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ON THE COVER: Revelers attack a car that allegedly rammed demonstrators during the Radical Faerie Stonewall ie-enactment. Story. page 8. c, Photo: Ben Thornberry
Bruce Hopkins: Six Characters in Search of a Bloody Mary
Jeffrey Essmann visits Our Lady of the Harbor Bar and Grill page 38
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Sarah Pettit dishes the real deal with / I the lesbian S&M queen page 40
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,Pride" Protest he drums of the Big Apple cbrps echoed across the Great Lawn in Central Park last weekend as the 20th Annual Lesbian and Gay Pride Rally began. Soon
their, rhythms, began to clash with a different beat, faint at first and then louder, the sound of hundreds , of AIDS activists chanting as they entered the mead- • ow with signs, flags and the paraphernalia of protest. The two ' conflicting rhythms coexisted uneasily for a few moments. Then the band stopped playing and the activists briefly took the field. \ But after a few more moments the chanting subsided, the rally absorbed its new memrn:rs, the band began playing again, and the afternoon continued as before. Thus it was all over the city last week, as the proponents of celebration collided with the proponents of protest, only to find that there was room in the weekend's events for both ideas and
both visionsI to coexist. The main event of the weekend, staged with professionalism, skill and joy by Heritage of Pride, was an extraordinary reminder ,to lesbians and gays, our friends, and indeed our enemies, of
what a vast and established movement we have become. From • the once undreamt of renaming of Stonewall Place, to the U.S. •
'Postal Service's gay stamp cancellation, to the tumultuous and • moving marches up Sixth Avenue on Saturday and down Fifth Avenue on Sunday, to the exploding fireworks over the Hudson River, we showed New York and ourselves that we are indeed proud and out and never going back. Several years ago, when the dimensions of the AIDSepidemic became apparent, many predicted the death of our movement. They said that AIDS would put us all back in the closet, that, a new generation would mature equating gay with death, never • • knOWingthe freedom and openness of the 70s. Instead, our movemtnt has triumphed in u'nexpected ways. Major new organizations like ACf UP and GLAADhave given new dimensions to empowerment and activism. Groups like GMHC and the People with AIDS Coalition have demonstrated our 1<;)Vingandcaring ways. Thousands of smaller, local groups proclaim by their presence that we're out for good, and we're never going back, no matter what. None of this mitigates the need for protest. Our movement began with a riot, and the criminal neglect and ineptitude of soci- , ety's response to our issues warrants, indeed demands, that we continue on a course of defiance. Such a course must include politicians like Mayor Koch, who has alternately neglected our community and used it as a sol!rce of political opportunism. His
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Your feisty spirit is as were so many bigger and scarier ,fish ' vibrant as a Tomkins Square riot. to fry, It was hardly transgressive~ Especially, I dig your hip attitude we've always had the privilege of that transcends the drudgery of "politi- yelling among ourselves. Worse, the cal correctness," As a budding activist confrontation seemed infused with . and bar denizen, I find you chronicle homophobia. Think of what we were Poth,of my worlds wonderfully, shouting: "shame",:a word. constantly A bit of constructive criticism: deployed against us, We are always Wield the editor's pen a bit more encouraged to feel shame and thereby , harshly on some of those rambling take part in our own persecution, We politiCOcolumnists ~nd you'll mitigate should be incredibly cautious about the occasional density, Otherwise, turning it against ourselves, march proudly into the 90s, As for gay apathy: it's a problem" but straight apathy is immeasurably' Geoff S, Paul worse. Hopefully next time we'll have Manhattan the courage to take the riot out of our own neighborhood. And if we're going to trash a bar, let's make it the To the Editor: Hard Rock Cafe. • We should riot again soon. But this time let's scrutinize our motives Neil Goldberg before picking gay targets, Manhattan , by Daniel Sotomayor .AS LONG AS WE 5TAY OVERN""" \N 1\-tE REE STATES, WE'LL Be.. OK .. - • , 6 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 • • • • •• , • , At least 3 out of 10 gay Americans are alcoholics, and still more suffer from other forms of chemical dependency. Now, at last, ~there's a practical handbook for dealing with this problem: a step-by-ste guide , written by a gay recovering alco olic, addressing the specific needs of lesbians and gay men. ('Wisdom that can help each of us!) . . Don Clark, author ofAs We Are (1 hope this booB healing glories will reach millions!) . . Ned Rorem • The Twelve-Stev IOU or Kearn , , Addiction TOr GayMen and Lesl-· . , , Harper eV Row ,ISan Francisco • , News • • Re-enactrnent Turns Real After Motorists Ram Crowd , ' by Andrew Miller (yellow for the Yellow Brick Road, a line of people car'rying a blue NEW YORK - What began as a re- explained one Faerie), while others police barricade above their heads, enactment of the Stonewall Rebellion dressed as police officers playfully picked up steam and participants. on its twentieth anniversary erupted pushed and shoved journalists and But as it moved down Greenwich into an actual riot.on Saturday, June demonstrators and hit them with fake AVenue and then west on 10th Street, 24, which sent four persons to the nightsticks, which were actually long, the mood somehow changed, hospital, and left at least a half party-colored balloons. After about a "There were people there hop- dozen others injured and one car half-hour of mock rioting, several ing for some sort of affirmation of nearly destroyed. In at least two sep- people in the crowd reportedly shout- gay power,", c1a'imed David arate incidents, motorists purposeful-, ed out, "Let's take Seventh Avenue," Hamburger, who was visiting New Iy drove their cars into crowds of and the group, now numbering in the York from Boston and was present demonstrators, knocking down some' hundreds, moved north up the for the entire happening. "Everyone and causing others to chase the Village's main thoroughfare, blocking had their own idea of why they were drivers through the streets -of the traffic as it worked its way towards doing it. Suddenly someone yelled Village, according to eyewitness Greenwich Avenue. about the two murders and how the reports, "It was kind of up and fun and police weren't doing anything about Scores of uniformed and under- bubbly at that point," said Gerri Wells, [them]," he added, referring to two cover police, including a riot squad, an Out Week photographer who partic- Black men who were kHled on the were called in to assist officers at the ipated in the re-enactment. "A lot of Morton Street pier early on Friday Sixth Prednct, who were at times people in the cars were getting into it. morning (see sidebar, p, 72), The • overwhelmed by the sheer size of It was more like Mardi Gras than a pier is a popular cruising area and the crowd, which at its height riot,· she continued, gathering place for gay men, espe- Chanting "No more homophobia" cially gay men of color, swelled to over 1,000, , One 'gay demonstrator was and similar slogans, the crowd, led by That, according to Hamburger, arrested, and some of the occupants of the two _cars involved in the hit- and-run incidents were taken into custo re-enactment was arranged, with the bleSSings of the store's owner, Statish Malik, who had closed his store for the occasion, and allowed the Faeries to set rip a "Stonewall Shrine" ,in the basement of the store, FRIGHT NIGHT Photo: Peter LeVasseur Participants threw the "bricks· Hit and run victim on Grove Street. 8 ou;rTWEEK July 10. 1989 ! , " News • , -c,,{~, ::::;::'::%. :·::;:·;,:c: ~ CLEANING UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD Revellers and hit-and-run vehicle on Christopher Street. the group to leave the area. provided the impetus for the were met with chants of "Arrest us,, marchers to proceed to the Sixth just try it, remember Stonewall was a Once away from the precinct Precinct on West 10th Street. But oth- riot," from the crowd, building, the marchers picked up the ers in the growing demonstration did She told the crowd that the air of revelry again, But the mob con- not hear the announcement, and did nomocides did not appear to be bias tinued its march around the Village, not know the exact reason for going related, and that they were under south on Hudson Street to to the precinct. investigation. Many of those gathered Christopher Street, and then west to As more and more marchers responded by chanting "Bullshit," "No the pier, then east again on arrived at the police station, police more lies," and by pelting her with Christopher. "It's spontaneous, it's real. Nobody created this. It's an out- officers inside quickly came out and condoms. , formed a line in front of the entrance, Neil Broome, a member of 'ACT pouring of angst and anger, We'd bet- The crowd cheered as several among UP, who knows Thompson from his ter get respect from this city, civil them set fire to American flags. Police work as a counselor at the Gay and rights, all the things we're entitled to, reported that windows at the police Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, joined but that hasn't happened yet,· said station were smashed by rocks. "The Wells in attempting to ease communi- Paul Stone, one of the demonstrators, potential for a riot was there, The cation between Thompson and the "I think we should do this every emotions were high, people were crowd. He later told Out Week that "it Saturday night." Michael Nesline, angry, it was hot," Wells said, was starting to get out of hand" at another of the marchers, characterized After about ten minutes, that point. "There was a lot of anger the evening as "a completely sponta- Commanding Officer Julia Thompson and I think [Thompson] was frig.ht- neous, mob-led action," Indeed, many emerged from the precinct building ened. It looked like a bunch of crazy, of the participants seemed surprised and tried to address the crowd, now angry people with no specific pur- themselves at the size and emotional well over 1,000, in an attempt to dif- pose," scope of the evening's events," fuse the tense situation, But her assur- Wells, who has previously acted The police, for their part, seemed ances that "the Sixth Preci nct is as an unofficial liaison between police unwilling to arrest anyone, and reluc- sensitive to the needs and expecta- and angry demonstratQrs at several tant to become more involved. In a tions. of the gay community," and that lesbian/gay and AIDS protests, then New York Post article on the following "many of the police officers are gay," took the megaphone and persuaded continued on page 72 , July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 9 • News , Ovations greeted the Gay- and Huge Celebration For Pride I '89 Lesbian Youth of New York, who chanted raucously "2-4-6-8, how do Dykes on bikes; radical faeries and the ruby slipper you now your kids are straight?" The first ever lesbian-sponsored float glided across Central Park South, by Keith Miller on the day's activities, one gentleman carrying a resplendent band of NEW YORK - There's been a mar- replied, in perfect English, "I don't singing lesbians, One of the largest .velousparty! f\ highly emotional speak English," groups in the march was the People. With AIDS Coalition and the AIDS- party. A love-in on the, grandest and Swinging, strutting and SWishing gayest scale, Nearly 200,000 women, onto Fifth Avenue, the energy level related health care agencies, includ- men and children, strong of pride 'increased, Sybil Bruncheon, noted ing the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and loud of lung, stormed Fifth talk-show hostess, was warmly Members of the Healing Circle fre- received by the crowd for her rendi- quently st9Pped to join hands, form a tion of the Statue of Liberty, which circle, and awe the crowd with their News Focus involved gold lame and a hoop skirt, continued on page 70 Avenue on Sunday, June 25th to cel- j ;,.,. ::: • ebrate the anniversary of Stonewall «.-' in the Heritage of Pride 20th Annual • Lesbian and Gay Pride March, In :::\:" "'. evidence at this largest-evyr party, " .:.- were the largest-ever contingents of _CO, people with AIDS and people of color in the parade's history, smaller groups including Armenian lesbians, farm dykes, pagans, radical faeries, grandmas for gays and The Rob Lowe Defense Fund, and one admit- tedly-heterosexual mayoral candi- date, kicked off from Columbus Circle promptly at 12:30, led with a cacophonous roar by those dykes on bikes, the New York Sirens, One Canadian rider, Nor~, wearing a black leather hat, vest and little else save a maple leaf, a· Marlboro and a smile, .confided, "Man, this is the largest group of women motorcyclists I've ever seen, We're gonna make some noise down Fifth Avenue," And yes, they did, In the I spirit of Stonewall, the Heritage of Pride float displayed a drag queen's ruby slipper smashing through a pane of glass, alongside, headlines describing the outbreak of violence that night in June of 1969, when gays and lesbians came out of the closet for good, As the float glid- edalong, accompanied by a repre- sentative of each of the 125 groups in the march, European tourists ,looked on with faces suggesting they had just had their visas revoked, STRONG OF PRIDE. LOUD OF WNG Photo: Ben Thornberry When approached for a comment Marchers entering the Village. , 10 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 • News , Parade Largest m i i'i an0 TRATTORIA in History With Two Dinners Courtesy bottle of red wine - Salice Salentino Riserva '82 ' **** Celebration Attracts Special Pizza from our Woodburning oven Politicians and Protesters **** Your host Sal Acquista **** by Jim Whelan and Andrew Miller 165 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY, 1O01l Tel: 212·989-2330 NEW YORK - It has never really rained on the Lesbian and Gay Pride March, and true to this fact of nature, Sunday, June 25 yielded superb , weather for Heritage of Pride's annual extravaganza, When the Sirens Motorcycle Club, accompanied by The Cubbyhole other dykes on bikes, revved up their 438 Hudson Street engines and drove off from Columbus Circle at exactly 12:30 pm, parade at Morton organizer Michael Meyerson estimated (212) 243-9079 a crowd of 200,000 people, That would make it the largest gay pride A neighborhood bar for march in New York's history, As usual, there was a small band both-gay men & women of gay-haters opposite Saint Patri,ck's Cathedral waiting for the parade to pass by. Approximately 45 people stood under heavy police protection at 50th Street screaming at the marchers and holding aloft signs decrying sodomy as a sin, and demanding that the Post Office issue A GENERATION OF PRIDE "No Gay Postal Stamp" (see story, p, 18). Two gangly adolescents, wearing , knitted caps, matching pale blue polyester ties and heavy iron crucifix- 12Month es around their necks, said they came , in from Our Lady of the Roses Shrine SPECIAL in Flushing, Queens "to protest the evil homosexuality," Thefe were no re,ported serious altercations, and $350· although some marchers nipped the finger at the counterdemonstrators, First 100 the flow of the parade was never New Members interrupted, with thisad - The Cathedral itself was com- pletely blocked off by barricades and surrounded by police, Pedestrians could not even use the sidewalks a block away, and were forced to detour through sidestreets and Rockefeller Center. In contrast, the steps of St. Thomas Church on West continued on page 17 .Limited Offer I I Expires 6/30/89 if? ,::A~;()Wk , c,-Jir:> ~ , • SILENCE EQUALS LOVE Marchers during Sunday's three minutes of silence photo: Ben Thomberry , SALSA SOUL SISTERS SASHAY SOUTH • Pride with a beat photo: Peter LeVasseur THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE Rollerena and loving fan photo: Ellen 8. Neipris -is"~ AI"·d wALL. " ., ',;. /IN rff...\l ,,' FKEL I SHARON: i~'1vtSmEO rllf.\l~A{'l. J'i ''II' • ROLLING THUNDER Differently abled and admirers , ' photo:Ellen B. Neipris , 12 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 , , • REMEMBRANCE Mourners at the Sheridan Squa;e AIDS vigil photo: Ellen B. Neipris TAKING TH~FIFTH Marchers in front of Rockefeller Center photo: Peter Le Vasseur FEY, JUDE • Radical Faerie Timmy Vance and. Judy Garland's coffin photo: T.L. Litt "'\• • :1":''. ,,<" "."" c c• ...~:" ..:;" .,,;::,- REBEL WITH CLAWS photo: Ellen B, Neipris Siren member on Pride Day " • July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 13 • • , ,, News , allow traffic to pass. Commented AIDS Activists March Up Sixth Avenue Wolfe, "The cops are very happy to , leave you in your own ghetto, and "Out of the Ghetto and Into the Streets" 14th Street is the symbolic dividing , • line between the Village and the by Mark Chesnut gay pride parade in 1970 began in upper part of the city , , , . [But] we NEW YORK - In an attempt, by ACf . Sheridan Square and travelled up Fifth said we're just going to stay here( UP to "repolitidze" lesbian and gay Avenue to Central Park. 'until you let us go," Aft.er about ten pride, an "estimated 1,0'00 people ACT UP also placed importance fairly tense minutes, the cops marchc::d without police permits from on conducting their march without a allowed ttl'e marchers to proceed Sheridan Square to the rally orga- police, permit. No direct communica- unobstructed. nized by the Heritage of Pride in tion had taken place between ACf UP , ACT UP participants felt this Central Park on Saturday, June 24, and the police department, prior to , march carried a stronger political The march included, a kiss-in at 34th the march, according to Maxine message than Sunday's parade, for Street. Wolfe, on of the event's organizers. which ACT UP also turned om, in The march spread across Sixth "We have to' be out at all places and force, "The people we· walked Avenue and was ope city block in length. all times, without p0lice permission. through were not our friends .. ' and Groups of demonstrators directed, traffic That's the kind of world we want to we g~ve out 5,000 flyers about why • on the side streets by linking arms, ''\Xe make," she said. Neil Broome also we marched to people who were not don't trust the cops to do this for us," said expressed the need to fight against there to cheer us on," said Wolfe, , one marcher who was blocking 14th!' heavy city regulation of demonstra- Ron Goldberg, referred to the Strea:, tions, commenting, "the expression of march as an opportunity to bring les- "Out of'the ghetto, into the dissent has become so fucking con- bian and g'ay issues to the entire streets," was the call from, the' trolled in this country it's a joke." population of the city, "It's· demonstrators, w'ho feel the annual The demonstrators did encounter Stonewall," he said. "We're celebrat- Ie ~Iesbian and gay pride parade should attempted police intervention at 14th ing a political event. Our issues are begin in the Village and finish Street, however, as seven police veHi- political. " uptown to symbolize that the lesbian des and about 20 officers tried to There are no defit;1ite plans for a and gay community. cannot be con- maneuver the marchers into half of similar march next year, according to fined to one neighbOrhood, The first the, width of Sixth Avenue, in order. to Wolfe, T , • 'REPOLlTlClZlNG' PRIDE Photo: T.L, Litt ACT-UP's countermarch near Central Park. 14 OUTTWEEK . July 10, 1989 , , , A New In• Total Fit ne,s5 • • • • , '. 