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hat do "Queer Nation," Dykes To Watch Out For, "Radical Faeries" and Pansy Beat have in common? . They are all cases where proud, out lesbians and gays have appropriated tenns of anti-gay oppres- Wsion, turne_d them inside out, and infused hateful old epithets with positive new meanings. It's not a novel idea for oppressed grou~ to appropriate insul~g language and tum it to their advantage. Yet for several reasons the prac- tice remains controversial in the lesbian and gay community. OutW~k's use of queer, jag, lezzfe and dyke has generated a continuing stream of .letters objecting to what the writers perceive as ourintemalized homo- . phobia. GCN in Boston and other publications have also experienced negative reactions when they use words such as queer and Ies. Our community is rightly sensitive to the power of words. We are, in no small measure, a people who c~e into 'being when a strange Latin-Greek hybrid term-homosexuaJ....-was coined to , describe the then-novel concept of sexual orientation. Aside from its odd combination of two languages, homosexual has long been objected to by many gays because of its cold, clinical nature, its asso- ciation with mental illness, and the fact that it was coined not by us . but by our oppressors. Gay, the term preferred by early leaders of our movement, c;lerived from a medieval French phrase describing chivalric courtly love between knights, and has become the most common term describing us. But gays similarity with .the English word meaning "happy" is confusing to many, while some women have objected to any term which conflates the identity of female and male homosexu- ids. The solution to that problem has been the adoption of the term lesbian, and the formula lesbian and gay has come to be the accept- able way to denote the entiie community. But that's not the end of the story. Some are made uneasy by the word gay.·Others, including many women, feel they had nothing to do with the coinage of lesbian. Still others long for a term which would encompass the entire community' without any sexist, medical pr other oppressive connotations. Into this confusing linguistj.c quagmire stumbles a host of insulting tenns such as fairy, faggo~ dyke, queer, homo, dagger, sissy and so on. Should we continue to search for new terms to describe us?

Should such'terms be cUlled from the I long list of oppressive insults or be freshly 'minted? Does the appropriation of insults signal a new pride or a capitulation to unrecognized, internalized homophobia? . These are not frivolous questions. African Americans have long recognized the power of tenns to oppress or liberate. Their fluidity in I;I1oving from colored to Negro to AfrO-American to Black to African-American reflects not confusion or indedsion, but a recogni- tion that meanings, like movements, change. We would do well to recognize the same thing. Words, after all, are what we make them. But they have. a significant power to make us as well ....

. 4 ·.OUTTWEEK May 30. 1990 showing even the Slightest complains that the film surpriseat the fact that writer shows the white male threat- Craig lucas has focused on ening to "walk away· from the well-to-do WASPshows a . hISHispanic buddy when In startling Ignorance of Lucas' fact he was being c:IIsmlssed. Crisis Une Crisis and dlgnJfled voice reaching work. He Is, after all, the ulti- His stern talk to the young We are writing to Inform out to those In need. mate yuppie writer In the man was right on the mark . the gay and lesbian commu- Steven L. Cantor theater today. for the situation. I don't think nity of a voice that has not . Dale Christopher By focusing on this group Bowen watched very close- often been publicized during Renee CorJombe of friends, the complete ly, and/or let his attitude the recent traumatic events Merrbets, Sfeett1g Corrrrlftee scope of AIDS and reactions blind him to what was really clouding the future of the to It would not be possible or going on on the screen. His FlJ"Idfor Human Dignity-the Companion PIeces appropriate. These men questions about the where, voice of the CrIsIs Une volun- Peter Bowen's smar- reacted the way they did for when and why of the Intend- teers. tassed superiority In his their own reasons that the ed arrests are clearly At a meeting at the Gay. review of Norman Rene's film film makes very clear. Most answered In the scene: the and lesbian' Community Longtime Companion (no. offensive Is his bleeding health department, the next Center In New York on May 46, May 16) does a disservice heart (AIn't I the most sensi- day and "to see If the mayor 10, the CrisisUne \t>lunteer's to a fine plcfure. My dear Mr. tive liberal) version of the shows up.· The missing' Association (ClVA) was cre- Bowen, this Is a movie. An characters' "distancing· scenes of street battles ~ ated by past and present entertainment. A story that themselves from the lamented by Bowen In his Crisis Line volunteers. As -Iilopefully those not painfully "social/political reality.· The review will be In the Mure, advised earlier by legal and personally aware of the film states more than once accompllshed ...hopefUly by counsel, the volunteers . horrors of .the AIDS years the problem with Insurance the audience. elected a steering commit- mght go to see. Do you real- and loss of Jobs. These guys In any case, the very tee empowered to negoti- ly think ci grim aglt/prop were too well-off, proud and large audience at Angellka ate with the executive piece would sell any tickets:? loved to be tossed on the Film Center laughed, cried committee of the board of 'Nhen accusing the filmmak- human trash heap known as and were visibly moved by directors. ers of "narrow focus· Is pre- hospitals In New York. this fine film. Whatever It's The ClVA formally cisely the point. Anyone In conclusion, Bowen faults, this Is a film with a na- requests that all volunteers withhold services, both paid { and unpaid, from the Fund srONEWAtt RIOrS BY ANDREA NATALIE for Human Dignity, until a satisfactory settlement Is reached. As cVIi.IiT()IIJ vE The ClVA reaffirms the /?£"ar I'1VJT IfE7Ec.T three demands endorsed by ,!fIVrr1l11V6 TII-1T

some 30 volunteers at a fOn£ ONE C()vLp meeting on AprIl 23 and sub- IIr TE/(P,fET -15 OR mitted to the board: (/IYJ~FE PM#.' 1) that Julien Maurice, the former CrisisUne Director, be reappointed Crisis Line Director. 2) that a minimum of -~.1I)reemembers (or one-third, whichever Is greater) of the board of directors be Crisis Une volunteers. 3) that one ,of the co- chairs of the board of dlrec- . tors be chosen by the Crisis Une volunteers. The ClVA wishes to thslnk all of those Individuals throughout the diverse gay and lesbian community who have expressed their feelings to the board of directors about recent events. It Iscru- cial that the Crisis Line be always a trained, humane

May 30, 1990 O~EEK 5 row vision, as Bowen com- give It? Only Peter Bowen's plains, a 111mfor about and essay, aHegedly a 111mreview by the gay men most deeply but really more of a laundry Involved In the AIDS crisis In list of Issues'he wished the this time period. Get over movie had dealt with and yourself, Peter. These brave others he would have treat- folks have ma'naged the ed differently. ObJections, Impossible by even getting especially political, to this the picture on'the screen. movie aren't surprising. The Give constructive criticism gay and lesbian community, and take your own political particularly those of us agenda to cHy hall, Albany Involved In AIDS activism, Is and Washington. The aver- bound to see Longtime age moviegoer can relate Companion from a critical to these nice, successful perspective. And much of movies to talk about, or get more of the usual: gay g~. Anyone who could not what Bowen said has some hopes that they will be and lesbian vlcHms and mIs- respond to Bruce Davison's truth to It, echoing COI"(l- made. But we don't. We do, 1I1s and psychopaths. scene at his lover's bedside ments I've made or heard 1InalIy, have one 111m,which MarlManhattan sees this powerful scene as But surely OutWeek could fect AIDS film and satisfy cynical "Isolation. - Bahl have given such a significant everybody's pOlitical agen- It was with dismay that I Humbug I this Is a wonderful artistic event either a real da. It'd be a shame If les- read Peter Bowen's essay on picture. Brave, honest, pow- revlew-complete with com- bians and gays didn't see the political shortcomings of erful and, for me, cathartic. I ments about writing, direc- Longtime Companion Craig lucas and Norman ." offer my thanks to Rene, tion, acting and other because somewhere they Rene's brUHant 111mLO/l1flme lucas and their fine cast. cinematic values-or else a heard It was pollffcally Incor- Companion. It seems that , LonLowry sampling of essay-llke com- rect. Cut1Ing off debate like Bowen W05thrown Into such Manhattan men15.Or both. that strikes me as our com- a tizzy by the film's fqllure to As a friend of mine said munity's not to Stalinism. conform to his political pre- The first almost-Hollywood as he mediated an argu- And, practically speaking, If concepffons of what the 111m movie about AIDS and the ment over Longtime Com- this movie falls at the box would or should be that he gay community finally panion, criticisms such as office there won't be any faRed to notice that It Is not comes out, and what klnd of Bowen's would be more AIDS 1I1mS"tosee, let alone only a major step forwaitl for coverage does OutWeek valid If we had lots of AIDS argue about. Instead we'll gay 1I1msandfilmmakers, but also one terrific movie. Or maybe he didn't thIn~ It was very good; his review never says el1herway. If fII{TlS ore subject to polit- Ical litmUs tes15then so are film reviews; ff'lIs Is a test that Bowen falls. Longtime Com- panion faces a difficult chal- lenge at the box office, a challenge made more diffi- cult by Bowen's carping antipathy. By Ignoring the political ramifications of dis- crediting this 111mwithin the gay community and by dis- cour~lng -out~k readers from seeing ii, Bowen sets back tne cause of gay artists and subject matter In film-seriously decreasing the possIbIIHythat the "pollff- cally correct- AIDS film will ever be made. If the artists who made this film have a responsibility to tailor their work to serve the complete political agenda of this crisis, then Bowen must take

6. OUT~EEK May 30, 1990 responsibility for the harm he that my reviews simply GBS Manifesto Issue Is, It would be negligent has done to the cause of . served public relaffons flrms. In the post, we at the of us to hide our heads. It Is goy visibility In mainstream I encourage everyone Gay Broadcasting System, as at best complex. Well-lnten- films. But Bowen will suffer no Interested In seeing Long- well as many others In our tloned people have dls- repercussions; Longtime time Companion to see It. com'munlty, have ques- ,agreed. Outing Is not a Companion, as a result of .hIs But I can think of ho better tioned the authority and subject to be decided by review, may. place to critique the limita- motives of those who claim one Individual. It demands Of course I don't propose tions of certain types of gay to be our "goy leaders.· discussion among all the that Bowen serve .as on representations than In a Most recently your magazine members of the Gay Broad- uncrltlcal flack for all pro-goy gay publlccitfon. And for me, has been embroiled In the casting System. films. He Is a critic and ought racism Is too high a price to controversy' over outing. We We have been most dis- to call them as he sees pay for "cir1tstfc' representa- too have been examining turbed In the recent weeks them. But Lucas and Rena, tions of gay men. thISIssue and formuatlng OLl" at the flack your magazine as artlsfs,also have a respon- policy. As heated as this. has taken by' these non- sibility to call them as they ,..-- _ see them-and their film Is i on honest, moving and empowering portrait of their community. Yes, It Is a com- munity that Is largely white and well-off, but It Is the community they know best and It Is rendered honestly and not uncritically. Long- time Companion Is a source of comfort and renewed anger (and valuable politi- cal debate of the sort Imme- diately at hand) that Is a nec~1ty In this time of crtsls; Its true political value Is a function of the honesty and artistry the fllmmakers bring to their depiction of this community. Since Bowen spends so much energ"y looking for (and Imagining) political mis- You can capitalize on what could become a great steps while Ignortng the spe- growth industry in the 1990's and-make a socially cific elements of film that are the usual province of critics, I responsible investment at the same time. can only Imagine that com- And your dollars can work to create a cleaner . mentary on the Inspired WrIt- Ing, directing and acting environment and ,ahealthier quality of life. does not serve his political agenda. For free information, call us at 212-269-0110 It would be a real service or 800-262-6644 or return the coupon below. tQ the community If, In the neXt Issue, OutWeek would publish a film review of Long- --.------.------Please send me a prospectus and more complete infonnation about time Companion. global environmental funds. Gary Clare NAME Brookiyn, NY AOOIESS

Peter Bowen responds: CITY STATE ZIP I would like to thank Gary TELEPHONE-HOME BUSINESS Clare for his kind remInder to readers they shoUld not CHRISTOPHER S1. FINANCIAL, INC I that I allow the Isolated opinions 80 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 I of film reviewers to keep Member Sec:urili~ Invf»SlorProtection Corporation Member National Associdtion of Securities Dealers : - - - - - __- - - - - __- - ~__- .._'"_- I' them from seeing flims that would otherwise Interest them. I would hate to think

May30,1990' OUTTWEEK 7, elected -gay leaders· of our Ics of oppression,he or she rifles and remained silent.Prj- . community concerning out- shall become subject to vacy Is a moot and lame Ing. We wonder If these complete and Immediate argument when It con- -leaders· are living In the scrutiny,up to and including tributes to a national geno- same community In which the possIblHty of ouHng. DUllnK dde. we Ova? "\ We recognize the IndIvId- We share an ethical For nearly 2,000 years, uaI'sright to privacy. But the lifiij . responsibilitywith Out~ek gays ald lesbians hcive been concerns expressed by -gay to, examine each outing on the victims of nuder, expert- leaders· concemlng 00 Indt- an Individual basis, asking mentation' and oppression. vidual's right to privacy are TH. PROS AND CONS OF first Who should be outed, And we have been victims to In large part unfounded. OUTING why, based on what evi- Immoralattacks That right falls swiftly from IIlIn II: these lagely ...... , .,...... -.-.... dence and flnall~' to what at the hands of the religious those who would seek to ...... '...,...... --- purpose . establishmentsand the gov- shed their privacy for the IJIIIIII-':'=- We respectfully lsagree ernmentswhich they control' PlbIIc spofllght. 'iii MillS- with our peers wh claim or Influence.It Is time to tun For 21 days, we In New that -outing can produce the fide of public exposure Yorkenduredthe barrage of someoneIs a public flgur~ Is badly needed role models. back on·those who would sexualadventures concern- not an IntrlnslcvalidaHonfor Nobody can achieve seek through religious or Ing Donaldand IvanaTrump. their outing. But the -right of respect against their will and bureaucratic doctrine to Nobody questioned their privacy· Is not always a . nobody can be extortedInto control or destroyus. It Is time right to privacy when we all defense to those who seek such a capacity. to accept that anyone who read about how Donald Its shield. It Is enflrely possiblethat participates, even through Trumpwas~ excel- We r9c0gnlzefor most, a In some circumstances an their Silence, shares In the lent In bed. Nor were there right to privacy. Wealsor~ -outing· can be more moral responsibility of our ooy lawsuits.Everyonecon- ognlze the deaths of ~arly destructive than beneficial. repression. As such, should ceded that all those con~ 80,000 of our sisters and Inthosecases,we will exam:. the Gay Broadcasting System cerned had hung their brothers who fell largely Ine .all other reasonable become' aware of anyone privacy up on the wall next because those from the alternatives; One thing Is cer- pcrtIdpattng Inthe rnecha'I- to their clothes. Because Insidegave Intotheir Insecu- tain, It wlll be a decisionnot

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10 OUTTWEEK May 30, 1990 debacle earned them vitri- single most significant fash- olic denlJ1ClatIon from some Ion Innovator of the past ten gay quarters. TheIr "Lesbians years: by Vogue as "a Who Sleep WIth Men· article courageous fashion rebel· (no. 33, Feb. 11) prompted and by GQ as the person scam from many dykes. And most likely to revolutionize their advocacy of "outing· male fashion In the has gamered them rebukes 9Qs·-namely, myself. (I've from mainstream lesbian mislaid the articles In which and gay organizations the above quotes appear, across the country. Through- but I'm sure one of your out these debates, I have famous (HAl) fact-checkerS stood firmly by our fledgling could locateth8m.) "Lesbian· and Gay News During my nunerous and Magazine: faithfully pur- much acclaimed terms as chasing my copy each facl~ator.for ACT UP/NYOV9l' Photo: James Hamilton week, . and staunchly the past three years, I hove Get on the story, Out- This Is my Idea but you can defending It against often appeared In a well-nlg, daz- Week. I don't want to have have It for free. vicious attack. But this time zllng ..array of skirts, dresses, to walt around for Michael's Thank you for YOll" atten- OutWeek has gone too fori hats, pumps and, of COllSe, Thing to get the piece. I think fIon. Imagine my shock-nay, my now legendary earrings. many of your readers woud John P. Farley my humiliation, even mortlfl- The inspiration I have. provid- also be Interested In a profile Manhattan cafion-upon discovering In ed the organization cannot on, for example, Urvashl last week's Issue (no. 47, May be overes1lmated and In at Vald; I could go on listing fashion Edit 23) a "Queer Fashion· least one Instance (I refer, of hot, angry heroes you should OufWeel(s editors are no spread that entirely failed to course, to the highly touted profile. Full-page photos, at strangers to controversy. Include a young gay man black pIasIlc mini) my appar- home relaxing or at the Their call for Tim Sweeney's who has been hailed by el gave rise quite Ilteraly to a beach, would be nice, too. resignation after the Myers Woiner! 's Wear Dally as "the level of empowerment

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. May 30, 1990 OLJT-.WEEK 11 unseen since stonewall. on the night I facilitated an believe that -boy-lovers· Surely these achieve- ACT UPmeettng ,wearing the have a greater commHment ments, by themselves, merIt- . now classic white' sundress, to, or regard for, the (deli- ed a place· for me In straw hat and grape duster cate) well-being of youths OutWeek's -Queer Fashion· earrings. than the average gay man Issue; and yet I have waged In short, OutWeek's would have for CI casual sex my satorlal revolutlQn far -Queer Fashion· spread Is a portner? Yes,!beHeve a few beyOnd the confines of the fashion outrage, a blatant might go further to develop Lesbian and Gay CommunI- slap In the face to all self- a loving relatlonshfp as might ty Center. Indeed, my well- .respecting lesbians and gay two adults. It's been my coordinated (In all senses of men, a sordid string of lIes- experience, however, since that term) assault upon the by-omlsslon which (set) our having been out and In the rules of so-called -gender- movement back more than -real world· from age 15, appropriate attire· has been 20 years. I hereby call for a that few adult gay men carried out on the streets nationwide boycott of Out- (care to) take Into account Pilot . Ji Mar1

. 12 OUTTWEEK MayJO,1990 things that may outwardly will not quite have the abstract Ond theoretical, for be assessed and dealt with appear angry, but my moti- resources, the skill and the therapy Is more a matter of ctrrerentIy. incidents CIS very vation behind activism Is resilience they need to help the heart CI"Id wDlthan of the htIrrkXJthg but that tlO'Jctl't more one one of sadness me. There ~ mcrty out theI9 brain. You are sitting In a a'Id won't stop us from beIrQ and disappointment at the who can write those magic shrink's Office because you visibly gay or lesbian. Dress terrible actions others have tetters after thai" ncrnes-M.D., have not been able to think . outrageous, kiss, ~ CI"Id hold taken against us. I don't Ph.D.,MS.W.-1Nho have not your way out of your morass. hcrtds In p.b1Ic, CI"Id NOT just hate our oppressors: I'm s0d- h9d a dt::r"( of persona thero- If the shrIli< Is too Intel\ectua1 In rlgIt cU:ls a'Id bas. Don't dened by their Insensitivity p,'. hmy opinon,they ae not or theoretical, that shrink gve In. BeQUEERI and understand It's their own 'for you. And you haVe every . may be afraid of closeness. DanHtn1er Ignorance and lack of love right to ask a -prospective BeUeve me, you don't need ~EtIk that make them so hostile. n1ri< If they have had peISOIr that at an. Glem BelVarfo Most of the people al therapy, for how long (I 4) A respecffng shrink. A MOnhattcn Involved with this group may would shlI1 anyone with less shrink cannot help a patient not share my oplnlon, but It thal1twee yeas of It) a'Id with whom they do not respect. Ban the BoycoH would be a mistake to cate- whom. They will, of course, So ask yourself .thls. No mat- Of all the stupid things I gorize us all as having the WCl"ltto know why you want ter how tucked up, how con-' have witnessed during the same motivation for joining to know. That Is only profes- fllct-rldden, how depressed, last decade of the AIDSepI- how burdened with fear I dem\c, the boyco1tlng of the am, does this shrink seem to' SIxth International AIDS Con- respect me? You will know, ference moves rlghtl"up to . because a respected first place par none. patient feels that the shrink What does this boycott has connected with that possibly hope to accom- Photo: T.L Utt patient's own real self. pllsh? The funding Is <*eady Psychotherapy Is the at of In place and the conference It. -Unlted'ln strength- might slona\. But If they won't tell relationship, and you want a WILL be happening. This be more appropriate. you, avoid them like the ~wholsamasterofthls annual conference Is an . Michael Wakefield plague. at. (It Is not theories, wHch ae Important opportunity for Manhattan 2) A growing shrink. Psy- only tools.) If you have fOU'ld researchers In all fields to chotheq:)y Is a relationship. It this triad h you'~, then meet and compae data. A Scouting a Shrink Is this reIa1IorI:tIjJ that wi. help when the therapeuIIc seas get .,{c9mplex disease like AIDS. Havtng spent rnalY of my you to c::halge you' Ife. ~ It Is rough and the waves of life takes many minds working YOU'lQ9I" yeas In psychothero- a relationship In which the ae 1heaIert'lg, you ...... know together In order to solve the py while my friends were ~ also rrust grow. If he that you ae hgood hCI"Ids, So puzzle. Nothing is gained by doing Europe-on-$5-a-day does not, then you will not don't settle for less. . refusilQ to participate In the and e>q)lorlngAre IsICI"Id \\/hen easIy grow ~. So, \\/hen Charles Blond dialogue. And If acfIvIsIs puI It was stili pristine and w~n youmeetyou'~forthe Manhattan out, a very Important voice cigarettes were about 32 fist ttne, ask youseIf, -Is this a wiD be lost. cents a pack (I qUtafter that), person INho Is stli gowlng?- If Dear, Be Queer I an, of couse, most sym- and having myself practiced the answer seems to be no, We whole hea1ecIy agree pathetiC to the goal of the psychotherapy for almost 25 ' ~. goocI)ye forever. (Actld- with your edltorla' rOutspo- boycott wHch Is to protest the yeas, I too have some opIn- Iy, do not be afraid to shop kent no. 47, May 23). J.JSt this' US. hYn\grallon policy agdnst Ions about 1Indi"lg a SYhk. . Q(X.nd lJ'lfI you 1Ind the r\glt past weekend, May 12, we HIV-Infected 1ncIv\dI.JdS. How- 1) A pre-shrunken sMnk. I ntri<. It Is worth the few exira had 1Wo (yes, 1wo in one dt::r"() ever, a rruch more InteIgent would never be In therapy bucks.) IncIden1sof verbal ClSSCIUIs. In . wa( for orgaizaIIons a'Id ~ with any shrink who had not 3) A listening shrink. You both hsIalces the ttYee of us vIckJaIs to protest this woUd be been well-shrunken before I are absolutely unique. The were asked If we were to attend the Son francisco waked Into the sh1li

May 30, 1900 O~WEEK 13 News Antigay.Attacks Continue Man Slashed, Windows Smashedin East Village '., . by John Voelcker mouth, Chuck said, he yelled at the whole Mark's and Third Avenue. NEW YORK-A gay man was' badly group, "Youguys just cool it, all right?~ His attackers, he said, had moved on injured early in the morning of Saturday, At that, one of the teenaged men to attack the two drag queens. One, May 12, when he was slaShed by a gang moved in on him and allegedly stabbed known as Peau de Soie, told Out~ek she of teenagers outside the popular BoyBar him in the side of the head, raking the covered her face and leaned against a on St. Mark's Place in Manhattan. Police - knife down one side of his face. The man fence to protect herself while two of the arrested a 100year-oldman Thursday night then tried unsuccessfully to stab him in boys allegedly hit and punched her. The and charged him with first-degree assault, the chest, Chuck said. second drag queen, known as Shannon, a felony, in connection with the crime. Chuck said he didn't actually realize said she kept the teenagers away by Chuck, 28, a fashion stylist who lives he'd been slashed until he bent down' to swinging her belt around her head, even in the East Village, told OutWeek he had retrieve the knife dropped by his.attacker, ,after one man threatened her with a knife. just left BoyBar with two drag queen when he noticed blood pouring from his Chuck, who asked that his last name friends when a group of six men and two head. He was able to cover the wound not be used, was taken by ambulance to women surged toward the three as they with napkins from a deli next the emergency room at Bellevue Hospital, walked clown St. Mark's. "A girl ran door-although, he said, the man behind where he was treated within half an hour. toward -us yelling, 'Faggots, fucking the counter told him, "Don't bleed on my He received 43 stitch~sefor a five-inch faggots, just look at you,'" Chuck said. fucking floor." He then approached a vertical gash in front of his ear, and 18 When she tried to hit him in the police officer at the intersection of St. more for a cun:ed two-inch gouge on the side of his head. ThurSday night, Chuck and Shannon returned to St. Mark's Place to see if they could locate any of their attackers. About 8 pm, they saw the man who allegedly slashed Chuck, and immediately called the police, who arrived within minutes. .µter questioning, officersarrested Jose Martinez, 16, of 756 Fox Street in th.eBronx.. Martinez was arrested on second- degree assault charges, but the District Attorney's office upgraded the charge to first-degree assault, a more serious felony. Martinez· was scheduled to be arraigned by a Criminal Court judge Friday night or Saturday morning; at press time, the D.A. had not decided what bail to request. If Martinez cannot make bail, he will remain in custody until he is tried. . The crime has been dassified an antigay bias crime. Derek Neen, the BoyBar doorperson the night of the attack, told OutWeek that three girls from the group of teens had been refused entry into BoyBar earlier that night. The whole group later came. by the bar and briefly yelled antigay slurs before the attack, he said. Neen noted that the block of St. Mark's ,between Second and Third has S•• VIOLENCE on page 83

14 . Our.YVEEK May 30, 1990 .' ·FBINabs Woul~~BeArYan Bar Bombers . by Rex Wockner businesseS. The gay disco was to be the skinhead and Ku Klux Klan-related SEA'ITLE-FBIagents May 12 arrested fust target, howeVer. conferences, according to the Seattle two white supremacists allegedly en route Wmslow and Nelson were charged Post-Intelltgencer. .to blow up a Seattlegay bar. with multiple counts of conspiracy, illegal The newspaper sa!d a national . According to an affidavit filed in possession offlrearms and the possession conference of neo-Nazi skinheads was United States District Court by Tacoma- of an explosive device. held there in April, in conju9ction with . based FBI special agent Thomas Trier, The 20-acre Aryan Nations Hayden Adolph Hitler's birthday. . the ~ureau had tracked the twa men, Lake compound, 40 miles northeast of !be Post-Intelligencer identified 72~ RobertWmslow, 29, and Stephen Nelson, Spokane, is a center for neo-Nazi SH FBI 011pelle 82 35, for three months. I. II Information was gathered primarily by phone taps at the Aryan Nations compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho, where Winslow and Nelson planned their operations. The two men first discussed. blowing up Neighbours Disco in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood during an April 8 phone conversation, accoraing to the' FBI, whose agents then trailed Wmslow t~ a mountainous area outside Hayden Lake where he' detonated a test pipe bomb. In an April 20 phone conversation, Wmslow detailed th~ plans against the gay club. "He and'Nelson were going to place explosive charges inside the bar,"' Trier testified. "They would then telephone the bar, warn them that a bomb would go off in three minutes and 'then detonate the charges as the patrons attemPted to flee. According to Wmslow, the patrons would enter the 'kill zone' at the time of detonation. " From further phone calls,. the FBI determined that the Aryans allegedly planned to blow up Neighbours May 12. Agents followed Winslow and Nelson from the Hayden Lake compound to Seattle, where the supremacists bought a six-inch section of galvanized steel pipe with two end caps and one pound of smokeless gun poWder. "Because these components were identical to the [test) bomb that was exploded in Idaho, federal.agents moved in and placed Wmslow and Nelson under arrest," Trier testified.' . During the phol!e taps, the FBI'also learned that the supremacists allegedly planned to blow up Black bars, a Jewish synagogue and several Korean 267 West 17th Street (cor 8th Ave) New York 212·255.1150 May 3D,1990 O~WEEK 15 Ne\"s Just Wh()'s:Rnntli.ng the Show? . . Fa..Iiolft.from rl!cent.upheavl!ls at gay groups. ,spotlights their boards l!f directors. .

