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Volume 10, Issue 9 500 HAYES ST.. SAN FRANCISCO, C A 94102 (415) 861-8100 ANGRY AIDS PATIENTS ORGANIZE; AIDS AWARENESS WEEK San Francisco, CA — Next Monday, Mayor Dianne Feinstein will proclaim May 2-8 as AIDS Awareness Week. (Ed. Note: Lorch Sends Blistering Response see “Well & Good,” page 4.) The numerous events scheduled for the week are designed to focus nationwide attention on AIDS, by Gary Schweikhart the health hazard which has now reached epidemic proportions. Nearly two dozen local AIDS The idea for the week originated with several local AIDS patients, angry over “Paul Lorch’s patients and has spead nationwide, with similar AIDS Awareness editorials and headlines regarding marches and activities in New York, Texas and Florida. The AIDS in the Bay'Area Reporter," local activities include: have begun to organize in protest. • A Candlelight March led by AIDS patients. Beginning at “This is the first time that we as a Castro and Market streets, at 7:30 P.M., May 2. The theme: group have decided to get together “Fighting for Our Lives." The purpose is "to memorialize those and stand up on our own." said who have died from AIDS, to show solidarity with those who now one of the participants. have the disease, and to demand that sufficient research funds be The first action by the group released to find the cause, the cure and any methods of was to send an open letter to Dr. prevehting AIDS." Marcus Conant, president of the • White House Call-In Day on May 3. Concerned citizens are Kaposi's Sarcoma Foundation, asked to call the White House to urge for increased AIDS protesting the BA.R.'s “sensational funding. The number: (202) 456-7639. approach to reporting [which] only • Public Information Forum at Unitarian-Universalist Church, fuels the fires of fear, guilt, 1187 Franklin at Geary, 7:30 P.M. The latest AIDS information homophobia and adds to the every­ from physicians, researchers, patients and others. Free and open day stresses patients must face in to the public. dealing’with this illness." The • CHR Wellness Conference, from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M., May 7. open letter further states. “Our At Cole Hall, Medical Science Building, UCSF, 513 Parnassus. concern is that if [publisher] Bob Costs: $5-$l0. Ross allows his paper to be directed • Mother's Day on May 8. Tell your family about the in this manner and'continues to seriousness of AIDS and have them write their respresentatives Feinstein Hails Win as ‘Mandate for Courage’ hold a place on the Board of in Washington to urge increased AIDS funding. Directors of the K.S. Foundation, For more information on any or all of these events, contact the Mayor Dianne Feinstein has that the coalition for the recall Sister BoornJ3oom, an outspoken that organization is going to lose a AIDS & KS Research and Education Foundation at 864-4376. dubbed her stunning 100,000 vote called itself progressive and pro­ critic of the mayor, also attended considerable amount of credibility BRITT, MOLINARI ASK $$$ FOR AIDS victory over the recall supporters gay. We intend to find out who the Feinstein victory celebration! in our community." as “a mandate.for courage." Fein­ was responsible." "I'm a good worker, a gdod sport San Francisco, CA — Supervisors Harry Britt and John This letter was signed by.22 stein made her comments to a Peter Nardoza, a gay aide to and I love a good party.” Boom local AIDS patients, and copies of Molinari have asked the Board of Supervisors for support of $2.1 crowd of cheering backers at her Feinstein, said the mayor "was Boom confided. it were widely disseminated among million in emergency spending for AIDS. Their request, if campaign headquarters last Tues­ very, very happy about the results Feinstein wound up the election elected officials, gay political clubs approved by the Board, would urge the mayor to budget for day night. of the recall election." While with 127,043 votes, or 81.2 percent and the local gay/lesbian press. increased patient care, public education and medical research to The defeat of the recall effort Nardoza said the mayor will "hold of all votes cast. She finished first After printing the letter in full meet the growing number of AIDS cases. was total and city^wide, which on the front page of the 4/21/83 Part of the $2.1 million includes “a request for $293,500 in surprised even those who sup­ issue of the B.A.R., editor Paul additional funding for the KS Foundation and the Shanti Project ported the recall. They were Lorch then wrote a blistering for information and referral services to the community and privately hoping for an anti-Fein- response to the AIDS patients. emergency shelter for displaced AIDS patients,” according to a stein vote somewhere between 30 His response, which one local gay press release from Britt’s office. These residences for homeless and 40 percent, but only succeeded health professional has dubbed AIDS patients were first revealed in The Sentinel (X-7, 3/31/83) in picking up 18.8 percent of the "shocking and insulting,” is now AGNOS PLANS AB1 SEMINAR total vote. in the hands of the signers of the Randy Stallings, president of open letter. While the AIDS pat­ Sacramento, CA — Assemblyman Art Agnos has scheduled a the Alice B. Toklas Memorial ients themselves have decided not one-day seminar open to all supporters of his AB1, the gay rights Democratic Club which supported to release the letter — "We don't employment bill. It'll be held on Saturday; May 21, from 10 A.M. Feinstein, said, "Yesterday's vote want to get into any war of words to 5 P.M. in Room 4202 of the State Capitol in Sacramento. This illustrates that the gay/lesbian with Faul Lorch right now," one is open to all those who'd like to help in the passage of this bill. community prefers rational, pro­ said recently — The Sentinel has For more details. call -Cleve Jones at 557-2253. ductive discourse over unnecessary obtained a copy of the Lorch letter KEEP DAN WHITE IN JAIL and divisive confrontations by from othêr sources. San Francisco. CA — Supervisor Carol Ruth Silver, attomey. refusing to agree in an unfair and In the letter, Lorch responds to John Wahl. Rev. James Sandmire of the Metropolitan Community hysterical recall." the AIDS patients' criticisms by Church ?nd Scott Smith, former lover to slain Supervisor Stallings was visibly angry saying, “What’s more I sçnse that Harvey Milk, have launched a statewide petition drive to revoke Tuesday night over "a political your experiences have failed in the scheduled parole next January'of Dan White, the killer of dirty trick." Someone had distri­ making you bigger men. The Milk and Mayor. George Moscone. The petitions urge Governor buted thousands of copies of a [open] letter reveals a reverse Toklas Club flier supporting Fein­ every precinct in the dty but trend, a trend toward peevishness. .Deukmejian and all appropriate officials "to do everything in one in the Haight, where she lost their power to keep Dan White . . . in prison for the full length of stein throughout the conservative What a time in your lives to be sections of the city. "Distributing by a single vote margin. without honor. Taken to tattling. \ his sentence, or if he is released on parole, to set the strictest The size of her victory means conditions on that parole." Anyone wishing to circulate petitions gay literature in conservative Exiting with a whimper.” Later neighborhoods had only one supported the recall — but, he that she will probably be unbeat­ Lorch. writes, "With respect to should write Dan White Petition, 584 Castro St., Suite 235, S.F. able for re-election this fall and, 94114. Or call Supervisor Silver's office at 558-2254.______. purpose — to turn out the anti­ said, it is "obvious that she owes a this community I have paid my gay vote. This cynical example of great deal to the Toklas Club, with all of the national exposure dues - for over 10 years. For gay-baiting is a dangerous move although I don't think this should this recall has given her, Feinstein’s most of the names on your list, taken out of desperation and is . be viewed as a way to negate or vice-presidential prospects are the only thing you have given to especially shocking considering punish the Milk Club." pushed even higher. this Gay life is your calamity." The disagreement between the AIDS patients and the B.A.R. has Paul Lorch’s Response been simmering for some time. Open Letter The patients have been incensed by what they term “sensational" from AIDS Patients coverage of the health crisis, citing stories about AIDS patients who commit suicide (complete with Your letter reporting me to the authorities was forwarded Seems everyone but the Police Chief and myself received suicide note); reprints of "the copies My reaction: theory-of-the-week stories” as Pat l alone am totally responsible for me editorial content of Norman, director of gay/lesbian the paper The point of view is calculated, deliberate health services for the city’s informed. By the standards of an advocacy press, highly responsible and preponderantly on target. I do not write to Department of Health put it at the recent Gay Press Association Weekly, the community is exposed to Paul Lorchs pander to either me living, the dying nor the dead 1 write editorials and headlnes regarding AIDS in the Bay Area to expose, to illuminate. regional convention in San Fran­ Reporter. These articles are widely read and discussed I have wrestled with me problem of covering your cisco; and, particularly, Larry Meanwhile, if District Attorney Arlo Smith has his way, Dan and to many, become gospel It seems to us ihat the particular issue before me scourge even tracTa^name. and Kramer's article, "1,112 And publisher and editor have been less than responsible in before most of you had fallen prey to its claim Counting," which was reprinted White won't be able to profit from his murder spree through City representing the theories and data surrounding AIDS Had I from the first spoken louder - even more shrill - Hall. Smith is urging the state parole board to require Dan White Ot the people we speak, to. including many other patients, some of you might not be me marked men you