250 We s t 54 t h Street I New Yo r k ( 2 1 2 ) 4.89 - 5215 , • , News • , • , \ ":'//::-' ::;-- by Keith Miller '::,t NEW YORK - Celebration 20!, New ::Mj~{:::;:::(: ,\i ;i:~I:~;~,c'::" -'{,(,::::-::\ :~::::: York's 20th Annual Lesbian & Gay Pride Ra·lly, hosted by Heritage of Pride, was held on Saturday, June 24, 1989 in Central Park. Under an alter- nately cloudy and sunny sky, 2,000 participants were welcomed to the Great Lawn by co-emcees Kate Clinton" a celebrated stand-up come- dian, and Everett Quinton, Artistic Director of the Ridiculous Theatrical , ' Company, "Mother Theresa has been spotted in the crowd wearing a 'Silence = Death' T-shirt," noted Ms, Clinton, in one of her many "reports from rumor central." "However," she continued" "she is wearing it on her head," A potpourri of viewpoints and attitudes provided irreverence mixed with anger, reminiscence and joy well into the afternoon, At 2:30, as the Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps played "I Am What I Am," the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power entered the Great Lawn, capping off their march from Sheridan Square with a stan9ing ovation from the audience already in attendance, The group was large and loud, and their entrance swelled the crowd to nearly twice its size, /1 Tim Powers, an ACf UP mem- ber, person with AIDS and one of the architects of the "Montreal Manifesto," a document assertipg the • rights of PWAs, challenged the poli- , cies of Governor Cuomo and Mayor Koch in one of the afternoon's FAERIE CIRCLE? Photo: lL. litt strongest speeches, ' R.d"." .t Ih. D.nt,,' ".rlr R.lly Classic disco of the 1970s per- - formed by The Trammps, Sharon Kasten's BoyBar Beauties, a martial nist Combahee River Collective, who Redd and Jackie Moore brought the arts demonstration by Brooklyn noted that racism should be "attacked audience to its feet, and Canadian Women's Martial Arts, and a moving root and branch"; Harry Hay, founder singer Heather Bishop seduced the reading of his poem "Old Love Story" of the Mattachine Society, America's audience with her unique style of by Allen Ginsberg, . most successful pre-Stonewall homo- country folk, There were also per- Other notable speakers of the sexual organization; and Joan Nestle; formances by humorists Kathy afternoon were Barbara Smith, a co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Najimy and Mo Gaffney, Matthew founding member of the Black femic Archives (see p. 28), ... " 16 OUTTWEEK July 10. 1989 \ , , , • • ~ PARADE continued from page 11 story, p, 8),] date, "This feels great," Duane said, 53rd Street were packed with revellers Mayor Edward Koch joined the obviously enjoying himself. and spectators, parade at 39th Street this year, but At 2:30, the parade was halted Many of New York's prominent received a chilly reception from and fell silent for three minutes, to parade marchers and spectators, and honor" those who have died of AIDS, politicians participated in the march. , ' , " Coucilwoman Ruth Messinger, a long- left the parade a few blocks later, No Heritage of Pride cancelled the sched- time friend of the lesbian and gay other mayoral candidates were pre- :uled ballobn release this year, after sent. organizers received reports that the community, walked down the Avenue , with Manhattan Borough President Also marching together were balloons, which float out to sea and David Dinkins, Messinger, who is run- Coucilwomen Miriam Friedlander and then settle in the water, are injurious ning for the post Dinkins currently Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan, and to marine life if ingested. Instead, a holds, came to "celebrate a generation Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth giant banner which read "We of pride," Later, she dropped back in Holtzman, who is a candidate for City Remember" was unfurled in front of the parade to walk down to the Comptroller, Maloney told Out Week, the library, Somewhere in New York Village with a contingent of people "I'm marching for human dignity and City, not visible from the parade with AIDS (PWAs), the rights of all people, including route, five airplanes wrote the same Dinkins, a candidate for mayor, partnership rights," Maloney con- message in the sky, according to said, "the parade is tremendously sig- vened a special meeting on domestic organizers. nificant ,,,the time is. right to r~flect partnership issues in her office the The parade. resumed and pro- on how much things have changed, following day, ceeded south to Greenwich Village, But it is not enough, we have a long David Taylor, openly gay candi- where the throngs of spectators grew way to go, especially because of anti- date for Ruth Messinger's Upper West larger and more animated, Some gay violence, The time has come to see Side city council district, marched watched from tree limbs, others [that] all people are treated the same," among supporters, as did Tom shouted to their friends from fire [Dinkins also appeared in the Duane, another openly gay candidate escaPes, An older woman stood at the Village at about 1:30 a,m, on the night for the council district encompassing top of a stoop on Washington Square before the parade, at the scene of a the Village and Chelsea, Duane .North and held up a sign that read, riot which flared up after a re-enact- marched alongside campaign workers "Love, However Expressed, Is ment pf the Stonewall Rebellion (see carrying huge pictures of the candi- Beautiful." 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I hope that the Postal in the Postal Service made this irra- anti-gay members of Congress lashed Service realizes that sodomy is still tional decision," out at the decision by the U,S, Postal illegal in most states, Indeed, the Helms also denounced the Service to offer a commemorative Supreme Court has ruled that state recent decision by the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Pride postmark at a laws against sodomy are perfectly Board of Supervisors to legally recog- postal station in Greenwich Village, constitutional. " nize gay and lesbian relationships as To commemorate the 20th In expressing his disapproval, the "final step towards recognizing anniversary of the Stonewall Dornan directly threatened ~o intro- homosexual marriages," Rebellion, widely viewed as the birth duce legislation. into the U.S, House "In the meantime," Helms of the gay and lesbian civil rights to ban future gay and lesbian com- added, "thousands more continue to movement, the commemorative post- memorations by the Postal Service, die from AIDS while the homosexu- mark was issued at the corner of Dornan also incorrectly identified als continue to proclaim the virtues West 4th and Christopher Streets on the Keith Haring Gay and Lesbian of their perverse practices," , June 24, Lesbian and Gay Pride Day,' Pride logo as the logo of the Gay & "I think the nastiness of Helms' The postmark, which read, Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, response suggests or reveals I the "Stonewall Station, 20 years, 1969- in arguing that the symbol represents desperation of a man who knows 1989, Lesbian and Gay Pride," was the "ideals" of what he called a "pub- that he is losing his battle to deny to offered in response to a request from lic-interest or special-interest" group, Americans the truth that gay people the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against The logo is actually that of Heritage are decent, loving and proud," Defamation (GLAAD), speaking for of Pride, whose sole purpose is to put responded Davidson, "It is particular- Heritage of Pride, the group·which on the city's annual Pride celebra- ly ironic that he should mention stages New York City's annual Gay tions, AIDS, since Senator Helms has and Lesbian Pride celebration, "We don't even have a logo," worked diligently to prevent the sort Voicing outrage at the Postal said. Craig Davidson, GLAAD execu- of education that would stem the Service's decision to offer the post- tive director. spread of this unfortunate disease, mark, Rep, Robert Dornan (R-Calif,), Taking the floor of the Senate in "By Senator Helms' own admis- one of the loudest and most vocal mid-afternoon, during a recess in the sion," he added, "the post office, in anti-gay member of the U.S, House, de bate on the Act for Better Child the normal course of business, uses penned an op-ed piece in the June Care, Sen, Jesse Helms (R-N,C) stated, special stamp cancellations to cele- 23 Washington Times charging that "I am appalled at the judgment of the brate the cultural diversity of the postmark violated the depart- U.S, Postal Service, I find this highly America, and lesbians and gay peo- II ment's own policy not to issue post- objectionable, " pIe are part of that diversity," T marks with-among other things "political" or "anti-religious" • • • ••- L" • themes, .., - • • STONEWAll STA. • Dornan railed at the commemo- ration of what started as "street riots" II, _ and at the Postmaster General's 20 YEARS 1969-1989 defense that the postmark reflected the "interests and attitudes of those LESB' &GAY E in the area," "This criterion would ,make for other interesting pictorial cancella- tions," Dornan wrote, "including per- ~ haps one for drug infested areas ~ featuring a syringe and the slogan '20 years of Getting High.'" The US Postal Service's stamp cancellation honoring the Stonewall anniversary. 18 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 New York • atlve In Dis By Gabriel Rotella the Native has ever asked for financial Charming, Newly Renovated NEY YORK-:-A simmering dispute statements or reports, which the Brownstone Conveniently between ACT UP and the NY Native fundraisers said are available at any located in Chelsea continued to grow this week as the time, "I expected a counterattack from • All Rooms Have Native published an editorial implying the Native, and this is it," said Washing Facilities mismanagement of ACT UP's fun.ds. fundraising chairman Peter Staley, • Share Bath The editorial followed a column in "They're going the low road, They've • Continental Breakfast Included last week's Native in which the neither asked for nor produced evi- • Single $50 • Double $65 • Suite $80 tabloid raised questions about ACT dence of any kind, and they should ALL TAXES INCLUDED UP money being held in "brown either put up or shut up." • • Weekly Rates Upon Request paper bags" and "personal checking Others in ACT UP informed accounts. " Out Week that Stilley has frequently Advance Reservations Suggested! A source at the Native told loaned money of his own to the orga- COLONIAL HOUSE OutWeek that the campaign of innu- nization, as have several other volun- .INN endo against ACT UP !S in response teer members of the fundraising CHELSEA to ACT UP's boycott of the Native. committee, ACT UP has no paid staff Peter Staley, head of ACT UP's members, . 318 West 22nd St., N,Y,C. 10011 212·243-9669 fundraising committee and the Repeated calls by OutWeek to Natives apparent target, was the orga- Native publisher Charles Ortleb went nizer of the boycott. unanswered. ~ At the June 26 ACf UP meeting, • treasurer Dan Baker spoke of the Native's articles and expressed con- cern that they may plant doubt in some members' minds about the Read integrity of ACT UP's finances. He offered to distribute weekly financial reports to the entire membership but c LER INN his offer was declined by the room. Inn U)wn Bed & Breakf,lst The Native innuendos were greeted OutTWeek by laughter and jeers from the crowd- nIE CHANDLER INN has adopted ed meeting, a favorite EurQpean tradition. the "Bed & Breakfast" concept. A small hotel " When activist Larry Kramer point- • located in Ihe center of the city. Our ed out Native editor John Hammond, • 56 newly refurbished. contemporary who was present, a movement began rooms are equipped with private bath. • color TV. and direct dial telephone, , to have the editor ejected from the • • Under the Chandler, visit FRITZ, , room, This was squelched when a • one of Boston's most frequented gay moderator reminded the members • bars, that ACT UP meetings are open to • • Enjoy B,)ston the INN-expensive wayl anyone wishing to attend, and that • even police agents have traditionally • RATES: $64. SINGLES, $74 DOUBLE been allowed to remain during meet- • INCLUDES CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST ings, ' The controversy underscores the growing antagonism between the 26 Chandler at Berkeley, Boston MA 02116 On sale Tuesdays. (617) 482-3450 Native and ACT UP. .ACT UP fundraisers expressed particular outrage that no one from , July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 19 - , News· • • considerably . "People would have taken this , drug with us or without us," Delaney told OutWeek. "We wanted solid answers and the official system " " • wasn't going to answer the questions we needed answered as a communi- ty," Targe~Project Inform Director Delaney said his study, made up of those who have failed other thera- By Jon David Aloisi-Nalley California at San Francisco (UCSF) by pies, is being done in four cities, SAN FRANCISCO - The reported Dr. Paul volberding of that university, with approximately 15 patients in death last week of a man with AIDS " and Genelabs, Inc" the company each city, ~nrolled in an' undergrou.nd study of which holds the use patent for Activists and advocates for peo- the antiviral GLQ223 has raised ques- GLQ223 in the U,S, Testing the safety ple with AIDS were split in their tions among government officials of the agent, the five patients in the opinions of Delaney'S trial. Many about that study, which is being UCSF study were initially given reserved comment. overseen by Project Inform director, dosages of 1/20 of those in Delaney's Michael Flanagan, president of Martin Delaney, 'Scrutiny of the study, although the former study has the San' Francisco-based study has led to an investigation of raised its dosages to half that of the , Documentation of AIDS Issues and the advocacy group head by the U.S. latter, Research Foundation (DAIR) was Food and Drug Administration (FDA) FDA's Stone said the agency was , supportive of the trial. He also to determine if his study - particulatly concerned ab0ut severe expressed concern about how much described in some press reports as allergic reactions to GLQ223 which of the media had focused on the "clandestine", "covert" and "secret" have caused death previously, accord- reported death, Referring to the -!~illegal. ing to isolated reports regarding peo- recent approval by the FDA of two '.;-" " 'More: commonly known as ple with AIDS who had obtained the drugs to treat people with AIDS, gan- Compound Q, GLQ223 is a highly drug. Although there is a discrepancy ciclovir and erythropoietin (see story, " purified preparation of Trichosanthin, as to the form, dosage and/or purifi- p, 21), Flanagan stated, "The research ·an agent extracted from the root of a cation level of the drug taken in these establishment talks about release of . ' , Chinese cucumber plant and long- cases, and although there is no hard these drugs at the same time that used in China as an abortion' indu- data supporting severe side effects, they discuss a resultant death [of cant. In the test tube, ti:le drug has Stone told Out Week that this factor someone in an underground tfial] to proven to be enormously effective in could prqve significant in people with make themselves look compassionate destroying HIV, the vifUs gelieved to compromised immune systems. and [as if they are] 'doing all they cause AIDS, in T4 cells, as well as Delaney asserted that GLQ223 is can, and [to portray] those outside killing infected macrophages (white not necessarily the cause of th~ the arthritic research system as blood cells which harbor HIV), enrollee's death, He also charged that unethical and irresponsible." Important to the agent's effectiveness the current research system is over- Flanagan also feared that federal reg- in treating, the full spectrum of HIV protective regarding the testing of ulatory agencies would use this illnesS is what scientists believe to be drugs for life-threatening diseases, unfortunate scenario to discourage a striking ability to cross the The UCSF studies of GLQ223 have and impede people with AIDS who blood/brain barrier, been criticized by Delaney and other are trying to expedite drug trials, FDA spokesperson Brad Stone advocates for p'eople with AIDS But Michael Callen, a founder of told Out Week that the agency wi\l' because the doses initially used are Community Research Initiative, a conduct, a preliminary investigation comparatively small, testing for toxici- New York community-based organi- • • of Delaney'S study, which com- ty. According to traditional scientific zation which conducts clinical trials menced in mid-April, to examine testing recognized by FDA, studies for of drugs to treat people with AIDS questions of distribution, scale, exact effectiveness, which would require and which was largely responsible nature of the agent used, and higher doses of the drug, would for the recent approval of aerosol whectler monitoring of toxicity and begin only after extensive, lengthy pentamidine, was critical of adverse effects is being done, FDA toxicity studies are completed and are Delaney'S trials, , is withholding any further comment shown to be positive. Critics would "It seems to me that people regarding 'actions it may take until like to see initial testing of GLQ223 have charged ahead irresponsibly," the investigaiion is completed. done at higher, theoretically-therapeu- he told the New York Times, "Some A stU?y approved by the FDA in tic doses, so that effectiveness, as well, people are paying the price for that; which G1Q223 is being tested is as toxicity, could be monitored, there- They have gone into comas and underway at the University of by cutting the time to achieve results died." .... Filed/rom New York • 20 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 , To " News THE KING HASAN . ELEGANT NEW WARDROBE • • In ., Speeded Process Skips Clinical Trials by Cliff O'Neill approval of a drug without what is Your favorite Caribbean resort has WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug called "pure scientific evidence," created ci new group of luxury suites Administration (FDA) granted final involving a broad range of data on its and villas espeCially designed for the most discriminating KINGS and , approval status to gancicJovir, a drug effectiveness from double blind place- QUEENS, used to treat AIDS-related blindness, bo studies, Our new 1989 brochure describes our on June 26, bringing to four the num- In these studies some patients exciting new accommodations In receive the drug and some receive an great detail, Call or write and request ber of FDA-approved AIDS treatment our newest OutWeek packet, drugs, The drug's release marks the inert substance, or placebo, In dou- P.O. Box 1908 first time in nearly 25 years that the ble blind studies neither the subjects FrederllcJted. U,S.V.I, 00840 FDA has granted commercial approval nor the doctors involved know who is. TOLLFREE:1-800-5U2018 or 1-109·772·1205 to a drug without what is called "pure receiving placebos, and who .isreceiv- dally, except SUn, 7:00 Q,m,· 5:00 p,m. E,$,T,' scientific evidence" from a full-scale ing the drug, The design of these cJinicaltrial. studies has long been criticized by Ganciclovir; also known as AIDS activists as being unethical, DHPG, is a highly toxic herpes treat- because some people receive no ment which has been proven effective treatment. OutWeek Personals in treating cytomegalovirus (CMV) "To answer [the] questions [of a retinitis, an AIDS-related illness that . lack of long term effects]," stated FDA 212.685.6398 causes blindness, The drug has also commissioner Frank Young, "the shown promise in treating ,CMVcoli- approval of ganciclovir will be accom- tis, a diarrheal condition commonly panied by extensive post-marketing known as "wasting," The drug had studies to explore more fully the previously been available through the drug's benefits and limitations, espe- Michael Grin . FDA's treatment IND (investigational . cially its role in use with AIDS thera- , ' new drug) distribution protocol, pies such as zidovudine or AZf," although AIDS activists have criticized The drug will now be marketed the specific guidelines restricting by Syntex Corp, of Palo Alto, is an understanding ganciclovir distribution, California under the trade name Bucks County Realtor The drug now joins the highly Cytovene. The drug is administered , , toxic anti-viral AZT, the cancer drug intravenously through a Hickman alpha interferon and the pneumonia catheter, which must be surgically with years of experience preventative aerosolized pentamidine implanted. FDA gUidelines released in finding that perfect as the only FDA-a»proved AIDS treat- with the announcement state that the ment drugs, drug is to be administered twice a day weekend or full-time , At a press conference announc- for 14 days, after which treatinents are ing the re\!':ase of the drug, Health to be taken once daily for the rest of home. and Human Services (HHS) Secretary the patient's life, Dr, Louis W. Sullivan stated, "This and The approval of ganciclovir has other recent developments in AIDS largely been credited to the work of treatment demonstrate a commitment the New York AIDS Coalition to For exceptional service call by HHS and its component FDA to Unleash Power (ACT UP/NY), Michael at speed the availability of AIDS-related Through a series of carefully crafted David C.KurfissR.E drugs." actions and negotiations, it enlisted The release of the drug marks the support of the community 'and the first time since the early 60s that extracted the approval of the drug Office 215.794.3227 the FDA has.... granted commercial from a controversial study in which it Evenings 215.794.3585 July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 21 News , • was bogged down, stymied approval status of the drug, UP held a silent demonstration during An FDA panel set to recommend After the meeting, three ACT UP that meeting at which the drug was .' approval of the drug in late 1987 members met with National Institute finally approved, shocked the AIDS and medical com- on Allergies and Infectious Diseases "I would say this is our biggest munities when, over the objections Director Dr, Anthony Fauci to enlist victory to date, hands down,· stated of the two ophthalmologists on the his support on the approval of the Peter Staley of ACf UP, "Instead of board, the panel voted against drug, while other activists conducted 'pure scientific data' [before approval), approval. ' a demonstration at the NIAID offices [the FDA) had 100 percent agreement . Earlier this year, after extensive .in Bethesda, on anecdotal data, basically from clin- research and meetings with physi- After his meeting with ACT UP, icians on compassionate use, We've . cians, ACT UP commandeered an Fauci discussed the drug with Young, been arguing all along that that says FDA oversight panel and grilled FDA and scheduled another vote on the something; that common sense dic- spokesperson Ellen Cooper on the approval of the drug for May 2, ACT tates that if every patient-and there Dykes to Watch Out For Il-iA"KS' ,lJ"'AfISH- HljlKI· Al1.lJ(;uLA ~n~EYou 0\S%IlCi.