I'· .by~G_n the job and announced some NEW YORK-Front-page structural changes in the headlines were identical in ~tion. Buteven~the gay :and lesbian neWspapers rebuilding process began, around the country. last former associat~ continued December, .. when former calling for the resignation of employees of" National Gay the board, which remained Rights Advocates went public the most stable~nd the with stories of their dismissals. most powerful-pa~of the Enterprising journalists jumped organization throughout the on the: ~tory, and .soon crisis. ' - i . ,'. publishedfn.umerous·artiCles . Scandals at the .NGRA, exposing bad \'ilanag'e"htent, the Fund and seVeritl other aI:>use' of ';power, arid a organizations that gained ~e ..tack of coherenCy in notoriety during the last two th~ ofganization. Former and years have 'drawn attention to current staff members were , the 'people who direct the quoted describing' alleged ABANDON HOPE. ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE Photo: IL litt increaSingly high budgets and improprieties ranging from the FHD office at 666 Broadway •... . laJBe staffs of lesbian and gay fmancial to the sexua!. ~d ;, organizations: the ~rds of comparing the organization to a broke, t}le lesbian and gay front pages lit directors. While the paid staff members, dysfunctional family. Former associates up· with scandal once again, this time who act as spokespersons for repeatedly called for the resignation of the because the board of another national gay organizations; ·are usually far more visible board. Before it was all ever,the '}l3jority 0( and lesbian organization-the Fund for than the people who employ them, boards employees; including - Human Dignity-bad made of directors almost invariably have to the executive director, News Focus a controversial hiring shoulder the blame for. their ~tions' either resigned or were decision. Enterprising mistakes. fired. journalists jumped on the story of the "How you construct the board, the The NGRA: board .followed. the heterosexual executive director, and soon corporate structure, is very important, negative-publicity blitz with talk of change published articles exposing bad . because you can build in certain, and of re1>uilding, the. hiring of a new legal management, abuse of power and. a ..safeguards," explains Tim McFee1ey, the ~or and 'a freSh fund-raising drive. The pervasive lack' of coherency in the executive director of Human Rights public-relations .effo{t, hffi!'lever, failed to -organization. Former and current staff Campaign Fund. In_fact, the HRCF-the stem the tide of negative 'coverage, which members were quoted describing alleged largest national gay and lesbian began anew. with the. resignation of the improprieties rangipg from the financial to organization-complete1y overhauled its new legal director after barely two months· the sexual, and comparing the organization own structure last year, to better manage its on the job, and a former employee'S to a dysfunctional family. Before it was all expanding pocketbook and growing renewed allegations.·of board impropriety. over, the majority of employees, including responsibilities. Ultimately, all critics pointed the finger of the executive director, either resigned or The HRCF restructuring is just one of blame at ·the organization's board of were fired. many indications that the 0Iganized lesbian directors, which remained the most After floundering Had1y in its first and gay"community may be entering a new stable-Md .the mast powe~ of the attempts at making its case t,hrough the era, during which many organizations will . organization throughout the crisis. lesbian and gay press, the bOard of the examine and redefine the structures •Three months after the NGRA story, Fund p~t a public-relations consultant on devised by a different group at a different

.Hi OUr..-WEEK May 30, 1990 tline. Many of these structures were put in to define clearly the function of their people who either had wealth, or had place for no better reason than that the boards of cIirf:ctors. While their counterparts contacts, or had experience in busin~,· Counders of a group had exPerience with a in the for-profu world are charged dearly recalls Cohen, who actively participated in particular organizational chart, or that and single-mindedly with producing locating candidates Corthe PunQ board slmilar organizations had been structured in revenues, the directors of non-profit groups Because the members of the Fund a particu1ar way, or simply because the law are assigned the irIlpo5sible task of carrying board were picked on the basis of their requires a board of directors. qut their organizations' often vaguely- ability to match the $5,000 fund-raising I.egally, cOrporations of all kinds must worded mission statements. Such lack of requirement, aod because new members name a board of directors and its officers. dear direction means that neither the were chosen by the existing board, chaJge At profit-making companies, the board is members, the contributors, nor the directors former Fund associates, the board has usually elected by the shareholders-.-the themselves use clear and consistent criteria become a homogenous body that is not people who have given a certain amount of to evaluate the effectiveness of the board. representative of the class, political and money to the corporation in return for a The only board responsibility that a racial diversity of the national gay and stock certificate, copies of annual reports majority of lesbian and gay organizations 1esbian community. . and regular dividends. have been able to quantify is funli-raising "Birds of a feather stick tOgether,· In 'non-profit corporations, the. quota, ranging from $750 to $5,000, that explains fonner acting Executive Director hierarchical roles are far less clearly every board member is expected to fulfill. Gary Henderson, who served on the Fund

NOT A COFFEE BREAK Photos: T.L Litt Empty Crisis Une (left) and fund-raising offices at the "Fundfor Human Dignity at 4:55 pm on April 18, after. staff and volunteer walkouts left them unstaffed.

defined. The people who give. money to Ironically, the fiscal responsibility of board Cor three years. "When a group of non-profits expect not quarterly dividends, boards often competes for priority with the people gets in, they tend to pick their but incremental sodalchange. Instead of board's responsibility for policy-making friends .... I thing there's a huge dichotomy official-looking stock certificates, they -fur insuring that the money raised by the· between people who are politically aware ... receive often. belated thank-you notes, board is spent effectively. In some lind these elitist people who are not sporadic home-grown newsletters and organizationS, fund-raising takes dear pOlitically conscious.· constant appeals for more money. Their precedence over other board work. One "We feel that we have a board that is relationship to the corporation Is often such organization is the National Gay and representative in terms of race, gender and . defined vaguely or not at all; ·as a result, Lesbian Health Foundation, whose Conner class,· counters Wilson, although she ..: people often mistakenly .consider president, Ellen Ratner, opened every board acknowledges that the prima1y goal of all themselves members of organizations tlUt meeting with the battle cry "give, get or get efforts to restructure the board is "getting a do not even have members~ip-based .off"-give money, get money or get off the . steady financial base.· According to Ed structures. board. Michems, a public-relations consultant to Such is' the case with many Even boards whose members see the Fund, the current board has only one contributors to the Fund for Human policy-making as an important person of color. Dignity, for example. According to Board . responsibility often allow fund-raising to be "I think it's always been a conflict for Co-Chair Ann Wtlson, the board recently a determinant factor in the selection of those of us Who are concerned with these voted to turri. the Fund into a membership-' board members. According to Sherrie issues that the boards [of gay and lesbian based organization in part because "for Cohen, who served as the director of the orgariizations) are not representative of the Il105t people, it just confirms the fact that Fund for Human Dignity for three and a cqmmunity in tetmS of class, in terms of they are members. They already think half years, the cunent members of the Fund race and oftet1...-.though this was certainly they're members.· board were chosen on the basis of their not the case with the Fund board--in termS Many non-profit organizations also fail fund-raising ability. ·So we looked for s.. FHD on ... g.12

May 30, 1990 OU~EK 17 Ne\vs Senate·Pas·ses· AIDS Emergency Funds Act

by Cliff O'Neill c~sponsors Sens. Edward Kennedy (D- Prior to floor action on the bill, Helms WASHINGTON-The u.s. Senate, after Mass.) artd Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). . had threatened a filibuster on the measure, two days of debate, On May 16 passed a After the protracted debate, gay and which had delayed its getting to the Senate comprehensive AIDS bill by an AIDS activists were jubilant over Helms' floor. A cloture vote to limit debate, overwhelming. margin. The bill will channel repeated' losses which, unlike previous however, saw the North Ca~olina $2.9 billion over five years to areas face-offs with the wily COnseIVative,did not Republican rebuked by a stunning 95-3 particuIarly hard-hit by the epidemic. invoke thC cloak ..of procedural motion to vote, with only himself, Humphrey and The legislation, the Comprehensive secure his defeat Sen. Steve Symms (R-ldaho) supporting the AIDS Resources. Emergency Act of 1990, "If this were strip poker, Senator filibuster. was approved by a 95-4 vote, with only Helms would be feeling mighty chilly about "Yes, this bill will pass," stated an irate Sens. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), Gordon now, " - quipped Gregory King, HeIn:!s after losing the cloture vote, "no Humphrey (R-N.H.), William Roth (R-Del.) conununications director for the Human question about it. And I imagine that the and Malcom wallop (R-Wyo.) opposing it. Rights Campaign Fund. editorial .writers have already cranked up-" During the two days of debate, "We won; it's over; it's a tremendous ~eir little machines to describe what that senators fared off against Helms, the bill's victory," added Tom Sheridan, lobbyist Cor ogre from North C~oljna who dares say' roost vocal' opponent, who first attempted the AIDS Action Council, the leading wait a minute. Well I do say wait a minute. to derail the measure with a filibuster and organization lobbying for the bill: "What So, here we go again." later tried to attach two amendments to the has happened ~ that the Senate clearly In hiS' extensive remarks, Helms bill. Both Helms amendments lost on dean recognized the health emergency t;Jlat AIDS indicated that "some members of the toll-call votes and were later substituted presents and its response was honno;exual community," assumecuy angry with more narrowly drawn riders from bill overwhelming in the face.ofthe ~er." SM FUNDS ACTom pege 83 Nightmare on Helms Street· Behind the Scenes on the Care Bill

by Cliff O'Neill AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, were dancing the delicate budget and WASHINGTON-It~s never easy by threatening a filibuster. taxes waltz with the White House, the going up against Jesse Helms. An ,inunensely popular act which costly AIDS spending proposal lay But when Congress tries to pass any garnered a whopping 65 Senate co- lllnguishing in Senate chambers. bill addressing the AIDS crisis, they're "Each day is precious," bound to come up against the wily emphasized Jean McGuire, co-chair of North Carolina Republican at every Nc\\'s Analysis the NORA coalition. "Unless we act tum. now ... the urgent relief we needed ,So it came as no surprise to lobbyists sp'onsors, the CARE bill had' been yesterday we wilLnot see for another year pushing for Senate action on a bill awaiting action for a full month when and a half." ' channelling $600 million in "disaster" Senate leaders decided on May 9 to That's a delay they didn't want to -relief funds to high AIDS incidence areas schedule a floor vote over Helms' face. So, they decided, if getting the bill to see HeIfns rise to the fight. And fight he objections. pass<;d before the budget axe comes did. AIDS lobbyists had been down this fall meant facing Helms For two solid weeks, armed with expecting a challenge from Helms on head-on, they would. his usual :stockpile of procedural the bill, but this face-off was' costing . To make their intentions clear, the motions, Helms successfully delayed them something particularly dear: lobbyists, organizing under the National action on the Qill, the Comprehensive time. And while congressional leaders Organizations Responding to AIDS 18.. OUTTWEEK May 30, 1990 (NORA)banner, on May 10 kicked off a ··vigil of support" during which AIDS activists would occupy se'ats in the Senate Visitors' GaUery every moment of the Senate session until the bill passed. Initially, the lobbyists had planned to stage their protest as a means of pressuring the Senate helping you meet the sex leadership into facing Helms. But· a late-night decision by Senate Majority Challenges of the 90's Leader George Mitchell (D-Maine) and Minority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kans.) to schedule the floor vote changed all Nli\\' YOI~KI C:I·IIC:,\GOI I.OS ,\NGlil.liS that. ·They brought it to the floor because it is the right .thing to do," added McGuire. "And it's the right 1.- WCi:e IlltO.the WQQd.s- thing to do now." . Still, facing Helms is never an easy task. And without an agreement limiting floor discussion and ~~IJif::~"~f:~f~~ amendments, lobbyists predicted a bitter fight. But the knowledge that c:f}luntie CEmsParm the bill had more co-sponsors than RD2 BOX 455 the 60 votes needed to shut off LIVINGSTON MANOR. NF Helms' fiiibustcr did ease .some 914·4394237 nerves. '(he knowledge that Helms could bring up any or aU of his legion •• .theresnopmcelike~ome of .hostile amendments at will during floor debate didn't. Having faced Helms several times before, though, bill sponsors Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), working with the lobbyists, prepared for b~ttle crafting substitutes to what 'were sure to be Helms' proposed amendments. Beyond that, aU that was left for the 30 AIDS lobbyists. and activists gathered to announce their "vigil of .. SailinJ Vacations. Intimate & support" was to appeal to Helms Economlcal • Days. Weekends. personally. Term Charters. Sailing Lessons "Senator,· stated Merv "Silverman, SAILING AFFAIRS (212) 228-5755 president of the American Foundation 404 E. 11ST.N.Y.,N.Y.10009 fc;>rAIDSResearch, ·please let this bill pass without hindrance. This bill has nothing to ,do with sex, nothing to do Dr. Charles Silverstein with drugs, or any type of lifestyle . Psychotherapi.st & Author you might find objectionable: This Now bill has everything to do with caring, accepting. with compassion and with easing the burden of the AIDS crisis that has new been placed upon our cities and our Patients states .• Medical Despite the bill's popularity, Insnrance bolstered in part by its being Iionored dedicated to the late AIDS "poster- 2:\;1 Wt'SI Itl ... 1SI.. Nt'w York. N.Y. liill:!·1 boy· Ryan White, few actually (212) 799·8574 expected l:Ielms to listen. T Nc,\'s Navy Won't Seek Gay ROTC Paybacks

by Nina Rey •• notices of waiver to Bettiker and letter from the Secretary of the Navy BOSTON-In a reversal praised Carney. "I do not relish the' idea of stating that. the Navy would not seek by lesbian and gay activists, the contacting you as each individual case reimbursement of Bettiker's ROTC Department of the Navy has decided of this nature comes to my attention," scholarship. Reporters for the nationally that two _gay Reserve Officers Studds wrote to Garrett. "Must I look televised news report had apparently Training Corps scholarship recipients received word that the Navy had will not be forced to pay back reversed its earlier decision to recoup military scholarships that were Bettiker's scholarship funds, and had revoked when the midshipmen told ,obtained a copy of the letter before their respective commanders that even Bettiker himself had been notified they are gay. The decisions mark the of the change. "What you saw on first major victories for advocates of camera was his first response to the an end to antigay discrimination by news," said a source close to Bettiker. the military on campus. Bettiker could not be reached for "It shows that what people do on comment. college campuses 'makes a difference," A spokesman for the Navy insisted commented David Halperin, a that the Navy had attempted to contact Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bettiker before the decision became professor , who has played a key role in public, and was unable to explain the organizing against antigay discrimination apparent leak. . in the ROTCprogram at his university."It David Carney, a Harvard seems to me a sign of the extent to University student who is studying at which even the last vestiges of puh>lic Oxford University this year, was also support for this policy are disappearing." issued a letter from the Secretary of Advocates' enthusiasm over ·the the' Navy stating that tlte d~cision to reversal in the cases of Robert Bettiker seek repayment of his ROTC and David Carney was dampened, IN THE NAVY... Photo: Nina Reyes scholarship had 'been reversed. The however, by reports that the Navy has Navy ROTC Robb Bettiker reimbursement waiver in both cases, initiated identical repayment proceedings according to a letter from the against yet another gay midshipman who forward to hearing from midshipman Secretary of the Navy to the chief of was discharged from ROTCbecause he is after midshipman who has been Naval personnel, was "due to gay. A Navy spokesman said he had no ordered to repay funds which-as the extenuating circumstances." Carney Informationabout the case. Navy acknowledged with regard to was unavailable for comment. "It certainly sounded like it might Carney and Bettiker-he should not be "The cases were reviewed on have been a policy shift," said Kate required to pay?" their own merits," said Lieutenant Dyer, an aide to U.S. Representative A Navy spokesman conftrmed that 'Commander John Tull of the naval Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), of the Navy's the decision not to seek reimbursement Information Office, disclosing that a decision in the Bettikc:!rand Carney from the two gay cadets does not mark second review, within 30 days of a cases. But just'as Rep. Studds was set to a change in the armed services' antigay decision to seek reimbursement, is write a letter commending Naval policy. Rather, a spokesman said, the standard procedure. Both Betiker and Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett, Ill, for Bettiker and Carney decisions were Carney, however, received notice in his ~fair-minded decision, " Dyer made on the merits of the individual February that they must repay their recounted" he received a call from a cases, and future decisions will be held ROTC scholarships, whereas the former ROTCScholarship recipient who to the same standard of review. letters stating that they had been reported that he, too, had been You're on Candid Cam.ra released from that obligation were disenrol~ed.from ROTC and directed to Robb Bettiker, a senior at the dated April 27, 1990. . repay his schol~rship because he is gay. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tull refused to explain the The third midshipman's dunning learned of the decision when he was departure from standard review notice Was dated the same day as the presented on camera with a copy of a procedure, instead insisting that the

'20 '. OUTYWEEK May 30, 1990 reversal was based solely on the REAL ESTA TE. INC. individual circumstances ofBettiker and ~OB HOWARD LICENSED REAl ESTATEBROKER Carney's cases. A number of cases against Army FIRE ISLAND PINES cadets, including a lesbian alµmna of Harvard, a gay student at Washington Rentals/Soles . University and a gay student at the Financing University of Pennsylvania, all of who 212 . 925 . 3030 /516 . 597 . 9400 were disenrolled from ROTC programs and directed to repay their ROTC . scholarships, remain open. . The Forces were with Them Critics of the'military's antigay policy remain skeptical of the NavY,smotivation for dismissing the cases against Beniker and Carney, specul~ting thllt the "extenuating circumstances· cited in Naval Secretary Garrett's letter may well be, in part, the extraordinary media attention those two cases received. Dr. Charles Franchino "It felt like it was PR for the Navy,· 30 Fifth Avenue said Robert Weinerman, an MIT alumnus who co-founded Defeat New York, New York 10011 Discrimination at MIT, an organization that was formed to oppose antigay 212.673.4331 discrimination in the ROTC program . and other instances of discrimination at MIT. "I don't know what prompted the decision, bµt I expect it was the office hours by appointment publicity." Another event that may have ipfluenced the Navy's decision not to ,{ seek repayment of the ROTC scholarships was MIT Provost John Deutch's ·strongly worded protest letter to Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney, which argued against the Defense Department policy 'barring gay men and lesbian$ from military service and stated Deutch's opposition· He makesI to the decision to seek reimbursement of educational scholarships granted to men and women who acknowledged me SMILE! their gay orientation. Deutch has considerable cachet in ·~·defense circles, and ,boasts connections to the Department of Defense that reach back almost 30 . years. Furthermore, he is a' former undersecretary' of the DepartIl:lent of Energy, and served the administrations .of Presidents Reagan, Carter, Ford, DEMETRIOS SENGOS, DDS Johnson and Kenned.y. A<:ivocates JACK ROSENBERG, DDS for an end to discrimination in the military. applauded Deutch's & AsSOCIATES denunciation of the military's Preventative & Cosmetic Dentistry antigay policy, and mark his letter 475 FIFTH AVENUE (212) 779-2414 to Cheney asa turning point in the By Appointment· fight to end antigay discrimination Amex- Visa~Master-Card-lnsurance in the armed serVices. Y

May 30. 1990 OUr..-WEEK 21 Ne\"s NY Court R,elects MDs' AIDS Suit Judges Rebuff IICommunicablel1 Classification

by Arthur S.l.eolllni infonnation. list of .sexuaIly transmissible diseases" for ALBANY, N.Y.-A New York state Axelrod has maintained throughout purposes of the law, but has discretion to appellate court has dismissed a lawsuit by that most of the traditional public health decide which diseases to iriclude. the New York State Society of Surgeons law requirements for dealing with sexually Defending the lawsuit, the state and three other medical societies which transmitted diseases are not appropriate argued that efforts to encourage sought to compel state Health and would be counterproductive in voluntary testing and counseling would Commissioner David Axelrod to classify attempting to prevent" further sPread of . be seriously underminded if people were HIV infection and AIDS as mv. faced with mandatory legal restrictions ·communicable" and "sexually The doctors argued that the and potential private sector transmitted" diseases. The May 3 decision seriousness of the mv epidemic requires discrimination as a result of their HIV- split the court, which voted 3-2 against the more intrusive public health measures and antibqdy status becoming kno,..n and doctors' position. that doctors should be entitled to more t:eported .. The state also argued that the The designation of HIV infection freedom to test, and contended that passage of Public H~th law Article 27- sought bY'-the doctors would have because mv has been shown to be in fact F, the "AIDS coilfidentiality law," which triggered statutory requirements for both communicable and transmissible became effective about a year. ago, isolation and quarantine, name reporting through sexual contact, its classification imposed special . consent and of those infected, and mandatory testing under the law is mandatory. confidentiality requirements on HIV- and contact tracing, and might have Justice Nonnan L Haivey;-writing for antibody testing that are not required for required exclusion of mv-infected people the majority, pointed out that the state's other sexually transmitted diseaSes. • from a variety of occupations. In addition, public health law requires the Public Fmally, the state' pointed to statistics the designation could have seriously Health Council to maintain an official list showing that within New York state, mv compromised the confidentiality of test of "communicable diseases which are is no longer primarily transmi~ through results, since raws governing infonn3tion dangerou:, to the public health,· but gives sexual contact, further bolstering the about sexually transmitted disease do not the council discretion to decide whether to commissioner's d~on not to deal with it provide the degree of confidentiality include any particular disease on the list. under the procedures established fore which has been accorded HIV-related Similarly, the commissioner must issue a more traditional sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis. Fmding that the state had taken action in a rational way, the majority of the court refused to dictate a different approach under the guise of judicial review. Justices T. Paul' Kane and Ann T. . Mikoll dissented. In an opinion by Justice Kane, the two insisted that Axelrod's "refusal to so desi8!l3te in view of clearly skyrocketing health concerns is arbitrary and capricious and further sidesteps an important concern voiced by [the medical SOCieties], i.e., the physician'S right and responsibility to know if their patients are infected and to pr?ceed accordingly." At press time, it could not be detennined whether the medical societies would ask the state's highest court to . review the case. T

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May 30. 1990 OUTTWEEK 23 Ne\vs New· Sponsors for Federal Gay Rights Bill

by R.Sugden in the Senate. Congress about supporting this bill. WASHINGTON-The addition of "More and more members of ·Unless we get people from all areas [to three new backers for the federal gay Congress are realizing the injustice of write], especially those areas traditionally and lesbian civil rights bill has put discrimination. They are hearing from ignored, we won't get the. support this support for the measure at an all time their lesbian and gay constitutents' and bill needs," King told OUtWeek. high. The newest sponsors of the bill they are responding," said Tim Mcfeely, The legislation, HR 655 in the are Representatives Jose Serrano CD-NY) executive director of the Human Rights House and 547 in the Senate, prohibits and Gerry Sikorski (D-MN), and Senator Campaign Fund (HRcF), which has been discrimination based on sexual Claiborne Pell (D-RI). Originally the largest group lobbying for the' bill in orientation in employment, housing, introduced 15 years ago by then-New Washington. public accommodations and federally- York Rep. Bella Abzug, the bill currently Gregory King, also of HRCF, funq~ social programs . .,. has 79 supporters in the House and 10 encourages lesbians and gays to write -flied from New Yom First Lady Comes Out Against Antigay ~Bigotry

by Cliff O"Neili the first statement ever from a first WASHINGTON-First Lad'y family member speaking out directly Barbara Bush, in a letter to the against antigay discriminatio~ leader of Parents and Friends of "I'm absolutely delighted," stated Lesbians and Gays, has personally Goodman, responding to Mrs. Bush's come out against antigay bias, saying letter. "I knew that if Mrs. Bush had that ·we cannot tolerate the opportunity to read my letter she discrimina'tion against any would respond, because she is a individuals or group~ in. this caring person." country." Goodman, however, expressed The memo, dated May 10 and concern about publicizing Mrs. written on White House stationery, Bush's letter, fearing a backlash from came in response to a personal letter antigay forces. Goodman, when from Paulette Goodman, president of a,sked for comment, was not aware the national P-FLAGS group. that a copy of the letter had been "Thank y.ou for your letter and leaked to this reporter. for sharing your work with' the "I don't want to exploit this," Federation of Parents and Friends of she stated. "I hope people will not Lesbians and' Gays, Inc.," wrote Mrs. use [this letter] to bait the extreme . Bush. "You sound like a caring FROM ONE MOM TO ANOTHER Right, because that would be parent and a compassionate citizen. Rrst Lady Barbara Bush Photo: Patsy lynch extremely co~nterproductive." "I firmly believe that we cannot Gay and lesbian activists, tolerate discrimination against any information about your organization however, were quick to point to Mrs. individuals or groups in this and attitudes. Your words speak Bush's letter as another in a series of country," she added. "Such, treatment eloquently of your 'love .and signals from the White House a-lways brings with it pain and compassion for all gay Americans speaking out against all forms of .perpetuat~s hate and intolerance. I and their families." discrimination. ,appreciate so much your sharing the The letter fr,om Mrs. Bush marks "It is certainly is a pleasant

24 OlJTTWEEK May 30. 1990 surprise to see the first lady use the t. :,,~ •••••• same kind of language her' husband, the president, has used to describe for the their opposition to discrimination ~~viting! : against any group of people in the • • roved ones J United States,' stated Greg King, • c'ommunications director for the •• • ln your Washington-based Human Rights • • Campaign Fund, a gay lobbying • • rife... group. • • "I was particularly pleased. to • • E see Mrs. Bush use the expression • • 'gay Americans and their families,' • You are inn-vited to experience our style of • which clearly suggests she • small-hotel hospitality. Where strangers. • 14 KT GOLD understands we are part of the fabric • become friends and friends become closer. • of American life and that lesbian and • • DIAMONDS W gay Americans do indeed have families whom we love and cherish.' • • Gay and lesbian activists in '. • WATCHES recent months have expressed • SINGLE DOUBLE • pleasant surprise at a handful of • • GIFTS. positive gestures from the Bush • Includes continental breakfast. Single or • E White House towards the gay and double occupancy. Add 9.7% tax. Subject to • availability. Advance reservations suggested. • lesbian c<;>mmunity. Ii For reservations, call 1-800-842-3450 • . In the past few months, Bush has • • given his first major speech on AIDS, • calling for compassion for people CHANDLER INN LOWES\f Inn Town Bed & Breakfast L with AIDS and passage of an AIDS anti-discrimination law; met with 26 Ch.ndler.t Berkill B05ton. MA 02116 (617) 482-3450 PRICES openly gay people with AIDS; spoken B· 0·5· T·O·N EVERY out against attempts to censor art; and DAY,!! invited members of gay and lesbian New York groups to "the official signing of the R Hate Crimes Statistics Act, a law which includes sexual orientation in the scope of its concerns. Also in the past year,. White . MENTION House officials have met with AIDS THIS AD Y activists and members of \a gay FORAN Republican group. ADDITIONAL These gestures have not gone 10~ unnoticed by antigay forces in DISCOUNT Congress who, according to The Charming, Newly Renovated Washington Times, have Brownstone Conveniently -vehemently opposed the White Located in Chelsea 'House outreach to the gay and lesbian community. • All Rooms Have Washing Facilities IN THE According to the Times, .antigay • Share Bath HEART Reps. William Oannemeyer (R-Calif.) • Continental Breakfast B and Robert Dornan (R-Calif.) Included OF THE protested the gestures to White • Single $65 • Double $80 • studio $100 FINANCIAL House Chief of Staff John Sununu, All TAXES INCLUDED DISTRICT who reportedly promised them that • Weekly Rates lIpon Request the invitation .to the signing Advance Reservations Suggested! ceremony was a one-time-on1y o occurrence. Dannemeyer and Dornan COLONIAL HOUSE are reported to be currently lobbying INN 93 NASSAU ST-·· Sununu to have the president find an CHELSEA (Cor. Fulton) issue with which to oppose the gay 318 West 22nd St., N.Y.C. 10011 and lesbian community. T. 212·243·9669 (2U) 233-0910 X May 30, 1990 .OUTTWEEK 25 . Ne\vs

Cortines' quote in opposition to the Gay ~aper Fires ... proposed program for gay and lesbian youth, Chacon stated, '1'0 my knowledge, Cortines has not apologized, retracted or clarified that IIndependen4 quote." Editor for Quting Chacon also said that the SUperintendent's sexuality is not an issue to him. "I don't respond to 'those th.in&'," by Nina Reyas printed, according to DeRanleau, Chalker he added. After DeRanleau left the SAN FRANCISC~The editor of a told her that it was his policy _~nd the Sentjne~ one local paper claimed that local gay and lesbian weekly, who paper's policy not to out people. The next DeRanleau herself was in the, closet-QS a reported in a' news article that the highest day, DeRanleau was out of a job. heterosexual. And Chalker himself, ranking public official in the school system Curre~tly, DeRanleau is considering claiming to have a good source, said, is gay, was fired more .than a week after filing suit against the Sentinel for wrongful "She's very straight" the article was published and after she had termination. She also plans to (He a DeRanleau identified herself as filed a follow-up story on the subject The biSexual. paper's publisher denies the connection Whlle Chalker confinned' to OutWeiM between the editor's dismissal and the that he is personally against bringing article outing San Francisco's people out of the closet, he said that he su~tendent of schools. thinks that if a gay public official "is USing ~ "B;lsically, I'm being hung out to his power to hurt us" then outing that dry," said Michele DeRanleau, who was person would be appropriate. Chalker managing editOl: of the San Francisco added, however, that he would demand SentInel when she was dismissed on May hard evidence about the official's sexuatlty 11. DeRanleau asserted that she cleared before he would allow the story to be the item with her publisher before she put printed. In the case of Cortines, Chalker the story into the paper, a fact that alleged that DeRanleau had only rom9l' to Sentinel publisher Ray Chalker disputes. substantiate her declaration of the "When the pressure got turned up, when superintendent's alleged homosexuality. people started calling us up and saying' Maintaining that he is personally 'How dare you out people: he should not opposed to outing, Chalket' said have changed his position," DeRanleau' DeRanleau never cleared her article added. . disclosing Cortines' sexuality with him. The imbroglio began when "Why would I say one thing and then DeRanleau filed a news story on a have allowed this thing on outing?" program that would have brought gay- OUT OF THE CLOSET AND OUT OF A JOB Chalker a~ked rhetorically, mentioning positive counselling into the city's school Fonner Sentinel managing editor Michele that only a few weeks prior to the system, but which also alleged that OeRauleau Photo: Rink article's publication, he appeared on a Superintendent of Schools Ramon widely televised program opposing Cortines was gay. Cortines, who opposes complaint of sex discrimination with the outing. the introduction of a program modeled on state's Fair Employment and Housing Although Chalker initially stated Los Angeles' widely-acclaimed Project 10, agency. that DeRanleau was dismissed because . told a local paper, "We must be very very San Francisco's papers have widely of "insubordination," he later said that . careful about enticing young people as it covered DeRanleau's dismissal, . he had not actually fired her but had relates to their sexual orientation." concentrating on the conflict between tried to move her out of the office by DeRanleau felt that Cortines' coniment DeRanleau and Chalker over outing, but stripping her of her position as editor to the San FranCisco Independent was have avoided identifying Cortines. The and offering her contract work instead. homophobic, so she included a 17-word superintendent did not retuIl) OutWeek's "She was very destructive to the paragraph.in her article concentrating on call. atmosphere here at the paper," Chalker what she perceived to be the However, Mario Chacon, special remarked. superintendent's hypocritical position. assistant to Cortines, did say that. Cortines DeRanleau,on the other hand, DeRanleau said that she has reliable opposes the introduction of a program claims that Chalker never wanted her in infonnation to back up her controversial based on Project 10 because "We have a the position of acting editor, which she 'statement, b1,lt' refused' to discuss her program that the superintendent thinks took over after her predecessor accepted sources. meets the needs of self-identified 'gay and a position with another California A week after the initial story was lesbian· sntdents." Asked to comment on lesbian ~nd gay paper. T