are today in the B.A.R. last Ma/ch 17: to fork over any profits he might make from a book or movie sale we find that many are distressed that this sensational Well never know, but I'have plotted my new course as you The AIDS patients have also as a condition of his parole. approach to reporting only fuels the fires of fear, guilt, have yours To me .my way is clear, my conscience been angered by comments in homophobia and adds to the everyday stresses patients scrubbed clean I find your-letter a sorry document, for its voice is Lorch's B.A.R. editorials, such as: must face in dealing with this illness. Too often we patients • “The time has come to start DUKE NUKES LESBIAN/GAY FREEDOM WEEK are asked to leave restaurants and our homes and are confused, its intent unsure - save to do some punishing abandoned by those we feel are necessary to our emotional Not liking me message, you scapegoat me messenger I scaring some of thé shit out of Sacramento. CA — Governor George Deukmejian has turned support because of hysteria and misplaced fear have been there before, have any of you? ourselves. The Grim' Reaper is no thumbs down- to a request that he proclaim Lesbian/Gay It would be instructive and informative to advise the Your threat to purge Bob Ross from the K.S board if I am longer simply hovering over La­ Freedom Week to coincide with this year's Lesbian/Gay Freedom community that this is not a socially casually contagious not brought to heel tells me too much about each signatory guna Honda. He is in our midst, disease Too often, however, the issue of AIDS and the What s more I sense that your experiences have failed in Day Parade. "The tradition of this annual proclamation was making you bigger men The letter reveals a reverse trend, and each day he cuts a wider, begun in 1980 by Governor Jerry Brown. While it is only a victims themselves are. pawns on someone1« editorial, political, or monetary gameboard. a trend toward peevishness What a time in your lives to be swath." (March 17, 1983) symbolic statement of the governor's awareness of gay. and We also feel that the indirect editorial slander of those without honor Taken to tattling. Exiting with a whimper • "At this point in the race info lesbian contributions to the state and our struggle for equal., persons.and organizations which have helped us most. i.e In me last analysis you flatter, me with a misplaced concern Like yourselves I am Impotent in the face of mis and against death, there is nothing rights, to discontinue this tradition is to turn away from the the Department of Public Health, the Kaposi s-Sarcoma any one of us can do specifically pursuance of a just society and truly representative government,” Foundation, the Shanti Project, and our physicians and onslaught. With respect to mis community I have paid my healthcare workers, is totally unwarranted and unjustified. dues - for over 10 years. For most of the names on your against AIDS . . . short of a solo according to a statement signed by Linda Boyd and Konstantin The Kaposi s Sarcoma Foundation is a much needed list, the only thing you have given to mis Gay life is your retreat to some mountain cave.” Berlandt. 1983 Parade co-chairs. This year's parade will be June organization with a dedicated group, of paid and volunteer calamity Gentlemen. I have no intention of standing down, for (March24; 1983) 26.' workers Our concern is that if Bob'Rots allows his paper • "Already one crowd has to be directed in this manner.and continues to hold a place about me I still have my wits and my wile Crowding HOMOPHOBES ORGANIZE on. the Board of Directors of the K.S Foundation, mat around you is every bunko artist ever imagined: holding demanded that the mayor come Dallas, TX — A. newly formed group of self proclaimed medical organization is going to lose a considerable amount of them at hay has been a lonely task Carry me sting where up with tens of thousands for an credibility in our community. you will, for while I am no hero to you. you never had a experts called Dallas Doctors Against AIDS is using the more stalwart champion AIDS victims' house — Or ware­ current health crisis as a vehicle to reinstate anti-gay legislation . Sincerely. When. I have ceased to speak brashly about me subject, house — as would be assumed \ in Texas. The group, whose president is a dentist, has cited • 22 AIDSPatients and when the subject is stifled, rest assured mat the real under the aegis of a crew. I. wouldn’t j medical evidence relative to the spread of AIDS and homosexual times of trouble have begun trust my sick goldfish to. What a activity. In their campaign, the'doctors contend that by eliminating Paul Lorch wonderful way to secure a pro­ all contact between homosexual males, AIDS will be eliminated.. Would mat me anonymous récipiént .circulate mis among longed free lunch (all one has to ^ [The Connection. 4/14/831 me signers declare is that he is an indigent Continued on page 10 r

'3 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 April 28,1983 HRCF’s Endean Denies ‘Turmoil at Top’ by Gary Schweikhart the articles by Larry Bush in the Endean in a recent interview with duties. But this won’t be just The Human Rights Campaign Advocate as "Totally inaccurate. The Sentinel. limjted to giving big contributions Fund, the political action offshoot Some of the. criticisms leveled And while $45,000 was left in themselves,.they can find others April 38 (Thun.) - Human Right* the account following the election, to donate money or join as mem­ Commission lesban.Gay Advisory Com­ of the Washington-based Gay against us have some basis in mittee meeting At 33 Gough SI auditorium. Rights National Lobby, scored fact, but it's important that these most of this money has since been bers.” spent. “There was a definite loss 5:30 PM dbsovereign impressive gains in last fall’s problems not be used as an ekcuse Goodstein admits that Endean April 39 (Fit.) - last toy Usbkm/Oay elections, claiming a whopping 81 for attack.” of momentum following the elec­ has done "a pretty good job so Day Celebration. At Okies. 4 130 Telegraph Vatican City, IT — The flock percent success rate in supporting The major disagreements within tion. We were overwhelmed by far,” but says the board needs Ave. in Oakland, (torn 9 PM to 1 AM. Music, won't be rectified by priests who our success and didn't put together comedy and more Donations. S3-S6. pro-gay candidates. Since Novem­ the HRCF board seehi to revolve strengthening. “I follow the advice April 39-May 1 - Whole lit* Expo at confess to wanting m'ore dirt. RC ber, however, the organization has around money. While the group a careful cash-flow plan,” says of Dorothy Chandler who said Moscone Center Speakers on ADS include leaders have announced a confer­ gone through a number pf topside raised an unprecedented $602,000 Endean. board members should either give, Alan Rockway and Peter Todd. For more ence f°r bishops: "Reconciliation shifts and Siiuffles, which now last year (“Out of 718 independent Some of Endean's critics, includ­ get or get out.” Goodstein denies into, call Douglas Jackson at 928-3600 and Penance in the Mission of the- seem to pit HRCF Treasurer and PACs of our kind, we were 17th," ing Goodstein, believes the HRCF that he is using the Advocate to April 10 (»at.) - Operation Concern's Church." They don't know what ©ay/Lesbtan Outreoch to Elders is holding string-puller Steve Endean against boasts Endean), only $145,000 board of directors should be made pressure Endean — as some GRNL an informal social event tor gay people 60 to do, RC's aren't "celebrating David Goodstein,the publisher of actually went to campaign contri­ up primarily of people with proven staffers insist — and he says and over Refreshments will Be served. At penance with individual confession" the Advocate. butions. “This figure may seem fundraising abilities, while Endean these charges "make me want to San Francisco Home Health. 225 30th St . at and "have started to manifest the "We're doing our job to the best shocking at first glance, but you wants a board which will give him throw up. I haven’t seen anything 2 PM. For details, call Stafford 8uckley at anxiety of their soul — and of our ability. There is no turmoil," have to realize that it takes a lot of “good political advice, although in the Advocate against Steve, 563-0202 sometimes the same guilt — to May 1 (tun.) - O 40 Plus, a social protests Endean, who describes money to raise money," defends fundraising will be a part of their Continued on page 10 organization tor gay men over 40. regular psychologists and with too much meeting 200 PM at the First Unitarian credulity even to astrologists and LLOYD TAYLOR Church. Franklin a t Geary The featured others'." Monsignor Jozef Tomko QUALITY PRINTING ATTORNEY/CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT speaker is Stafford Buckley GLOE said that even though the church coordinator from Operation Concern doesn't want to sound Ike it’s FAST SERVICE • Wilis 8< Estates May 1 - tan Francisco Hiking Club coming down on psychiatry, people L O W COST • Incorporations wok to PUgas Water Temple and Edgewood • Partnerships Park Meet ot 945 ot McDonald's parking are sharing their problems with lot. Haight at Stanyan For facts. phone Lon , Comsr Post & Podi • Ta« Planning 01621-3413 ' specialists that have no business • Ta« Returns taking money for listening to sin. 441-7227 May 1 - Usbten/Oay Freedom Day 1101 P o sisi. • Business Law Pa rod* committee general meeting. At Shrinking (turning on the couch) • Real estate the Women's Building. 3543 18th St. from 5 sheep reject glory-holed guilt­ WORLD’S LAR G EST • rinancialPlanning to 7 PM For info, call the porade number sharing - coffers suffer. 