£! IT f f'\)I OwN -1 HAVING? ~ECIP~ , , ',1 \ r- , 1\""',/ -.....:; .;:, "., J -~ ,ORWMrAT I:oN'IW~ NO.' IT W1)_~RouJN ' 011" YfA\-l,1 Afbvr ME.I'll WITlI"~I( fESTlClO£S ~D \Jill, I WCVt>N r HA'J£ sun IT AwywAY,' I DoN', HAVE 5CME OFTllJ5 RI(C I" A ItAZNalOIIS WoU1'E \ 5D-'E'Tli IN & IT IS ORGANIC IS'/'1 I r? PIAM.' 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I 01""" r ~OW '>tlV v..L<:£ COUIITING-! ~A:;q • • , 22 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 • , are over 3,000 patients that have used tus to erythropoietin, an experimental the drug-and every doctor that has protein product used to treat anemia Mayor Daley Leads used the drug, to a tee, says it which usually accompanies use of Chicago Parade. works and nobody says it doesn't AZT and other toxic AIDS drugs, The • work--then we have a drug ready for FDA on June 1 granted final approval by Rex Wockner release, ACf UP waS pushing that from status to another form of the drug, CHICAGO-Lesbian and Gay history • the beginning," although not for use in AIDS patients, was made June 25 when Mayor AIDS activists are also concerned The release <;>fthe new form under Richard Daley lead off the Gay and • with the pricing of the drug, which Treatment IND status allows physi- Lesbian Pride Parade, riding in a light will cost patients $29 a treatment. If cians prescribing the drug to receive blue 1958 Thunderbird convertible, administered in accordance to FDA the product from the drug company Daley told reporters he came guidelines, the drug could c:ost at no cost. However, because the because he is "the mayor of all the patients up to $10,585 a year, well drug's status remains technically people of the city of Chicago," over the high price of the costly anti- experimental, the associated costs of No other Chicago mayor has rid- viral AZf, administering the drug may not be den in the parade while in office, The "It's quite an expensive little tr~at- covered by private or state insurance late Mayor Harold Washington spoke ment," added Staley, "This is not an plans, at the post-parade rally in 1986 and expensive drug to make, This is not It is the fourth drug to be granted 1987, Former Mayor Jane Byrne rode an AZT," the special, experimental status, in the parade after Washington defeat- Staley added that ACf UP will be which was created in response to ed her. / working with ACT UP chapters' in pressure from AIDS advocates to Daley wore a button reading, California to mount pressure on speed up 'patients' access to new "The issue is human rights: Parents Syntex for cost data and lower prices treatments. The other three drugs are FLAG," which stands for Paren~s and for the drug, " aerosolized pentamidine and ganci- Friends of Lesbians and Cays, During Also as part of the g3,ncicJovir cJovir, which have since been fully _a campaign appearance last February, announcement, the FDA stated it approved, and trimetrexate, a pneu- Daley hinted that a member of his ,would be grantmg Treatment IND sta- monia drug, 'Y immediate family is gay, 'Y I If your share of the pie is getting smaller and smaller, call Michael Brocoum, Registered Representative with Integrated R~sources Equity Corp, Michael Brocoum specializes in income producing investments which focus on tax credits, tax-free, or tax-deferred income, ' Like most individuals, you could probably. be taking better advantage of tax-advantaged investments. Know/edge is. the key jngredient to help you make the right investment decision. To help you gain this knowleage call Michael Brocoum. . , Michael Brocoum Don't let taxes eat up all you've got. Integrated Resources Call, or mail coupon to: Equity Corporation Member NASD/SIPC (212) 645-6167 P,Q.Box 30031 New York, N,y' 10011-0103 . or fax completed coupon to (212) 645-6169 ---~------~------I- I : Name: : : Address: : : City: , State: Zip: : : Telephone Day: I Eve: : • : Mail to: Michael J. Brocoum, Integrated Resources : • I P,Q,Box 30031, New York, NY 10011-0103, I ------.------, News purge of lesbians from leadership in Stonewall-Era Activists that organization, Such struggles continued in efforts to gain gender parity at NGTF, , ' A former vice preSident of GAA, • co-founder of NGTF and now at the Reunion, 'Revolution Recalled,' at Center New York City Commission on the , Status of Women, Ginny Vida told of by Jon David Aloisi-Nalley meeting at Alternate U, where GLF her experience with the Women's NEW YORK-"People· who do not was born. Eschewed by much of the Subcommittee of GAA (which later preserve their history will shortly have left, GLF also was avoided, by many became Lesbian Feminist Liberation) someone else'S," said Marty Robinson, lesbians and gay men still stinging where there was tension with the quoting Lesbian Herstory Archives' from the anti-homosexual witch hunt gay men, "but also wonderful founder Joan Nestle, With that state- of the McCarthy period, \ moments of working together." One ment, memories of times over 20 Crediting, GLF for saving her life, of that subcommittee's first efforts years ago came alive at "Revolution Shelley waxed nostalgic about that was an International Lesbian Film Recalled" at the Lesbian and Gay group's dances at Al~ernate U. (where Festival, in which Vida credited Vito Community Center on Thursday, June beer was 50 cents as opposed to $2 Russo with helping obtain many of 22, where veterans of the early gay dollars in mafia-run bars), the role of its the films, Vida also recounted the and lesbian liberation struggle shared newspaper Come Out, and its many major victory for the early movement their experiences with both contem- coalition attempts including fundraising when, in December 1973, the poraries and young activists, for the Black Panthers and helping the American Psychiatric Association Moderated by Robinson, who partici- Young Lords in building occupation, removed homosexuality from its list pated in the founding of such groups Shelley also spoke of GLF'sdissolution, of disorders, as the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), the as various factions left for various rea- The police raid of an afterhours Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), the sons: people of color forming their bar called the Snake Pit in the early Lavender Hill Mob and, ACT UP, the own groups in response to issues of 70s was remembered by Jim Owles, forum also included a photo exhibit racism, "serious socialists" becoming a co-founder of the GAA and the on an early 70s zap of The Daily the Red Butterfly cell, women leaVing first president of that organization, News, in response to needs around sexism. In An Argentinian gay man arrested in Martha Shelley, author and a co- reflection, Shelley called upon the the raid, fearing deportation based founder of GLF and Radicalesbians community to remember "those people on his homosexuality, jumped out a told the group of 25,0that recounted who didn't make it," whether by AIDS, window of the 6th precinct and was experience is the best history, For murder, suicide, or "therapists," impaled on the fence below, Leaflets Shelley, that history began with the At the time of early liberationist mimeographed at Marty Robinson's landmark lesbian group Daughters of foment, Barbara Love was a CBS apartment which called for a demon- executive and a reluctant radical in a BiJitis and the picketing of , stration said: "that person could have milieu where the bars and the radical Independence Hall in Philadelphia, been anyone of us," The demonstra- "pleading for equal rights," an impor- groups were the "only game in town," tors went first to St. Vincent's where tant step, she said, toward "splitting Co-author of S'appho Was a Right on the man was hospitalized, proceed- open the 50s grey flannel suit mentali- Woman and co-founder of Identity ing to the 6th precinct "to give them ty." She acknowledged the many oth- House"and the National Gay Task hell," Owles told those gathered, , ers involved in the early lesbian and Forct;!(now National Lesbian and Gay Illustrating the political advances gay movement, for whom the first Task Force), 'she was introduced to of the lesbian and gay community, steps were the civil rights, anti-war, lesbian liberation through the Owles asserted, was the fact that the feminist and anti-imperialist struggles, National Organization for Women governor, mayor and other politicians With the Lindsay reelection cam- (NOW) where· "that issue" was whis- now attend community functions, as paign raid of the Stonewall in June pered about uhtil Rita M~e Brown opposed to 1970, when Bella Abzug '69, those influences converged with came in with her mini-skirt' and Phi was the only politician willing to be the full moon, "and this time the Beta Kappa pin and "actually men- seen meeting with lesbian and gay queers fought back '" street queens tioned the world 'lesbian' out loud," voters, with nothing to lose," She spoke of Love. spoke of the efforts she and Also contributing to the the early organizing efforts in Sappho co-author Sidney Abbott made evening's discussion were former Stonewall's aftermath, such as in getting NOW's 400,000 members to GAA activists of The Gay Mystique Mattachine's Town Hall meeting, the work on lesbian issues, The fight in and Marc Rubin, co-founder of early march through the Village and NOW was "devastating," she said, NGLTF and the Gay Teachers rally in Washington Square, and the describing the "lavender menace" Association, ~ 24 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 .~ News .I Parliament, the Knesset. First Pride WeekEver In'Israel "It was an artistic evening for • pride and civil rights at a famous the- , , , By Rex Wockner ing some parties of dancing, movies ater," 1l30udenbrook said. "MPs " ' TEL AVIV-Although they cancelled. about lesbian and gay political cul- (Members of Parliament) from all par- plans to hold a parade, Israel's gay ture, a Fassbinder film, and, finally a ties were invited to discuss gay and and lesbian community has scheduled musical evening on the be;lch by the lesbian rights and we got them to the country's first ever gay pride week sea,· come by also inviting the media, The in late June and early July, Otzmah had planned to hold a 'left' parties came, of course, because Speaking by telephone from Tel gayJIesbian pride parade through the they care for the subject and the Aviv, Adi Boudenbrook of the gay streets of Tel Aviv, but at;>andonedthe 'right' because they care for the pub- group OtzmaQ, which is the political idea after realizing not enough people licity, Since it was the first time in wing of Israel's main gay rights orga- could risk marching, Israel an event like this happened, n ization- The Society for the ~'People here are not free there was a lot of media coverage," Protection of Personal Rights (SPPR) enough," Boudenbrook' said, "This is According to Boudenbrook, the -said a wide range of activites will the first time for a pride week to exist evening went down in history when target both gays and non-gays, at all. There just aren't enough peo- Otzmah members h~ckled the'MP's, "We are going to all towns in rle who can go proudly in the streets who said they did not understand Israel and putting up signs on trees and- be really out of the closet. So, why gays and lesbians don't just and poles saying, 'Here we are, les- we had to do something that will be involve themselves in more general bians and homos~xuals,' with details influential somehow and that the equal rights battles, about pride week,· he said. "We are community will like," "We' told them we need to be ,Igiving interviews in -the papers and Otzmah is less than one year old mentioned specifically 'with sexual will be on a television show, .but burst into the media spotlight in preference," Boudenbrook said . , ,"For our own community," March after a rowdy argument with "Anti-discrimination ha; to be written 'several members of the Israeli into the law," 'Y Filedfrom Chicago Boudenbrook continued, "we are giv- , 1\ /ul/ dlJ pili ,1,;/11.: I III \';II,,'.\"Im IIt'fel"r Knowing your HIV ".COMI'ANY'? .status is not enough .. T-Cells are the best indicator of the health of your immune system. Make sure that you know your T-Cell count. If your count is high, get your , T-Cells tested every six' - • months. If your count is low, , get them tested every three • months. • Only you can save your • / own life. • • • " • News Levanthal says he created a climate one ~ensore where anti-porn forces have more • clout. "We hav~ to judge whether Editors Gay On.Pierced Penis somebOdy is goipg to contact the local repressive fas~ists,· Levanthal said. "Meese really brought the anti- by Rex Wockner the magazines in there wher~ they ar~ porn people out of the closet.·, NEW YORK-The July issue of the the only connection to gay life some Censorship, , is much greater" in popular gay male soft-core porn people have," he said, "People Canada,' Levanthal said, where magazine Honcho arrived on news- 'become aware of a community they Modernismo magazines arrive with stands this month ,With black dots never. knew existed when they stum- paragraphs of the fiction blacked out. obScuring a portion of one model's ble acroSs our magazines,ri In England, U.S, porn magazines " , pentS, The degree of self-imposed cen- are not available because of a ban on Th"e cover-up occurred in a sorship at Modernismo has increased shoWing erect penises. , photo spread called "Piercing in the last three years, Levanthal said, "It's very frustrating-I was hired ,I Session,· which, according to following then Attorney Genera) to get men hard, keep them hard and Honcho editor Stan U;vanth;i.I, fea- Edwin Meese's highly publicizec;i make th€m want to come,· ,Levanthal .tured a man with a ring through is report on pornography, said. "Porn is safe sex. We should urethra, Although Meese did not !iucceed be abl<: to publish anything that The ce~sor!ihip' of the photos legally in ~ensoring publications ~hat keeps ,people from ,getting skk, 'Y , ' took place internally :it Modernismo print sexually explicit material, Filedfrom Chicago Publications, which produces Honcho and seven other well-known gay porn magazines. Levanthal said the deCision was made at the man- agerial level after he had completed his work as editor. • 11'0111MATViw ... &.... ~ Oftllt.,... MIl OF ... "It's what distributors think they JULY , ... '4,n U.', can get away with," he said, "and se,.5 eliN, there are higher"upS in this company who determine what might not get I 011 the stands, I'm constantly moni- tored - no insertion shots, no wet shots. But I had no idea they would object to pierced penises," • Self-censorship .at Modernismo is nothing new,Levanthal said, ·since we are .living in one oJ the m'ost media-censored nations in the world, I've sent out calls for help," " , 'he said, '!but our readers don~t seem -,- 'interested, It's a crime against art, , • • but no one 'wants to' hear about that. • • TheY're only interested in the free-, dom-of~~peech angle,» 'Modern ismo also has 'strict , ' guidelines for "fiction, Authors may not alludJ to bondage or violence in connection with any sex .act. The ,. ., I' guidelines differ from those of less [. widely circulated magazin~, such as the leather~orjented I;>ruinmer, because, Leyanthal said, "we a're '" • available in tiny towns across America." -' • "It's the only way we can get 26 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 , , ....-" , News ,Buy yourself sonie peace of mind. Green Light For , , M'ass~Rights by Rex Wackner , BOSTON-7-Massachusetts activists -, -- , \' \ say that before the end of the year INSURANCE PLANNERS their state will become the second in DISABILITY· 'LIFE· MAJOR MEDICAL the ,V,S, to pass a state gay/lesbian 96 EAST MAIN STREET HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK 11743 516-424-8080 rights bill, , , ' The measure has cleared the State HO\lse of Representatives and ltiT r.LiM has three more suppo'rters than it -needs to pass in the Senate, accord- ing to lobbyists, Having the votes, ACEContractor & Crew .. though, is only part of the. game, All joll.IIn.1I or I.rg. MEXICAN ea".nlly ., ElectriCal. Sheetrock • RESTAURANT . activists say, The corks on the cham- Ap.... n.. -.l.Dfb • 510... 883 FIRST AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, N,Y, pagne bottles will not pop until at 1212) 221-7&22 TELEPHONES: 935·3749 ' 421-1212 least late Fall because of the cum~r- - someness of parliamentary politics, The bill will likely come up for a , . first,vote in the Senate in mid-July, Under Massachusetts' system, if the bill passes on that vote it will then come up for a second vote called "engrossment." If it is engrossed, it , will proceed to a third vote called '''enactment." ! . . This 'pro<;:edure will likely be • delayed, hewever, by amendments , that anti-gay senators will attach to , , , the 'bill, 'If that happens, the bill will Dr. Charles Franchin,jj, , ' , , • be sent to a House-Senate confer- • .. ence 'committee· between· the .. 3D Fifth Avenue • , , engrossment and enactment votes, • After a compromise is ham- New York, New York'10011. • mered out, the bill will return to both Houses for enactment. 212.673.4331 ' ---- ~. Tt~e .bill is supported by Massachusetts ·Governor Michael • puJtakis, wbo was Vigorously criti- , ( . . ' '.. oflice·hours by:appoiiltment . ci~edby g~y activists' during last • year's Presidential race. • •••••••••_••__"r_• Detractors charge that Dukakis I supports an anti-gay foster care poli- • cy and has supported the bill in I.SERIOUS THERAPY FOR MEN · ' word but not in deed, But Arline Isaacson, a lobbyist !. Leading expert on gay male identity, sexuality, and for the bill, called Dukakis' support I relationship issues. Affiliated with major N.Y. "very public and very helpful." · ' Only Wisconsin has a state-wide I research hospital. Stress and 'psycho-social training. law protecting lesbians and gay men i· Dr. James A. Serafini, Ph.D. ' from discrimination, T Filed from Chicago i (212) 877-3319 • , I•••••• • ••• • • '. ••• • • • 27 • July 10. 1989 OUTTWEEK \ , • I .... ------..