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GMHC had intended on pr~ting model nationwide. He also co-founded GMHC'joins five papers at the conference. Instead, two AIDS community coalitions: the city- the organization will establish an wide Committee for AIDS Funding, and AIDS confab alternative site in San Francisco during the stat~level New York AIDS Coalition, the conference for the. presentation of both of which have lobbied for increases boycott· these papers. Topics will include in AIDSbudgets for the past three years. preventing relapse into unsafe sexual The award comes on the heels of behavior and establishing legal services the Lesbian and Gay Lobby's march on NEWYORK-The Gay Men's Health for people with HIV disease in· Albany, which Sweeney organized, and Crisis, the world's largest AIDS service commu~ties of color. several months after his key controversial organization, has announced it will, -Duncan Osborne support of the appointment of New York boycott the Sixth International City's new health commissioner, Dr. Conference on AIDS to be held in June Woodrow Myers, caused an uproar in the in San Francisco. GMHCjoins roughly SO TiDl gay and AIDScommunities. other organizations 'in protesting a U.S. Noting that the Lobby had policy stemming from l~gislation fust Sweeney recognized his contributions over the introduced in the Senate by Jesse Helms past ten years, despite all the recent (R-NC)and enacted in 1987, that restricts attention to the Myers appOintment, the free entry of people with HIV nalned DIan Sweeney said the honor was "validating,_ infection into this country. gratifying and feeisyery, very good:" ' Calling the decision to boycott a of the year ·Not everyone in the community diffi,cult one, Jef(rey Braff, executive agrees with [Sweeney's support of director of GMHC, also referred to it as NEW YORK- The New York state Myers]. But that is one decisi~n in his "a'major step in public advocacy for Lesbian and Gay Lobby has given its entire career, and we are honoring him people with HIV disease.· 1990 Person of the Year award to for his service for over ten years," said Braff stated, ·People with HIV and Timothy Sweeney, the deputy- director Jennifer Rich, executive director of the their advocates fought hard to partldpate for policy at the Gay Men's Heaf~ Crisis. Lobby. fully at these conferences.· Braff, then He is being honored for the extensive Sweeney, 35, $erved as the chair of the Canadian AIDS Society, ha,d exeCutive director of the Lambda Legal been among the organizers of the 1989 Defense and Education Fund from 1981 conference in Montreal. That conference to 1986, when he began wotking at was 'noted for the participation of GMHC. In' 1986, he received the fust community-based and grassroots annual Michael Hirsth award from Body organizations. Positive, a support group for people with Acc~g to Braff, GMHCweighed HIV. He has also won FAlRPAC'sMark its role as a community-based Turkle Award for political leadership. organization against it's positron as -R.Sugden advocate for people with HIV infection. "Given who we are,· said Braff, "we have to take a' leading role in advocacy Mayor for people with HIV .infection. " Braff added that GMHC's board had nixed' front unanimously approved the decision to boycott the conference. gaY'pride GMHCwillalso be workingJor the. passage of a bill introduced in the House , of Representatives by Rep. Roy Rowland kick-()ff (D-GA), which would give the ,Departinent of Health and Human NEW YORK-Heritage of Price Services the sole authority to. decide (HOP), the organization that produces what diseases require exclusion from New York's lesbian and gay prIde entry int~ the U.S. Referring to the work he has done statewide over the last parade, rally and dance, has announced qJrrent policy, Braff said, "We could not ten years, according to the Lobby. that this year's gay and lesbian pride be dearer as to how abominable we find Sweeney was a prindpal architect of month will kick off without the official 'this law and how necessary we find it to New York state's 1987 HIV confidentiality municipal proclamation and ceremony see this law changed.· . law, ",1)i91 has...~erved as a legislative that have opened gay pride month

28 O~EK . . May 30. 1990 .. '. festivities since 197ft "In previous years, by asking for a 'i/;:;:::;::::::::::::::::::::::;::;::::::FOURFOR FUN" TIMES;:::::::::::::::::::::::::'::'::::::: proclamation and accepting it on behalf of the lesbiap. and gay communitY, HOP t~~~~~~"~~.\",'. has come across as partisan," said HOP .(,-"~:~_"KtiWit . ::~ .Co-Chair George DeBolt, "We are a non- ,FIRSTHAND GuYS MANSCAPE MANSHOTS pattisan organization and we want that The magazine that Hot, fiction, reader Whatever you're The indispensable to be extremely clear." According to pioneered the sex letters, and an into, Maifscape'~ guide to gay video DeBolt, since 1978, HOP has asked for letters from array of interesting got it-S&M, -interviews with readers detailing and iiUonnative bondage, water stars, reviews, in- . and accepted; from New York's mayor, their personal sex columns-who sports, foot depth features-. the proclamation that opens gay pride encounters. could ask for more! fetishes, whatever! 6 issues, $35.00 month: Ed Koch has always been the 12 issues, $4200. 8 issues, $3200 12 issues, $42.00 12 issues, $65.00 mayor issuing that proclamation. Mail your dleek or money order to:. f1RS~AND, LTD. P.O. Box 1314-.0,Taneck, NJ 07666 In the past two years, the HOP proclamation ceremonies, at Tweed Hall' in 1988 and a dedication of Stonewall .Fire Island Pine$ Place in 1989, were disrupted by members of the AIDS Coalition to HOWARD A. GROSSMAN, M~D. Unleash Power (ACT UP), who DIPlOMATE AMERICAN BOARD OF vehemently objected to the presence of . INTERNAL'MEDICINE then-mayor Ed Koch at the ceremonies. 285 West 11th Street, Suite 1-W According to Charlie Franchino, an New York, NY, 10014 ACf UP member and an organizer of the Tweed Hall action in 1988, "£Koch] was (212) 929-2629 TAUSSIC not our friend. We were not going to REAL ESTATE AGENCY accept a proclamation on one hand ' Serving the gay & Sales & Rentals while he slit our throat with another. His lesbian community p.o. i3{:Jx 5335 . record on AIDSwas abysmal." Accordiitg Rre Island Pines New York 11782· to Franchino, Koch was literally driven OFr-ICE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT (516) 597-6900 from the hall by the protesters. A particularly rancorous debate concerning j . :. the appropriateness of the Tweed Hall ,action took place in the gay and lesbian Visa community,. Amex Similarly, Heidi Dorow, an ACf UP OiUltoe ~othmUJJ.IWol!-_i_~· member who participated in the 1989 Discover action at the dedication of Stonewall ."~ Mastercard Place, said, "It was hypocrisy. It's like ; I asking a collaborator [0 come up on the OPEN 7··'.DAYS TILL 9 PM' I '• stage and say, 'Have a nice day on gay MEDICAID / ASSIGNMENTS / UNION PLANS pride day' while, in the meantime, he's killing you." DeBolt stated that even the Mon~y O~ders - Lotto -, Notary Publi~ . 807- gay people on the podium at the - Stonewall dedication were not able to Cor. W. 10 St. & Bleecker 7566 '':.:speakas i result of the ACf UP action. Though both Franchino and Dorow stated that Koch and not HOP was th,e intended target of these actions, in' retrospect, they ,were sending a message t A Cozy Cafe

to H9p. Said Dorow, "I wasn't targeting , ::,t::: Featuring Homemade HOP. My message to HOP was, if you , l~· Natural Food think you're doing us a favor by inviting l 'a,[ the mayor, somehow legitimizing us, . you're wrong." Fresh Baked De~ DeBolt did not specifically say HOP Coffees and Cappucinos Was responding to ACf UP, but he stated Cafe. HOP had no complaints' concerning the The Freshest of proclamation ceremony in their public - 97 ST. MARKS PL•• N.V.C. Vegetables, Fish, Pasta, meetings. "We're reacting to what we've (212) 874·9302 LIVE MUSIC TUES & THURS' NIGHTS Herbs, and Spices experienced "in previous years at the h ()utTakes

event," said DeBolt. He added that HOP They.are residents of Copenhagen, orientation" as a protected category had. received complaints, informally, that Denmark, where a new law recognizing within the city's Human Rights they were being partisan by_inviting same sex marriages went into effect last Ordinance, prohibiting antigay Koch to the proclamation ceremony. October 1. The two were among the flISt discrimination in housing, employment HOP has made no plans for an 11 gay couples to be legally wed: And, and public accommodation. alternative to the' proclamation ceremony since their union, over 300 Danish gay Cruise said activist Charlotte Cowtan for this year, and will not ask for a and lesbian couples have registered their . of the Michigan Organization for Human proclamation to be made. DeBolt stated. partnerships in Copenhagen's city:hall. Ri~ts shepherded the ordinance through HOP hopes the mayor and other elected "Gay men and lesbians are the Human Relations Conimission to the officials will take it upon themselves to redefining the traditional family," council and helped to 'engineer 'its final make the proclamation. observed Anderson. "Our Grand passage. DeBolt also t9ld OutWeek that Marshals represent a new facet that the Cruise found it curious that "the despite - a bitter fight with city hall and gay and lesbian community is forging m'edia waS present at all of the the Parks Department, this year's rally, to ahead and changing the dictionary amendment's hearings and did not print be held on Saturday, June 23rd, will take definition," he asserted. a word. There was no public outcry and place fn Union Square Park and not on Nestle joked that although she and 110public opposition," the magazine Central Parks' Great Lawn as hoped. the- other Archives co-fou~ders were reported. --Duncan Osborne extreme-Iy honored to be Grand _OtherMichigan cities with gay rights Marshals, none of them actually wanted protections include Detroit, Ann Arbor) , to ride in th~ car because that would and East Lansing. The latter tw<> are'- Grand mean separating from the group: "We're university'towns. - a, collective!~ Nestle declared. Reflecting Flint, located .6G Jniles northwest of Dl8.rshals on the enonnous contribution from one Detroit, has a population of 159,611. of the Archives' original benefactors, the --Rex Wockner . late Mabel Hampton, Nestle added, "I'm chose'li for so~ry that Mabel isn't alive:"she w~uld ride in that car; she was worthy of that Croque~, 'gay pride singling out." . ~ "Our Voices," the 1990 Gay and Lesbian Pride Rally, will be held on anyone?· NEW YORK-Heritage of Pride, Saturday,"]une 23 from 2-6 pm in Union , organizers of gay and lesbian pride day, Square Park. SEATILE-While the wrestlers in has selected four lesbians and a gay male The march beings at 12:30 pm on San Francisco and the swilI\mers in couple as Grand Marshals to lead its 21st Sunday June 24. The procession starts at New York train' frantically over the Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride march on Colµmbus Circle and continues down next two months for the upcoming Sunday, June 24. Fifth Avenue into Greenwich Village, Gay Games, Team Seattle will turn its Bill Anderson, a spoj{esman for pausing briefly at 2:30 pm for "Ribbons 'attention to mallets, hoops and HOP, said the group was chos,en because of Re.membrance,"in honor of those who manicured lawns. Yes, croquet they "epitomize" this year's theme, have died of AIDS. promises to be a major sport at Team "Family,Friends and Lovers." 'Also on Sunday, from 4-10 pm, is Seattle's third annual Gay Games this Grand Marshals Joan Nestle, the fourth annual open-air dance on the August in Vancouver, British Deborah Edel, Pamela Oline and Julia Christopher Street Pier. <;;olumbia. Stanley are the founding mem~rs of the -JanisAstor . "It's become an incredible Lesbian Herstory Archives, an fad-everyone wa·nts to play!" says organization, says Anderson, "committed Jolly Baker, co-chair of the event. It is to preserving and 'sharing the lesbian estimated that over 30 croquet players' culture.". Noting that the Archives G~y :rights from around the world have registered operates with the help of 12 to 15 to participate in the competition. Craig voluntet;r ~oordinators, he' added, "They Orchard, who co-chairs the event with . function like a family-they are a in Flint ' Baker, said "We have croquet play.ers communal enterprise." coining from San Francisco, Atlanta, Same sex marriages highlight FLINT,Michigan-The city council Seattle and even from as far away as another ai'lgle of HOP's theme. Grand here unanimously passed' a gay tights Sweden." Marshals Ove' Carlsen, a' child ordinance April 9, according to 'Cruise, a Allan T. Tonning, one of Team . psycho10gi$t,and Ivan larsen, a Lutheran petroit gay magazine. Seattle's founding fathers, was an avid . pastor, have been together for four years. The measure adds "sexual croquet player who died of AIDS three.

30 Our.WEEK May 30, 1990 years ago. His family donated money for the foundation to hold a croquet WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 tournament in his honor every year. DOUGLAS The Tonnings have even purchased TURNBAUGH three trophies, created by the same PRIVATE people who make the Wimbeldon DUNCAN GRANT'S Cup. EROTICARr "I think croquet is wonderful because anybody can play it," said WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Baker. "Some PWAs still have ..the CAROLEMASO energy for croquet where. they ART LOVER wouldn't have it for the other strenuous sports," she added. TUESDAY, 29 However, Baker, a competitive KATE MILLEIT f\ .... ~.~ racquetball player, admits that croquet. 1111- ~I can be very tiring as players are on TIm LOONEY-BIN TRIP their feet for long peri9ds of time. "Last year, 1 was absolutely astounded WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 that 1 was so exhausted after it was ERIC SWANSON NINE GAY over. It's very competitive! The TIm GREENHOUSE equipment used is not backyard. The EFFECT mallets are very heavy, they're CRUISES weighted!" WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 The Gay Games, held from WENDY BORGSTROM WITH August 4-11, features over 30 events, RAPTURE AND nrn including racquetball, swimming, track SECOND COMING and field, cycling, softball, tennis, ice SEV\EN hockey, basketball and bowling. AU READINGS STAKT AT 8 . According to Baker, nearly 6,000 PM. AND ARE FREE. WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE ALL NEW athletes have signed up for the Gay 548 HUDSON ST, NYC Games, and that's three times the number who have registered for the SAILINGS' Goodwill Games. "It's amazing, considering how many .millions of dollars of government money the U.S. is putting WHEN into the Goodwill Games. and they • haven't put a penny into the Gay YOU'RE Games." Lacking any government :- support, Team Seattle exists onprivate donations. Last year, the organization QUEER received $10,000 from· the Colin Higgins Foundation, $3,500 from •• TIDES and $50,000 from the Tonning •• ENOUGH family. - What matters most to Baker is the positive energy and spirit generated by o[WJ TO SEND the Gay Games. "The camal!lderie and exhilaration o(being with that many gays ollJ THE VERY and lesbians, all celebrating ....it's a very powerful, affuming time when we can all be proud of who are and what we do." •• BEST. ~RSVP Anyone wishing. to participate in - NOVELTIES . Call For Information: the croquet tournament can phone • ~ CARDS AND' Baker at (206) '323-3318 or 1 (800) T-SHIRTS The Travel Company 735-7287. 800-328-9131 For more information about other events, call the Gay Games at • 45 CHRISTOPHER ST il (BET. 6TH & 7TH) (604) 684-3303. . (212) 242-0424 -Jaols Astor • - May 30, 1980 our'YWEEK 31 ()bituaries

Timothy. Gault Clinton Stephens specialization as a medical illustrator.. 1951-1990 Clinton Stephens died at his .home His chief interest, however, was the on April 5, 1990, from complications theater. He made his acting debut as Timothy Gault, born in 1951, died Asagai in A Raisin In the Sun in Los April 30, 1990 from complications related from HN illness. He was 44 years old. Angeles, where he also appeared in Fly to AIDS. Except for ten' years, from 1979 Before moving to New York, Clinton was educated at Loui- Blackbird. and The Simpleton of the to 1989 when he resided in New York Unexpected Isles. City, he lived· all of his life on Sanibel siana State Univer- sity and the Mem- Moving permanently to New York, Island off the Gulf Coast of Florida. He he was one of the host of Black took great pride in his and his family's phis State Art Academy, where his performers who took a turn playing in long-time association with this unique the celebrated production of Genet's The island community. studies foreshad- Blacks, which chalked up 1,408 Early exposure to 'his father's skill Iwedhis career as a performances from 1961 to 1964. He also and talents as a commercial artist and lifted painter, art onservator, jewelry hosted "The Wonderful World of craftsman began Tim's lifelong Chemistty" in the Dupont Pavilion at the exploration of -the visual arts and art designer and dancer. 1964-54World's Fair. historY.Th,ese interests were encouraged His interests and talents brought him On Broadway he appeared in by a number of artists who lived on or Talent '64: The Silent Hearl, Babu and visited Sanibel and neighboring Captiva . . .., into Andy Warhol's sphere at the Factory-,and then into an Peter Ustinov~s The Unknown Soldier Island, including internationally-known and his Wife. As a member of the pop artist Robert Rauschenberg. intense friendship with Candy Darling . during the ~arly 1970s. . ' Lincoln Center Repertory- Theater, he Tim studied art and art history-at the performed in A Midsummer Night's University of Florida, World Campus In 1978, Clinton's ethnological Dream; The Doctor In Spite of Himself, Afloat, Brevard Community College interests led him to study the ritualistic art of IFA of the Yoruba in Nigeria. He An Evening for Merlin Finch a~d The Maryland Institute College of Art, School Birds. ~ of Visual Arts and the Art Students later moved to Haiti, where he lived for League ifl New York City. several years, becoming an expert in the He was 'also a guest performer at the Pittsburgh Play'hO)Jse during the During the mid-1970s,Tim supported art and veve of the Voudun. This study of the ritualistic formed the language of 1966-67season. ,- himself as a landsCapegardener on Sanibel During the 1970s, he was active Captiva. was his later career as an icon painter. and He an early proponent of with Vinnette' Carroll's Urban Arts Corps, native plants and low maintenance The death from AIDS of his lover, and played the. main role of Willie Stark planting, an increasingly popular method Mario Soto, in 1985, brought Clinton to now known as xeriscaping. ACI' UP and AIDS activism, and he was in its production of All the King's Men. Other off-Broadway credits included the Tim moved to New York City in an energetic and inspiring activist)rom title role in Barry Berg's Toussaint, Leslie 1979, settled in the East Village and later the beginning of the epidemic un~ his Lee's The War Party, Oyamo's The moved to Soho. He excelled in his death. While agitating for release of treatments from the FDA,Clinton was also Breakout and the musical 1be Good Ship career in retail sales, which supported' Credit. his artistic endeavors. He witnessed and one of the founders of the Alternativeand Deane reached the peak .f his participated in the rise and decline of Holistic Treatment Committee of ACf UP. popularity with the general public during the East Village art scene of the 80s. His He was well known as a skilled herbalist and proponent of alternative therapies. the six years that. he played the work was shown in small galleries, continuing role of neurosurgeon' Dr. installations in restaurants and, once, in Clinton was dedicated to his friends, ACI' UP, gay and lesbian rights and to the Hank Iverson on the daytime television the Park Avenue. windows of serial The Doctors from 1970 to 1976. At Workbench, a: store where he worked future and success of the movement. He was an activist to his very- core and his this time he was the subject of many for several years. . articles and interviews. He later appeared Concurrently, he experienced the gentle, loving and persistent dynamism on Another Wo~ One Life to Live" All AIDS crisis, to which he lost many dear will be greatly missed always. Contributions may be made in Clinton's Join Hands and the ABC-TV special friends and from which he learned Once cpon a Tractor. important emotional and spiritual name to the AIDS Treatment Registry- (ATR). His feature films include A Man lessons. During the last years of his Called Adam (1966), Pound, starring .life, Tim developed "a consuming ACI'UP-Fight Back-Fight AIDS. -Stephen Macbon Sammy Davis, Jr. (1970), The Still of the . interest in the literature, history, Night (1982) and 1be Cotton Club (1984). . spiritualism and especially the art of Palmer Deane, He also worked,. as a model and Latin America. He made three trips to appeared in numerous industrials, TV Mexico, 'culminating in a three-~onth 1934-1990 commercials and print advertisements for sojourn to San Miguel Allende, where A three-decade acting career came such clients as Trans World Airlines, mM he studied at the Centro Cultural to an end on April 23 when Palmer and The New Yoril 'TImes. "Ignacio Ramirez." Since this was Deane succumbed to complications from Throughout his performing career, undertaken nearly two years after his AIDS at the Beekman-Downtown he continued drawing and painting, diagnosis 'with AIDS, he felt it was one Hospital in Manhattan. exhibiting frequently at the Performer'S of the most· important and fulfilling Born Palmer D. Whitted, Jr. in Texas Outlet gallery on East 85th Street. He experiences of his life. on February- 28, 1934, Deane moved to intermittently tried his hand at Donations in Tim's memory-may be California as a child with his parents, playwriting and wrote prose fiction. For made to God's Love We Deliver, P.O. both alumni of Howard University. the past decade he also worked as a Box 1776, Old Chelsea Station, New After a stint with the U.S.. Army proofreader for the law f1IlIl of Proskauer York, NY 101i3. Intelligence in Washington, D.C., he Rose Goetz and Mendelsohn. (A memorial service was held May 5 attended UCLAand graded in 1961 with During the mid-80s, compassion led on Sanibel Island.) . a degree in graphic arts and a him to serve as a volunteer "buddy" for 32" .' OUTTWEEK May30,1990 those afflicted with AIDS, until he . himself fell victim of the disease. A Manhattan memorial service was held on April 27. Deane is Survived by his mother Anne, sistet Alyce and nephews David and Brice. T

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May 30, 1990 OUTTWEEK 33 Political Science ACT UP Demands for N.I.H. Action / 'I..--" TotbeNIH: made' it through Pbase I AC7tT studies, ollowing is a draft of the de- 2. No more secret meetings. All mainly because most Phase I AC7tT trla/s ma.nds ACT UP will be bring- !IlIH AIDS meetings, ineluding those of focused on combinations of AZT witb ing to the National Institutes of NIAlD £National Institute of Allergy and other drugs like aspirin, tyleno~ etc.] Health (N.IH,) today in Bethesda, Infectious Diseases], its Division of Maryland,i next montb at tbe Stxtb In- 6. Focus on tbe entire range of AIDS, ACTG conferences and core ternational Conference on AIDS in San committees, the AIDS Clinical Drug .AlDS morbidity and mortaltty. Over Francisco and until tbey are met. Development Committee (ACDDC) 90 percent of AIDS deaths are caused and the National Cooperative Drug by opportunistic infections (Ols); but Th~ National Institutes of Health Discovery Groups (NCDDGs) must be just 17 percent ofACfG subjects so far (NIH) receives billions in public re- open to people with AIDS and HIV, have been in 01 trials. The ACfG must search funds each year, and yet its activists and the press. immediately start trials designed to AIDS research has' produced precious [In spite of the fact that they are prevent or treat the most serious and jn- little for people living with HN and publicly funded, most NlAID AIDS meet~ widespread OIs: CMV, MAl, fungal AIDS. The AIDS Clinical Trials Group ings are-held in secret, behind closed fections, toxoplasmosis, cryptosporid- (ACfG) has proved to be a massive, doors, with no appeal for drugs or trials iosis; and the HIV associated cancers, c;lysfunctional failure in its efforts to turned doum for implementattonJ KS and lymphomas. lengthen and improve the lives of pe0- (Just 17percent of the A CTG 's-:. ple with AIDS. 3. Restmcture ACIG decision 9,505 participants were in studies of making. The ACfG Executive Commit- opportunistic infec~ion drugs, and We asse~ that in any society wor- tee must be restructured to include rep- fewer tban five percent in cancer trials; thy of the name bumane, health care resentatives of all ACfG committees and by contrast, 60 percent were in trials of would be a right, not a privilege; that from the communities affected by AIDS. AZT alone-altbough AZT bas been all people living within the borders of approved for tbree years. The AC7tT bas [Rigbt now, the executive fommit- the USA are entitled to their govern- not even begun studying ten of the 24 tee, which makes the final dec.tstons on ment's protection against disease and CDC-listed AIDS conditions.] death; that treatments for deadly dis- which drugs to test and how, doesn't eases should be developed for public even inClude members of al/ other 7.Dlverstf.y researcb prlorlttes. health and not for private profit; and AC7tT Research Committees; unelected In the next two years, the ACfG' must that the AIDS communities must playa and accountable to no one, it dtsposes make the five major opportunisttc infec- guiding role in the planning and exe- of bundreds of mtJ/ions a year as it S(!es tions treatable or preventable, must im- cution of a coordinated, national effort fit; it approves mainly anti-/DV studies prove quality of treahnents for AIDS as- to end the HIV epidemic and save the conducted by its own members and sociated cancers, must intensify research lives of all those infected. This is why tbeir close associates.] into rebuilding the immune system--in- eluding fetal tissue researcb-and must · we are bringing our demands, with our 4. End conflicts of interest. All initiate a good-faith effort to analyze al- bodies, to the NIH on May iI, 1990. ACfG-funded investigators must make . ternatives to phannaceutica1 therapy, in- public details of all fmancial links they WE DEMAND: cluding holistic, non-phannaceutica1 and maintain with phannaceutica1 sponsors. 1.ToPresident Busb and the u..t nutritional approaches. Congress:AIDSresearc;h and health care £According to AqtT researcherMar- [Needless to say, the ACTG has funding must not compete with other tin S. Hirsch, most AC7tT investigators given sport shrift to all non-pharma- pressing heatth care priorities. The entire m.aintain "consultative relationships" ceutical approaFbes, as well as most biomedicaJ research budget must be dou- wltb tbe very drug companies whos~ drugs unconneci"ed-wtth major pbar- bled to meet America's health ~ crisis. products they're supposed to be testtng 0b- maceuticals. Yet many people witb /DV Both branches. of the U.S. government jectively witb government funds.] report improved quality of life due to · must provide leadership and a compre- non-tradtttonal-approacbes. one ex- hensive, coordinated AIDSresearch, edu- 5. Focus on developing NEW ample, acupuncture, is belpful in drug cation, t:Sreventionand health care provi- treatments. The ACTG must research addiction, and may modulate tbe im- 30 new treatments a year in smaIl, tech- sion effort, with enhanced funding to mune system. The AC7tT has produced keep pace with the epidemic .. nology intensive Phase 1/11safety/activi- no therapies to rebuild the immune sys- ty studies, to get new treatments. out the tems of people with AIDS.] [Tbis year, AIDS research funding door. Then, pharmaceutical sponsors tsn't even keijJtng up With inflation-it's and community-based groups can con- ·8. Flexible, innovative, multl- due to rise about seven percent; the AIDS duct larger treatment trials. ·agent combination trials. The future ·case/oad will DOUJ3LE, to 200, lXlO,] [Not a single new treatment has of HIV treatment lies with combination

. 34' OUT-.WEEK May 30, 1990 therapy. It's time to initiate nationwide affected populations. [Many AGTG studies forbade pCP combination trials with alternating or . ' [Current trials are designed by drug propbylaxts long after it !»;ame state-oj- sequential anti-lflV agents, plus im- companies with FDA assistance, intend- the-art care outside of trials; over half the mune-rebuilding treatments and multi- ed toprovide the quickest avenue towards "endpoints" in trial 019, for example; opportunistic infection prophylaxis. 1tc~ng of new drugs. Thus, trials do were Pa'-a prevenJabIe coruJiJtan. The [Rigid study design is delaying for not answer many questions equally ur- lives of participants must a/ways come years the studies which will make Jhe g~nt in the real world - for example, first, ahead of conducting "e.fftcient" stud- most dfjJerrmcein extending and improv- how does ddI work in asymptomatics? ies or reaching "hard endpoints" faster.l ing the lives of PWAs - combination tri- What is its lowest effective dose?l als which wt/I delay viral resistance, re- 13.Rapid "translatiooofresulls 12. AIDS clinical trials must NIAID's Divi- duce side effects mid prevent multiple into clinical practice. provide state-of-the-art clinical sion of AIDS must establish an Office cpportuntsttc infoctions at the sa11Ul time. ACfG trials mhst provide partici- I'd lay odds that community-based re- care. of HN IAIDS Clinical Care to provide pants with state-of-the-art therapies as search groups wt11 beat the AC7G in de- state-of-the-art treatment guidelines, they evolve, rather than forbidding signing and executing such studies,] and to oversee the rapid translation of them as with many past studies .. 9.End medical apartbeUt---open S.. NIH DEMANDS on .... ' 39 trials to ALL HIV-in.t'ectedpeople. ACfG trials must be open 'to the entire spectrum of the lflV infected popula- tion. Exclusion criteria must be compen- sated for by open enrollment safetyItreatment trials for all AIDS com- plications. ~nrollment of underrepre- sented groups, including women, pe0- ple of color, present and former drug Users, must be enhanced through provi~ sion 'of health care, transportation. subsi" dies, child·care and addiction treatment. [M