861-5404. P R IN TIN G C HAIN May 1 - Unltarian-Unlversallst Oay/ Oakland. CA. — Papa may have, lesbian Caucus hears from BWMT about but he's changed and can’t you recent report on racism in Son Francisco At see? I'm no good without him. At First Unitarian Church. Franklin at Geary, eleven, the kid wants to forgive starts promptly at 10 A M May 2, (Mon.) - AIDS Awareness his father, Jerry Stancill, for Week: Candhrilght March, from Castro' maiming him when he was a 10- Maiket to U N. Plaza. At 7:30. bring a candle month-old baby. Found criminally May 3 (Tues.) - AID! Awareness insane, after attacking the boy Week: White House call-in day. Can the. and his sister, back in 73. Stancill's While House and ask. “What's being done . about funding for AIDS?" The number is. sanity is once again on trial. His (202)456-7639 son and some psychiatrists testified that Stancill would probably be May 1 — AID» Patients organizing meeting OK if he stayed on medication At 4028 18th St., at 2 P.M. For AIDS patients only. For more info, call Bobbi Campbell or and had regular check-ups at the Gary Walsh ot 864-4376 shrink’s. Other psychiatrists, how­ ever, claimed that Stancill is still May 1 - San Francisco F.LA.O. Corps a danger to society because he's FINALLY. TELEVISION YOU meeting At the Pacific Ballet Center. 1519 Mission St . 7.30 PM For more, cdll Ron had several berserk remission Kraus at 621-5785 episodes. He set fire to an apart­ May 4 (Wed.) — AIDS Awareness ment once, claiming that it's CAN FEEL GOOD ABOUT Week: Public Informotioi) forum with Dr. foundation rested on a baby's Marcus Conant, Dr. Sob Solan, Jim Oeary ot the Shanti Protect ond a panel o1 cemgtary (“he was looking for ADS patients At First Urytenan Chixch. Frankin baby bones”) and another time at Geary. 7 30 PM Free and open to all Stancih was found doing pushups May 4 - Network Coffeehouse presents in the kitchen' - some water A Critical Study ot the Bible and Homosex­ uality" At 1329 7th Ave 8 P M boiling on the stove, with eggs, a May 4 — KPFA's 'Fruit Punch' presents wine bottle, and some of his an interview with comic Lea Delaria, ' thorazine pills. The son wants to ana more on AIDS 10 PM on KPFA (FM 94) “love, him and care for him and in Berkeley, and KFCF (FM 88) in Fresno hug jiim ever more." He doesn't May S (Thun.) - AIDS Awareness Week: Worried Well Support «roups. remember the actual incident, on4 Location to be announced Free. 7 P M. Feb.: 23. 1973, when his crazy May 5 - lesbian/Oay Labor AIManoe dad was babysitting him and bit meeting At 24(5 Golden Gate Ave. at 7 off one of his testicles. “You took PM For details, del Vince at 863-2632. or Lorry 01648-6535 the best/so why not take, the rest? May 5 — A Mothertongue reading and . . , take all of me ..." discussion as a benefit for lesbian poet Three Rivers, MI «- Up front Martha Courtot. A: the Valencia Rose. about being a drag becomes one. 766 Valencia St. at 7 30 PM Questions? Call 341-6040 When the local librarians were May 7 (Sat.) - AIDS Awareness Week: pressured into getting rid of the CHR Wellness Conference, from 9 AM books on homosexuality by Rev I0 6 PM Cole Hal MecScal Science Balding Edward Varner, the veneer was UCSF. 513 Parnassus S10S5 low income May 7 — Oay/Lesbian Alliance at intact. It was just another.funda- Stanford's'second annual gay family day mentalist going off about buggery. . Starting at noon. WitaurField Everyone wel- The KKK and the John Birch Society even stepped in to lend a May 7 (Sun.) - AIDS Awareness Week: hand. Then,the Rev dropped the Mother's Day. Tell your family about the seriousness ot ADS and have them writeJo load: his real name was Gregory their representatives in Washington for more Korte and "1 was Patty." Korte AOS funding admitted to having been the famous: May S - Red Hearts Pottuck, a loose female improv. An evangelist had collection of radical gay men has a-once o month get-together 1432 Walter no 3of supposedly played exorcist to 7 00 Bnng something to share 821 -0951 for. - Korte's poor demon-infected soul. more information- He was not a real man. The May 10 (Tues.) - Holly Near lectures on people in Three Rivers are unfor­ 'Politics. 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remarkable. Lauren is still confi­ Sutter’s Mill has bought The dent that her partners Rkk Carver Mint and fired all the previous Ç&22B£££@2SSü and Marc Cornils will not force employees . . . talk about lack of her out of the business. But Kate job security. I hear they’re negot­ is singing a different tune.“ Not iating for the Stagecoach (employ Basters, Baybrick & Billie Jean only is she taking them to court to ees beware). The Tavern Guild INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCER obtain profits that she believes has given up on California Hall by Corinna Radigan Has nearly completed (91%) major exact date of the party next column. are rightfully hers, Elvin is also and is now looking at 44 Page duality Lesbian-Polygamy. 35mm See what happens when you Peg’s Place is now showing steadfastly maintaining that Rick Street for a possible gay com­ Feature Color Film A very unusual use a turkey baster to hatch an free movies like Cabaret and and Marc will screw over Lauren munity center. . . good luck. True story dramatically presented egg? A full hearing will be held Victor/Victoria every Monday and just like they did to her. Keep The fastest growing lesbian In a tine sensitive manner. Great today (April 28) in Oakland to original music score, first class Wednesday nights at 8; check it reading this column for the latest organization in the country, Bay production values. Straight backers decide if Linda Loftin has the out. Political notes: The Milk Club developments. Area Career Women, now has withdrew. Producer desires to meet right to Visit her former lover is supporting Sals Burton for Have you caught the latest about over 570 members. $30 a year financially qualilied. aesthetically Mary Flournoy's child. The couple Congress; former Harvey Milk Billie Jean King? You know, the entitles you to attend business inclined Partner. Lender or Investor was “married" in 1977 in Dublin, aide Anne Kronenberg will be to discuss completion. Outstanding tennis queen with the revolving meetings, social events and net­ high class theatre potential A rare had a little girl in 1978 and broke her campaign manager with head­ closet door. Well, she's filed a $55 work with other women. Call 431- opportunity (or principals only to up in 1980. When asked by inves­ quarters bn Van Ness; 'they're million breach-of-contract suit 5934 for membership info. The write in confidence, with phone tigators why the father wasn’t just waiting for Dianne to move against her former lover', Marilyn Bay Area Women's Philharmonic number at once to: paying child support, Floumoy out. Art Agnos reassured Milk Barnett, claiming the woman will have their last concert of the WILLIAM EDWARD THRUSH answered, “There is no daddy - Clubbers that he will bring AB1 violated agreements regarding a season on May 13 at 8 P.M. at P.O. Box 727. Saratoga. CA 95071 here's the turkey baster.” In to the assembly floor sometime beach house and private letters. Zellerbach Auditorium , U.C.-Berk- October 1981, Loftin was ordered between late May and August... King alleges that Barnett violated ' eley. Tickets are $8.50 and avail­ by the Alameda County DA’s as long as its summertime. Carole a private agreement reached when able at BASS. office to pay $100 a month in Migden will take over the Great the lovers split back in 1980. For all you B/Ders & S/Mers, child support. Why pay for a child American Music Hall in July for a Under the oral agreement, Barnett the S/M Institute has orientation you're not allowed to see? fundraiser to eradicate those nasty was to be paid $125,000 in ex­ meetings every Monday night at A special note for Dick ‘Sweet- leftover campaign debts. change for vacating the beach 7 P.M. at 820 O’Farrell, apt. 107. lips’ Walters: Hydie Downard Last column I reported that the house, returning the letters and If that's not quite your speed or took “the big bird" to Palm Springs Furies, a local women’s rock band, getting “out of Ms. King’s life.” down your alley, then try the with Mary Ellen- trying to forget had broken up and that Sami The beach house in question was women’s rap group at the Bisexual little Miss Tap Shoes. Hydie’s got Sparks and Mlki Wagner would the one which toppled into the Center every first and third Mon­ a great tan, too, so you know she go on to form a new band. A Pacific earlier this year in all the day at 7:30 P.M. The location is wasn’t home wl]en she got it. change in plans now has Miki storms, but that’s not stopping 1757 Hayes at Masonic. Mark After all, why work for Twin making a demo tape with former Billie Jean, who’s asking for $25 your calendar . . . May 7, the Peaks when you can play with members Debi Kassel and Kat million in compensatory damages Coalition for Human Rights is them? C'est la vie. Artie. Kirsten (minus Sami). and $30 million in punitive dam­ sponsoring an all-day health con­ A hot one: Women may soon be ages from Barnett. Another trial ference, 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. at S.F. firefighters . . , Overheard at looms ahead? I don’t know about • UCSF . . . and if you survive that, Mauds: Jane Dornacker had to James Langley, a longtime you, but I think Billie Jean should activist in the local gay/lesbian be at Japan Center at 8 P.M. for leave Amelia’s because she didn’t be wise, and read about another the outrageous Closet Ball. have an ID — so she went to community, was accidently electro­ “strike-back’’ lawsuit of years ago ' Happy belated birthday and Mauds and drowned her sorrows cuted last weekend while doing . . . the one filed by Oscar Wilde. some fix-up workat Cher Mollet. anniversary wishes to Hector . . . I hear Bob ‘Cable Car* Cramer Jane Fonda's hubby Tom Caceres and Duste's Lounge, vehemently denied to Rikki Strei- He will be missed. Hayden is at it again. His campaign respectively. Denise Martinez and cher that he had a purple peter — The controversy surrounding for Economic Democracy is throw­ Kitten Craven will be cheerleaders (but what about his latest boyfriend Clementina's Baybrick Inn is ing a party on May 5 to celebrate for Amelia's softball team. Kitten Peter at Alfie’s?) Speaking of still raging in full force. I talked the opening of their S.F. office at has bigger pom-poms but "Floozy" Maud’s, their 17th anniversary is with Lauren Hewitt and Kate 1095 Market, Room 704. Cocktails does better splits. Ponder that coming up soon. I'll have the Elvin recently and the contrast is and mingling from 5 to 7 P.M. and have fun till next column.

