person look at herself. fears. They also celebrate their daily vic- and confidence, greater clarity about They provide a fellowship of other peo- tories and express gratitude. society'S dysfunction, and motivation to pIe who have the same 'goals of living "The Steps support my work with do what they can, starting of course with alcohol- and drug-free. They replace my clients because they encourage self- their own lives, to create a more honest, dependency on the bars for socializing, examination," Feller says. "Fixing the just, nonabusive world. Many who have and they replace the rejecting family. Of messed up relationships in your life, suffered (or inflicted) abuse in their own course, some people are not ready to get maintaining that continual examination of lives become sensitized to the sufferings well, but, for those who are motivated, yourself and your behavior, then getting of others and committed to do something the programs work. out of yourself to help other people. That about it. Nonpolitical people become Some recovering people drop out of can mean becoming an example to oth- politicized when they begin to see con- 26 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 nections between the myth of the happy, the programs on the isolated behaviors safe American family and the myth of the of individuals." family that is American society with Big For a while, an individual recovering Daddy at the head of the White House alcoholic may find it crucial to saturate her- dinner table. Some Twelve Step members self with two or three meetings per day so say the meeting rooms are great places as not to pick up that glass. That strict, seIf- to get in touch with your personal and imposed regimen may soften with time. political anger, often for the first time. She. may also eventually open up time for This may n9t be what Bill W. and Dr. pursuits that she neglected in her active Bob wished for when they launched AA; days or try out new projects or ways to the point was Simply to help drunks get play. These become aspects and tools of. and stay sober. And this may not be what recovery as valid and essential as atten- Lois W. had in mind when she created dance at any meeting. AI-Anon; the point was to keep wives It is not unusual for a committed from interfering with their alcoholic hus- member of one program to attend an array bands' recovery and help them to focus of other programs. ~very in one part of on their own problems, But today's new life often kicks up crises and questioning in Twelve Step program members, particu- other parts. Some members may become larly in a political hotspot like New York angry or frustrated with their experiences City, are more likely to have a profound in one progrnm and find a haven in anoth- understanding of how "the personal is er. All of these possibilities suggest political." that-{lnlike the days when AA was con- Other members emphasize that sidered the only hope-newer members anger at the world can be a handy dis- enjoy a variety of supplements and support traction from the suffering, messed-up for their healing-not only other programs, WlLLIAMB.1 SD.D.S. self. The programs' suggestion to focus but also a deluge of recovery literature and Quality, Personal Dentistry on the self, they say, is not about passive psycholOgical and phySical therapies. Now, Suite 704 self-blame. but about accountability and more than ever, the process of recovery is 200 West 57th Street taking responsibility to change the things worked out in personal, custom-tailored New York, New York 10019 about oneself that one can. ways. (212) 333-2650 "It's hard to have compassion for Lesbians vary in their experience of Office Hours by Appointment Only others when I don't have compassion for safety in being out in the program meet- i myself," says Barbara C. M], a 'Iesbian ings. Some feel acceptance in mixed who has been in AA for three-and-a- meetings. Others prefer to go to one of half-years, agrees: "We have to look into the numerous meetings around town "FASTEN YOUR SEAT ourselves and see our assets as well as (see sidebar) that are exclusively or pre- our liabilities. Until we get to be happier, dommantly lesbian or lesbian/gay. That healthier individuals, we cannot give our doesn't always mean that they have BELTS. IT'S GOING TO best to our community." The best inten- experienced homophobia or invisibility tioned political and I'piritual efforts can in mixed meetings or that they are afraid become contaminated by our personal to be out among straight program peo- BE A BUMPY NIGHT." hang-ups and dysfunctions. M] cites AA's ple. "A lesbian meeting just feels like Fourth Step; "'Made a searching and home," remarks one member of Bette Davis said it best-protect fearless moral inventory of ourselves.' Overeaters Anonymous (OA), the Twelve yourself in advance. And though This help~ you to take a look at the good Step program for food addictions and she was talking about a rough ride as well as the bad stuff in whatever eating disorders. Members of special les- on the social scene, it's good advice you're doing so you come from a place bian/gay ACOA meetings comment that for auto owners too. Thats why the of goodness, love, honesty and willing- these meetings are simply the most safety savvy always buckle up-and make sure they have Grtiystone's ness." searching, nourishing and supportive comprehensive insurance prote(:tion Critics point to the amount of time. ones they have found. Communications to help smooth over any bumps In some program members spend attending within recovery fellowships, members the road. meetings, and they conclude that the say, is rich and deep. It can be stronger programs themselves are addictive. "Cer- still when people share the experience of LlFIl • HIIALTH • PIIRSONAL tainly people can become addicted to a being lesbian and gay. COMMIIRCIAL program at the expense of involvement Do people of color fare as well in the .GREYSTDNE AGENCY.LTD. in the rest of their lives," Deborah Feller progrnms? Helen feels that, in the- case of reasons. "That's a continuation of their the African-American community, it's a mat- The Insurance Resource Centre reluctance to deal with the real world, ter of misperception and self-limitation. 191 North Long Beach Road but that's not the message of the pro- "Cities with large Black populations Rockville Centre, NY 11570 gram. One shouldn't base criticisms of will have Black AA groups," she says. (516) 764-2300 (2121593-4200 .February 4, 1990 OUT~EK 27 scrupulous honesty about one's frailties Twelve Step groups began meetin;"1 and the dysfunction in one's family back- at 208 West 13th Street even before the ground, people of color may find dis- Center's organizers took title to the build- turbing the idea of disclosing these ing In 1984. Woodworth acknowledges private matters to a room full of white that program's role in the growth of the people. Letting one's guard down, even Center and the diversity of the people It in the cause of inner healing, is never serves. "People just getting into the pro- easy, For a person of color, it can be grams are willing to go wherever they especially threatening. can to get a meeting. Maybe they never "We've been told, 'You don't air your ·had a reason to come here before, but dirty linen in public," Helen says, "'You they'd come and be exposed to other try to solve your problems within the activities happening in the community, family unit.'" That is, the same family that They'd pick up our newsletter and start is in trouble and in denial about it. talking to other people. "The Center, Across the board, the Twelve Steps Itself, serves as a healthy alternative to programs follow the original AA model the bars. "I hear this all the time from of attracting rather than recruiting mem- people who come here for the first time," bers. They do not proselytize. Meetings Woodworth says. "Crossing that thresh- are created and attended by individuals hold is entering another place where you who want to heal their own lives. There's can feel more free than anywhere else to "WE NEED A BUILDING TWICE THIS SIZE" no central, governing body that sets up be who you are." Community Centsr Deputy Director meetings around special issues or tries to In addition to providing a home for Robelt Woodworth Photo: Bill Bytsura pull in particular segments of the popula- gay and lesbian self-help group5, the Center "Otherwise, there's a feeling that AA is a tion. Within the programs' non-promo- has established Project Connect, offering white, middle-class organization. Blacks tional tradition, it may still be possible to short-term alcohol aixlse counseling, assess- aren't going to search for an AA meeting make information about Twelve Step ment and early recovery support services. outside their own communities. Mostly, recovery more accessible to communities Woodworth hopes that this program, found- Black people look to their churches as of people of color. However, a person ed on a Demonstration Project grant from the answer to problems. On the whole, must want that recovery enough to go the New York State Division of Alcoholism Black professionals are not as knowl- after it, even if, given the nature of her and Alcohol Abuse, will be refunded The edgeable as they should be about alco- community, that means going into a pre- Center's goals for the expansion of Project holism as an illness or aware that. .there's dominantly white meeting In a predomi- Connect include services around lflV, other a solution tq it. My own family changes nantly white neighborhood or institution. addictions and compulsive behaviors. the subject when I tIy to talk about AA. Eye evidence suggests that, among Project Connect, directed by psy- There's a reluctance to go forward and the numerous Twelve Step meetings at cholOgist Barbara Warren,' represents the get that heIp.' Helen sees the problem Manhattan's Lesbian and Gay Community first time New York State has allocated within the African-American middle- and Services Center, Narcotics Anonymous alcohol treatment and prevention funds upper-class as being critical because it is (NA) draws the most lesbians and gays of denied, hidden and untreated. color. In microcosm, this reflects the Peter Bell is executive director of demographics (and the urgency) of the the Institute on Black Chemical Abuse, nation's epidemiC of chemical abuse. It based in Minneapolis, and founding has been observed that, in most other member and first president of the Black programs at the Center, people of color Alcoholism Council. In his ke'ynote are few and often transient. While it is address to the 1989 Conference of the certainly possibly for interested parties to New York Federation of Alcoholism start up new meetings specifically for les- Counselors, Bell remarked, "It is critically bians and gays of color, the Center's important that we lower the tolerance Deputy Director Robert Woodworth cau- level that exists in the Black community tions that he already faces a backlog of 20 for alcohol and drug abuse and the relat- to 30 requests for meeting space from a ed accompanying dyfunctionaI behavior. variety of community organizations. "We I believe strongly that we il) the Black provide space for 60 Twelve Step meet- community have a higher tolerance of ings at present," Woodworth says. (That emotional pain that both helps and hurts figure represents 11 separate Twelve Step us. It is a two-edged sword that helps us programs-everything 'from AA and Al- survive in somewhat of a brutaliZing, Anon to Survivors of Transexuality Anony- oppressive world, but it also causes us to mous.) "Our renovations have opened up accept too much inappropriate and dys- more usable space, but it's still a tight functional behavior from one another.' squeeze. We need a building twice this "MICE rrll.YOU MAKE rr PIlJIo: Bill f¥suJa Since the programs encourage size to serve the community's needs." Project eom.cr. Ba.. w.r.n 28 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 "1used to have panic attacks," Barbara C. remembers. "Horrible, sharp intense. They'd come several times a day. I don't h<1vethem anymore. They just went away. "I feel like I'm just beginning to see' the light, what a relationship to my Higher Power is about-Q feeling of heartbreak, my heart opening up, letting go of the illu- sion of control. I oy a lot when I pray." Helen also takes stock of her recov- ery with gratitude. "I know I'm responsible for my own life. I've learned how to be a friend, and I specifically for the lesbian and gay com- can allow my lover to have the freedom to munity. Direct services connect people to be herself, not what I think she should be. treatment options and offer ten- or 11- I'm not so hard' on myself. Before, my self- week early recovery support groups. (A esteem depended on who I was, where I new series of groups will open in late bought my clothes, who I hung out with. January 1990.) A new educational video That was warped Now, I have a measure co-written by and featuring people in of true self-esteem. recovery is scheduled to be completed "I've become less rigid, more flexi- this month and shown throughout the ble, more openminded, tolerant, caring community. about people. Before, 1 cared about you Project Connect has also sponsored only if you could do something for me. "Acting As If' workshops led by Emerald Now it's just for the sheer joy of it." O'leary who shows how to use movement For r.u, the Twelve Steps offer, "a bril- and theater techniques to deal with recovery liant way to live your life. They structure it a issues. "Acting As. If" is a program expres- day at a time--which makes nothing too dif- sion meaning behaving the way you would ficult to do. Or, if necessary, an hour, a like to become until it becomes second •• ••• minute at a time." ... UUUUUWUUlUUIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII' I ~"""". Marc Berkley's KOOLKOMRADSpresent MONDAY NIGHT MADNESS A Post White Party Tea to Benefit Heritage of Pride Monday, February 19, 1990 Doors open at 6pm . HOT GO GO BOYS HOT STRIPPERS HOT VIDEOS Admission $2. per person with this invitation from 6pm-lOpIl)., $5. per person without. After lOpm Admission only $5. per person with this invitation This invitation admits four $7. General Admission February 4, 1990 OUT~EEK 29 New York Journal Woody or Wouldn't He? Toward a New Dialogue on the Health Commissioner sion on AIDS, and was a major player in cal and social services, in areas like fami- by Ray Navarro the search committee which made the ly planning, immunization, dental care now-controversial selection of Dr. and AIDS, are from poor communities, Woodrow Myers, state health commis- and that means people of color. rivacy is not the first con- sioner in Indiana, to serve in New York, . Health advocates within the Black cern of a Black welfare In a recent meeting, she confirmed my and Latino communities told me they will mother, even ohe who may feeling that the Black community has never. sit idly by while the rights of their P peoples are further infringed upon, and have HN infection or AIDS, been forced to look at a very broad pic- An unemployed or low-income wel- ture with respect to the appointment of a that they intend to be particularly vigilant fare mother is used to reporting every six new city health commissioner. But that about AIDS policies, They ahc;oluteiyin- months to the welfare office, where she broad' picture did include a good deal of tend to hold Mayor Dinkins accountable has a "fac~o-face" interview with a s0- common ground, for Dr. Stephen Jooeph, should oppressive policies ever be imple- cial worker, and is required to share the health commissioner under Mayor Ed- mented, or agendas set that are in any most intimate details about her personal ward Koch, was certainly no friend of the way oppa;ed to Dinkins' expressed opin- life. Hundreds of thousands of poor pe0- Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, ions on AIDSand other health issues. ple of color, and whites, have this kind of Fraser-Howze said that she has At the very least they recQgnize the relationship with the government confidence in Mayor David Dinkins, disastrous effects that a quarantine pr0- Within this framework, privacy, feels that the search process was fair, gram would have on the already dilapi- dated foster care and hospital systems, as ~"~ ~ ..•, ...... ---j..., well as hospices and homeless shelters. .,...,--- -~--~ In fact, a recent attempt by Stephen Joseph to implement contact ,----~'. tracing was blocked by the Black Lead- ership Commission on AIDS. The Of- fice of the Medical Examiner is current- ly testing for HN corpses whose cause of death is deemed to be "question- .\'I'1I·:HS able," including many intravenous 01'. . drug-related deaths and the bodies of \IUS homeless people. One out of every CARE: four of these deaths are AIDS or HN connected. And the zip codes identify~ ing the last known residences or loca- tions of these dead bodies are among the poorest areas of the city. Stephen Joseph had proposed. HOW ABOUT BACK TO SQUARE ONE7-ACT UP ZBps Myers Sf City Hsil Photo: Gem Wells sending out postcards 'to the family even with respect to mandatory name and that Myers defended himself well members of these dead people when- reporting and contact tracing for people against critics of his record, Fraser- ever possible, informing them that the with AIDS and HiV-related illness, has Howze, who is not gay, but who often medical examiner's office held "vital little meaning. The fear of job disaimina- work$ closely with the gay and lesbian health information" for the family con- tion, losing one's apartment or having community, also said that the interests cerning the death of this person. one's insurance company discover one's of lesbians ·and gays, both white and The .Black Leadership Commission HIV antibody status are largely middle- Black, 'were more than adequately promptly reminded the coroner's office class anxieties, even within communities taken into account during the process. of one problem that had, typically, of color themselves. Poor people, and Woody Myers will have to be re- been overlooked: In the neighbor- many Blacks and Latinos, have no priva- sponsible for providing a whole range of hoods in question, personal mail boxes cy already, Possibly they never have. health services to a diverse cross-section are largely dysfunctional, vandalized to Debra Fraser-Howze is the executive of the citizens of New York. The majority the point of uselessness, And a post- director of the Black Leadership Cornmis- of people' seeking publicly-funded rnedi- card, if left on top of the mailbox, can 30 O~EEK February 4. 1990 be read by anyone. Many people in Unidos Gays Y I£sbianas, did not support Harlem have to pick up their mail at Myers, but accepts the appointment as a the post office. The Department of "faitaccompli." SURVIVAL STRESS Welfare has even stopped sending Though these groups have not yet AND HIV: checks under these circumstances, pre- drafted official positions on the contro- The Role Of The Mind In The ferring to electronically transmit versy, Font said, based on his involve- Progression Of mv Infection monies to local check cashing places. ment in these groups, that lesbians and SPEAKER: (No, it's not always the Lotto that all gay q1en of color are extremely angry DR. JEFFREY M. LEIPHART those people are waiting in line for.) over Myers' appointment. Clinical Psychologist Such attention underscores the "The fact that quarantine is even a Specialist in Medical Psychology Black Leadership Commission on consideration here is illogical. It's a -Psychoneuroimmunology AIDS' absolute commitment to protect- simple matter of logic that it would Associate Staff - ing the civil liberties of PWAs, people spread panic in the communities of Davies Medical Center - with HIV infection and their families, color. I hate the idea of it being re- San Francisco, California Miguelina Maldonado, the Executive duced to an issue of Blacks and Latinos Suggested donation $3.00 Director of the Hispanic AIDS Forum, or lesbians and gays. But I can certainly For further infonnation call (212) also supports Dinkins' appointment of understand the outrage,"' he said, 727-7768 Myers, and said she is confident that the And that opinion reflects the feel- Tuesday, February 6,1990 needs of I.atinos wi~ AIDS will be ad- ings of most lesbians and gays of color 7:30p.m. St. Joseph's School, dressed by his administration, But her or- whom I know, But not all. 111 Washington Place ganization was less than pleased with the Soliciting the assistance of lesbian (Two Blocks South of 8th Street way in which he carne to office. and gay gr9ups of color could clearly Off Sixth Avenue) 'The appointment process [wasl un- place ACf UP and other Myers oppo- fortunately based on infonnation in press nents in a more informed position .with reports and coming from the ACLU,"she respect to how the various '1eaderships· ~ explained. "We [I.atinosl were certainly in communities of color actually function. A public forum sponsored by not represented adequately in the pro- And many lesbians and gay men are also POSITIVE ACTION OF cess. To my knowledge, there was not a influential members of the Black Leader- NEW YORK single Latino on the transition team," Mal- ship Commission on AIDS, the Hispanic donado continued. AIDS Forum and other "straight" AIDS It seems especially ironic that ~hile groups in communities of color. COM~~G~IN=:~= erotic emporium 212..108-913114 ACf UP, OutWeek, and others are btlsy During the Dinkins election I wit- FREE GIFT WITH THIS ADI whipping their lesbian and gay repre- nessed an unprecedented joining of forces NOW IN STOCK: sentatives on the various mayoral transi- among oppressed peoples, and an inspir- PLEASURE T7P (covers outer tip) (similar to Studs) tion teams, Latinos are frustrated from ing unification of forces within the politi- FIRST GLOW-IN-THE-DARK CONDOM having to advocate outside the door. cally diverse Black community, That c0ali- (both above for novelty use only) Nevertheless, the Hispanic AIDS tion allowed all of its individual members EROTIC ONE-OF-A-KIND Forum is working hard to assure that the to overcome the political disenfranchise- VALENTINE BASKETS needs of Latinos with AIDS'or HIV infec- ment each suffered when standing alone. tion will be met. During the recent visit But unless the communication lines i to New York of Eunice Diaz, the only are reopened on both sides of this I Latina on the President's Commission on painful opposition, attacks on Myers and ! AIDS, Diaz, who is straight, met with a Dinkins may in fact be perceived as an [1]1' host of cornrilunity-based AIDS organiza- attack upon that unity. And that would COMMUNITY tions that serve Latinos and Latinas. throw a wrench into the gay and AIDS While not the first of such meetings, communities' capacity to form the coali- HEALTH many feel that her visit ushered in a new tions with c~mmunities of color that are PROJECT era of political dialogue between Latino so vital for all. lesbian and gay groups, AIDS service Vitriolic attacks upon the represen- agencies and the federal government. tatives of these communities will only Many people are up in arms over encourage more antagonism, and such· the Woody Myers controversy. They are tactics show a lack of awareness for the suspicious of the role of the press, and 19n9-terrneffects these rantings will have . seem nervous about the future relation- on the AIDS community's relationship 208 West 13th Street ship between ACf UP, people of color with both Woody Myers and David New York, N.Y. 10011 and the lesbian/gay community at large. Dinkins. 