------ " , , The'text'ofthe speech given by Joan Nestle, co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archicves, at the Celebration 20! pri~erally in Cehtral Park on June 24th , I want to talk about courage this' never stand up and say, 'No, don't hit we live them, In ,the 'coming years, • afternoon-;-as we gather here .today· me, I'm not gay, I'm not gay.' I we will, be called upon to find our to commemorate that special courage wouldn't do that." courage lime and time again, not jus~ that has come' to be known as the This'is not the voice of a so- the courage of our public spokes- Storiewall Rebellion, But before that called famous lesbian woman," it is the people, or ACf UP members, or our explosive night in Greenwich Village voice of our everyday courage before culturlll workers, but every one of us 20 years ago, gay people were not Stonewall. It is a 'voice preserved who pursues the dignity and plea- . just a silent ,people, were not just a because of the gay and lesbian history sure of our same sex.touch, submissive people, I know this from movement in this country, in this case An understanding of this rich 'my own"gay life, which started 'in the the work of Liz Kennedy and and varied heritage of resistance will late 50s, and from the voices that I Madeline Davis of Buffalo, New York. create bonds between us that their live with in the Lesbian Herstory ,The Lesbian Herstory Archives is alive' fists and laws ca'nnot subdue; it will Archives. with stories of daily resistan,ce from strengthen our alliances between Being a lesbian in this city in the the 50s and before: the butch woman ourselves as we work in different 50s challenged all my fears an:d who sewed lace on her socks so she ways for sustained political and cul- shaped" alL.tQy Iiberation pol itics. would not' be arrested for impersonat- tural change; it will guide us as we , , Whether" it was taking my a~lotted ing a man, the fem who took her build our own institutions, Our amount, of toilet paper in the bath- lovers arm in the street marking them courage, both individual and com- r()(jm line at the Sea Colony, or walk. " both as homos, the mascUline looking munal, is not the legacy of just one ;ing past the Women's House of. , woman Who would not change her day nor of one decade; it has no sin- •c. . . " Detention on a hot'summer night appearance even though, no one gle voice or face, no one member- and, hearing the desperate ~ries of would ride with her in the elevator of ship card and because of this, we all incarcerated lesbian lovers, or hold- her early 60s New Jersey housing' pro- can be creators of our history of lib- , ' ing on to my butch's arm in the back ject, the gay lovers who rode the sub- eration. room of a bar so she would not be way to Riis Park and faced the taunts The one demand that is made goaded by the police taunts into a' and fists of outraged spectators as on us is to be seen and heard for battle that would leave her bloody, I they played in the sun, the early what we are-women who make " was deeply educated in the power of members of the homophile ,organi?a- love with women and men who the state to control and dehumanize tions that took 'on the McCarthy make love with men. As we gather in our lives, But in the face of this con- witchbunts, the early bar goers, who greater and greater numbers so do stant police surveillance and social carved out public territory for their those who hate us, those who would bigotry went a thousand acts of les- own kind, and so many more small watch us die rather than touch our biilO courage, stories of a huge bravery, bodies, those who call our art a .' Lislen to this pre-Stonewall les- But you know these stories moral pollutant and want it pulled bian voice: "Things back then were because every step of coming out that from their museums, those who want horrible, arid I think that because I each of you has taken in your us to be sexually controlled and f,' ,~, ' fought like a man to survive I made lives-these ar~ all Stonewalls, all domesticated and yet declare our it somehow easier for the kids com- momentS of courageous resistance to relationships illegal. Our most coura- ing Qut today, I did all their fighting homophobic tyranny. geous answer to this barrage of for them. I'm not a rich person; I We are not a people of one great exclusion is to go on living our lives don't even have a lot of money; I moment of history, we are a people without betrayal of our diversity, of don't even have a Iittle money. I whose courage bas been tested our knowledge of our people's histo- would have nothing to leave nobody through the generations, Stonewall, is ry and our way of lOVing, You are , , in this world, but I have that, that I a marker for a movement, a public the spirit of Stonewall; you, your can leave the kids who are coming political stance, and as such it herald- faces, words, touches are the living out now, who will come out in tbe ed all the braveries of the 70s and legacy of our 'people's history. "But I future, trat I left them a better place now. But. gay courage was not bofn wouldn't deny it; even though I was getting my brains beaten up I would to come out into, And that's all, I that day, and its form was not, fixed have to offer, to leave them, ,But I that day; our history of courage is a never stand up and say, 'No, don't wouldn't deny it; even thougb I was complex thing, as complex as our hit me, I'm not gay, I'm not gay.' I getting my brains beaten up I would lives and the condition under which wouldn't do that." ... 28 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 " ~ '...... \.\ " "If 11[:: II\,}I ::: 1\:.· :-: II ',' ,', ~~~ .:. { ::':: ',' ::: ..."'( " ::: ',' ',' ~~: :.: " ," ':::cc c c;::; " ~~~ ::::.;;:.:.: Cc;cCc,c :;;';.:c:c:; \:-;.;::.: ',' ••• :.: II':! ••• :::.;;. 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',' " ,', :' .:. ,', :~r:.;·< c~t:.;·:~:: " ;;: ',' ::" ',' " • , preach a sermon of prevention, com- incorporate the needs of the commu- Prevention and plete with a focus on spreading sexual nities aJfected, ~ We recognize that, as abstinence, monogamy and (by exclu- a federal agency, we can't be all Beyond: Irs About sion) heterosexuality amid the "gener- {things to all people, but we've worked al population." hard to incorporate all of the ideas," 'Time , As a result of these and other crit- Don Mercer Edwards, executive icisms, this year the CDC has moved director of the National Minority AIDS the conference into the backyard of Council (a national advocacy net- or the last two years, the federal the Office of Minority Health (OMH), work), agrees with Court's appraisal of government, under the auspices As part of a larger network of Public the planning so far, He is a member of the Center for Disease Control Health Service (PHS) agencies, the of the executive committee, and con- . ~ (CDC), has organized the National OMH promises to transform this year's firms that they have met at least three Minority Conference on AIDS, conference into a more visionary gath- times with community advocates and Designed to address AIDS issues that ering, Conference Chair Valerie is confident that the structure of the specifically affect minority, racial and Setlow, at a recent meeting in event itself will reflect their concerns. ethnic groups nationwide, the confer- Montreal at the Fifth International "I think it will really be something that • ence has grown into a major gathering Conference on AIDS, stated that "this people on the front lines will be satis- of public health care officials, year's conference is the third in a fied with" The form of ·the workshops researchers, community service agen- series but at the same time it is the themselves is more interactive, and cies and health care providers: That first of its kind," will deal with a lot more skills. There is, the AIDS (Service) Industry, Under OMH the organizers will will be program development-oriented Officially, the conference is hilled as have the authority to discuss a wider sessions and much smaller workshops "The National Conference on HIV range of issues related to the social than in the past. This is the first Infection and AIDS Among Racial and aspects of AIDS, including lesbians opportunity to place the whole spec- Ethnic Populations," revealing some and gay men, insurance, tre;ltment trum of AJDS issues before the minori- politically correct roots, ty communities." The last two confer- So, with all this good I P'artn ersh ip-b uiIdin g ences were criticized by news, what's the problem? people Iiving with A.IDS vvith the federal A major federal agency has (PLWAs), AIDS activists and finally responded in a com- community-based organiza- government hasn't prehensive way to the , • , tions (CB0s) for its ins is- been prac1:iced a lot In needs of groups neglected tenceon directing all, in the past, right? attention on, preventing the the last eight years' Treatment and research spread of HIV, thereby issues are finally being ignoring the complex treat- addressed, lesbian and gay' ment issues faced by PLWAs and the and research, as well as pediatric issues are being covered, so what do actual social and economic, dimen-, AIDS, Representatives of the Food we want? The problem: Community , sions of the crisis, One participant in and Drug Administration will be on activists must monitor these proceed- last year's conference described "peo- hand, as well as officials of the ings carefully to assure that its quality ple in ·suits going out to lunch all the National Institutes of Health, the and content are satisfactory to all peo- time," Community activists raised a Human Resources Service ple of color who are affected by AIDS, ruckus last year, while CBOs worked Administration, the Health Care Will the issue of educating lesbian and behind the scenes to negotiate for bet- Financing Administration, and, signifi- gay youth about safer sex, be ade- ter representation of gays, service cantly, the Office of Civil Rights, quately worked toward? Will the larg- providers and PLWAs in the planning Community advocates of many er issues related to the lack of aspects of the '89 conference, which is racial and ethnic persuasions, gays, addiction treatment be a major focus? set for August 13-17 in Washington, lesbians and AIDS activists have been Above all, we must safeguard against , The title of this year's conference, consulted by the conference's fifty-or- the tendency of local, opportunistic, indicating the overall direction it will so-strong executive planning commit- political "leadership," to paint an take: Prevention and Beyond, tee. Apparently these groups have impressive picture of power at nation- Critics of past conferences played a major role in influencing the al and international gatherings, They charged that a lack of vision was built direction of the three days of work- cannot and will not be allowed to into its very foundations, The CDC shops and plenary sessions, Sheila name-drop and brag about their ambi- claims to have no authority to discuss Court, co-chair of this year's confer- tions which fail to translate into ser- , treatment issues, insisting that it is ence, states that "it represents an vices for the PLWAconstituency, After forced by its particular mission to effort by the federal government to continued on page 53 , 30 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 I • , • \ .. Maybe you don't like using condoms. But if you're going to have sex, a latex condom with a spermicide is your best protection against the AIDS virus. . Use them every time, from start to finish, according to the manufacturers' directions. Because no one has ever been cured of AIDS. More than 40,000 Ameri- cans have already died from it . And even if you don't like condoms, using them is definitely better than that • • , • • ;, -.;, , early four months ago, the grapes, Sillyme for having no bound- lesbians got together and started a Mayor of New York City aries, Why, I used to get up every group, It's called Womyn Without announced, "I am a het- morning and ask myself, "What would Girlfriends . Against Men of • 'erosexual," It was the kind of bizarre the poor people want me to do Indeterminate Sexuality Coming Out revelation that would have seemed ,today?" As Straight 'Just to Preserve Their more at home on the cover of the Well, no more, I refuse to be Careers or Reputations, You want 'a flier? ' Weekly World News, topping such , headlines as "Bigfoot Stole My Wife" The way we figure it, they've got and "Famed Psychic's Head a goddam conspiracy working, We've . Explodes," Instead, it was picked up seen 'em buying up land, moving 'into by ,the mainstream news media, our neighborhoods, They got a plan, Shortly thereafter, more media zeroed see? Their ultimate goal is to take all in on an, obscure sailor named Kendall .of our women, These dudes persuade Truitt, whose declaration, "I am not a these cute, well-groomed, sexually homosexual and have never been a responsive women to marry them, just' c so's the,y"can 1000knormal at awards homosexual,", along with his wife's :ceremonies and press conferences. assertion, that he was a good lover, seem~d to confirm the public'S faith That's all women are' good for, to that'straight people are incapable of ,them, ' I meah, we need three more causing battleship explosions in order male hets in this world like I need a to get insurance money, 'Finally, a year's supply of contraceptive foam, few weeks later, the media showed up You wanta be on our mailing list? , , (' again to cover Tom Foley, the newly- : Il:,~,· elected Speaker of the House, as he Miranda; c, refused the Republican National • High-powered public interest attorney" Committee's invitation to, "Come, out I think the issue has broadened' my of the liberal closet.' "I am, of ,- I legal scope enormously, I mean, it's course,' Foley avowed, "nota homo- obvious that we've got a class action sexual.' The-media also made tactful suit here, difficult as that may be for mention of Foley's wife of 20 years, the lay mind to comprehend, What is it about these stories that My interest group, CRRSCD -'- so attracts the attention of our news I the Center for the Rights of Recent industries? To answer this question ;'1 :-:_;::::_::-::.=-. Supreme Court Decisions - clearly and, in the' interest of getting all the sees the government as being out to pOints of view, Iwent to a source few ""'"''-".L ....&.' £ "'-'..&...I deprive these men - and straight bother to consider: the womyn's . Commenta b Susieria white. m~n in general - of their c~mmunity. 'I asked, several lesbians .r ry .~ . 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Next, the .congresst'nan: "I'm a stud, Bill," Now it's .the sailor's turn: "No, Bill, it's me, I'm the stud.",· The audience goes w,ild: The 'c0ntesta:nts get tQsplit the $25,000, I' c" \ MOTEL IWelcome' to' ',l' ,." ~. . ' , ~"".Po" ... ," , /·ve G'ot -----. -- o..t>" ~ :.,.'- '~.c, 'c.; Your'.{- 'Lake George, New YQrk' -- ,Se""cre'~t''Ii:~'~,', .', "'" Esc.ape to the Adirondacks •. Cozy Cabins or Luxury Efficiencies • ' " c ••• , c , , , , 1•' Sparkling Pool &. Sµn Deckc • Wide Variety of Lake Activities. ,, • • . r-Iature Trails, Bicycling, • logging. Close to Antique Shops and ..: ~ 1 ,I _. Factory Outlets. 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" " B~u-z:z-21,The ,audienGe holds in " , ~heir 'oands 'little dectrohi~ devices , • that giye the"€Ohtesfants brief shocks • if they think the answers' are too • wimpy: . ."', \,' , < Mean:while, outside, the' TV " studio, I see' "".'hard times, I see the ''-. . ecosystem' crumbling;, I see contras 'in the Pentagon; I See 'many brilliantly colored pebbles, a thousand points of , radioactive !ight:, But inside, Bill just • , keeps' 'runnirig the show. "It',s not • whether you're' straight or gay," Bill' bellows, "it's h-'o-w'you play the" • g-a-m"(!!" A pretty'giri comes out in a real skimpy nightie,'BiIl "'inks Into' the' camera and 'says it's time for a station break ;, That's alL ..' That's all , I'm getting ..,.... . , ' . , " • ~ , ,.- • , • ' . • , , ,.~, ~.. July 10, 1989 . OUTTWEEK ·33 • " ",'c,.. • • • • • -TI, , Political Science \ , studies that benefit "posterity" - those people who have yet to con- • tract a given disease, People with • AIDS are concerned with treatments that• might work now. Their own survival is the best' gift they can leave I to posterity, New drugs aren't as danger- ou~ as new diseases left untreat- I ed. The FDA loves to keep tight by Mark Harrington control on new drugs, citing fears of toxicity, Nothing is more toxic than AIDS if it's left untreated. It's taken the FDA years to give even lip ser- I v'e seen the future and researchers what to do. . vice to this concept. Every time a it will be Researchers should set their own , new, promising t~eatment appears, I've seen the future and pnontles,. ,. AIDS advocates must fight tooth and it works nail for it to be te'sted qUickly and, if , Ifthere's life after, we will see ..." All of these axioms have been found promising, distributed widely, Prince,"The Future," Batman repudiated. .Placebo-controlled trials are First slowly, and then with inhumane in life-threatening dis- . , increasing speed, medical orthodoxies Patients know what's best. eases. Placebos are inert fake drugs, that prevailed at the start of the AIDS Many people with AIDS hear about Half the people in the trial take the epidemic are breaking up like mas- new treatments long before their doc- new drug, the other half takes place- sive ice sheets cracking and melting tors do. And they are more willing to bo, which has no medical effect, In after the last ice age. Dazed and ilI- try new treatments than their doctors theory, this makes it easier to, see if adapted to the new environment, like are to let them, Some researchers are the drug works, The comparison in, dinosaurs competing with 'new warm- more concerned with conducting a trial of an anti-AIDS drug is rather blo04ed animals for their ,ecological niche, federal bureaucrats and phar- . ' , maceutical businessmen are struggling • .to survive in the new epoch: , • , The basic axioms of the pre-AIDS orthodoxy included: . • Doctors know what's best. Patients should do whatever they're told. •Newdrugs are dangerous •. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shouldn't approve new drugs until exhaustive evidence is in after years of trials - even if ~. some people will die for lack of "f f access to experimental treatments, f • Placebo controlled trials are requked to prove new drugs • work. Even iL people taking placebo must die, it's for the greater good of the gre.ater num- ber, • People living with diseases are ignorant. They should have nothing to do with designing or implementing· research ifil their disease, • The government ShOlildJ1'ttell • 34 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 • , , • • ,~ sent multiple copies to all the com- obvious: If the drug works, those with AIDS in the government's drug , ' taking the drug live, while those on trials Were testing drugs designed to mittees she knew of that had anything .placebo die, This is wh;n happened treat or prevent AIDS-related oppor- to do with AIDS trials, But she'd " in the first AZT trial. 