May 30, 1990 OU~WEEK 35 Living With AIDS AIDS. Politics: AIDS Service, Groups anf/'fJiscrimination Against PWAs . .

by Iris De La·Cruz type of work they did. If I hadn't re- proach. The other part is emotional, in vealed all this, they would have just that I am a woman with AIDS and I C3Il .' thQught I was a colleague a can act pre>- relate to what you're saying and feeling ; he pigeon that is harsh reality has fessional if I have to.) And maybe the and I,C3Il share with you how I've han- , just thrown ~ore shit down on fault didn't always lay with the client, but dled a similar situation. It works. 1]me. Nothing heavy duty or im- sometimes the counselor's own attitude :6ack to the shit. I've sent out re- possibie to deal with, but the fact . was ~ barner. With myself, there is no "us SUInes to various SOwnsomeof the activist stuff I've cleansing }'QUl'S

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children were totally the property of their grow up to become adults who learned by Ayofemi Folayan parents, essentially subject to the whims to be oppressive to their children. of the parents. With the awareness of the White children quickly displace their . problems of both physical and sexual pain by participating in the racism child abuse increasing, this last domain of which is condoned by their adult men- nthe last edition ,....------. Ultimate authority is being challenged "in tors. Male children recognize the ap- of this column, I i i the best interests of the children," but the proval that their sexist behavior will asked you to be problem remained hidden for such a long elicit from other ,plales. awareIof your style of time precisely because children's testimo- For that moment, however brief, listening. I suggested ny against their' parents was invalidated that we can eScape the pain of our ex- that eX~ because or ignored. It used to be considered un- perienceS, it seems worth it to endure all of us have learned thinkable to question adults about their the pangs of conscience that tell us we that one privilege'of actions with respect to their offspring, .are .engaging in actions that are inher- the oppressor is to even when they were abusive. ently repugnant to us. speak while the role While the boundaries for acceptable I encourage you to remember the of the oppressed is c--- ~- -I behavior were defined differently within early attempts .you made as a young to listen. Our earliest lessons of oppres- each family, they had in common that person to resist the indoctrination that sion are universal: We all start out as the child was expected to fulfill an un- prepared you to become an 6ppres: children in a world controlled by adults. written contract: Accept the absolute sor. We are born totally tolerant of all The old adage "Olildren should be seen supremacy of the parents in exchange kinds of differences. Whether it was and not heard" reinforces this particular for shelter, sustenance and aspect of oppression. other "perks,. such as the abili- I want to examine the experience ty to go to school or play Little of adultislil, as the oppression of young League baseball. Often the par- people is called, because it is the train- ents decided what clothes th¢ .ing ground of all oppressors. While child would wear, which activi~ most of us have escaped the infamous ties the child could explore, indoctrination of British board(ng even what friends the child schools, which is an extreme ~Ie could choose. I remember of how young boys are taught the rules wanting to become a dancer of power games, we all learn very when I was young, before my quickly the painful lessons of being body lost its capacity to move controlled. The attitudes expressed by flexibly. My mother had already parents often mimic the benevolent decided that I would pursue a tyranny of oppressors, i.e. "You don't career in medicine and attend a need to understand" or "I'm doing this school like Radcliffe or Vassar. for your own good" or "You're much Her assumption was that I happier not knowing." .should be grateful for such an While those who have been victim- opportunity, never realizing-that ized by oppression often see themselves it was still' not a choice in as tota1lydistinct and different from those which I had any input. who have oppressed them, all of us have As a child, especially be- memories of childhood as a time when cause I was seldom heard by we were powerless. If .Ourparents ciedd- the' adults in my life, I learned to ob- befriending the schoolmate who had a ed to pick up and move to another serve quietly and learn from their be- disability and. was taunted by the neighborhood or across the country, we havior. I learned that it was a lot more other children or questioning the were not consulted about the decision. fun to be in control than to be con- racism or antisemitism we observed in Until the (eSurgence of feminism in the trolled. A subconscious image was in- adults, it was always our natural re- mid 70s, husbands similarly failed to con- delibly engraved that the best position sponse to be connecting with others sult their wives about these decisions. to have was that of the person in rather than erecting barriers to those When our f.!:miIiespracticed a particular power. In our culture, children, women, connections. Reclaiming your memo- form of religion, it was assumed that we people of color, working claSs people ries of resisting oppression is a neces- . would share their belid's and participate and gay men and lesbians have all been sary step to doing effective anti-op- . in. their spiritual.activities. Until recently, assigned Jo the pppressed role. ChUdren pression work. T 38' QUTTWEEK .May 30. 1990 NIH DEMANDS ...... 31 trial results into clinical practice. T OUR VOICES T ~ [Even tbe few results tbe Acn:T bas dtscovered bave been delayed unneces- 'III 'FAMILY • FRIENDS. LOVERS ~D~ sarily; tbe paper on balf-dose AZT (Acn:T (02) ts sNlInot publtsbed, wbile UNION SQUARE PARK '=> c:/ tbere are no plans to distribute tbe re- l.;t,~ £01 SATURDAY. JUNE 23 • 2-6 PM c::? sults of Acn:T 010, 'wbicb sbowed tbat quaner-dose (300 mglday) ts even bet- ter. Sucb results don't belp Burrougbs- SPEAK OUT AND BE HEARD Wellcome's bottom line.] ...at the 1990 Gay T Lesbian Pride Rally 14. NaUo"wide observatio"al This year, in keeping with the official theme of New York's 1990 .Pride database Oft tbejWl prevalence of all Events-Family, Friends & Lovers-you can have the chance to speak out AIDS cotr.tPUcattmas. The AcrG must at the 22nd Annual Gay~Lesbian Pride Rally. conduct an ongoing monitoring database. Five speaking slots will be reserved for five individuals selected in a to assess changing patterns of AIDs-relat- COMMUNITY LOTTER,Y.Eachparticipant will have three minutes to speak ed conditions and treatmen~ use in all af- ~out about any important Gay~Lesbian topic::. fected populations, and draw its research priorities from the changing face of AIDS Here's how it works: Just fill out the entry form below and return to Heritage of Pride by June· 1st. Winners wi.!I be selected in a random in the real world drawing to be held before the June 4th general membership me~ing at [Until we know who is getting what, the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center. . we can't researcb fJ. AIDS bas previoUsly been by tbe CDC the basis of rrd-nkC-to-SPE-AK-OUT-at-ihC-199-0Pr-idC-RaI-ly! ------j rkjined On , , . surveillance of gay men; African-Ameri- I Name . 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May 30, 1990 OUTTWEEK 39 rive on your doorstep that he lives with a man. He can also leave some books about gay life with them. You and Mel <;an choose the books together. They can then decide if they want to visit Mel in New York, knowing that they will meet their son's male lover. A letter or phone call is second best, because nothing is more effective than face to face meetings. Another effective way to handle the situation is to allow them to come to New York, and for you to stay with a A gay and lesbian advice column friend for the four days. But, don't re- by Dr. Charles Silverstein move your clothes or any other signs that someone lives with Mel. Be assured that Dear Dr. silverstein, chest. Then the apartment must be his parents will search every nook and I have been living with my lover purged of gay books (perhaps even one cranny of your apartment for signs of Mel for aImost a year. We have a good of mine), porno. magazines, videos, sex who your are. Then you should have din- relationship, and basically neither one of toys-ood on and on. Of course, if Mel ner with Mel and his parents one .us has any complaints. I come from were out to his fumily,he might still want evening. By that time enough pressure aro~d New York City and he's from a to hide porno and the will have built up. Midwestern Baptist family. Obviously like. It's rio wonder that Someone's bound to they .don't know that he's gay or that you feel abandoned say something or he's living with a man. We're both in our and don't like being ask the questiQll. 3Os. Mel's family has decided to visit in thrown into the street. There are two the spring, which is a big deal for them, At the Same time, .. o~her possibilities because they've never been to New York I can appreciate Mel's that come to mind before. And naturally they want to stay anxiety. He's proba- One is that Mel is with Mel. bly scared shitless. just too ~ to do That's the problem. He feels like he Every gay person anything about c0rn- can't refuse them, but that means that he who has gone ing out right now. If wants me to find another place to stay through the process that's the case, I while they're in New York for four days. of coming out to par- think you should tell I think he's wrong to ask me to leave my ents knows why. He's him that it's alright, home because he doesn't have the guts afraid it's going to be give him a fiss and to come out to his parents. I'm out to my a big scene with a lot a hug, and tell him parents, and they treat Mel like a son. I of emotion. I've you won't be angry. haven't decided yet what to do. What worked with a lot of . The other is that his would you do? -Kicked Out patients who have de- parents are miser- cided to come out to able people without Dear Kicked, . their parents, and it warmth and com- Unfortunately your question isn't can be a very painful passion, and that he unique. It's a problem that all gay cou- event. Gays and~ lesbians are often doesn't want to subject you to them. If ples who live together must face. I'm fearful of disappointing his parents and that's the case, he's probably right not to surprised you didn't mention how your losing their love-even if their parents have you around, though you might lover's parents react when they call had expressed little love toward them wonder why he subjects himself to the from the Midwest and you pick up the in the past. I'm sure that Mel fears his abuse. phone. Some lovers have solved that parents might cut off all contact with It's hard to know..how important his problem by having two phone num- him. That's possible. He's trapped be- Baptist background is in this sitUation. bers and an agreement not to pick up tween trying to please his parents and It's probably an important issue since the each other's phone when it's ringing. trying to please you. He's in a losing official Baptist line is extremely homo- . As you might expect, some couples use position. phobic. I suggest you ask Mel very di- two ph<:>nesfo.rother reasons as well. I'll give you my suggestions. You rectly about it. I understand how upsetting this visit and Mel ne~d to decide which one Whatever you decide, please let .me is going to be for everyone. Since Mel has makes the most sense for you at this know how it turned out I'll let our read- decided not to come out to his parents, time. The most effective way to handle erslmow. he's got to. get rid of more than you for the situation is for Mel to visit his par- If you and your lover had a similar four days. How about· your clothes, your ents before they come to New York. experience, write ~ c/o Outw~k How name on the mallbax, your toiletries, your That's when he should come out to you handled the situation may be helpful

. name on medications. in the medicine them. He can tell them before they ar- to others .... 40 ·OUr-.wEEK May 30, 1990 AN ACTIVIST PLATFORM FOR AIDS EDUCATION. PROTEST AND A TRIBUTE TO . OUR LOST FRIENDS. 'Y Lack of safe sex education continues to kill 'Y Homophobia and gaybashing are on the rise 'Y AIDS research and drug trials proceed at a snail's pace 'Y America enforces discriminatory AIDS immigration policies

THE FIGHT IS NOT OVEFi. FOR BRENT NICHOLSON EARLE. IT'S TIME TO RUN AGAIN ...

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The run is dedicated to two lost leaders of the gay and lesbian community:

Ir------, I Dr. Tom Waddell. founder of the Gay Games : RAINBOW RUN FOR THE : . END OF AIDS Keit~ Haring. artist, activist. 'humanit.-rian I !NAME,:. _ :Address: ,....-__ THE ~NBOW RUN Ie a g.....-oots affort and neecIe the financial I and ~ eupport of OW' COI'nInWtily. I I PLEASE HELP US GO THE DlSTANCE ... .8end yow conIrIbuIions now. II'Usponsor Brent for : miles @ $40 per mile in Volw ...... are needed on.the East and West Coaats. I : honor/memory of: I 'General coordinator/New York City: :-C-o-n-tn-'b-~-i-on-E-n-c-Io-se-d-:----- Jay Blotcher (212) 533·4913 : _$125_$75_$35_$15~other : Make ched<. pay_Ie>: West Coast coordinator/San Francisco: I AREA. 300 Mercer 51, Rob Rodd (415) 861·1453 :L 5te 26-1.. NYC 10003 ~ _ RAINBOW RUN FOR THE END OF ArOS JUNE 7TH AUQUST .TH 1990 ,TIDINGST

. . U.S.News on Campus Bigotry/SNL/auantum Leap media attention. They obviously are. Saturday Night Live regular Nora But when somebody writes a piece that DUM, and guest musical artist Sinead purports to be a survey of bigotry on O'Connor, both pulled out of the campus, and leaves out homophobia show in protest of Clay's appearance. and anti-gay violence, the message Clay is one of the most notorious of comes through loud and clear that the the so-called comedians who base writers and editors think those prob- their -acts overwhelmingly on sexist, by Craig Davidson lems are of secondary importance ...per- homophobic and racist put-downs. haps because t11ey think lesbians and Due to their particular appeal to-- gay men are of secondary importance. young men-the group most likely to ecently, employees at the Uni- Leaving homophobia out of survey commit acts of .anti-gay violence- versity of Massachusetts had articles about bigotry is a constant performers like Clay are not just in to physically restrain students problem. Recent articles about bigotry bad taste, they're dangerous. " from assaulting each With its invitation to Clay, otherR during an organized anti- Irk>:':••~. >:,:..":",,~~~. ~~(~{I~-'-""'..~-- Saturday Night Live seems to have gay rally. gone out of its way to offend the . The anti-gay rally at the lesbian and gay communitY. Re- University of Massachusetts cently, we've been unhappy with sponsored by the misleadingly- a number of skits on the show, named Young Americans for particularly for the' attitude that is Freedom is just one of many re- OK to get cheap laughs using the cent incidents of harassment of epithets "fag" and "dyke." There's gays on college campuses. At a real double standard problem Michigan State, a gay man's dor- here, since epithets for other mi- mitory room was torched and norities are virtually never used. his car doused with gasoline. At' Now, instead of making some Marshall University in West Vir- afftrmative effort to show sensitivi- ginia, signs on campus adver- ty to lesbians and gays, they bring tised "Queer Bashing 90. A Year in one of the worst homophobes Long Crusade to Maliciously Harass Ho- in rock music, many of which have ig- they can find. mosexuals." At Harvard Law School, nored homophobic lyrics, are a case in We urge you to let your objection posters put up by the gay and lesbian point. We need to object to every in- to Clay's appearance be known by student group are being tom down as stance of this defamation by omission. writing to: Lorhe Michals, Executive fast as they can be put up. In this case write to: Art Levine, Associ- Producer, Saturday Night Live, NBC, 30 You could learn about these inci- ate Editor, U.S. News & World Report, Rockefeller, New York, NY 10112. dents reading the gay and lesbian 2400 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. press--:-even The New York Times. But 20037. At the same time, we urge you to not from U.S.News & World Report. Last • • •• • write to Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Con- week,U.S News had a two-page feature You may have read about the flap nor, care of the same address, to. ap- on campus bigotry that didn't mention that has arisen over Andrew Dice Clay's plaud their principled stand against big- anti-gay h_arassment even once. scheduled appearance as the host of otry masquerading as entertainment. We would be the last to suggest Saturday Night Live. By 'the time you • • •• • that racism, antisemi.tism and sexism read this column, you may nave seen Every once in a while, we like to are' not serious problems deserving of the show. remind you that the letters you send in

.42· . OUT~EEK May 30, 1990 response to this program do have an So I didn't get the job. I got the infa- ucation and PWAs refusing to remain impact. Recently, we urged you' to mous "We'll let you lmow" after another silent will, though. And as long as there write to Donald Bellisario, prOducer of long interview. And sure enough, a \Yeek are some righteous people out there NBC's Quantum Leap, to complain later, I received a fonn letter that stated willing to take the fight down the line, about an episode in which a lesbian that although I was qualified, they decid- and publish articles like this, we've got murdered her former lover. Respond- ed to hire someone else. There were a chance. And as long 'as I have this ing to some of the letters he received, over ten positions open. What happened, loud, abrasive voice of mine, I'm gonna Bellisario said he hadn't intended to eleven people applied? use it. I may not be able to .change the defame lesbians in general, but that he I may not have a lawsuit (the world, but if I can increase just one saw our point that in a context where DOH covers its ass real well). But I'm person's sensitivity and awareness, then there are virtually no positive lesbian checking out all my options. Everyone I have eliminated some of the pigeon characters on television, just one nega- that knows my HN work is properly shit that rains on all of our heads. tive depiction can reinforce unfair mortified. They all thought I would . This arttcle is reprinted from the stereotypes. have been perfect for the job. Mortifica- PWA Coalttton Newsltne (!day 1990, Now 7V Guide reports that Bel- tion isn't gonna change the bullshit. .Ed- Issue #55) with their kind permtsston. • lisario has said that he would like to incorporate some positi~e gay charac- Iii ters into his program next year. Time will tell, but it appears your letters have made a difference. That being the case, we suggest you write to Bel- DISTINCTIVE lisario again, this time to make the friendly suggestion that his "gay" characters include lesbians and peo- ple of color. . ; =DECO . Write to: Donald P. Bellisario, Ex- ecutive Producer, Quantum Leap, 100 --Lux u r y Apart- me n t s Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608 .• Cool Bullc;tlngs ... DISCRIMINATION from pag.36 Health---« city" agency. I went to the first Location interview (which lasted a couple of ... Hot hours) and was called back for a second interview. It- has been my experience that • Very large apartments if they're not interested in you, the inter- view is kept short. And ybu're not called featuring Hardwood Floors, back a second time. I went to the second interview and was greeted by the super- visor holding the News/tne in his hands, . New Kitchens, Security, OPQ1ed to my photo. I wasn't going to' mention my sero-status unless it came up Deco Baths, High Ceilings because of the weird experiences I've had with trying to find employment with _ it. But I wasn't going to lie about it. I • All Sizes...the Best of the ~knew, when I saw the article thl¢ this job just sent down the tubes. I told the su- Beach pervisor my feelings about what usually. happens when prospective employers find out I have AIDS. He made a big point of telling me that the dePartment has had some PWAs working there and that they don't discriminate. Yeah, but how many have they' actually htred . VINTAGE knowing of an AIDS diagnosis? AIDS is not HIV+; it kicks up a lot of hang-ups PROPERTIES and fears of death and dying and sick- - ness. It kicks up feelings and attitudes ~601Jefferson Avenue I Miami Beach I FL33139 that people are real uncomfortable deal- .(3.05) 534-1424 ing with. And this is in people that should have a little more awareness.

May 30, 1990 OlfTTWEEK 43 Lesbian cat'toonists dl"'aw themselves (clockwise fl"'OMI.-\ppel"' left-hand cOl"'nel"')'Kayen Platt, Roberta C\l"'eeoI"'Y, K ..is Kovick (bottoM) and Alison Bechdel.

44 O.ur~EK May 30. 1990 produced wonderful lesbian comics. all the many periodicals in which her Their work can be found in two places: as work has appeared, "every publication s Alison Bechde1 puts it, comic books published by small compa- has refused to print something, which I "comics have great power nies or by' the artists, and as comic strips think is a real commentary on the gay for good or evil...they get printed in gay and lesbian newspaPers. press." But she keeps on drawing her car- absorbed directly into your toons of "the kinds of images of women bloodstream." A good car- utWeekreaders know who Alison we don't get enough of...women who are toon has all. the power of a o Bechdel is. But Mo and company strong and sure and able to kick ass." movie, compressed into three minutes. were not born on these pages. Comics, for her, are a way "to fuck with Reading one is a private experience (or 2J. Bechdel says, "I started drawing authority" because "they're cheap and guilty pleasure), which adds to their inten- these crazy lesbians in letters to a friend you can xerox them and put them on the sity. Good lesbian cartoonists are pretty of mine nine years ago," and shortly refrigerator. They're unpretentious and scarce, though. For one thing, good Car- thereafter they wound up in her local unthreatening, so I get away with a lot." toonists, of any gender or sexual prefer- feminist paper, Woman~. As the les- As part of Camper's commitment to ence, are quite rare. Cartoonists must bian and gay male press grew, Dykes to the medium, she is one of four curators . combine the talents of a playwright and a Watch Out For grew with it. Many 9f the for The Cartoon Show: Comic Art Drawn painter, while scraping by in an industry two dozen papers the strip now appears from Lesbian and Gay Life, which is cur- that rarely pays anyone a living wage. Not in did not even exist when she began rently on display at the Lesbian and Gay many people would be willing, let alone drawing it. Bechdel says she "doesn't feel Comm'-!nity Center in New York ._City. able, to do that. Plus, the ultra-macho very connected to the straight comics More than 30 cartoonists (of whom slight- comics industry has been reluctant to hire industry, but more to the gay pressj" in ly fewer thati half are lesbian, and a few women, to portray us in non-stereotypical return, Nancy Bereano (publisher of Fire- I ways, or even to view women as a poten- brand Books, who have produced three tial audience. The industry also shies Dykes to Watch Out For collections plus a away from subjects it regards as contro- 1990 calender) calls Bechdel a "patron of ver$ll, particularly from anything sexual. the arts" because her work is so profitable Americans-unlike Europeans, Latin for Firebrand that it enables them to put Americans and the JapanesC-think of . out less popular books too. On the other comic books as for children only. So hand, Bechd~l has appeared both in comics here have been threatened by straight alternative comic books and the government censorship since the early mainstream press. Harvey Pekar had her 50s, and lately a new wave of fundamen- draw a few pages of a recent American talist hysteria has engulfed small comic Splendor (highly recommended, especial- book stores who lack resources to defend ly to people who think they hate comic- j . themselves (and whose owners may not books) and other cartoons have appeared be all that 'comfortable with political or in Women~ Comics and elsewhere. Her sexual difference anyway) .. local daily paper, the Minneapolis Star The situation for "underground" or Tribune just published a big, color Dykes "art" cartoonists is not much of an to Watch Out For strip, and she says that improvement.over the Vlorld of commer- some "men and straight people" have cial cartooning. Most new publications expressed their appreciation of her work: that made room for young cartooriists in "My strip could appeal to anyone leftist.~ the 60s, or that cartoonists <::reatedfor Bechdel also rakes a DTIWF slide show themselves, celebrated their new free- around to colleges. What worlds are left dom from aesthetic and political limita- for Mo and friends to conquer? "Tbe ._.tions by unleashing misogynistic tenden- Nation could have a funny page ... " ·-des. Now, despite their roots in the 60s, Bechdel speculated. few publishers of avant-garde graphic Jennifer Camper's cartoons also arts have any political agenda beyond a appear in OutWeek on a regular basis, vague distaste for censorship. 'They may .and she too t>egan publishing in the gay have more courage than Ma~el or DC male and lesbian press. In her case, she (the big comics companies) but they have was living in Boston then, so her home- far less money, and many are no less town paper was Gay Community News, _ l homophobic and sexist. N.one of this . where her penchant for drawing naked ...... ::: bodes well for a lesbian who hopes to ladies and using words like "pussy" see herself somewhere on the drugstore caused a stir. "This was 1982 or so, and rack along with Betty and Veronica. you weren't supposed to do that at the fl· • On the other hand, we are there. And time," she reports, "so I had a ball with it. though your average small-town drug- GCN got lots of great letters back and store most likely doesn't stock them, a forth. I feel like if I get a reaction then the small number of intrepid women have cartoon is successful:" She adds that, of

May 30, 1990 OU~WEEK 45 are European) contributed to the show. des in this magazine, OutlLo6k and other friend Phil. The strip ftrStappeared in 1be Their work, in elegant black and white, is gay and lesbian publications. She does' a Wasblngton Blade and now runs in eight blown up big enough so that you can regular column for On Our Backs, and lesbian and gay papers nationwide. "I'm appreciate the details. People stroll slow- contributes editorial cartoons to the Bay · deflOitely into unity," she said, which is ly around the room, with frowns of con- Area Reporter in San Francisco. Despite why she is one of the few lesbian car- centration. Occasionally, though, the her productivity, she seems shy about her toonists to have an ongoing gay male respectful silence is broken by a guffaw. artwork. '"Tell people not to look at it!" character, "Phil is an alter ego too," just as Camper says that one of the pleasures of Kovick joked. "There's never enough Morgan Calabrese is, said Dunlap. doing the show was the chance to meet time to think; right after I've Fed-Exed Although New Yorkers may not have her audience, as well as to get in· touch some illustration away, tben I decide · seen it yet, Morgan Calabrese has won with other artists.."Drawing leaves you in what.! want to do ..." She worries that "I awards from the Gay and Lesbian Press a vacuum sometimes," she explained. write punchlines that are book-length," Association, and Dunlap's second collec- Andrea Natalie (another Out Week so lately -she's experimented with using tion was just nominated for a Lambda lit- contributor) is learning-while-doing in pets "in place of the punchlines. But the erary Award. Dunlap's work is funny, the same way that Bechdel and Camper last dog I drew," she lamented, "looked while "avoiding Gay Humor 101, the did. But she started much more recently, like a reindeer." Her modesty results; per- same old jokes." At the same time, she having just celebrated her first anniver- I haps, from ambition and seriousness deals seriously with tough issues. Recent- sary as a published cartoonist. Inspired about the visual aspects of cartooning; ly, she said, "I killed off a character, a by Gary Larson and Lynda Barry, and while some artists only want tq commu- I1I1I teenager-it was time to talk about teen encouraged by her sister, Natalie "just sat nicate the action clearly, Kovick also suicid~d now that character's lover down one afternoon and' drew four car- draws beautiful pictures. Limits of space has been thrown out of her house ..." toons." "For cartooning you don't need to and time imposed on her by editorial car- ·Dunlap has big ambitions for her "Mid- be a fabulous artist," she explains, tooning are frustrating. "Mydream would western voice-of-reason character." She "although some of them are. Jules Feiffer . be to do the inside front cover of some wants "To reach a straight audience with just scribbles ...style and content are what really nice gay and lesbian magazine, uncompromisingly gay ~cters; 'Thjere! matters." Stonewall Riots, like Dykes to maybe once every two months. No limits· Take that with your Wheaties!'" Watcb Out For, fust appeared in Woman- on topics or tastelessness. And lots and Dunlap argues thaUhe time is right news. Now it can be seen in 16 papers, lots of moneyl" she said. for lesbian and gay male cartoonists to including this one. 'Natalie hopes her One comic strip that does not appear break into the mainstream, without hav- work helps "our own community to here is N. Leigh Dunlap's Morgan Cal- ing to pander to hetero fear Qr ignorance. become more tolerant of each other." abrese, which chronicles the adventures Lynda Barry, Nicole Hollander and Matt Kris Kovick has illustrated many arti- _ofthe eponymous dyke and her gay.male Groening all regularly bring up gay

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May 30, 1990 OUTTWEEK 47 themes: Groening through his gay charac- ters Akbar and Jeff, Hollander with her occasional jokes about a world without men, and Barry by having her straight, teenage girl characters be bullied with accusations of lesbianism. If they can do all this in the Chicago Reader or Village Voice, why can't Dunlap? Or any of the other women who have been nurtured in the gay/women's press? To that end, Dunlap hopes to put together a coopera- tive non-profit distribution syndicate, a project that other cartoonists tried for a while in the 70s, but whose time may now have come. She' encourages any interested artists to get in touch with her. .ne of the first lesbian comic books was an Amazon fantasy in O .full color that Marvel Comics pro- 2]duced in the late 70s called SIs- terhood o/Steel As I recall, there were six or seven issues of the comic altogether, and it Involved a group of women in a kind of martial-arts convent, on an island, and some political maneuverings within the sisterhood, and swords. Since then, lesbian representations in comic-book form have continued to .appear, but none have been put out by the big two U.S. comicbook corporations. Fortunately, over the last 15 years, the number and size of smaller comics com- .panies boomed, so distribution networks opened up to outsiders-as did space on the shelves of some comic book,stores. This has meant that some excellent work has appeared in more-or-less straight comics, although the big beneficiary of the trend so far has been Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So much for the assump- tion that alternative distribution networks and small-sCale publishing implied aes- thetic value or political purity. Nonetheless, this trend also meant that women, previously locked out of the business, began putting out their own coolic books. These comics mostly have been anthologies"-that is, they have work by many different artists crammed