212/675.3559 Aurelio Font, a member of the Boricua Let's hope that the possibility Lesbian and Gay Forum and Hispanos towork together "next time" still exists, T February 4. 1990 OUTTWEEK 31 Political Science Credibility Gap Post-Mortem on the Myers Fiasco hold an outside teaching job... "What the way was cleared for his appoint- by Mark Harrington took time was resolving any conflicts ment. Inconveniently, it was also the following out of his teaching." (News- day the Post story appeared. This was Among all the humiliations to day, 1.22.90). too much even for Stoddard, brave de- which the members of Mayor Dink- The academic post was added fender of civil liberties, who called ins' search committee .subjected to sweeten the offer to Myers by Kri'm and secured yet another themselves, none was more telling Dr, David E. Rogers, who sits on turnaround from her, so he wouldn't than the revelation that only the New the National AIDS Commission, the be exposed as the only turncoat. This York Post carried enough credibility State AIDS Advisory Council and led to an orgy of "endorsement inter- with these luminaries to actually the Mayor's AIDS Task Force, Dr, ruptus," as they were joined in chang- change their minds about the qualifi- Rogers has done remarkably little in ing sides by Jeffrey Braff and Tim cations of Dr, Myers. any of these positions to benefit Sweeney of Gay Men's Health Crisis More than a week before Joe people with NOS or HIV. He was and by Ron Johnson of the Minority Nicholson's interview with Myers re- an ardent proponent of Dr, Myers, Task Force on AIDS. vealed Myers' readiness None of this deterred to try "isolation tech- Mayor Dinkins, After all, niques" here in the epi- the search committee had center of the AIDS, pan- .. Let us proceed-to examine showed itself to be so demic, Outweek, the New spineless and vacillating York Observer and the exactly who praised the that it was hard to feel Daily News had already that their changing sides unearthed enough to mayor's conduct. Dr. Krim, was of much conse- damn him. Yet the search quence. The deck was committee, abetted in cleared for an announce- this instance by. Tom for starters. ment Friday afternoon, Stoddard, Executive Di- after the search committee rector of Lambda Legal met at Gracie Mansion yet Defense, whose ostensible role is the securing, the day after the Post ran again to meet Myers. defense of the civil liberties of gay its "LOCK UP SOME AIDS CARRI- The final delay was due to the men, lesbians and people with AIDS' ERS" story, a sycophantic editorial bodies of 300 ACT UP members in or HIV, issued a ringing endorse- in the New York Times, "The Case City Hall Plaza, who first marched and ment of Dr. Myers' suitability for the for Dr, Myers." Apparently dictated picketed, then held an extended exer- post of New York City Health Com- over the phone by Dr. Rogers to the cise in democratic indecision. A news- missioner. Times' Nicholas Wade, this editorial caster said that "it would have been Only one thing kept Mayor Dink- repeated the transition committee embarrassing for so newly elected a ins from following their endorsement party line' about Myers-"Indiana is mayor to enter city hall from the rear.» with an announcement of Dr. Myers' different, wait til you see how great Dinkins waited until the police appointment: the pending meeting of a he'll be here in New York." Wade is pushed the demonstrators off the city ethical conflict of interest board, the editorialist responsible for last plaza. Limousines swept the remain- slated for Thursday, January 18, This year's "Why Make AIDS Worse Than ing Myers supporters--Debra Frazier- august body had to decide whether it It Is?" (subtext: "It's spreading into Howze of the Black Leadership Com- would be appropriate for Dr. Myers to disempowered c:ommunities of mission on AIDS and Dr. June Jackson supplement his $110,000 city salary color, so let's not get over excit- Christmas-to city hall, and they with a $22,000 associate professorship ed.") and an admiring tour through joined Dinkins and Myers in the BllJe from Cornell Medical School. Cuba's "Club Med for HIV Posi- Room, where Dinkins announced the Dinkins said the only reason for tives", a gay gulag for the 1990s. fundamental accord on AIDS issues the delay was that the new commis- Thursday the ethics board ap- felt between him and Myers. .sioner had to get ethics clearance to proved Dr. Myers' academic post, and Sunday, the Times ran an admiring 32 OUT~EEK Februaruy 4. 1990 story, "Conflict Over Aide Wms Dink- ins Respect:" From the moment he first inter- viewed Dr. Myers ...three weeks ago, Mr. Dinkins' aides said, the mayor instinctively wanted to hire him. But when concerns were raised by AIDS advocates ...about Dr. Myers's record, Mr. Dinkins sought a discus- sion, not a dismissal. Note the contradiction with the Newsday story, in which the mayor himself said only the pending ethics review delayed the appointment. From Shakespeare's AS YOU UKE IT Let us proceed to examine exactly Adapted and Directed by who praised the mayor's conduct. Dr. Christopher Grabowski Krim, for starters. She said "The mayor TueS.-Sat. at 8pm; Sun. at 3 & 7pm was absolutely terrific in this ... the Tickets: $20 and $22 mayor never rushed us or· pushed us Perry Street Theatre or disregarded our objections." It is 31 Perry Street hard to conceive of which meeting she ~ could be referring to. We know that one week before, she endorsed Myers. By the time they got to air their objec- tions to the mayor on Thursday, Jan- uary 18, he had already made up his mind, Needless to say, ACf UP, which would have stuck to its guns more ar- dently than the deeply compromised A Cozy Cafe search committee, never got to present Featuring Homemade its objections to the mayor. . Natural Food Another person who cites her "re- spect" for Dinkins' process was Dr, Fresh Baked Desserts Christmas--but she was chair of the Coffees and Cappucinos ... search committee and an ardent pro- ponent of Myers all along, The only other person cited in The Freshest of 97 ST. MARKS PL., N.V.C•. Vegetables, Fish, Pasta, the article was Stoddard, who was (212) 874-9302 not so sanguine: "This is in no sense LIVE MUSIC TUES & THURS NIGHTS Herbs, and Spices over for the mayor or the city." In the final analysis, the "respect" won by Dinkins in .this episode must be felt, if it is felt at all, on the part of the Times editor who wrote the head- line-which is not surprising, consid- ering its editorial of two days before. Which just underlines the inability of the city's power structure, whether in the Times, in city hall or in the AIDS organizations whose leaders woke up too late, to recognize the validity of any truths inconveniently unearthed outside of the daily papers which reach mil- lions of New Yorkers each day. If it's in Outweek or the Observer, it's not worth considering. If it's in the Post, it is. T Februaruy 4. 1990 OUT"-WEEK 33 Living with AIDS Sailing, Sailing Kong, My nurses are called, variously, Fatima, Miss Li, Rosi- by Charles Barber ta, Pat, Ms. Johnson, And the passengers! An endlessly fascinating group, usually unchanging for several weeks at a time. We peer at llness, busy illness! Such a hectic schedule, so much each other, playing "Guess My Illness." Towards which im- furtive activity! Here, at Co-Operative Care, the luxuri- movable iceberg are you headed, the one marked "AIDS," Ious, non-acute care facility on the top of N.Y.U, Medi- "cancer," "Parkinsons?" My favorite patient this trip is Miss Tanner, a very small, very obese elderly woman with long, thick white hair falling down her shoulders and, emerging from a permanent pink nightie and plaid bathrobe, an enormous pot belly. She is as strong as an ox and entirely oblivious to the other passengers. Yesterday at breakfast I sat next to her, She ate: two bowls of Kelloggs with bananas, a bowl of prunes, a plate of scrambled eggs and toast, a cranberry muffin, two juices and three large cups of black coffee. As usual, she detoured by the exit to ft.U the pockets of the omnipresent plaid robe with teabags, oranges, packets of honey, plastic-wrapped pound cake, sanka pack- ets, half-n-halfs and assorted plastic utensils and stirring sticks, I adore her: this is ·the secret me. She knows the tricks of survival; she has no time or interest in defeat. She f1Ils her hospital time with tasks to ward off the ghosts-"no time to die, no time to die," I imagine she mutters as she rush- es the white rabbit hole of the elevator to her 13th floor room. After 12 days here, I mutter to myself, too, not, I think, from encroaching HIV "dementia," but because after many hospitalizations you break the back of chronic illness and ride the waves as they corne. Staying "busy" here is as effective a way I know of preserving sanity. So Miss Tanner spends her days stockpiling Room 1376: I see towering rows of teabags, pyramids of oranges, milk cartons swaying in the air-conditioned breeze. Long after midnight, Miss Tanner works' by one lone light, tabulating into a giant ledger: "January 4th, 45 plastic spoons, 390 sugar pack- ets"-but then she rises to pace back and forth: Ph t . TL L'tt was it 290 sugar packets? She chews the end of o o. .. I her pen, sighing: so much to do and already 2 am! cal Center, I can never escape the conviction that we are all All to keep the mind engaged, keep the end forever around on an ocean liner, surrounded here on First Avenue as we the next task-filled comer. are by water and sky, A glamorous, ghastly ship, and all of I have a lot to leam from Miss Tanner, The muted, awful us sailing serenely toward our personal oblivions. It's very atmosphere of a place where everyone is facing a possibly ter- much the international crowd: the lady with the book cart minal illness can drive you to insanity. Not an especially magic smiles and speaks Italian. The kindly kitchen staff serves in mountain, but more of a sinister, "what's-wrong-with-this-pic- Spanish. Another patient tells me about hotels in HOng ture?" country club, In the dining room, after a few days, you 34 O~EEKFebruary 4. 1990 memorize who throws up at meals, and find tables far away. It's a world turned inside out: the most deteriorated patients get the biggest smiles, cheerfulness vies with appalling fear, at the same time Or. Charles Franchino you're losing dire amounts of weight, the 30 Fifth Avenue food is inedible. What might be called shipboard romances are forged between New York, New York 10011 thegrey-fuced and the frightened, not, as i~ "outside," where love is generally 212.673.4331 claimed by the "healthy." And that warm doctor you love and trust so much- well! She or he can always send you across the plaza to University Hospital office hours by appointment' .(acute care) if you don't stay well enough for Co-op. "And no one ever comes back," <;acklethe venetian blinds on the windows of the acute wing, opening and closing all day like eerie warning signals from a nearby hill-top. I wish I could report that luxury ... staves off misery, and it may in many _CASTLE CARE other places, but not for us, the Un- dead, Even here, the emergency room halls are crowded with beds-many of them there for a week or more. And . (212) 807-8739 the nurses can be like all nurses, both Apartment Cleaning kind and cruel ("God, I'm sick and tired of the same old faces," said one nurse to another as they worked on 67-69 Morton Street #4E, New York, NY 10014 my supine body, "When are we going to get some new patients?") We suffer; they complain to us about their Visa bills, Carpet is nice, but pretty useless Anal Warts, Fissllres, when it's you that's throwing up on it in the hallway, At Co-op,. the nurses Hemorrhoids stay on one floor, and you go to them, rather than them corning to you. An ef- treated in minutes ficient idea--except when you're too exhausted and/or ill to 'walk to the with Lasers 1~th floor, a not uncommon problem. Then it's wheelchairs or a strange feel- • Call for a FREE CONSULTATION with a Male or Female Board ing of mandatory gym class ("Barber, Certified Surgeon report to your nurse for blood!" a voice • We successfully treat all rectal problems with LASERS in our barks at me on my phone at 5 am), modem offices-without surgery. Eve. & Sat. appointments avail. But it's fun to go to "Happy Half-Hour" • Laser Benefits: No Pain! No Bleeding! Fast return to normal (strictly coffee and tea) and bump I.V. activities. No hospital stay. poles with the boys, • Insurance plans accepted. The perverse irony of all this is that it costs about half as much as an acute-care bed to keep a patient here. Laser Medical Assoc. Jeffrey.E. Lavigne, M.D. Why aren't there Co-ops in every hos- Fellow International College of Surgeons pital? People with AIDS don't need OFFICES: UPTOWN: 7 East 68th St., N.Y.C. acute-care beds very often, despite the DOWNTOWN: 5 Broadway, N.Y.C. . endless photos of us, sunken-eyed and aUEENS: 23-91 Bell Blvd., Bayside. tied to respirators, The ship may sail WESTCHESTER: 697 Central Ave., S,carsdale on, but it's too small for all those mak- ing the voyage out. • Call: 1-800-MD-TUSCH February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 35 mother stated that she approves of mogul whose newspapers are noto- Chastity's girlfriend, and that her rious on three continents for homo- granddaughter's happiness is some- phobic sensationalism. This is all thing that neither her mother nor any- the more reason to praise the edi- one else can dictate. tors at the Star for their sensible ad- GLAAD To help guide their readers, vice to parents with gay or lesbian should they find out their own chil- children. Write to them at: Star, 660 dren are gay or lesbian, the Star White Plains Road, Tarrytown, New TIDINGS published a sidebar offering helpful York, 10591. Or call them at (914) information on the subject. It began 332-5000. "Every year thousands of parents learn that their child is gay. It's es- sential to create an atmosphere of ***** tolerance and understanding that people are different." What follows Neil Harrington, the mayor of is a series of questions ("Should a SaIem,. Massachusetts found himself at parent tell other family members? the center of controversy recently Should I invite my child's gay lover when he implied that funding for peo- to family occasions?," etc,) answered ple with AIDS was a waste because with common sense and compas- they were "going to die anyway." sion by P-FLAG president, Paulette As reported' in Bay Windows, the New England gay and lesbian ou know the Star, newspaper, Harrington ques- y the supermarket tioned th.e advisability of tabloid which is spending money to treat peo- usually concerned with Elvis ple for a disease known to be and aliens from space, Those fatal while the city is short on of you who are alert in the funds. The Salem Evening check out line might have no- News headlined the story ticed that the cover story last "Harrington: AIDS victims' as- week was, as their headline sistance a waste of money" put it, "CHER SHATI'EREDAS when they covered the re- DAUGHTER CHASTITY mark. TEllS HER: I'M GAY." Larry Kessler, executive Now, the news is not director of the AIDS Action that Cher has a gay' daughter; Committee of Boston and a the ten percent rule applies to member of the National Com- any family,' famous or not, mission on AIDS, commented Nor is the fact that Cher took i that "such callous conmlents the news badly much of a undermine the hope of peo- surprise (says the Star. "When ple infected with HN." Chas told her, Cher screamed To his credit, Harrington in disbelief and turned her has since apologized for the head away"), Many parents statement. "I'm disturbed react with some combination that my arguments against of anger, grief and disbelief. funding an additional clerical What IS interesting and Schwarzenegger's 91b baby :.\\'~o position at the board of encouraging is how the rest health was misinterpreted as of the family reacted, and also how Goodman. an argument against spending money the Star handled the story. When we Homosexuality is not a new for the care of people who have first read in the Star that Cher is subject for the supermarket tabloids; AIDS," Harrington told the local going with Chas to a therapist, we however, it is usually covered as paper. figured the worst-that they're going something freakish and unnatural. It If you would like to let the mayor to mess with Chastity's mind and try is a refreshing surprise to see one of know how you feel on the subject, to change her. But the therapy is for these papers explore the topic from write to The Honorable Neil Harrington, Cher, it turns out, to help her adjust a sympathetic viewpoint. Incidental- 93 Washington Street, Salem, Mas- to her daughter'S sexual orientation, ly, the Star is owned by Rupert sachusetts, 01970, Or call (508) 745- According to the article, Cher's own Murdoch, the. Austral ian media 9595. -Henry Yeager 36 OUT-.wEEK February 4, 1990 ' ~ ..'.;~s•"_':~""iS£I1Hl ro ., Out'YWeek Subscription Department 77 Lexington Avenue· New York, New York 10010 YES. Please enter my subscription to Out'YWeek. o One year $59.95 0 Two years $98.95 o Trial offer $48.00 (32 issues) o Payment enclosed (check or money order, US funds only) o Please bill my 0 Mastercard 0 Visa Card Number: Exp. _ Signature: _ o Mr. OMs. Address: City / State / Zip: o Please do not make my name available for other mailings. Out,,"Week is mailed in a plain envelope~ Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for deJiv.ery of first issue. <:MI32 ------...,. --.