19 people on tunistic infections. Most of those in never been told she had to sent it to placebo died within the fj'rst 24 federal trials ;were taking AZT, which 'one committee, the AIDS Clinical weeks, while only two on AZT died, was already' approved. Yet people Drug Development Committee Yet AZT trials in children continue. with AIDS continue to suffer from (ACDDC), that meets only three times In one ongoing .trial, 12 kids on infections which could be treated or a year, but which must give all new placebo died, versus only two kids on prevented, if'research was designed drugs '!high priority" status if they are AZT, How many more children must to that end, to be tested, Since Dicliizuril wasn't die to prove AZT may be effective in The US government has spent reviewed by the ACDDC, it ,never got children as it is (with frequent toxici- half a billion dollars researching drugs high priority status. Since it didn't get ty) in adults? for AIDS, Yet, in the last three years, high priority status, the government In any case, even tl)e FDA has not one single drug has been. couldn't test it. now acknowledged that it is no approved as a result of federal trials, If it weren't for such bureaucratic longer necessary to compare new When confronted with the failure of bungling, both trials could be finished anti-AIDS drugs to placebo, If the his program to yield new treatments now and the chances of having an drug is designed to block HIV, it approved, effective treatment for' can be compared with AZT, If cryptosporidiosis would be Nevv drugs aren,8t good, Instead, a pharmaceutical people can't take AZT because of . ',. its toxicity, they can .be in a trial a's dangerous as company is going to have to that compares differ~nt doses of conduct the Diclazuril trial itself. the new treatment. This is the nevv diseases left This illustrates how much still " , plan for the trials of ddI (dideoxyi- , ml,lstbe changed, untreated, , .. , nosine), a promising a'nti-HIV Following are' som~ of the drug less toxic than AZT and landmarks of the' new drug test- '\ng order: i found active against HIV in pre- , , liminary human studi~s, for AIDS-related conditions, Dr. People' living with diseases are Anthony Fau~i, Director of the, . , September 1986: Spurred by entitled to participate in the \ striking differences in mortal ity design and execution of research Nati(i)nal Institu'te of Allergy and between the, placebo group (19 on such diseases. When New Infectious'Dlseases (NIAID) claimed it deaths) and the AZT group (two York's Community Research Initiative was all the researchers' fault - the deaths), Burroughs-Wellcome stops its (CRI) was founded ,two years ago, it government couldn't force re;;earchers Phase II trial of AZT and distributes was the first time in history that peo- to do anything, We are asked to the drug wi<;ielyunder the first "treat-' ple living with a disease set up an bel,ieve th~t infectious disease experts ment IND (investigational new drug)n institution to conduct research- to all around the country are all program".. . ; . ; -- defeat that disease, People with AIDS obsessed with HIV and don't give a March 1987: FDA approves are involved at every level of deci- damn about the bacterial, fungal and AZT in record time, sion-making at CRI, from chOOSing viral infections that' actually kill peo- May 1987: FDA publishes new which drugs are priorities to actually ple with AIDS, This is untrue, It is guidelin<;s codifying the treatment running the trials. the bureaucracy of the government's' IND, program, Under treatment IND, CRI's research has already helped AIDS Program itself that stifles drugs may be distributed widely gather data for the .marketing research into opportunistic infections, before _.final approval, if FDA approval of aerosolized pentamidine, This must end,' \ . approves, an effective prevention for pneumo- Last fall, Dr, ~osemary Soave, a Octo~er 1987: FDA advisory cystis carinii pneumonia, the leading New York researcher,: proposed atrial committee refuses to recommend killer of people with AIDS, of'spiramycin, a 'oew antibiotic, to approval for DHPG (ganciclovir), a People with AIDS should pres- treat cryptosporidiosis. an AiDS-relat- drug ,that prevents blindness in peo- sure the government to tell ed gastrointestinal infection for which ple with AIDS, even though there is researchers what to do. It's 1989, no satisfactory treatment exists, The . no alternative treatment. The reason? People with' AIDS and their advocates trial could have been finished by now No placebo-controlled clinical trials must be allowed to set priorities for - it would take less than two months were conducted, • federal AIDS research, The govern- to complete, But it became mired in July 1988: Vice~President Bush ment doesn't have a plan. Records the bureaucracy of the'AIDS Program, meets with FDA Commissioner Frank; from the federal AIDS' Program's and was never funded, .. ' Young, MD, and requests FDA -c' .• October;':1988 meeting show that, at this.' spring, Soa,ve submitted'~ /~forms .to speed up testing and ,' that time, just 0,25 percent -.,. one protocol for another anti ..cryp" widen availability of new drugs for quarter of one percent - of people tosporidiosis drug, Diclazuril. She cancer and AIDS, This is the ir:npetus • continued on page 54 , , July 10, 1989 'OUTTWEEK 35 ,. .~. - , " . , co. .,c .f , ,' • , • ~ .. • , , • •t.• , , I " " '.," J 1 • , '.~ " . , , " , Drug Trials I - - • , t • f • , " ERYTHROPOIETIN, ' , Community Research Initiati,ve The' ability pf .erythropoietin to .. , , . , The Community Research Initiative (CRl) is a New York-based group formed to prevent 'anem'ia in"PWAs and'thereby expedite the approval of AIDS drugs by directly invblving the community in the test- avoid frequent 'transfusions 'has been evaluated in two studies (intravenous ing proce'ss, Formed two years ago as a branch of the People With AIDS Coalition,, CHI is now an independent corporation, It is involved in studying treatments as and subcutaneous, routes of adminis~ tration), The studies are now closed. diverse I\S traditional drugs, herbal derivatives and practices su<;h as spiritualitY, The recent FDA approval of aerosolized pentamidine for prevention ot' pneumocvstis Results will Soon be'publ ished, c, c' , , pneumonia was a direct result of community-based studies conducted at CRI. These trials are open to all people with AIDS, ARC or HIV-related illness, It is . BOVINE .MILK'IMMUNE widely believed that people enrolled in CRI trials receive 'superior health care, As a GLOBUUN ' • service to our readers, OutWeek will publish lists of those trials ope:n to the public, ciu is assessing, the effectiveness of Those wish'ing to enroll in these trials or seeking more informati,on about them bovine milk immune globulin in the treatment of chroniC; Jntestinal cryp- should contact CRI at 212/481-1050. '., ; . ; • , tosporidiosis, ' The 'study 'is .. -- , LEN,TINAN .: open to all CRI participating physi-' temporarily on hold pending immi- nent release of a recently' developed, Open to enrollment. This derivative cians for enrollment of their patients, , of ,the Shiitake mushroom has been on a case-by-case basis. Participants more potent agent. Contact Anita used as an anti-cancer agent. It is must 'have already - shown'" no Tierney 523-367i for' most recent believed to have immunoenhancing response on Amphotericin B, information, , .. properties. It will be studied by CRI Immediate enrollment with minimal to assess its effects in PWARCs and paperwork can be effected by physi- SPIRITUAUlY . in those who are asymptomatic Cians through CRI's expedited review CRI is studying the relation 'between seropositive with T4s between 200 process, Physicians should call the physical well~being among PWAs and and 500, The clinical trial will CRI Research Department at 481-1050, spirituality" This study· involves use involve 50 participants, Ask your of questionnaires developed .in asso- , , , physician to call CRI at 481-1050. AEROSOLIZED PENTAMIDINE ciation with CRI staff.', Contact , '0> CRI's study involving 232 people is Stephen Holzemer, RN; atCRI, 481- DHEA fully enrolled and nearing completion, 1050, .' Open to enrollment. CRI scientists CRI data were pivotal to the FDA's , have reported dramatic declines in full approval of the prophylactfc use DATABANK- • . ., .. DHEA levels in PWAs. (DHEA- of this medication, This drug is the CRI has initiated a pilot ~Databank· dehydroepiandrosterone - is a first to receive full FDA approval project involving 100 participants, testosterone precursor.) CRI's 24- based on communitY:fe?e1lrch.. PWAs, PWARCs,.and those who'are Ii person clinical trial ~i11evaluate the ... asymptomatic seropositive provide CRI with thejr .l~~oratory and cli~ital effects of orally administered DHEA, EGG LIPIDS ,-( in PWAs with T4's less than 200. The effects of lipids on PW:As are data as well as listings of air treat- \ ~•••• '~; c; • " ,• c ··r The'trial is funded by People Taking being assessed in a six-month study mentS-with which ·they' are eurfentiy Action Against AIDS. Ask your now completed, Multiple parameters involved, CRI will soori increa~ the of immune function are being evalu- numbers of'individuals from whom physician to call CRI at 481-1050, ' , , . ated. Results soon to be published, such information is obtained, and , , ·MEGACE will cooperate' with-, other organiza-. Open to enrollment. A 1oo-person ANTABUSE tions to form a national netWork. >, study of Megace is currently The effects of Antabuse (on T4 cells, , I enrolling participants, This sub- especi~lly) have been assessed in a DICLAZURIL " , ' ;.' c stance is believed to have appetite- study involving 53 individuals. (The CRI will participate in a multiccenter stimulating properties, which may be results of this study were presented to trial to ,test the effectiveness of , . useful as a treatment against weight the Fourth International 'Confer:ence Diclazuril against· cryptosporidiosis, loss. Ask your physician to call CRI on AIi?S at Sto , - • , 36 . OUTTWEEK July 3, 1989 , , .; , • - " , " , • , • , • • • , , . , , , , , • , ,, • , , , • , • • ( • • , , ,I . , • ., " , •, ; Cuando tengas relacidcnessexuales con mujeres u otros hombres, , - ' usa siempre condones de latex. iPorque basta s610 una vez para transmitir el virus del SIDA! , , , , As! que prote.gete...y protege a tu pareja . • Para informaci6n sobre • , " , ama al: 718 485-8111. - , , , \!) Ciudad de,Nueva Yolk, Edward L Koch, Alcalde Stephen C, Joseph, MoO" M,P,H" Comisionado, Departamento de Satud, • , , , Bruce Hopkins: • IX -naracrers earc / ar byJeffrey EssrY!:an , , tanding on my head and " singing is kind of my whole outlook on life," Bruce Hopkins is referring to the encore number of his old cabaret act, In what was certainly one of the most swreal moments in cabaret, Hopkins would do a headstand on a barstool and execute up-ended Folliesque choreography as he sang "Dancing on the Ceiling," Since then, he's taken to standing the rest of us on our heads with his thought-provoking, touching and very funny new show, "Conversations at Our Lady of the Harbor Bar and Grill." Hopkins is a charmer, a lanky, soft-spoken son of the Quaker State, with an easy smile and an impish glint to the eye that puts one in mind of a favorite cousin• or an understanding English teacher, Imagine the reaction, then, when he would,open his act in a bathrobe and horn-rims with the line, "Good evening. I'm Bruce Hopkins and I'm as queer as the day is long," Now imagine it's 1975, Cabaret was still the province of tradi- tional stand-ups and Hildegardes man- quees, and an audience hoping for any sort of gay context was left pri- marily to the devices of female imper- AN AUNTIE MAME IN LEATHER Photo: Hashimoto 38 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 sonators and male 1iingers showcasing In fact, one of the most intriguing toward gentle persuasion than sensa- unconvincing pronouns, The paradoxes of HopKins' performance is tionalism, He accomplishes the near- response to Hopkins' openly gay act that instead of hiding behind a charac- impossible task of guiding an , was startled, electric and immediate: terization, using it as a smoke screen audience into difficult waters without , ' They adored it. A breath of honesty against our getting to know him, he ever putting them off, And he doesn't and openness had finally swept onto uses it as a means of ex,posing and attempt to score cheap theatrical the circuit, and Hopkins found ','- points by indulging in the himself the harbinger of gay glas- schlock shock that plagues so nost in cabaret. "I thought, • much of performance art, "The 'Somebody's got to break through whole purpose of performing, to this barrier, so I might as well be me, is to make people· think the one to do it.' I·had this image .... about what's going on and what's C;,"!$:" of myself as the Bill Cosby of gay :,.~: happening (and) I believe that if ":' performance," ' you're going to talk about these , things, you have to talk about all I aspects of it." Though there are. {{::;:] certainly audience members - , the ones, one would imagine, . ' 109 :@ who don't go to the theater to .::: think - who resent the darker :i':~ , tones of the show's spectrum, there are many others, fortunate- of the Harbor Bar and Grill." The ~ ly in the majority, who relish the first to emerge were Harold" a experience, finding in it empathy, revenge queen, and Edmund a catharsis and laughter, For in all quick-witted casualty of the rela- this talk of deep and difficult waters, the point must never be tionship, racket. They were soon to be followed by Mom, a widow lost that Hopkins has us laughing who finds her new lease on life in even when we're up to our neck a gay bar; Chip, an "expiring actor," ...... in them - no small commenda- • tion in times like these, who lapses into existentialism GONZO-EXISTENTIAL POEMS Photo: Hashimoto "I really believe there are only between roles; Moose, a leather, number who finds more sado- exploring feelings he might otherwise about eight different types of people masochism in popular TV than in have ignored. "I think I'm making my in the world," making this show the leather bars; and George - Grace to points much stronger than I did easiest way to take in three-fourths of what the world has to offer, Despite his friends - Our Lady's bartender, before, I wasn't as courageous as and resident poet. The transition from myself to say a lot of those things as if ' their differences - from Harold's coy the earlier format to an all-character they were my own opinions." The bitchiness ("I like that guy's hair. I , show was an easy one for Hopkins approach offers. a similar freedom to .'once painted my bedroom that and represented both a natural evolu- the audience: It seems more willing color.") to Mom's resigned wisdom ("I tion and a return to his roots. "I came to take in difficult or controversial think it's a good idea to spend at least to New York to' be an actor .., and I material when it's offered as a charac- part of your day with people who felt I hadn't done any acting I could ter's viewpoint' rather than the per- aren't sure they're bored, n) - all former's, seem to share a search for meaning in dig my teeth into for a long time, So, , , I thought since no one was offering There's no shortage of difficult their lives, and it is Hopkins' unique me a script, I would write my own." material in the show, whether it's talent to be able to find humor both in Though he misses the spontaneity Moose's theory on AIDS, Harold's the search and in the Iives themselves, of the stand-u p format - the give- neediness, or just about any.one's Wittily skeptical of, just about any and-take between an audience and loneliness. Hopkins is committed to school of thought, as leary of past performer that fourth-wall pieces natu- portraying all aspects of the people lives as of heavenly reward, he isa rally preclude - he also sees certain he's created, even those aspects we confirmed devotee of living for the advantages to expressing himself may not beK:omfortable with. Yet, it's moment, an Auntie Mame in leather through characters apparently at some to his credit both as a writer and an who claims he did some of his best distance from his own point of view. actor that the approach leans more continued on page 53 July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 39 , Sarah Pettit Talks To The Lesbian S&M Sex Guru About Porn, Pub Iishing and Politics , . , ~lf a lu.kewarm beer in my belly, Francisco; it's a beautiful city. It is haven't found a way yet to live entire- I hopped the 7th Avenue bus. certainly true that in New York there ly : tained such 'possibilities; reeling if you're gay in New York, and you be one of those voices - the price is thought to. thought in the April cre- want a professional' career, is that you'll be poor. puscu]e,. I smelled'. leather straps, fur- essentially you must be closeted, You SP: Yet even within the gay and lined wrist restraints, a gag for my big can network with other gays as long lesbian Gommunity it is not necessarily mouth~ .:And th.en, like a strong, clear as you can operate within thaJ.·doset. an ,easy enterprise to be a certain kind , . ether, plY- re~erie .' of dyke, to write books evaporated, .I had like your Macho Sluts, " )work .' to-do, Magazines such as On • damnit. . The Our Backs have terrible kitchen was juicing troubles, yet all they with roast and my· . seek to do is provide a :subject, thede~i~" forum for lesbians to clad'Southern trav- be sexual, to be sexy, .eJing comp~nion pc: I think it's a informed me, was great thing that On ~et to talk, Here Our Backs keeps pub- 'on this last leg of a lishing erotica, I'm shoe~tring book gl~d that they exist, but tour, Pat Califia they don't .pay their writers either. That's ., spok~ ,the hard , truth on qeing out part of .the reason why and about as a my writing doesn't , dyke in the bite li:F? appear there more often, That's part of 80s"• Pat Califia: Photo: MyraFOUlwinds why the quality of writ- My goodness, your ing in that magazine is 09tes look like you're set for a long And I can't do that because all of my sometimes kind of bland - it's ama- haul. work is too biZarre and too outra- teur work, It's stuff that they haven't Sarah Pettit: Absolutely not. I'm geous, had a lot of time to polish or revise. not going to do anything beastly to SP: How do you, how does any- One of the things that impoverishes you,So, ypu've moved back to San one, survive and make it writing the lesbian literature is that if, you are a Francisco, .Are you finding it more kind of stuff you write? lesbian writer, the assumption is that productive to write out there? PC: The reason that I've been you write for free, The thing that PC: I had lived in San Francisco able to ,survive is that I've been, keeps the lesbian press going such as' for 10 years before. I moved to New employed by The Advocate for a long it is, is the donated labor of the writ- York and, to be completely honest time to write a regular column, I also ers. Even magazines that sell advertis- with you, ' I really Joathed and detest- do some freelancing for magazines ing assume'that we should donate our ed living in New York. As soon as I like, Variations and Penthouse and I work. If it weren't for the gay male had enough money, I left, I love San still do typing, word processing .. I ,press, I would starve to death, Even 40 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 • , . , ; I - - I - -~-.~~~ ...,.,.,..,....--.--..n~ ..--...---..--.------$, -,.- ;--~"'----.--~------~------, ". beyond the economic is~ue, there's not a women's press in this country that will publish my work, Except Lace Publications, and they too are a very small business that is always struggl ing to stay afloat. They can't afford to pay their writers either. SP: On the tack of the gay/les- bian split. It is all too apparent that there are very different levels of status and realms of privilege for gay and lesbian writers. You only have to 'look at the volume of gay m,ale litera- ture, the reception of it, the David Leavitts of this world, to see that split. , And I think there is in many people'S , .. .minds, therefore, an assumption that a qualitative difference exists in the sort of work produced by gay men and lesbians, pc: The fact is that economic , realities do have an impact on the kind of work that people produce, I, . FEEDJNG FANTASIES , Photo: Jo hn Ken ny don't think there is a difference in Lesbian author Pat Calilia. innate ability, but I think the fact that' o ,lesbian writers are operating (it such a "SP: A nIce, cosy isn '\ ,going to iookiog in on society from the out:~ lower level of economic privilege turn too 'many "heads' or upset people side, you search for the forms, for tHe " means we have less time to do our with its politics, is it? genres that will let you do that. The work, we get less feedback about it, PC: There is more going on than cietective format is certainly' one' that especially if we write works that are just that. I'm a fan of detective nov- you can pack a lot of so'cial commen- controversial to other lesbians because els, What I think is interesting in tary into, I've been disappointed that , it"becomes very difficult to pass your those film noir detective novels is that more of those detective stories didn't work around for comment if it's going the detective is almost a metaphor for have that kind of nasty qualit)" that to get you branded as som~ sort of a sex pervert. The getective is an out- you got in the better 50s detective outlaw or second class citizen in your "cast, a solitary person who has·a writing. Some' of those novels really littl~ sexual ghetto, So, while [ think sense of honor, who can look at facts transcend their genre, they are not it's a mistake to say that lesbians don't no one else can see clearly because pulp novels at all. I think precisely write as well as gay men, we also they are too invested in maintaining a because we are homosexual, that if havec to recognize that we are strug- status quo that the truth will shatter." [ we keep our eyes open and if we use , gling against greater disadvantages don't think it's just a search for our intelligence, we have the potential and that does have an impact on our respectability that makes lesbians to understand not only our deviance, " work. I know it does on mine, want to write detective stories, I think but also what is "normal" for most , ' SP: I've noticed a proliferation of it's like us writing vampire stories, people in a way that tl1ey will never .' lesbian detective novels, When vou want to write about the be able to understand themselves. I ~ PC: That's funny, isn't it? experience of being marginal and of , continued on page 68 " • , • July 10,1989 OUTTWEEK 41 , • " 69 STONEWALL '89 , lUll m 'EIAI • , , , 'J UT OF DEAR BOBBY: and the issue of which person should MY HANDS , ~ 1 th ink it is a grave indiscretion invest what amount of money will be, BY BRADLEY BALL to discuss personal financial matters in if not moot, then of little mutual con- a public fqrum and graver still to dis- cern, While you're in Toronto, by the DEAR BRAD: cuss them with your lover (who, let's way, check out that exhibit of 181h- " Ke'vin is onl)" twice as oid' as I face it, doesn't need your paycheque century Venetian drawings at the Art "was when 1 was twice as bId as he one way or the other), You mark my Gallery of Ontario. was and yet he is already earning a words, no good will come' of this. "salary that, expressed .in thousands of Since,' however, you have already DEAR READERS: ,,'I dollars, is four times half my current breached good form, allow me to Here's a helpful hint I heard from ,i ~ age while I am only earning two times offer an equitable solution: If you Ruth 13, in Tulsa that I just had to what my age was when he was half take a train to Toronto, travell ing at an share with you, The next time you c ~, lose a contact lens. rather than hunt- his current age, This disparity in our average speed of 70 miles per hour, , . " incomes is becoming a problem, You and Kevin takes an' airplane to ing painstakingly 0[1' your hands and see, Kevin thinks that if I invested 100 London, travelling at an average speed knees, just put an old nylon over the percenlof my salary'we could both of 550 miles per hOUf, your salaries, vacuum cleaner hose and then run the LIve quite comfortably on his while expressed in Canadian dollars and hose across the floo(. The suction will '.building a substan.tial nest egg for the British pounds respectjvely, wOlild\Je pick up the lens but the nylon will fu,ture, I think .tbat if 'Kevin invests more or less equal: Bir;thdays sp<;nt in prevent it from being sucked into the oply 40 percent of his gross wages a country other thai1 the 'one, in which vacuum cleaner. Thanks, Ruth! . " , then 'we would each be contributing you were born are nullified; therefore .' ' • an eqµal.amounr to our household you ages would stabilize '", eventually, . CONFIDENTIAL TOJOSEPH K: whi'ch w(DliJclstill be two times as As a consequence, with a little time Nob'ody has been tell ing lies -J , ~.c ,;, • , much as our cdmbined ages 12 years and distance between ypurselves, you about you, Now get all of this fool- ishness out of your head and go back a;go, ~.what do you think? and Kevin, will' corrie to real ize that • Bobby this relationship ,is doorped to failure to work! J I~'.'