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May 30. 1990 O~EK 49 50 O!JT~EEK May 30. 1990 . . into one magazine. The mix can be fas- cinating, as in the "Special Fashion Issue" of Wtmmtn's Comics which came out aJew years ago'; Amidst the shoe jokes and the. fat jokes, Alison Bechdel had a sweetly witty story' about but~h/femme roles. And then there's .Gay Comb:. It, too, is an anthology comic. For a whUe, it was edited by Howard Cruse. Cruse was most recently seen in these pages with his perfect parody of Groening's Life In Hell, but he tells moving Stories when he has the room to stretch out, as he haS in his books and the -stories he printed in Gay Comb:. He al$o made sure that lesbians w~ part of the mag- . azine; Jennifer Camper says "he recruit- ed me." Other excellent stories by women appeared in those pages, some by cartoonists whose work I have never seen since. (Fortunately, many Gay Comb: back jssues are still in print.) In general, the women's w9rk in Gay Comb: was much less technically adept than the men's. The gay male ca~oonists, .especially in the earlier issues, were far more likely to have been trained and employed as cartoon- ists before they came out. Lesbians learned as they went along, whether in 'alternative comic books or in the femi- nist press. But gay male cartoonists already knew how to make their pic- tures look. just like we expect comic books to look. Sometimes this slick- ness worked really well, as in Tim Barela's Larry anti Leonard stories. Other times, though, the 'roughness =_ ~. _~IJ';..~ ~.~..:...._ and simplicity forced upon an ..... --: ..-....,.--.~ ~-....-~~ untrained cartoonist can work in her C(ct!>~tfl~a Q!J co.orc,.''''0oe;l4t'''.C.. PCB's -ho.v~ .. ~ beU\ ')I'''Ct\.'I' l",pl", ...I;...~ I'" "'Ff ..<.~"'':1 advantage. In Lee Marrs' Gay Comb: tv\C\1'W'\MC\L\.CI\t'\. r~\,roau~"",..,e., "Qr ..o"~ ~"'~ cartoons, she explained a complex plot '''''''." ... S'l!>t ...... ,!. ••. t'.I... l...e.U of VC.S:S 'R>un~ '" 1-U !Iotr,,~b~~ do\~~,,''\~ (.t.JC.'f"Cl. Qf'f\."~ -t\o\~ as best she could with arrows and pic- I-\,~~U\- R>u"'~ '''' c"'~c:.tt ...... " ',,\y"'~e~, 0..,"- cl"\I'~"\ \-,,,~ ,," un'o ..\' .." Ie. fs" Soo parts. p ... . tograms. The simplifications conveyed .... \110" (I'P"') IV\ \\> 1:>1....,'00:,. +\1... U·~. ~pvo:rn c"~ an emotional urgency that impelled her P.....1,.'.... h +"'... !>...Ie. "F F.~'" .to~ \-,u '" c.o...~u",ph"'" If'. ,to C.O"~I"'~ ""ctre.~ ..", z..'PPA\.~ 'Pc..B'.s. ~\.)V"'"'-"~r"".f"C,+",,1t. to tell .the story in the first place. l~\le..\~ ~~"d luau\a ~",ve... "...e~u'r~a, .\""",-.\- yY\o~,\- 01;' +""~ clo\p",",',.,s Some lesbian artists have done be dl~pOj,C~ o~ as. +O~Jc.. WQ.$-\-e.. it . . comics, or even series of comics, entire- ly of their own work. The first was MarY· Wing, whose Come Qut comics She ~ portrayed alcoholism and recov- production work for Fantagraphics, one appeared early in the 70s. She now writes ery, coming out. ..and .sex 'with of the best "alternative" comics compa- detective novels. After her, Roberta Gre- alien/angels of indeterminate gender. Her nies. They publish LotJe and ROCkets [see gory published a CQmiccalled Dynamite ongoing project, called Wingi11g It, has sidebar] as well as an unusually high per- Damsels in 1976. Gregory, Uke -Kris filled one comic plus- one graphic novel centage of women cartOQnists.A true pio- Kovick and N. Leigh Dunlap, cites a fam- Oike a comic book in book form) so far, neer, Roberta Gregory was doing lesbian il.y background ifl-·art. "My father drew with another graphic novel to come. She comics before there was a gay press to comics for Walt Disney. He always hoped also has a comic called_ Artistic Licen~ support them. She made a place for her- I would draw nice little animal stories, twusness in the works, which she pron1is- self (anc~ for us) in the straight comic- but..." Gregory has been doing big, com- es will be "dirty, funny and human." book industry. Now, she reports that "dis- plicated human stories for years, instead. Besides all this activity, Gregory does cussions do go on at Fantagraphics about

May 30, 1990 OUTTWEEK 51 same characters, some very funny sin- gle-panel cartoons by women who may be friends of the editor (although Rau also asks readers to send her their own cartoons) some collage, a little prose and-in one issue-50me strips a:bout hamsters that Rau drew in high school. Almost every cartoonist interviewed for this article claimed to have started draw- ing comics as teenagers but Rau is the only one to prove it For that alone (and because you don't know what else to expect the next time) Lana's World is a pleasure to find in your mailbox. Dolo R6my is also a self-published comicbook, but where Rau and friends seem to aim for clarity and a lot of nice white space on the front page, Dolo R6mjs creator Karen Platt likes plenty of black ink, complicated layouts and action. Platt has an arts degree and it sho~me of her drawings are beau- tiful in a way that reminded me of BeaTdsIey, although she was a little sur- prised to hear the comparison. So far only DolO R6mjs first adventure, -The Adventures of Dolo R6my in the Under- ground City ofWome:n," has been pub- lished, though more are coming .soon. In the Underground City comic, the adventurous, non-monogamous and charismatic heroine slides into the sub- terranean Sapphic dystopia in search of her best friend Rawto. On the way to the happy ending, Dolo R6my rescues the queen and meets a lot of girls. The fight scenes are abbreviated and a bit uJclear, but the sex scenes are gorgeous. So the upcoming installment's tide, "Set a Bad, Bad Example," sounds promising. Finally-just to prove that, yes, we are everywhere~ne lesbian comic book comes out of Mexico City. Espo- radica, un punto de vista desde las enaguas is produced by Adriana Batista and Ana Bareto, with contributions by other Mexicanas (plus one entry by Aline Kominsky-Crumb, who usually sexism and violence in comics" and that most cartoonists grapple with-but liinit- edits the San Francjsco comic' Weirdo). "the company will put out comics that ing her audience to. those fortunate 'Most of the stories show two they know won't sell, if they believe in it." en~ugh to hear a'bout it. So far I've women-perhaps the artist--confronting But their marketplac~ is somewhat limited received three Lana's World5, plus one of everyday troubles: In one issue they need because the comics audience is so male. its sister zines, Lucky Rabbit's Reality, and an apartment, in another they look for at's rare, for example, that I see.another each one is different. LUCky Rabbit is the work. The drawing is both stylish and female customer in a comicbook shop.) fust part of a story about two neighboring clear, while the stories balance humor Gregory says women still have a hard comic strips, a kidnapping, a coup and and rage. My favorite is the housing issue,' time in "the last male-dominated field." some funny animals who mayor may not which ends with a march led'by "Super- Like Roberta Gregory, Michelle Rau is be anatomically correct. It's pretty good, Barrio." Rumor has Bareto and Batista . based in Seattle. FroIDthere she sends her but so far no sequel has appeared. In. the now doing childcare work in California, comic Lana's World out through the mail, meantime there's Lana's World, which but two such talented artists will not a . avoiding the problems of distribution that features short striRs"with some of the hope) be gone from the field forever. T

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.. still having difficulty getting my arms ed him to come along Dintng Outl around this concept of Gemeinscbajt where we could discuss the finer irst off, those of you who may which everybody else has apparently points in an atmosphere a little less have been trying to contact me embraced without reservation. (I frantic than the OutWeek commissary. ~ will undoubtedly be happy to never had this kind of trouble with As ·luck would have it, he had to learn that I think I've finally con- substantive due process but, of course, attend a meeting of this new organi- quered this irrational fear of my tele- the drugs were different in those zation with which he's heavily phone _and am actually taking calls days, as was Just about everything involved, the QueerVolk or something once again, so feel free to light up else, and, frankly, there were other like that, but he did agree to meet me those lines! In fact, every day in every issues I didn't apprehend: for exam- beforehand at the revolving cocktail way, things just keep getting better ple, how somebody could say they lounge of the Marriott Marquis Hotel. and better. For example, I've pro- were on another line and would get . While the olives bobbed in our marti- gressed from merely whistling a right back- to you and then never call nis and the pianist played "I Don't happy tune to out and out humming again ...which just might explain this Want To Know," Ernst told me all (the melody of choice around these thing I've been experiencing with the about how the political people~is parts, so I've been informed, is Noel telephone but I digress.) formed by a common consciousness Coward's "London Pride." Just thought At any rate, the people on whom of its solidarity and ;l-q:)mmOn will to you'd want' to know.) Next week, I normally rely to clarify these things unity and strives to form, realize and who can tell? 'perhaps snatches of seem to be perpetually occupied defend itself. This, he said, requires lyrics and then full stanzas. While all granting interviews these days and I the need to' develop, among other of these indicators can only' be viewed haven't seen hide nor hair of my things, a new ethic disavowing the as encouraging, I confess that periodic experts in quite some .time. concept of a private sphere untouch- bouts of residual confusion still occur. Fortunately, Ernst in the copy room, able before the political unity. He For example, a couple of weeks ago, who brought this Gemetnscbajt busi- noticed that I seemed to' be getting a for no apparent reason, I caught, ness to my attention in the first place, little lost right about there and offered myself watching Martians Go Home in has been very patient about answer- to loan me a book which he ~aid a Cineplex Odeon multiplex. And I'm ing my questions. Accordingly, I invit- would explicate these ideas better than he was able, thpugh I assured him he was doing a fme job. For the time being he told me the important thing to understand is that the right of the individual is developed only in relation to and for the sake of Gemetnscbaft. Then, whistling the newly-popular "London Pride," he dashed off to his meeting. I don't have to tell you what a relief it's been to find somebody so willing to sit down and spell these things out and to discover that there's an entire book (at least!) devoted to the subject which is. why I gladly pass this information along for the benefit of some reader who may be similarly struggling with these same complex ideas. This intellectual exchange, I'm beginning to see, is all a part of some- thing Ernst calls the Bewegungsstaat (I must remember to ask him what that means exactly.) T

56.' OlJTYWEEK May 30,1990' ful heavy-metal label in the business labeled Ittantrum politicS" you bave and in tbe free enterprise system I been coopted by our real enemies. can't demand be run bis company in Many ti",es your arguments bave a certain way. I also can't tell weight, but your tacticS are as vtIe and OutWeek bow to run its business, reptebenstble as any used by a Helms altbougb I find the sex industry sup- on tbe political rigbt or a Stalin on tbe pdrttng a magazine tbat purports to be left. The very mention of "files" and about a radical realignment of our "databases" you tbreaten to bave in self-perceptions as big an example of your possession tbat regard tbe private bypocrisy as Geffen releasing a band lives of your perceived enemies smacks that sings one homophobic song. of tbe very essence of McCarthytsm. A By Michelangelo Signorile Heavy metal is music imbued, like friend told me once tbat you bragged your own column, with misplaced to bim tbat you considered yourself to anger. Some people are able to forgive be the new Marttn. Luther King of tbe the excesses of the music, as well as gay movement. Wrong. You 'are tbe Dear Mr. Signorilf!: . your column, because each is crafted new Roy Cohn . with a creative dissonance. If, .howev- Since I was fifteen years old I have I am proud to declare publicly er, you can proclaim the danger been proudly and openly gay. In that David Geffen is a friend of mine. Mississippi, wbere I grew up, tbis was As a friend, he is a caring, compas- not an easy thing to be. In New York, Sionate, witty, and, yes, outspoken where lcontinue to grow up, it sttll is . companion. You at least have that not an easy tbing to be. But !have' last charact.eristic in common with never hidden it because I bave never bim. felt shame or guilt about it. I also I am also proud to declare tbat have no shame or guilt about Work- .bavid is a friend. of the gay commu- .. ing at Vanity Fair and am proud to nity~ As a ·benefactor, be bas given call my colleague'nr'y friends. Indeed, mtllions to gay organizations tbat wben conducting interviews with sub- . bave been instrumental in serving jects for my articles I manage to let our political and bealth care needs. It tbem know tbat I am gay witbin tbe is "blood" money as you call it only first fifteen minutes of meeting them. in the fact tbat David is one of our I tbink it ,Is important tbat they' real- . bloodbrotbers. tze that I bring tbat point of view witb You are angry at David for call- me. But Vanity Fair, unlike OutWeek, ing GMHC Ita buncb of assboles. " is not a gay publication. We may Come on. We have all beard radical share some of the same audience but gays call this wortbjl organization W(l have different agendas. You are a much worse. Where was your ire at professton.al gay person wbo is a jour- tbose radicals during the Woody naliSt. I am a professional journalist Myersfiasco? who is gay. . But the real frenzy into which I mention all of this because I you work yourself stems from one line inherent in Guns 'n' Roses' disso- think gayness is something to cele- in a Guns 'n' Roses song in which tbe nanc~a dissonance that surpasses brat~not to use as a weapon. You word jaggots" is used. You, bowever, the mere prosaic and becomes, in have argued that what you are doing week after week pepper your column practice, sociological-then let me take when "outing" an individual bas ~·:I._withthe same word as well (IS Itdyke" this cbance to proclaim the danger nothing to do with McCartbyism and "queer." Why is it proper for you inherent in ~be dissonance we as because you are not saying being gay to use sucb words and improper for readers are subjected to week after is a bad thing. Then why do you only Axl Rose? You cannot rationalize this week in your Gossip Watch column. It use it against people with wbom you usage by simply stating because you is a dissonance tbat surpasses the mere are so angry tbat the anger borders on are gay it entitles you to ghettoize us prosaic and becomes, in praclice, hatred? You are not celebrating these w!th such hateful nomenclature. A pathological. By rallying your readers people. You are attempting to vilify Rose is a Rose is Rose... . to your own luridly reactionary lock- tbem. And by vilifying tbem you are I, too, have a problem With Geffen. step, they have in turn called Geffen's also attempting to make a nqme for Records releasing tbe records made by office with threats of bombings and yourself. Your column is nothing more Guns 'n'Roses and bave told David so. even death. This is aform of terrorism; than the whisperings of a Roy Cohn But I have a problem with all heavy this is "blood"journalism. In your self- into Senator McCartby's public ear, metal music; I find it all imbectltc. appointed role as leader of ihis new raised, just as publicly and coyly, to a David's company is tbe most success- strain of activism that can best be $ee GOSSIP WATCH on page 59

May 30. 1990 OUT~EEK 57 Oul on Ihe Town Wilh Liz and Sydney

Sydney: WelCome to the equivalent movie musicals. The bar staff is com- of "sweeps week" 'in the club scene; prised of some extremely attractive every club and promoter has vigorously women (hence the bar bottleneck); I will sought to outdo one another in the admit that when ordering a beer I was never-ending search for a bigger and alarmed to learn that Coors was being 'better piece of the nightlife pie. La served (and bought) there. The decision Palace de Beaute, the remodeled Under- is yours-they will be there Fridays and ground opened this week with .Saturdays. djlsinger/promoter Larry Tee as the Sydney: Liz and I trekked out to host. Featuring a bevy of throw pillows, Park Slope for the Brooklyn Lesbians a Dutch masterpiece (in slide version), Together Spring Fling Dance that bene- and works by David LaChapelle and fited the state assembly campaign of Ruben Toledo, the new decor borders Deborah Glick. We munched popcorn, on a lighthearted camp sensibility. An drank beer with the girls and discovered omnipresent large silver tube winds a new group, SAL (Slope Activities. for around the lighting and ceiling fixtures Lesbians). A full calendar or eve-nts making me feel like I was thrown into includes' "field trips" to far away places the Lair of the White Worm, but with a like Manhattan: NO, they also visit other slightly Middle Eastern theme. I expect- places, but it tums out they .sponsored a ed Catherine Oxenberg to appear any trip to' the benefit premier of Without moment, but instead settled for bedroom You I'm Nothing. ThiS discovery led Liz dish queen Angie Bowie. Despite a to remark; "No wonder there were so good ethnic and gay/straight mix on many lesbians." Any group that increases opening night, the Underground crowd lesbian visibility wins our admiration. (predominantly Black) found they w~re Liz: Last Saturday saw the Queer left out in the cold by the current Nation (the direct action group, not the changeover to what owner Maurice CBrol", Ford, OJ Bnd spring fling-ef, collective "we") go out on' a visibility Brahm has called an "A list" crowd. Bt the DebofBh Glick Benefit. action to McSorley's, a bastion of hetero- Not to be outdone-the Roxy is Photo: liz and Sydney sexuality for decades. Taking up almost boasting a whole "new~ look of its own. the entire back room, and some of the Another section, designed by Morrissey never heard of, but a good find. The front, the Nation played "Spin the Bot- designer Peter Sibilia, has opened. With crowd seemed to be either underage or tle," to the amusement (and enlighten- simulated gas lamps, faux houses, a middle-aged, with few in between. Syd- ment) of the bachelor party next to promenade and park benches, it is not ney and I, after discussing the name ad them. Remember that this is a place just a club: It's a town! Not just anytown, nauseam, decided Molly House is some where men cat call and hoot at women this' is Roxytown, the only Mainstreet . sort of "sea food" reference (for those as they walk to the bathroom. (It's a little that includes such Average Joes as unacquainted, "sea food" means things strange that a place as straight as McSor- Angel Jack, a drag queen clad in col- like "Hi, sailor," men in Navy blues, in . ley's didn't have a women's bathroom ored aluminum foil couture and Ernie port for 48 hours, etc.) So bring a rod and until a few y~.ars ago.) The gentlemen Glam sporting his ghastly Leatherface reel them in... working there took away the ketchup pink satin face mask with mouth zipper., liz: Shescape started their nights for bottles in full, spin, even admonished a Uz: David Leigh and Lee Chappell women at the Chapel last week, a place kissing couple to "drink up and get out," have taken the Roxy into Sunday nights designed for the Catholic schoolgirl and pointed to a sign saying "Be good (no, you can't just stay for the whole fetish displayed by some recently. The or be gone," to which they replied, "Oh, weekend, silly) and are calling it Molly space at Limelight was barely large but we're being sooo good." No one got .House, for' gay men and women. A tad enough to contain the exuberant hurt, (although a woman was overheard light OJ;l the woemn so far, Molly House women, their hair and accessories; and saying "this is the weirdest night of my has the good things about Saturdays with despite the courtyard and upstairs life"), dykes and fags were seen as such some advantages-no door scene, more lounge, most ended up in ~he bottle- in public, and a good time was had by sPace, less' heterosexuals (although there necked first-floor bar, or the bathroom. all. You would think with all the beer were fewer of those this past Saturday). Th~ videos playing were fairly interest- the Queer Nation drank, they would The DJ, Kip Lavinger, is someone I hacl ing-:-Slnead: O'Connor and MGM have been a little happier to see us? T O~EEK May 30, 1990 GOSSIP WATCH from page 57 inept know that a fundemental belief You work for a magazine, which, . of the Black liberationist and feminist in a period of ten years, has done vir- dectbel level deafening in its own self- movements has always, been: tually nothing hard-hitting-presum- sewing, self-/oathing blather. Appropriate the language of your ably for fear of being too controversial You are proud to be the architect oppressors. and offending the wrong people- of "outing." But the first instance of When Ax} Rose, a straight man with regard to the AIDS crisis. You "outing" occu"ed in New York when , and 'one of our oppressors, uses these work for a magazine that has glorified you were still trYing to make a name words derogatorily to millions of some of our worst enemies such as for yourself on the club circuit. During straight teenage boys and girls who've Roger Ailes. You work for a magazine Koch's first mayoral campaign, been told all of their lives to revile which, at the height of the epidemic, Cuomo had hts operatives in Queens homosexuals, these terms spew forth while the president let thousands die, cruise the neighborhoods {n a van with dangerous, violence-inciting put the Reagans on the cover as the with a loud speaker attached to it. A meanings. You are not totally stupid fabulous couple of the decade in a voice continually blared at all who and I don't think I have to fully story which glossed over all of their could hear: "Votefor Cuomo, not the explain this to you. Or do I? . crimes. You work for a magazine that homo!" Signoriie, your hands are now When a greedy man who makes did such an embarrassing and laugh- on that wheel. It is your voice we now millions of dollars a day calls an AIDS able cover puff piece on Calvin hear. And it ts a dangerous road you organization "a bunch of assholes" Klein·s "heterosexual life" that people are traveling. . because he is insulted that they decid- still to this day talk about it. You work Sincerely, ed they did not want money from his for a.magazine that rarely ever shows Kevin Sessums homophobic band, it is quite different gay men and lesbians on ~ pages Fanjair Editor than if, say, l--or any other "radical except to portray creepy, darK, sinister Vanity Fair Magazine gay" who works day in and day out stories about crazed and murdering within the AIDS movement--call that queers. You work for a magazine organization the same thing because where the editor in chief's social Kevin Sessums we may feel they made a bad decision climbing escapades far outweigh her Fanfair Editor regarding the community we callour- obligations ·to r~port the truth, seek Vanity Fair selves a part of (but this point is moot fairness in coverage and attack bigots. Conde Nast Publications since I've never called GMHC such). You are right, Mr. Sessums; Vanity 350 Madison Ave I have never called myself "the Fair has a far different "agenda" than

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May 30, 1990 O~EEK 61 Dance Rites of Spri,ng

up-and-comers are Margaret Tracey the iceman isn't here .yet, but he's and Wendy Whelan, visions of spring' coming. Any minute now. iilcamate. Tracey is the charged high- The display continues at ballerina tech center of Martin's new Fearful level despite the injuries that have Symmetries and this most prebred of waylaid company perennials such as by Otis Stuart classicists, all lilting limbs and Cheery Merrill Ashley, Kyra Nichols and smiles, has the chance to let loose, to Heather Watts. In fact, replacements linger awhile around a swiveling hip turned wunderkind-of-the-moment- ince the weather died, the and circling suggestion. She· does and again Darci Kistler into resident '.. . . next best-only?-proof of then some. Whelan, to the contempo- workhorse-,-at one performance, she spring these days is Lincoln rary born, has taken on the opposite led all three ballets-and we are all S. , Center. The crowds pouring challenge, the neoclassic whirlwinds better for it. Without time for the ten- nightly onto Lincoln Plaza-one of the second soloist in TcbatkOvsky tativeness that can underinine her at evening swathed in sweaters, the next Piano Concerto NO.2 and ~e all-but- her own pace, Kistler turned out per- wiping off the sweat of today's heat- title-role -in Allegro BriOiante. In both, S•• SPRING on peg. 711 wave--are proof that New York sets I ' its own seasons. It's ballet time now, dance's answer to spring. American Ballet Theater has taken over the '.1' Metropolitan Opera House until June 30, and New York City Ballet is in res- idence at the New York State Theater through July 1. Wet, sweltering, or wltatever, Lincoln Center is the axis of the dance world again. Witness the State Theater. f'lYCB's upcoming Jerome Robbins festival, two weeks devoted exclu- sively to the Robbins repertory as his farewell to fulltime association with the company, means that for at least :utother week you'll get a tight close- up on the two other trumps in the NYCB repertory. The next seven days are fairly bursting with bigtime Balanchine- Tcbaikovsky Sutte No.3, Walpurglsnacbt Ballet, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, even Vienna Waltzes. They also include Peter Martins' two most provocative state- ments to date on ballet in the post- ~ala'nchine era, ecstatic Orange ~f the twisting 80s urgency and Les Genttlbommes, which accords the male dancer an au~onomy once resetved only for his ballerina. Despite the weather, and the new competition, that ballerina is holding her own, and the wonders of the NYCB'season to date have swirled mostly around the company's wealth of wo~en. Top of the line among the TO THE POINTE-Wendy Whelan in Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.2

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May 30. 1990 OUTTWEEK 63 Theater The Songs of August

reasoned. The Sutters, however, caught up with him and he never played the piano in his own house. To Berniece, the piano is an instrument from a past so painful she won't play it-but neither will she let it go. To Boy Willie, the piano is his future; it's a moment to .be seized. As they struggle over possession of the piano, Wilson asks, what are the uses of history? Boy Willie is willing to sell his history to guarantee his future; ..Berniece struggles to keep the lid on it. Neither position is healthy; both are understandable. That is the humanity of Tbe Piano Lesson. We do hear the piano now and then. Berniece'S daughter Miuetha (Apryl R Foster)-t~kes lessons on it; Carl's brother Wining Boy (Lou Myers), a rather suspicious "recording star," plays it, too. So, occasionally, The piano of the .title is at the does that ghost. The real music, how- center of a contest of powerful wills. ever, is in Wilson's language. Boy Willie Charles (Charles ~. Dutton) It's muscular, dangerous music comes from the South to his uncle's Boy Willie sings ashe dreams of, for house in Pittsburgh to claim the fami- once, seiling the cotton but keeping ,by Michael Paller ly heirloom. He intends to sell it and the seed and the land. And~tton is use the proceeds to buy farmland the perfect instrument. His arms move belonging to the family which once like pistons and, he seems in danger gust Wilson is the one owned his ancestors. The land's most of bursting from his own energy. He , authentic poet writing for recent owner, Sutter, was lately dis- can barely contain his lust for every- the American theater covered dead at the bottom of his thing in life--Iand, money, women, now. He understands well. drink, pride--but it is al\l admirably whatA words can do. He knows-the Boy Willie's sister, Berniece (S. controlled performance. Indeed, way one is born knowing some- Epatha Merkerson), has no intention under lloyd Richard's direction there thing-that words nof only have of selling the piano, which sits silently isn't a performance that isn't right, meanings, but sounds and rhythms. in the living room. "It has blood on from Gordon's dignified Doaker and He knows, too, that theatrical poetry it," she says. Well, it's not exactly Myers' buoyant Wining Boy to isn't always a matter of words that silent: At night, Uncle Doaker (Carl Merkerson's strong Berniece, the sound "literary." It's the stringing- Gordon) has seen it played by Sutter's earnest preacher Avery of Tommy together of the simples~ words in ghost-who, during breaks, inquires Hollis and Rocky Carroll's callow combinations that create images sharp as the whereabouts of Boy Willie. Lymon, Boy Willie's companion. as a gunshot onstage, and then hang The Sutters bought the piano in Wilson's. language is so musiqll in the air like gho.sts, following us exchange for "one and a half' slaves: that when the characters sing, it is an onto the street. Tbe Piano Lesson, at Boy Willie and Berniece's great extension of their talk, an expression the newly-christened Walter Kerr grandmother and young grandfather. of their past. The foot-stomping, Theater, isn't a perfect play, but it Later, their great-grandfather carved .glass-clinking Act One song of Boy rings with authentic theatrical poetry, portraits of his wife, son and parents Willie, Doaker and Lymon becomes a and'is given a production about as into it. Still later, Boy Willie's father chilling antebellum anthem. The play good as any playwright could reason- stole the piano from the "Sutters: "As is set in 1936, but this family. lives, as ably· hope for. . long as'Sutter has it, he has us," he 8n AUGUST an~ •• 711

64·. OUT'YWEEK May 30, 1990 fArt ~ The World Ac.cording to Gilbert & George

of pineapples, while in "God" a chipmunk is set beside a snow-covered Christ on the cross. In "Excitement,· type declaring "Thanks for Last Nightl" is next to shots of boys in an English boarding school. Many of the early postcard sculptures deal with issues that continue to Interest the 'pair, including, race, homo- sexuality, desire, power, class and religion. The work has an innocence and subtlety, a su,bversive charm. The ready~ .~~~~~reassuring, but their arrange- his is an abundant ment warps the content; spring for fans of they're critiques based on the Gilbert & George. public images in which soci- The1 eccentric English duo ety represents itself. have shows uptown, mid- Twenty-Ftve Worlds by' town and downtown. Two Gabert & George can be seen of the exhibitions consist of at the Robert Miller Gallery. postcard sculptures which Over a hundred of these are less familiar than their worlds were produced during monumental photo grids. the past year and each coo- The HirschI & Adler sists of postcards arranged in Modern exhibits postcard concentric squares, 15 post- sculptures produced from cards high. Each world is 1972 to 1981, while Robert constructed from three to Miller shows the latest ver- four repeating images. They sions. Taken together the look like rugs; but they soar, two shows provide a good like flying carpets. Within over\'iew of the postcard each is an image of nature, work. something man~made and a The earlier sculptures man. Many of the postcards' (at one time they called ev- are from India and the man is erything they produced ~ an anonymous (to me) Indian sculpture) consist of post- :>" pop star. In "Staring World: .~ds grouped together the- . :I there is one recognizable iliatically under titles ~uch I face, Rob Lowe. as "Childhood" or "Au- ~ Arranged by pattern and tumn." Gilbert & George ~ color, many of the images are manipulate the.seoff-the- ~ pure kitsch and the repetition rack postcards into their i increases their absurdity. In own irreverent commu- . a:: "Tu~quoise World" there's a niques. "Misery," with its GILBERT & GEORGE. guy modeling a white shirt lurid nighttime scenes of. and blue slacks, a craggy London tourist attr!lctions, Burnmg Sky World, 1989, Postcard Sculpture~ peak rising out of blue mist looks like the city is burning. Also shown ~ works from and a brainlike lump of turquoise. . the "Crusades" series with postcards, many depicting the . Seen at a distance, these pulsating worlds with their Queen and Prince Charles, arranged in crosses. inverted sunsets and cathedral ceilings are beautiful. Gilbert & George are masters of satiric juxtaposition. Frequently, the center square is reserved for the young In "Adolescence" a smiling boy is placed near a postcard s.. GIlBERTa CIE_Eo...... JI