------~ - -- Making films is tough. Making films with little or no money is even tougher. And making gay films in Margaret Thatcher's England, with limited access to funds, while you're openly gay and openly HIV positive, is virtually impossible. But Derek Jarman does it. The 48-year-old British filmmaker has spent the last 15 years assembling a body of work as rich and diverse as any artist working today. Yet, he still struggles to ,get his films mad~ fact that says as much about the experimental nature of his films as it does about the resistance of the film world to letting gay visions be seen, On the phone from London, Jarman reflects on a decade of battling to get his films made. "It's been much more difficult to get gay material funded, if you're a gay film director. Oddly enough, if you're a straight filmmaker, like Stephen Frears [director of My.Beautiful Laundrette and Prick up Your Ea13.l it's been a different situation. In a sense, the gay films were given to straight directors because they were seen as safer...more commercial." Jarman's own experiences seeking funding for his films paint a frustrating picture, even in the context of England's liberal funding structures, The creation of Britain's independent station, Channel 4, in 1983 was meant to , change things for those making alternative work, but for Jarman it only focused the struggle, The channel was set to fund his film Caravaggio-a specifically gay look at the life of the Italian painter-but when the station overspent its budget Jarman's work was among the first to be put on hold. "The 1V men were here to sell advertising and my films didn't complement the ads," he writes in his book 1be Last of England. About Waging the same time, his first film, Sebasttime--a homoerotic take on St. Sebastian-set off a controversy. One of the daily tabloids discovered it was bought by Channel 4 for broadcast. Jarman woke one day to see his film featured on the front page of 1be Star with the headline, "lliE FILMSWHICH SlIOULD' NEVERBE SHOWN TO YOUR KIDS." Shortly after, Channel 4 issued a public statement saying that Sebastiane had been bought as part of a package and that they had no plan to actually show it. ('The film War was finally shown, under the auspices of an outside programmer, but as Jarman explains, "They showed every Single independent ftImmaker who'd made even one film before they carne around to mine.") The uproar' is a rerna.rkable parallel to the kinds of obstacles gay artists in this As War le,uie~ country have faced in the past few years, Accused among other thiogs of making pornography, Jarman has been at the center of British media debates about art much in Opens in New . the same way Robert Mapplethorpe had been in the U.S. One homophobic legislator even showed clips of Jarman's work to the Houses of Parliament as examples of what York, Derek Jar- should not have been shown on television-a g'ood four years before Jesse Helms flashed Mapplethorpe's photos on the floor of the Senate. man Fights His Despite his battles with controversy and censorship, Jarman has never retreated to the closet in the hopes of furthering his career. His decision not to hide his sexual identity was a natural one, as he explains it. "When I made Sebasttane, it wasn't a On Ballies question of corning out-I mean I really already was. It was just I was suddenly out in public as opposed to just in my own circle." If anything,his homosexualitY may have Ity Karl S.eh·nleiii actually boosted his early career in the late 70s, when being gay was practically fash- ionable, When the social climate took a rightward swing in the early 80s, Jarman's funding woes began. Rather than stopping him cold, it forced him to explore other less costly creative outlets, including music video (his work for The Smiths is among the best of its kind), and Super 8 film. In this medium he made some of his most daring work, including Imagining October, a meditation on revolution, and 1be Angelic Conversa- tion, an erotic vision of "two young men who find and lose each other." Last week Jarman's most recent film, War Requiem, opened in New York. The film may be his most accessible to date. "Not more conventional," he assures, "but perhaps appealing to a more conventional audience." Originally shown on the BBC to mark the eighth anniversary of World War I, it is based on the Benjamin Britten opera of the same name. Britten's work, in tum, was inspired by the poetry of Wilfred Owen, a 25- year-old soldier killed just a few,days before the war's end, War Requiem is both a condemnation of the senseless~ess of war and an emotion- al expression of grief. Its WWI setting has strong connections to today; the situation of one generation's wartime losses parallels the contemporary horror of AIDS. "Of course AIDS was in the background of everyone who was making the film," Jarman confirms. February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 39 TILDA SWINTON AND SIR LAURENCE OUVIER IN WAR REQUIEM "There are analogies between AIDS and being on the front. found a strong following during a brief engagement at the Even this last year alone, the amount of friends that I've lost is Film Forum, The excitement of that run prompted, local curator very similar, I suspect, to someone who's actually in a war sit- Jeffrey Lunger to put together a retrospective at the New Festi- uation," Not surprisingly, the strongest responses he's received val, an event which "reated a new audience of Derek Jarman to the film have been to the general notion of loss rather than fans within the gay add lesbian community. to the specifics of World War I. Despite this recent track record to bring in audiences, it The film features touching scenes of male camaraderie was still difficult to get War Requtem distributed in the u.s. and love between soldiers in the trenches, though it's Qot "a Finding a distributor or a market in the States has become con- gay film" by any stretch. Jarman has received some criticism tinually more difficult for foreign films which don't feature .well- on this point, especially in lieu of the fact that Wilfred Owen known actors or historical period drama "like Brldesbead or was probably gay, but he something," Jarman feels that he actually pulled explains. He actually con- all the gay subtext out of ··1 feel immensely be- siders it remarkable that Owen's poetry that he the mm is being distribut- could have, "A certain trayed by people I know ed here at all. ' amount of intuition comes With these difficulties into a film like this," he who are well-known in mind, Jarman spe- explains. "It's very difficult. cifically made War It's my decision, but I hope who have stayed in the Requtem one of his less people will fa(e with it." closet." experimental films, "I. Stylistically, the film is deliberately made it a departure from his previ- accessible. It's very diffi- ous feature, The Last of England, A highly poetic panorama of cult to follow Last of Eng/and with another film along those Thatcher's crumbling nation, that film was, in Jarman's own lines, I'm in a realistic situation. For people who want a more words, "obscure for many people." Screened at the New York experimental mm there may be a disappointment, but I think Film Festival in 1988, its meaning was largely. lost on main- things have to be balanced off." Jannan is currently in the edit- stream film critics, The New York Times dismissed it as an ing stages of The Garden,'a film which will be more like Last extended music video. However, the film's visionary sweep of Eng/and in its form and which he hopes to get premiered at 40 O~EEK February 4. 1990 the N.Y. Film Festival this year. It will return the director to specifically gay subject matter, promising a gay love story as one of its components. Such undertakings are not so easy these days. The fight to make gay art in England recently got tougher, The pas- sage of Section 28-legislation which bans public funds from promoting homosexuality-has legitimized homo- phobia on a national level. Of course homophobia has always been partially institutionalized in Great Britainj after all, this is a nation where the gay age of consent is 21 and the straight age is 16! "What Section 28 did was give carte- blanche to repress gay work," according to Jarman. Examples of this can be found daily. Just two weeks ago, the Kent Council, a local governing body, stopped teenagers from seeing a pro- gram of Benjamin Britten's opera Death In Venice, calling its story of homosexu- al desire "perverse," "That attitude, 'which has always existed here, is now very out in the foreground," Jarman says. The positive side of the legislation, as Jarman sees it, has been that "enor- mous numbers of people are brought onto the streets demonstrating." Howev- er, far-reaching change is still a ways off. "You have to create a climate where there's no fear. It's very difficult to legis- late against people's phobias. Homo- phobia seems to be deeply embedded in British political and cultural life-from the left to the right. There is so much to be done." Part of Jannan's personal agenda for change is to identify publicly as HIV- antibody positive. He announced this two years ago,. making him one of the PAUL REYNOLDS AND PHIUP WILUAMSON IN THEANGEUC CONVERSATION few public figures in England to speak out about their HN status. Reaction has think there was any option. It was either a question of it becoming a rumor, or me been mostly. supportive, with the excep- starting the rumor, or me starting the rumor and making it open," Though he's talked tion of some hounding from the tabloid about it on television, he doesn't see it as a crusade but rather as just the state of his press. "There's the odd photographer life, And he is careful not to turn his course of actions into a blueprint for what oth- from the Sun sort of staking out my ers should do, preferring to say that "everyone's decision should be their own house," he relates. He tells an amusing depending on their circumstances." . story about one of his neighbors; an old As a public figure, however, he sees an added responsibility: "I must say I feel colonel who approached him one after- immensely betrayed by people I know who are well-known who have stayed in the noon much to his surprise. "I thought, closet, because so' many of them could have done so much for people, much more this is going to be the first one to corne than they were doing by following their careers or protecting their interests. In fact, over and hit me on the head with his if they had corne out they probably. would have found that it wouldn't have altered • walking stick," Jarman says,. "but he said their careers at all. Certainly people in the arts and the music business, anyway." He .'Great, keep talking,' and he was actual- cites Ian McKellan, Marc AImonEl,Boy George and the Pet Shop Boys as other pub- ly very affrrmative," lic figures who have been out during the repressive 80s. "I really feel that in the cir- Jarman sees "going public" about cumstances we've been living through that people do have a responsibility to corne his antibody status as a logical progres- out in the open." Corning from someone who's endured so much public scrutiny sion in the corning out process. "I don't about his life and his work, Derek Jarman's words resound with a simple truth, ... February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 41 How Not to Get Ahead •In 0}y\c~ , '{}~}~ Advertising i'~\~~~~ Madison Ave. Still The Duke and Duchess Has No Place for Of Downtown Queers ~ II: .. t! ::.ij;,'J." by Michael Musto A given on the jaded strip known as Madison Avenue is both Click modeling agency and the Geer-Dubois advertising that you'll never go broke underestimating the American pub- firm for these huge, ego-building, color photos in major maga- lic, Another one is that gays and lesbians cannot advertise zines, I had even signed a release, products. Correction: open gays and lesbians cannot advertise Apparently, I had all the qualifications the ad agency products, Those who skank around in fear and self-loathing, wanted in terms of age, talent and recognition (not toc! much, living closeted lives of anxiety-filled deprivation, are perfectly not too little), But as sure as I'd seen every single Joan Craw- acceptable marketing devices. These society-induced scaredy- ford movie except Harriet Craig, my chances were shot down cats show up all. over the place, hawking their merch with the drain like a roach, because in an article in GQ, I had worn enforced smiles that enable them to make money, gain expo- a sort of hoop dress/cloWn suit. I was-eeeeek-Q semi-quasi- sure and be embraced by the hoi polloi all at once. In the sorta drag queen! By advertising standards, I was-<:rash-thud- course of 30 seconds, they can convince millions of attentive, boorn-unacceptable. vulnerable viewers of two unabashed lies: 1) I love this prod- Of course that hoop thang was by no means the only hint uct; and 2) I'm straight. Truly, I am. of my disinterest in conforming to bourgeois dress, or behav- But those who won't play the game haven't got a prayer ioral, codes, I had also dolled myself up as Madonna in the on that boulevard of broken dreams known as Madison, I Daily News, camped as that Statue of Liberty in the. Village don't mean to be nasty; it's just that I personally found out Voice, donned buttons and bows in Interview, hussied it up in how difficult it is for such outcasts to get a deal when I was drag month after month in Details, told newspapers I wanted dropped like a turd from the Amaretto di Saronno ad cam- to be both Diana Ross and Vanna White, and been breathlessly paign. My rude dismissal came after I'd been handpicked by uncloseted week after week in my "La Dolce" column in the 42 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 Voice. But 1 guess the swifties running this alcohol-hazey com- can as we speak. But, ha-ha-ha, they unwittingly also ended pany didn't catch any of that. All they saw was that horrifying up with at least ONE (and 1 think at least two) gays and/or hoop dress, a swirling nightmare that brilliantly tipped them lesbians, ha-ha-ha. Of course this person/people didn't adver- off: This guy is flaky, different, maybe even gay! tise themselves as such-they know how to play the Naively, I didn't think this latest of my many outrages game-but he/she/they are in there just the same, apd it will would matter. Until then 1 had only been praised for being a probably drive those McCarthyish booze salesmen cf3:ZYtrying kook, never even hearing so much as a homophobic remark to figure out how the hell that happened. as 1 flounced my crinolines around in search of cabs and pub- I, meanwhile, should have realized that as someone who licity {and, by the way, my wardrobe also includes button- doesn't know how to play the game, 1 was hopeless. 1 mean, down shirts and other medium-scary things 1 was nervously mere whispers of .sexual discrepancy are enough to terminate tOying with wearing in the ad). Even beyond the insular world contracts. Billie Jean King lost her endorsement deals the sec- of the clubs, where no one even flinched when 1 wore the ond her ex-lover sued for galimony. There was controversy hoop thang, the media seemed to be enjoying everyone's rule- about Greg Louganis--who never gives definite answers about breaking attempts to provoke. It was 1988, All eyes were his sexuality-not being used on the Wheaties box, just possi- focused on this "alternative" scene---downtown-the excite- bly because he didn't represent what they considered whole- ment around which is exactly what prompted this campaign some American values. And in what was no doubt a (and the Rose's Lime Juice one before it) in the fIrst place, gay-related· decision, Elizabeth Taylor lost a' soft drink cam- Amaretto di Saronno, I'd been led to believe, was going paign as a direct result of her AIDS work (imagine punishing a to celebrate this sort of festive excess in the nocturnal "cutting star for stepping to the forefront of an international crisis and edge," as the Amaretto ad reps called it. With panting anticipa- trying to educate people, raise funds and save lives!), Also, 1 tion, 1 imagined the ads would be brave samplings of down- sure haven't seen "Absolut Haring" since that artist announced towney personalities of the type later assembled for the film that he has AIDS. The disease has given. advertisers a rationale Mondo New York. Alas, when put through the Middle America for their prejudice, a shaky platform on which to s.com gays wringer that made it safe for mankind, much of rhe lineup when there used to be just their shaky imaginations. With ended up as bland as urine on a water diet (Mondo Madison thinking on the order of, "We don't want anyone in our ads to Avenue was more like it). After the weeding process, they die on us because. it would look bad," they consider thelP- ended up with, among others, a few middle-brow 1V stars; a selves hard-pressed to squeeze out both what they consider former cross dresser-turned-tuxedoed-crooner (nothing wins "at risk" groups and the people who help them. This is logic Madison Avenue's hearts like a crossover-not cross-dresser); from hell. Why don't they weed out smokers who might suc- and choreographer Karole Armitage, who recently placed an cumb to lung cancer, and shred contracts with. those who ad for dance auditions specifying that she didn't want don't eat broccoli, since they might develop colon cancer? "wimps." They also included people like Vanity, fab singer and Liz was too gracious to spill the beans on which soft drink it former Playboy nude, a credit that gave this super-cautious was that dropped her, but I'm none so delicate a.f1et.tr. Amaretto .corporation dramatic pause. Luckily for 'her, they overcame all di Saronno will pay fot the rest of my born days ev~ry time 1can AMARmo DI HOMOPHOBIA - The watered down Amaretto di Sar8nno magazine advertisements doubts on that and used her anyway; after all, it was a hetero wield my miniscule power, whether for bitter personal reasons scandal. or grander, more humanistic ones, As ·1 watch the careers of Within time, they also made sure to include tokens of some of those who were in the camPaign reap the rewards of every ethnic group-they used ONE Black, ONE Hispanic and the massive publicity they got, 1can only feel rage that I've been ONE Asian, and are no doubt looking for ONE Native Ameri- denied these opportunities-and money-because I'm gay February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 43 (though it's reassuring to note, nyuck-nyuck, how many fabulous people who might do good work (especially with hair). Only nobodies the campaign has spawned, their careers made and straights-or at the very least gays who put up the illusion of unmade all at once thanks to all that gratuitous overexposure). being straight (if they manage to slip by our flOgers)-can be As an advertising reject, strange, insecure thoughts start weaving held up as innovative, admirable, trustworthy, acceptable. No through the mills of my mind. For example, on the night of a matter that most of the people in the creative arts happen to party I had last year, invitee Sandra Bernhard instead ended up be gay, We'll merely assign ourselves the task of finding at dinner with Karol Armitage (who's now choreographing both dancers, designers, artists, singers, etc. that aren 1, It's difficult, Sandra's movie and Madonna's tour). If I was the kind of person but heck, we love a good challenge. That's why we're in who demanded "no wimps," would I be featured in all those advertising-to attempt the impossible, day after day. magazines and therefore be fabulous enough to rate Ms. Bern- Well, we say back to you hypocrisy-mongers: Ha! And the hard's company and employment? hypocrisy-mongers say right back to us: Double hal Their But beyond the personal sense of loss and petty jeal- tricky little games keep on coming, The latest offender in the ousies, the reason I'm maddest at the ad world is that they're "let's present unusual people who aren't that unusual" cam- pretending to celebrate--i.e., capitalize on-the offbeat, but paign sweepstakes is the Gap, whose magazine ads' and bus SODA COMPANY FIZZLED OUT Photo: Gary Bernstein COMMERCIAL GENDER BENDING E/izebeth rey/or ' Send,. Sernherd they haven't the guts to really do so. stop displays portray individuals with style, which-filtered There's no reason why gays and lesbians shouldn't be down-translates as individuals with heterosexuality. Loving part of any kind of campaign. Don't they use all the products straight couples are seen smooching in closeup as a perenn,ial that are advertised? Aren't they a lucrative market? And reminder that you're not just to buy Gap pocket tees, you're to besides, does someone's sexuality mean he or she can only also buy the myth that even for the "cutting edge," man-plus- appeal to other ~ople of the same sexuality ("I'm sorry Sandy woman is the only possible pairing. Blacks, Asians, young, Duncan, you can't advertise our Wheat Thins anymore. It's old~ll types are represented- and though we must credit corne to our attention that there are some gay people who eat them for using M, Butterfly'S B.D, Wong (albeit in dowdy male these things and, after all, you are straight ...")