_'C{ -_-===,::'===;::=====." L _~,~:..~-====l~--======, " ! Th is is a true story. , a.nd black beauty mask, And she " , It was close to. noon, My Joad looked nothing like that honey-haired , " " ..; was lighter; I'd already filled the belly photo at tlie top of her column,-a of a hungry heifer, a WOman who lays tabloid version of Dorian Gray. • c • claim to ,celebrities like a cowpoke (I had never seen her before. branding cattle on aLone Star r , item about Cybil i City circuit-all in a manila envelope, she was a nightmare in a nightgown __ '_' I I j 44 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 , \ • , Film • Lies, Camera, female characters and sticking to the couple's home. Graham is a self- things he understands like male-bond- righteous drifter, and he can practical- Action! ing and FX and well-composed ly smell the infidelity in the borne, images," "Liars are the second lowest form of by jennie Livingston But Steven Soderbergh, the 26- life on the planet," Graham asserts, year-old director of sex, lies, and "What's the first?" asks John, setting videotape, and winner of the Best Film himself up. "Lawyers!" exclaims Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is a Graham, Ann, who at this early point young director of another order, This in the filrp can only barely defend her- film is a small-town romantic thriller self, add,S cheerfully, "That's you, that undermines every cliche it threat- honey." ens to rehash, Soderbergh uncovers I pitied Grabam because he was he female lead of sex, lies, and videotape is Ann (Andie MCDowell), a sexually and pro- fessionally' frustrated wife of an obnOXious, yuppie lawyer, John (Peter Gallagher), Ann is neurotic (the film· starts with her tortured monologue to her psychiatrist about the world garbage problem), And her husband, John, is sleeping with her sister, Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo), Meanwhile, John's old friend, a drifter named Graham Qames Spader), has , breezed back into town (Baton, Rouge) after a long time away, He tells John his philosophy of life: , rather than have a set of keys, he'd like only to have one key a car key, "To leave someplace in a hurry?" asks John, "No~",replies Graham. "To go someplace in' a hµrry,", ' These are not happy people. But WHO'S SLEEPING IN MY BED? immediately I recognized their impa- Andie McDowell in sex,lies; andvideotape. tience and urban malaise, , In'the beginning of the film, the lies in these characters' lives, some impotent, but I also liked him less . Graham and Ann are sitting in a cof- of the lies in our society-and in the. when I learned that he made video- fee shop, Ann confesses that she process sbows us his considerable and tapes of women talking about their thinks sex is overrated, Graham tries promising talent. Soderbergh's film sex lives, These videotapes are fairly to explain to her why she is bored plays a game, and that game is a embarrassing pieces of home-made with sex: "Men love the person game of expectations. ' . word-porn, I wondered: How is the they're attracted to, while women At the heart of this game is the film going to' get this learn to be attracted to the person question central to the movie: Who is charactef-whom I liked so they love." . a liar? Here is a director unafraid to much out of this one? Just when I began thinking I had ask that question of both his, charac- By the end, Soderbergh, isn't a lot in common with these two char- ters and of himself, His answer to afraid to let Ann turn the camera on' acters, they come up with silly, reduc- "who is a liar?" is the answer that's Graham, asking him why he likes to tive, heterosexual cliches, I was soon given by any good romantic suspense ..make these videotapes, Using, the ready to dismiss the film, to say, "here film: Not necessarily who you tbink. videocamera as he has used it many is yet another young male director Soderbergh's dialogue is qUick times before, Ann asks a terrified who is good but would better serve and funny and to the point. . Wben Graham the first real question any- his films by ridding himself of all Graham first arrives, he has dinner at . continued on page 66 / July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 45 I " . .' , , " • Film , , . , , ~ . Out of the more :~hanthe latest piece of bat para- were ever allowed to say anything, phernali;l to hit the streets (not much but he's not. His millionaire (billion- more than, oh~ about $40 million, that aire, now?) bachelor Bruce Wayne - Belfry is), It's a ~at :buy, and, at $7 (the Batman's true identity - is dry and by Tim Allis T-shirts go for about $6,99), probably knowing, but barely around, certainly a Bat bargain, But it's not Batman, not unmasked, It's a part not without :::lii;~iii::::r:Bl:;~i;;~~';·~;~., ::;:::::t,,:,,::,~: ;~;;: ,'-);;):;I~:;";':,;,_,,:~%':,}~~:::tDid;:::f 'PjBalman .....Directed b : Tim' . Advance ,word (early p,r,) warned emotional potential, considering >v .;,:,,<,..... :.<;' ,~.:,.••,,~::,_;;••'c:_:-,:' ." ~,~: ...•:~_.. ,.;.:,:._. 'Wri'tte"Y" ':'n us all that ri~ Burton's version of the Batman's character is shaped by the Caped .Crusader and his exploits, fact that he saw his parents murdered PM" amen>"\ ~5'ii%:a~~~' ,. .ren, would' not resemble the camp 60s TV when he was a young boy, We get 1''''}i;OiJ'' "d'li} "."'1)' """'d" , r'1~~~1~~~~k~,:~~/~=;:;tj~~':....show' we loved, I was over that that scene in flash-back toward the lamen~ble fact going in, .So instead I end of the film, but we never get to ,, ' nestled in for dark,. swooping~ neo- know Wayne during the film, so it Gothic dazzlement and Jack means little. . atman grossed a rt;c~rd~break- NichqlsOn, ' I got a magnificent pre- Stunning (looking) Kim Basinger, ing $42 milliorl'in its first week- apocalyptic set, a nifty nightmare of a I'm sad to say, gets to spew the worst ;l of the dreck as photo journalist Vicki end, so, the question of whether CorVette,(the Batmobile), dilly of a or not it's any good, seems almost cape-:-and Jack Nicholson, But not Vale, who wants to get to the bottom irrelevant.' Here's the only thing that quite a inovie, " of this Bat business after hearing really matters: ,Will the already Almost everything about this rumors that Gotham City has a large unbearable proliferation of Batshit Boeing of'a Batman even the Prince one lurking, She, too, is wasted, as (butt09s, T-shirts; hair carving, etc" ad songs,' damn ,it - fails to ,really soar, much a prop as the Batmobile, and nauseum) kill off smileyJace~? And is The script supplies most of the drag not nearly as versatile. A capable it worth it? Forget the thing about if a weight, unfortunately, Except for ,the comic actress, she's given virtually no tree falls in the wood;> and no one is Joker's,maniacally urbane Zingers, the funny or even clever lines, there-:try the philosophical dilemma dialogu,e is a string of ear-jarring clich- Cleverness, in fact, is what's most of ~hoosing between those two, es and Calif0rnia, .. mushballs,, Michael missing from the whole thing (except ;.f C Batman (the movie) is not much Keatqn might hav.e bee'n fine, if he for Jack Nicholson's Joker), • • , ALL RUBBERED UP Michael Keaton in Bat-drag, and a very phallic Batmobile 46 OUTTWEEK July 10. 1989 , Nicholson, Seems that every time because what is Gotham if not New Basinger finding out that Wayne is he makes a film, someone describes York?, Small gripe: Basinger and Batman. It just happens, as undramat- him as over the top. This time he has Keaton sleep together much too soon, ically as possible, and we never know taken the top and hurled it off of the Sometimes fine in life, usually bad in what it means to Wayne to have his Empire State Building, In an unbear- romantic cinema, There's no build cover blown, I can't help thinking the able purple jacket, with his c1own- up, and once they do it there's no scene's on the cutting room floor, white face pulled tight by a blood-red promise of more to come, Huge Bitch, bitch, bitch, Maybe I'm frozen smile that seelil1Sto, exterid all gripe: There's not enough made of just mad because there's no Robin, 'Y the way into his criminal- green hair, he is the maddest hatter imaginable, Fittingly, he counters the costume with a jaded air. Nicholson has always had the inside line on Evil- .he knows what it looks like after a hard day at the office, all bitchiness and bore- dom, There's no point in giv- ing away lines (ever), but suffice it to say Jack's Joker can make charming small talk with a gargoyle, And the museum scene! I love it that this is actually piss- ing people off-a scene where Joker and his cronies pop into a MOMA-Iike museum and vandalize much of the recog- nizable Western art, What fun! He is a giddy child, and all you can do is envy the hell out of him, Unless you're busy being pissed off, Oh, alright I concede it, you could almost justify the whole movie by this scene alone, This might have been a great film if someone had bothered to hire a writer capa- ble of creating fresh, intelli- gent dialogue, The Batman stories are, after all, psycho- " logically compelling, visually rich and brooding and dark in a way that approximates, well, life, Even their lunacy rings true, as Nicholson proves, A heady mix of comedy and doom could have been the ticket, and seems to be what the extremely talented Burton (who directed Beetlejuice and Pee Wee's Big Adventure) had in mind, The dialogue just doesn't come through, " ,,);,."~"'" • )~,:t:,¥.i#,jfc:!1}tc.::: . m' ,;C_ •• ~ ':':" ,., .. ,<.;.....:,"''''c.".;."....:::... More jabs at Gotham CIty }g~~\'ht&~t~\\%~:..~~;::."-~~'-qs;, ;'.A::': (there is one great one) would \ THE INSIDE LINE ON EVIL . also have been satisfying, Jack Nicholson as the Joker sits under portrait of Jerry Hall, who plays his love thing. July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 47 • • I , I 1 , , • , , , , , " ", i , "~ ,':J)1' If 'you have sex with other men, no matter how infrequently, , ~,' ", . ',' ...... always use latex condor:ns. ~, ' r~, Because'once is all it takes to transmit the AIDS virus. :,:1 . So protect 'yourself... and your partner. For more ,information, call: ~ " j. , - -" --ot iDe - • L", , ,~ f • • " ,, ," " " ",' ',., ':. ,1:_ "'C. 0'" , ", • , f':. , • { • ii1Cily of New York, Edward I. Koch, Mayor Stephen C, Joseph, M,D" M.P.H" Commissioner, Department of Heallh, • Theater , Louisa· Mayls to mix gender-bending, children's lit, stick, even a little Italian RenaiSsance erature and pornography in a perfor- staging and yet it never comes off, Tragedy·.:"'~ mance using an Alcott character The strength of the performance , (director Lois Weaver) as a voice. in a collage piece is essential. The by Veneita Porter Unfortunately, gender-bending three actors of Spl it Britches are preachers such as the one portrayed unevenly matched. Lois Weaver, as by Peggy Shaw are yesterday's news, Alcott, is clearly the best of the trio Shaw is the rational/male side of with a bright, articulate quality which Little Women: The Tragedy. A Alcott's inner self who is in, constant is lost in the chagrin of Little· Women. play-by Deborah Margolin, additional opposition to her more elemental Peggy Shaw is serene and strident in maieriql by Louisa May Alcott and side, a begartered dance hall the role of the fundamentalist preach- Peggy Shaw, directed by Lois Weaver, 'girl/"strumpet" (Deborah Margolin), A er who represents the reserved, judg- presented by Split Britches Co lnterart large part of the play is vaudevillian ,in mental side of Alcott. Shaw never lets 7beater, 549 West 52nd Street, effect, with splashes of the absurd. go, She berates and condemns the , The actors wander in, taking seats injustice of being stuck in heaven with among the audience and begin chat- a harlot shortly before she succumbs plit Britches' newest production ting it up. Vaudeville being fun large- to the passion wiles of the "strumpet.· is aptly named Little Women: ly depends on timing and rhythm, two Margolin is the weakest of the trio, The Tragedy. The play is loosely elements this production sorely .making her character non-erotic and based on L9uiSa May Alcott's novel as lacked, It was as if there was an powerless. All visions of heaven and well as a colorful dialogue with the inside joke and someone forgot to passion, are lost if a character such as author herself, which takes place in include the audience, Little Women Margolin's doesn't pass the wet test. heaven, While Split's productivity is never quite makes up its fuind where Given a loaded subject, Split Britches to be admired, their production is the punch line is; all the elements are missed its mark with Little Women. T flawed, It is an exciting 'proposition there--wonderful set, creative slap- , I , MISSING, THE MARK Photo: Ruby Levesque I.to r. Shaw, Weaver and Margo/in in little Women: The Tragedy. - • July 10, 1989 OUTTWEEK 49 ,' , • Opera • , Taking Risks DONT STEP ON MY DRESS direction, the 'cast went about their work with venal delight. Evelyn de la Onstage Earl ier this season, the Rosa's overly feminine portrayal of Washington Opera revived its double . Renata Renati (the Italian diva who by George Heymont bill of Mozart's The Impresario and ends up singing the role of Zemrud in Weber's Abu Hassan, In this version Abu Hassan) was a perfect comic foll . (devised by Hugh Wheeler with addi- to Sally Wolf's outrageously-accented ne of the most fascinating things tions by Randolph'Mauldin and portrayal of 'Paivi-Tuula Paasikiv (the about the theater is that, as a Roman Terleckyj), The Impresario Finnish diva who becomes Masruh, live medium, things can and fre- depicts an impossible backstage situa- the Cliph's attendant, in Weber's quently do go wrong. Anna Russell tion in which two rival prima donnas opera), Sheryl Woods underwent a mischievously recalls the perforrnance feud over who gets top billing and the delicious transformation from Joanna when, as Santuzza, she leaned against largest salary for singing the lead role Brinkman (the near-sighted rehearsal the village church and it collapsed. in Weber's Abu Hassan. When each pianist) to Abu Hassan's Wife, Fatima, diva threatens to cancel, the impre- and tenor David Kuebler made a rare Folks at City Opera still wince at th~ , ' memory of the horse who unloaded a sario struggles to coerce them back American appearance as Horatio pile of shit, center stage, just moments into the theater by stroking their enor- Tucker (the company tenor) and Abu prior to the Maypole Dance in Boito's mous egos. Both womeC) attempt to Hassan, Veteran performer William Me/islo/ele Wildermann (you can rest garnered assured there plenty of was some laughs as pretty dainty the basso- footwork buffo, from the Emmanuel Schrimpen dancers dur-, ing that per- (and later formance). on, as I'll never for- Omar the get watching M o·n e y- Patrice Len d er) while dra- Munsel belt , OUt Stephen maqc sup- Sondheim's ,po,rt came "I'm Still from Ted McAdams Here" during ,, a preview of as a frustrat- Follies (at ed play- Houston's I wright and Theater Edward Under the Fowler as Stars), throw the owner her head '1;' of the the- ater. Actor back in tri- PREMIERE PRIMA DONNAS: Photo: Joan Marcus L L . umph on ,the . arry , erer . I t I. to r. Sally Wolf, DaVIdKuebler, Evelyn de la Rosa. f lOa noe, . doubled as and then gasp in horror as her wig fell capture the lead role and, when a Maximilian the Irripresario and the off! That's life in the theater. compromise is finally reached and the Caliph of Baghdad. Whenever performers confront second act curtain rises on Abu These performances of The severe r'isks of failure or success Hassan, the two prima donnas haul Impresario and Abu Hassa,{ weJe onstage, the atmosphere becomes out every bit of theatrical ,ammunition among the last to' be conducted by charged with electricity. One produc- _" available in- order to steal the show Randolph Mauldin (Washington tion recently placed the risk factor from each other. Some moments are Opera's talented music administrator 'under;t curious microscope for purely pure fun, Others get down and dirty. who died of a kidney-related illness in theatrical purposes, and the results The curtain calls were a riot. April). Y were quite fascinating. Here's why: Under Roman TerJeckyj's hilarious 50 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 Books On A Queer front porch in Selma, Alabama, dcink- points out, "the events there were ing Dr. Pepper. and greeting passersby some of 'the most visible manifesta- with "jill: the author'S pseudonymous tions of a whole new way of thinking: OayVou Can { lesbian host and gUide: "A spirited that minority groups could take the - .? woman in her early forties, with a fight for freedom into their own ,S ee...M Issourl. warm, down-to-earth quality and a hands ...an approach to social change that led, within a few years, to the by Gary Glickman turn-of-phrase so folksy you'd think she must stay awake nighL') practicing Stonewall riots," Southern colloqUialisms," We are told The strength of th is first section she would not allow her'name or job reli~ on the very shock of unexpected In Search of Gay America: Women to be published, that she knows only a recognition and the credibility and and Men in a TirrJ13 of Change few other gay people in town, but we even mundanity in Newton, by Neil Miller are then also told that, "like the other Massachusetts or Morgantown, West Atlantic Press: New York gay people she knew in Selma, Jill was Virginia, It also relies on these mostly 309 pp, in the closet." small-town portraits: these people are In fact, no one else in Selma was just like - not you and me, necessari- eality ]01. just for practice, willing to meet with Miller, despite, ly, but sor1 of like -- the Marlboro imagine this: one of those tough Jill's expectations and promises, She Man, or Halph and Alice Cramden, or city cops giving you the the sorority girls in the commer- eye is· open Iy gay; a West cial, brushing up for the big Virginia miner wipes [he coal By novv vve can sort date, ,dust from her face surprise!