May 30. 1990 O~EK 65 Music We Like It.·L,ike That "

two of them dellght in fingering stereotypes, as in "On the aeach": "Light another cigarette foI' the buzz you'll never by Madam X and Victoria Starr get/she let's me drive'her brand new car, but not when I frequent the bar .../everyday she goes to work in woolen Born ToSing/En v,oguel Atlailtic suits and fancy shirts/nylons make the fellows crazy, they'd It's mighty rare indeed to find this space given up to any- be so swprised to find me ..." We like it that way. -VS thing closely resembling Top 40. But hey, since many of us don't pay any mind to what's doing on the radio (aside from your l~ public radio, thank you), it stands to reason that we might not notice a truly worthy endeavor when it presents itself. En Vogue is just such a group. . , Soul n Soul rip-off? Maybe, but who cares? The Funky Dread subculture is a mood, a groove and a worldview that is so happily infectious, there should be nobody left to cOm- plain. Dawn Robinson, Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron and Maxine Jones (who ~e. not, by the way, dreads) offer a stable if inconsistent first album, weaving the obligatory rap element into their standard brand of soul. The project trai1s off a bit toWllrcls the end, but the strimg cuts, like the popular "Hold On," will have you movin' from the dance floor to the.bed- room, and by then En Vogue will have done their job. . If their sound isn't necessarily unique, there's something that sets this group apart. Perhaps its'the' heart-rending vocals on songs like ~Part of Me," contradicting their image as four very young, women, and making you swear that' Jennifer Holliday has a little sister co~g up. Perhaps its their caddy wit when dissin' the boys on cuts like "Party" and "Strange." Or perhaps its simply that these girls co-wrote most of the songs, which is not only evidenced in the IP's credits (take Off TO A GOOD START-Dawn Robinson, Terry Elis, Cindy heed, Jazzy B..- we got the word on Caron Wh~ler), but in Heron and Maxine Jones Are En Vog'ue ' their approach to love, men and world politics. -VS

Deep Soul Diver/disappear fear/Disappear Private Waters in the Great Divide /Kid . Records/ (P.O. Box 65095, Baltimore, MD 21209) Creole and the Coconuts/Columbia Two women, ~ne guitar; one tamb.orine. Oh, the When I was in college back in Ohio, I used to swing word "folk" is such an inadequate tenn. This album is to. the Coconuts' tongiJe-in-cheek ditties like. "He's Not much, much more. Such a Bad Guy After. All," and wonder what milieu Often perfOmrlng at the Bitter End in Ne", York' City, spawned such a creation. Upbeat, silly and, above all, and not to be missed on the women's music circuit this funky, it .was a sound that could only be 'called "New year, disappear .fear has created the most sophisticated York." This w~ before "World Beat," of course, which; in sound ever to have been heard from such a back:-to-basics its un-purist fonn, yvas first popularized· by the Kid him- genre of music. Hard driving yet smooth, personal and self, Mr. August Darnell (Darnell, you .may recall; was the political, sisters Sonia and Cindy strike a strong balance bass player and lyricist in the classic disco-samba group between emotional sincerity and "in your face" irreveren~e. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band.) .With their band's name taken from an underlying theme of The 80s were kind to the House of Creole. While they rape counseling, the album's liner notes read, "I think the never quite caught on in Middle America, Kid Creole and world is ready for disappear fe3!, a world that is not scared the Coconuts have achieved such international acclaim of itself and who it loves." Just in time for the 90s. that a French friend boasts having seer) them perfonn at . , .'.The girls also want you to know that "the .views on this 1~1: five times in the last decade. With a large group Qf album do not necessarily reflect those of John Grant; a born singers, clanc::ersand musicians, including Cory Daye Oead again christian." Perhaps JOM takes issue with the way the singer for Dr. Buzzard), bass player Carol Colman and a

66 O~EEK May 30. 199,0 i ~ lengthy roster of contributors ranging from Gichy Dan $ld white funk, it's the perfect soundtrack for the end of'spring. Coati Mundi to Prince and Sheila E., Kid Creole is at it . -MX' again with this latest IP. It's summertime music; where reggae, cal}1>so and threnody /Sleeping Dogs Wake/ One Little. other Pan-American rhythms rub against' each other like Indian (250 York Road, London SWll 3SJ, England) palm leaves in the beach breeze. Even "Lambada" is here,. Karin Sherrets and Robert Wtlcocks made an album and as tired as the song may seem, it is'nafural in this con- which has a lyrical and poetic approa~ to violence. Sure, text. Yet despite the plethora of rhythms, and even lan- most of the lyrics belong to the traditional doom 'n' gloom guages, the music never looses that edgy urban pulse. school ("She lies dying on her deathbed one tear drying"), Check out "Funky Audrey" or "Laughirig With Our Backs but they sometimes have'a bizarre, dark humor ("unzip my Against the Wall" to see what I mean. And in case you love all over your face, millions of babies splattered in 'your thought you found paradise, the cut "No More Casual mouth"), ~d the band skillfully enhances their theatricality. Sex," with its ,deceptively festive Trinidadian flaIr, will What brings Sleeping Dogs Wake above the competitiO[} is remind you not to stray too far. Directed towards hetero- s.. CON..... &UIDE on ..... 7t sexual men, this song could be another ground-breaking endeavor by this highly underrated I' . ==-i New York band. -vs Colouring In The Edge And the Outline/Anna Domino/ Giant Records. Someone recently told me that Anna Domino picked her 'stage name as a pun. Anno' Do~ni, get it? It had 'never crossed my mind, of course, but then I'm particularly slow ... Born . in Tokyo, Anna Domino was raised all around the world and ended up.in II=~~~~~~~~~~~======J New York. This' supposedly enlight- i ened city wasn't ready for the DOME$r-C PARTNER, RIGHTS· cbanteuse's own brand of avant-· lounge, so she left and settled in WE ARE FAMILY . Belgium. for a while, signing with the lbIrsday, May 22, 8 p.m. Disques d~ Crepuscule label and CormU1ity Center putt~g out her first EP in 1984. East 208 w. 13th St., NYC ·and West was a twilight affair, EVERYONE WB.COME Domino's voice barely a thin whisper above smart, minimal tunes--includ- ing an Aretha Franklin cover. LESBIAN AND GAY Domino's taste for vintage. soul was LABOR NETWORK even more obvious on her first (self- p.o. BOX 1159 T NEW YORK. NY 10009 T 212-923-8690 titled) album, where she breathed 1'= . .. ., _ through, "The Hunter Gets ~ptured ~_~~~~f~~~" I l_~~h~y '!.,~:~"th~h;i:d ~~:~~~~~" THEONLY· • CIi.i. 111Sll ...... " played: American hght funk reVised. .. . '9116.. '. by a European se~ of aesthetics. No· ..' '- · ... 1 Med' id U' PIa. display of glitzy production, .no flre~ , IJ ~ lCa - nlOfl ns, work vocals,. instead an understated L ele?ance-the Chanel a~ster~ty ,. (2 12) 807 -7 S6 6 , against the nouveau ~be ta.cktpess of· the new world. Dommo's bittersweet ., lyrics worked.wonders on songs such . MONEY ORDERS - NOTARY , as "Drunk,." mannered venum spat . . out~yaworldly,educatedwoman. ,. OPEN -7 DAYS TILL 9 PM ,. Colouring In Tbe Edge And Tbe . ; • ow,ltne is. a flve.song EP ~i<;h' once L Visa - ~astercard ~ Ame,x ~ Discover I agam, testifies to Anna Donuno s talent. ~~ ~. ~ sophistica~ed piece of. thoughtful ----

May 30. 1990 O~WEEK 67 Books Text, Drugs and Just Say No

he ReaganlBush presidencies were made for the television age. There's nothing really wrong. A few more fine-tunings of the dial and we'll get rid of the static. Something like drugs Can be handled with ease:lJust Say No. Just tum the channel. The problem with all this credulity is its one-dimen- sional approach. Things are seldom so simple that they can easily be said no to. People don't have the power to modulate the sounds of life the way they can manipulate a VCR. Often one has to bargain with life, explore the reper- cussions of one's acts, wonder at the results of one's own liability, face one's'own limitations. Broce Benderson's work does all of that. While his ter- rain Slretches from midtown Manhattan to the South Bronx to suburbia, his. characters are sil1lilarto Larry Mitchell's in the Past Vdlage, a comparison that should be taken as a great compliment Like Mitchell's, the people in Benderson's cos- mos often have coke up their noses, crack on their brains. Gros.nocial injustice makes the middle-class ideals of Republican Washington a cruel joke when a kid who flOal- Iy gets strai8ht becomes a statistic in a crime sweep con- jured up for publicity ("Suicide Ecstacy"), and the sweet-smelling calm of family values get tossed on its can no more see what's going on around her than the inhabi- head when a middle class father finds his son's drugs tants can; her social reality blinds her as much as their smoke. more exciting than suburban life ("Family Romance"). The ending of the story should be experienced, not revealed. Just saying no to drugs is no easy step in Benderson's It's rough, callous, but then com4lg off any drugged reality is world, as any alternative reality is often as skewed. Nor is cold tutkey. Demons appear where comics once stood. it necessarily desirable to stop the smoke; there are rea- .In a world 'iike this there's no easy deflOition of sexu- sons those people take the stuff, Nancy. "As much as he ality. It happens that most of the characters in most of the loathed. drugs that 'stole intelJigence, skewed emotions and stories have homosexual contacts, b"Utto call these charac- could even kill, so was'he well aware of sudden swoops ters gay in the political sense of the word would be ridicu- of grace, opportunity." Those are one of Benderson's char- lous. These people are nQt holding conventions. acters' thoughts on the subject. Benderson's characters buy and sell bodies for the hint of Benderson's collection may be the flfst real crack book intimacy, not for identity. They are men who corrupt chil- written. The drug is involved in most, though not all, of the dren or they are corrupted children striking back at an stories. Benderson's form reflects the drugs his people take. adult world-two themes that regularly show up in the . The descriptions are boisterous and the point of view and author's work, especially in the novella The Mass emOtions shift wildly in the reader's mind, but never out of . Production of Teenagers. the author's cOntrol. . Ju:;t as the forms of storytellingchange with each piece, sO The title piece is a hilarious sendup of what might have does the level of hallucination. Yet this is a worldview. There is happened if Nancy wandered into a crack dealer's house. She See JUST SAY NO on peg. 78

68 O~EEK.May30, 1990 Books Conferencemania

by Eric Latzky clearing of the mind where we can books ...one of the first obligations we create our own lives." Forrest spoke have is to extend ourselves into the of our power as a community to universities." One way we might hairing the AIDS literature change the world, and noted that we accomplish this, she suggested, would panel at "The Claiming of are already doing it. Boyd, in an be to create an anthology-type test World Citizenship: Gay and emotional speech, considered the book of lesbian 'and gay fiction, possi- CLesbian Literature Explodes role of literature, and the place of bly the Norton anthology as a model. Into the Nineties," you get a good the gay and lesbian nation in the From that point, the day moved view of what 250 members of the world. He recalled his early reaqing quickly, with groups of people local literary community looks like.. experiences-Tom in Tennessee strolling back and forth, between two Covering the one-day conference, Williams' Tbe Glass Menagerie, the conference rooms, in a peaceful, sponsored by UCLA Extension and lover saying goodbye in James so~etimes surreal comer of the UCLA supported by the PEN American Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. "How campus. A morning session ~ffered Center West, running around trying to did they know my life?" Boyd asked. two choices. The first, "Many Voices, formulate at least a sense of every- He said that these writers helped him Many Rooms: The Diversity of Gay thing that's going on, you get, and Lesbian Culture," chaired by well, sore feet, a wrinkled suit poet Eloise Klein Healy, included and a suntan. This is, after all, panelists SDiane Bogus, novelist L.A. Larry Duplechan, screenwriter The idea for the conference, Barry Sandler and novelist Terri which took place on April 21st, De La Pena. The second, "Myths originated about a year ago, at a and Story Telling: Archetypal PEN-sponsored reading of Themes of Gay and Lesbian banned books inspired by the Imagination," chaired by write'r Salman Rushdie affair, during a and Advocate editor Mark conversation between UCLA Thompson, included panelists Extension Literature Program writer/professor Christine directo~ Meryl Ginsberg and gay Downing, writer/psychotherapist priest/writer / activist/performer Robert H. Hopcke, Mitch Walker Malcom Boyd. With excitement and Walter Williams. and commitment, Boyd, and les- After a breezy, outdoor bian myste'ry writer laureate lunch, the afternoon session also Katherine Forrest, took the reiris offered two options. "Murder, and assembled the agenda with They Write: Gay and Lesbian a firm hand. They chose panel Mystery Writers Redefine a chairs, orchestrated arrange- Genre," chaired by Michael Nava, ments and extended invitations may have succeeded in creating to lauaed members of th~ les- some new mystery enthusiasts. bian and gay literary and publishing find his life, that n~w we have to Panelists included Nava's "father," the community to be part of the opening help others fmd their lives. patriarch of gay mysteries, Joseph session, "The Flowering of a This talk of the generations Hansen, Vicki McConnell, Richard Literature: Images and New Directions proved to be very provocative. Paul Stevenson and Barbara Wilson. of the Gay and Lesbian People." Monette, novelist, poet and AIDS Writer/psychologist Bett.Y Berzon It was a lofty subject to be tack- spokesperson, responding from the chaired, "For Love and For Life: led in only an hour and a half, but audience, brought up the very real Nurturing the Inner Life of an scholar and UCLA visiting professor issue of illiteracy within the communi- Emerging Community." Panelists of literature Lillian Faderman, pub- ty. Poet, professor and publisher 6f included Pat Califia, Paul Kent lishers Sasha Alyson and Barbara Women in the Moon Publications, Froman and Eric Marcus. Grier, editor Michael Denneny and SDiane Bogus, delivered a powerful . Following' a. high-spirited Forrest and Boyd seemed to make a manifesto. stating, "the young people address by PEN West President John dent. Denneny suggested that, now, on [college] campuses are, in fact, dis- O'Farrell, 01'1 the evils of censorship "...we are creating a cultural space, a covering themselves in our s••CONFERENCEMAN.IA on peg. 71 '

May 30, 1990 OUTTWEEK 69 , AUGUST from page 64 book coheres in a way short story unfurled than the last. do most of Wilson's characters, in the collections seldom do. Some of the Liberation, of course, is the shadows of slavery. Thus the pres- pieces Originally appeared in Between hallmark of the new generation of ence of the supernatural, which has C&D and other small magazines. NYCB men and advances at every disturbed some ~ritics, is not only There's no indication in the copy of level in the hierarchy suggest that effective, but correct. It leads to a dis- Benderson's age or the extent of his the new boys are in town. After covery that suggests Wilson's idea of writing career, but Pretending to Say three years with the company, prin- the proper use of history. As long as No is an indication of a real talent, cipal dancer Lindsay Fisher not only we sing it out, he says, our history primed for a real success. ... . has a new, electric buoyancy and need n6t be sold to create the future. attack but a new body, streamlined It is not, however, entirely clear to the Balanchine repertory. A year why the ghostly confrontation wI";:h .GllBERT II GEORGE from page &5 into principal status, fire-eater ends the play affects Boy Willie as it man, which gives the piece the feel of Damian Woetzel has caught onto a ·does. We're moved, but we're also a an ornate frame, or reliquary. Gilbert restraint and composure that makes bit let down: .Is Boy Willie loosening & George are no strangers to adora- last year's bad boy look like this his two-fisted stranglehqld on life? tion, but their deification of Indian year's young hero. The soloists are , Neither Richard's fine direction, models, as a comment on racism, hot on their heels, and Martins' the- accomplished performances nor might have. more significance in Gentllhommes will deal a full house even Wilson's language can disguise London. this Friday evening. The brightest the fact that the play lingers a bit too These artists, who share a .glow at the moment comes from long around the kitchen table. While house in a working class London Jeffrey Edwards. The hottest blood this is very much a history play, one neighborhood, have been making in Fearful Symmetries, Edwards in wonders if there need be quite so disturbing art long before Jesse Les Gentllhommes, all classic clarity much anecdotal evidence about a Helms attacked the NEA and long and elegiac containment, completes- way of life, when we're already quite before .Clause 28 was passed in the picture of a hew, complete man willing .to beiieve everything these England. Their work makes many in ballet that NYGB.is in the process . chaqlcters..say and do. people, including gay people, of painting. Nevertheless, this is much the best uncomfortable. The Sonnabend Who. needs the weather? ... play to open on Broadway, that show, which opens at the end of the increasingly anemic, tone-deaf neigh- month, will include recent photo TRIP DISH from page 63 borh<><;>d,ina lpng time. Amidst the pictures. In the past,' these enor- jangling noise ()f the district's multi- mous photo grids filled entf~e walls Rick Crom's wistful ballad "One Less million-dollar musicals, The Plano and bluntly addressed issues of gay Prince For Me." In between, McNight Lesson demonstrates how real theatri- desire. As Gilbert & George mature, yodels like a pro, parodies popular cal music can be made with one the power and challenge of these songs ("Wind Beneath My, Wings" piano, one accomplished playwi-ight works increases. Dressed in impec- becomes "Contempt Beneath My and a company that knows its craft .... cable suits, they appear in these Feet"), schmoozes with the audience photos with garlands of flowers and and even engages in her own form of the youth of their desire, everything outing ("I was John Travolta's straight JUST SAY: NO from page 68 drenched in color. As the years go lover.") a coherency to the mind that is map- by Gilbert & George have gone a lit- With a Tony nomination and ping out this strange terrain. In "A VISit tle bald and. gained a little weight, many sold-out cabaret engagements from Mom" a man, fresh from an AA but the young men in their pictures behind her, the question now is not meeting the night before, tries to be a remain teens. It is this untrodden whether Sharon McNight can sing, good son, but as soon as he puts his area that Gilbert & George inhabit, tell jokes or pack a house. Like mother back on a bus, he heads for a between the respectable and the .Barbra and Bette, she needs to tran- Times Square bar and uses her money to proscribed, amid the flowers and scend her cult status and move into hire a hustIer,himself desperate for crack. - the boys .... the mainstream. If you have never Everyone is· desperate in I------i seen this Red Hot Mama, make a Benderson's world, That's the point. SPRING from page 62 beeline to Eighty-Eights. If you Thet;e's a dire need for connection, a formance after striking performance, already have, by all means, go again. hopeless hope to escape the ravages idiosyncratic as the day is long (the Because one day soon, you will be of race and religion. What does not musicality is from Mars) but vital, con- sitting at a family gathering and some ~st is a quick fix, at least not one that centrated and, especially in irritating Jesse Helms-inspired cousin (:ail .last very long. Benderson has no Symphony In C adagio, reaching for will mention how he adores that ansWers, he's just presenting the facts. the stars. A string of performances of "new" singer Sharon McNight. And But, he does it well. He has great Balanchine's La Source had the' same you can stand tall, look him directly flexibility, telling different stories with liberating effect on Juditli Fugate, in the eye and say, "I was there different techniques, and still the each one fuller, more daring, more when ..." ...

·70 OUT..-wEEK May 30, 1990 I I I .~ CONFERENCEMANIA from peg. 69 lAST EXIT from peg. 61 and gay sexuality appear in the light and oppression, the fmar session of or fucked into silence. of Stonewall and gay liberation entire- the day began, entitled, "Anger This prison house of fate is told ly dated, one need only re-read the Pride, Courage and the Call to most powerfully in the mirroring statistics of violence against lesbians Conscience: The RevoluUonary stories of Tralala and Harry Black. and gays to recognize that the fllm'$ Literature of AIDS." Panelists includ- For' Tralala, escape appears in the brutal violence still haunts the city we ed A Different Light' Bookstore man- shape of a second lieutenant who, live in.... ager Richard Labonte, City Lights by a simple twist of fate, she meets editor Amy. Scholder, who, with Ira in Manhattan. With only a few days CONSUMER 8U1DE fraIII ,...17 Silverberg, is coediting High Risk, 'an left before he is to be shipped out, anthology to be published by New he promises to "love" her. But when the chant-like intensity of the vocals, American Library next year, and Paul he leaves, and she returns to the the quasi-religious fervor Sherrets and Monette. Monette, the final panelist neighborhood, the fUm punishes her Wtlcocks bring to it and the suprise of of the day, who rousingly de- for desiring something beyond her hearing a woman involed in the ~ nounced church and state without Circumstances by having an entire jed, when "industrial" music Is still a favoritism, received a' standing ova- bar of drunken men out to gang. male-dooµnated field. Sleeping Dogs tion and later confided that he now rape her into unconsciousness. Wake builds a hermetic, self-contairied knew what Janis Joplin felt like. For Harry Black, it is the boyish world of electronic sonic textures and Interestingly, the discussion that drag queen, Regina, who by transform- human shrieks, driven by percussioOs ensued was not directly related to ing his working class name into the (Sherrets) and a. manic gubar' AIDS and AIDS writing, but seemed, elegant "Harold" equally promises to (W'Vcocks).This is yet another jewel on rather, to evolve into a much needed transform his heterosexual violence One Little Indian's crown-the others forum in which audience' members into an undreamed-of gay romance. being the overrated Sugarcubes of expressed concerns about censor- But again the desire to desire different- course, but also Kitchens of ship, oppression and portrayal of .Iy is viciously arrested Despite being a Distinctions (reviewed here a coupl~ eX lesbian and gay people in main- union hero, Black soon loses his union months ago), Scottish activists Flnl stream media. position, is rejected by the (of course) Tribe and the sumptuous Pdpinjays While there were, of course, mercenary drag queen, becomes (hopefully we'll more about them in comparisons to the recent OUT/write dejected, drunk and desperate. As if the near future). -MX conference, the two events were for following the advice of a 50s sexual the most part incomparable. Perhaps handbook in its equation of male Cotffessfmts OfA Kntfe/My Ute the most notable and important homosexuality with child molestation, With The Thrill Kill Kult/Wax absence in Los Angeles, unlike San the film .then has the heart-broken, Trax! Francisco, was the presence of drunken Black attempt to seduce a Dance album of the month, this is avant garde and experimental writ- young boy, only to be beaten to death an extravaganza of samplers, wicked1r ers. Both gatherings, however, by the same gang that gang bangs catchy tunes and basic all-American fun. served in separate and affirmative drag queens on the weekends. WeJI, OK, songs such as "Kooler Th3n ways to fuel flames uniting the les- Aptly named, Last Exit seems Jesus" would probably not send Jesse bian and gay literary and publishing only one short stop a~ay from Heltm into fits of delight, but Ws an community on a national basis. In . Sartre's own ghost story, No Exit. extra reason to get excited about them. . fact, in a day fUled with theoretical But while such 50s pessimism pro- The Thrill Kill Kult uses samPliilg in a discussion, Boyd, responding' to the vided a powerful attack against a creative manner, not unlike Psychic 1V's formation of various and diverse politically repressive notion of experiments with acid house" (by the writers groups around the country, progress, it seems .only depressing way, PlV, as they're affectionately {)ffered one tangible suggestiot;l: the in the 90s. Indeed in telling a story referred to by their fans, will be at the creation of a national lesbian and haunted by its own history, the fUm Ritz in June, a concert not to be aiissed gay writers union. "Inclusivity, not seems, in the most profound sense, if you're fond of psychedelic dance exclusivity, should be our guide- historical. Shot in ghostly blues and music). Most of ConfessionS OfA Knifes line," Boyd said.,"It is not enough to greens, the film at times looks like a , best moments come fiom The Bomb belong to fragmented groups, or to a colorized 30s depression film, and; Gang Girlz (all the people involyed in large international body of writers at other times, like a seductive this project share a taste for partiallarly like PEN~We have our own work to Ma"donna video, complete with silly names: Buzz McCoy, Gro~vy do, including support of one 'anoth- homoerotic images of near-naked Mann). I'm now devoured by curiouSity: er, and a national organization called men being ejaculated off an iron .Who are the Girlz, how dare they pick a Gay and Lesbian Writers of America gate by police hoses. pseudonym that's. better than mine, can address this." It should be noted In the end, however, it is these where Can I get their social security that this was one of the best attend- historical contradictions which pro- number and .do they alSo watch the ed conferences ever sponsored by vide the film's most telling history leg.. Simpsons on lV, 'like any other normal UCLAextension ..... son. For, while its cliches of female human being? -MX.

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August 4- involving such topics as gender confu- Longtime Companion. a feature film fol- (due by MAY :JJ) (Earto!'s warning: FAXing 11. 19!11offers a Free Info/AccOlllmode- sion. homoSlxuarlty, masturbatory fanta- lowing the lives of eight gay men in or mailing obscene materials to another tions Brochure: 8OIJ,I8ZJ-1109 sy, censorship, self-observation. New York during the AIDS crisis; stats is a federal offense.) pornography. the creative process, and a Carnegie Hall Cinema, 7th Ave at 57 Sf, SAGE announces October's 15-D.y shower; 44 Walker St (two blocks below 265-2520; Angelika Film Center, Houston THE CENTER June 1. G.rden Party is Mediterrane.n Cruise ($2298, deposit Canal); $12.!iJ-$15; WED-SUN at 7:31 pm; & Mercer Sts, 995-2000 now accepting sponsors ($100-$1000) due JULY 1); 741-2247 431-7434(thru JUNE 10) and advertisments for the Journal ($150-$8000); Paul Hepworth, 620-7310 PS 122 presents Elleeil Myles' IIIodefII MONDAY, MAY 21 LIVELY ARTS AI( about women and men, censorship, HERITAGE OF PRIDE Registrlllion Fonns and the impact of feminism on the con- .ACT .uP/NY Storms tile N.tlonal Insti- now available for Pride March (Also see the daily listings for temporary art world; with choreogra- tutes of He.lth witll a Demoastrltioe groupstcontigents, vehicles, floats, bal- show(ing)s of one or two days.) phy by Ellen R...... , sets by TOIII Berry; lid Civil Disobedience at 9000 loons (to be held, not released), and featuring TOIII Carey, Joll. McD.lai. Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD; to Community Lottery for Five Speakers FILM AT THE PUBLIC presents ROil Claire Moed. Nllcy SWlrtz. Carol . demand immediate testing of all poten- (who get 3 minutes to address any von Pr.unheim .nd Phil Zwickler's McDowell. Anne d·Adesky. TIIeres. tial treatments; expanded study of the gay/lesbian topic they wish); 691-1714 Si/ellCe=Dellfh and ptnitire; box office, Hiley. t.ar. Flanders, J ... ifer Moe- disease. to treat secondary infections (all forms due by JUNE 1) 598-7150 (after 1 pm); recorded sched- son, Je.liter Leeey, David L Wrlgllt, and cancers. and to restore the ule, 598-7171 (thru MAY 24) percussion by B.rb.ra Barg and S. immune system; opening of meetings HERITAGEOF PRIDE Sales • Intonnation F.ybelle M.h-Hee; 150 ist Ave (at 9 St); and committees to PWAs and their Tlble is at the comer of Hudson & Christo- THE CENTER NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THU-SUN at 9:30 pm; $10 or TDF + $5; advocates; immediate release of test pher Streets, fNery SAT and SUN, noon - 9 LESBIAN & GAY HISTORY Cartoon .471-5288 (thru JUNE 10) data, as soon as it becomes available; pm (weather permitting) (thru JUNE 24) Show. showcasing the work of 40 car- ending "medical apartheid" and provid- toonists who deal with the lesbian and THEATER OFF PARK presents Rohil ing services for all communities affect- FRONTRUNNERS NY June 23 9th gay experience; with work by Jennifer Sw.dos· A QIII" Eed; starring Lonny ed by AIDS; "Az:r is no cure ... let the Annual G.y Pride Run in Central Park, Camper. Howard Cruse. Mark Johnson, Price. with Jordon Matt, Philip Coccio- record show .•.ten years ... one billion 8~ runners expected to participate, Burton Clarke, Jerry Mills, OutWee/(s letti, Paul Milikin, Rob Gomes; directed dollars ...one drug"; for more information