? clothes), there's not a soul who's outspokenly gay or even But of course, the ad firms rationalize, gays might upset devotedly involved in AIDS. It's hard to believe Harvey Fier- the unwashed masses, the hordes who demand that those .stein, Quentin Crisp, Virginia Apuzzo, Andy Bell, Larry Kramer, hawking products be as faux-healthy in their glucose-coated, Funny Gay Males, Phranc, Everett Quinton, Susie Bright or preservative-saturated way as the products themselves. Gays others of their ilk are not fit to promote individual style. It's would not only be advertising the products, they'd be advertis- unfathomable that a Mathilde Kiim, Randy Shilts or Ron ing their way of life, one that would undoubtedly conupt little English, to name three examples of people on the AIDS front, children and pollute the water supply! They are unusable, wouldn't make it as laudable people who try to make a differ- unsaleable and unsafe, even if some of them are probably nice ence in this world and succeed. Instead, the Gap uses Nell 44 O~EEK February 4, 1990 Campbell, and bills her as "queen of the night"-this at least ads like the most fabulous dyke on earth. '!bat's a break- two years since her club was hard to get into (Now they're through. But would those Madison Avenue guys ftnd equally sweeping people in off the sidewalks)! And even then, what amusing/sexy the sight of beauteous me in a dress? I don't Nell's represented was a stultifying, Victorian self-importance think so. That kind of thing doesn't tend to make insecure that ruled out drag queens and other fun, creative types while male advertisers either giggly or aroused, though on the basis glorifying the homophobic upper crusties. But maybe I'm just of a few past exploits with "straights," I have to wonder about bitter-the Gap rejected me too. the latter (up until the guilt explosion upon orgasms, they can Dom Ruinart champagne, one of very few companies, handle it just fme), had the nerve to showcase real downtown people in their Don't count on open gays to make it into American advertorial campaign, a series of fake gossip columns their ad Express ads e!ther. Ditto for wine cooler spots, Dewar's pro- ftrm printed about parties they devised to celebrate their prod- files and especially National Review commercials (though uct. For example, they ran pictures of French Twist-a largely there is a certain guy...No, never mind), And why? That's just drag rock group of guys and gals all named Monique-in one the way it is," seems to be'the complacent view of the ad such column. The campaign only pays its subjects a lousy industry, some gay ad reps included. But who said so, and GAPS IN THE AD CAMPAIGN Photo: Michael Wakefi'eld . Th, Gap Ads buck and the end result is kind of cheesy, but at least, in their who said it can't change? Nowhere is it written in stone, exploitation of avant-garde culture, this is one alcoholic prod- except in the freeze-dried minds of unadventurous people so uct that's had the courage to go all the way. terrifted of offending anyone that they keep serving up the In another mini-breakthrough, L.A. Eyeworks-a more same limited palette of macho guys, floozyish girls and cre- limited-exposure campaign-used John Sex and, more recent- ative people with an edge about as jagged as polished glass. ly,. Marilyn Monroe impressionist Jimmy James (though it's Try as they might to keep gays and lesbians down, what will hard to hold James up as a gay icon; he won't go on the ultimately tumble Madison Avenue's preconceptions about mar- record as being a sister). And Ms, Bernhard-who'd been keting is that they can't do it. They can tuck them under, shove wildly making hints of sapphic interchange with them away and push them aside, but this vast audience will Madonna-vamped her way into Revlon's 1V campaign and bounce back twice as hard and with twice as many demands, Barney's New York's print ads without an obstacle, Gays and lesbians are everywhere-even in their Sandra-who's since made other, more personal revela- campaign.s--ill1d these "communications brokers" are powerless- tions--now says the Madonna innuendos were a joke, Well, . to suppr~ss them, even with their would-be magic wands of advertisers clearly took it as such, and not as one that offend- exclusion. Ultimately, someone extremely brave and clever is ed them either. Not only does a mere hint of lesbianism not . going to realize how much sense it will make to have these pe0- I., put off the male-dominated ad world, it clearly turns them on. ple on their side, Some years from now, ad fums are going to be Intensely butch in male drag, Sandra looks in those Barney's sure to include at least ONE gay or lesbian in their campaigns, T February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 45 .. LOOKOUT In Its sixth Issue, FCIMninc Is our latat pick and must-have for the trendy crossdresHr. Filled with lots of dras patterns, plastic' surgery tips, advice colllllns and photos of drag queens looking for low, the news- paper Is also quite political. An editorial warns that "the current controversy being carried on between the National BoIrd of the Renaissance Education Association, Inc. and Its Greater Phlldclphla Chapter threatens to bring down what was once the fastat-growing group of Its type In the crossdresslng community," and points out that all "the back-stabblng and bitching doan't go over well with the membership." Meanwhile, a. front page story tells how the "FDABara Makeup Menace, If and reports that "five percent of ihared cosmet- Ics samples are contaminated with mold and bacteria most likely to be found In shared eye products, such as eye shadow end liquid mascara and eyeliner." Should we start giving out free clean mascara wands? --M.S. 46 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 . . • fI': •• •• ..". ".. •• ---- ·~t What do the makers of Lysolactually think men and boys do In the bathroom all day? -M.s. February 4, 1990 OUT~EEK 47 UT OF o M'V HANDS BY BRADLEY BALL Dear Brad: got to do with Indiana? I mean, legal minds in the business) took me Like so many people I never wouldn't it be more effective' if we along to the very party where all of thought I'd be writing to you but I fig- organized a boycott of Late Night with this, and little else, was discussed in ured you'd probably know what's David Letterman or something like great detail by every person present. been going on. '1 sure as hell don't. that? Even better, I know this guy The committee to which you refer You see, I had to go to Kansas for who's a vice president at NBC and has, unfortunately, disbanded already about a month to take care of some maybe he could sneak a bunch of us ·after an apparently bitter dispute over family business and since I didn't hear into the studio audience where we representation and an inability to any real news while I was there I could unfurl a banner with our ten reach consensus over the time and think I missed something big, Now best reasons for hating Indiana, what- location of the next meeting (the when I l~ft town we were still mad at ever th.ey are, If you could just tell me putative chair having a prior obliga- the Catholics but when I got back the where the committee is meeting to tion to attend a fundraiser auction). I other day there was a confusing mes- discuss all this I can take it from there. was, however, informed by a young sage on my machine that said we -Eager but Unsure man standing near the bowl of M&M's were supposed to shut down times Dear Eager: . of the formation of a new affinity Square because of something to do You were, of course, right to group which proposes to dispatch a .with Indiana, What happened to the come to me with this, It just so hap- cadre to the Louisville side of 1-65 Church thing? Did the Pope meet our pens that a very dear friend of mine where they will distribute fact sheets demands? And what's Times Square (who is, by the way, one of the finest to all Indiana-bound motorists and possibly handcuff themselves to the state sign, All of this, quite naturally, depends on obtaining funding approval from the central committee who will, no doubt, insist on researching the availability of a rea- sonable discount fare from American Airlines, Should that approval fail to materialize, the hat can always be passed at the next meeting but the fellow who was handing out the Rolling Rock whis- pered that this particular issue was quickly losing its attractiveness and might not muster the necessary sup- port in which case a strategy meet- ing will have to be called, At any rate, by the time I.was leaving the rumor was already in cir- culation that a new target, somewhat closer to horne and perhaps even intramural, would be emerging at any minute though the specifics were not, as usual, known just yet. My reading on this is that, with another policy fluctuation so imminent, you are best advised to sit tight for the time being until somebody phones you. with new instructions which, by my calcula- tions, ought to be around 3:30 this corning Tuesday, Welcome back! T 48 OU'fTWEEK February4, 1990 -'1 in-chief, TiOa Brown, above not to let sons you all know, has been writing anything blatantly queer seep through, much more about AIDS these Sischy is able to Simply let herself go. days-and writing much less about The result is a natural, sexy, hon- Pat Buckley and other hypocrites, est and gorgeous product. The new And, just after the monstrous Woody Interotew (a magazine which I haven't Myers was named health commiSsion- read in years but which I predict will er, Norwich had the guts to creatively now fast become the hottest rag on jump into the fray in his column: "In the newsstand) is visually beautiful, other weighty matters, isn't it absurd and includes some sharp, crisp, real that the city's new guru of health, the writing. But it's the images themselves, obese Dr, Woody Myers, 35, is himself By Michelangelo Signorlle and what they comprise, that are a candidate for heart disease and ground-breaking, There are boys other fat-related ills? Fat is ftne with Something astounding has hap- touching boys, boys touching boys me. It suits many professionals, and is pened. who are dressed as girls, girls touching even expected among lawyers and tal- Ingrid Sischy, one-time editor of girls and girls touching girls who are ent agents. I just think having Dr, Art Forum, who came out not too dressed as boys, There's Taboo!, Myers serve as health commissioner is long ago in her column in The New Trade, Miss Connie and all the rest of about as inspiring as hiring a treasury Yorker, is now at the helm of the zanies who unabashedly run secretary who has landed in bankrupt- Interotew. For the ftrst time in the his- around downtown and pose for My cy court. His appointment, in light of tory of publishing, the editor-in-chief Comrade, ftercely being themselves on this problem and his controversial of a popular national magazine is an Interotew's pages, The magazine over- AIDS policies, seems mind-boggling," open lesbian, In fact, this may well be flows with a queer sensibility, and, While it must be pointed out that the first time that the head of any more importantly, it sets up no borders attacking someone for having an eat- mainstream communications company on sexuality. I remember Drugstore ing disorder is equivalent to slapping of any sort has declared his or her Cowboy's openly gay director, Gus Van someone down for having a drug homosexuality (though many of them Sant, once telling me that a major vic- problem or for being an alcoholic, are closeted queers). tory for our movement and all of soci- Norwich has to be commended for And everyone is talking about trying, within the realm of his soci- it, including Sischy herself. ety column, to corne to the "I felt I owed ~tto my readers defense of his community. And I [to come out]," she said in an GOSSIP ZAP! think he should be held up as an eight page spread on her in .!few 212-975-2065 example to all of the self-loathing York magazine last week. "It was gay and lesbian columnists whom necessary to tell them where I was 212-975-8462 I've spotlighted in this coming from, I ftnd honesty about column-and will continue to if sexuality an utter necessity for my ZAP CBS! they keep up their slippery ways. emotional survival." (Take note Sharon Delano, Richard Buckley, *** * Annie Leibovitz, Wayne Lawson and ety will come when ftlms, publications, The absolute best television of David Kuhn [all from Vanity Faiti, Liz etc., are no longer "gay" or ·straight," this century will take place on Smith [Daily N~, Barry Diller [20th but rather present the full spectrum of Wednesday of this week (January 31) Century Foxi, David Geffen [Geffen sexuality to an audience made up of when GLAAO's Karin Schwartz faces Recordsi, Hal Rubinstein [Egg] and the that spectrum, Without a doubt, the off on Geraldo with-you guessed rest of the gang.) new Interview has achieved that. It is it-Zsa Zsa! According to Schwartz, La But Sischy's candor is not only a red hot and revolutionary amidst a Gabor makes a fool of herself and triumph for our community (which so slew of tired, faux-fterce publications. contradicts herself throughout the desperately needs successful, vtsible It's hit on something that not even show, ftrst saying her "best friends" ..role models), it marks a turning point Details, with all its cutting edge postur- are lesbians and then saying, "It is a in the entire world of publishing. ing, has. And why? Because at the new free country. I can dislike lesbians if I Unafraid to publicly discuss her sexU- Interview there is a vibrant, smart, want." She then asks the audience, ality, Sischy is therefore unafraid to let honest, sexually-liberated woman-an "Who are you going to believe, a it naturally be portrayed in her work. out dyke !-running the.show. mother or a lesbian?" while her hus- While most of the fags and dykes at, band offers Schwartz some advice: say, Vanity Fair, offer repressed *** * "You should go out and ftnd yourself homosexuality throughout the maga- Credit must go where -credit is a: husband: zine because they're trying to cover due. Society columnist William •••• for themselves and/or because they're Norwich (Daily News), whom I'd Expect' a major bomb to drop under strict orders from homophobe- spent So much time criticizing for rea- See GOSSIP WATCH on plge 52 February 4, 1990 OUT~EEK 49 Oul on Ihe Town ' Wilh Liz and Sydney Uz and Sydney: Before we get into things, we'd like to offer Five Actions That Will Keep Health Commissioner Woodrow Myers From Entering City Limits: 1) Have simultaneous sit-ins on the runways of laGuardia, JFK and Newark airports, (Trains and buses are never on time anyway.) . 2) M.ake sure he gets the smallest seat in the cab on the WcJof to the Indiana airport, (Remember he was stuck in a chair in the Governor's office and knocked over his lamp in Indiana,) 3) Test market his quarantine theory by isolating him in a grain silo in rural Indiana. ' 4) In a Kamikaze mission, have two people walk through a doorway with him at the same time, 5) Steal his glasses and hide his wife. Sydney: Now for nightlife; a mixed crowd 9f pretty but chat- ty people, several lesbians and quite a few Mars employees marked the debut of Cities at the neN club Morrissey. All we can tell you about Morrissey is that it is named after some man, sup- posedly the owner/manager, Mr. Morrissey, Imagine if Boy Bar were called M.acGregor or Red Zone, LeNis (after Paul MacGregor and Steven Lewis, the respective owners). Morrissey's designer has been struck by gold fever, Everything you touch and a feN places you cannot reach have tumed to gold: the walls, the ceiling and the door girl's hat. Finishing out the King Midas effect is a giant gold leaf dragon hanging eerily·over the dance floor. Chauncey (door person from M.ars), Kate Harwood, DJs John Sullga and Mark Kamins host the weekly tour through the world's most trea- sured cities, Bangkok was the lucky site of this Wednesday's stop---a six-foot gold leaf Buddha, a giant pagoda and go go girls in FarEastern garb completed this Thai Delight. Uz: On to M.adrid, INhere Pedro Almodovar's neN (old, it DOOR PRIZES was made in 1982) film, Labyrinth of Passion is set. The premiere Chauncey and 'amela Sneed party at Mars was notable for its presences (Brooke Shields, Photo: Liz and Sidney product of an alternative family unit, asked her mother for fashion advice, murmured something about a meaningless society, and admired the posters arranged artfully enough to camouflage the are the runners-up? Sweeping streets? We also discovered a graffiti) as well as its absences, Sydney Biddie Barrows, originally heavy metal parody to end all heavy metal parodies: The Connie invited, was then dis-invited by host Chip Duckett after her eti- Girl and Chlclet lip-synched the Guns and Roses song, . quette book was found to have such helpful hints as waming your "Welcome to the Jungle". Wearing Metalllca and Skid Row t-shirts dinner guests that a Person With AIDS [Sydney: I believe Ms, Bar- with the added label ·piece of meat" sta'mped across the back, rows' term was "carrier',] will be attending. Duckett, as quoted in the duo defiantly trashed the heavy metal/biker/slutlgroupie New York M.agazine, asked Ms, M.ayflower, "Were you planning to stereotype fed by the sexistlracist/homophobic heavy metal guys. have unsafe seX over dessert?" Knowing M.adam Barrows, this is Never letting the audience forget this was a 1V show, Connie and not as far from the truth as one might think. Chiclet mocked genderbending pretty boys Ax! Rose and Sebas- The party also marked the premiere of Pamela Sneed after tian Bach, two of the genre's leading offenders. dark. Working tHe door for the Labryinth Party, Pamela is a lesbian MeanlNhile, on another night we bieN into Dean Johnson's activist, poet and performer. Word has it she will be the neN Rock and Roll Fag Barat Pyramid and as usual marveled at all of the doorperson for Quickl's gay Thursdays. set:'( and sex-hungry boys heading down to the Testosteroom for Sydney: On a recent trip to Boy Barwe made the horrifying some back room action. As Dean approached us, the always discovery that the neNly crowned Miss Boy Bar, ....Ickle ....Icole, is inquisitive Liz had a question: . working as a cocktail waitress at the same establlshmentlNhich Liz: Hi Dean. Uh...Where's the Estrogen Room? elected her its figurehead, This of course leads us to ask, INhere Dean: .Excuse me? 50 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 Lots of rcpetltlon. Lots of rcpetltlon. Draa nlccly. The Do's Lots of rcpetltlon. Wc suggest cotton or twecd. Bleck leather often Iceds susceptlblc, shel- tered parents to picture their child and Leavc out your quecr unclc or that being fucked over I pool tablc by "bohemian" great-aunt. . someone Ilrge Ind nasty. 1IIIs Impedes PoInt out the appalling way your· family clclr, thoughtful discussion of the civil Don't's of has always treatcd Unclc frink or Aunt , rights Issues Involved. Franca, which rcfIccts their h0mopho- Coming bia, and put·'ern on notlcc you WON'T PUT UP WI1H ANY OF 1HAT SHIT. Smllc Forget to be political. when you NY that, though, so they Out know you love them Inyway. Many peopIc wlilinstinctivcly recoil from the prospect of nasty, difficult, by John Voelcker pcnonal matters--llkc sodomy, feilitio Ind cunnilingus, NY. So they may fccl . Be prepared to cope with some com- more at cue dlsc'usslng your commit- Is it just me, or did everyone pletely Irrational shit right aftcr you ment to fighting for gay civil rights, les- you know just come out over the tcll them. (Christmas Day, my parents bian visibility Ind public awareness. holidays? To their parents, their in- told me they heel set up an "Informal Then, If you feci It's IppropriatC, you laws, their bosses, their best fund for your future medical can segue Into the hypocrisy Qf major nccds-for obYfous reasons.") friends, their therapists? religious lceders who takc OUR tax Smllc, breathc decply and plln I dollars whllc refusing to teech (unspec- Here, then, are a few helpful nlcc, calm discussion for a couplc of Ified) Sifc.sex prectJccs. (1II1smay be hints, collected from the various deys latcr, In which you will gcntly Just as difficult for them, but It may : cxplaln why thclr action was not only makc them less visibly naUHOUs.) experiences of everyone I know who took a deep breath and said wrong-headed but Irrltlonal Ind offenslvc. In six months, you'll be IT. We suggest coming out early, glad you did, I think. Introducc them to your frlcnds IS fut coming out often and coming out uposslblc. proudly. The Queer Nation RoIc models Ire everything. My cntirc demands nothing less. Fccl you have to usc "gay" In every sin- family heel the ldel I WISthe SOLE gay glc sentencc. person In AmerIca who wlsn't (I) Immi- thern what great GAYfrlcnds new It's completely understandablc that nently sulddll; (b) relcntiessly trying you'Vc made and how many really fun you want to stop cdltlng Yo.. life. But to seduce thc paperboy; (c) c:IyIngto LESBIANSyou know with useful con- It also doesn't hurt to remind them visit the nelrest truck stop; or (d) plan- nections and how sad your poor now and then that you do stili have ning to have every lut sexual orgln STRAIGHTfrlcnds arc without .ny straight friends (poor things), and stili plcrccd. Your friends can help to dis- advantages. do all the .. me stuff you did two claY' pel thesc myths, slo,.,ty. It's the old ag~ you ftre QUEER. sec-ft'rc-Just-likc-rcguiar-folks rou- tine. (lhIt's bullshlt, of course, but IIVC that for Lesson 1Wo.) Skimp on thc food and decor. 1IIc fabulousness of your "new" life Have a buddy on the outside you can and/or lover may aft them cnough to call for sympathy end to kcep you In keep 'ern In line. Pin spots and fresh touch with reality. Come out the .. me dey I flmlly frlcnd flowers, I'm told, are particularly helpful. Is hospitalized with I fltlllllncss. Rclnforcement "'111y helps especlilly after that first draining M-hour period. It lutomatically puts your clrefully Hcor she will remind yo~ that you have . constructcd comlng-out specch Into Be patlcnt whllc you'rc being finn. anothcr, far more supPortlvc family the Just Another Cross I Havc to Bear back In NYC(or wherever), even though Rcmcmbcr, thcy havc iO ycars or so At 1IIIs Vcry, Vcry Difficult nme you'rc stuck In thc frozen wutclanck-'" category. nmlng Is everything. of confusion and misinformation to of LocII,Grand Forks, Cleveland, Ithaca work through. Bc willing to cXplaln or wherever. thrcc or four times that sleeping with pcoplc of thc samc scx doesn't Be rclcntlessly checrful and upbeat. automatically mcan you will dlc Sure, you may not feci It. But It'll make young and alonc and mlscrablc Give In Inch. It a IIttic hardcr for thcm to view you bccausc you'rc a hldcous doom cd It's thc (Icsblan and) gay 90s, and It's as the sad, rejccted, pathetic outcast outcast. Soclcty tclls 'cm this shit, about fucking time. 