- of believe th,ere are The subsequent sections it's a lesbian; over in Minnesota, c.c c are also made up of portra its the prize for best bull (the ani- ·congressional which skip around the country, , mal) at the State Fair goes . -" - , the towns, the cities, the coasts, to, ..Al and john, dairy farmers representatives - the heartland', and are organized (of course) but also openly vvho can corne. out according. to some large, loose lovers. How about an openly themes: A Time of Change; gay fundamentalist preacher? and still get Race and Culture; Heligion; Law, (Naw.) How about an openly Politics, Action. In this way les- lesbian u.s. judge? (Come onO re-elected; but hovv bian parenting, for example, can By now we can sOrt of believe be seen in the context of chang- about the mayor of ing economic freedoms for there are congressional repre- • sentatives who can come out Buncie,Missouri women, and· the· social and . , and still get re-elected; but how political climate in different about the mayor of Buncie, (pop_ 408)7 parts of the country, So it· Missouri (pop, 408)? seems pertinent rather than Imagine, that is, that coinCidental. that the lesbian' despite every American icon you grew didn't know any gay Black people, he couple outside Boston--Dukakis up with, from The Marlboro Man to notes: and most of her social life notwithstanding-is raising an artifi- the Ultra brite kissers to The revolved,around Birmingham, two cially conceived child, Honeymooners, that there are lesbians hours away. "So my view of Selma, Because such a large portrait-in-. and gay men out there as well; every- and my introduction to gay small-town collage has been attempted - the where, riding the range, brushing Iheir America, became what I saw from one' whole country, after all, urban as well teeth for a date in Hometown, USA, woman's front porch," as ex-urban - some of the portraits bickering in a cramped, black and .It was a wonderful idea to begin fail to reveal much except that idea white tenement in Brooklyn ("One of his tour on a front porch, and in that they're pretty much Iike folks, these days, Alice..."), Of course, this Selma, no less, a town immediately those homos, Still, the portraits are , imagining, as recorded in In Search of symbolic, resonant with all the social mostly well-chosen, always gcnerous- Gay America, is just what 'the author, upheaval and reorganization of the last spirited, patient and curious, focusing Neil Miller did, documenting his hunch generation, where Martin Luther King in on a gay America always distorted, by visiting uncelebrated, hithertofore spearheaded his voting rights march, discriminated against, and ha~efully un imagined (homosexually speaking) and where Anita Bryant retreated after denied. As one more increment of , places all around the country, . her gaybashing in Florida. Oill takes truth against distortion, this book is, of Part One, entitled, "Farmers, CoaT the author to the boutique Bryant course, a welcome contribution, ? Miners, and Small Towns," opens on a opened, and still owns.) As Mr, Miller • I J I ~_, . 1 ---'1 OUTTWEEK 51 • July 10, 1989 .. • • Cabaret , / • Funny Gay Men finally permeate the room. ter while temping," , . "Funny Gay Men is not about Smith, 20, who follows Mc- byJonn Wassser being gay, per se," offers Cohen. "It's Williams on stage, grew up in Buffalo about finding universal themes in who and moved to the Big Apple in 1984. we are." A deadpan, but much more daring Offstage, the three rarely break humorist in the Steve Wright tradition, affe Cohen, nee Mark Jaffe into comedic shtick. McWilliams, 33, he sees himself as a writer, His play, Cohen, is a short, thirty-some- the campiest of the three, sits quietly. Snap Judtfment was recently per- , , , thing, "nice Jewish boy" who observing and absorbing the atmo- formed at the Courtyard Theater, and speaks in· fast forward and would love sphere, A comedian for the past ten he's pondering writing .another, But , " • to do my horoscope chart. Or your years, he performed regularly at The performing has always been foremost , " chart, for that matter. We sit in his Village Gate and was once a member on his mind; cramped West Village walkup along of a group called "Premises Premises." "I auditioned at 'Catch' (Catch a with Bob· Smith and Danny McWilliams, who grew up in a Rising Star, the upper East Side come- McWilliams, his two cohorts in the Catholic household, is a word proces- dy club) with openly gay material," he comedy troupe, Funny Gay Men, sor when he's not on stage. He fuses says, deadpan tone in place, "It munching pizza (they munch, I write) that world into his act. Opening the wasn't an inside joke, The material and discussing the group's origins and show (the three perform separately), was accessible to everyone. I really comedic style. For now, lunar risings, McWilliams reveals that when forced enjoyed the,process." ,I" . " cusps and, heaven help me, divulging to choose a saint at Catholic school, From hCatch a Rising Star, Smith my true birthdate, must wait patiently he chose Eva Marie. Indeed, it's his ventured to other local clubs perfect- ,. in the wings, . well-defined female personalities ing his act and style, Along ~he way, '.It's a drizzly Friday evening. The which characterize his act: Bette he struck up a friendship with three have just wowed a near sell-out Davis as Dorothy in The Wizard of . McWilliams, but it took cqmedian Sara · crowd at the Duplex, their home turf, Oz, the New Yawk-accented secre- Cytron to bring all three together, · Spirits soar as,Jaffe ("My mother's tary/receptionist and the demanding "We're gay men talking about the · maiden name; rhymes with daffy") lady' b;uking orders at the supermar- real world," Cohen explains. "~e Cohen, the trio's unofficial ringleader, ket counter ("Make it lean!"), consider ourselves stand-up comics, " recounts the show's highlights and "My humor is true to life and not an improvisational troupe," , recalls the appreciative audience.· It based upon personal observations," Smith chimes in,· "We have differ- , ' takes several minutes for tranquility to he states, "I met the secretary charac- ent attitudes and backgrounds which . make us unique," He pauses for a moment. . , "All gay men ar~ not alike," Cohen concurs. A writer, educator and 'part-time 'actor (Cohen has a small role in the newly released inde- pendent ', feature,\ Religion Inc.), Cohen immerses his audience in the world where growiog. up, Jewish and gay was, not exaCtly a 'mitzvah', The show's closing act, his, patter, some- , times touches on the political and he speeds :1 along- at a breathless " pace, Multiple sub- jects are covered in a , matter of minutes. HOLLYWOOD SQUARES? "When I first start- L.ft to right: Jane Cohen, Bob Smith, Oanny McWilliams. 52 OUTTWEEK July 10.1989 • • I · MPh) NAVARROcontinued from page 30 ed performing, I was 'out'," he states, Ghers Win to onty yt on , punctu- . "but then I fudged the issue," A turn- ated and given a through-line by the all, it is their political represenr:ation at, ing point came in early 1988, A new character Grace's gonzo-existential conferences such as these that ISkey. ' wave of homophobia had swept the ,' . Room for optinnism? To some the poems, It s a show constantly getting 'b ". country and a close friend had died .'" , answer ,IS yes, ut even executive' from AIDS, "He gave me a ring which too bIg for Its bntches, moving fromcomml 'tt ee mem b ers proceed Wltl~"h I consider 'Good Luck', Shortly there- minute cabaret stages to small the- caution, after, Funny Gay Men became a reali- aters, and now to the more upscale, "Partnership-building with the ty, It was a politically and morally mainstream Ballroom, The next logi- federal government hasn't been prac- correct step," cal step (in a business devoid of ticed a lot in the last eight years," sayS' The three meet at least once a logic) would seem ~o be an off- Ed'rards, "There's a,.core of people at \I week to' hone their material. "We're Broadway run, placing the show once very high levels of the PHS who ,are egoists who work separately but we and for all in its proper theatrical' encouraged by the participation of' feed off each other," volunteers Smith, context, and offering a wider audi- communities in shaping their own '~Wegive one another lines and sup- ence a show that, despite its context, health, M! ma~n conc~rn is that this . port our individual efforts." tdsranscen easydf e' Inl 't' Ion as gay th e- partnershIp WIll conttnue beyond At present, the group's bookings , . i' , AIDS, and that when the crisis is over ater, It IS, qUIte SImply, that Increas- h . ',.. , b come mainly from New York clubs, , ,t e mlnonty communItIes won t e local colleges and gay events, tngly endangered specIes: good dropped from the federal agenda." ~ohen's latest screenwriting effort is theater, . There are two kinds of "beyond" 'already making -the rounds of For Hopkins has much to offer at work here, There is the type . , Hollywood moguls and even his love gay and straight audiences alike. He expressed by Don Edwards, which' life has shown definite signs of gives the gay community something responsibly takes into account the his- improvement. "Who knows?" he con- concrete to apply to the often nebu- torical context of u.s, government cludes half-jokingly, "I could become lous dialogue about w,hat it means to neglect of communities of color, And the center square on Hollywood be gay, couched in noble intangibles there is the "beyond" of the title of the Squares. The gay square," like pride, integrity and courage, In c?nference itself ',~he not qU,~teS~ci- Funny Gay Men are performing · t h "d f h' If flable, abstract beyond, whIch daflng a s ow us SIXSl es 0 Imse , indefinitely at the Duplex (55 Grove) , I d' h " b h h includes treatment issues and sexuah- -inCU 109 t e pussycat eneat t e. every Friday and Saturday, T , .. , ty, StIli, I cannot accept that treatment leather, the romanltc In the CYntC,the of people living with AIDS is not the BLOODY MARY continued from page 39 woman inside the man - he gives a first priority of a conference such as I three-dimensional portrait of a man this, Nevertheless, this year's event writing i,nthe Mineshaft, But the sur- coming to terms with himself, with seems promising. As for the potential face flipness merely gives an edge to the courage to ask some difficult for a more broad-based, unif'ied what is' clearly an intelligent, questions, the integrity to tell us there "resp'onse from. 'the institutionally~ engaged sensibility, His. characters' , are no easy answers, and the generos- entrenched "minority" politicos, an,d hilarious stabs at explaining the ity to, give us all something to be bureaucrats goes, I can only echo the ,meaning of it all' reflect a common proud or, And for the world-at-Iarge? voices of ;LWAS, f~r whom every day "p' I thO k th' t h t I' y' . cmmts: Its about tIme, ",. ;ui / , ,dilemma: "I think a lot of us are eop e In a w a m sa 109 IS, I- "',".'il;, Ii' ' , always getting the accessories, but 'We're just like you.' What I'm saying Tb AT' 1M' : ' ;-. " , ' " '" .. e "atwnat'Y!-onty ,-onJere11-.c;e':k "" 'never putting together the whole IS, You re Just like us, , on AIDS will be held August 13-11 served as director to many of the top " , , acts in the city). In the two years r'_ , • 'I ,,,,,,,,, that he's been developing the show, '~ , c _;!' _\; "'{J ':-'{",. his uncanny sense of self-direction- with, he's the first to admit, a little , help from his friends, --has molded , the piece into a seamless montage of 1 .",.. '1, monologues and songs (from " 53 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 .... 1 BUREAUCRACY continued from page 35 DHPG for p~ople who don't qualify Bristol~Myers is nervous and won't behind the so-called "Bush Initiative" for clinical trials, commit itself to distributing ddI on a (see October 1-988) and the Lasagna' May 1989: ACT UP testifies at parallel track. Committee (see 1989). the Lasagna Committee. The bureau- June 24: In San' Francisco Dr. , AugUst 1988: Trimetrexate, an crats begin to listen, Fauci publicly endorses the idea of anti-PCP drug, is the first to get treat- . June 1989: Because the govern- "parallel track" distribution of new ment IND status. FDA interprets it ment lacks a comprehensive AIDS AIDS drugs at an HIV conference narrowly and only 89 people get the research strategy, the AIDS communi- sponsored by Project Inform, drug. Lambda Legal Defense & ty must come up with one, June 26: FDA approves DHPG Education Fund threatens a lawsuit. June 6: After taking over the for treatment of CMV retinitis. It's the FDA relents and allows wider distri- opening .ceremonies of the Fifth first time a drug has been approved bution, International Conference on AIDS in without undergoing controlled clini- October 1988: October 11: Montreal, ACT UP presents its cal trials. Also, FDA grants Treatment 1,500 AIDS activists from around the National AIDS Treatment Research IND status to erythropoietin (EPO) country besiege the FDA in Agenda, for treatment of AZT~related anemia, ,Rockville, MD, It's the first time a June 15: FDA approves (As many as half those on AZT get . federal agency has ever been shut aerosolized pentamidine for prophy- anemia, depleted red blood cells, and down by the group the agency exists laxis (prevention) of PCP, It's the first require frequent transfusions, EPO to protect. October 21: The so- raises their red blood count and called "Bust Initiative" is released. reduces the frequency of transfu- Guidelines provide for skipping The FDA cites Slons,•• ' the third phase of drug tests if the People with AIDS, HIV and second phase is promising, fears of drug their advocates have fought tire- Guidelines won't save lives, only toxicity. Nothing lessly for these victories, The gov- drugs will. Hoffman-LaRoche is ernment, as embodied in FDA rumored to be planning on using is nlore toxic than bureaucrats and NIH scientists, the riew gUidelines in its trials of AIDS. has begun to respond, Yet phar- antiviral ddC (dideoxycytidine), maceutical companies are reluc- December 1988: FDA gives tant to distribute new drugs . ganciclovir (DHPG) Treatment IND time a drug has been approved based Widely enough, the insurance compa- stat\JS.· .To qualify, patients must be on community-based research, nies are refuSing to pay for them, By ineligible for a controlled study in June 21: ACT UP meets with the end of 1989, AIDS advocates , which 'they would have a 50 percent NIAID's Dr, Anthony ,Fauci in must force the pharmaceutical and chance of getting no treatment at all. ' Bethesda, He endorses a new pro- insurance companies to fall in line . Universal outcry from AIDS activists, gram allowing new anti-AIDS drugs to with the new epoch of humane drug , January 1989: First hearings of be released on a "parallel track" trial testing for life-threatening diseases, the Lasagna Committee (so named if the patient is unable to enter the June 26: The Centers for' after its chairman, Dr. Louis controlled trial (e.g,; someone who Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta Lasagna), in Bethesda MD, a federal couldn't take AZT and, hence couldn't reports that, by May 31, 97,193 panel to recommend reforms to enter a trial comparing AZf with ddI Americans have been reported as streamline AIDS and. cancer drug tri- could get into a parallel trial of ddI). having AIDS, 56,468 have died, The als, National Cancer Institute direc- June 22: ACT UP meets with US Public Health Service (PHS) esti- tor Dr. Sam Broder. (discoverer of FDA's Dr. Ellen Cooper, She supports mates between 945,000 and 1,400,000 anti-HIV activity of AZT, ddC, ddI the idea of parallel trials, . But she Americans are HIV-infected. By , and other new drugs) publicly lam- shows herself unwilling to support 1992, according to the PHS, 365,000 basts the FDA for rigid microman- wider distribution of Foscarnet, an Americans will have been reported to ~gement and delays, antiviral drug needed to prevent have AIDS, and 263,000 will have February 1989: Activists boo cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in died, FDA Anti-Viral Drug Director Dr. people whose CMV has developed . The government anticipates that Ellen Cooper at second hearing of resistance to DHPG, She says (in 206,532 people now alive will die Lasagna Committee, Cooper tries to another context but with a chilling from AIDS by 1992, Those deaths are justity the ag~ncy's refusal to double meaning) that "there are preventable, Treatments which can approve DHPG, ACT UP representa- advantages to blinding," prevent many of them exist. They tives meet with Dr, Anthony Fauci, June 24: ACT UP meets with must be distributed to people who who oversees federal AIDS trials, Bristol-Myers in New York, manufac- need them, Tre~tments for conditions Fauci agrees to publicly call for turers of ddI. 'It's the first time a phar- now regarded as untreatable must be DHPG's'release,, maceutical company ever met with developed, No one should rest until , March 1989: FDA reverses members of an affected community such treatments reach the bodies of policy and allows resumed access to before conducting broad clinical trials. the people they may save. 'Y 54 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 , , THERAPY SERIOUS THERAPY FORMEN Leading expert on Gay Male identity, sexuality, and relationship issues, Affiliated with major NY research hospital. ,Stress and psycho-physical training, Dr, James A, Serafini, PhD, (212) 877-3319 BODY BY SERGE Shaping. Body Building. Toning • Men .. Women, an,d Coupl.es. One-on-One • Professional Trainer. Free Weights. Fully Equipped Private Gym. Specializing with Working Out With Beginners Home and Office Calls SERIOUS MINDED ONLY (212) 675·1179 LIGHTING TRACK BY JACK, INC. 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This was a question I'd been asking for most of the movie, I'm not sure Soderbergh's Graham answers that question effectively, but at least, Ann does, In its final 15 minutes, the movie brilliantly intercuts film and videotape, I've seen this done many times, but never as well as it's done here. , S,ome lies are prettier than others, Graham hides behind his video eqUipment, while Ann's lies are con- tained in her "nice girl" image, Ann calls her siste~ "loud," when it's obvious she thinks of her sister as an overbear- ing ",:,hore, Ann's lie, that sex is overrated, is a passive lie, a SOCiallyacceptable lie: she's convinced herself she hates ~x, It's a dysfunctional response to her sexually vora- cious sister, .As an audience we're never allowed to come to sim- ple or self-righteous conclusions about who these people are or about who we are in relation to these characters, , No one is easily let off of Soderbergh~s directorial ALL-MALE MINI THEATER hook-not his characters, not the audience, not this (Lower Level) , reviewer, I wish 'almost every female character I've seen Mon.-Sat.:'llam-llpm I Sun.: 10am-7pm in recent movies was allowed by the script to grab, the camera, literally or metaphorically, and, ask some Ann Street, man-again, either the director of the firm or another char- acter in the film-"Like why do you film women talking Adult Entertainment Center about sex, or anything at all for that matter?" ,This' new 21 Ann Street (btwn. Broadway & Nassau St.) director's realism-and his feminism-are refreshing and New York City I (212) 267-9760 surprising, Mon:-Frl.: 7am-llpm I Sat.: 10am-11pm For a director whose first word of his first feature is . Sun.: 10am-7pm "sex," Soderbergh's style is streamlined, direct and unpre-. tentious, He and Deborah Aquila's flawless casting create a kind of realism that thankfully doesn't scream realism, The movie bristles with an awkwardness that only the best actors could make you believe, The actors" experience feels improvised, When Ann and Graham found each other at the end of the film, I didn'l feel I was in a movie theater .s<;:eingthe two romantic leads finally joined; I felt that I had seen two real people struggle for some hesitant start at communication, The film 'earns its emotional effec- tiveness, Like most gays and lesbians, ,the two sisters,in the film have not taken any vows, Cynthia, Ann's sister, justifies her affair with her sister'S husband by saying, "I didn't take a vow in front of God and everyone to be faithful to Ann," Without the sanction of anything as concrete as a wedding , LARG'E SELECTION OF ALL-MALE vow, our ties and our truths h~e to be all the more pro- VIDEOS I MAGAZINES I SCREENING BOO,THS tected-by us, Society sets'up a number of lies we choose to believe: Men do the .filming and the looking; women , NOVELTIES I•PERIODICALS••I TOYS I ETC. don't love sex,. they love love; we're not married, so it doesn't matter how we treat each other. Sex, lies, and • I •• videotape tells us to take emotional resporisibility for VIDEO RENTALS MEMBERSHIP PLANS . , TOWfloj~IDtO MUS, N,:, whomever we choose to love, whether we do or whether we don't promiseJidelity in front of "God and everyone." 