Couldn't Be More Graphic "give them wha.t they want.’’! I brought out many well wishers hope I’m not being too graphic. including some gay celebrities. Fighting For Our Lives’ will Among them were Dr. Tom be the theme of the Monday, May Waddell of Gay Game tìbie, Chris 2 Candlelight March when the Puccinelli of Awards by Chris, gay/lesbian community and our Archbishop Axes Gay Chorale Sara Lewinstein of Artemis Cafe friends come out to march in and Michael Buckey, director of memory of the 428 people who by Vaughn Taylor night at the Pride Center, 890 the David Card System. Couldn't have died, to date, from AIDS. It Hayes at Divisadero. There will is also meant to show solidarity Well, the ol' Archbishop has with the people who have the gone and done it again! This time be a $6 charge for the 8:30 P.M. concert. I hope a whole lot of disease and to join in demanding he's responsible for cancelling thpt sufficient research funds be tofnorTow.night's scheduled concert people show up so we can show the Archbishop that we can’t be released to find the cause, cure by the Gay Men’s Chorale at St. and methods of prevention. At Boniface's. Dick Kramer’s multi­ silenced, po matter what he tries to do.to keep us quiet. 7:30 P.M., the Candlelight March talented performers were all set will begin at Harvey Milk Plaza, with a number of classical selec­ The Castro has its first “Un­ tions when the word came down bar" called the Castro Country Castro and Market, and end at that the event had been axed by Club located in a five-room flat at U.N. Plaza. As of this writing, the hierarchy. 4058 18th St., dear the Jaguar Fred Rogers of the Elephant “Enough is enough with this Book Store. Booze and Drugs? Walk has agreed to close the archbishop. How dare he use his Nope! Never had 'em and never bar's doors from 7:15 to 9 P.M. (B ell (PhorvèCentei * authority this way when the church will! The CCC is a private member­ that evening to encourage patrons ship club where gay men and and employees to participate in spiritually belongs to everybody,” Be More Graphic, a computerized complains Kramer. ‘'However, I women can come to socialize in a this meaningful event. Daniel WHO ARE WE? non-threatening atmosphere. Steve typesetting and graphic design Livingston of the Men’s Room We're still the Mission Phone Center, only now we’re think it is important that we firm, the newest business in the continue to support Rev. Robert Harris, the club’s owner feels tells me that his. bar will close for AMERICAN BELL. And that means more products, better Castro promises in its advertising the event, as will the Detour. prices and longer warranties. Pfisterer, the pastor of St. Boni that "bars are set up to keep flyer to “give you what you want."! face’s. He has been a wonderful people from meeting. They tend Singer Tito and the Gay Men's We offer a full line of home communication equipment to Tom Rosso, the owper, and Ron Chorus are scheduled along with supporter of gay rights over the to do all the things that keep Us Whyte, the graphic designer, are meet your personal needs. last year, and we could wind up buying the next drink while at the speeches by AIDS patients. Buy both so good looking I'm sure two candles and bring a friend. losing him over this very issue." same time making it difficult to most clients would like them to Kramer says the Gay Men’s communicate with anybody." Chorale will now perform tomorrow Last Friday's open-house at lelehelper Speakerphone Model 700 Inflation-Fighter Perm- • Enjoy the freedom of a “hands­ Marc free" telephone conversation. $ 3 0 c o m p le t e • Lets others join in on the con­ Cut and bio— versation. Men and Women Only $74.95 plus tax Men's short cut—$10 760 M arket at Grant Rm. 401-6. Phelan Bldg 362-5198 The Automatic Telephone Tues.-Sat • Never miss another call! • Get your messages no matter where you go. • Screen your calls. Only $249.95 plus tax

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AIDS Awareness W eek by Rick Crane The message from BAPHR is Burton's Reapportion Legacy This coming week, May 2-8, not that sex is part of the problem, will be AIDS Awareness Week but rather that sex is part of the by Chris Bowman here in San Francisco. Without solution. No one enjoys being told includes Mono Lake, and ends up question,.the central event will be that highly pleasurable activities Congressman Phil Burton is in Stockton, bypassing the Counties the Candlelight March "Fighting may not be in their best health dead, and it is only proper and of Merced, Stanislaus and Mari­ for Our Lives.” The March will interests. But it is obvious that we fitting that thie memorial service posa. Another, the 20th, connects take place on Monday, May 2, cannot, and must not, conaemn for him was held at Fort Mason — Death Valley with Pismo Beach. starting at 7:30, and will be led by ourselves to lives of celibacy, the easternmost part of the Golden AIDS patients, their families, abstinence and the avoidance of Gate National Recreation Area The State Senate and Assembly friends and lovers. The March all personal intimacy as a reaction which he created in the early 70’s plans of 1982 aren't much better. will follow Market Street and end to the current wave of panic and by an Act of Congress. Clearly, The 14th Senatorial District spans up at the United Nations Plaza fear. Nor can we wear selfpro- Burton's concern for the environ­ from Carmel to eastern Yosemite; where there will be a short rally tective “body condoms” (even if ment was the hallmark of his long the 38th Assembly District in Los addresses by AIDS patients. they may come in designer colors) political career. Angeles County and the 73rd in The Candlelight March is a or walk around in hermetically Another legacy of that career, Riverside County defy descrip­ beautiful and longstanding tradition sealed 50Js. r seldom talked about by his Demo­ tion. And, of course, right here .in in our community. Every Novem­ Our considerations about making cratic collegues and certainly less San Francisco, Willie Brown fash­ ber we gather to commemorate changes in sexual practices must pleasing to the eye and to the ioned a safe district for himself by the life and contributions of Harvey be based on accurate information belief in good government shared connecting the predominantly black Milk and George Moscone. This rather than myths and on intelligent by most Californians, was Burton's Ingleside District near Park Merced march, “Fighting for Our Lives,” reasoning rather than fear, Now, latest plan to gerrymander the with the northwestern part of San is especially important as it honors , more than ever, there is the need State. You will remember that Francisco via a two-precinct wide the life of not one, but the lives of for personal intimacy and personal there was such a public outcry corridor. the more than 430 who have died support and for us to view our­ over the initial lines drawn by In response to this continued from AIDS. Not only a memorial, selves and our lives as positive Burton artd his collegues in 1981, travesty, Assemblyman Don Se- this is a call for action and affir­ and affirming, for there is no that the voters of California rejected bastiani of Sonoma County com­ mation : To support those -who information to see it any other the Burton, State Senate, and missioned a number of experts in have AIDS and to demand that way. 1 ^ T TT7” ‘ 1 Assembly plans in June of 1982. the field to redistrict the State of sufficient federal funding be made What the Risk Reduction Guide­ The legislature was thus required California using “good government” available for research to find the lines provide is information. They to draw new lines which were critera adopted by the voters in cause, cure and means of prevent­ are not prescriptions but sugges­ State of the Art substantially different from those 1980, namely that 1.) districts be rejected by the voters. During the ing more cases of AIDS. ' tions. And right now, information with Randy Alfred geographically compact and recog­ AIDS has been a source of is your best defense against AIDS. Associate Professor of Political final hours of the 1982 session of nize city, county, and regional THREE R’S: State Assembly- Science .at U.C.-Santa Cruz, con­ the State legislature, Phil Burton boundaries; 2.) major population concern, alarm and even anger By being well-informed, we can member Art Agnos (D-S.F.) has a within our community, and some understand the risks and have vinced the administration there to and his friends unveiled their latest centers are not bypassed;. 3.) new strategy for Assembly Bill 1, appoint Australian gay liberation- gerrymanders which were immedi­ communities of interest are not of that anger has been turned more power in making decisions. his legislation to ban employment inward - against ourselves.- Now ist Dennis Altman Regents' ately signed into law by lame- needlessly divided or diverse We can make informed choices discrimination based on sexual Lecturer. Thomas and Altman is the time to redirect that concern about our bodies, our health and duck Jerry Brown before George interests lumped together; and 4.) orientation. |n past years, Agnos are now teaching a spring-quarter Deukmejian could be swom-in as minority voting power is not and our feelings of anger. All of the ways in which we take care of has been unable to move the bill us, gay men and women, and our course, “Sexual Politics: Lesbian Governor. Anyone examining the diluted-. In addition, Sebastiani ourselves and each other. out of committee- and Gay Liberation." friends should come out to demon­ In many ways, the existence of 1981 and 1982 plans would have .incorporated the following reforms, This year, Agnos has A.B.I Thomas calls the appointment difficulty in determining which e.g., that each Senate District strate our unity and resolve. And the AIDS health crisis has chal­ through two committees and ready we are not alone: similar organized "unprecedented.” U.C. Regent plan better violated the wishes of consist of two Assembly Districts lenged our notions of what it for a floor vote whenever he thinks Sheldon Andelson, a Los Angeles efforts will take place in New means to be healthy, as individuals the voters for fair reapportion- and that Districts become more he has the votes to pass it. He banker and gay activist, will ment. York, Chicago, Houston and other and as a community. In Chinese, needs 41 votes, and he thinks he’s competitive politically. The So­ cities nationwide as personal ex­ introduce Altman at the May 16 Thus, while some mangled noma County Assemblyman hopes the character for crisis has two got 35 or 36 "hard” votes, 39 or Regents' Lecture. pressions to honor thè dead, meanings: one is danger, the other districts of the 1981 plan were to get his plan on the November 40 “soft, and that depends on eliminated, new ones were created 1983 ballot so that the voters will support the living and raise our opportunity. The dangers are who’s nervous on any given day." MOVING: The Advocate, national voices for our lives. apparent, but so are the oppor­ gay news magazine will return to in the 1982 plan. In the Southland, be able to choose between his The prestigious Los Angeles the late Congressman added one Times has endorsed the bill, as L.A. It moved its headquarters Fair Reapportionment plan and more innovation to his "contribu­ the gerrymander of the Burton T r i e m e s s a g e f r o m B A P H R is n o t