'Y that society wants you to be If you tcll and untclllng It rcqulrcs rcpetltlon. February4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 51 GOSSIP WATCH from page 49 "In San Francisco, you might have Jersey, the car insurance system. very soon on the despicable Andy to fuck on the steps of city hall to As Governor Florio told the Rooney of 60 Minutes on CBS. commit a 'grossly indecent' act," assembled lawmakers that the New If you've ~n following Page Six Swanson said. "But in Holland, Michi- Jersey state's system of car inS\lrance at The Post and/or Entertainment gan a jury might decide that two men was "totaled," Gary Kleinman shout- Tonight (and really, who doesn't?) holding hands in public qualifies," ed, "Our healthcare system is then you know about Rooney's According to MOHR, Ottawa totalled," He was immediately remarks on the air about queers C"I County is heavily influenced by a fun- removed by the security, Later, during feel the same way about homosexuals damentalist version of the Dutch applause for the governor's speech, as I do about cigarette smokers. I Reformed religion, Ironically the pop- ACT UP member Jim Provenzano wouldn't want to spend too much ular gay resort town of Saugatuck, began shouting to the governor about time in a roo~ with one, but they often called "the Fire Island of the homeless PWAs, confidentiality and don't bother me otherwise," and, Midwest," is located only a few miles the new law, asking him to revoke "1here was some recognition in 1989 south in neighboring Allegan Coun- the law. Provenzano's concerns were of the fact that many of the ills that ty·-filed from Chicago T drowned out by applause and cheers kill are self-induced, such as tond CBS. Both USA Today AIDS, are you then a suspected HIV protester arrested, He was charged and 7V Guide have come out with sto- positive person?" she asked. with disrupting a public meeting, T ries on Rooney's homophobic tirade. Critics of the new legislation say it But the bomb I mentioned earlier may is poorly written, "It's a terrible bill," MENTAL HEALTH from pag813 just come next week when the new says Gary Stein from the New York- rent mental health programs to better issue of The Advocate hits the stands. based Citizen's Committee on AIDS. "It serve lesbians and gay men, and will From what I'm told, Rooney not only is unclear as to what is 'identifying work to create special programs to makes more homophobic statements, information,' and in what manner it will meet the community's unique needs. but makes some racist remarks which be reported. The whole part on report- "I want to look at programs such will no doubt fry him. Meanwhile, you ing of the names of HIV infected pe0- as the Harvey Milk School, SAGE [a can call Rooney directly at (212) 975- ple needs to be repealed," says Stein. group for older lesbians and gay men], 2065 and tell him what a bigoted shit- Stein also showed concern that the Hetrick Martin Institute and even head he is. Then you can call his the current law will be used to reduce Covenant House to fmd out what men- boss, CBS News President David or eliminate anonymous testing sites tal health services are needed to meet Burke, at (212) 975-8462, and tell him in the state, The new law states that their special needs," he said. what an asshole he is for not firing the department of health "may select Jones also believes that mental Rooney immediately. ~ up to six counseling and testing sites health services for gays should be throughout the state to offer anony- provided at all treatment and counsel- TEACHERS from plge ,16 mous testing." Currently, New Jersey ing centers. staged it for the media," he said, has 16 testing Sites, all of which offer "I don't think there has been "These people are not the type to the option of anonymous testing. enough understanding among [mental solicit sex from young men. The "Saying they 'may select up to six' health workers] toward the dynamics decoys and the 17-year-old were very sites will be a reduction in anony- and issues in gay lives and relations. forceful and demanding and persis- mous test sites and leaves open the There may be sensitivity in clinics in tent over a long period of time to possibility of offering no anonymous the Village, but I doubt there has arrange this. n tests," says Stein, been in the far reaches of Queens or The sheriff's department's Posrna At an unrelated hearing of the Brooklyn, where gays and lesbians has countered that the arrests were Public Health Commission on New Jer- also live," Jones said. "just part of the whole scope of the sey public health regulations for all The new commissioner, whose investigation here regarding homosexu- communicable diseases, eleven ACf 16-page resume outlines nearly two al activity among individuals and UP/NJ members held up signs that said decades of work in medicine and psy- minors." He said police had received "No reporting of names" and "No HIV chiatry, also plans to beef up city tips and have a duty to protect children lists" as people spoke in favor of the mental health services for people with from "solicitations for sexual activity," regulations that would enable the AIDS and HIV infection. The "gross indecency" statute, reporting of positive HIV antibody tests He said he wants to integrate city under which five of the men have to the state, From there, they went to a mental health and social workers with been charged, is a vague law that can joint session of the legislature where AIDS service. providers, such as the mean whatever juries decide it Governor Florio addressed what he Gay Men's Health Crisis. "I want to tie means, according to MOHR. called the number one priority of New mental health efforts into the AIDS 52 OUTTWEEK February 4. 1990 I I I ~ service network that already exists." instance, Taylor and Sarlo followed quently started fights with others. "We need to help the infected the victim to the hut, taunting him as Newspapers differed on how deal with depression and denial. We they went. Sometime within the next they handled the issue of Zappalorti's need to move them toward accepting hour, they slashed Zappalorti's throat sexuality. The Daily News quo,ted it, and then getting the appropriate and stabbed him repeatedly in the Zappalorti's father as saying, "They treatment," Jones said. chest with -a five inch knife, according killed Jimmy because he was gay, but Other issues high on Jones' agen- to police. he was a good gay, not a pervert." da' include mo~e services for the Following the murder, police say The New York Ttmes, however, inter- homeless, children and young people the two took Zappalorti's keys, preted the elder Zappalorti's state- and the drug addicted. entered his horne and ransacked his . ment that his son was not a pervert to room, stealing a rosary, They fled mean tJult his son wasn't gay. Not ExBctlytfte First when confronted by the victim's . "The elder Zappaiorti held a pic- Dr. Jones is not the first openly invalid mother. ture of his son playing the piano and gay commissioner to serve in New Michael Zappalorti, James' angrily denied that his son was gay. York City history, but his ts the first to younger brother, began searching for "'He wasn't a pervert, he was be appointed, Two other commission- his brother the Qext day and discov- clean,'" the Ttmes quoted the father as ers were gay, but they came out ered the body at 2:15 pm on Tuesday, saying. while in office: Health Services Taylor was arrested at a Staten Island Perhaps most surprising was the Administrator Howard Brown in 1973, nightclub early Wednesday morning. New York Post, whose prominent and Cultural Affairs Commissioner Sarlo is still at large. coverage was considered uncharacter- Henry Geldzahler in 1979. The two accused men have a istically sensitive and extensive. Jones is admittedly not a gay record of bias-related crime ~gainst activist, which has caused grumbling gays, In 1986 they were arrested and Major DemOnstration Planned among some gays and lesbians, He convicted, along with two others, of . At week's end, the murder doesn't belong to any gay/lesbian kidnapping a gay Staten Island man, 'appeared to be turning into 'a focal groups and spends much of his pri- beating him with a tire iron, locking point for widespread gay anger at vate time with his partner of 22 years. him in the trunk of his car and threat- the city's rising tide of anti-gay vio- "I never felt the need to get up and ening. to blow the car up, In that case, lence, ~umerous gay leaders announce my homosexuality, but I never bias against homosexuals was also planned to attend Zappalorti's funer- tried to hide it either," he said. "But if said to be the motive, Both men al on Saturday in Staten Island. As anyone didn't know; they do now." served time in state prison for that Out Week went to press, plans for a While many lesbians and gays conviction. major demonstration. were taking were up in arms over the· Myers Since their release, Taylor and shape. Activists were contacting a appointment, some Latinos were upset Sarlo are said to have been unable to broad range of community groups, by Dinkins naming Jones over their hold steady jobs, and are called trou- shaping a coalition to sponsor a preferred candidate: Dr. Luis Marcos of blemakers by people in the neighbor- demonstration in Staten Island for the Health and Hospitals Corporation. hood, They are said to have fre- later this week .... "Dr. Marcos is a friend and col- I I I league' of mine, and other Hispanic leaders have said they will work with me. I don't anticipate a problem," Jones said, vowing to reach out to Latinos. "My record at this hospital, which has mostly Hispanic patients, shows my concern and sensitivity towards the Hispanic community." ... MURDER from pa\ll 12 ly parents and spent much of his time in a small hut he had constructed near the Arthur Kill, left a store called Deli Delight, two blocks from his horne. A witness reported that Taylor and Sarlo began harassing Zappalorti, calling him "faggot" and "queer," Other neighbors have reported that such harassment was a frequent occurence, Police said that in this. February 4. 1990 OlJTYWEEK 53 Music Read My Lips by WiUiam F. Chafin immy Somerville has always been political. As the lead Jsinger of the Bronski Beat, and then The Communards, he was gay and he was Out. He sang love songs .to other men. He seized gay disco from the divas and reinterpreted it, making songs like "Never Can Say Goodbye" into authentic gay music sung with real conviction. Now, on his first solo album released on London Records in the u.K. he's more outspo- ken than ever, adamantly encouraging gay political activism. The title, READ MY llPS, is derived from the ACI' UP slogan used with images of same-sex couples kissing, In fact, the liner notes advise "ACI' UP, fight back, fight AIDS" and include ACI' UP/London's address, But don't get the idea that this album is all strident politics; there are also love songs and disco anthems aplenty on this auspicious solo debut. The first single from READ MY l UPS, a duet with drummer and ex- musical director of The Communards June Miles-Kingston, is "(Comment Te Dire) Adieu" originally a hit for 60s French artist Francois Hardy, Explain- ing this unusual choice of material S.. SOMERVlUf on Plill 62 54 OUT.wEEK February 4, 1990 Dance All the Right Moves choreographers who don't have access to established venues--the grass roots guys," At present, the Field's program of showcases and workshops presents 35 perfonnances a year involving work by as many as 200 choreographers. Gross was by Otis Stuart .also recently made curator of the dance program at the Kitchen, which means that he will be instrumental in program- ming the work of even more of his peers through the dance rue to the swell of the times, dancer/choreogra- end of the Kitchen's multidisciplinary activities. pher Steve Gross makes dances that know noth- Gross' work as a choreographer is his strongest suit. ing of passivity, sexual or otherwise. Even at their Movement, steps, are only one of its priorities. "I'm not really quietest-GrossT just sitting on a floor in one work, flicking a interested in movement in tenns of how many times a body lamp off and on, summoning up images of isolation and can tum or how fur a leg can extend," Gross says, "Physicality instability that give Glenn Close a run for her fatally attrac- can also create a unique state of mind, a kind of rooting from tive money-his work can be an emotional Rorshach test, which you develop another kind of language, There's som~ just you and right-there emotion. Gross' upcoming concert at thing absohitely fundamental and honest about your physical P.S. 122, his sixth evening of work since coming to New self, and that's.what I'm after-the honesty of performance." York in 1984, promises to keep up the tradition, The three Inevitably,that kind of truth has its confrontational aspects, scheduled works include a new solo, masturbation, lies and and Gross' work doesn't' shy away from the big situations, An cassette tapes, dealing with a topical and, by nature, touchy early solo dealt Witha mothers suicide and had Gross moving subject-phone sex, taped personal descriptions and all, across the stage accompanied by a monotone account of the Emotional engagement has ...... I • event, sheated-1ums includ- been central to Gross' work ed-inside a black-beaded from the start. A psychology evening dress, a modem day major, he was introduced to Venus de Milo with a real prob- dance at 18 by his lover at the . lem. "Everything is a response time, a dancer, Teny Beck, who to a situation, I don't really is collaborating on a new duet think about the surprise of it," with Gross for the P.S. 122 per- Gross says. "That person, for formances. "I was raised to I example, was trapped. The idea work with my mind," Gross & is to take different lines of com- says of the discovery. "You I municating-in this case, the trained your mind, That's where I dress, the text, moving across the work was. I started taking Ithe stag~rid see what hap- dance classes and discovered ~. pens when they're j~posed." my body, working with my l' .Gross' work is also body. It was like something out , marked by another trait that of Star Trek-uncharted territo- has been forged out of the ry, going where no one had sweatshop of the 80s, The been before, It was something emotional honesty Gross cites to conquer." as a goal mak.es him a male Since taking on New York, choreographer working from a Gross has become something centrally gay perspective, (It of a prototype for the city's may sound simple but it ain't.) developing breed of choreogra- K In Gross' work, heterosexuality phers. The interests and intent, 'is no longer the given, not in for example, reach out and the coupling of the dances or beyond. In addition to his work the choice of costume or the as a dancer, teacher and chore- I, world view. The choice has ographer, Gross became direc- potential risks:' Gross has just tor of the Field in 1987, recei:ved funds from the NEA establishing it as a service orga- VENUS DE MILO WITH A REAL PROBLEM for the second time. The poten- nization for "a constituency of Steve Gross Photo: B. Franklin Smith S•• GROSS on page 62 February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 55 Theater sneers, "How corne old queens like you get hung up on such insignificant people? Thank God we have better role models now-like Lany Kramer." And so it goes, an enc and AZl', It's a world domi- Winds of War nated by medical insurance, where Consumer Reports evaluates condoms. playwright, Sydney Moms, is either con- In Jay's eyes, the fault for this fused as to which is more important- deadly universe rests squarely with the anger or the issue-or uncertain as Casey and his "generation of pigs" who to their proper theatrical proportions. indiscriminantly fucked and sucked, Jay (Stephen Miller), an AIDS Speaking for the swine to whose com- by Michael PaUer activist in his 20s, is visiting Casey pany he has been consigned, Casey (David Baird), a cabaret performer in reminds Jay that it was those pigs who his 30s and a member of the first post- gave Jay the bedrock of a culture. At nger, one might think, is just Stonewall generation, Jay, who is also last goaded into retaliation, he tells Jay the thing called for in gay the- an artist, is to complete a panel for that when the epidemic is over, Jay's A ater now, For many, anger the AIDS Quilt in memory of generation will know what his learned has become the elixir of life, a more Adam-Casey's lover and Jay's close long ago: How it feels to crawl into the potent fuel than love or compassion. If a friend. Try as Casey might, he can't light after living one's entire life beneath theater which reflects the experiences of reach across the chasm of age and rocks, At this moment, the issue is final- our community is to be vital, then experience to make a friend of Jay. ly engaged, the real conflict emerges mustn't it engage the leading passions The younger man is perpetually and the audience would be electri- and circumstances that confront us at angry and insensitive; every story fied-had it n.ot been so worn down by this moment? The answer, from a politi- Casey tells him is simply "before my 75 minutes of what Morris doubtless cal point of view, would be yes. Politics time." When Casey nostalgically recalls considered the necessary "preparation." and aesthetics don't always mix well, the nights in the "Stone Age before It is an honest mistake, but one however, and a choice which may be Stonewall" spent with midnight cow- which places an enormous burden on politically correct doesn't necessarily boys and sailors, afternoons with aspir- the actors and the director, John Wall. make the best theater, ing actors. and deaf mutes, Jay They must provide the variety of emo- Such is the case with The Wind responds, "Were any of. you faithful in tion and physical action for which Wall Beneath My Wing.s; which contains con- the Stone Age?"The gap between them has left precious little room in his siderable anger and deals with a contro- is measured forever when Jay, dismis- essentially static script. While Miller and versial issue which hasn't been dealt sive of Casey's passions for Ann Baird work well within the limited with in theater before. Unfortunately, the Sheridan, Betty Hutton and Sal Mineo, S .. WIND on pege 62 56' OUTTWEEK February 4. 1990 Performance Mr. Russell, as jmpr~ sario of the benefit, finds 122Turns 10 great personal satisfactionin how many perfonners who got their start at P.S. 122 return not only for the *.,=~(~~~~;:~~~:~~"annual benefit, but for (host~ Ii Tr I 4' With. . , ~~ta~, oe,~ . shows throughout the year. }{m~..Ma1tin) ..a~p ~t11' CHO$t "It was a total surprise to ~1~8et,~ricJ3S~.iah. Mi,mi", me to see them come back, :pfp@ite\With'J~'K~ Bl~e I thought that whe'1 our 8;,(h3s~,lisa e6';1~.at &01\ with Tom performers graduated to :pal~pray). xl ,M';': B.A.M., they'd be writing me back postcards, But byJohn Wing instead, they're here help- ing to inspire younger ven by Performance Space 122's never subdued stan- artists," dards, their Tenth Anniversary Benefit promises to be Since being founded E an epic event worthy of Cecil B, DeMille. This year, over ten years ago as a per- more than 60 perfonners, dancers, comedians, fUmrnakersand formance laboratory, P.S, musicians will converge on 150 First Avenue to take part in the 122 has remained a mecca event, which runs for four days, beginning Thursday night, for emerging talent. Last February 1. The proceeds for the benefit, called "Dress Up," year there were 150 perfor- are to be used for a very humane purpose--redoing the badly .rnances, and this year there decomposing perfonners' dressing rooms, P.S. 122 hopes to are plans for substantially raise $20,000 for this endeavor, Previous benefits have allowed more. The dynamic envi- new heating and lighting systems to be installed, and the refur- ronment is fostered by a bishment of a downstairs performing area that had been staff, most of whom are likened to a dungeon. It makeS one wonder what was going volunteers, who often work on at this fonner public school before it became a horne for long hours six to seven perfonners in 1979. . days a week. Mr. Russell The benefit will bring together some of the most tal- has high hopes ~orthe ~ext ·LASERS...LAME...A HEAP '0' ented artists around, including Eric Bogosian, Penny ten. years and IS looktng TALENT· Ph . 