72 OUrYWEEK May 30,1990 on these issues. call Mark Harrington or national membership organization MaI'l/lClty Krocodll •• on the subject of HIV Altlltody T.st, -interactive work- Garance Franke-Rut! lit ACT Up, 989-1114 -dedicated to the furtherance of gay fear & sell; also Alldrww MelI.·. solo shop to help work through whether to (Editor's nota: ACT UP asks us stay"at- and lesbian writing and publishing-: PT...... IIC.. My life .. KillNowIIt. on take the test"; at the Center; 2IJI W 13 homes to call NIH with our demands. 248 W 17 St, #lire. NYC 10011) gender. fame. and fIShnets; '$1 E 1st St S1; 1-5 pm; free. registration required; 31V496-2263, or fax them to 311/496-5349. (btwn 1st/2nd Aves); 8 pm; $6 or TOF; 807.e5. TOO 645-7470 while the demo is taking place.KEditor's BODY POSITVE/NY For ... : I'flllolll Info 673-6752 (Editor: get there by 7:30; recommendation: Re-read Harrington's R_ IIIHIIIIV.moderated by David no reservati!)ns accepted) -Anatomy of a Disastar; Villllgfl VoicfI. Petersen. PWA. -for HIV+ people and SUNDAY, MAY 27 . March 13, 19!Kl.ACT UP has copies.) their loved ones to plan for the financial RAPP ARTS TlfEAlIR begins previewing health thllt is the necessary underpin- 'I1IoIa M. DIscII's1llack c-..tr ___ PARENTS & FRIENDS OF LESBIANS BRONX AIDS TASK FORCE Mo.tllly ning for physical h!l8lth. - including medi- n. Cd_ o.ar..sea UVEIY ARTS AND GAYS MoatIIly Meedllll. this and Mutl.lI. with a workshop on social cal insurance. disability insurance. other avery 4th Sunday of the month; all wel- work issues in pediatric AIDS; presen- sources of funding; lit the Center, 2IJI W VILLAGE BOWLING LEAGUE S.III ... r come. at Metro-Duane Church. 201 W 13 . tations on demographics. medical 13 St; 8-9-.30 pm; donation; 697-2580 S.rl •• 1990: Slnlllel; at Bowlmor ~ 3 pm; 463-0629 (Editor: My heroes.) issues. family issues. service issues. Lanes. 110 University Place; 8:30 pm; case presentation. community A DIFFERENT LIGHT Reedilll S.rie.: Gutter George. h>873-0154. w>546-2384 MARC BERKl£Y presents a ...... 0., resources. networking; at Bronx AIDS C.rol. Mao. AIf Ltwer. new novel by Week_ ..... It... CJIeniy Grow Ice CSp, One Fordham Plaza. Suite 800; 2- the author of Ghost Dllnctr. 548 Hudson OJ PATRICK'S WONDERLAND cele- P.I.ce. to benefit The New Festival; • 4:30 pm; 295-5605 (btwn CharleS/Perry); 8 pm; free but lim- brates M.rk H... II.. • ·I.xt" Bil1lld.y. -come as yourfavoritB villain orvillainess; ited seating; 989-4850 with the Wonderland Dancers. hosts best cOSlUmewins the complatB rmVideo HERITAGE OF PRIDE GeHreI ...... Loretta B. DeMille and Wendy Wild; Ubrary; on Fira Island; info 96&-5666 nl, ...... at the Center. 208 W 13 GAY MALE S/M ACTIVISTS M.dic.1 Mars. 3rd Floor. 13th St & West Side St,8 pm. 691-1n4 (also JUNE 4. 11.19) 1.1In ...... erotic uses for catheters. Highway; $1; 691-6262 . PYRAMID Ro •• y Sw.l. I. M•• I:I. sounds. speculums. enema bags. B.lcll Patty; 101 Avenue A (btwn 6/7 ROCKSHOTS presents a G.I. Be.ellt Bardaxes. forceps. hemostats. and how CHIP DUCKETT presents HOMoerotic Sts); $5; 420-1690 for DI"A It... Roxy. featuring celebri- to have fun with them safely; lit the Cen- Art .t O.lckl. tonight featuring the ty Me's. contests. prizes. polaroids with ter, 2IJI W 13 ~ 8 pm (program lit 8:30); paintings of AI.n H.M,IIIlr.; plus models. OJ SI.ter DI •••• lo •• go-go $3 memberf1S5 non-members; 727-9878 dancing/partying with DJs John Suliga MONDAY; MAYt28 boys and girls. performance by MI •• and Dinah; 6 Hubert St (off Hudson. 5 GI_I-Morw, KH.., 1Ce1.., at the door; VILLAGE BOWLING LEAGUE SUIII... r blocks below Canal); from 10 pm; $10/$7 M."...I Day Obl8Mld opens 9-.30 pm; male strippers at 1):30 SerIes ,990: 4-Penon T_.; at Bowl- with invite; 925-2442 (Try Jones Beach 16) pm; $1; Roxy 645-5156 mor Lanes. 110 University Place; 8:30 pm; Gutter George. ~154. w>546-2384 TUESDAY, MAY 22 FRIDAY, MAY 25 TUESDAY, MAY 29 . THURSDAY, MAY 24 WOMEN A130UT WIIIte Water RIIfti .... THE NEW SCHOOL •• rlCli. MalCilI THE NEW SCHOOL I-Week AII.ric .. Hudson River. Adirondacks; thru MAY Th •• tr. Cour.e. taught by publisher Maleel TIIeItnt Cotne. taught by pub- STONEWAll DEMOCRATIC CLUB AlIa- 28; $89+. guest house. food & trans- Andrew Velez; tonight a •• B.III.y. rlSherAndrew Velez; tonight, weak 6: Belly .1 S,rll!I DI ... r. honoring Assembly- portation (deposit was due MAY 7); T_y Grilul. EI.i .. StrItcI!; 66 W 12 ~ 66 W 12 ~ 6-7;3) pm; $1~ New man Riclllrd Gottfried (Chair. NY Ellen 718/622-1959 St; 6-7:30 pm; $15; New School 741- School 74t-5I9I. Mr. Velez (days) 929-0169 Assembly Health Cmte). K.I D.w.ol i 5690., Mr. Velez (days) 929-0169 (fonner Exec. Dir. of SAGE). Peter SIIIItII WOMEN ABOUT C.t.klll Mount.ln GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS.HIV H..... (Exec. Dir•• Partnership for the Home- Retreat, stay at a member's home; hik- QUEER NATION StraIBgy Meed ... IItthe S-iur: Medical T...... ; 129 W20 less). __ S1DIIe (Exec. Dir,. God's Love ing. biking, birding. shopping. commu- Center. 208 W 13 ~ 7:30 pm; info from St, 3rd Roor; 7 pm; free; 807-6655. TOO We Deliver) ...... SweeIey (Deputy Exec. nal meals. large deck; $30; Maureen Alan. 995-2440 (11 am - 7 pm weekdays) 645-7470 (this and every 4th TUES) " . Dir. of porlCY.GMHC); ~15O; 969-8854 779-0269 (reserve ea rly) CONGREGATION BETH SIMCHAT CENTER STAGE sees Til. C.in.tery JUDITH'S ROOM BOOKSTORE presents WOMEN ABOUT CaIIIpfest In "Pennsyl- TORAH Shitvuot E_illll. dinner at 6:30 Cld. with Eileen Heckart. Elizabeth . Joyce BerkJu •• 7h H.ali., ,,,,.,'"1- vanl •• reserve a cabin; music. sports. pm. service at 8 pm; 57 Bethune St Franz and Dorothy Belack, directed by tiotl of OliN Scllreill.r. Beyond South good company; Fran 595-5466 (near West St. inside the Westbeth Pamela Berlin; at the Brooks Atkinson Alrir:an CoI.'.i."" 681 Washington St Complex); 929-9498 Theatre; 8 pm; $48; info/rsvp 620-7310 (at Charles St); 7 pm; free. but limited LMH:lMCSBlSOOElYM ..... ~. seating; tD-733J (wheelchair accessible) . i1thafast~r.IJ~SltGena ID4JfB A DIFFERENT LIGHT Re.dl •• S.rI •• : LESBIAN AND GAY LABOR NETWORK K.te Millett, Tllfl LOOI,-BIII Trip. her For.: o-.dc P.... B8IIIIIItI--Leg- B~DY POSmVf/NY FotaM: HW Medical TlfE ANSWER IS LOVING Women Talk- long~awaited memoir; 548 Hudson IlIatlOII III Collective B.,...I.I .... with litomatiorr. Howard Grossman. ~D. Inll Wo .... •• T.lk: Relpect/Fe.r; "Is (btwn Charles!Perry); 8 pm; free but lim- speakers from the NYC Council. NYS moderates a discussion of recent there a c'onnection? Do we know the ited seating; 989-41150 Legislature. and an insurance company research results and clinical experience difference?" led by Ruth Berman and ,.tI1at covers domestic partners; at the by physicians treating HIV; IItthe Ce~r, Connie Kurtz; Sheepshead Bay. Brook- C8'nter. 208 W 13 St; 8 pm; 923-8690 '2IJIWI3St;7;3)pm;donation; nJ-1619 lyn; 7:45-10 pm; $8; 718/998-2305 WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 (LGLN. Box 1159. NYC 10009) . PosmVE ACTION OF NEW YORK ForuIII: VILLAGE BOWLING LEAGUE Su .. m.r 4:GOPM A&E Mllnhlltt,n (1979): Woody THE PYRAMID ACT UP a.neflt; 101 . Stlyi", """'" - I'rospects for ".,.,. Series'. Doe .... Partners; at Bowl· Allen. Mariel Hemingway. Diane Avenue A (btwn 6{1 ~); 420-1590 W1tIt HIV IIIIectiOll WIlD Do Nat HIN mor Lanes. 110 University Place; 8:30 pm; Keaton. Gershwin. and New York (2:00) AIDS. with A.tllolY F.uci. Director. Gutter George. h>873-0154. w>54B-2384 NIAID; moderated by Jeffr.y Greene. PRINCETON GALA Cocktall/Bllffet for WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Infectious Diseases. NYU Medical Cen- All Gay Mea .l1li LesltI.IS: Carlt_1 ter; panel with- Kevin Annington (GMHC), SATURDAY, MAY 26 S.".r III Soho. to benefit Fund for ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY M .... e,.. Jim Eigo (ACT UP). Kenneth Fornataro Reunion/Princeton GALA. Prlnciton's Maet ...... a multi-course meal in a (CRI). Derek Hodel (PWA Health Group). MEN OFAll COLORSTOGETHER/NY Day gay/lesbian alumni/n' association; sky-rrt privata dining room; 'at Tatany Vil- Ronald Johnson (Minority Task Force on oIll1da1gence. "come get your choic,! of cstared island·style buffet and open bar; lage Restaurant, 62 Greenwich Ave (off 7th AIDS). Iris Long (ATR). ~iguelina Mal- haircut, massage. facial. manicure. pedi- at 482 Broome St (lit Wooster); 6:30-9'.30- Ava. 675-61951; 6-8 pm. George 924-1287 donado (Hispanic AIDS Forum), Laura cure. hair braiding. foot massage or psy- pm; $35 advance!S40 door ($20 tax Pinsky (Columbia Gay Health Advocacy chic reading-; $10 for 1/2 hour, $40 for a deductible). students $20 advanceJ$25 PUBLISHING TRIANGLE Sprillg FII",. Project); one-hour question lind answer full package; at the Center, 2DI W 13 ~ door. sponsors $100; 4'11-3575 (checks to with refreshments. cash bar. -schmooz- period; in the Haft Auditorium of FIT. 127 noon - 7 pm; reservations 245-6366 P.rincaton GALA, Box 6m. NYC 10128) ing. networking; elections. raffle; at W '11~ 7:30; $5; 727-7768 Home Services. Ltd .• 6 W 32 St, 17th , G~Y MEN'S HEALTlf CRISIS Worklllo,: GAY MEN'S HEALTlf CRISIS Wo~:

FloQr; 7 pm; $10 (Editor's note: PT is· a DIXON PLACE presents Sh.lly 0 Think About./t D.cidinll to Take tile TIIillk About It Decidllll to T.ke".

May 30. 1990 O~WEEK 73 • HIV AlltllIody Test. -interactive work- bardi. -a pop musicaLa date for lunch 10t" A •• lv.r'.ry P•• el shop to help work through whether to turns a mother and son's relationship DlscusiOll/Slllriawc-R: /letnlcillf olld MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY take the test'"; at the Center. 2011W 13 inside out"; plus 01••• Berry's Gi..,,. RtIC.ptlltf", Our HiftIry. at the Center; 10lIl Analvarsaly Celellratioll: • CfIIfwIII, St, 3rd Floor; 7-10".30 pm; free. registra- Gil"". .. Cozy Comor, music by B. Ro 208 W 13 St; 8-11 pm;' don.tion; info poI/t1c.'••• d soci., (.10,11} extrOIlll- tion required; 807-6655. TOO 645-7470 . and Darling. "cable TV as it ought to from David. 932-3138. or Tony. 562-3131 gMZlJllt, with the ~ UgIIt GosfIeI (open to all. male/female. gay/non-gay) be...a recovering Dexatrim addict and· CIIoir. M" TlIANG. other musical. poetic . hosuewife broadcasts her show live T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAL. 8 and literary performers. visual artists. SCRABBLE PlAYERS CLUB G.... NIgId. from Chagrin Valley USA-; at the Ohio pm (see MAY 31) activists; at the Center. 200 W 13 St; 7-9 newcomers should bring a board; at the Theatre. 66 Wooster S1; 10 pm; $10; 924- pm; $15 (includes dessert buffet and Center. 2011W 13 S1; 8-11 pm; 5?0-9369 0017 (also JUNE 1 & 2, same time) BODY POSITIVE Friday Night Socl.1 dance afterwards at a member's West allll Pot Lack Di ... r;A-K bring salad or Village loft); info from David. 932-3138. or EAGLE BAR Movi. Night: &ti",R_t. appetizer. L-S bring main dishes (veggie Tony. 562-3131. or service. 245-6366 14211th Ave (at 21 St); 11 pm; 691-8451 FRIDAY, JUNE 1 appreciated). T-Z bring dessert; for HIV+'s and friends; at Rutgers Church. LESBIAN HERSTORYARCHIVES. FlAM- THE NEW FESTIVAL presents Wo/k OR 236 W 73 St (off B'way); 9 pm - mid- ING FEMMES. BRONX LESBIANS UNIT- THURSDAY, MAY 31 'tho Wild Sido at'l pm; Boy'~ L1v.s night; free. with your luscious dish; info ED IN SISTERHOOD Jollt B ••• fit (Bop/l.ife. DHPG Mo" Amour, Feor 01 721-1346 (Editor: Body Positive' has a Dance P.rty: Lo.bi.ns 1hrol,h tlto 1:00 PM This Way Out: inter.national Disc/on,., I'OttitiOlfS. Vivo Eul. Meet social event at the church every 1st & Ates; with door prizes for -Most BUll:h. magazine for and about the lesbian and BrtHll., he,,;SOIl, I'lckleslmer) at 4 pm; 3rd Friday of the month.) Most Femme. Most Androgynous. Most gay community; 99.5 FM (:30) Marlon RiIllS' TOII,_ Utili." and PrMi- PC. Heaviest Leather"; atthe Center; 200 1:30 PM Rompiendo.. 91'Silencio: local ..h. PInDer's Resh " 1'•• at 6:30 pm; T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAl., 10 W 13 S1; 8 pm - 1 am; $12 (more if/less if) gay and lesbian news and information world premiere of CrocodilesI"~ pm (see MAY 311 includes drink; info 548-0135. Center with Gonzalo AbiJrto; 99.5 FM (:30) d.tm at 8:30 pm; US premieres of Beyond 620-7310 (Editor's note: politically cor- G,.myand Nig/rt 0111.plus aoVllliOll" at COLUMBIA LESBIAN. BISEXUAl., GAY rec~ in case you didn't figure it out) lAMBDA INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS 10".30pm;for info see UVELYARTS COAUnON First Frid.y D.lc •• in Earl AIIn •• 1 End~ent Meeting; invited Hall. Columbia U;. 116 St & BY«ay (#1/19 T.w.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAl., 8 are announ'ced candidates for state THE NAMES PROJECT GuIlt OR Display at train); 10 pm - 2 am; photo 10 to drink; 854- pm (see MAY 31) Comptroller. Congress. state Senate. Brookdale Commanity College. Lincroft, 3574. 854-1488 (Editor's note: Columbia's Assembly. Brooklyn District Leaders; at ·NJ;thruJUNE3 - First Friday dances will continue through- EAGLE BAR Pride Night, $1 at the door . the Park Slope Mathodist Church. 8 St outthe summer: JULY 6. AUG 3. SEPT7) gets you your Pride Button; 142 11th at 6th Ave; 6:30 pm; 71111965-8482 MANHATTAN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT Ave (at 21 St);691-8451 SERVICES COMMITTEE Conf.r •• c.: THE NEW FESTIVAL Op.ning Night Vio/ollCflo"" Its Wcffms: Child,.". Fein- SATURDAY, JUNE 2 .tW.E:E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAL, 10 B.n.fit. paying tribute to R.... cc. 1110•• tho Commu"lty. with Claude pm (see MAY31) DoII ..s and May. Vision. and present· Brown. Manchild in the Promised und; THE NEW FESTIVAL presents AIDS ing the world premieres of Sturt M.r- Willard Gaylin, MD. co-founder and Senes' A DfIItIIJ./1 .. Faly and Clllt:b- shall's Comrodo. I" Arm. and Joy president of The Hastings Center. author I", R,. at 1 pm; Women Direct Series' SUNDAY, JUNE 3 Ch..... rI.ln·s Noctume; with compli- of Adam and Eve and Pinocchiu, topics Cllrt.top"or Strol, at 3 pm; the only mentary popcorn and soda; at the Bio- include family violence. physical and screening of Wat/or and Ent 01 the THE NEW FESTIVAL presents JIISIi.... graph Cinema. 225 W 57 S1; 7 pm; $25; sexual abuse. school violence. gangs. WIllI at 5. pm; NY premiere of Fell _ RI", and C.,,·t YOI 1.ko' • Joke plus with a party following. at Quickl (free substance abuse. cultural issues. vio- II New Ylri lit 7 pm; world premiere of How to Kill Her, D,.o",. 01 I'oss/o., bus. tra nsportation provided); 966-5656 lence and the media. program Joy CIIandIeIIaII's IIIrIctIime at 9 pm; US a.d Attritlol at noon; US premiere of (Editor's note: the fesitval boasts 17 pre- resources; Loeb Student Center. NYU. premiere of &ic iIe Kayper's l'illk,.,... Mark H.rris· fioctJIme at 2 pm; Women mieres out of more than 60 scheduled 566 LaGue,rdia Place at Wash. Sq. South; at 11pm; for info see LNELY ARTS Direct Series' Nov_bomoo. at 4:15 films from over 15 countries) nominal fee; !i66-3062, 254-0333 pm; world premieres of ComrodH I. DlFF'RENT SPOKES Leav.s for V.n- Atm. aad R_ 01I'1JSSI4Iat 6:30pm; WBN PRODUCTIONS presents Lynn GAY & LESBIAN PARENTS COAUTION courv.r; G.y G.m.s II pedaling off Looki", for LII",."", and US premiere Lam.r and Rom.novsky 8< Phillips; at INTERNATIONAL AIIn •• ' Confer.nce. today in order to make the Games site of Troj.". at 8:10 pm; W.,k 0"the Wild the Universalist Church •. 160 Central in WashingtOn. DC; leave message with . by August 1; 923-1433 (Editor: many Side at 10 pm; for info see UVELY ARTS Park West at 76 St; 8 pm; $15; Ticket 620-7310 for more info Diffrent Spokes members making this Central (charge) 279-4200 (also from journey will be competing at the games) WOMEN ABOUT Longlsl.nd Quickl. Judith·s Room. 681 Washington S1; Dif- AIDS CENTER QUEENS COUNTY Dis- Bike Trip. Eisenhower Park. Westbury ferent Light. 548 Hudson St; Oscar 'casslon of G.y Issu.s 8< AIDS with SAG E,Last Branc" of the S.asOI at Gardens. Long Island; Liz 718/188-2554 Wilde Memorial. 15 Christopher St) Lance Ring.l. Director of Lesbian & Sawadee Thai Restaurant, 888 8th Ave Gay Concerns. NYS Division of Human (at W 52 St); noon or 2 pm seating; $9.35 WOMEN ABOUT S.ndy Hook Birding T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAL pre- Rights; and Micha.1 D.Mayo. Asst. for drink, soup. salad. entree and cof- Trip. New Jersey; Ana 71~47 sents Tom Judson's 77Je BIll81'i8llO. "The Coord .• AIDS Prevention Program fee; rsvp 741-2247 (Editor's note: Hotel Caesar Augustus on the Isle of Development. 'GMHC; refreshments Brunches resume in October.) GIRTH AND MIRTH Trip to Atl.ntic Capri sets the scene for a composer's served; at Queens Borough Hall. Rm. City. via Amtrack (G&M. Box 10. Pel- collapse. complete with accordian 213. 120-55 Queens Blvd .• Kew Gardens; WOMEN ABOUT SI ..... r Pot Luck ham. NY 10lI03-0010) accompaniment"; plus Kevin M.lony's 8:30-11 am; register 7181896-2500 Planning Party B.ckyard B.lt.ecue 8< I'omso"pple/. -a multimedia musical R.ld Day. near Marine Palt, Brooklyn; ALLIANCE OF WOMEN AGAINST journey that delves into the steamy side. AIDS CENTER QUEENS COUNTY 2nd -eat, play. have fun & help us pliln sum- RACISM Anti-R.cls", Worksho,. for Live girls on stegel (Boys Too I)"; at the Allnaal Aw.rds Reception. with Hon- mer events-; Dolores 711V339-2nl women of all races; atthe Center. 11:31 am Ohio Theatre. 66 Wooster S1; 8 pm; $10; orary Chair'Joyce DinkiDs; honoring - 5 pm; $6 more if/less if; Luvenia 411-4175 924-0077 (also JUNE,. & 2, same time) Assemblywoman B.rb.r. CI.rk. Hon- NY COMMITTEE TO FREE SHARON orable Geraldine Ferraro. NY Newsday KOWALSKI Workshop: lllediCIIII'tIWtIIS ASIANS AND FRIENDS/NY Fullllraisi.g CHIP DUCKm hosts The New Festiv.1 President & Publisher RoIJert Johnson; til AtfDmey. to choose who you want to Fie. Market; at the Center. 208 W 13 S1; . Opening Night Party at Quickl. and the with a Cel.brlty Aaction of items care for you in case of accident of illness; noon - 4 pm; for info or to make dona- regular crowd. dancing & partying with including Darryl Strawberry's bat, Burt a lawyer will help you will out the impor- tions. call"John at 711V596-9696 DJs John Suliga 'and Dinah; 6 Hubert St Reynolds' T-shirt. Robin Leach's tantforms; at the Center. 200W la St; 1-4 (off Hudson. 5 blocks below Canal); backgammon set. many autographed pm; $10 singlesl$15 couples; 71111939-7730 MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER 10th from 10 pm; $10/$7 with invite; 925-2442 books and records; at New Yorlt Hall of Anniversa'Y G.rden G.I. at a member's Science. Flushing Meadow Park; 6-9 MEN OF ALL COLORSTOGETHEJVNY 10lIl Upper West Side home; 2-6 pm; $25; info T.W.E.E.D. NEW WORKS FESTIVAL pre- pm; $50 general/$125 with cham- Aniversary ~_ .._ C-Y. of from David. 932-3138. or Tony. 562-3131 sents Jim Provenzano's RiJsu!fle. -a pagne/dessert reception (9-10 pm); info -members and friends, kMId and Iost,IMIhout . solo performance about jobs from heir; from Howard Golderg. 718/896-2500 whom 1here could be no anniYe!sary"; at the COAUTION OF WOMEN OF THE AMER- 'pJus Fr.nk Jump .nd. Ann. Pop.·s Center, inthe garden, iIBW 13SI; 2-4pm dona- ICAS presents VV-.n from Both AnIer- .TOd.y's Sp'II:1.,•• directed by Rick Lom- . MEN OF ALL COLORS TOGETHER/NY tion; ilfofrom David.932~lI, orTony.!ii'l~31 Icas. sharing insights and cultural

. 74 outTWEEK May 30. 1990 backgrounds through original pO'etry, music, drama; bilingual presentation; featuring Maria Negroni, Agueda Tuning In: A TY/Radio Guide for OutWeek Readers Pizarro, Jeri Hilderley, Dian Hamilton; .,. .e with refreshments; in the Centtir's ,"Tormauon must Dereceived. by Man-day to be included in the following Women's Coffeehouse, ml W 13 St; 3-5 week's issue. Send items to Rick X. Tuning In, Box 790, NY, NY 10108, . pm; $6; 749-8449, 749-0n6

1:30 PM WBAI-FM Outlooks: the first ME (Arts & Entertainment, 555 Fifth Ava, 10th H NYC 10017; against fear and the elements-on 11nIIcheroua journey 661-4500) from Quebec to liverpool in I historic tall ship- (1:011) hour, hosted by Eva Yaa Asant8Wlla and CCIV (Rick Box 790, NYC 10108) . Nicholas Cimorelli, features a live inter· X. .. dllig/lt RB PROD Th, Robin Byrd Shuw. male and femlle GIS (Gay Broadcasting System, Butch Peuton, 1787th strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J(l3 11:001 view with Dr. Marjorie Hill, Mayor Dinkins' Ave, Ste. A-3, NYC 10011; 243-1570) 1:110AM WNET-TV Arl'ltl From Off Center. the series that new raaisonto the lesbian/gay community, GCN (Gay Cable Network, Lou Maletta, 32 Union Square showcases performance artiltl outside the main- with listener phone calls; 99.5 FM (2:00) East, Suita 1217; 4n-4220) GIII'IfC (Gay Men's Health Crisis, Jean Carlomusto, 129 W 20 stream; CH 13 (:30) KAREN L SMITH presents a staged ...... Sf, NYC 10011; 807-7517) 2:30 AM WASC-TV Th. Ve,.,Strip WI'(I984~ Rock Hud- lag of Eric BoodI'I FGrtifIrIeII ~ -a 17- RB PROD (Robin Byrd Productions, Box 305, NYC 10021; 988- son tries to revive a dying casino; CH 7 (2:011) year·old German-black runs away from 2973) his Colorado home to New York to seek WAIt-TV (7 Uncoln Square, NYC 10023; 456-nn) THURSDAY, MAY 24· the black father he never knew"; at the WBAI-FM (505 8th Ave, 19th FI, NYC 10018; 279-0707) 1:110PM WBAI-FM ThisW.y Out inteml1ionll m.glZine for Center, 2m W 13 St; 7 pm; $5; 893-9852 WCSS- TV (524 W 57 Sf, NYC 10019; 915-4321) and about the lesblln Ind glY community; 99..5 FM (:301 WNlt- TV (30 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC 10112; 664-4444) 1:30 PM WBAI-FM B"./d", the Silflncclocll gay and lablan WNET-TV (356 W 58 Sf, NYC 10019; 560-3000) LAVENDER UGHT GOSPEL CHOIR Per- news and information with Larry 6ullnburg; 98.5 FM I:!II of Select8d Bropk- m..ce Soap at 4:110 PM WCBS-TV G,,./drr. violence In nlghtl:lubi; CH2 Iya AIDS Task Force; 22 Chapel St (1:00) (Editor's nota: caused mostly by pervern hetero- (A,C,F to Jay St/Boro Hall, walk on Jay sexual youth) Sf, across lillery, one block to Chapel MONDAY, MAY 21 7:30 PM WPIX-TV Th, M,nehuri,n Cendidm (1962): PM WNBC-TV of /If. the Actor's Fund St); 7 pm; 2121222-9794, 71111624-1196 I. Night 700Stars Frankenheiiner's political thriller, starring murderoul, benefit, with appearances by Greg Louganis, Tony Randall, brainwashed Korean Warm Laurence HII1IV, with . Christopher Reeve, Michael Feinstein, John Uthgow, Ger- PYRAMID presents AndIoay SICllIO; 101 Frank Sinatra, Angala Lanibury, Janet Lalgh; CH 11 ~ Avenue A (btwn 6(1 Sts); 420-1590 aldo Rivera, and practically everybody else; CH 4 (3:00) $5; 9:tIII PM WASC-TV Twin Pelks, series cliffhanger; CH 7 (1:011) 11H111PM GCN B, My Guest a night at the Roxy; Manhattan Cable, CH JI73 (:30) 9:30 PM GMHC Livin, With AIDS: health Ind politics; M.n- hattan Cable, CH J/'l3 (:30) , MONDAY, JUNE 4 1~ PM TBS The Be,stmaster(I982): Marc Singer in a 10inc;loth, wherein he carries his two ferrets (2:30) 11H111PM WCBS-TV PHpl.M",nnc one segment includes San Francisco rapor18r Plul Wynne, who d08l THE NEW FESTIVAL presents the world 11:30 WWOR-TV Arsenio Halt Dolly Parton; CH 9 (1:00) PM a TV show about his life al a PWA; CH 2 (1:00) premiere of Joy Cha,,"erlale'l Noe- Tomorrows TV Toni,ht entertainment; Manhattan {;:3D'PM 11H111PM WNBC-TV LA Lew: Benny (the mentally chal- III"", at 1 pm; the US premiere of I'lale and Paragon Cable, CH 0/17 (1:00) U"... at 3 pm; the world premiere of .Ienged clerk) gets safe-sex advice from hll office col- Midnight CCTV Th, Closet Case Shuw. La Palace opening; In AmstImI_ at 6 pm; Gay leagues; CH 4 (1:011) CnH:odI,. Kloset KlipS; more strippers at Mars; Manhattan Cable, 10:30 PM GCN Plid, & Pro,rus: news, health, sports; Asia Series' With Ilea"" & ~ at 8 CH C/16 (:30) pm; ROI Peck'i Empire Stata at 10:15 Manhattan Cable, CH J(l3 (:30) 1:00 AM GayTv. gay male porno clips; Paragon Cable, CH.VJ3 (~ pm; for info see LIVELY ARTS 11. PM GCN ~ Right Stuff. media, entertainment, . TUESDAY, MAY 22 advice; Manhattan Cable, CH JI73 (:30) AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 11:30 PM RB PROD Men For Men: Robin Byrd presents gay PM WNET-TV Nova: -Breast Cancer: Turning thelide-: Oae-Week Coarse: Sexuality end tile I. male porno stars; Manhattan Cable, CH J(l3 (:30) the increase in lumpectomies, factors that contribute to CllIIIdI, with Beverly Harrison and James 11:30 PM GMHC Livin, WIttI AIDS: health and politicS; the disease, differences in cancer rates; CH 13 (1:00) Nelson; 3041 B'wayat 120 St; 662-4315 Paragon Cabla, CH JI73 (:30) 9:IJO PM A&E M,uric, (1987): James Wilby and Rupert HERITAGE OF PRIDE General_lter-. Graves as the aristocrat and the affectionate gardner FRIDAY, MAY 25 (3:00) (repeats at 1 am) Ihl, _eetlng, at the Center, 208 W 13 2:30 PM WBAI-FM Rompi,ndo eI Silencirr. todos los Sf, 8 pm, 691-1774 (also JUNEll, 19) 11:00 PM GBS OutintheWs:communitynews,discussion, viernes, Gonzalo Aburto con temls y noticias para II interviews;tonight Part3 of 3 segments with a closeted gay comunidad latina gay y lesblana; 99.5 FM (:15) tonight cflSCUSSBS ACT UP,/WHAM's Stop LAVENDER LIGHT GOSPEL CHOIR» prjestwho the 7:30 PM Th, Gay Datin, Glm, Show. Mlnhattan Cable, OIurch movemen1; Manhatlan/Paragon Cable, CH 1:/16 (1:001 . Mlellte Pe"-allCe Sets at Delta • CH JI73 (:30) Soalfood Restaural!f; 332 8th Ave at ~6 WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 9:tIII PM WNYN-TV (Fox) Coustll,u's Rediscov,ry of til. St; 9-.30 & 10:30 pm; $10, dinner reserva- World: Mel Gibson narrltes as crew memberl of the 9:30 AM WBAI-FM Ghosts in Machine. women in pop, tions 924-3499; info 212/222-9794, th, windship Alcyone skindive through western AustraRI'1 with Victoria Starr; 99.5 FM (2:30) . 718/624-1196 waters; CH 5 (1:00) 1:00 PM CNN SooyIIlNB iILA: when a parlnefdiesvial AIlS (1:00) 11:00 PM G,y No mala porno clips; Manhattan Cable, CH 4. PM A&E The Fox(1968): Keir Dullea tries to steal Anne Hey- JI73 (:30) wood from Sandy Dennis at her secluded farmhouse :':TUESDAY, JUNE 5 12:30) _ldal.1It WNET-TV Bloodhounds of Bro,dw,y(I989): SM I. PM WNET-TV AIDS Ouarter/y. Peter Jennings visits a WEDNESDAY THE NEW FESTIVAL presents the world small t~n in Texas, where patients too sick to work 1:00 AM RB PROD Robin Byrd Shuw. male and female premiere of Comredtts in Amts and the' must choose between food and medicine; Houston strippers; Manhattan and Paragon Cable, CH J(l3 (1:00) US premiere of FIemtts of I'e";on at 1 seen -driven to the breaking point"; a visit to PWA8 in pm; AIDS Series' A IhIIItII i" the Femily Sing Sing; CH 13 (1:00) SATURDAY, MAY 26 and Celd;n, Rre at 3 pm; the NY Pre- 9:IJO PM WNET- TV Bloodhounds of Broadway(1989~ aD .' 11:31 AM Stephen Holt Show/Onm,e Amerleel: 1M miere of the 1989 Academy Award win- American Playhouse production, from Damon Runyon'~ WED; Paragon/Manhattan Cable, CH C/l1 (:30) ning Commo" Threed. at 6:15 pm; storieS" about Prohibition-era New Yor!t; with Matt Dillon, Women Direct Series' D_rt Hee". at Madonna, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Grey, Rutger Hauer, 11:00 PM RB PROD The E,rIy Byrd: Robin Byrd prasents 8 pm; Parting Glances Series' Lew of Julie Hagerty, Dinah Manhoff, others; CH 13 (1:30) male/female strippers; Manhattan Cable, CH J(l3 (1:011) D.I,. at 10:05 pm; for Info see LIVELY 9:00 PM Stephen Holt Show/Onstage Am,ricaf. tonight ARTS continues Holt's -Hunk Month: with l~year-old soap star Scott Defreitas on the beach; Manhattan Cable, CH 0/17 (:30) (for Paragon, see SAn SUNDAY, MAY 27 11H111PM WABC-TV Twin P"ks: season·ending cliffhang- 11:30 PM GCN M,n& Films: male erotica; Manhattan er; CH 7 (1:00) Ca ble, CH J(l3 (:30) 11H111PM A&E Living Dangerously. - a group of teens fight