the.it sex is part has the Sacramento Bee. San from Smogland to the S.F. suburb of San Mateo in' 1974 to be out of tions to modern art” by creating machine. To do so, however, he Francisco’s newspapers remain to the “three-dimentional gerryman­ be heard from. Agnos has his reach of the demonstrative activists must collect 394,000 valid signa­ of both city centers. der". One district, the 27th, starts tures statewide. Concerned Re­ staff soliciting endorsements from in Malibu, winds in and out of the every paper in the state that had publicans for Individual Rights AIDS Awareness Week will also tunities. After A lps Awareness BOOKED UP: Lenny Giteck’s coast until it reaches downtown unanimously endorsed the Sebas­ the good sense to oppose 1978's include important educational Week is ovpr, the "fight" does not Cruise To Win is an excellent Torrance, and then bypasses the tiani Plan at its February meeting events (public forums on AIDS, stop. There will stijl be people unsuccessful Brigg's initiative, guide to positive thinking and Palos Verdes Peninsula ending which would have banned gay and will bie' manning tables at Alternative Medicine and Lesbian fighting for their lives; (here will non-zero-sum gaming as a way to up in Los Angeles Harbor. Another 18th and Castro and elsewhere in and Gay Wellness), several political still be people frightened by the teachers. develop more satisfactory relations district, the 42nd, starts in the Other lobbying is aimed at the .the ensuing weeks. efforts (organized letter writing uncertainty about AIDS; there will with new acquaintances. That Palos Verdes Peninsula, crosses Come by and compare the plans. and phone call campaigns to let still be people who will not be three R’s: rurals, religionists, and means more satisfactory, as well over to Terminal Island, and then Republicans. To get the 45 votes We think' that you, like, most San Washington know that something concerned or involved. as more relationships, so you can continues into Long Beach and Franciscans, Gay and Straight, must be done now) and an evening In response, we must see this he wants before bringing the use the book as a guide to devel­ points North, Sout, and East. Thus, will be incensed enough to sign of support groups for those who next week as a pledge and a measure to a floor vote, Agnos oping permanent relations and if you were to stahd on the bridge wants to get support from Repub­ our petition. The time is ripe for are concerned about AIDS and renewal of our energies and con­ not just for tricking. connecting San Pedro to Terminal the people to take the matter of need to share their feelings with tinue the work that has already lican legislators from liberal, sub-, Island, as a voter of the 42nd urban districts and from solons of BAD NEWS, GOOD ADVICE: reapportionment out of the hands others. All are aimed at increasing begun. We can'transiate our fears District, you could wave to the of the self-serving incumbents. our community's and the general . both parties who represent the Jim Gordon summarizes current and. our concerns into action: we medical advice on AIDS and KS boatowners below who reside in We hope to see you next weekend. public's knowledge and awareness can continue working for political state's Central Valley and moun­ the 27th. of AIDS, and to highlight the tainous east and north. thus, "The four M's: moderation, . action (through political clubs or monogamy, and mutual mastur­ A few other districts are also Chris Bowman is political action multiple realities of AIDS, as a the newly formed AIDS Action Wisconsin is the only state with bation." indicative of Burton's creative flair. chair of Concerned Republicans for medical, social and political pro­ Network); we can support, with a gay-rights law. Agnos is impres­ One, the 18th, starts in Fresno, Individual Rights. blem. time, energy and donations those sed that the law’s author, Represen­ QUIZ, KIDS: An exam question AIDS has created another outlet organizations that are doing work, tative David Clarenbach, got which asks you to insert a word or for homophobia and is being used like the AIDS & KS Foundation Republican Governor Lee Dreyfus phrase into an incomplete sentence to attribute blame and suspicion. and the Sh?nti Project; we can to sign it. Clarenbach's campaign is called a: 1) multiple choice; Where intelligence and compassion provide personal and emotional for the law was spearheaded by 2) true-false-, 3) fill-in; 4 > all of the dictate, there is no room for blame support for those people who do clergy, and Agnos is now attemp­ above; 5) none of the above. or scapegoating. To view AIDS have AIDS; we can become fully ting to Ine up clerical backing for An exam question which asks as a punishment for being gay or aware about

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workers voted 100% to strike Coors. Your readers are smarter man mat! r — KriTm AnT » t i Not one single member out of 1.472 Even me most avid union hater would voted to accept Coors final proposal! find that one hard to swallow. L - liV l J. The fact mat not one Coors worker You conveniently omit other Coors would vote in favor of Coors' last and related facts such as me sponsorship final offer should indicate that something of me Heritage Foundation, me John was drastically wrong at this'eompany. Birth Society, (check their track record This fact is at least worth something. on gay rights). Committee for me Scapegoat Jurisprudence 2 You make me labor troubles at Coors Survival of a Free Congress, etc., not sound like it only involved bitterness to mention politicians and legislation between me union leaders and me by that many community leaders find W.E. Beardemphl Coors brothers. One need only to look hazardous to me health of their com­ Our legal system is a pile of shit stacked in a wooden-wheeled cart at another vote the Coors workers/union munities - including me gay commun­ driven .around in circles by incompetents and pulled by society's most members participated in and mat was ity. held just (3) weeks prior to me strike Your support c.' Coors and me desire menial slaves. In case after case, what really is on trial is our legal vote of Jan. J8.1877. system. With the increased exposure of our courts through present media to seek some relationship with mem is On Dec. 20. 21 and 22. 1976, me your right. You should, however, do it coverage, more citizens are becoming painfully aware that our system of Colorado State Labor Department from a basis of truth jurisprudence, which has had minimal change in the last thousand years, conducted a vote (at me request of Your strongest challenge to Coors. is a sham. Because of the vested interests of most attorneys in this rip-off Coors) to determine under the "Colorado seemed to come from the statement scam which they , defend with “that’s the law," we are not about to get Labor Peace Act" if 75% of the union "We pointed out mat companies mat eligible membership supported the make a profit from our community reform from the Bar Associations. Like our changed concept of war after "union shop" clause which mandates have a duty to put money back into our the Vietnam fiasco was télevised day after day, it is only a matter of time them to join me union, take its oath of community. I don t pretend to speak before our country is going to demand reform of our outmoded-, bigoted, membership and pay dues. Coors for the gay community but I do believe debased, precedent-bound structure of law and law enforcement. owners and management campaigned that their concerns over Coors run very hard in an attempt to persuade much deeper man your concerns over In ourfirst editorial on our legal system (March 31, 1983) we outlined the union members to vote against profits." the specific case of confessed, killer Jeffrey Long who is not to-be their union. Coors failed miserably! I appologize for me length of mis punished for killing a person. The jury used a legal technicality (Judges The vote was an overwhelming 94.2% letter. However almost every statement instruction 2.72; corpus delecti) not to reach the obvious verdict. The of their eligibility to support me union you made concerning me union and reason appears to be that the murdered man was a homosexual. It was despite Coors anti-union barrage of Coors Is wrong and biased. letters, meetings, and pressure tó vote Although you travelled to Colorado another case of the legal system upholding the pecking order of our otherwise. This is hardly me position to spend a few days with Coors. you society’s “natural prejudice felt toward homosexuals” as attorney Daum, of just a few militants or disgruntled should know that I went to work at Long’s defense attorney, phrased it during his closing arguments. Many union leaders. Coors in 1963, spent 10 years working persons who knew the murdered man are questioning the integrity of the You dismiss Coors use of me lie inside me brewery, and another 3 detector as an issue and stated mat years representing me workers mere jury, the prosecution'and the defense. The judge who heard the case. "the union wanted it." an absolute lie. as secretary-treasurer, business rep­ William Boone, is also coming under fire as to his competency because of The union has always protested me resentative of me union. outrageous slurs against the media and local citizens. use and abuse of the lie detector. I don't know why you chose to write Judge Boone shows an arrogant disdain of citizens who give him his Even the conservative Rocky Mountain such a distorted version of me facts position and uphold his very right to be a judge. It seems to have become News in its July 10. 1977 editorial on I just know you did'. the Coors strike called on Coors to A. David Slckler. Field Rep. a passion with many of our judges, and with many members" of the bar, stop its insistence on using me lie Nat. Coordinator. Coors Boycott that they are above the common herd and they treat the common man detector and stated that mis was me "central issue" involved in me strike. with contempt. It is hardly a secret that most judges feel it is their ol women, lesbians and gays, and peopte COOR8 RESPONDS This is the same lie detector Coors I would like to take mis opportunity perogative to have society conform to their concepts and not the reverse. The Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and of color got where they are today admitted in negotiations to using in Education Foundation called me recent­ because everyday people like drag to respond to Mr. Sickler's letter to me There are judges who are “hanging-judges" when it comes to homosexuality. order to screen out homosexuals Coors editor regarding Adolph Coors Company In Judge Boone's words, the “gay rights issue” in-'the Long case is just a ly concerning several clients, who were queens, leather fans, and street people did not get rid of me "original" lie diagnosed as having K.S.. yet were forced a change in the social fabric". and CBS News 60 Minutes. “purposefully fabricated . . . media event” that “used to be called yellow detector firm until after me strike when What "historians and observers 6f denied Social Security Disability bene­ It most certainly is not counter-pro­ me workers were making it public mat journalism” in this country. Judge Boone is no more objective as a judge fits. ductive to force a change In the social Coors labor relations" have called me Coors abused its workers with their 60 Minutes segment