0 An McAda Arcade, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Spalding Gray and Ann forward to the next genera- oto. onna n ms Carlson. This East Village jamboree will also have the host- tion of perfonners who will develop their craft at P,S,122. ing expertise of Hapi Phace, Reno, Carmelita Tropicana, "A new generation is coming into their own right now. DANCENOISE,Cee Brown and Lisa Kron with Torn Judson. They are performers and artistswho have grown up under corn- They will each host one of the six performances which will pletely different times thafl fomIer generations," said Mr. Russell, comprise the benefit. speaking about the influence of AIDSon the artisticcommunity, As always, there will be numerous surprise guests, "AIDSis shaping us, but artists are Stillin a sort cf state of shock One year Whoopi Goldberg came disguised as a bag lady over .it."P,S, 122 has been extremely active in AIDScensorship and, unrecognized by both audience and staff, grabbed the issues, and has perfonned a number of benefits to support stage microphone and commenced a monologue. groups such as VISUalAIDSand God's LoveWe Deliver. As part of the opening night bash, the entire building will "At P.S. 122, we are always trying to challenge our- be made over with laser beam designs synchronized to music selves with our programming~most to scare ourselves," by SCienceFaction. When not transfIXedby the facade, on the said Mr, Russell, with eagerness, "We don't have any specific iriside, guests will be able to eat, drink and party before the paths to take here, we just follow our artists." first performance of the evening, which starts at 8:00. All told, After the ordeal of organizing this year's benefit, the staff the benefit is a crash course in experimental entertainment. of P,S. 122 will not be taking any time off, but will be busy "It's our Mardi Gras...our Oscars...our Macy's Thanksgiving with February's full schedule of perfonnances. While Mr. Day Parade," said an ebulliant Mark Russell, the executive Russell fmds the experience of the benefit invigorating, he is director of P,S,122, "Our benefit has become so big and popu- quick to add with a laugh: "But don't go calling us up too early lar, I couldn't stop it if I tried. It's got a life of its own now." the Monday after it!" One of the chief delights of the benefit, according to Mr. Admission to "Dress Up" will be. $20 per show, $35 for Russell,is the number of new talents who are being showcased the opening night bash and performance, or $80 for a in New York for the first time, "It's a great way for the public to "Dress Up" pass which grants admission to opening night check out what's happening in all the performing arts." and all shows plus a lame scarf. T February 4, 1990 OUTYWEEK 57 Books Naked, Nude, Nudist which have to do with nakedness. Miles decides to "explore in some Carnal Knowing introduces us to detail versions of the story by several a variety of loosely related subjects notable authors-Saint Ambrose, including fourth century baptismal Augustine, Saint Hildegard of Bingen, practices, medieval female asceticism, Martiri Luther and S0ren Kierkegaard." the story of Adam and Eve and the Why these five? No answer is by Michael Schwarz concept of the grotesque. Miles' con- offered. One can only assume that clusions are nothing if not clearly stat- she believes these authors to be espe- ed. "Patriarchal cultures," she writes, cially representative. But representa- "in spite of their many dissimilarities, tive of what? Or whom? She argaret R. Miles' Carnal share a cornmon need to preserve male concludes, ironically, that "the literary Knowing: Female Naked- control that is thought of simply as and pictorial presentation of the fig- Mness and Religious Mean- 'order'. A central component of main- ure 'woman,' ... carried remarkable Ing In the Christian west is a book in taining and reproducing social order is continuity across medieval societies search of a subject Although she pur- the management of women, and a and appears to have relied very little ports to be writing about female naked- powerful strategy for controlling on what actual women were doing." women is their public representation." Fortunately, despite all of its defi- Her point is that "because women have ciencies, Carnal Knowing makes a not enjoyed the conditions necessary number of very interesting and even for formulating self-representations that provocative points. Miles articulates CAR-NAL could have informed collective male the special afflliation the female body views of women, men have usually has with the grotesque. "Some KNOWING created representations of women out women," she writes, "were seen as fEMf.I.E of their fears and fantasies," personifications of the grotesque (dur- These impressive, and most likely ing the Middle Ages): prostitutes, for NAKfDNES$ correct, conclusions are not, however, example, epitomized the penetrable supported by very much in the way of body that produces juices and smells, argumentation, One could easily formu- The prostitute's body was described RELIGIOUS late an argument for why fourth century as the opposite of the closed, self- ME~\NING baptismal practices are important in the contained, controlled male body and history of gender asymmetry in the the opposite of that of some virtuous IN l'I! t: West. The fourth and fifth century bap- women, especially virgins, who were (URISIIAN tismal practices were a turning point in called 'gardens. enclosed.'" This affin~ the history of sexuality, as a number of ity is founded "on the assumption that \V f ST historians have recently argued, and the male body is the perfectly formed, naked bap~ism is potentially a vivid complete and therefore normative MARGARETR. source of information of early Christian body. By contrast women's bodies attitudes toward women, But Miles incorporate parts Oike breasts, uterus, . MILES never bothers to place her subject in and vagina) and processes Oike men- historical perspective. struation and pregnancy) that In discussing the story of Adam appeared grotesque to the authors ness, Miles, a 'professor of historical and Eve, for example, she initially and artists who represented women." theology at Harvard Divinity School, claims that "interpretations of the The battle between the sacred and never convincingly answers the ques- Genesis account (of creation) repre- profane, in other words, is played out tion of why naked female bodies have sent not ~ 'unified set of shared in the language of the body. The point been associated with sensuality and notions,' but a 'seri~s of arguments is not original, but Miles effectively desire while naked male bodies have among people' about the significance shows how gender influences ideas symbolized power, athletic prowess and of sex difference and the social con- about bodily integrity and pollution in knowledge, Instead of a discussion of struction of gender," So far so good. a way that Ma;.y Douglas would no nakedness per se we are presented with But, instead of attempting a survey of doubt approve of, FollOwing the work examples of gender asymmetry in art, literary and artistic treatments of the of Peter Stallybrass, she also argues that . literature and theology, only some of Creation. and Fall across the centuries, S.. NAKED on pege 62 58 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 NEW! 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(LOS' ,\;\!(JELES) 4014 SAN'/A MONICA B~'D. (21:3) 008-0029, LAMBDA HISIN(J (WASllIN(JTON, DC) 1025CONNECTICUT AVE. NW. (202) 462-6969, GLAD DAY BO , ..... ~_... ..M •• ...... ,I helped establish the seemingly excit- ing and sexually alluring crowd that would become the Beats. Columbia was a heady start to a life which would lead Ginsberg in a search for passion and enlightenment. He studied under gurus in India and in this country, shot up speed with . poets in Paris, picked up boys with friends in Morocco. And almost all of it was covered by a fascinated press which was feeding an even more enthralled public. ' The Beats became the figures of rebellion and expression in a repressed American society, These were the symbols of the wild spirit that so many wanted to emulate. Ginsberg was an especially impor- tant figure for the gay world which began to evolve after the Stonewall riots, long after he, himself, had come out publicly, (In fact, Ginsberg was there for the second day of Stonewall, drawn by the sudden eruption of gay power.) Those of us who had grown up with Ginsberg and the Beats were astonished when he suddenly seemed to give it all up a few years ago and become a coat-and-tie wear- ing professor at Brooklyn College and, soon after, the president of the mainstream PEN organization, Then he left behind hiS years-long relation- ship with City Lights publishers and signed on with Andrew Wylie, the most odious and least respected of the mammoth literary agents who are becoming so powerful in New York. , 'I CIt's no mistake that this biography was commissioned by Wylie, who represented it, soon. after. A now high-priced item, Ginsberg needed press to justify the huge amounts that the agent would, successfully, demand from mainstream publish- which laid the groundwork for the ers.) byJohn Preston Woodstock decade. The happenings What happened? No one should of the 60s and the most vivid experi- fault Ginsberg for finally looking for a mental art of the post-World War II living wage and decent royalties, but he Beat Generation caught era all have their roots in the ram- there seemed to be so much more the imagination of the Ameri- bling, exotic bands of poets and writ- behind the story, The biographer Tcan arts in the 50s, Kerouac, ers' and painters who seemed to come doesn't want to really admit it, but the Cassaday, Burroughs were names together magically, real stuff soon becomes apparent as 60 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 Ginsberg's story unfolds, Yes, there were those adventures and there were literary blockbusters such as Howl, the only poem for which Ginsberg will always be remembered. There were also untold years lost to drugs; the very theme of Howl was the destruction of a genera- tion. And there was unending urthap- piness. And there was a lot of hype. Ginsberg presented himself and his "lover" Peter Orlovsky as the per- fect gay couple, a model of monoga- mous fidelity for the evolving gay world to emulate. In fact, Peter was basically heterosexual, almost always on drugs and often psychotic, They were a mess. The characters who made up the Beat Generation. had their moments of glory and inspiration. But no one could sustain the drug- fueled high that started them on their way, They all had to crash eventually, Many did it by dying, others by going crazy; Ginsberg did it by becoming a professor, a tired man entering old age without ever having found the answers he so con- stantly sought. The. biography is workman"like enough, nothing spe- cial, but nothing astonishing eit.her. In the end, while the beginning is star-studded and enthusiastic,uthis is a sad and depressing story. ***** When Harold Norse was a stu- dent at Brooklyn College he firmly .held the beliefs of many radical Harold Norse Photo: Nina Glasser homosexuals of the time: "...that we would all be reborn in communism, a faith that promised an end to social eventually published many volumes he documents Isherwood's slights of injustice, war, racism and inequality of of poetry, he never a'ccumulated the him, the prizes he didn't win, the the sexes. Without that ideal we faced recognition that fell to many of his publishers who did him wrong-but boredom and masturbation. With it peers. He even lost his lover to there's also enough fascinating stuff we masturbated to fantasies of the Auden, which actually has been one here to justify any reader's time, Noble Worker." of his claims to fame. More recently, especially now when so many seem Sexually precocious and intellec- however, he seems to have discov- intrigued with the development of tually gifted, Norse moved through a ered that younger people are inter- the Beat Movement in literature and bohemian, leftist world with compan- ested in his life, and that publishers are debating its real effects on our ions like Baldwin and Ginsberg. As who had once been so diffic.ult culture, Norse is actually best and they grew older, some C?fthem grew were now willing to pay him for his most poetic when he's describing the famous, some became criminals and reminiscences. The result. is an most memorable tricks of his life-he j others simply went on with their lives. uneven but usually fascinating auto- was the soul. of a pornographer in Norse, as involved with drugs biography, the most artistic sense of the as any of the rest, doesn't seem to There's no doubt that Norse feels term-although the rest of his story is have ever caught the train, While he slighted by the ravages of fortune- also of note. T February 4, 1990 O~EEK 61 GROSS from Pili. 55 TI anthems, "Lips" demands money, dig- must learn to represent themselves in tial value is even greater, "I don't think nity .and a cure for AIDS and includes more direct and honest ways," is less of my work as political," Gross says. "I the repeatedly chanted refrain, "The sanguine, What would an "honest" mean, I signed up GMHC right after I power within we can use it to win." and "direct" portrayal of male sexuality got to New York, but that doesn't seem "And You Never" calls for protest be like? How, moreover, does one rep- to me political-it's just obvious, neces- against the government in support of resent the full personality and character sary. But my work comes out of ~ho I our rights, proclaiming, "I believe the of a human being in a picture? And am and what I am living, so if there is a basic thing in life should be free/health how can an image rob the dignity of political aspect it's in a 'product of my and education have priority/and they're the person portrayed or the group of times way' rather than as an objective. I selling to us what we already own". people it represents? don't understand why-or how--chore- While these songs generate These are difficult questions which ographers force a heterosexual perspec- strength and conviction, the best sur- readers will righdy associate with the tive·on their work. I do what I am." T prise of this album is "Control". recent debate about pornography. Somerville uses his lower register One need not dredge up that whole "regular" voice which turns out to be debate, however, to acknowledge that SOMERVlLlf from pell. 54 very sexy, very sensual. He sings, the relationship between the represen- Somerville says, "I thought it would be "Feel your strength, just let it flow/the tation and behavior is complex and that good to start my solo project with more you supress, the weaker you simple solutions to the problem of gen- something completely off the wall, and grow/build yourself a fortress of der asynunetry will not be forthCOming. I don't think you could have anything pride/take control of your life body Still, one can sympathize with more off the wall than a Scottish singer and soul". It's a fantasticly gay (or Miles' passionate summary: "Men's singing French over a House track." 'any other way of being, for that mat- fear of women comes from the socially It does have a House-influenced . ter!) inspirational song for the 90s. constructed but intimately felt need to beat, however" Adieu" often succumbs The album ends with "Rain," a beauti- control a puzzling similar-but-different to typical disco flourishes when some fully jazzy techno-pop song about the being, And women are felt to be acidic twists would be more appropri- environmental emergency of acid unknown, mysterious, because they do ate. It's entertaining, but not the rain. The only lyrics are "Here comes not represent themselves in the public strongest cut on the album by a long the rain/it's burning, it's burning/who sphere and thus do not revc;al and shot. Much better is the other cover: would believe that the rain it could articulate a collective female subjectivi- the gay gospelesque disco classic "You kill?", But they are enough .. ty that would both limit the projection Make Me Feel (Mighty ReaO". In this With READ MY LIPS, Jimmy of male fears and longings and, ulti- tribute to the late great Sylvester (the Somervtlle has stepped oµt as a clear mately, reassure men that, in Calypso's original male disco diva) Somerville voice for the global gay community, words, 'The heart within me is not of captures all the excitement and 'fun of He has created dance music with a iron, but yearning, like yours.'" T 1978 without sounding dated. As sOcial conscious and a gay heart. Let's Jimmy's falsetto soars like Sylvester's, . hope it's released in America soon. T WIND from pell. 56 you realize what a solidly great disco I I range the writing allows, their efforts, song this will always be. almost predictably, fall short. Wall is NAKED from pell. 58 The best original high energy song unable to help them discover the is "Pettect Day". Written by Somerville,. men grew increasingly insecure about details of characterization and physical it's a romantic love story set by the sea- relations between the sexes during the action which might at least paper over side: "Give me your hand and we'll late medieval period, and that this inse- some of the author's more obvious walk by the shore/skim stones' on the curity influenced some political as well manipulations as he unneccessarily water, the waves crash and roar/ as sexual arrangements. puts off revealing the core of Jay's fury. Pretending you're Neptune/write names This emphasis on the sexual poli- Miller's job is especially difficult, as he in the sandllips brushed with salt I tell tics of representation in the Renaissance must try to locate something attractive' you I love you/you smile". Next, leads MileS to discuss the possibility of in Jay, who grows fIJ,orepetulant and "Heaven is Here on Earth (With Your reappropriating the image of the female dislikeable as the evening goes on. . Lovet continues the romantic mood. body as a symbol of self respect and The Wind Beneath My Wings It's a-divine pop song full of religious knowledge in the contemporary world. (which is how Jay, perhaps unfortu- imagery: "Stay, I'm praying he'll stay, a Miles complains that "the female body nately, characterizes Adam) is not a little prayer/l've found heaven on earth, has been... so thoroughly 'mastered' in bad play. It's a shame, however, that a dream come true with your love". representation that viewers' most imme- its real subject-the blaming of On side two of READ MY LIPS, diate reaction is to 'se!! female naked- Casey's generation for AIDS-is rele- Somerville calls for participatory politi- ness as an object of male desire," True gated to the last 15 minutes, and then, cal activism, "Read My Lips (Enough is enough. Miles' suggestion, however, in a. few d1ssolving tears and a' hug, Enough)" and "And You Never that "men must relinquish the figure of resolved. It's an important subject, Thought This Could Happen To You" the naked female as a format for the and one which other writers could are both high energy disco protest representation of male ~exuality and profitably take up. T 62 OUTYWEEK February 4, 1990 EVERY WEEK ON MANHATTAN CABLE CHANNEL J (23) THURSDAYS ...FetJ"u8!}. p1 10:30 pm • Gay Week in Review • Act-Up Andy Humm investigates a murder in Staten Island • GCN Close-Up • Sports • Lavender Health Lavender Health looks at Body Positive 11:00 pm The Right Stuff • Naming Names Lesbian Co-parenting • All About Women Clips from Longtime Companion • Media Watch • Staying Out • Around the Country • Razor Sharp SUNDAYS ( Men & Films February 4,...... J :" 11:30 pm Reviews of male erotica along with Clips from Hard Knocks, Hard On interviews behind the scenes with film Bodies, Seduction V, & The Men of stars 550. MONDAYS Februa 10:00 pm 's a panel. Premiere on GCN of Secret Passions urprise guests. 'S Johnny An original opera. 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BODY POSITIVE OF NEW YORK Work- Copland, and opera choruses by Rick X, Going Out shop: Maintaining Your Financial Beethoven, Berlioz and Mussorgsky; at for HIV+ people and their loved Carnegie Hall, March I, 8 pm; $15-$100 Box 790 Health, ones to learn about financial resources, (the concert benefits the Chorus' AIDS New York, NY 10108 THE CENTER Two-Week First Aid medical insurance, disability insura·nce, Outreach Fund), tix at Carnegie Box Class, continued from last Tuesday, to and other sources of funding; with Office, 247-7800 (Editor's note: and the Items must be received by learn about rescue breathing, bleeding, David Peterson, Phillip Benoit. Richard good ones go fast) Monday to be Included In the shock, burns, fractures, seizures; 208 W F. Stern, Richard W. Bandfield; at the 13 St; 8-11 pm; $2; register with Joan, Center, 208 W 13 St. 3rd Floor Aud.; 8, YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES (of following week's Issue. 295,4265 (Fri 7-10 pm, Sat/Sun 11 am • 1 9:30 pm; donation; 721-1619 THE CENTER) Orientation Party lor pm) Alternllte Vi.ion$, an improv workshop WNEHV/13 AIDS Quarterly, with Peter for lesbian and gay youth, ages 13 -21; GAY CIRCLES Orientation Meeting, for Jennings, "updates from the frontlines in performance rehearsals begin Feb. 5 a program "that brings men together the ongoing battJe against AIDS"; 8-9 pm for the spring production; 208 W 13 St; 7 .",,2ffi 9 once a week to share experiences and pm; Dionne Freeney, 620,7310 PROJECT CONNECT Last Day to sched· opinions in a non-threatening atmo- THE GLINES presents Sidney Morris's ule an interview for 12-Week Recovery sphere" on topics including growing up Tha Wind Beneath My Wing., a new JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents Groups starting next week, at the Cen, gay, coming out. sexuality, AIDS, homo, play about two gay men, a comic and Roz Calvert, Joan Larkin, Christan ter, 208 W 13 St; for newly clean/sober phobia, love and relationships, loss and an activist, and their conflicting pas, McEwen and Sapphire reading and gay men, newly clean/sober lesbians, change, gay heritage and community; sions; at the Courtyard Playhouse, 39 discussing Naming the Wavu: Con- and gay men and lesbians in recovery at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; John Grove St (at Bleecker); 8 pm; $12; 869- temporllty Le$bian Poetty; 681 Wash- who want to enhance recovery strate, 598,9680 3530 (plays thru FEB 4; WED,FRI at 8 ington St (at Charles St); 7 pm; free, but gies and develop stress management pm, SAT at 7 and 9:30 pm, SUN at 7 pm) limited seating; 727-7330 skills; groups for gay men Mondays, 2 ' 3,DOLLAR BILL THEATER Free Reading 3:30 pm, and Wednesdays, 7,9 pm; for 01 Phyllis Nagy's Girl Bar in a series 01 3,DOLLAR BILL THEATER Free Reading GAY WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE presents lesbians Tuesdays, 7-9 pm; and for les' readings of Plays by Women, this and 01 William Andrew Jon .. ', Friedrich, Joan Nestle and Myriam Fougere; Les' bians and gay men in recovery Thurs- every Tuesday through Feb. 6; at Apple in a series of readings of Plays by Men, bian Herstory Archives' Nestle, poet. days, 7 - 9:30 pm; call Stephanie Grant Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 St; 8 pm; 989, this and every Wednesday through Feb. activist, and author of A Restricted or Daniel Stein at 620-7310 3750 7; at Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 St; Country, will introduce Canadian,born 8 pm; 989,3750 artist/sculptor Fougere's slide show TEACHERS COllEGE CENTER FOR PSY- OUT IN THE '90s presents NYC pre- with music; at the Universalist Church, CHOLOGICAL SERVICES Fonning a gay miere of David Wayne Gadberry's gay THE KITCHEN presents Karen Black, Central Park West at 76 St; 8 pm; $5 (for men's rap group: Searching for a Way soap opera, Secret Passions; Manhat, "the sonic brainchild of legendary cui, women only, meets every first Thurs- of Being, to last eight weeks, beginning tan and Paragon Cable, Channel CIl6, tural icons Samoa and Kembra day) in February; includes coming out. dat, 11 pm to midnight; 243-1570 Pfahler ... Ms. Pfahler will undoubtedly ing and intimacy, role expectations, execute some of her more born again KAREN SMITH directs Eric Booth's homophobia, families, sex, and health T.V. pagan maneuvers"; 512 W 19 St; Metamorpho.i$: 1/ $/ica of blllck gl/y concerns; Columbia University affilia, 8:30 pm; 255-5793 life, an original play about a 6O,year-old tion not necessary; 678,3262 black drag queen, a 35-year-old ex- MARC BERKLEY opens Kool Komrads pimp and rehabilitated addict, and a 25- NYC GAY AND LESBIAN ANTI,VIO, CENTER Volunteer Placement Night, Queer With Attitude Wednesdays at year-old Hispanic who loves the good LENCE PROJECT Support Groups Fonn- "meet other volunteers and find out Twenty/Twenty, with $3 draft beer all life of sex, disco and drugs, and who ing for Men: Mala Survivors of Sexual how you can be part of the team that night; 20 W 20 St; opens 10 pm; $8; info puts the other two