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I ." Monday -a.a.r Days (primarily gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (819Aves); 245-8925 I'I'iYN Eyes ("arc Berkley's Kool Komradsw/ Razor Sharp & strippers; The Building (Club Bad's The Men's Room, 10 pm; $12; probably prep- . preppies and guppies) 12 W 21 St, club 'JIKt-m2 ' pieS/guppies; opened May 20) 51 W 26 St; 576-1890 Tuesday . . . La Palece (Michael Fesco's Power Tea, 4 pm - midnight; $6; probably hi- NRG gym hunks; started May 20) 34 E 18 St; 228-fIlO9 *Love Machine lLarry Tee & Lahoma Van Zamlt, young & exotic crowd) -La 'alace de Beeuta (Lany Tee & Lahoma, midnight - 4 am; club kids, 860 Bway, at 17 St; 254-4005 TVs, gay/straight; started 5/20) 34 E 18 St; 228-8009 WVednesday . *Mers (Chip Duckett's Mars Needs Met$ Westside Higlwvay and 13111St;1II1.a12 ...... Deys (primaril'{ gay men of color) 316 W 49 St (8{9 Aves); 245-8925 -Pyramid (Junior's Tea Dance 6-10 pm, Mona Foors Gay Cabaretafter- Private Eyes (Jeffrey Sanker & Dallas's Club Bad; many preppies and wards) 101 Avenue A, btwn 6/7 Streets; 420-1590 guppies) 12 W. 21 St, btwn 5th/6th Aves; 'JIKt-m2 *Roxy (Molly House Sundays at Roxy) 515W 18 St(blwn llVl1 Avest,646-5156 *Pyramid (Les's My Sister/Comrade party, Starts June 6th) 101 Avenue A, btwn Streets; 420-1590 Every Night (or almostl 6/7 -Club 43 (jiromises John LaAeur, TVs, Rock & /foil Fag Bar, It Twins, Silver Uning (2-4-1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women SAT) 175 Cherry Keoki; call for info) 108 W 43 St; 354-7348 La., Aoral Pk, LI; 516/354-9641 Monster (West Village) 80 Grove S\ at Sheridan Sq.; 924-3557 Stutz (241 drinks, also open dalyl2D2Wesacnastar Ave, WhiII! Plails;914'761-311Xl Spectrum (closed Mon & Tue, WED free,THU free & 2-4-1 drinks, FRI Thursday rn/f strippers, SAT guest star show, SUN live show & free 9-10 pm) *Soyber (BoyBar ~eauties new wave drag show) 15 1/2 St Marks Place, 802 64th St@8thAve, Bay Ridge, Bklyn; 7181238-8213 btwn 2ndl3rd Aves; 674-7959 'Copacabana (last Thu. of the month Susanne Bartsch party, next is May DANCING OUT for Women 31; iffy door) IDE 60 St, at Fifth Ave; 755-6010 Tuesday Excalib .. ($1 drinks, also open Tues-Sun, women WED) comer 10th/Jef- Hatfield's 126-1'0 Queens Blvd., Kew Gardens; 718,'261-8484 ferson behind football stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161 Grand Central (women's night, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road, Grend Central (2-4-1 drinks, also open Wed-Sun) 210 Merrick Road, 'Rockville Centre, LI; 5161536-4800 Rockville Centre, LI; 51&1536-4800 WVednesday Hatfield's (2-4-1 drinks, female impersonators; also open nightly, women Bedrock 121 Woodfiela Rd, W. Hempstead, LI; 5161486-9516 on TUE & FRI) 126-10 Queens Blvd, Kew Gardens, Queens; 7181261-8484 Excelibur (Ladies Night, $1 drinks) comer 10th/Jefferson behind football *MIllS (mixed gay/straight; OJ Patrick's Wonderland, on small3rd Aoor) stadium, Hoboken, NJ; 201-795-1161 Westside Highway and 13th St; 691-6~2 tlQuicld (~ Ducksttllusdays)6 HlbertSt(HIIIsor\5 Illes bebwCanalt,925-2A42 Thursday.' Bedrock 121 Woodfield Rd, W. HemPstead, LI; 5161486-9516 Friday . Big Hunt Club (Her Planet 8 pm - 2 all'l) 804 Washington St, 4 blocks *SoyBar (stiJdenls&E. ViII. crowd) 151/2 StMar1

78 OUTYWEEK May'30, 1990 811AD(lAY lIEN OF AFRICAN DESCENI) LESilIAN AND lAY LA80I NE1WORI NOII1I AIBICAN MAN/lOY IOVarickStreet, NYC 10013 a aupport group of Gay An o!llaniZlltion of L.. biana and GaY' who are active LOVE ASSOCIATION !~LAI Men of African D•• c.nt d.dicallld to conaciouaneM- in their labor uniona working on domestic pertnarahip . Dedic.ted to .. xu.1 fraadom .nd •• p.ci.Ry inlllrellld railing and the devalopm.nt of the Lesbian and Gay ben.fillland AIDS i.. u... For more infonnation call in gay inllllll.ne ... tional reiationthipe. Monthly Bul- Community. GMAD is incluaiv. of African, African- !212)923.8e80. . letin and regul.r chaplllr maeting. onthe fim Satur- Am.rican, Caribbean and Hispenic:IUtino men of d.y of •• ch month. Y.arty m.mbership i. szo; wriIII c.oIor. Melting. are h.ld, weekly, on fridaY'. For lOBIAN AND GAY RlGIfl'S PIOJECT NAMBIA PO Box 174, Midtown Station, N.wYort, more infonnation, can 71&-802-0182. ofth.~_n~Uba~U •• NY 10018 or call!212) 807-8578 for infonn.tion. ICNOWYOUII NaRl/W£'fE ElIPAlIJMTHEII GAY MErtS HEALTH CRISIS HOTUNE , !212) 944-9800, .xt. 545 FOR INFORMATION ON SAFER SEX AND HIV-RElAT- NORTIEIN LIGHTS AIJEIIIWIVEI ED HEALTHSERVICES, AND FOR INFORMATION ON LESBIANS AND lAYS OF RATBUSH Improving au.lity of Lif. for Peopl. with AlDSlHIV. ONE-TIME, WALK-IN AIDS COUNSalNG SERVICES Brooklyn'. iIOcial ollIanization for both gay men and THE AIDS MASTERY WORKSHOP: ExpIoringth. po.- 212-1117'- I.. biana. P.O. Box 108, Midwood Station .ibiliti .. of. powerful and creative lifa in the fac. of .212~7470 TDD !For .... 1IMri1ll ... pelred)· Brooklyn, NY 11230 -!718) 85&-9437 AIDS. C.II!212)2~ Mon.-Fri. 10".30a.m. to 9 pm. Sat 12:00 to 3:90 LESBIAN HEISTORY ARCHIVES NYC lAY • LESBIAN GIII11I. MIITII CWB OF NEW YORK P.O. Box 1268 ANn-VlOLENCE PlOJECT ' Social club for h.svy, chubby gay m.n a their admir- NawYort, NawYork 10118 . Counaeling, .dvoc.cy, .nd infonn.tion for ,urvivo ...... Monthly aocials It the ·Ce~r', we.kI-( bar 217/874-7232 of .nti-gay .nd anti-laabi.n violenc., .axual .... uIt, nighlll Thu ... daY' at the 'Ch.lsea Transfer', monthly Sinc. 1874, the Archives has inapired, shaped .. nd domestic viol.nc., .nd oIIi.r typaa of victimiZlltion. flit Appl. Revi.w, bi-monthly FAR. panpal •. For more reflecllld Lesbian livea .verywh.re. ·C.II to a ..... ng •• Allservictia fraa .nd confidenti.l. infonnation call Erni. at 91+889-7735 orwrilll: visit or to volunteer for Thu ... day wortmighta. 24 hour hotIin.!212) 807-0187 G6M/NY. Dept 0, P.O. Box 10, P.lham, NY 10803. LONG ISLAND ACl-llt PEGi'll WITH AIDS COAUllON HEAL !IMhh Educatian AIDS Llai_) P.O. Box 291, Naw Hyd. Part, NY 11040 !212) 532-_1-800-~otIin.!212) 532-0588 Wukly info. and support group for traatmentll for Support UI for change on Long Illand. Mond.ythru Friday lOam-8pm AIDS which do not compromis. the immune ayatam !5111)33&-4882!5111) 987-~ N.... u M•• I progralT18, .upport groupe, .ducation.l.nd furth.r, including alternativ. and holiatic approach ... !518) 92&-5530 Suffolk refa ...... Iservic •• for PWA' •• nd PWArc' •. W.d 8pm. 208 W. 13th St. !212}874-HOPE. lIEN OF All COLORS TOGETHER NY PEOPLE WITH AIDS HEAIJH GlOUP HE11IICI-MAII1IN INSmUTE A multi-raciar group of g.y men ag.inst r.cillll. Meet- Und.llIro..,d buyar'a club inipor1ing not-yet-approved for lesbian and gay youth. Counseling, drop-in can- ing. ev.ry Friday night at 7:45 at the Lesbi.n .nd G.y IlKldiCltion. and nutriliOllllsuppiamantL 31 West 28th IIIr !M-F, 3-8pm), rap groupe, Harvey Mnk High Community S.rvic •• Canter, 208 W. 13th Str8al For St. 4IhAoor !212)532-maD . School, AIDS and safar sex infonnation, more info. cd: !212) 245-83118 or !212) 222-879t refarrals, profaaaionaladucation. SAGE: !Saniar Action in a la, Emi.....-) . !212) 833-892OIvoica) , 1ETR000urAN TENNIS GROUPIMTG) Social Servic. Agency; providing Clre, activiliaa, a !212) 833-8928 mfor d.af Our 200 member I,.bian and g.y lIInnii club includaa .ducationalseNic .. for gay alaabi.n sanior ciIiz-. players from beginning to tournallKlnt lewl. Monthly Also 18M111OVIIr Il1Ohomaboclr!d IIInionI a oider FWA' •. HISPANIC UNITED GAYS • lOBIANS IIInn. per1i... Wint8r indoor lugu8. Come play With ual 208 Wast 13th St. NYC 10011, !212)741-2247 EducationalseNices, political action, counaeling and For infonnation: MTG, Suilll K83, _A Hudaon st, Naw IOcialactivitiaa in Spenilh and Englilh by and fortha York, NY l002S. !718) 852-8562. SETHIAN GAYS, LESBIANS AND BISEXUALS Latino Lesbian and Gay Commun~ For an of u. inlllrestlld in reaching out to uch oth.r ·Gene ... 1m•• ting. 8:00 pm 4th Thu ... day of .very MOCA!Man III ColorAIDS Pi-ti.n ...... ) with .xub .... nc. to .pontlln.oualy explore .nd montlut 208 Wast 13th Stra.t Call!212) 891-4181 Provid .. Afar sex and AIDS .duc.tion infonn.tion .xpand upon tI!!I SetlVJ.n.l\oberlll"phiIOlOphy" •• or write H.U.G.L, P.O. Box 228 Canal Stra.t Station, to g.y and bisexual M.n of Color; coordin.lIIs • net- it relates to ou

May 30, 1900 O~EK 79 CHELSEA Duchess 11,70GroveSt 17thAve.l,242-1408 Sally's Hideaway, 264 W. 43 St., 221-9152 J's, 675 Hudson St., 242-9292 Town & Country, 9th Ave at 46th St., 307-1503 Barbary Coast, 64 7th Ave. (14th St.l, 675-0385 Julius, 159 W. 10th St., 929-9672 Trix, 246 W. 48 St.(bet. Bdwy & 8th Avel, 664-8331 The Break, 232 8th Ave. (22nd St.l, 627~0072. Keller's, 384 West St.(at Christophel{ 243-1907 The Works, 428 Columbus Ave (at 81stl. Chelsea Transfer, 131 8th Ave. (bet. 16th & 17thl. • 799-7365 . 929-7183 Kelly's Village West, 46 BedfordSt., 929-9322 Eagle's Nest, 14211thAve (21st St.l, 691-8451 The locker Room, 400 W. 14th St. (9th Ave!. EASTSIDE . 459-4299 Private Eyes: 12 21st St. (bet. 5th & 6thl. W. 29 Palms Pub, 129 lex. Ave (28/29thl, 686-8299 206-7770 Maile's Crisis, 59 Grove St. Oth Avel. 243-9323 Bogart's, 320 E. 59th St., 688-8534 Rawhide, 212 8th Ave., (21st St.l, unlisted. The Monster, 80 Grove St. Oth Ave.1.924-3558 Brandy's Piano Bar, 235 E. 84th St., 650-1944 Spike, 120 11th Ave., 243-9688 Ninth Circle, 139W. 10th St., 243-9204 G.H. Club, 353 E. 53rd St., 223-9752 Ramrod, 185 Christopher St., unlisted. WEST VILlAGE Johnny's Pub, 123 E. 47th St., 355-8714 Sneakers, 392 We.st St., 242-9830. Regent East, 204 E. 58th St., 355-9465 The Annex (to Cellblock 281. 673 Hudson St.(bet. Two Potato, 145 Christopher St., 242-9340. 13th & 14thl, 627-1140 Rounds, 303 E. 53rd St., 593-0807 iy's, 114_Christopher,741-9641 .. . Badlands, Christopher & West St., 741-9236 South Dakota, 405 3rd Ave., 684-8376 Uncle Chaflie's, 56 Greenwich Ave., 255-8787 Boots & Saddle, 76 Christopher St., 929-9684 Star Sapphire, 400 E. 59th St., 688-4710 WESTSIDE '" Cellblock 28,28 9th Ave, 733-3144 The Townhouse, 236 E. 58th St., 754-4649 The Cubbyhole, 438 Hudson (Morton Stl, Candle Bar, 309 Amsterdam Ave., 874-9155 Twenty-Nine Palms, f29 lexinton Ave., 686-8299 243-9079 -. Cat's, 730 8th Ave., 221-7559 D.T:s Fat Cat, 281 W. 12th St., 243-9041 Don't Tell Mama, 343 W. 46th St., 757-0788 EAST VILLAGE The Bar, 68 2nd Ave. (at 4th St.1.674-9714 Boy Bar. 15 St. Mark's PI., 674-7959 - The Pyramid, 101 Avenue A, 420-1590 540-0U·TT Tunnel Bar, 116 1st Ave 17th St.1.7i7 -9232 III BROOKLYN (718)

Z After Rve Plus, 5 Front St., 852-0139 -... Spectrum, 802 64th St.(at 8th Avel. 745-9611 >" Sweet Sensations, 6322 20th St., 435-2580 II:... QUEENS (718) ~ . Breadstix, 113-24 Queens Blvd., Forest Hills; a; 236-0300 " __ Hatfield's, 126-10 Queens Blvd., 'Kew Gardens, ..i 261-8484 _ CI Hideaway, 87-36'Parsons Blvd., Jamaica, 657-4585 III 11:' .Lpve Boat, 77-02 Broadway, Elmhurst, 429-8670 Magic touch, 73-13 37th Rd, Jackson Hgts, III 429-8605 Z STATEN ISLAND

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Playro'om,590 Nepperhan Ave., Y~nkers, 965-6900 The Cubbyhole Stutz. 202 Westchester Ave, White Plains, 438 Hµdson Street 761-3100 at Morton .LONG ISLAND-NASSAU (516) (212) 243-9079 . r Bedrock, 121 Woodfield Rd., West Hempstead," 486-9516 A neighborhood bar for Blanche, 47-2 Boundary Ave.,Farmingdale, both ,gay men & women 69.4-6906 . Cheeks, 20'00 Long Beach Rd, Island Park, , 431-5700 Grand Central, 210 Merrick Ad, Rockville Centre, LADY 536-4800 C()NTRACTORS Pal Joey's,.2457 Jerusalem Ave., North Bellmore, • ELECTRICAL • 785-5031 • CARPENTRY· .Silver Lining, 175 Cherry Lane, New Hyde Park, Quality, Personal Dentistry ..• PLUMBING: 354-9641 • PAINTING· LONG ISLAND-SUFFOLK (516) Suite 704 Quality Work 200 West 57th Street (212) 475·4383 419, 419 North Highway (Rt. 271.Southampton, . New York, New York 10019 Serving the gay 283-5001 . (212) 333-2650 commu-:-ity for 15 Bunkhouse, 192 N. Main St. Sayville, 567-9834 Office· Hours' by A~pointment Onlyl , year. Club Swamp, Sizes, 8 r. Main St., Bay Shore, 665-5175 •Kiss, 161 Farmardie Dr., l,ake Ronkonkoma, , 467-927g Mr:s, 608 Sunrise Hwy., W. Babylon., 661-~580 Starz, 836 Grand Boulevard, Deer Park, 242-3857 Thunders, 894 W. Jericho Tpke., Smitht~n,

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May 30, 1990 OUTTWEEK 81 ) fBI fnIm ... lIe15 Cohen. Therefore, people who contribute that a lack of communication with the staff year-old Richard Butler as the founder large amounts of money to an organization may hav~ been the board's greatest and pastor of the Aryan Nations Church feel that they are entitled to a voice in downf.ill. 1here is a level of sensitivity on in Hayden Lake and said .he has been at policy.,setting, while individuals with lesser this board about taking a more active role the center of an effort to establish a resources are not. in their oversight capacity," says Pratt. In white-only nation fn the Pacific Some organizations, like the. HRCF, addition to strengthening the board, the Northwest. T have solved the tension between major NGRA has also changed the hierarchical -flied from Chicago contributors and others interested in setting structure of its staff. Since Executive the organizations's direction, by creating an Director Jean O'Leary resigned last RID from pelle 17 exclusive club that is distinct from the December, amid charges of abuse of power Some organizations, such as the board of directors. At the HRCF,this body is and of fmanciaJ. misappropriations, the national Gay and Lesbian Task force or the called the Federal Club, and its direct organization has abolished the position of National Gay and Lesbian law Association, influence on policy-setting is limited to one executive director, and divided the running have chosen to make. board diversity a seat on the board, reserved for the Club of the organization the executive matter of policy by mandating that a certain president. "Our major donors do not have a administrator and the legal director. . number of board members must be veto or an inordinate amount of say in Former and current employees and women,- people of color or persons with policy," says McFeeiey, who maintains that volunteers of the Fund have also charged disabilities .. Class diversity, however, is a he has not wib'lessed any tension. between that the board has chronically failed to , goal that is almost impossible to quantify the Club and the' board. The shifting of cooununicate with the staff and volunteers. and extremely difficult to accomplish. some fund-raising responsibility ,alsO allows Some blame this failure, and what they see "Just being on a board is a fairly the HRCF to choose and evaluate board as the board's collective lack of · sizeable ~acrifice for people. who are members-based not only on their fund- .understanding of lesbian and gay politics, worldng-dass," states Tun McFeeiey, noting • raising ability, but also on the other two of on the fact that the board is set up to that in addition to raising $5,000 a year, what McFeeley calls "the three WS: Wealth, , perpetuate itself. HRCF board members--like members of wisdom and work." ·1 dOn't know where this phrase'""'self- " boards of most national OlBaflizations-must like theHRCF, the National Gay and perpetuating board' came from," respondS · also pay for, their own transportation to Lesbian Task Force has created a distinct Ann W!lson. "This boaid that I am co-chair quarterly board -meetings held around the club for its major contributors. But the Task of is a fairly new board." But at ~ir last coUntry. The HRCF leadership has

, feeling on the board that sets up a real members. Instead, the entire ;'board eventually elect the board members. I dichotomy." ' conunits to raising $51,000, and each of the Pratt reports that while the NGRA has Not all boards ate apprehensive to 25 members sets the 'amount he or she never discussed the possibility of creating offer their members financial help. The plans to contribute' toward that goal. As a an elected board, he ~cts to take up bylaws of the year-and-a-half-old National result of this and other measures, declares this issue in the coming year. Th~ HRCF Gay and Lesbian Law Association,' for Board Co-Chair Giny Cowan, "We have made such a change. last fall, explains example, provide for the payment of travel people from every conceivable 'class, McFeeley, because ."We were becoming • 'expenses. The Law Association may also be" ...people who make all kinds of money, much more than a PAC [political action' the only gay and lesbian national people who don't make any." ' corrunittee). And ... we felt that required a organization whose board members do not Speaking about the organization's different structure than the fairly · face a fund-raising quota. "Ouf intention efforts to increase the diversity of its exclusive, self-perpetuating PAC board." was to make it a ground-up organization," board, Cowan notes: "I really believe that But even in organizations with explains Co-Chair Katherine Triantaflllou, if the Task Force weren't focusing on that elected-board structUres, new board who wrote the original structural proposal ·as an issue, our membership would m~ ;u:e sometimes chosen in part or

for the group. I literally kill us." entirely by a conunittee of the board. The Other le~ders, however, reject the The board of the Task Force is Task Force, for example, has a Board possibility of taking proactive steps to elected by the organizations; members, Deyelopment Cornptittee, which identiftes increase the class diversity of their who number almost 18,000. New potential candidates lor the board, and boards. ott takes some dollars·to be members of the board of the Fund; and evaluates the credentials of people who involved," agrees the Fund's filln WJ!son. of National Gay Rights Advocates, are wish to place t}lei! names in nomination. . · "But you ·know what? That's part of being chosen by sitting members. But Cowan maintains that "it's not like the on a board." Cowan is sharply critical of self- development COIlIIIiitieesays, 'no, you can't Of course, board-sitting has appointed boards. "I've been in run.' If someone really desperately wants to historically been the province of the well- organizations where boards are' self- run, they probably will." . to-do. "It no longer becomes a privileged perpetuating," explains Cowan, "and it's Candidates for the board pre~ent 'position wpen a working-class person amazing how little they know about the themselves to the m~hip by placing a_ gets on," remarks Henderson. . organizations. " short biography in the Task' Force "Our whole culture· is based on the William Pratt, the executive newsletter. The procedure is the same for idea that froin money comes power," adds administ;rator of the NGRA, acknowledges current members who are running for re- · . . O~EK' May 30, 1990 election and for new candidates. While the dubbed the "Ryan White Amendment," - and Commerce Committee and is pending current members have already gone would have brought federal criminal action on the House floor .... through the board's perfonnance-evaluation penalties against those attempting to process, the results of this assessment are donate blood, organs or body fluids who VIOLENCEfrom palle 14 not put in the newsletter to help members know they are HIV-infected, or who have become far more dangerous and hostile decide among candidates .. used'IV ort .. members voted, out of the total 6,000. Out seeking funds under the bill should haver information about this incident, or any of its 18,000 members, fewer than 2,000 laws on the books "adequate to o~er cases of attacks against gay men voted in the last Task Force election, prosecute" those who try to donate and lesbians, call the Anti-Violence ac;cording to Robert Bray. Until these blood, body fluids or organs which theY Project ;1t(212) 807~761. .... numbers, as well as the total membership know to be HIV-infected. figures of national organizations increase A day earlier in the debate, the Senate dramatically, any discussion of rejected on a 6~33 vote an amendment accountability of and representation on from Wallop which would have allowed fight homophobia national boards will be largely an academic states with low HIV-incidence rates, like exerdse. ... his own Wyoming, to receive funds under T por favor T RINDS ACrtrom palle II the bill to treat other non-AIDS related chronic illnesses. ho~osexual community," assumedly The bill would set up a five-year angry with attempts at blocking the bill, federal grant program to provide. had allegedly made threats on his life. "emergency disaster relief" funds to be Helms indicated that he has refused to be split between 13 cities with over 2,000. guarded, saying, "I do not need any·escort. cases of AIDS and other areas with high I do not need any protection. ...La-dee-da. concentrations of HIV infection. The bill Let them threat. Let them thfeat." . would authorize $600 .million in Helms likewise railed against the emergency funds for the each of the OUTWEEK bill's being dedicated to the late AIDS 1991 and 1992 fiscal years, and "such. patient Ryan White as a coopting of the funds as may be necessary" for fiscal IS" young man's name to further the 1993 through 1995. "agenda" of the "so-called homosexual Also included in the bill is a five-year .O.N cpmmunity. ~, authorization program to provide - Helms' first amendment, similar to treatment drugs to low income AIDS others he has attempted to place on patients through state health programs. NEWSSTANDS several bills, would have barred states from This measure, successfully blocke~ last receiving funds under the bill if they did year by Helms, has long been sought by 'EVERY not ban clean needle and bleach AIDS activists as a long-tenn solution tQ a ' distrib~tion' programs, which are used to year-to-year crisis in funding the now- prevent HIV infection in IV-drug users. temporary treatment program. After heated debate, the amendnient lost As funds in the measure are MONDAY by a 70-28 vote. contingent on spending levels set in each . Afterwards, the Senate, on a 98-0 year's budget, what is actually spent_ vote, agreed to a substitute Kennedy/Hatch under the act in the next fISCal year may measure which instead stipulated that vary from the bill's stipulations. - funds under the bill should not be used to A similar, though slightly different fund needle distribution programs. bill, the AIDS Prevention Act of 1990, was The other Helms rider, which he approved May 14 by the House Energy

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