which probed than Reverend Falwell is as a preacher. Judge Boone also went on to I called the Social Security Admin-, fabric against the will of the people. It "machine of intimidation" that pried istration for clarification of the guidelines was because of the courage, civil dis­ bom Coors and organized labor is threaten and berate citizens protesting the results of his court by saying, into their personal lives with questions totally irrelevant. What is relevant is "technically they broke the law.” and evaluation procedures for eligibility obedience tactics, revolunttonary strate­ regarding their sexual practices, pre­ and would like to share the response gies — and even mob actions — mat thaHhe story's accuracy has not been If judges have a right to berate and threaten media and citizens without ferences. and what their political and jqflestioned nor has it been proven to with your readers. I was informed that all of us are able to enjoy the civil and religious beliefs were. recourse, then we had better change our legal system. When a judge any person who has been medically human 'rights we so often take for ■ ""D e inaccurate. The truth has spoken Coors still uses me lie detector and eloquently for itself. intimidates citizens and media without cause, he should.be removed from diagnosed by a physician as suffering granted. We who are racial and sexual unfortunately will be encouraged to from Kaposi s Sarcoma is eligible for minorities certainly should know that And while Mr. Sickler would question the bench. do so as long as people such as yourself Coors' labor relations, or seek to Social Security Disability benefits. the will of the majority is not always in believe their lies about me use of it. Let us look back a few years. Before the Jarvis/Gann property tax I urge that anyone who has been the best interest of everyone.. discredit mem. I want to thank him for Another false statement you made is recognizing. In his own letter, our reform initiative known as Prop: 13, we talked to Léo McCarthy, who was thus diagnosed file an application for National Coalition of Black Gays/West "the search and seizure of employees then speaker of the California Assembly, and .his aide Art Agnos. We benefits, and those who have been is delighted mat BWMT/SF is pushing improvements. property was proposed by union repre­ it would appear that further on in his warned them that a tax revolt was brewing that coyld be headed off with denied to request reconsideration of for action and an end to employment senta fives to control drugs. How ridicu- the determination. Pam Curtis in my discrimination — even if mat means . letter. Mr. Sickler attempts to throw up correct remedial legislation. They, as did all politicians at that time, said ,ous. You contradict yourself: On one smokescreens to cover me real issues district office, 557-1437, is available t

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Feminine Myth Through the Camera Eye by Steven Saylor Angeles, 1979), a native Californ­ Interview: Bernadette Peters Does anyone out there remem­ ian whose conception of the female Only two weeks ago, she and Peter Allen provided the best twelve ber a short from last year’s gay body, she says, “is neither mascu­ film fest, called "Robert Having line nor feminine but feline.” minutes of the Oscar telecast in a production number that made the rest of His Nipple Pierced"? Somewhere According to Bruce Chatwin’s brief the c^eary proceedings almost worth staying tuned through. Now, in Soho-land, in an antiseptically text, photographer and model met BERNADETTE PETERS, gowned in three Bob Mackie originals with bare studio loft where silver “at a party in a Soho loft” — two male singers backing her, is in San Francisco at the Venetian balloons loll aimlessly in a helium- where else? — and together, over Room of the Fairmont with her new club act, her first club date since filled stupor, a skinny young man a period of two years, on locations 1976. with long hair has his nipple in New York, Jamaica, Paris and She flew in last week just for the afternoon to talk. Yes, she’s adorable; pierced. His skinny, long-haired San Francisco, produced the photo­ yes. she’s vulnerable and open; and yes, she’s bright and funny as well. young friend watches but does graphs that make up this sumptous 5’ 2" tall, 107 pounds (“yes, I have to watch my weight," which makes us not wince; they both appear to be and sensual book of images. mortals feel a lot better), blonde frizzed hair, saucer-big brown eyes and high as — well, as high as those For Lyon, a strikingly indepen: unforgettable cupie-doll mouth, ail offset by that creamy Italian skin helium-filled balloons. Meanwhile, dent and strongly physical woman Technicolor was invented for. She’s short but, in a word, she's stacked. on the soundtrack, a woman with haunted by childhood nightmares, The body is encased in a red jersey afternoon dress, that reveals that her a heavy New York accent babbles it was an opportunity "to project belting-chest voice is resting in very spacious quarters. And while she is on and on about hef queer brother, all the different aspects of myself;” very secure about her talent, Bernadette Peters reveals that only recently her Catholic family, and her shock for Mapplethorpe, a chance to has she started to feel secure about Bernadette the person. at discovering that suppositories capture the moods of an ideal “I'm not ambitious; I’m surprised I’ve gotten this far. Only in the last go in your "hiney." physical specimen whose sense of two years I’ve said 'Okay, I'll go as far as I can go!’ It’s much more fun to The babbling voice, it turns fantasy was attuned to his own. perform now because there was always that holding myself back, be­ out, belonged to rock star Patti The range of those moods and cause I had that old stereotype of a woman in business having to be Smith (uncredited in the film, fantasies escapes definition, while aggressive and.butch and a ball-breaker. For me, doing the work as best -unannounced in the festival pro­ playfully, intelligently bringing into you can is the fulfillment, not worrying what the results are." gram — now it can be told!) The question the meanings and limi­ It’s common show biz gossip that her long-term relationship vyith Steve pierced nipple belonged to Robert tations of gender and identity. If Martin is no more, and I sense she really doesn’t want to delve into it. Let Mapplethorpe. we saw only one of these portraits it be stated — “It didn't work out. I think relationships are great and love Robert Who? I’ve been dropping — of Lyon in leather heels and is wonderful." his name a lot lately, since getting ciré with a tiger in tow, or seated There's nothing'glib about Bernadette; you ask a question and her gaze hold of his first book of photo­ in an ornate art nouveau chair wanders out the window as^he-ponders and then hesitantly answers in graphs, LADY: Lisa Lyon (116 dressed only in the coils of a boa that little girl seductress voice. But she now has very definite views about duotones with text by Bruce Chat- constrictor, or striking a muscular her career. She’s made ten films to date, most of which are quite' win. Viking Press. $16.95 paper). pose with a white shroud hiding forgettable, but there is a logic at work: "You try to get a backlog of No one seems to recognize Mapple­ her face — we might feel able to movies so you're established. Now I want intelligent women; not victims, thorpe’s name; yet you’ve probably put a finger on who Lisa Lyon is. but doers! That’s why I’m being more selective about what I do. I haven’t seen his most famous work — an But taken together, these pictures arresting, disturbing series of present an enigma — as their bodies trapped in latex and leather ONE OF THE FANTA8IE8: Liu Lyon, by Robert Mapplethorpe. creators no doubt intended. — in the artier gay magazines or as a painting by Magritte. Their rub elbows with socialites in As the pages are turned, and in chichi card shops. subject matter is usually from the Halston drag. His best-known the images accumulate, the person­ Robert Mapplethorpe, like fellow night Side, of the mind — dark, portraits are of women (less vain ality of the poseur becomes mroe New Yorker Arthur Tress and sexual, tripping into the surreal or and more easily photographed than mysterious, and more captivating. San Francisco's Nina Glaser, is 'fantastic. men, he says), ranging from society Is she physique star, hooker, bride one of the wunderkinder of what Mapplethorpe is a portrait photo­ types in gossamer to the nude in virginal white, fashion model, is loosely called the Neoclassical grapher as well; geography, tem­ Patti Smith, to whom Lady is choirgirl, biker, bombshell, sorcer­ movement in photography. Their perament and talent have estab­ dedicated. ess with a crystal ball? Lisa Lyon, mode is generally black and white, lished him as a sort of court Mapplethorpe’s subject and self-made sculpture, is silent in their compositions deliberate rather photographer .Jo the fashionable collaborator in Lady is Lisa Lyon, these pages, but Mapplethorpe's than spontaneous, as studiously Soho set, where New York literati winner of the First World Women’s photographs speak — eloquently arranged and symbolically potent and nameless punks in leather Bodybuilding Championship (Los — for themselves.

Melody and Melodrama in a Pippin Premiere

MARIA PADILLA, by Dickens is the Italian composer's Donizetti truest comrade. As the melodies Pippin‘s Pocket Opera. April 17 spin on, the scene has become touching. We begin to care deeply by Bill Huck for the fate of this odd pair. It is the nature of melody to be Timothy Driesel, who Sang the simple. Most of the great tunes, father, was not always pure of even by the advanced composers, tone. His voice is. perhaps, an fall into regular phrase lengths, acquired taste. But he was rhyth­ circumscribe a narrow compass mically so sure and he finessed so THERE S NOTHING GLIB About Bernadette Peter*. for themselves, and venture rarely many little phrases that I hope to had my 'Norma Rae’ yet, that one certain role." Wë talk about her from the tonal world in which hear him again in better voice, In proclivity for period films, such as Pennies from Heaven. Annie, W.C. they are set. A good melody, this opera the baritone gets the Fields and Me — “I have an eye for that time but it is limiting. I can fit perhaps the most positive of all romantic lead. Lee Velta looked into any era but I feel very today. I’d like to do more 'today' roles. That’s musical entities,, cannot appear handsome, tall and certain of whyi took Tulips, 'cause I liked the girl, but nobody saw j t . . . I'm not chaotic. It must have a clear and himself. Though he has not yet a interested in sure things." Her versatility in moving from film to club to almost obvious structure. Other­ complete command of his voice, TV to records "allows me to be selective; I only do what I want to do. I’m wise it cotild~hever so easily etch - he improves every time I hear much more cléar now on what I like and don’t like. itself- into our musical memories. him. That in itself helped me A performer since childhood in Queens, New York, she took a break The tone upon whidh Beethoven enjoy his sometimes wayward from ages 13 thru 17 to go to high school. “I didn’t want to be different, composed the last movement of performance. though I knew I was/I thought of the business as a hobby. At 17,1 asked