through changes; at Assaultand Women: Lasbian Survivors makes the Centar run; choose from a 242·5646, club 727,8841 (Editor's note: the producer's Club, 358 W 44 St (btwn of Battaring, two groups to begin in host of committees or find an indepen' women at Shescape's After Work party, 8th/9th Aves); today, FRI and SAT, FEB March, 12 weekly 9O-minute evening dent project"; 208 W 13 St; 6-7:30 pm; 5-10 pm, are welcome to stay on as the 1,3, at 8 pm; $10 advance/$12 door; sessions ending in June; facilitated by 620,7310 men arrive) reservations and info 893-9852 certified therapists; free; 807,0197 LESBIAN AND GAY PEOPLE OF COLOR EAGLE BAR Movie Night Jim Belushi COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE LAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS STEERING CMTE and LESBIAN CON, in WIlen Harty Met Sally; 142 11th Ave New York premiere 01 Touchstone Pic- Forum: .ax, /ia. and (in)vi.ibiliry, on TINGENT Infonnal Meeting on whether (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691,8451 tures' Stellll, a benefit for CRI; at Cine- lesbians and gays in the media; with lesbians of color should continue join- m a I Theatre, 3rd Ave at 60 St; 8 pm; $50 Karen Schwartz of Gay & Lesbian ing the women at the head of the Pride D.1.'s FAT CAT presents Mile Stripping, suggested donation; rsvp Marvin Alliance Against Defamation, Alexis March, or whether they should join Wednesdays, through Valentine's Day; Palmer, 481·1050 Jetter of NY Newsday, Michelangelo their brothers in a united People of 281 W 12 St (btwn Hudson/West 4th); Signorile of OutWeek, and media Color contingent; 415 W 14 St, 2nd midnight; 243,9041 THE GLINES presents Sidney Morris's critic/journalist Ed Sikov; 453 6th Ave Floor; 6:30 pm; 212/989-7963, 718/832- The Wind Beneath My Wing., see JAN (btwn 9{10 Sts). Park Slope, Bklyn; 7:30 0774 31 pm; 71&'499,6691 . pzwzrza SELF,HEALING AIDS RELATED EXPERI, F '~'lrQ} .R:'tl_A !R_L.",,, 1 WOW CAFE Film and Video Night, THE CLOSET CASE SHOW Cute.t Butt MENT 5-Day Workshop: Who Hea/s7, curated by Mary Paterno and Harriet in Naw York Contest, from Vi ctor starts this evening and continues daily NEW YORK CITY GAY MEN'S CHORUS Hirshorn; 59 E 4 St; 460,8067 (also FEB Weave(s Straight to Hell Nights at the through FEB 4; 460,8074 Ticket Sales Begin lor Rhap.ody, an 2,3) Tunnel, November '88; Manhattan evening devoted to the classics, with Cable Channel C1l6; midnight (Editor's PATH: POSiTiVE APPROACHES. Marilyn Horne singing Brahm's Alto THE NATURAL HISTORY GROUP pre, warning: despite the contest's name, TOWARD HEALING Seminar: Willing- ·Rhapsody with the Chorus; with the sents English Gardens, "a colorful slide frontal nudity also occurs) ne., to Let {Jur Life Be Healed, led by Chorus reprising John David Earnest's show presenting the lush beauty of Peter Hendrickson, Ph.D., for anyone Only in the Dream and Stuart Raleigh's some of England's finest horticultural concerned about H IV infection; Integral Words for the Future, ~ setting 01 four achievements"; at the Center, 208 W 13 Yoga Institute, 227 W 13 St; 7:30,9 pm; poems by Whitman; other works inl- St; 8 pm; $2; 620,7310 $5; 929,0586 cude Old American Songs arranged by 64 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 TJ . HIV+/PWA welcome; today and tomor' pm; $3.50/$2.50 artists, students, Leiphart. clinical psychologist; at St FI///;I/, row; 10 am - 6 pm; S15O;Terry 463,9152, seniors; 219-1355 Joseph's School, 111 Washington Aubrey 475-1496 Place (two blocks south of 8 St, off 6th R CONNECTICUTNOW and NARAL, et al. Ave); 7:30 pm; $3 donation; 727,7768 THEATER PLACE BISTRO presents FEATUREFinal day to see Peter Hut- A Connecticut March for Women's renown entertainer Dakota Station. tinger, Gut" and Kevin Wolff, New Uves, to the Connecticut State Capitol 3,DOLLAR BILL THEATERFree Reading Music charge Sl0,-minimum $8. Shows Pllintings; 484 Broome St; Tues.·Sat., grounds in Hartford, to show support of Rebecca Ranson's Secretl,'in a at 10 pm and midnight 765 8th Avenue, noon - 6 pm; 94~-7077 for choice before the Connecticut Gen- series of readings of Plays by Women, 956,5100 eral Assembly opens on Feb. 7; 1 pm; at the Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 SAGE Brunch at Boxer's Restaurant, CT NARAL 203/246,0767, CT NOW St; 8 pm; 989-3750 GAYAND LESBIAN SWITCHBOARD/NY 190 W 4 St (at Barrow); noon or 2 pm 203/524-5978 Volunteer Interviews, for those who seating; SII.50; mail check to SAGE, wish to work at least two 3·hour shifts 208W 13St. NYC 10011 SAGE Sunday Drop-in, for men and per month; those chosen will be women; at the Center, 208 W 13 St. required to attend an initial training the CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT SAGERoom; 1:30,4:30pm; 741-2247 following day, 1/6;6:30 pm; 777-1800 TORAH Winter Film Festival: Mire/e BERTHA CAPEN REYNOLDS SOCIETY Efro" at 57 Bethune St (near West St). DIGNITY/HUDSONCOUNTYLiturgy and and LESBIAN/GAY ALLIANCE AT IDENTITY HOUSE Rap Group: Coming 8 pm, $4 (includes free popcorn & Social, St Matthew's Lutheran Church, HUNTER Community Org.nizing in the Out lit Work; 544 6th Ave (btwn 14/15 soda). 929-9498 Wayne St (btwn Barrow St & Jersey '9Os, discussion and video presentation Sts); 6:30-8:30pm; 243·8181 . Ave), Jersey City, NJ; 5 pm; 201/434- on ACT up·s organizing strategies and KAREN SMITH directs Eric 'Booth's 3548 (Editor's note: this event innaugu- direct action tactics, with speakers Max- THEANSWER IS LOVING Women Talk- Metllmorpho,i,: II ,lice of blllck gay rates a new Dignity chapter) ine Wolfe and Gregg Bordowitz; at the ing Women's Talk: Close Encounter of lit., see FEB 1 Center,208W 13St 7 pm;$3; 988-1112 the Loving Intimate Kind; "How kind? GAY PERFORMANCES COMPANY What kind?"; led by Ruth Berman and THEGLINESpresents Sidney Manis's The Staged Reading of a play; at the Center, CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay, Brook- WindBeneathMy Wings.see JAN 31 208 W 13St; 7 pm; 595·1445 TORAH Jewish Education Cours .. ; lyn; 7:45-10pm; $8; 718/998-2305 tonight: Contemporary Jewish Issues: 3-DOLLAR BILL THEATER COMPANY THE GLINES presents the final perfor- Jewish Geneology at 7 pm; at 57 GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT Dis- Workshop Reading of Re,cuing Mlln- mance of Sidney Morris's The Wind Bethune St; info 929-9498 cussion: GllY lind Grey, focu'sing on Iyn, see FEB2 Bene.th My Wing', see JAN 31 age discrimination, age relationship CENTERSPORTS sees NY Range,. v.. taboos, and on how older Black/Latino WOW CAFEFilm and Video Night, see Edmonton Oilers, hockey match; at gay men relate to the broader commu· FEB 1 ~ Madison Square Garden, 33rd St & 7th nity; at the Center, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; Ave; 7:30 pm; members $25/non-mem· 620-7310 WOMEN AND FRIENDS and THE LES, bers $35; 620·7310 BIAN NATIONAL CONFERENCEDanceat NYC GAY AND LE'SBIAN ANTI,VIO- KAREN SMITH directs Eric Booth', the Center, this and every first Sa1Urday LENCEPROJECTSupport Group, Fann- PATH: POSITIVE APPROACHES Mlltamorpho,i,: II ,liclI of black gllY through May; tonight's DJ, Carolyn Ford; . -ing for Men: Male Survivo" of SexuIII TOWARD HEALING Seminar: Choosing lit., see FEB 1 208W 13St; 9 pm ,lam; $81$6 members, Assault and Women: Le,billn Survivo" if Pllth, led by Peter Hendrickson, seniors and s1Udents;620'7310 of Bllttering, two groups to begin in Ph.D., for anyone concerned about HIV THEGLINESpresents Sidney Manis', The March, 12 weekly 90-minute evening infection; Integral Yoga Institute, 227 W WindBenellthMy Wings,see JAN 31 WOMEN AND COMEDYpresents Emmy sessions ending in June; facilitated by 13St; 7:30·9 pm; $5; 929-0586 Gay in Liberty on the RockS; Castillo c$rtified therapists; free; 807,0197 3,DOLLAR BILL THEATER' COMPANY Cultural Center, Suite 201, 500 Green- NEW YORK THEATRE GROUP Staged Workshop Reading of Re,cuing Mlln- wich Street(btwn Spring/Clinal); 10 pm; SAGE Workshop for Women: Idantify Reading: ThII Le/llon Trill, poetic Iyn, "set in NYC during the 2nd presi- ~10; reservations 941,5800 B."i." to Ch,nge .nd Overcome drama about love and AIDS, set slmul dential term of Dan Quayle"; in Flllrs; this and next Monday, led by taneously in Sicily, the American South anticipation of a late,spring opening; at MAMA DOESN'T KNOWI PRODUC- Lynne Stevens, CSW; focusing on tak- and on the set of a film-In-progress; et the Apple Corps Theatre, 336W 20 St; 8 TIONS House Party for women and men, ing risks, building options in your life, the Canter, 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; $5; pm; free, no rsvp necessary; info 989, a benefit for MDKIP's Let the Pride Live le~rning good risk·taking skills, refrain- 7181624-4680 3750(also tomorrow, same time) Onllli event in June; 135W 14 St 10pm ing fallura; at the Center, 208 W 13 St. - 4 am; $10 (includes one drink); 71PJ832- SAGE Room; 7:30·9 pm; 741-2247 3,DOLLAR BILL THEATERFree Readina WOW CAFE Film and Video Night, see 0774 (Editor's note: MDKIP is a mutli· of Robert Chesley's Dog PI.YI, "three FEB 1 racial, multi·cultural organization THE CLOSET CASE SHOW The First dark, erotic meditations on time, desire serving the lesbian and gay people of Week of the HIPPY '90s, with New and death from the author of Jerke"'; BODY POSITIVE Friday Night Socials, color community since 1987.) Year's Eve go'go boys at Cuando, New at Apple Corps Theatre, 336 W 20 St; 8 for HIV Positives and friends; every 1st Year's Day strippers at Private Eyes, pm; 989·3750 & 3rd Friday; Rutgers Church, 236 W 73 SPECTRUM presents Pajama Party, and Chip Duckett's Jan. 7 1st Anniver, St (off Bway); 9 pm • midnight; free; info singing YoNo Se and Over and Over, sary at Mars Needs Men, in which EAGLE BAR Movie Night: Nightm.re 721,1346(Note: the next social, FEB 16, "complimentary drink for anybody naked Jake and Frankie are covered on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child; 142 will be a special Valentine's Day Dance) wearing their pajamas, nightgown and with marshmallow fluff; Manhattan 11th Ave (at 2.1St); 11pm; 691·8451 slippers"; 802 64th Street. Brooklyn (N . Cable Channel C/16;midnight COLUMBI.A LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, GAY Train to 8th Ave stop, Bay Ridge); GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS Dungeon COALITION First Friday Dance, in Earl 718/238,8213 Demo 11,727·9878 Hall, Columbia U., 116St & Bway (11/19 train); 10 pm - 2 am; photo ID tq drink; D.T:s FATCAT presents Male Stri~pina, 854,3574,854·1488 !G;~h~a~,:.Y.lm"':sr~Wednesdays, through yalentine's Day; GAY MEN'S HEALTHCRISIS Benefit at 281 W 12 St (btwn Hudson/West 4thl: City Center at the opening night of les midnight; 243-9041 NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; 55 ART Final Day of Erika Rothenberg's St (btwn 6th/7th Aves); show at 7:30 pm; Have YouAttllcked Americ. Today?, post'show celebration at Red Zone; THEATER PLACE BISTRO presents the infamous window installation that $10-$125; Deborah. Edison 337-3519 renown entertainer Dakota Station. was broken into and robbed, featur- (t/lereafter, performances daily, except ~~!Ri.U!A'lW Music charge S10, minimum $8. Shows ing a flag,burning kit and other patri, MON, through FEB 18, TUES,SAT at 8, WOW CAFE Video/lnstallation/perfor- at 10 pm and midnight 765 8th Avenue, otic items; also Fleming/Lapointe's SAT at 2 and SUN at 3; $15,$35; tix 246, mance: Our Love LivIII, Ou".lves, 956·5100 installation, Eat Me/Drink Me/Love 0102) conceived by C..F. Giordano; 59 E 4 St; Me; Annette Lemeux·s The Appear- 460-8067(also FEB9,101 TERRY WEISSER and L.K. AUBREY ance of Sound; Satellite Cultures, POSITIVE ACTION OF NEW YORK Pub- Two·day Hands-on Seminar for Erotic videotapes from Australia; 583 Bway lic Forum: Survival, Stlell end HIY,the CHIP DUCKETT opens Thursdays II . Men, "exploring intimacy and how we (btwn Houston/Prin~e); WED, THU, role of the mind in the progression of Quick!, 6 Hubert St (157 Hudson, #1/#9 experience sex with other men"; SUN, noon ~ 6 pm; FRI, SAT, noon, 8 HIV infection; with Dr. Jeffrey M. to Canal or Franklin St); club 925·2442 January 28, 1990 OUTTWEEK 65 OUTWEEK BEST BETS (for finding other gays and lesbians to dance with) Monday Hot Rod (Kool Komrads' Sinful Sundays, open 8 pm) 2B St at 11th Privet. Eyes (Kool Komrads; male strippers) 12 W 21 St.,info 242- Ave, info 242-564& 5646, club 206-7772 Sp.ctrum (show; free admission 9-10 pm) 80264th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213 Tuesday Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925 Everv Night (or almost) *love Machine at Underground, 860 Bway, near 17th St; 254-4005 Grand Centril (Rockville Centre, L1, closed Mon & Tues) 210 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, L1, 516/536-4800 Wednesday Monlt.r (West Village) 80 Grove St at Sheridan Sq., 924-3557 Better Days 316W 49 St (8/9 Aves) 245-8925 *Morriss.y (TVs, club kids, straight/gay crowd; closed Sun-Tues) Privete Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn 11th Ave at 26 St, 633-0701 5th/6th Aves, 206-7772 ·Pyramid (Dean Johnson's Rock & Roll Fag Bar) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets, 420-1590 BEST BETS for Women's Dancing Silver Uning (2-4-1 drink) 175 Cherry La., Floral Pk, L1, 516/354-9641 NOTE: Party events are subject to change. Always call to confinn. Spectrum (free admission) 80264th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213 Stutz (2-4-1 drinks) 202 Westchester Ave, Wh. Pins., 914/761-3100 Tuesday Twenty/Twenty (Kool Komrads, gay men after 10 pm) 20 W 20 St, info Hatfield's f26-10 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens, 718/261-8484 242-5646, club 727-8841 Wednesday Thursday Bedrock 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516 ·Boybar (has a new wave drag show) 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn Spectrum 80264th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959 Twenty/Twenty (Shescape After Work, 5-10 pm) 20 W 20 St (btwn ·Copacabana (last Thu. of the month has Susan Bartsch party) 10 E 5th/6th Aves), info 645-6479, club 727-8841 60 St, at Fifth Ave, 755-6010 Thursday ·Pyramid 101 Avenue A, btwn 6th/7th Streets, 420-1590 Bedrock 12fWoodfieid Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516 ·Quickl (Chip Duckett Thursdays start Feb. 8) 6 Hubert St, 925-2442 Spectrum 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/23.8-8213 Spectrum (free admission all night, 2-4-1 drinks) 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213 . Friday Bedrocl( 121Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516 Friday Cheeks 2000 Long Beach Road, Island Park, L1, 516/431-5700 ·Boybar 151/2 St Marks Pl., btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959 Roxy (Shescape) 515 W 18 St, btwn 10th/11th Aves; info 645-6479, ·Carmelita's (Chip Duckett's Boy+Boy & Girl+Girll 150 E 14 St club 645-5156 Columbia Dances (1st Friday of every month) 116th St & Bway, 854- Spectrum 80264th St@8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213 3574 days Visions 56-01 Queens Blvd, Woodside, info 718/846-7131 , club Privete Eyes (preppies and young professionals) 12 W 21 St, btwn 718/899-9031 5th/6th Aves, 206-7772 Spectrum (male and temale strippers) 802 64th St @ 8th Ave, Bay Saturday Ridge, Bklyn, 718/238-8213 Bedrock 12 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516 The Center (Women & Friends 1st Saturdays, Feb. thru May) 208 W Saturday . 13 St.,620-7310 Barefoot Boogie (smoke & alcohol free) 434 6th Ave (btwn 9/10 Sts); . Silver Lining 175 Cherry Lane, Floral Park, L1, 516/354-9641 832-6759 Spectrum 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn,718/238-8213 . ·Boybar 151/2 St Marks Place, btwn 2nd/3rd Aves, 674-7959 Starz 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, L1, 516/242-3857 The Center Dances (2nd and 4th Saturdays) 208 W 13 St.,btwn Twenty/Twenty (Shescape) 20 West 20 Street (btwn 5th/6th Aves), 7th/8th Aves, 620-7310 info 645-6479, club 727-8841 Pep Boys et Columbia (3rd Saturdays, except Jan. 27) 116 & B'way, 10 pm - 3 am; info 629-1989 Sunday Privete Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad) 12 W 21 St, btwn Bedrock f21 Woodfield Rd, W. Hempstead, L1; 516/486-9516 . 5th/6th Aves, 206-7772 Cave Canem (Sandwich Sister Sundays) 24 1st Ave at 1st St, 529- Saint At Large (alternate Saturdays, from 1/27) 105 2nd Ave (at 6 St) 9665 • 674-8541 . Spectrum 802 64th St@ 8th Ave, Bay Ridge, Bklyn,718/238-8213 Sound Fectory (Acid House, no alcohol, doors open midnight) 530 W Everv Night 27 St (btwn 10th/11th Aves), 643-0728 Cubby 1Iole .f38 Hudson St@ Morton St, 243-9079 Spectrum (guest performer night) 802 64th St, Bklyn., 718/238-8213 Duchess IISheridan Sq. & 7th Ave South, 242-1408 Sunday Better Days 316 W 49 St (8/9 Aves); 245-8925 All phone numbers are area code 212, unle .. othelWi .. noted. ·Mars (Chip Duckett's 'Mars Needs Men' night) Westside Highway • .lVs welcome. and 13th St, 691-6262 ·Pyramid (Hapi Phace and Drag + Variety Show) 101Avenue A, btwn Send correctionS/additions to: Rick X. P.O.Box 790,New York, NY 10108 6{1 Streets, 420-1590 66 O~EEK February 4, 1990 , :: :; .. "·E"·E\.'. . .., ..' K"'".. . ' . .,.:t~.. ..S£rt:.u 'V"'I~'!f£ilJJ.'IIrlrlTrh --~ ------:------:- ---_.... - Out'YWeek Subscription Department 77 Lexington Avenue. New York, New York 10010 YES. Please enter my sUbscriptionto Out'YWeek. o One year $59.95 0 Two years $98.95 o Trial offer $48.00 (32 issues) o Payment enclosed (check or money order, US funds only) o Please bill my 0 Mastercard 0 Visa Card Number: Exp. __ ·_ Signature: ~ _ o Mr. OMs. Address: City / State / Zip: o Please do not make my name available for-other mailings. Out ....Week is mailed ina plain envelope. Please allow 2 to 3 weeks for delivery of first issue. ON 32 ------....; ------~ --- OUTWEEK BAR GUIDE WESTSIDE The Works, 428 Columbus Ave EAST VILLAGE . (at 81st), 799-7365, Cruisy west Bike Stop West 230 W. 75th St., side crowd. The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.), 874-9014, Neighborhood bar, occa- 674-9714, East Villagers and ACT sional entertainment. UPers. EAST SIDE Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., , Boy Bar, 15 St. Mark's Pl., 674-7959, 874-9155 , Friendly leather/western Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., Dancing / Drag shows. bar. 650-1944, Sing-along piano bar. The P~amid, 101 Avenue A, 420- Cat's, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559, Older G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752, 1590, Dancing / Drag shows. men, younger guys Piano bar, mature crowd. . . Tunnel Bar, 1161stAve (7th St.), Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355- 777-9232 W. Village crowd in the E. 757-0788, Sing-along piano bar and 8714, Neighborhood restaurant and Village. cabaret. bar: Jason's, 2(1OSED. Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 355- WEST VILLAGE 9465 Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43rd St., The Annex jto Cellblock 28),673 221-9152' Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807, Hudson St. bet. 13th & 14tli), 627- Friendly guys, checkbook romance. 1140, ·J/O Cub. . Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503 South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684- Badlands, Christopher & West St. , 8376 741-9236, Cruisy waterfront bar. Trix~246 W. 48 St. (bet. Bdwy & 8th Ave), 664-8331, Cash and carry. Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688- Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 4710 929-9684, Funky dive and juke joint. Cellblock 28, 28 9th Ave, 733-3144, ay uoodbye to Out in-fhe 80s. J/O club. ~Yf",,,Jt's time for.. a change.. The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton t!l~DCI;: IllISS til'" new e,y Soap Opera Secret Pass ons St), 243-9079, Neighborhood bar for Nationwide Debut January 30 at ,1 pm on GllS' gay women & men. Ii.i-I D.T.'s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243- IN' Television for a 9041 , Piano bar. Mixed MlF.. new decade Duchess II, 70 Grove St (7th Ave.), THE of lesbian- 242-1408, Women. and gay life. J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292, J/O 90s club. ' Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672, Serving Coors, Coors Lite, & Coors News /Interviews/AIDS Updates Draft. .Li.YLEvery Tuesday at 11pm Keller's, 384 West St. (at Christo- Manhattan Cable/Paragon Cable pher),243-1907, Friendly neighbor- Channel C/16 hood crowd. Kelly's Village West, 46 Bedford St., . A 929-9322, Piano bar. GAY BROADCASTING SYSTEM The Locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave), 459-4299, J/O club. 68 OUTTWEEK February4, 1990 Marie's Crisis, 59 Grove St. (7th Uncle Charlie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., Rawhide 212 8th Ave., (21st St.), Ave), 243-9323, Sing-along piano 255-8787, Huge video bar. Leather7 Levi's. . bar. Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688, The Monster, 80 Grove St. (7th .CHELSEA Leather & Uniforms. Ave.), 924-3558, Piano bar & disco/dancing. Barba~ Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.), Tracks, ~~~nc- 675-0385, Friendly, neighborhood mg. ~ ... U~ Nimbus 691- bar. 4826C~ljl~' i, loung fu- The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.), 627-0072. Ninth Circle, 139 W. 10th St., 243- 9204, Younger crowd. Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. OUTWEEK 16th & 17th), 929-7183, NeighbOr- Ramrod, 185 Christopher St. hood English pub. . Sneakers, 392 West St., 242-9830. Eagle's Nest,14211th Ave (21st St.), 69f -8451, Leather / Levi's. ADVERTISING Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340. Private Eye~ 12 W. 21st St (bet. 5th & 6th), 206-tnO, Dancing; Video ' Ty's, 114 Christopher St., 741-9641, au~ . 