21 Ann Street (btwn. Broadway & Nassau St.) In the world of this film, where men and women use New York City I (212) 267-9760 sex as vengeance, and where men collect women's sexual Mon,-FrL: 7am-11pm I Sat.: 10am-11pm histories like so many compact discs, it's no wonder that Sun.: 10am-7pm our heroine and hero start out frigid and impotent. The point of the ,film is that while there may be safer sex, there Can never be safer lies. T 66 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 , • , or"- , -,u··- ···U'" ~,~ ..1{)A..~~- m'''''' un\\I,,,,,\'i _,I ,- • • • CALIFIA continued from page 41 SP: A recent article, in the to one's adherence, or lack thereof, think one of the reasons ~hat straight Lambda Book Report spoke about the to social proscription? publishers don't wan~ to publish gay "safe sex", requirements Alyson . PC: There has always been this writing i~ because they don't want to Publications had you follow for the trend in the gay community that kno"{ how they look from the out- depiction of sex acts in Macho Sluts, being gay or lesbian is not about side. It raised the interesting point that sex, We can't emphasize sex SP: I think you made that obser- while they were clear about not want- because straight people, think that , vation in the introduction to, Macho ing any penetration by penises with- . we are obsessed with it. I think that Sluts, I'm interested in what you are out condoms, there is in fact unsafe gay literature is,in real danger of doing in the book, because it is a lesbian sex in the book. The. real being castrated by AIDS and so are work of fiction where e"ery one of problem there, obviously, is the com- gay politics, The people are willing the s,tories is strongly imbued with a plete oversight. You know, dykes go to give up their genitals in some political force, a question, a jab, down on each other, they snack superstitious hope that' it will delay . pc: Well, that's good to know, pussy, but that's not really sex, How or keep away death. It's really sad It was certainly my intention when I can they be so oblivious? to me because gay men were so wrote the book to get people to jack pc: Writers often 'wind up mak- much a part of my support system off, it's obviously pornography, but I ing really bad bargains with their for coming out into S/M or for daring ., wanted to do that >yithoiJt insulting publishers, I hate the Alyson policy to explore group sex, public sex, to their intelligence, My hope was that that they censor what 'they define as explore how I felt about open reia- the best stories would disturb people unsafe sex, I have had numerous tionships. And I found so muc.h as much as they q;lrned them on, comfort in their joy as a commu- SP: Particularly, "The nity in just going out seeing how Surprise Party." much they could get away with, PC: It was really a stfl1ggle Pornograpy does I do think that people feel guilty, for me to decide whether or not not cause AIDS' I -think there would have proba- to publish that story, And I am bly been a backlash against what aware that that story and "The any more than it was going on in the late 70s, Finishing School" are' probably even if a disease had not come the two most disturbing in the causes rape. along, because we are raised in a book. One of the reasoris I puritanical culture, But when decided to put "The Surprise you get that backlash and it's Party" in was becau::;e over the years arguments about this with Sash a combined with a fatal disease, it's a I have had dozens of partners who Alysen. It.happens to be his particu- real mother fucker. It's brought peo- were dykes who had h~terdsexual lar feeling that AIDS is not a threat to ple to their knees. We now have a fantasies' or who had rape fantasies, lesbians, I think that's baloney and new generation of gay men coming If you want to feed those fantasies, that's why I insisted on including a out who don't remember what that which I think, women are entitled to note in the book that's about safer sex , sexually free culture was like and because we don't have enough plea- for lesbians. And I also have very they are not hearing from the'people sure in our lives and if that's the. way strong feelings about the fact that who are still alive, the survivors of we deal with the outside world or if pornography does not cause AIDS, AIDS, enough about what made it that is just what comes up for us anymore than it causes rape, I think valuable or about why people did it. when we want to get off, then I it's a real shame if we have to give up It has been demonized. It's being think that's our business, the places writing about things in addition to talked about as if it were a time you wind up going to feed them are doing them, When I have sex, I put . when nothing positive happened, If very demeaning to you as a lesbian, on rubber gloves, I do all the stuff that were true, all of those bathhous- They are insulting and can make you that you are supposed to do, but I es wouldn't have been so crowded. feel very ambivalent about yourself, will not stop writing about it. These Lei's be honest here, people were , , It w'as my agenda to write some stories are for fantasy stimulation, having a really good time, straight porn' for dykes that would they are for fantasy gratification, and I SP: On the front of the lesbian rattle some cages but still be very am really clear that I am going to sex revolution that's going on ... clearly from a loving place and a keep on pushing that limit as far as PC: That I'm still waiting for! place that was respectful of our my publisher will let me, SP: Well, it's not going'on at my 'being, It's almost like lesbian porn SP: Do you think there is some- casa. What do you think, though? that's written for straight men, it was thing more behind such prohibitions? Apparently, it's fashionable to be a intended to be straight porn for les- Something more than, "We are teach- dyke, dykes are hot, dykes are rock-, bians, I don't think a lot of people ing safe sex"? Is there not something ing out, dykes are controlling your will see that, or even think that's a of the need to appear as good boys TV, viable category, but that's what it and girls? A little as if literature has at pc: When I came out in .1971 if was trying to do. this point be_comea form of testament I had wanted to go to a women's 68 OUTTWEEK July 10,1989 o Join th~ action 0 Be a part qf it 0 Or just listen o Live contact with other callers 0 Thousands of connections to be made o New friends 0 Dates 0 24 hours 0 Every dav.o Nationwide 0 Call now - • ,~ -, ,'# - -~;,~- 49¢ per half minute - -~;,;,- 49¢ per half minute - -000- •••------95¢ per minute Mastercard or Visa , • • fI • ~ bookstore and buy a lesbian sex PRIDE '89 continued from page 10 those who have died from AIDS; manual, there wouldn't have been New Age, holistic techniques, \ there was no sound. The air was as any such animal. In terrI)s of there The babes from the Cubbyhole empty as the Honorary Grand being some written resources, things carried placards featuring portraits of Marshall's convertible, left vacant by have improved, Let's just hope that Sandra Bernhard and Madonna, with the death of Edward Francis Murphy, we can keep the stuff, in print. I the logo "Bad Girls Rule." And yes, known as the "Original Stonewaller," want to point out, though, that the they do, ". who passed, away on February 28, majority of women's bookstores are A distinguished panel of parade 1989. Slowly one balloon drifted sky- still censoring nonfiction and fiction judges held court in front of the ward, Then the crowd cheered as material written by lesbians about Public Library, bravelyc holding forth thousands more balloons were sex, Our self-appointed leaders are in the face of sunstroke, sequin- released. "We Remember" read the still taking it upon themsel ves to try blindness and an over-amplified banner stretched between the pillars' to keep this information away from parade announcer. Several hundred of the Public Library. And we do . the rest of us, But, I th ink there has . spectators packed a grandstand in Entering the. heart of Greenwich , been some change, I think lesbians the immediate area and thrilled to Village, across Christopher Street and are more comfortable talking about the. sight of Dignity's multi-colored into Stonewall Place, the marchers sex, It's not as acceptable as it used Spirit of Liberation (a winged if1!age were received as conquering herosI by to be, to be in a relationship where of peace and love); cheered the crowds jamming the narrow streets, you're not "getting any," People rec- Radical Faeries (their wings sparkling Perhaps the loudest ovations were ognize it as more valid now if you in the afternoon sunshine); and near- reserved for Rollerena, New York's want to leave a relationship where ly leapt upbn a pickup-truck load of own fairy godmother, the Team New • • you're not getting 'What yeu want le;J,thermen, including Mr. York Gay Games Athletes and the physically, And there is a little more International Leather, Gary B'aldwin appearance of the New York City Gay tolerance for your fantasies, but I {no wings no matter), Men's Chorus, Eager correspondents think one of the sad things is the At 39th Street, Mayor Koch, in lined up at th<;!U.S, Postal Service polarization between S/M dykes and the briefest of parade appearances,, mobile van in Sheridan Square to other lesbians, It would be really met the press and felt the heat from have their stamps cancelled. Designed nice if some of the ex!'>licitness and marchers who gathered around him by Keith Haring, this marks the first- some of the negotiation that I have to chant, "Dump KOCh.Dump KC)Ch," ever cancellation to openly refer to found in the leather community As several drag queens approached, the lesbian and gay community, could spread, We have a lot of the Mayor's security men became something which bas driven some women who come to S!M support tense, the veins popping in their members of Congress wild (see story, , groups who, aren't intq S/M, but they"., necks, "Please," they hissed at a large, p. 18), The march spilled out onto are looking for some place' where young man in a small. black dress, West Street and onto the pier where they can talk about sex, I think we "please. Stay back, Give us a Dance IIi, presented by Heritage of have to remember tpat traditionally break," Give us 'all a break, ,Pride and the Lesbian and Gay women are supposed to be the ones , Mayora'l candidate David Community, Services Center, exploded controlling sexuality and that doesn't Dinkins, resplendent in a, white safari in energy: lights anQ. sound, The day . . necessarily change because you jacket and purple shirt, was greeted ended with a stunning display of fire- come .out as a lesbian. There are dif- mQre warmly by the crowd, Perhaps works over the Hudson, And if you've ferent reasons for wanting to be for the reason he marched from the never seen fireworks with a mob of queer. Some women are lesbians beginning. Perhaps for many more gay people-who all oohed and because they are sexual and they reasons than, that. aahed in unison-you've never seen have to follow that desire even if it's > Entering Chelsea, the line of fireworks. for something as socially unaccept- marchers w~s:dgreeted by more Walking home on a vacant able, as getting naked w ilh other receptive crowds, and cheers from sidestreet, my lover and I passed women, And, I firmly believe, there parties on terraces and rooftops, below a terrace from which floated , ' ' are women wbo become lesbians Rainbow flags flew from streetlights big' band music, We,gleefully ball- because they have no desire, or little all along Fifth Avenue and pink trian- room-danced, feeling the full spirit of desire, to get naked, Often they are gle-shaped confetti floated down in Gay Pride and freedom breathing in extremely conservative and, uncom- the bright sunlight on the massive us, Joan Nestle's voice, from her rally fortable, partly because we threaten party that now, at 2:30, jammed Fifth speech the previous day (see p, 28), their right to be in this safe haven Avenue from Washington Square to floated around in my head, Then a from the sexual tempest they fear. • the Plaza HoteL ·then, the parade voice from above shouted "Dip!" halted and the salsa music stopped. Then again, "Dip!" "Are you. ready?" Everyone stood still, raising their fists Basil asked me, mischief twinkling in and clasped hands into the aJr . his eyes. /1 was. "Dip him!" they • " Nearly two hundred thousand yelled. And yes, he did, • , ,breathed as one, in rememberance of 70 OUTTWEEK July 10, 1989 c_ c_ - • ,• I , • / • '..••i • , / , • / , I • • , , Cuando tenga relaciones sexuales con mujeres u otros hombres, use siempre condones de latex.' iPorque basta s610 una vez pa~atransmitir el virus del SIDA! Asf que protejase ...y proteja a su pareja. Para informaci6n sobre , - , , arne a:: • , , , @}C,udadde'Nueva York Edward I Koch, Alcalde Stephen C, Joseph M,D.. M,P,H.. Comislonado, Departamento de Salud, , , , • RIOT continued from page 9 , Others pulled off the hood and Monday, an anonymous ranking offi- kicked in the sides, before the police cer said, "We were told to avoid, any could move them away from the car, confron,tation and arrests," Julia "They all had their middle fingers Thompson denied issuing such an up, They thought they could get away order in the same article, "I asked my from us, but they don't know our ter- officers to show restraint, and only to ritory," said Sean Ortiz, an 18-year-old make arrests if they observed proper- high school student from Forest Hills, ty damage or personal injuries," the Police later removed the five Post reported her saying, Thompson from the theater, and shoved them did not return any of Out Week's into a waiting police van, along with phone caJls, del Vall~ and Balo Williams, who said While on West Street the band he also had been hit. Del Valle and blocked traffic for about ten minutes, Williams were later taken to Saint Although police quickly interceded Vincent's Hospital, treated, and , and restored traffic flow, they did not released, according to a police depart- attempt to either protect the demon- ment spokesperson, who said that strators from oncoming traffic, arrest another injured demonstrator, Mark them, or move them out of the way, Sobol, had also been hospitalized and Several narrowly escaped injury when discharged" 'a tour bus forced its way through the On Grove Street near the impromptu roadblock that had been Monster, a gay bar and disco across set up. And some motorists were from Christopher Park, another car angered by the delays they encoun- drove into a group of demonstrators tered. "These are a bunch of fucking which had broken off from the larger sick bastards. This is how they crowd" i9juring at least three, One demonstrate? What about my right to man was taken to Saint Vincent's go where I'm going?" shouted one Hospital in an ambulance, According driver from New Jersey who refused to Catherine Saalfield, a passenger had previously gotten out of the car , to give his name, It was apparently other angry and shouted homophobic remarks, motorists that precipitated / the and was involved in several con- evening's most serious violence, In frontations, Her story was confirmed two separate incidents, cars allegedly by several other witnesses, sped through lines of demonstrators, '''Get the gun, get the gun,'" The first injuries occurred on West Saalfield said he shouted to his pas- 10th Street near Julius, a gay bar, after sengers, "He 'was just going crazy," the mob had returned from West added Jill Harris, a legal aid attorney Stre~t. "He tried to run us over," said present at the scene. "He was picking a tearful Ralph del VaHe, who said he fights with whatever gay person he had been hit and sprained his ankle, could find, and being restrained by "Then he backed up and tried to run his friends." us over again." The man was forced back into , An angry mob chased the car his car by plainclothes police officers, through the streets of the Village, as it The police and demonstrators then sped around other cars and up onto made a path, for cars to turn from sidewalks, ignoring orders from the Grove Street left on to West 4th, police to puJl over, The crowd caught according to Saalfield and others, up to the car, a red Chevy Cavalier, Three other cars did so, But the car license XXF 461, from New York, on whose passenger was involved in the Christopher Street in front of the confrontation aJlegedly drove into the Lucille Lortel Theater. As police demonstrators instead, "People hit the removed the driver and four passen- hood of the car as it drove by, One gers and shoved them through a side flew into the hood of a parked car door at the theater to protect them [and] fell onto the ground, [He] was , from the crowd, people in the mob holding his head. There was blood all surrounded the car and began smash- over the place," Saalfield said. , ing the wind<;>wsand lights, using a The car, a gray Cutlass, license police barricade as a battering ram" .number KEM 251, from New York, 72 OUTTWEEK· July 10. 1989 • SEATIlE SPOKANE PORTlAND MINNEAPOLIS EUGENE Your SYRACUSE AREA CODE Favorite DETRDlT ALBANY 707 CHICAGO-- Party line PIITSBURGH INDIANAPOLIS TOLEDO LAS VEGAS Just Went DAYTON COLUMBUS SACRAMENTO SAN FRANCISCO LOS • , ANGELES Talk with up to 8 Hot Guys at SAN DIEGO once throughout the nfltion for PALM SPRINGS, as long a.syou want. GEORGIA· "'~ 95ft first munutec 65lt each additional minute. You must be 18 years Old. 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Gerri Wells relations, When you target the pol ice was eventually overtaken by police said she was concerned about the for a demo, you need a reason, and and demonstrators, The driver, Peter possibility' of outside agitation, partic- I'm not clear that the police were an Zocco of Brooklyn, was arrested, ularly by governmental agents, She appropriate ~arget," Werthe imer said, charged with leaving the scene of an cited as an example that at a suppos- "I think the police showed remark- aCCident, given a desk appearance edly spontaneous outpouring of able restraint, given the circum- ticket, and released, according to anger, there were several American stances," he added, Sergeant Joseph Gallagher, a police flags on hand, ready to be burned, But Neil Broome complained department spokesperson, A desk A group of anarchist skin heads about the response of the police, both appearance ticket (DAT) is normally who had joined the Radical Faeries 'in failing to protect the gay and les- , ' issued for misdemeanors. from Tompkins Square Park in the bian demonstrators, and in dealing Katie Doran, the Manhattan East Village, were a major presence in with the many tense situations, ':Julia District Attorney's Office's liaison to the evening's events. ¥any in th,e Thompson needs to learn how to the lesbian and gay community said, group of self-identified anarchists pur- articulate issues and respond to situa- "We're looking into wJ:Iat happened, posefully tried to provoke the police, tions better," Broome said, "When and interviewing vic- people talked about tims, police officers discrimination by the and witnesses, I've police, she claimed heard so many stories that there is not dis- at this point that I'm crimination, You not sure how many don't make blanket arrests were made, or statements like that. what the charges It only angered peo- • were," Doran said, ple more when she adding that she could got on the mega- not comment further phone and said that," because of the ongo- he continued, ing in~estigation, And Jill Harris Some time later, said she was out- the police blocked off raged at the charges Seventh, Avenue pressed against below 14th Street, Zocco, "What I wit- and some people sat nessed was a serious in the intersection vehicular assault, near Christopher Park which is a serious until after 2 a,m. 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