his Ninth Symphony has captured Vocally that night the glories myself, ‘Did I want it?' ” And.at 19, she became the rage of New York in probably everyone of its listeners. belonged to the ladies. Wendy the tiny off-Broadway theatre Cafe Cino in a- musical pastiche titled Yet, if we look closely at it,, we Hillhouse, singing Maria's sister Dames at Sea, after spending years being rejected from the chorus of can see that it departs in only one Ines, has excellent diction, secure anything. "They woülaîft hire me. I didn't dance well enough to be a accent from the utmost metrical musicality and a rich tone. She is. dancer and the singers were usually high voices. I wasn’t the typical simplicity. Except for a single an aristocratic artist., Next to ingenue, I didn't look All-American.” note it moves round and round Kaaren Erickson's pinpoint pitch, Upon the heels of "Dames" came all the show biz sharpies, though she within the range of a fifth. Harmoni­ Hillhouse’s did seem a bit spread, still has the same manager she's had since age 17. "If someone cally it offers as. vivid a proof as but that is partly due to the manipulates you, it's because you let them. I was just unconscious. I slept -we can find of the simplest maneu­ difference between a high soprano through the '60s so I never took drugs. I never admitted what I was doing ver available to the classic compo­ and a dark contralto. so it never bothered me. I'm a late bloomer." ser: Beethoven shaped it firmly LEE VELTA: Tall, hindiome and In the romantic toad. Ms. Erickson; fresh from a winter When Pippin's Pocket Opera ever more flexible and expressive. And that's the key word for Bernadette. She's late bloomingfrom the about its tonic and dominant. of European triumphs, triumphed basically shy, adorable "little girl” image into a major triple-threat star Now, I would like to parallel recently , revived Donizetti's all- You may not care for the moral . here as well. The singer has herself but-forgotten Maria Padilla, once the drama has chosen, but I find with a firm grasp on success. In a moment of great insight, the big. brown that observation with what I have said that she feels more at home e>;es zero in for direct contact as she simply says: “I was never afraid of heard was Walter Gieseking's again the-stock structures covered thexomposer always imaginatively in the world of Mozart's Pamina, up for some the joyful music. The attentive to it. In Maria Padilla gettingoMer, 1 was afraid of not maturing." response to hearing Maria Callas the vehicle of her own Berlin The mature Bernadette Peters may now be seen thru May 8. twice sing Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammer sniffers found the work lightweight the ambitious heroine barters her debut. Though she sang Donizetti's and insubstantial.,but the listeners honor and her family pride for an nightly singing arid dancing up a storm in the Venetian Room. moor in Berlin. The great interpre­ heroine brillantly, I heard for the • •••• ter of Debussy, Ravel, Beethoven took it quickly'into their heart! illicit chance at the Spanish throne. first time what she means. I have and Brahms was ready to leave As a friend whispered to me at She agrees to a secret marriage admired her Anna Bolena tran­ ONSTAGE: LEA DE LARIA after the first act. He sniffed to his intermission. "It's all such formula, with the king, who means on his scendency and thought her Luisa LEA DE LARIA is a good-natured, oval-shaped lesbian comic/singer companion; "I cannot bear any but don't you love it?” Partly part to keep her his mistress. Miller exemplary, but those roles who manages to discuss women’s issues without downgrading or more tonic and-dominant'music." because both Donizetti and we When Maria’s father tries to inter may require a pressurized produc threatening the men in her audience (which, on night caught, outnumbered The fact that Lucia, like so many can take his structurés for granted, cede, he. is publicly beaten by the tion at odds with Erickson’s natural­ the women muchly). She’s genuinely funny, with a snappy sense of of Donizetti's operas, is a treasure his music represents a flowering hot-tempered monarch. Such dis ly lyric instrument. Pippin's thea audience repartee and feeling that makes for a relaxed, unpretnetious trove of good tunes concerned the of melody. grace breaks thé old man antf ters are nevertheless small enough hour of political jibes and gay good humor. When her material is less than master pianist not at all. He heard Donizetti operas begin in bravura gives Donizetti the opportunity to proiett our nascent diva. Rumor razor-sharp, she saves herself with a willing acceptance of "Okay, onward . only- the simplicity of Donizetti's arias, but they end in meaning. for a tenor mad'scene. has it that she and Hillhouse will and upward!" self-deprecating style thqt is never militant, unlike some means, not a note of the Italian The progress you tan witness In The duet in which Maria seeks grace Donizetti's tragedy of Anne lesbian comics, and always in “we’re-all.-in-this-bbat-together" fun. composer's abundant genius. (Ap­ this music is not towards more reconciliation with her father rea Boleyn this slimmer season. If She also sings jazz . .. quite well..With her lover Jeannine Strobel on parently Gieseking also cared not beautiful melody nor-more inter­ ches far. The situation is extreme, they do, the chance should not be guitar backing her. DeLaria proved herself a knowledgeable jazz stylist a jot for the interpretive skills of esting harmony, but towards mek>- but melodrama thrives in extremis missed. Bolena is equally rich in with a honed set of pipes in numbers such as "Scotch and Soda," “God either Mme. Cajlas or Maestro drama.'As the story gains momen and Donizetti at his best is a sure melody as Padilla, but even strong Bless the Child," and “You Gd to My Head." Obviously still feeling her von Karajan.) turn, the music seems to become master of it. In this aspect, Charles er in dramatic construction. Continued on next page. April 28,1983 'Sentinel

Performances Crystalize in Rhino’s 'King’ by Gary Schweikhart superlative performance, as taut There’s a gritty realism which as piano wire, as dangerous as a pervades King of the Crystal rusty rig. Palace, the current production at Mark-Thomas is also outstand­ Theatre Rhinoceros. The C.D. ing as the descriptively-named Arnold drama drips of contempor­ Rocky LaRose, a wonderful mix­ ary urban decay, yet does so with ture of macho sluggishness and all of the familiarity of one of wide-eyed innocence; Ferdinand those much-touted foreign films thé bull in Sylvester Stallone’s where everyone talks and talks body. but nothing is ever resolved — still Block is quite good, too, as the some of the scenes therein are so mixed-up Mo, while Powers is distinctively etched that you really fine, albeit a bit understated, as don’t mind the general lack of the homy drug runner. The only HOT JAZZ: Fuckin' Dyk»' Lm Dateria and lorn Jaannlna Straba!. wherewithal. disappointment in the cast is The story revolves around Seth Solomon as .Seth, but this is wa^ in both areas as a young performer, she is already a refreshingly (Chuck Solomon), a whining would- probably attributable to the fact offbeat and unique talent to be watched. be playwright, who shares a San that he had to step into the role at The Valencia Rose is her room; on Monday and Saturday nights she Frandsco house with his speed- the last minute. Solomon was also emcees gay comedy nights with Tom Ammiano. On May 7, she opens freak boyfriend, Rob (Steven the director of this well-paced her own revue, RAGING BULL, playing every Thursday and Friday. Patterson), and a menopausal ex­ production. Catch her soon. DYNAMIC: Chuck Sotomon and Thomaa-Mark In Rhino'* latest hippie named Mo (Ann Block). The Steven Douglas set was None of the characters are very It seems that Seth is constantly The script is littered with typical multi-tiered and functional, while likable, but they reek of believ- coming on'to Rob, who is turned California angst (“I have San the lighting by John Sowle added ONSTAGE: MASS APPEAL ability. There is no way I can convey on paper what a wonderfully funny and off by all the interest, (a real Frandsco, I have drugs, I have to the play’s atmosphere of mud­ touching evening MASS APPEAL, now at Theatre-on-the-Square, When Rob, whose laid more Kvelch-22). But Mo, who may or love' — what else do I need?") dled moments, muddled lives. tracks than Union Padfic, runs off provides. Suffice to say, playwright Bill C. Davis has written a dynamic may not have had a fling with while lives are led “in between This isn’t a very optimistic play, with his black dealer (J. Carlton Rob, is now turned off by him. the tricks and the tragedies.” filled with dreary little people. two-character study filled with, wit instead of jokes, genuine emotion Powers), Mo deddes to dash off instead of soap opera melodrama. Meanwhile, the kid from Anna- What makes this.- production But the production itself is impres­ to Mexico in search of sun and heim — who either did or did not worthwhile, however, is a generally sive, with performances that oc­ I CAN tell you it is about the friendship between a boozy, old-guard that perfect mushroom. So Seth sleep with Seth, depending upon Catholic priest who drives a mercedes and signs autographs after Mass, excellent cast. Patterson plays Rob casionally evendazzle. and a formerly bisexual rebellious young novitiate who wants to rid the picks, up a raspy-voiced innocent the scene - deddes that he, too, with a dark predsion, combining (King of the Crystal Palacepfays from Anaheim (Thomas-Mark), wants to play pattytake with the the jargon and the paranoia of a' Thurs.-Sun at Theatre Rhinoceros church of hypocrisy and tell nothing but the truth to complacent and everybody talks and talks. parishoners. Davis steadily draws.us into the human truths of both sides, hunky junkie. fading ángel with tracks. His is a through May 21; call 861 -5079. ) without preaching, dogmatizing or forgetting the first and foremost to make it entertaining. He is indeed fortunate to have Geraldine Fitzgerald’s sensitive and intuitive direction to illustrate his well-made points. Both are.fortunate to have actors the calibre of Milo O’Shea and Shaun Cassidy. O’Shea of the great Gallic charm and masterful technique is • Th» Ok* Kramer Gay Men s Chorale • King ot the Crystal Petece. C D », sponsors of the S.F. Inter- unforgettable as the charismatic Father Farley, and lo and behold, teen in concert, performing music by Ives. Amok) splay about thedark underside nattonal Lesbian and Gay Film Festival idol Shaun Cassidy has matured into a strong, forceful actor capable of In P erson Handel. Brahms. Copland and others of the Folsom Straef lifestyle (Reviewed Castro Theatre. Castro and Market. holding his share of the stage with the.best of’em (in this case, O’Shea, St. Boniface Church. 133 Golden Gate. In this InueJ Theatre Rhinoceros. 2940 April 30 at midnight. Tickets. $4 who is an actor’s actor). Credit also the excellent set of David Gropman • Edward AXiee will speak In Berkeley April 29at 6 P.M. $6. 863-0342. 16th St.. Thurs.