212.6~).6j9~ Cruisy neighborhood bar. 68 SECOND AVE. AT FOURTH ST. OPEN 1 P.M. - 4 A.M. 674-9714 "An East Village Tradition" 1~~J';,l:,;i,..i.' , , February4, 1990 OUT~EEK 69 COllllllunity Directory A.C.Q.c, BODY POSITIVE GlAAD AIDS CENTER OF QUEENS COUNTY If you or your lover hal taated HIV+, we offer support Gay. La,bian Allianca Apinat Daf_lion SOCIAL SERVICES· EDUCATION. BUDDIES groups, seminara, public forums, refarencelibrery, 80 Varick Street, rtfC 10013 (2121988-1700 COUNSElING • SUPPORT GROUPS rafarrlll,lociallctivitiel and up-to-date national GLAAD combata homophobia in 1IIe media and alse- Volunteer Opportunities mon1llly, "THE BODY POSITIVF ($l!Vyaarl. where by promoting visibility of1llelesbian and gay (718) 119&-25OO(voice) (718) I19&-2985(TDD) (2121833-1782. community Ind organizing graS8roobl raaponsa to 2095 Broadway, Suita 308, NYC, NY 10023 anti-gay bigotry. ACT UP (AIDS C.-lilion 110Unl ... h Po_r1 486A Hudson Straet, Suite G4 NYC 10014 CIRC!.f OF MORE UGHT GAY. WBIAN HWTH CONCERNS (212)989-1114 Spiritual support and sharing in I gay !lesbian affir- An office of 1IIe NYC Dept of H8I11II, provides link- A diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in mative group, age8 betwn NYC Health & Human Svcs, and 1IIe les- anger and committed to direct action to end 1IIe AIDS West-Pam Prasbyterian Church bian & Gay community, focusing in All hellth crisia. Gen, meetings Mon. nights 7:30, 185 West 88th Straet concerns; resource infonnation for hellth services at 1IIe Community Center 208 W.131h. Wed: worahip sarvice 8:30 pm, program 7:30. consumers and providers. 125 Worth Street, Box 87, Maraha (2121304-4373 Charlie (2121891-7118. New York, NY 10013. For info call (2121588-4995. ALDEClAPLN-NY (Asian Laabians of 111aEaat CoalV COMMUNITY HWTH PROJECT GAY. WBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY Asian Pacific Laabian Netwom-NIW Yom) 208 West 13111Street, NYC, New Yom 10011 Sliding scale feas Weare a political, .ocial and supportive netwom of For Appointments and I!lfonnltion Insurance accepted. Asian Pacific lesbians. Planning maetings on 1IIe 1st (2121875-3559 (TTYNoicel Institute for Human Identity. Sunday and .ocialevents on 1IIeiast Friday of each PROVIDING CARING, SENSITIVE AND LOW COST (2121799-9432 mon1ll. Call (212) 517-5598 for more infonnation. HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY GAY MALE SJM ACTMm ARCS (AiDS-Ralatad Community Same .. ) Dedicatad to safe and responsible 81M since 1981. for DutcheS8, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, COMMUNITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE Open meetingsw/programs on SIM techniquaa, Ulster and W88tchaater counties. AIDS education, PWAs, PWARC. & 1IIeir physicians taking 1IIe initia- lifestyle issues, political and social concerns. Also client servicaa, crieis intinvention, support groups, tive to seek promising intervention against AIDS in I specialeventa, 8p8lkera bureau, workshops, demos, ca~ management, buddy and hospital visitor program. raap. manner. For more info orto volunteer pielSe affinity groups, newsletter, more. GMSMA -Dept 0, 214Can11a1f!w. 'Mita PIaiw, rtf llD(91411BH1101 call (2121481-1050. 486A Hudson Street, Suite D23 ,NYC 10014. 838 Broact.vay ,Newburgh, rtf 12250 (914)582-!mi (2121727-8878. AlDSlina (114) IIS-GI07 CONGREGAnON BETH SIMCHATTORAH NY's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue Services GMAD(GAY MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENTI BAR ASSOCIAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Friday It 8:30pm fiT Be1llune Street 80 Varick Street, NYC 10013 a support group of Gay . La)YV8rs Referral For info. cell: (2121929-9498. Men of African Descent dedicated to consciousness- Service for 1IIe Laabian and Gay Community raising and 1IIe development of 1IIe Lesbian and Gay Full Ringe of Legal Sarvices (212) 459-4873 DIGNITYIBIG APPLE Community, GMAD is inclusive of African, African- A community of Laabian snd Gay Catholics. Activities American, Caribbean and Hispanic/l.atino men of BAR ASSOClAnON FOR HUMAN RIGHTS include Liturgies and socials every Sat, 8:00 pm, at color. Meetings a re held, weekly, on Fridays. For Free Walk-in Legal Clinic. Tuesday &-8 pm the Center, 208 W. 13 Street, rtfC. more infonnation, call 71&-802-0182. Laabian & Gay Community Centr, Ground Roor Call (212) 818-1309. GAY MEN'S HWTH CRISIS HOTUNE BIDS (BISEXUAL DOMINANCE. DIGNITY NM YORK FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RELAT- SUBMISSION GROUPI lasbian and gay Call10lics and friends ED HEALTH SERVICES, AND FOR INFORMAnON ON Shire SIM experiencaa and fantasies wi1ll 01llers in AIDS Ministry, Spiritual Development ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSEUNG SERVICES a positive, non-judgemental atmosphere. First Sun- The Call1edral Project 212-107'- day of 1IIe mon1ll, 4:45pm at 1IIe Community Center Worahip Services & Social-Sun. Eves. 7:30pm-St 212~7470 TDD (For the Haaring Impaired 1 208 W. 13 Street, NYC. This group is partof1lle New John's Episcopal Church 218 WeSt 11th Street C Mon.-Fri. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sat 12:00 to 3:00 Yom Area Bisexual Netwom. Waverly-875-2179 HW (Health Education AIDS liailon) BIWAYS NEW YORK EDGE Weekly info. and 8Upport group for treatments for Mon1llly social events for 1IIe Bisexual community Education in a Di.. blMl Gay Enviro ..... nt AIDS which do not comp.romise1lle immune system Ind friends. CaU NYABN for details of upcoming For1lla physically disabled Lesbian and Gay further, including alternative and holistic approachaa. events. (7181853-8245 Community. (212) 989-1921 Wed 8pm. 208 W. 13111St (2121874-HOPE, P.O. Box 305 Village Station, New York, NY 10014 BIPAC (BISEXUAL POUTICAL HETRICIC-MARnN INSTlTUTE ACTJON'COMMITTEE) FEMME SUPPORT GROUP for lesbian and gay you1ll. Counseling, drop-in cen- Political action on isaues of importance to 1IIe1!isex- For laabians who self identify as Femme. For info and ter (M-F, 3-8pml, rap groups, Harvey Milk High ulV!.esbilrVGay community. Mon1llly meetinwpotluck meeting timaa call Lisa at (2121929-9817. No men pleise. School, AIDS and safer sex infonnation, held 8:00pm on fourth Thursday of1lle'mon1ll at mem- referrals, professional education. bers homes. CaU NYABN for1llis mon1ll'slocation, FRONT RUNNERS (2121 833-892O(voicel (7181853-8245 A running club for lesbian and gay athletes (2121833-8928 TTY for deaf of aUabmties. Fun Runs of 1-8 miles held every Sat at BISEXUAL YOurH lOam and Weds. at 7pm in Central Park HISPANIC UNITED GAYS & WBIANS Infonnal social & support group for Bisaxual and every Tues, It 7pm in Prospect Park. Educationalservicaa, political action, counse&ng and kids/you1ll. Mon1ll1y maatinwpotluck lunch held For infonnation: call (2121724-9700. social activities in Spanish and English by and for1lle 1:00pm on fourth Sunday of1lla mon1ll at members Letino Lesbian and Gay Community. homaa. Call NY ASN for 111ismon1ll'slocation. This THE FUND FOR HUMAN DIGNITY General meetings 8:00 pm 4111Thursday of every . grqup is part of1lle New Yom Area Bisaxual Network. Nltional Gay and Lesbian Crisis Line month at 208 West 13th Street . 'AIDS 8OO·--1-800.S08-GAYS Call (2121891-4181 BLUS-BRONX WBIANS Educational Resource Center; Positive Images or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 Canal Street Station, UNITED IN SISTEIIHOOD Media Canter; NY State Arts Program New York, NY 10019. Social, politiclland support natwor1ting group for 688 B'wlly' Suite 410 rtfC,NY ~0012 (212) 529-1600 women and 1IIeir friends. Regular aocial events and LAMBDA !.fOAL DEFENSE meatings on 1IIe fim and 1IIird Fridays of every mon1ll, THE GAY AFRICAN AMERICANS ANO EDUCAnON RIND At Tha Community Canter, 208 W. 13 Street, from 8:3G- OF WESTCHESTER(Tha G.A.A.I Precedent-setting litigation nationwide for 8pm. For more info call Lisa at (212) 82&-8817. is a community based support group fonned in lesbians, gay men and people wi1ll AIDS. Member- Westchaater County. Various activities are planned ship ($35 and upl inc. newsletter and irtl/itations to for the coming mon1lls. special events. Volunteer night on Thursdays. Intake Ple88e call 914-37&-0727 for more info. calls: 2-4pm Mon thru Fri (2121995-8585 70 OUTTWEEK February 4, 1990 . lAVA (LESBIANS ABOUT VISUAL ART) YORK ADVERTISING PRIDE FOCUS GROUP CIII for slides for Lubisn Artiltl' Exhibition, Gay lit AND COMMUNI CAnONS NETWORK Topical discussions on issuas of interasttothe comm~ Lesbisn Community Center, NYC. For more informs- NYACN is the community's largest gay and lesbian nity in a congenial atmosphere, followed by an inforroal tion, lind SASE to : profellional group, welcoming all in dinner at a friendly local restaurant Every Sunday, 3:00 Mirilm Fougere communications-and their friends. Monthly meet- 118 Fort Greene Pllce - 4:30pm at tha Community Center 208 W. 13 Street, ings, 3rd Wed 8:30pm at the Community Center, Mem- NYC. Part of the New York Area BiIBxual Network. Brooklyn, NY 11217. bers' ~ewslettar, job hotline, annual directory, Phone (212) 517-0380 for more info. Mention OutWeek for SAGE: (Senior Actjon in I Envirol1lJl8nt/ THE lESBIAN AND GAY BIG APPLE CORPS one free newsletter. Gay Get your instrument out of the clOlet and come play Social Service Agency. providing care, activiti88,1It with us. Symphonic, Marching, Jazz, Dixieland, Rock, NINTH STREET CENTER .' educational services for gay lit lasbian senior citizens. Rute Enlembles snd Woodwinds, Since 1973, a community dedicated to demonstrating Also serv88 ovar 180 homebound IBnions lit older r¥lA' •• 123 Wilt 44th St Suitel2l New Yo~ NY 10038 thst a homo88xuallifesty!e is a rational, desirable 208 West 13th It NYC 10011, (212) 741-2247 (212) 889-2922. choice for individual. dissati.fied with the rewards of conventional living. P.yqhologically - focussed rap SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALS LESBIAN lit GAY groups, Tues., Sat, 8 to 10 pm, peer counselling avail- For all of us interested in reaching out to each other COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER able. 319 E, 9 Street, New Yo~ NY 10003, for info call with exuberance to spontaneously explora and 208 Wilt 13th Street NewYo~ NY 10011 (212) 228-5153, expand upon the Seth/Jane Roberts ·phiIOlophy" a. (212)82~7310 9am-l1pm everyday, it relates to our lives, person illy, sexually and politi- A place for community organizing and networking, NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY cally. Call AI (212) 979-5104. IOcialservicu, cultural programs, and social events LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA) sponsored by the Center and more than 150 commu- Dedicated to sexual freedom and especially intereted 11fE OUTREACH nity organizations. in gay intergenerational relationships. Monthly Bul- USING COMMUNAL HEAUNG (TOUCH) letin and regular chapter meetings on the firstSatur- Corrmunityvolunteera providing a W8ek1y buffatsupper lESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORK day of each month. Yearly membership is $20; write for the Brooklyn AIDS community. TOUCH m881s Monday An orglnization of Lesbilns and Giys who are active NAMBlA. PO Box 174, Midtown Station, New York, BYes. 5pm to 1t'3Opm- at dClYllltown Brooklyn Friends in their labor unions working on domestic parlnerahip NY 10018 or call (212) 807-8578 for information. Meeting House (110 Schermerhorn St near B08rum benefit. and AIDS issu ... For more information call Place~ LiITi1Bdtrensportstion may be arranged. Info: (718) (212)923-8890. NOR11fERN UGHTS ALTERNATIVES 622-2756. TOUCH welcomes contributions offunds, food Improving Quality of Life for People with AIDS/iflV. and volunteers. . lESBIAN AND GAY RIGHTS PROJECT THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: Exploring the pos- of the American Civil Uberti •• Union sibilities of a powerful and creative life in the face of ULSTER COUNTY GAY AND LESBIAN AWANCE ICNOWYOUR IIIGllTSiW~RE EXPAMlING 11fEM . AIDS. Call Jack Godby (212) 337-8747 Meets firat and third Monday of each month (212) 944-9800, ext. 545 at 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Sawkill Road NYC GAY lit LESBIAN LESBIANS AND GAYS OF RATBUSH in Kingston. ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT For information, call (914) 828-3203. Brooklyn's social organization for both gay men and Counseling, advocacy, and information for survivors lubians. of anti-gay and anti-lesbian violence, sexual assault, WHAMI (Waman', He.1tIt Action Mobililation P.O. Box 108, Midwood Station domestic violence, and other types of victimization. A non-partisan coalition committed to demanding,. Brooklyn, NY 11230" (718) 859-9437 All services free and confidential. securing iI~d defending absolute reproductive fre8- 24 hour hotline (212) 807-Q197 LONG ISLAND ACT-UP dom and quality health care for all women, We maet P.O. Box 291, New Hyde Pa~ NY 11040' PEOPLE WITH AIDS COAUTJON every Wed. at 8:30 pm at the Village Independent Support us for change on Long Island. (212) 532-0290 I Hotline (212) 532-0568 Democrats, 224 West Fourth Street (off Sheridan Sq.). (518)338-4882(518)997-5238 Nasssu Moridaythru Friday 10am-8pm We are not affiliated with VlD, (212).713--5988. . (518) 928-5530 Suffolk Meal programs, support groups, educational and referral 88rvices for PWA's and PWArc's. WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE MEN OF ALl COLORS TOGETHER NY COMMUNITY CENTER (WACC), A multi-racial group of gay men against racism. Meet- PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEALTH GROUP A non-profit, Lesbian community center serving ings every Friday night at 7:45 at the Lasbian and Gay Underground buyer's club importing not-yet-approved Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Thura night Community Services Center, 208 W, 13th Street For medications and nutritional supplements. 31 West 28th weekly discussion grps. 8:30pm, for other activities more info. call: (212) 245-~ or (212) 222-9794. It 4th Roor. (212) 532-0280 please contact us at (516) 483-2050. METROPOUTAN TENNIS GROUP(MYG) Our 200 member I.. bian Ind gay tennis club includ88 playera from beginning to tournament leval. Monthly We don't mean to stress you out, but tennis parties. Winter indoor league. Come play with usl For information: MTG, POB 2135, NeW Yo~ NY 10025. (212) 882-0895. SUMMERTIME MOCA M.n of Color AIDS Pr.vention Program. IS APPROACHING FAST. Providuufer sex and AIDS education information to gay Ind bisexual Men of Color; coordinates a net- • . work of peer-support groups for gay and bisexual NOW IS THE TIME TO ADVERTISE Men of Color in all5 borougha of New York City. 303 Ninth Ave, New Yo~ Ny 10001 FOR or cIIi (212) 239-1798, NAnONAL GAY AND lESBIAN TASK FORCE SUMMER SHARES, is the national grllsroot. political organization for Illbiinsand gay men. Membership is $3IVY8lr. REAL' ESTATE, Illue-oriented project. addrell violence, sodomy lawa, AIDS, gay right. ordinanc88, families, media, etc. through lobbying, education, organizing and FITNESS, . direct action. NGLTF 1517 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009. TANNING, (202)332-8483. TRAVEL..... February 4, 1990 OUTTWEEK 71 ACCOUNTING ANNOUNCEMENTS APARTMENT SHARE BODY POSIT1VE .. fRIENDS INVJTf YOV TO TAX TIME IS A VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE' OWN ROOM IN TRIBECA . BUDGETWISE apartment female only. $400 p/m +util. Ref. BOOKKEEPING TIME Ifyoq'~ HIV+ 101'1, req.• safe. convenient quiet Non-smoker meet Inta"ettIna and only. Until April. maybe longer. IlIradIw people Limited Appointments Available (212) 925-3686. Please call early (7185726-3847 ~~16Ih 10% discount with ad 9pm-1pm RuI ..... Churcb U6 Wat 7Jrd St. BUDDY DIKMAN. CPA OutWeek staff person seeks sublet or BARBARA U. CPA share. Prefer downtown. Need Tldcett: $10.00 immediate. Call Raul days (212) 685-8671 YEAR-ROUND TAX PLANNING AND ISuqated DoniIIIon) Eves (212) 932-1496. PREPARATION Includes re1rahrnenIs PERSONAL ANANCIAL PLANNING For Info., CaD 11111711-13U or 11111711-1446 586-3000 ART BUY/SELL APARTMENT CLEANING "ART SOURCE UNLIMITED" AIDS MINISTRY We buy. sell. trade and locate artworks. IN THE SPIRIT OF CASTLE CARE, INC. FRANCIS OF ASSISI...serving Apartment & Office Cleaning. ARTISTS AVAILABLE: Keith Haring. our brothers and sisters affected by Gay Owned. Reliable. Robert l!ongo. Ross Bleckner. James AIDS We are available 7 days. Rizzi. Andy Warhol. Martine. and many Sl Francis AIDS Ministry CAll (212) 475-2955 more ... For information. 135 W. 31st Street Manhattan 10001 call Dan at 255-6680. 695-1500 APARTMENT SHARE ASTROLOGY APT. SHARE AVAILABLE IMMED, Large apartment across from Park in Park DONNA Slope. 2 blocks from "F" train. Your own E,S.P, Psychic·Professor of Spiritualism. large. sunny bedroom-share sunny Ivrm. Reader and Advisor-Palm and Card dnrm and kit Affordable. HIV+ or PWA o.k. Readings Call David Cantrell (718) 788·4022. A,. you confus.d. unhBppy.d.p,. ... d. Leave a message. undBrsr.nd yours.1f .nd rho••• round you? I CAN AND WILL HELP YOU, MIDTOWN WESTSIDE-WALK TO WORK Copyri&ht C 1989 Holy Name Province Reunite the Separated·Restore Lost Sunny 1 bedroom apartment in new Nature·Unfold the Mystery of the Past. building. wId. p/w. attr. GWM to share with Present and Future. same. Available immediately. $450/month + (212) 686-1992 share utilities. Se Habla Espanol ANSWERING SERVICES (212) 581-2313 NYC'S FINEST NICE APT. TO SHARE CALL FORWARD on Upper East Side with GWM. 30's. Your ATTORNEYS ANSWERING SERVICE own bedroom and privacy in 2 bedroom IS apartment. Please be non-smoker. MICHAEL ALAN DVM, ESa. GAY-OWNED employed and serious. $625 + utiVsec. Attorney At Law Quiet nice person pref. PROTOCOL (212).645-3535 (212) 794·3759.7-10 pm. Artists' Rights Issues. Landlord/Tenant Disputes. SUNNY BROOKLYN APT. Real Estate Closings. ANNOUNCEMENTS GM, 26, seeks artist types. S28!Vmonth, Business Partnerships & $400 deposit 20 minutes on D train. Call Incorporations. Cliff. (718) 258-1288.Activist preferred. Wills & Estates. CALLING ALL·POETS. OLD AND NEWI The end of history? Enter Castillo Cultural UPPER EAST SIDE 212,932..2034 1250 Broadway Center's "Last Poem" Contest Winning' Share with GWM. 25. smoker. Own large New York City entries will be made into multi-media room in 4 room apartment $43!Vmo. + videos. Call 212·941-58QOfordetails. share utilities. Call Allan M-F. 9-5 (212) 598- 5319. 72 OUTTWEEK February 4. 1990 CLUBS COUNSELING GAY MARRIAGE EROTIC BONDAGE AT NYBC WOMEN'S COMING OUT SUPPORT CONVENIENT GAY MARRIAGE • New - 1st Sat Eves @ 8pm - monthly GROUP British lesbian seeks American gay starting Feb 3 - also 2nd & 4th Tues. 8 week group for lesbians. husband to allow her and her American swap experiences and fantasies. Starting Saturday, Feb. 10from 12-1:30pm. girlfriend to live happily ever after. Dual Watch or take part in demonstrations. At Institute for Human Identity. immigration benefits, confetti, If Talk to experts/novices. Write for info to Fee is $120.00payable at first session. interested write OutWeek Box 1998. John Strong, To register, call (212)799-9432. PO Box 457, Midtown Station New York, NY 10018. GROUPS Get details on Meetings and Roster. DENTISTS BIG FORESKIN LOVERS National non-profit network for big tools, The New York City chapter of the QUALITY PERSONAL DENTISTRY bodybuilders and vacuum pumpers. For Uncircumcised Society of America William De Bonis DDS. free info., send a SASEto BIG, P.O.Box (NYC-USA) seeks new male members Suite 704, 410990,1601.San Francisco, CA 94141. (with or without foreskin) to join its 200 West 57 Street, swelling ranks. Call for more club New York, NY 10019, A GAY MEN'S GROUP: information or to make reservations for Office hours by appointment only call SEARCHING FOR A WAY OF BEING the new members party. (212) 777-4208. 212-333-2650. Small group to discuss being gay in society, family, friendships. Ctr.for Psychological Services, Teacher's EDITING SERVICES College, Columbia University. CHIROPRACTOR (212)678-3262. Professional Editing and Word Processing DR. CHARLES FRANCHINO Services available on business documents, FRIENDSHIP: an 8 week group for gay 30 Fifth Avenue, theses and dissertations by Ph. D. men. Exploring whatwe want/need New York, NY 10011, Negotiable Rates from friends, confusing friends and call for info (212) 673-4331. Call (718)633-8304 lovers, stalting friendships. Professional leader. (212)866-2705, ELECTROLYSIS COMPUTERS GROUP MASSAGE AFFORDABLE ELECTROLYSIS COMPUTER SHOPPING? Pennanent Hair Removal New Airflow MEN'S MASSAGE GROUP Look no further! Technique with I.B. Probe Gettogetherwith a group of men to Lowest prices/No gimmicks COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION give and receive massages. Taught by Software/Hardware PROFESSIONALLY OPERATED Terry Weisser, Liscensed Masseur and Sales/Training/Service GREENWICH VILLAGE teacher atthe Swedish Institute. Call (201)659-7216 QUIET, PRIVATE OFFICE Sundays, 7-10pm, $15.00, 24 Hours a Day/7 Days a Week Kenneth Hay call (212) 463-9152. Advanced Computer Services 226 West 4th Street Gay Owned/Operated New York, NY 10014 Lower Level, By Appointment Only. HEALTH (212) 727-1850 Certified Electrologist EATING AWARENESS TRAINING: THE MALE STOP Member I.G.P.E. The answerto the puzzle about eating. A computer BBS. Eliminate your weight/eating problem Use your modem. A. LAMBDA ElECTROLYSIS A. foreve r. (212) 929-0661. Permanent Hair Removal (212) 721-4180 FREE! Men/Women· TV/TS's' All Methods Computer Aided' Sterile Conditions By Physicians' Aid HELP WANTED 14 Years Experience' Sliding Scale Fee . Licensed and Board Certified GENERAL MANAGER . CONTRACTORS (718)937-3389 Telephone party line seeks a general manager to oversee'a large staff of monitors and flyer distributors. Responsibilities include staffing, FINANCIAL training, marketing and new product development. Excellent salary with ACE Contractor & Cr.w PERSON WITH AIDS? medical, dental and life insurance plans Alfjoh .mlll or 1",," ...... Tenninally ill? 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