-Sun. at 8:30 P.M. (Available in advance at Headlines). Theatre's "Lives in the Theatre series. • Rites ol Spring, a celebration of through May 21.S8-S9.861-5079. • S.F. Gay Video Feat, presented by and the fine lighting design of F. Mitchell Dana. men dancing, featuring Falcon Dance 2025 Addison St.. Berkeley. May 23 ■ Raging Bull, a new revue with Lea Frameline each Monday at 9:30 P.M. If you think a play about two Catholic priests talking sounds dull, guess Theater. theS-F. Tap Troupe. Raymoki on cqble channel 25. The series has been sold out on a DeLaria. (Previewed by Don McLean again! MASS APPEAL is grandly, funny. Now through June 12, treat subscription basis, but individual tickets Polynesia Island Dancers, Al Fellahin yourself to a first-rate evening of theatre. You deserve it. Belly Dance Company. Cruz Luna and In this issue.) Valencia Rose. 766 may be available; call 645-4700. Valencia, opening May 7..playing each • Judy Qrahn, author of The Queen Old Old Flamencos. Joseph Taylor and Company. Bob Murphy and Sundance Thursday arid Friday in May. Call 552- of Wends (National Book Award winner), 1445 for times and prices. Exhibits ONSTAGE: CORRIDOS and Pauls Gunn Alan, author of Shadow Studio Dancers. Hassan Al Falak and Ethnic teatro es muy importante pejo muy dangerous. Por esta gringo Country, will read Irom their works af Ron January. Nourse Auditorium. May • Reunion, by Filipino playwright • Mailt •- Cheater, theatrical photo­ the ASUC Student Union. U C -Berkeley 20 and 21 at 8:30 P.M. Tickets: S7 Edgar Poma. centers on the taboo graphs from the Theatre Rhinoceros reviewer, El Teatro Cairn pesino’s production of Luis Valdez's CORRIDOS advance (Gramophone and Headlines). subject of homosexuality in the Latino campus. May 11 at 7:45 P.M. Sponsored S9door. productions of C.D. Arnold’s Delivery. (Ballads) es un triumph visually pero un crashing bore dramatically. by the Multi-Cultural LeSbian Gay community: a son visits a family reunion, Bookstore, and The Blonde In Twenty- Valdez has adapted siete corridos de Mexico dealing with love y Studies Program. 642-6942. • Spring Camaval. The San Francisco bringing his lover .with him. Teatro B. Theatre. Rhinoceros lobby, available Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Gusto. 362 Capp St., premieres May 5 - for viewing before each performance muerto.y lust y por un ballet company, they would be ideal subject and runs each Friday and Saturday a t / matter; at the Marines Memorial Theatre, estados superfirial little be the subject of a lecture by U.C. Twirling Corps in concert, featuring of King ot the Crystal Palace (tee professor Ruby Cohn, at the S.F. Public Chevere and the S.F. Tap Troupe. 8 P.M. through June 4. S5 general,-*? Stage), through May 21. divertissements that fail to grip jheatrically. Valdez has stagedliis show Library Main Branch. Civic Center. Mission High School. 3490 20th St.. seniors and children. 826-0440. brilliantly and imaginatively, but the pace es de dripping faucet. Tech May 14 at 1 P.M. Sponsored by Friends April 30 at 8 P.M. $6. Info: 821-5819. • The RKz. Terrence McNally's satire • Nina Glaser, "Nudes.' new black aspects are first-rate throughout, musical accompaniment often sloppy ot the Library. Free. of mistaken identity and Maria intrigue and white photography. Nathan Hart in a New York City gay baths. Opens Gallery, 437" Hayes, through May 30. and always predictable, and the companÿ is required to portray quick May 15 at the Victoria Theater, 16th 863-3445. sketches that often reminded me of watching Channel 14 on Sunday Stage St. and Mission. Wed.-Fri. at 8 P.M.. afternoon. Best of the talented ensemble are Jorge Galvan, Socorro Events * Sat.at 8 and 11 P.M.,Sun.at 7:30P.M. • H. GranL. Fade to Brown," dlazo • Doctor Fauatus Lights the Lights, Tickets. 88-S14. 883-7578. prints and photogra'phy. Moby Dick. Valdez, Robert Beltran (of EatingRaoul fame) and Sal Lopez. Letida A. 4049 18th St . through May 25. Ibarra is a fine dancer, and loping balladeer Tony Genaro may be sincere an opera by Gertrude Stein, staged je, gaysing- i, the final concert of and directed by Claude Duvall and the ing/songwriting duo. perform at Valencia • Richard Law. polaroids, at Jebe’s but he sure ain’t interesting. The song/enacted sketches are macho the 1982-83 season by the Bay Area Noh Oratorio Society. Valencia Rose. Rose. 766 Valencia. April 29 at 10:30 766 Valencia. April 29 and 3Qand May Kompact Kamera. 411519th St., through chauvinistic and brest-beating emotional, but never stirring and seldom Women's Philharmonic. The program P.M. »4. 552-1445. , May. involve us as an audience. Beneath the fluid staging, excellent choreography will feature rarely performed orchestral 1 at 8:30 P M and May 12 at 10 P.M. by Miguel Delgado and inventive settings beats a flimsy little evening of work by women composers, and fwo Sunday performances. S3; other dates. S5 552-1445. • Vida Gallery celebrates its Second predictable "Littje Bit of.OJd Mexico." world premieres: a solo for cello by Screen Anniversary with a multi-media exhibit Gwendolyn Watson, and Fragments • Fortune and Men's Eyes, John by the Vida Gallery Collective, the 10 - CORRIDOS — death before dishonor, women as faithless sluts or tor Chamber Orchestra by Johanna Herbert s famous pjay of a naive young women who operate the gallery. Vida victims of macho supremacy, men who drink and kill with abandon . . . Beyer. Zellerbach Hall. U.C.-Berkeley inmate's brutalizing descent in a boys' • Blka Boy, a little-seen Andy Warhol Gallery. Women s Building, 3543 18th V wonderful for reinfordng all the old stereotypes. CORRIDOS means campus. May 13 at 8 P.M. Tickets: *8 reformatory, at Studio Rhino. 2940 classic from 19671 directed by Warhol St.. May 7-28. Hours: Wed.-Fri.. 2-7 ballads .... or too often, a lullaby. (through BASS, or until May 6 by mail: 16th St . Thurs.-Sun at 8:30 P.M.. himself and starring Joe Spencer. Viva, P.M. and Sat., noon to 5 P.M. Opening 3543 18th SL. S.F. 94110) through June 4. S6-S7. 861-5079 and Ingrid Superstar. A benefit for reception. May 6. 7-9 P.M. 864-VIDA. D in in g G uide

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"AN EXCEEDINGLY VENTURESOME & ENTIRELY ORIGINAL PITCH-DARK COMEDY-FANTASY CENTERING ON THE Final Flashes From the Film Festival NEW WAVE SCENE.. .Anne Carlisle proves to Querelle, Liquid Sky, Sayles’ Latest Open; Others on the Way be a cross between Ms. 45 & Edie Sedgewick... by Penni Kimmel of the Castro picture-palace (sold a kind of crazy grandeur, part Kabuki and part The frustration of the 26th out from edge of screen to back Flash Gordon — a richly visual experience." International San Franicsco Film balcony more than once) and Festival is the films you'd like to intimate Ghirardelli Cinema (nearly — Kevin Thomas, L.A. TIMES see again that are unlikely to always stuffed but never stuffy) come back; the joy that outweighs have my gratitude and no doubt it are the films you wished others share my exhaustiori. "A PLEASING MIXTURE OF PUNK ROCK, could view, the ones corning, as Syberberg reinvented Wagner­ they say. to a theatre near you .,.. ian cliché for Parsifal. Robert SCIENCE FICTION AND BLACK HUMOR." right now. Vaughn's choice arrangements for Cannon to the right of it, cannon organ accompaniment to the dotty to the left of it. Querelle unreels Emst Lubitsch silent satires made in the midst of controversy that them live and laugh again. (I does no justice to the film, and Don't Want to Be a Man had an less to its audience. So, sheathe extra twist). The Latin American the sword of this season's mosal clichés were sounded to a different, crusade, stable the steed of last angry drummer, from the tender year's textbook philosophy, let agonies of Alsino and the Condor fall map and clock, and allow a to the brutalizing Batch 81 (exploit­ wisp of self and soul admission to ing or exposing facism?), out to a dream. The dream is of love in Raoni's painful joys documenting its deepest, darkest, most danger­ genocide-in-progress of a unique ous expression of reality, set in tribe, or Harry Belafonte’s distin­ the twinned twilight world of Rai­ guished talking head in Sometimes ner Fassbinder and Jean Genet, I Look at My Life, calling for Vart constructive disturbers of the so- as politics" — demonstrated by called peace. the presence of five of the six Murder, betrayal, crime, sin, Cuban directors to whom the U.S. isolation and an overriding sen­ State Department tried to deny , suality are its idioms. They are entry. spoken, acted out, choreographed, The clichés of tear-jerking, narrated and multi-titled in a dignity, rage, honesty, effective theatrical setting of stylized ex­ and entertaining filmmaking held pressionism ( a structural paradox ther, the unidentical other-natured ageless own, to be seen, as Brad fresh for Apama Sen's 36 Chow- but not, in Fassbinder’s hands, a twin: their unfulfillable incest is Davis, man of many-layered mean­ ringhee Lane, Romain Goupil's dramatic one). Its lies are the battled out in a breath-stopping ings, put it, "by-my children’s 8mm intercuts of the Paris stu­ obverse, not opposite, of its truths; dance of fists and knives, a stately children." dent's revolutionary movement in there ?re no obscurities, no sym­ minuet of wild things both courting On yqur way to th&-GSnnery Half a Life, and the polished bology, "no passion," as Madame arid competing to the death. Cinema^ pick up a copy of the grandeur of Visconti's thoroughly- • Lysiane says, “to m uddy the purity Querelle's drug-smuggling part­ book it is “about" (it’s not Jean Italianated (Burt Lancaster and of his games." ner, Vic (the film’s producer, Dieter Genet’s last or best either) and all) The Leopard. And, to coin a In the port of Brest, line-of- Shidor) is the first willing sacrifice watch for news of the arrival of sight across the wharf from the to his salvation; the leather-tough Dieter Shidor’s Wizard of Babylon, EXCLUSIVE NO. CALIF. ENGAGEMENT NOW! notorious bar. La Feria. lies the cop, Mario (Burkhard Driest), a documentary on the makipg of ship "Vengeur" bearing the sailor another. The third is the shadow- the film and the man who dreamed I flM IC S C Dai|y at 2.4:30. 7. 9:30 Querelle (Brad Davis). From the murderer Gil, a dual victim (Hanno it to the screen. L U r i l E K t California at Polk 885-3200 bargain Mi first frame, Querelle arouses desire Poschl, in a dual role) and would- Discount Parking Holiday Inn Van Ness at Calif *2.50 daily 1 as naturally mesmerizing as the be consort of the group’s only unicorn's for the virgin, as para­ innocent, young Roger (Laurent On the other side of Western lyzing as the Basilisk’s stare; for Malet), whose sideline position "civilization," Liquid Sky poses some, as fatal as Nemesis. Querelle. may leave him solitary heir to the question; Can a Connecticut in turn, will.be drawn to act on Querelle's domain. WASP princess survive the low- punk / high-fashion / middle-sex ^ Rainer Werner their desires for him. The performances, one and all, Throughout, Lieutenant Seblon are riveting and woridrously true, Manhattan scene to find happiness (Franco Nero) observes everything in a flying saucer with an alien phrase, others too numerous to Fassbinder’s last balanced precisely on the taut mention . . . but for one: a fitting from his officer’s cabin and diarizes wire between the actor’s exper­ addict? Psychedelically, yes. Float­ and most his obsession on a tape recorder; ing stylishly just a notch above wrap-up to-a review begun with ienced instinct and the director’s Querelle, Daniel Schmid's 1976- he is a vulnerable blackmailer. visionary demands. None - not convention, gay in a foetally controversial film. 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